An environment for End-User Development of Web mashups

Ghiani, Giuseppe; Paternò, Fabio; Spano, Lucio Davide; Pintori, Giuliano

doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2015.10.008

Cited by 33 publications

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“…On the contrary, tools for non-programmers implement simplified mechanisms that sacrifice expressive power. An example has been described in [20]: it supports the development of adaptive user interfaces that react to contextual events related to users, devices, environments and social relationships. In particular, non-programmers can define the context-dependent behavior by means of trigger / action rules.…”

Section: Prominent Mashup Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

End-user composition of interactive applications through actionable UI components

Desolda

Ardito

Costabile

et al. 2017

Journal of Visual Languages & Computing

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Developing interactive systems to access and manipulate data is a very tough task. In particular, the development of user interfaces (UIs) is one of the most time-consuming activities in the software lifecycle. This is even more demanding when data have to be retrieved by accessing flexibly different online resources. Indeed, software development is moving more and more toward composite applications that aggregate on the fly specific Web services and APIs. In this article, we present a mashup model that describes the integration, at the presentation layer, of UI components. The goal is to allow non-technical end users to visualize and manipulate (i.e., to perform actions on) the data displayed by the components, which thus become actionable UI components. This article shows how the model has guided the development of a mashup platform through which non-technical end users can create component-based interactive workspaces via the aggregation and manipulation of data fetched from distributed online resources. Due to the abundance of online data sources, facilitating the creation of such interactive workspaces is a very relevant need that emerges in different contexts. A utilization study has been performed in order to assess the benefits of the proposed model and of the Actionable UI Components; participants were required to perform real tasks using the mashup platform. The study results are reported and discussed.

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Section: Prominent Mashup Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

End-user composition of interactive applications through actionable UI components

Desolda

Ardito

Costabile

et al. 2017

Journal of Visual Languages & Computing

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“…Furthermore, API has the ability to retrieve Quranic verses in Arabic using search phrases in languages other than Arabic. Ghiani [8] presented a graphical environment in which users create new mashups by directly selecting interaction elements, content and functionalities from existing Web applications. They described the architecture of their platform and how it works, including its intelligent support.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development of a web-extension for authentication of online hadith texts

Kabir¹,

Hasan²,

Rahman³

et al. 2018

IJET

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Background and objective: With the widespread internet availability, now-a-days Hadith texts which are essential sources of Islamic knowledge appear on many websites. In this paper, a client-based web-extension program that can authenticate online Hadith texts from Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim is presented. Materials and Methods: First, the program reads the content of the specific browsed website and identifies Arabic language only. Then this Arabic text is screened to verify whether this contains any Hadith text by comparing with the authentic source. If complete match occurs in comparison, then the text is marked with green color proving the text as authentic. If some words/letters are missing, then the text will be marked with red color indicating that the Hadith is unauthentic and requires to be verified. Results: Using this web-extension, the authenticity of Hadith from Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim can be verified simply by clicking a button of the web-extension. If the Hadith is unauthentic, it will display the authentic version of Hadith just by moving the mouse over the unauthentic text. Conclusion: This application will create Islamic consciousness for ordinary people. The application will also benefit government agencies of Islamic affairs, Hadith printing centers, etc.

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“…In this way, the user is able to recognize the information by its appearance, associating intuitively the data semantics. Such techniques have been applied successfully in [4,5], where the authors proposed a tool for creating mashups from existing web applications. In order to collect and manipulate the data, the user selects different web interface fragments, which can be connected into a dedicated environment.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…If a data type contains inner fields, such representation allows us to provide access to its inner elements (e.g., the name of the user in the profile, the place in photo, etc.). In this case, we follow the approach in [5], where the data is the UI element from the end user's point of view. P3 The user exploits familiar interactions for defining the input of a routine element and exploiting its output.…”

Section: End User Development Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As happens in other environments that exploit a similar widget representation [4,5], the connection mechanism defines both a data dependency and a temporal relationship among the widgets included in the environment. The convention we adopted in FaceMashup is similar to data-flow based approaches for EUD (e.g., Yahoo Pipes): each time the data source widget changes its value, the connected widgets update their values accordingly.…”

Section: Flow Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

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FaceMashup: An End-User Development Tool for Social Network Data

Massa

Spano

2016

Future Internet

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Every day, each active social network user produces and shares texts, images and videos. While developers can access such data through application programming interfaces (APIs) for creating games, visualizations and routines, end users have less control on such information. Their access is mediated by the social application features, which limits them in combining sources, filtering results and performing actions on groups of elements. In order to fill this gap, we introduce FaceMashup, an end user development (EUD) environment supporting the manipulation of the Facebook graph. We describe the tool interface, documenting the choices we made during the design iterations. Data types are represented through widgets containing user interface (UI) elements similar to those used in the social network application. Widgets can be connected with each other with the drag and drop of their inner fields, and the application updates their content. Finally, we report the results of a user-test on the FaceMashup prototype, which shows a good acceptance of the environment by end-users.

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An environment for End-User Development of Web mashups

Cited by 33 publications

References 27 publications

End-user composition of interactive applications through actionable UI components

End-user composition of interactive applications through actionable UI components

Development of a web-extension for authentication of online hadith texts

FaceMashup: An End-User Development Tool for Social Network Data

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