ConBrowse - Contextual Content Browsing

Abstract

The World Wide Web today underlies a number of trends and visions that will change the manner of using and browsing it in a significant manner. The Semantic Web, the Mobile Web, or the Web of Things are three of these visions that already have produced manifold approaches and concepts, which, amongst others, focus on context-aware applications as a use case. These applications have the potential of usefully linking legacy web services and the personal area network of the user enabling novel services and tools. As an approach that combines and harmonizes these different trends, we propose the concept of contextual content browsing in this paper, i.e., a context-aware approach for web browsing that utilizes personal information from the user to adapt web pages while he or she is browsing. In this manner, personalized and context-aware web content provisioning is enabled by connecting personal context sources and the web browser. Accordingly, we propose a framework, markup language, and software components to enable our approach.