MPhil Thesis Defence


"Partial Mobile Webpage Adaptation"

By

Mr. Kwok-Chu Lo


Abstract

As the advance of mobile device capabilities and the improvements of speed
and coverage of mobile network, Web browsing using mobile devices is
expected to be increasingly popular. Despite the inventions of various
webpage conversion tools to adapt an ordinary webpage to mobile devices,
they are generally overwhelming mobile users with complete information
from the original webpage. Actually webpage conversion could be performed
more intelligently by delivering only the useful information to the mobile
device. This thesis explores the area of partial mobile webpage adaptation
which only delivers the useful parts of webpages to the mobile user. A
design framework for guiding the design of different partial webpage
adaptations is proposed. One concrete partial mobile webpage adaptation
server, the CRAM proxy server, is developed. Definitions of useful
information, the mechanisms of the CRAM proxy server and algorithms for
real-time information retrieval are discussed in detail. Experiments and
evaluations on the proxy server are conducted to demonstrate the
effectiveness of the partial mobile webpage adaptation approach. Finally
the difficulties faced in developing the CRAM proxy server are discussed.


Date:				Tuesday, 3 July 2007

Time:				1:00p.m.-3:00p.m.

Venue:				Room 4472
				Lifts 25-26

Committee Members:		Prof. Vincent Shen (Supervisor)
				Prof. Andrew Horner (Chairperson)
				Dr. Yunhao Liu


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