The much vaunted web 2.0 sees once static pages evolving into hybrid applications. Content that was once simple to surf is now becoming increasingly complicated due to the many updating components "dotted" t...
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The much vaunted web 2.0 sees once static pages evolving into hybrid applications. Content that was once simple to surf is now becoming increasingly complicated due to the many updating components "dotted" throughout the page. In previous studies, we have shown that unlike younger users, older users have more varied interaction patterns when using dynamic content. In addition, some older users are not aware of what to expect when interacting with dynamic content and show signs of hesitancy when completing tasks. Therefore, a tool was developed to assist older users as they interacted with these kinds of pages. The tool used simple language and video demonstrations to explain how the dynamic content operated and what users could expect to happen as they were interacting with it. We found that: older users tend to deny the need for assistance technology even when non-subjective measures suggest they do use it;technology assists but cannot replace initial human training;Assistance Tools are seen as a 'security blanket' incase things go wrong;and that the actual needs of users are not that well understood by those users. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
web design for general-purpose websites today requires framework software infrastructure built from different components. Among web server software as the front-end needed to process HTTP/HTTPS requests, the top-down ...
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(纸本)9781612081007
web design for general-purpose websites today requires framework software infrastructure built from different components. Among web server software as the front-end needed to process HTTP/HTTPS requests, the top-down layers consist of different software middleware of which CMS (Content Management System) technology is a primary component. However, with the proliferation of websites and the advent of web 2.0 philosophy, much distributed information has become structured in interoperability file formats (i.e., XML, RSS, JSON, etc.), and thus, new technologies such as mashups have been developed to collect this information in a dynamic way. The document approaches mashup technologies in order to evaluate their application not only in an end-user environment to create a personalized start page that embeds different sources of information relevant to a specific user, but also in generic areas such as the development of an institutional website in terms of creating a business mashup.
Due to the rapid evolution of web technologies and standards like webRTC for the real-time web, there is a reengineering pressure on many existing web applications for not getting outdated and for reducing costs and m...
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(数字)9783319198903
ISBN:
(纸本)9783319198903;9783319198897
Due to the rapid evolution of web technologies and standards like webRTC for the real-time web, there is a reengineering pressure on many existing web applications for not getting outdated and for reducing costs and maintainance efforts. In this paper, we propose a methodology designed to support developers through an application reengineering process for achieving modular and scalable web applications, by bridging the old and the new: a RESTful microservice architecture with a presentation layer composed from widgets. The methodology is based on empirical studies conducted with the help of the widget developer community and proposes an agile development cycle and guidelines for the redesign activities. Based on its principles, we developed a tool that has been used in the methodology evaluation for modeling the widget-based web applications. The obtained results show that the approach and the proposed architecture are suitable for enabling the future generation of widget-based applications.
Research shows a gap in terms of requirements elicitation between developers and endusers. Due to the low technical expertise of some members of online communities, they often cannot collaborate efficiently with devel...
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(纸本)9783885796497
Research shows a gap in terms of requirements elicitation between developers and endusers. Due to the low technical expertise of some members of online communities, they often cannot collaborate efficiently with developers and cannot provide continuous feedback during application development processes. However, collaborative modeling processes can play an important role in education, enforcing best-practices, support rapid prototyping and lower the communication and collaboration barriers between developers and end-users. This paper presents a tool for collaborative modeling of web applications in near real-time and their automatic generation. Early evaluation with end-users in simulated community settings show promising results for the interplay of modeling and collaboration in requirements gathering and web application design and development. We claim that near real-time modeling on the web has the potential to bring together stakeholders during design and development and offers a new perspective on model-based web Engineering.
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