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Enabling Interactive Access to Web Tables

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Xin Yang,

Wenchang Xu,

Yuanchun ShiAuthors Info & Claims

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Part I: New Trends

Pages 760 - 768

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02574-7_85

Published: 14 July 2009 Publication History

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Tables are widely used in web pages. Unfortunately, most web tables can only be passively accessed but cannot be interactively accessed, that is, users can view information displayed in tables but cannot control the presentation of tables like sorting data and hiding or showing a column/row. Interactive access is especially useful when encountering large tables or browsing on small screens. In this paper, we propose to enable interactive access to genuine web tables based on automatic table detection and a good understanding of table contents. We designed and implemented a plug-in for the Microsoft Internet Explorer, called the iWebTable, which provides a customized user interface supporting interactive access to genuine web tables. Experimental results show that users are satisfied and really enjoy the interactive access mode to web tables, especially in such cases as they need to sort data in large tables or compare data in distant columns or rows.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1891903.1891935

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Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Part I: New Trends

July 2009

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ISBN:9783642025730

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Institute of Health Informatics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA MN 55455

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Xu WShi Y(2011)Enabling efficient browsing and manipulation of web tables on smartphoneProceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction: towards mobile and intelligent interaction environments - Volume Part III10.5555/2027296.2027311(117-126)Online publication date: 9-Jul-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2027296.2027311
Xu WYang XShi YGao WLee CYang JChen XEskenazi MZhang Z(2010)Enhancing browsing experience of table and image elements in web pagesInternational Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and the Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction10.1145/1891903.1891935(1-8)Online publication date: 8-Nov-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1891903.1891935

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