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End-user programming of mashups with vegemite

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Jeffrey Nichols,

Tessa A. LauAuthors Info & Claims

IUI '09: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

Pages 97 - 106

https://doi.org/10.1145/1502650.1502667

Published: 08 February 2009 Publication History

Abstract

Mashups are an increasingly popular way to integrate data from multiple web sites to fit a particular need, but it often requires substantial technical expertise to create them. To lower the barrier for creating mashups, we have extended the CoScripter web automation tool with a spreadsheet-like environment called Vegemite. Our system uses direct-manipulation and programming-by-demonstration tech-niques to automatically populate tables with information collected from various web sites. A particular strength of our approach is its ability to augment a data set with new values computed by a web site, such as determining the driving distance from a particular location to each of the addresses in a data set. An informal user study suggests that Vegemite may enable a wider class of users to address their information needs.

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