A Revisit to Web Browsing on Wearable Devices

Jinwoo Song, Hyunjune Kim, Ming Jin, Honguk Woo

2017

Abstract

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.

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Song J., Kim H., Jin M. and Woo H. (2017). A Revisit to Web Browsing on Wearable Devices . In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-246-2, pages 212-224. DOI: 10.5220/0006232102120224


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@conference{webist17,
author={Jinwoo Song and Hyunjune Kim and Ming Jin and Honguk Woo},
title={A Revisit to Web Browsing on Wearable Devices},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2017},
pages={212-224},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006232102120224},
isbn={978-989-758-246-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - A Revisit to Web Browsing on Wearable Devices
SN - 978-989-758-246-2
AU - Song J.
AU - Kim H.
AU - Jin M.
AU - Woo H.
PY - 2017
SP - 212
EP - 224
DO - 10.5220/0006232102120224