Icon-based representation of web information

Abstract

With the target of free knowledge distribution a vast information repository is build up in Web. People are able to access and share these information through Internet. It helps people to enrich their knowledge base as well as to get quick suggestions of any problem. But this opportunity is only limited to the educated people those who have good reading, writing and comprehending capability of language specifically English language. To overcome this limitation we choice icon as the expression medium and propose a methodology to visually represent Web information which helps illiterate or semi-illiterate people to get some basic information of a Web page. Few experiments have been performed to check the effectiveness of the proposed approach. The experimental result substantiates the efficacy of the proposal.