Relations, cards, and search templates: user-guided web data integration and layout

  • Authors:
  • Mira Dontcheva;Steven M. Drucker;David Salesin;Michael F. Cohen

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Washington, Seattle, WA;Microsoft LiveLabs, Redmond, WA;University of Washington & Adobe Systems, Seattle, WA;Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We present three new interaction techniques for aiding users in collecting and organizing Web content. First, we demonstrate an interface for creating associations between websites, which facilitate the automatic retrieval of related content. Second, we present an authoring interface that allows users to quickly merge content from many different websites into a uniform and personalized representation, which we call a card. Finally, we introduce a novel search paradigm that leverages the relationships in a card to direct search queries to extract relevant content from multiple Web sources and fill a new series of cards instead of just returning a list of webpage URLs. Preliminary feedback from users is positive andvalidates our design.