Web Document Manipulation for Small Screen Devices: A Review Hassan Alam, and Fuad Rahman Human Computer Interaction Group BCL Technologies Inc. Santa Clara, CA 95050 www.bcltechnologies.com [e-mail]

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Web Document Manipulation for Small Screen
Devices A Review Hassan Alam, and Fuad Rahman
Human Computer Interaction GroupBCL
Technologies Inc. Santa Clara, CA
95050www.bcltechnologies.comfuad_at_bcltechnologies
.com
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Overview of the talk

• Why Manipulate Web Pages?
• Low Level Manipulation of Web pages
• What are the Options for Web Page Manipulation?
• By Hand
• Transcoding
• Automated Re-authoring
• Table of Content
• Summarization
• Hybrid
• Web Content Delivery Issues
• Commercial Web Summarizer
• Conclusion and future work

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Why Manipulate Web Pages?

• Mobile viewing allows keeping in touch with the
  rest of the world while on the move
• To summarize web content to help in rapid viewing
  
• Often there is a demand for alternative browsing,
  such as the use of voice
• Universal email accessibility is a problem of web
  page manipulation
• Document conversion and archiving

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Low Level Manipulation of Web pages

• Structural analysis of the web by decomposition
  and subsequent processing
• Extraction and processing images play a large
  part in this process.
• Detection of specific structures, such as tables,
  within web pages has been an active research
  problem.
• Using forms within the narrow display area is
  another challenge.

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What are the Options for Web Page Manipulation?

• By Hand
• Transcoding
• Automated Re-authoring
• Table of Content
• Summarization
• Hybrid

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By Hand
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Transcoding
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Automated Re-authoring Table of Content
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Automated Re-authoring Summarization
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Automated Re-authoring Hybrid
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Web Content Delivery Issues

• Streamlining web server Quality of Service (QoS)
  by adaptive content delivery
• Maximizing resources while delivering web images
• Improving server overload behavior
• Resource optimized delivery of web images
• Quality aware transcoding

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Commercial Web Summarizer

• Copernic (http//www.copernic.com/)
• Sinope (http//www.sinope.nl/en/sinope/index.htm
  l)
• Subject Search (http//www.kryltech.com)
• Inxight (www.inxight.-com)
• Pertinence (http//www.pertinence.net/inde-x_en.h
  tml)

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Where are we Heading?

• Devices are becoming powerful, screen resolution
  is improving
• Some devices are offering landscape view
• Powerful Zooming technology is coming
• Thumbnail Image Processing
• VNC

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Conclusions

• A very concise review of the research being
  carried out in manipulating web documents for
  accessing and viewing on small screen devices.
• It is neither exhaustive nor is aimed to be.
• It is hoped that this will offer a starting point
  of future research in this area by pointing to
  important works that are being conduced at the
  present.