Capricorn: an intelligent interface for mobile widgets

ABSTRACT

Widgets are embeddable objects that provide easy and ubiquitous access to dynamic information sources, for example weather, news or TV program information. Widgets are typically rather static - they provide the information regardless of whether the information is relevant to the user's current information needs. In this paper we introduce Capricorn, which is an intelligent interface for mobile widgets. The interface uses various adaptive web techniques for facilitating navigation. For example, we use collaborative filtering to recommend suitable widgets and we dim infrequently used widgets. The demonstration presents the Capricorn interface focusing on the adaptive parts of the interface. The user interface is web-based, and as such platform independent. However, our target environment is mobile phones, and thus the interface has been optimized for mobile phones.

REFERENCES

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.4 Systems and Software
      H.3.5 On-line Information Services

Keywords:
adaptive user interfaces, context awareness, information aggregation