Research

As users get accustomed to an increasing diverse range of mobile devices, personal computers, intelligent home and office appliances, as well as shared public devices, collaborative multi-device systems are emerging to benefit from using together devices of different users and different capabilities. Within this project, we focus on Multi-Browsing: user-centric web browsing using multiple devices.

We have developed a conceptual framework for the systematic design of such systems in symbiotic environments (see our publication at MUM08). Moreover, we have developed an architecture for multi-device web-browsing systems.

Key research directions include i.a.:

• Multi-device web browsing
• Collaborative web browsing
• Web page annotation and partitioning
• User modeling
• Cluster analysis

This work has been partly done at the European Media Laboratory GmbH. During this time, this project was funded by the Klaus Tschira Foundation gGmbh.