TY - GEN
T1 - A revisit to web browsing on wearable devices
AU - Song, Jinwoo
AU - Kim, Hyunjune
AU - Jin, Ming
AU - Woo, Honguk
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2017 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Wearable devices and smartwatches have become prevalent in recent years, yet consuming web contents on those devices are not common mainly due to their restricted IO capabilities. In this paper, we revisit the web browser model and propose the notion of fast access browsing that incorporates the lightweight, always-on web snippets, namely widget view, into web applications. This allows smartwatch users to rapidly access web contents (i.e., within 200ms) similarly as they interact with notification. To do so, we analyse about 90 smartwatch applications, identify the quick preview pattern, and then define the constrained web specifications for smartwatches. Our implementation, the wearable device toolkit for fast access browsing, is now being tested and deployed on commercialized products and the developer tool for building widget view enabled web applications will be soon available as the smartwatch SDK extensions.
AB - Wearable devices and smartwatches have become prevalent in recent years, yet consuming web contents on those devices are not common mainly due to their restricted IO capabilities. In this paper, we revisit the web browser model and propose the notion of fast access browsing that incorporates the lightweight, always-on web snippets, namely widget view, into web applications. This allows smartwatch users to rapidly access web contents (i.e., within 200ms) similarly as they interact with notification. To do so, we analyse about 90 smartwatch applications, identify the quick preview pattern, and then define the constrained web specifications for smartwatches. Our implementation, the wearable device toolkit for fast access browsing, is now being tested and deployed on commercialized products and the developer tool for building widget view enabled web applications will be soon available as the smartwatch SDK extensions.
KW - Constrained web specification
KW - Fast access Browsing
KW - Wearable devices
KW - Widget view
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85024488660
U2 - 10.5220/0006232102120224
DO - 10.5220/0006232102120224
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85024488660
T3 - WEBIST 2017 - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies
SP - 212
EP - 224
BT - WEBIST 2017 - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies
A2 - Majchrzak, Tim A.
A2 - Traverso, Paolo
A2 - Krempels, Karl-Heinz
A2 - Monfort, Valerie
PB - SciTePress
T2 - 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2017
Y2 - 25 April 2017 through 27 April 2017
ER -