A TOOL FOR AUTOMATIC ADAPTATION OF WEB PAGES TO DIFFERENT SCREEN SIZE

Roberto Armenise, Cosimo Birtolo, Luigi Troiano

2010

Abstract

Digital contents are often designed having desktop applications as target in mind. As MobileWeb is becoming a common means to access internet services, there is a need for adapting content to smaller displays of mobile devices. Adaptation of web pages should be in accordance with aesthetics and usability requirements. In this paper we propose a tool, based on genetic algorithm, able to assist designers in delivering content adapted to mobile devices. In particular the tool, starting from a given page, searches for alternative layouts in order to best fit the content to reduced target screen size. The result is a set of adapted web pages. Experimental results show this approach is feasible and can compete with design made by humans.

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Armenise R., Birtolo C. and Troiano L. (2010). A TOOL FOR AUTOMATIC ADAPTATION OF WEB PAGES TO DIFFERENT SCREEN SIZE . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8425-08-9, pages 91-98. DOI: 10.5220/0002976300910098


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis10,
author={Roberto Armenise and Cosimo Birtolo and Luigi Troiano},
title={A TOOL FOR AUTOMATIC ADAPTATION OF WEB PAGES TO DIFFERENT SCREEN SIZE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,},
year={2010},
pages={91-98},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002976300910098},
isbn={978-989-8425-08-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,
TI - A TOOL FOR AUTOMATIC ADAPTATION OF WEB PAGES TO DIFFERENT SCREEN SIZE
SN - 978-989-8425-08-9
AU - Armenise R.
AU - Birtolo C.
AU - Troiano L.
PY - 2010
SP - 91
EP - 98
DO - 10.5220/0002976300910098