EnglishMash: Usability Design for a Natural Mashup Composition Environment

Aghaee, Saeed; Pautasso, Cesare

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-35623-0_12

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“…These symposiums, together with other international congresses, have promoted several lines of EUD-related investigation akin to the research reported in this paper: (1) attempts at simple programming languages or environments focused on a particular domain, such as EnglishMash (an end user-oriented language with massive natural language use and proactive aids such as autocompleting code) designedbyAghaee and Pautasso [27],orResEval (an EUD environment for mixing R&D domain data sources using a XML-based visual language, which requires knowledge of mark-up languages) created by Muhammad et al [28]; (2) demonstration of the potential of wizard-supported services integration in the EUD field [29,30]; (3) research into human-computer interaction and its particularities in the EUD field, such as [31] stressing how important it is to have user-oriented building blocks in order to focus on solution design rather than the interaction with programming components, or Grudin [32] reporting a study suggesting that HCI consistency is not relevant in the EUD field and can be counterproductive because it hems in user creativity.…”

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“…EzWeb, and the proposed model falls into this category. However, other researchers, like [27], [28], etc., take the opposite tack, claiming that, as EUPs are indisputable experts in their domain, it is best practice to design domain-specific EUD tools that will improve the efficiency and ease with which EUPs can build ad hoc solutions to their problems. According to the results of our research, the ideal thing would be a trade-off between the two lines of thought: domain-specific EUD tools can be used to successfully solve simple problems involving components and elements specific to only one or a very well-defined problem domain, whereas a component model like we propose, which is generic and powerful enough to model components for different problem domains (for example, personal organization elements such as email and calendars, heterogeneous visual web resources, RSS data feeds, remote web service invocations, etc.…”

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Web-centred end-user component modelling

Lizcano

Alonso

Soriano

et al. 2016

Future Generation Computer Systems

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A B S T R A C TThis paper formally defines a web component model enabling end-user programmers to build component-based rich internet applications (RIAs) that are tailored to meet their particular needs. It is the product of a series of previously published papers. The formal definition in description logic verifies that the model is consistent and subsumes currently existing models. We demonstrate experimentally that it is more effective than the others.Current tools propose very disparate web component models, which are based on the appropriate invocation of service backends, overlooking user needs in order to exploit these services and resources in a friendly manner. We have proposed a web model based on a detailed study of existing tools, their pros and cons, limitations and key success factors that have enabled other web end-user development (WEUD) solutions to help end-user programmers to build software to support their needs. In this paper we have verified that the proposed model subsumes and is instantiated by the models of the other existing tools that we analysed, coming a step closer to the standardization of end-user centred RIAs and development environments. We have implemented a development tool, called EzWeb, to produce RIAs that implement the proposed model. This tool enables users to develop their application following the model's component structure based on end-user programming success factors. We report a statistical experiment in which users develop increasingly complex web software using the EzWeb tool generating RIAs that conform to the proposed component model, and other WEUD tools generating RIAs that conform to other models. This experiment confirms the applicability of the proposed model and demonstrates that more end-user programmers (EUPs) (users concerned with programming primarily for personal rather public use) successfully develop web solutions for complex problems using the EzWeb tool that implements the model, which is more efficient than existing tools that implement other models.

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Web-centred end-user component modelling

Lizcano

Alonso

Soriano

et al. 2016

Future Generation Computer Systems

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“…The evaluation of [11] is a good complement with our study and opens perspectives for future directions. Additionally, usability studies for mashups have been done for e.g., the mashup composition environment [1]. [16] evaluated the usability of mashup applications and [5] discussed metrics to measure usability of mashups.…”

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Quality and usability of mashup tools

Malinga

Grüner

Koschmider

2013

Proceedings of the South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference

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Web mashups can add "agility" to software construction by enabling end-users without programming skills to compose their own service software on the basis of existing services. All that is needed for such purposes is a good mashup composition tool. The question remains how helpful and useful such tools really are for their users. To this end we have conducted a survey in which the participants were confronted with a widely-used representative of mashup tool and a typical mashup composition task. By-and-large the participants of the survey did well and the mashup tools seem to be able to fulfill their promises.

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“…The "control" consists in the selection of the supported vocabulary and grammar. For example, CoScripter [Leshed et al 2008] allows the user to describe Web-based processes using instructions such as "go to," Aghaee and Pautasso [2012] propose EnglishMash for mashup development with live preview, and Cremene et al [2009] propose a language based on templates.…”

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Web Service Composition

2015

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Web services are a consolidated reality of the modern Web with tremendous, increasing impact on everyday computing tasks. They turned the Web into the largest, most accepted, and most vivid distributed computing platform ever. Yet, the use and integration of Web services into composite services or applications, which is a highly sensible and conceptually non-trivial task, is still not unleashing its full magnitude of power. A consolidated analysis framework that advances the fundamental understanding of Web service composition building blocks in terms of concepts, models, languages, productivity support techniques, and tools is required. This framework is necessary to enable effective exploration, understanding, assessing, comparing, and selecting service composition models, languages, techniques, platforms, and tools. This article establishes such a framework and reviews the state of the art in service composition from an unprecedented, holistic perspective.

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EnglishMash: Usability Design for a Natural Mashup Composition Environment

Cited by 11 publications

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Web-centred end-user component modelling

Web-centred end-user component modelling

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