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| Available via | http://dbpubs.stanford.edu/pub/1999-29 | ||
| Submitted on | 26th of February 2000 | ||
| Author | Buyukkokten, O.; Garcia-Molina, H.; Paepcke, A. | ||
| Title | Focused Web Searching with PDAs | ||
| Date of publication | 1999 | ||
| Citation | O. Buyukkokten,H. Garcia-Molina,A. Paepcke: Focused Web Searching with PDAs. The 9th International WWW Conference (WWW9) | ||
| Language | English | ||
| Project | Digital Libraries | ||
| Type | Conference or Journal Paper | ||
| Subject group | Mobile Computing | ||
| Abstract | The Stanford Power Browser project addresses the problems of interacting with the World-Wide Web through wirelessly connected Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). These problems include bandwidth limitations, screen real-estate shortage, battery capacity, and the time costs of pen-based search keyword input. As a way to address bandwidth and battery life limitations, we provide local site search facilities for all sites. We incrementally index Web sites in real time as the PDA user visits them. These indexes have narrow scope at first, and improve as the user dwells on the site, or as more users visit the site over time. We address the keyword input problem by providing site specific keyword completion, and indications of keyword selectivity within sites. The system is implemented on the Palm Pilot platform, using a Metricom radio link. We describe the user level experience, and then present the analyses that informed our technical decisions. | ||
| Keywords | Personal Digital Assistant, Mobile computing, Palm Pilot. | ||
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