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

Massa, Daniele; Spano, Lucio Davide

doi:10.3390/fi8020010

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“…In order to illustrate a repetitive action sequence, an example of searching for books on the web has been developed. A person who likes to read frequently buys books through Amazon 2 which is a well-known book website. However, this is not the unique website for book shopping and it is advisable to compare prices on different resources such as Waterstones 3 and Bookshop 4 .…”

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“…Continuous access to new pages, switching between tabs or scrolling through content makes it difficult for users to concentrate and leads to frustration and disorientation. In order to support users in the customization of information, several works have been developed based on the concept of End-User Development (EUD) [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]. Lieberman et al [6] define End-User Development as "a set of methods, techniques and tools that enable users of software systems, acting as non-professional software developers, to create, modify or extend at some point in time a software artifact".…”

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“…Linking content from different websites avoids tab switching when locating information from different resources. FaceMashup[2] is an End-User Development environment that empowers users of social networks by supporting them create their own procedures for inspecting and controlling their data [57]. proposes a Hybrid Open API Selection Approach for Mashup development (HyOASAM).…”

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The use of the World Wide Web has experienced extraordinary growth in the last decades. The Web has become the main source of information for millions of users. The number of websites offering content to users is countless. In order to personalise information according to their needs, users often have to visit multiple, unconnected pages. Users perform a number of actions to collect that information that requires concentration. If the number of Web resources is large, the activity becomes unpleasant. The problem increases when these tasks are performed frequently and repetitively. These tasks are time-consuming and lead users to experience frustration and disorientation during the activity, causing a loss of concentration that prolongs the activity over time. Web Augmentation combines different Web technologies to improve user experience on existing pages by adding content from different pages among other benefits. This article proposes Web Augmentation as a technique to reduce user interactions in repetitive tasks. To support the proposal, the paper introduces Excore, a browser extension for Web Augmentation that allows end-users to add content from different resources automatically. The article presents the benefits introduced by this approach as a response to the drawbacks experienced by users while performing their activities on the Web. The architecture of the platform and its operations are described by means of an example. A double evaluation of the extension is addressed, one qualitative and one quantitative. The results show that Excore reduces the number of interactions by 94.45% and the time to complete a task by 80.75%.

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“…This could include use of a general theory of scientific/intellectual movements (SIMs; [117]) in guiding the discourse. Planning by a Smart Society taking advantage of services geared towards Smart Cities [118] and situations of personal interest (e.g., as reflected by Social Media) could assist end users in their manipulation of data, information, and Social Network information resources [119]. Indeed, Smart Systems with the capacity to factor-in local inhabitants' metadata and their specific characteristics (e.g., owners of chainsaws, volunteer fire-fighters, and other items or skill-sets) would quickly highlight points of contact in a community relevant to recovery efforts (with ethical and privacy concerns properly considered).…”

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Environmental Hazards: A Coverage Response Approach

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2019

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The rapid rise and implementation of Smart Systems (i.e., multi-functional observation and platform systems that depict settings and/or identify situations or features of interest, often in real-time) has inversely paralleled and readily exposed the reduced capacity of human and societal systems to effectively respond to environmental hazards. This overarching review and essay explores the complex set of interactions found among Smart, Societal, and Environmental Systems. The resulting rise in the poorly performing response solutions to environmental hazards that has occurred despite best practices, detailed forecast information, and the use and application of real-time in situ observational platforms are considered. The application of Smart Systems, relevant architectures, and ever-increasing numbers of applications and tools development by individuals as they interact with Smart Systems offers a means to ameliorate and resolve confounding found among all of the interdependent Systems. The interactions of human systems with environmental hazards further expose society’s complex operational vulnerabilities and gaps in response to such threats. An examination of decision-making, the auto-reactive nature of responses before, during, and after environmental hazards; and the lack of scalability and comparability are presented with regard to the prospects of applying probabilistic methods, cross-scale time and space domains; anticipated impacts, and the need to account for multimodal actions and reactions—including psycho-social contributions. Assimilation of these concepts and principles in Smart System architectures, applications, and tools is essential to ensure future viability and functionalities with regard to environmental hazards and to produce an effective set of societal engagement responses. Achieving the promise of Smart Systems relative to environmental hazards will require an extensive transdisciplinary approach to tie psycho-social behaviors directly with non-human components and systems in order to close actionable gaps in response. Pathways to achieve a more comprehensive understanding are given for consideration by the wide diversity of disciplines necessary to move forward in Smart Systems as tied with the societal response to environmental hazards.

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“…In the second paper, Massa and Spano [5] propose FaceMashup, a tool that allows users to create procedures to inspect and control their data. The different data types in the Facebook Graph API (e.g., user profiles, photos, etc.)…”

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