Managing Personal Information through Information Components

Abstract

Abstract. We introduce the concept of information components and show how it can allow non-expert users to construct personal information spaces by selecting, customising and composing components defined by the system or other users. The system presented is based on a plug-andplay concept and new user-defined applications can be integrated into the portal-style interface based on default templates which can easily be customised by the users.

Crowdsourced Web Engineering and Design

“…At the same time, the goal is to support the whole range from less experienced end-users to expert web developers as well as the complete design-build-evaluate cycle by providing support for crowdsourcing at all stages of design. This work builds on previous research on a crowdsourced platform for information system development [7,8] and crowdsourced web site adaptation [9] and extends it towards our proposal for crowdsourced web engineering. In the same sense, it is also related to recent work on crowdsourcing web usability tests before and after deployment [10].…”

“…Information components define the data as well as the schema which consists of both structural and behavioural information. They can therefore be regarded as components that provide data as well as facilities to manage that data [7]. On the other hand, user interface components define static presentation aspects and dynamic user interface behaviour.…”

A Platform to Support Object Database Research.

“…It was used to build a platform supporting the collaborative design and development of personal information management systems [LGN11]. Non-expert users can select provided components and compose them graphically to construct their personal information space.…”