Context-Aware Multimedia Content Adaptation for Mobile Web

Abstract

Multimedia content in web pages poses a variety of problems to mobile web users, such as incompatibility with mobile devices or failing to meet accessibility needs of users with vision disabilities. To address those problems, this study proposes and evaluates a context-aware approach to multimedia content adaptation for mobile Web. It uniquely takes into consideration not only users’ preferences and accessibility needs, but also capabilities of multimedia support of specific mobile devices. Evaluation shows that the proposed approach is accurate and efficient. This study provides insights for research on context-aware mobile computing, adaptive interfaces, and mobile HCI.

Keywords

• Context-awareness
• user-centered
• multimedia content; adaptation; mobile devices