No Code Required

Revolutionary tools are emerging from research labs that enable computer users to customize and automate their use of the Web without learning how to program. This title presents the research, development, application, and impact of a variety of systems.

Autorentext
Allen has provided, substantial contributions in the research, design, and implementation of innovative end-user applications. His primary interest is in creating simple interfaces for complex tasks, including intelligent interfaces, customizable software, user interface design, software design, and instruction. Edited the book "Watch What I Do: Programming by Demonstration", which was published by MIT Press in 1993 (~3000 sold). He has created several successful end-user programming systems: Eager, Stagecast Creator, and CoScripter. Ph.D. Computer Science, Yale University, A.B. A.B. Mathematics, Princeton University. Mira has been building web summarization and customization systems since 2005. Mira is interested in a variety of problems including managing, sharing, and repurposing Web content and visualizing heterogenous data. Her dissertation work was on interaction techniques for semi-automatic gathering and customization of web content. Mira is interested in creating systems that allow users to access the information they need quickly and easily. Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Washington.Tessa has been doing research on end user programming since 1997, resulting in more than a dozen technical papers on the various aspects of EUP. Tessa's research goal is to develop innovative interfaces for enhancing human productivity and creativity through the use of techniques drawn from artificial intelligence. Her research interests include intelligent user interfaces, machine learning, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, programming by demonstration, and email classification. She also contributed a chapter about her SMARTedit system to the second EUP book, Your Wish Is My Command”. PhD, University of Washington's Department of CS&E.Jeffrey currently leads the Highlight project, which is building technology that allows users to easily create their own mobile versions of existing web sites. His research interests are in the field of human-computer interaction, with a specific focus on automated design, mobile computing, end-user programming, and ubiquitous computing. He received his Ph.D. in December 2006 from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science. His thesis described the first system to automatically generate interfaces that are consistent with a user's previous experience and provided the first evidence from user studies that automatically generated interfaces can be more usable than human-designed interfaces in certain situations. He received a BS degree in computer engineering from the University of Washington in 2000.

Klappentext
State-of-the-art tools are emerging from HCI research labs that give end users unprecedented control over information on the Web. These tools enable all computer users to customize and automate their use of the web without learning any code. For example, Mash Maker from Intel lets users mash Yelp, Craigslist and Google Maps to show all five-star rated restaurants within the vicinity of apartment listings as pins on a neighborhood map. And the possibilities are endless. This flexibility and interactivity was not possible before Web 2.0, open source, and social networking. The area is now exploding and it only continues to grow as users grow less-patient with the limits of the Web, grow more computer savvy, and become more comfortable connecting with people around the world and sharing data with them. Research findings and beta systems have emerged from the labs such has Adobe, Intel, and MIT, and are ready for primetime. HCI developers, researchers, practitioners, and students are eager for reliable information. No Code Required takes cutting edge material from industry leaders and presents it in an accessible manner, including information on the systems, features and benefits, implementation, and lessons learned.

Zusammenfassung
Revolutionary tools are emerging from research labs that enable all computer users to customize and automate their use of the Web without learning how to program. This book takes cutting edge material from academic and industry leaders - the people creating these tools.

Inhalt

Introduction

1. End User Programming on the Web Allen Cypher (IBM)

2. Why We Customize the Web Robert Miller (MIT)** I. End User Programming Languages for the Web**

3. Sloppy Programming Greg Little (MIT)
4. Mixing the reactive with the personal: Opportunities for end user programming in Personal information management (system) Max Van Kleek (MIT)
5. Going beyond PBD: A Play-by-Play and Mixed-initiative Approach (system) Hyuckchul Jung (Institute for Human and Machine Cognition)
6. Rewriting the Web with Chickenfoot (system) Robert Miller (MIT)

7. A Goal-Oriented Web Browser (system) Alexander Faaborg (Mozilla) II. Systems and Applications

8. Clip, Connect, Clone: Combining Application Elements to Build Custom Interfaces for Information Access (system) Jun Fujima (Hokkaido)
9. Mash Maker (system) Robert Ennals (Intel)
10. Collaborative scripting on the web (system) Tessa Lau (IBM)
11. Programming by a Sample: Rapidly Creating Web Applications with d.mix (system) Björn Hartmann (Stanford)
12. Highlight: End User Mobilization of Existing Web Sites (system) Jeffrey Nichols (IBM)
13. Subjunctive Interfaces for the Web Aran Lunzer (University of Copenhagen)
14. From Web Summaries to Search Templates: Automation for Personal Web Content (system) Mira Dontcheva (Adobe Systems)
15. Access to the Temporal Web Through Zoetrope (system) Eytan Adar (University of Washington)
16. Enabling End Users to Independently Build Accessibility into the Web Jeffrey Bigham (University of Washington)

17. Social Accessibility: A Collaborative Approach For Improving Web Accessibility (system) Yevgen Borodin (Stony Brook) III. Data Management and Interoperability

18. A World Wider than the Web: End User Programming Across Multiple Domains (system) Will Haines (SRI)

19. Knowing What You're Talking About: Natural Language Programming of a Multi-Player Online Game (system) Henry Lieberman (MIT) IV. User Studies

20. Mashups for Web-Active End Users Nan Zang (Penn State)
21. Mashed layers and muddled models: debugging mashup applications M. Cameron Jones (Yahoo!)
22. Reuse in the world of end-user programmers Christopher Scaffidi (CMU)
23. Using Web Search to Write Programs Joel Brandt (Stanford)