Enabling End-Users to Individually Share Parts of Composite Web Applications

2017 ◽  
pp. 164-184
Author(s):  
Gregor Blichmann ◽  
Carsten Radeck ◽  
Robert Starke ◽  
Klaus Meißner
Keyword(s):  
Web Applications ◽  
End Users

uRun

2013 ◽  
pp. 314-334
Author(s):  
Alexandra Chapko ◽  
Andreas Emrich ◽  
Stephan Flake ◽  
Frank Golatowski ◽  
Marc Gräßle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Health ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Mobile Services ◽  
End Users ◽  
Mobile Service ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Access Device ◽  
Service Creation ◽  
Health And Fitness

This article presents a framework which enables end users to create small, sharply focused mobile services directly on a mobile device. By this, end users are no longer only consumers of mobile services; they also become producers and providers of mobile services. The domain of mobile health and fitness applications has been chosen to demonstrate the feasibility of the approach. The article presents the underlying platform for easy creation of mobile services and describes the implementation of a Web-based editor for easy mobile service creation as well as our solution to access device capabilities out of Web applications.

scholarly journals An End User Development Approach for Mobile Web Augmentation

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriela Bosetti ◽  
Sergio Firmenich ◽  
Silvia E. Gordillo ◽  
Gustavo Rossi ◽  
Marco Winckler
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
End Users ◽  
Web Browser ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
The Web ◽  
Web Augmentation

The trend towards mobile devices usage has made it possible for the Web to be conceived not only as an information space but also as a ubiquitous platform where users perform all kinds of tasks. In some cases, users access the Web with native mobile applications developed for well-known sites, such as, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. These native applications might offer further (e.g., location-based) functionalities to their users in comparison with their corresponding Web sites because they were developed with mobile features in mind. However, many Web applications have no native counterpart and users access them using a mobile Web browser. Although the access to context information is not a complex issue nowadays, not all Web applications adapt themselves according to it or diversely improve the user experience by listening to a wide range of sensors. At some point, users might want to add mobile features to these Web sites, even if those features were not originally supported. In this paper, we present a novel approach to allow end users to augment their preferred Web sites with mobile features.We support our claims by presenting a framework for mobile Web augmentation, an authoring tool, and an evaluation with 21 end users.

Visual Environment for DOM-Based Wrapping and Client-Side Linkage of Web Applications

2011 ◽  
pp. 219-240
Author(s):  
Kimihito Ito ◽  
Yuzuru Tanaka
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
End Users ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Visual Component ◽  
Basic Infrastructure ◽  
Legacy Applications ◽  
Client Side ◽  
The Web

Web applications, which are computer programs ported to the Web, allow end-users to use various remote services and tools through their Web browsers. There are an enormous number of Web applications on the Web, and they are becoming the basic infrastructure of everyday life. In spite of the remarkable development of Web-based infrastructure, it is still difficult for end-users to compose new integrated tools of both existing Web applications and legacy local applications, such as spreadsheets, chart tools, and database. In this chapter, the authors propose a new framework where end-users can wrap remote Web applications into visual components, called pads, and functionally combine them together through drag-and-drop operations. The authors use, as the basis, a meme media architecture IntelligentPad that was proposed by the second author. In the IntelligentPad architecture, each visual component, called a pad, has slots as data I/O ports. By pasting a pad onto another pad, users can integrate their functionalities. The framework presented in this chapter allows users to visually create a wrapper pad for any Web application by defining HTML nodes within the Web application to work as slots. Examples of such a node include input-forms and text strings on Web pages. Users can directly manipulate both wrapped Web applications and wrapped local legacy tools on their desktop screen to define application linkages among them. Since no programming expertise is required to wrap Web applications or to functionally combine them together, end-users can build new integrated tools of both wrapped Web applications and local legacy applications.

scholarly journals Android-Based Information System Of Online Teaching Services With Geo-Location Determination

bit-Tech ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-18
Author(s):  
Bambang Riyono ◽  
Widia Rifkianti
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Web Services ◽  
Programming Language ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
End Users ◽  
Learning Session ◽  
Java Programming ◽  
Location Determination ◽  
Master Data

The information system of online teaching services with geo-location determination is a system that brings together and arranging meetings between private tutors and people looking for private tutors through Android application supported with geo-location. People can go looking for tutors of related subject for specific time of meeting and location, and then the system will search tutors with matched time of availability within nearest location radius. In addition, students can organize or plan a learning meeting session with the teacher through the application. This information system is a client-server based where the built application consists of Android applications running on the client environment and web applications running on the server environment. Mobile/client applications are used by end-users to search and organize learning session. Web applications serves as web services and interfaces for administrator to manage master data, view user and transaction data, print reports, and respond to complaints from end-users. The programming language used in building this information system is the Java programming language for mobile applications and PHP for web applications and web services. And using MySQL as the database.

Project Management and Web Software Engineering

2010 ◽  
pp. 254-291
Author(s):  
Daniel M. Brandon
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
End Users ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Weights And Measures ◽  
Culture Time ◽  
Time Zones ◽  
It Applications

The process involved with the development of Web applications is significantly different from the process of developing applications on older traditional platforms. This is a difference not only in technologies but in the overall business process and associated methodology, in other words the project management. Web applications generally manage content and not just data, and many Web applications are document centric versus data centric. In addition, there are many more people involved in the definition, design, development, testing, usage, and approval for Web applications. The pace of business life is much quicker today than in the past, thus Web applications need to be deployed much quicker than earlier IT applications and they need to be engineered for more flexibility and adaptability in terms of changing requirements, changing content, changing presentation, and perhaps mass user customization. In addition, security concerns are more prevalent in Web applications since the end users are outside as well as inside the corporate virtual perimeter. Web applications can serve a global audience and thus there are more diverse stakeholders for these applications. Issues such as language, culture, time zones, weights and measures, currency, and international standards need to be considered. This chapter examines the project management issues involved with Web applications.

scholarly journals A Tool Suite to Enable Web Designers, Web Application Developers and End-users to Handle Semantic Data

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 38-60
Author(s):  
Mariano Rico ◽  
Óscar Corcho ◽  
José Antonio Macías ◽  
David Camacho
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
End Users ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Semantic Data ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Application Developers ◽  
Web Designers

Current web application development requires highly qualified staff, dealing with an extensive number of architectures and technologies. When these applications incorporate semantic data, the list of skill requirements becomes even larger, leading to a high adoption barrier for the development of semantically enabled Web applications. This paper describes VPOET, a tool focused mainly on two types of users: web designers and web application developers. By using this tool, web designers do not need specific skills in semantic web technologies to create web templates to handle semantic data. Web application developers incorporate those templates into their web applications, by means of a simple mechanism based in HTTP messages. End-users can use these templates through a Google Gadget. As web designers play a key role in the system, an experimental evaluation has been conducted, showing that VPOET provides good usability features for a representative group of web designers in a wide range of competencies in client-side technologies, ranging from amateur HTML developers to professional web designers.

scholarly journals Interactivity in the Wild

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Web Applications ◽  
Middle Management ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
End Users ◽  
Social Setting ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Everyday Work ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Bear Witness

Abstract Interactivity remains a central and yet notoriously difficult notion in studies of computermediated communication. Compared to most previous research, which has taken theoretical and deductive routes, this article explores interactivity empirically and inductively with particular reference to collaboration within organizations. The study relied on a theoretical sample of interview respondents - designers of web applications as well as end-users, (middle) management as well as rank-and-file employees. The findings, first, help to specify the meaning of ‘interactivity,’ ‘communication,’ and ‘information’ for everyday work practices. Second, the respondents provide contextualized arguments and narratives concerning how media that offer different degrees of interactivity, may substitute or complement each other. Third, the analyses indicate how e-mail, web applications, and other media serve to constitute specific forms of interaction between colleagues and departments within an organization. For further research, the article suggests the relevance of examining interactivity, in part, as a characteristic of the simultaneous use of several media. Finally, the interview discourses bear witness to how the understanding of interactive media forms within organizations is shaped, as well, by the wider social setting embedding both media and organizations.

scholarly journals A Tool Suite to Enable Web Designers, Web Application Developers and End-users to Handle Semantic Data

2012 ◽  
pp. 123-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariano Rico ◽  
Óscar Corcho ◽  
José Antonio Macías ◽  
David Camacho
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
End Users ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Semantic Data ◽  
Client Side ◽  
Application Developers ◽  
Web Designers

Current web application development requires highly qualified staff, dealing with an extensive number of architectures and technologies. When these applications incorporate semantic data, the list of skill requirements becomes even larger, leading to a high adoption barrier for the development of semantically enabled Web applications. This paper describes VPOET, a tool focused mainly on two types of users: web designers and web application developers. By using this tool, web designers do not need specific skills in semantic web technologies to create web templates to handle semantic data. Web application developers incorporate those templates into their web applications, by means of a simple mechanism based in HTTP messages. End-users can use these templates through a Google Gadget. As web designers play a key role in the system, an experimental evaluation has been conducted, showing that VPOET provides good usability features for a representative group of web designers in a wide range of competencies in client-side technologies, ranging from amateur HTML developers to professional web designers.

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