SmartClick: An Enabler for Human-Centered Wireless Web Service

Recently wireless web services have been rapidly growing as a new way of information service. As the wireless Internet access grows, so do e-commerce opportunities through the wireless web services. Wireless Internet access has inherent limitations since most handheld devices have much less display and means of operations. This imposes a particular problem to the design of mobile information services in terms of information and service navigation. In this paper, a novel approach called SmartClick is presented to achieve user-centered wireless web services. SmartClick enables users to explicitly express their intentions or preferences with minimal clicks (user interaction). SmartClick with a middleware support provides users a way to get the desired web contents more efficiently and easily.