Enterprise Mashups: Design Principles towards the Long Tail of User Needs
SCC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing - Volume 2
Predicting Service Mashup Candidates Using Enhanced Syntactical Message Management
SCC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing - Volume 1
Mashup Advisor: A Recommendation Tool for Mashup Development
ICWS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Web Services
Design and Development of a University-Oriented Personalizable Web 2.0 Mashup Portal
ICWS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Web Services
Mashups for the web-active user
VLHCC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
What's in a mashup? And why? Studying the perceptions of web-active end users
VLHCC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
ICWS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Web Services
Building a User Friendly Service Dashboard: Automatic and Non-intrusive Chaining between Widgets
SERVICES '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Congress on Services - I
Business Process Personalization Through Web Widgets
ICWS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Web Services
Consumer mashups: end-user perspectives and acceptance model
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services
The design of activity-oriented social networking: Dig-Event
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services
Dig-event: let's socialize around events
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion
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Mashups have been gaining wide popularity over the past few years. Several tools and platforms exist to support user-created mashups, however working with them is still complex, and their inability to directly impact existing activities and daily lives of endusers provide little motivation for their adoption and sustained use. This paper aims to design and implement a user-centered mashup system which provides greater motivation for mashups usage, by relating every-day calendar events to useful gadgets. The system offers high level of abstraction to end users, which eliminates the need for programming and the burden of knowing about data flows from one service to the other. The platform exhibits context-orientation, personalization and socialization features which are believed to improve user experience in the system. Strong focus on functionality integration rather than data integration is believed to create greater usefulness and motivation in using the system. The system is evaluated by 131 end-users to test for usability. Also, the system is used as a representative example in proposing a user-acceptance model for consumer mashups.