Opening Personalization to Partners: An Architecture of Participation for Websites

Arellano, Cristóbal; Díaz, Óscar; Iturrioz, Jon

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-31753-8_7

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“…while such extensive privileges are hardly required. Different studies corroborate this [Barth et al 2010;Liverani and Freeman 2009]. Specifically, Barth et al [2010], after revising 25 popular Mozilla Firefox extensions, found that 88% of these extensions need less than the full set of available privileges.…”

Section: Securitymentioning

confidence: 54%

The Augmented Web

Díaz

Arellano

2015

ACM Trans. Web

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Today's web personalization technologies use approaches like user categorization, configuration, and customization but do not fully support individualized requirements. As a significant portion of our social and working interactions are migrating to the web, we can expect an increase in these kinds of minority requirements. Browser-side transcoding holds the promise of facilitating this aim by opening personalization to third parties through web augmentation (WA), realized in terms of extensions and userscripts. WA is to the web what augmented reality is to the physical world: to layer relevant content/layout/navigation over the existing web to improve the user experience. From this perspective, WA is not as powerful as web personalization since its scope is limited to the surface of the web. However, it permits this surface to be tuned by developers other than the sites' webmasters. This opens up the web to third parties who might come up with imaginative ways of adapting the web surface for their own purposes. Its success is backed up by millions of downloads. This work looks at this phenomenon, delving into the "what," the "why," and the "what for" of WA, and surveys the challenges ahead for WA to thrive. To this end, we appraise the most downloaded 45 WA extensions for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome as well as conduct a systematic literature review to identify what quality issues received the most attention in the literature. The aim is to raise awareness about WA as a key enabler of the personal web and point out research directions.

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Section: Securitymentioning

confidence: 54%

The Augmented Web

Díaz

Arellano

2015

ACM Trans. Web

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“…From the academy, in more recent years many works have investigated the potential of using End-User Programming techniques for allowing users to customize their applications [4] [9]. Participation of the crowd of end-users is often presented as a suitable alternative for personalization, which often requires appropriate tool support and methodological approach for personalization [6]. Indeed, many works such as [7] focus on tool support for allowing end-users to tune Web sites.…”

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User Interface Adaptation Using Web Augmentation Techniques: Towards a Negotiated Approach

Firmenich

Rossi

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Engineering the Web in the Big Data Era

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The use of Web augmentation techniques has an impact on tasks of owners and developers of Web sites, developers of scripts and end users. Because the Web site can be modified by external scripts, Web site's owners might lose control about how Web site contents are delivered. To prevent this, they might be tempted to modify the DOM structure of Web pages thus making harder to execute external scripts. However, communities of Web augmentation scripters are increasing since end-users still have needs not yet covered by original Web sites. In this paper we analyze the trade-offs of the introduction of Web augmentation scripts. In order to mitigate some negative effects, such as the loss of control, we propose an approach based on negotiation and coordination between actors involved in the process. We present a set of tools to facilitate the integration of scripts and to foster the dissemination of Web augmentation scripts for the benefit of all actors involved.

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“…Today's Web 2.0 users wish to personalize their devices and applications -from minorly invasive customizations (such as changing the visual appearance) to functionality-extending changes that constitute true forms of extensibility. Not only smartphones, tablets, and browsers are in focus of personalization, but also existing RIAs should be customizable -and even extensible -in previously unforeseen directions [3,31,12,34,15,18,22,17].…”

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Balancing Isolation and Sharing of Data in Third-Party Extensible App Ecosystems

Schröder

Reischuk

Gehrke

2015

Engineering the Web in the Big Data Era

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In the landscape of application ecosystems, today's cloud users wish to personalize not only their browsers with various extensions or their smartphones with various applications, but also the various extensions and applications themselves. The resulting personalization significantly raises the attractiveness for typical Web 2.0 users, but gives rise to various security risks and privacy concerns, such as unforeseen access to certain critical components, undesired information flow of personal information to untrusted applications, or emerging attack surfaces that were not possible before a personalization has taken place. In this paper, we propose a novel extensibility mechanism to implement personalization of existing cloud applications towards (possibly untrusted) components in a secure and privacy-friendly manner. Our model provides a clean component abstraction, thereby in particular ruling out undesired component accesses and ensuring that no undesired information flow takes place between application components -either trusted from the base application or untrusted from various extensions. We then instantiate our model in the SAFE web application framework (WWW 2012), resulting in a novel methodology that is inspired by traditional access control and specifically designed for the newly emerging needs of extensibility in application ecosystems. We illustrate the convenient usage of our techniques by showing how to securely extend an existing social network application.

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Opening Personalization to Partners: An Architecture of Participation for Websites

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

The Augmented Web

The Augmented Web

User Interface Adaptation Using Web Augmentation Techniques: Towards a Negotiated Approach

Balancing Isolation and Sharing of Data in Third-Party Extensible App Ecosystems

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