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Web forms are massively used as a very effective way for user interaction with information systems. Notwithstanding, filling in forms with personal data can be tedious and repetitive. Due to legal and technical constraints, full interoperability of information systems is not a straightforward solution. So that several clientside techniques have been developed in the last years to automate the task of filling in forms; for example, auto-filling and autocomplete are very well-known techniques that employ contextual information to fill in automatically Web forms. However, the accuracy of these techniques is limited by the contextual information available on the Web browser. Some information systems can record users' personal information on the server side and use them to provide pre-filled forms to returning users. The problem with such as an approach is that users must keep updated records of personal information in remote servers; legal and technical issues prevent from sharing personal data among different applications, thus users must maintain multiple accounts. Interestingly enough, the analysis of data requested in forms reveal a pattern in the set of pieces of personal information that are often required (e.g. names, affiliations, billing address, home address, bank account, etc). In this paper we propose a new approach for automating filling in form that relies on these patterns of personal information. Our ultimate goal is to provide means for supporting the exchange of data between user's Personal Information Management Systems (PIMS) and Web forms. The approach is supported by a tool called PIAFF (which stands for Personal Information Assistant for Filling Forms) and illustrated by a case study concerning forms used for student applications.

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.

Web augmentation has emerged as a technique for customizing Web applications beyond the personalization mechanisms natively included in them. This technique usually manipulates existing Web sites on the client-side via scripts (commonly referred as userscripts) that can change its presentation and behavior. Large communities have surfaced around this technique and two main roles have been established. On the one hand there are userscripters, users with programming skills who create new scripts and share them with the community. On the other hand, there are users who download and install in their own Web Browsers some of those scripts that satisfy their customization requirements, adding features that the applications do not support out-of-the-box. It means that Web augmentation requirements are not formally specified and they are decided according to particular userscripters needs. In this paper we propose CrowdMock, a platform for managing requirements and scripts. The platform allows users to perform two activities: (i) specify their own scripts requirements by augmenting Web sites with high-fidelity mockups and (ii) upload these requirements into an online repository. Then, the platform allows the whole community (users and userscripters) to collaborate improving the definition of the augmentation requirements and building a concrete script that implements them. Two main tools have been developed and evaluated in this context. A client-side plugin called MockPlug used for augmenting Web sites with UI prototype widgets and UserRequirements, a repository enabling sharing and managing the requirements.

OATAO is an open access repository that collects the work of Toulouse researchers and makes it freely available over the web where possible. This is an author-deposited version published in : http://oatao.univ-toulouse.fr/ Eprints ID : 18841The contribution was presented at ICWE 2016 :http://icwe2016.inf.usi.ch/ Abstract. This paper presents a novel approach for supporting abstraction and structuring mechanisms of Web contents. The goal of this approach is to enable users to create/extract Web contents in the form of objects that they can manipulate to create Personal Web experiences. We present an architecture that not only allows the user interaction with individual objects but also supports the integration of many objects found in diverse Web sites. We claim that once Web contents have been organized as objects it is possible to create many types of Personal Web interactions. The approach involves end-users and developers and it is fully supported by dedicated tools. We show how end-users can use our tools to identify contents and transform them into objects stored in our platform. We show how developers can use of objects to create Personal Web applications.

Currently, many tasks performed on the Web prompt users to provide personal information through forms. Despite the fact that most users are familiarized with this kind of interaction technique, the use of Web forms is not always straightforward. Indeed, some users might need assistance to understand labels and complex data format required to fill in form fields that, quite often, vary from a Web site to another even when requesting similar data. Filling in forms can be tedious and repetitive as many Web sites request similar information. In this work we analyze user's interactions with Web forms and propose an approach for enhancing Web forms using client-side adaptation techniques in order to assist users to fill in Web forms. As the use of Web forms is closely related to the management of personal information our approach includes the support for data exchange between user's personal information management systems (PIMs) and third-party Web forms. The approach is illustrated by a set of client-side adaptation tools and a pervasive Personal Information Management Systems called PIMI.