A User-Friendly News Contents Adaptation for Mobile Terminals

We present a system that transforms web contents in the internet effectively to the corresponding mobile contents adapted to a mobile terminal such as a PDA or a mobile phone. The primary goal of this research is to reuse web contents in wireless internet environments without additional efforts of rebuilding them at scratch for contents adaptation to reduce costs and efforts needed to develop such wireless contents for mobile user. The secondary goal is to develop more convenient user interfaces to read mobile contents easily with a mobile terminal. To do this, we propose a technique, called page splitting, to navigate pages with button controls instead of conventional scroll up/down controls. The proposed system has been well operated for both well-known domestic and international news portal sites.