Open AccessDesign Metrics and the Adaptation of Web-Page Content Chunks for PDAs
Author(s) -
S. D. Scott,
Youngsol Koh
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of it in asia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1823-5042
DOI - 10.33736/jita.404.2005
Subject(s) - computer science , web page , adaptation (eye) , world wide web , static web page , web design , content adaptation , web development , set (abstract data type) , web content , page layout , multimedia , information retrieval , human–computer interaction , physics , optics , programming language , ubiquitous computing , advertising , business
The majority of web-pages are unsuitable for viewing on PDAs, WAP phones and similar devices without first being adapted. However, little empirical work has been done on what actually constitutes a good PDA or WAP web-page. This paper ranks a number of PDA web-pages from different categories empirically and correlates the result against the design metrics present. The findings are then compared against a similar set of experiments for PC web-pages. The results of this comparison suggest that, as well as omitting, summarizing and converting individual multimedia objects in the web-page to a less resource intensive form, the design metrics need to be changed during adaptation to enhance the presentation of web-content on non-PC devices. The paper concludes by investigating the effect of applying some suitable changes to the design metrics on web=page content chunks, which form the basic units in automatic content adaptation systems.