A Framework for Concern-Sensitive, Client-Side Adaptation

Abstract

Currently the Web is a platform for performing complex tasks which involve dealing with different Web applications. However, users still have to face these tasks in a handcrafted way. While building "opportunistic" servicebased software, such as mashups, can be a solution for combining data and information from different providers, many times this approach might have limitations. In this paper we present a novel approach which combines concernsensitive application adaptation with user-collected data to improve the user experience while performing a task. We have developed some simple though powerful tools for applying this approach to some typical tasks such as trip planning. We illustrate the paper with simple though realistic examples and compare our work with others in the same field.

An approach and tool support for assisting users to fill-in web forms with personal information

“…The approach introduced in this paper also made use of client-side adaptation techniques for modifying third-party applications [10]. Indeed, the tool PIAFF add new interactors on third-party Web forms (i.e.…”

“…Our parser was conceived to modify the structure of original Web forms using a client-side Web adaptation technique [10]. When the parser detects a Microformat in a Web page, the corresponding fields are highlighted using a blue box (see zone  at Figure 4); other fields are presented without change (e.g.…”

Usability Aspects of the Inside-in Approach for Ancillary Search Tasks on the Web

“…6. It was built upon the concept of Web augmentation [4], which defines strategies for implementing tools that can extend the set of elementary tasks users can do while navigating on the Web. Whilst the full details about the implementation of that framework are out of the scope of this paper, it is interesting to notice that it includes a client-side module and a broker at the server-side.…”

“…Once the broker replies, this module modifies the current Web page to display the search results as a kind of contextual help. For that, the DOM structure of the current Web page is adapted using a set of JavaScript functions, called augmenters [4]. As demonstrated in a previous work [25], adaptations created by augmenters are volatile and do not affect the application running in the Web server.…”

Ingeniería de artefactos de aumentación web basada en crowdsourcing

“…Básicamente, la Aumentación Web, consiste en agregar, alterar o quitar elementos de la interfaz de usuario (esto es, los recursos que la aplicación servidor entrega al cliente luego de cada solicitud), utilizando artefactos de software que usualmente corren en el dispositivo del usuario, normalmente en el explorador. Los artefactos de aumentación son usados para adaptar contenido, funcionalidad y presentación de los sitios webs existentes, por lo que suele decirse que la Aumentación Web es a la web, lo que la Realidad Aumentada a la realidad [21] y ha demostrado su potencial ofreciendo soluciones en distintos escenarios de aumentación como ser, aumentaciones orientadas a las tareas del usuario [38]; aumentaciones orientadas a la accesibilidad [6,56]; aumentaciones orientadas a dispositivos móviles [8,9], etc.…”