Amit Singhai

Samsung Research Institute India Bangalore · web solutions

The attention level is an important indicator of the user's level of interest while viewing any content. The web browser is one of the most popular means to access information, and the usage of browsers in mobile devices is increasing. In this paper we analyze the use of attention as an input for web browsers. Attention can be measured easily in re...

With a number of cheap commercial dry EEG kits available today, it is possible to look at user attention driven scenarios for interaction with the web browser. Using EEG to determine the user's attention level is preferable to using methods such as gaze tracking or time spent on the webpage. In this paper we use the attention level in three differe...

In this paper we propose a simple solution for the problem of providing additional functionality for web content apart from what a typical web browser provides by default. There are multiple solutions such as browser plugins which are installed separately and have their own lifecycle. Some browsers provide custom java script objects to access addit...

Mobile web browsers are increasing in usage due to the widespread use of various mobile devices including smartphones and wearables. It is useful to enable such browsers to have hands free functionality to enable people to use them when their hands are occupied when driving or performing other tasks. A hands free browser would be also useful for di...

In this paper we present an implementation for a typical Android application to support Plug-ins or add-on application to enhance functionality at run time. Such a framework allows an application to offer new functionality without updating the base application every time in the application store. Our implementation uses advanced bound services and...

Battery consumption in mobile hand held devices is an important issue, given the recent slew of such devices with advanced computing capabilities. In this paper we propose some software based approaches to reduce the power consumption of a mobile device running an Android application. In the first approach we consider a typical Android application....

With the ubiquity and increased usage of mobile devices with higher processing capability, power consumption in such devices is an important issue. In this paper we propose a software based approach to reduce the power consumption of an Android application which is having higher graphics or rendering requirements. Graphics intensive applications su...