Intelligent Assistance in Authoring Dynamically Generated Web Interfaces

Macías, José A.

doi:10.1007/s11280-008-0043-3

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“…In a recent study, Gibson et al [10] have found that templates represent over 40% of data currently available on the Web. Templates improve the productivity in the design and implementation of sites and they also enhance site's usability by enforcing the uniformity of the pages [14,15]. However, the presence of templates can negatively impact several applications.…”

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On Finding Templates on Web Collections

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Templates are pieces of HTML code common to a set of web pages usually adopted by content providers to enhance the uniformity of layout and navigation of theirs Web sites. They are usually generated using authoring/publishing tools or by programs that build HTML pages to publish content from a database. In spite of their usefulness, the content of templates can negatively affect the quality of results produced by systems that automatically process information available in web sites, such as search engines, clustering and automatic categorization programs. Further, the information available in templates is redundant and thus processing and storing such information just once for a set of pages may save computational resources. In this paper, we present and evaluate methods for detecting templates considering a scenario where multiple templates can be found in a collection of Web pages. Most of previous work have studied template detection algorithms in a scenario where the collection has just a single template. The scenario with multiple templates is more realistic and, as it is discussed here, it raises important questions that may require 172 World Wide Web (2009) 12:171-211 extensions and adjustments in previously proposed template detection algorithms. We show how to apply and evaluate two template detection algorithms in this scenario, creating solutions for detecting multiple templates. The methods studied partitions the input collection into clusters that contain common HTML paths and share a high number of HTML nodes and then apply a single-template detection procedure over each cluster. We also propose a new algorithm for single template detection based on a restricted form of bottom-up tree-mapping that requires only small set of pages to correctly identify a template and which has a worst-case linear complexity. Our experimental results over a representative set of Web pages show that our approach is efficient and scalable while obtaining accurate results.

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“…With respect to future work, we expect to carry through a more interactive annotation process (using icons and tool-bar facilities) in order to increase automation and reduce the cognitive burden (Macías 2008;Macías and Castells 2003). Another interesting issue is how internal metrics can predict external and in-use metrics, determining the overall usability of a software product, and thus connecting internal usability metrics with those related to external and in-use quality measurements.…”

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Analysis and measurement of internal usability metrics through code annotations

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Macías

2019

Software Qual J

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Nowadays, usability can be meant as an important quality characteristic to be considered throughout the software development process. A great variety of usability techniques have been proposed so far, mostly intended to be applied during analysis, design and final testing phases in software projects. However, little or no attention has been paid to the analysis and measurement of usability in the implementation phase. Most of the time, usability testing is traditionally executed in advanced stages. However, the detection of usability flaws during the implementation is of utmost importance to foresee and prevent problems in the utilization of the software and avoid significant cost increases. In this paper, we propose a feasible solution to analyze and measure usability metrics during the implementation phase. Specifically, we have developed a framework featuring code annotations that provides a systematic evaluation of the usability throughout the source code. These annotations are interpreted by an annotation processor to obtain valuable information and automatically calculate usability metrics at compile time. In addition, an evaluation with 32 participants has been carried out to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our approach in comparison to the manual process of analyzing and measuring internal usability metrics. Perceived satisfaction was also evaluated, demonstrating that our approach can be considered as a valuable tool for dealing with usability metrics during the implementation phase.

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“…We considered the relationship between the ontology of a knowledge domain and multilingual keyword(s) based on natural languages. Ontologies can be regarded as an effective way to model different aspects of a user interface and to provide conceptual models in which complex relationships can be defined [18].…”

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“…A long-term goal of Human Computer Interaction is to design systems that minimize the gap between the human's cognitive conception of task and its computational representation [18]; the new computing today is a shift from machine-centered automation to user-centered services and tools. We have studied a user-centric and unified mechanism for the simplification of information access interaction in an environment flooding with information.…”

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Accessibility and Usability of User-centric Web Interaction with a Unified-Ubiquitous Name-based Directory Service

Kim

2009

World Wide Web

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Web-based information services should be evaluated for accessibility and usability with various types of Internet Web-browsing devices, interacting with web information servers including directory server. A ubiquitous name-based directory server, accessible and usable with a variety of Web-browsing devices (e.g. Internet-capable mobile phones), could be a unified center for human-centric Web interaction services as well as for business models based on personalized services. We studied the accessibility and usability in user-centric Web interaction with a unified-ubiquitous name-based directory service, as metric metadata for real-time estimation. We studied the real-time metrics in synthetic approach for comparison among different services. We show empirical results based on implementation and experiments in Korea, Japan and China.

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Intelligent Assistance in Authoring Dynamically Generated Web Interfaces

Cited by 16 publications

References 23 publications

On Finding Templates on Web Collections

On Finding Templates on Web Collections

Analysis and measurement of internal usability metrics through code annotations

Accessibility and Usability of User-centric Web Interaction with a Unified-Ubiquitous Name-based Directory Service

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