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Nyx: a display energy optimizer for mobile web apps

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Ding Li,

Angelica Huyen Tran,

William G. J. HalfondAuthors Info & Claims

ESEC/FSE 2015: Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering

Pages 958 - 961

https://doi.org/10.1145/2786805.2803190

Published: 30 August 2015 Publication History

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Energy is a critical resource for current mobile devices. In a smartphone, display is one of the most energy consuming components. Modern smartphones often use OLED screens, which consume much more energy when displaying light colors than displaying dark colors. In our previous study, we proposed a technique to reduce display energy of mo- bile web apps by changing the color scheme automatically. With this approach, we achieved a 40% reduction in display power consumption and 97% user acceptance of the new color scheme. In this tool paper, we describe Nyx, which implements our approach. Nyx is implemented as a self- contained executable file with which users can optimize en- ergy consumption of their web apps with a simple command.

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August 2015

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ISBN:9781450336758

DOI:10.1145/2786805

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Elisabetta Di Nitto
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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University College London, UK
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University of Namur, Belgium

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