Cognitive Dimensions of Notations: Design Tools for Cognitive Technology
CT '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Technology: Instruments of Mind
Usability Meanings and Interpretations in ISO Standards
Software Quality Control
Making mashups with marmite: towards end-user programming for the web
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
User-friendly functional programming for web mashups
ICFP '07 Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming
CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Playing with information: How end users think about and integrate dynamic data
VLHCC '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)
Potluck: data mash-up tool for casual users
ISWC'07/ASWC'07 Proceedings of the 6th international The semantic web and 2nd Asian conference on Asian semantic web conference
Extending web standards-based widgets towards inter-widget communication
ICWE'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Current Trends in Web Engineering
Quality and usability of mashup tools: criteria and evaluation
Proceedings of the South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference
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Web mashups are become increasingly popular. A mashup is a Web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated form. Several mashup creation tools, so-called mashup makers, exist and many of them are advertised as easy to use tools for casual users. These tools target Web users without programming background and promise that creating a Web mashup is just a matter of a few mouse clicks. However, no profound usability evaluations have been performed to justify those claims. In this paper, we report on a usability study and user experiment on Web mashup makers for casual users. For this study, we have selected a representative set of mashup makers for casual users, and defined a number of evaluation criteria based on the cognitive dimensions of notations framework and the ISO 9241 part 11 Usability definition. Next, a user experiment was performed. The results of this study are presented in this paper. We also reflect on the methodology used.