Design and implementation of a mobile class Web site using intelligent user interface

The purpose of this paper is to design and implement a mobile class Web site for elementary schools using intelligent user interface. Especially, our mobile class Web site encourages parents to participate in various school matters including their children's scholastic achievements. Traditional class Web sites provide information to parents through wired networks. Recently, with the development of wireless data transmission technologies, traditional class Web sites can be linked with wireless networks. Armed with wireless transmission handset devices such as cellular phones and PDA (personal digital assistants), students' parents can get class information directly through those devices. This work is to develop class Web sites that can be synergistically linked between wired and wireless networks. The communication through both wired and wireless networks enables students' parents to overcome the limitation of space and time and further promotes better collaboration with teachers. The survey results show that our class Web site promotes active participation of parents.