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Clui: a platform for handles to rich objects

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Justin Mazzola Paluska,

Steve WardAuthors Info & Claims

UIST '12: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

Pages 177 - 188

https://doi.org/10.1145/2380116.2380141

Published: 07 October 2012 Publication History

Abstract

On the desktop, users are accustomed to having visible handles to objects that they want to organize, share, or manipulate. Web applications today feature many classes of such objects, like flight itineraries, products for sale, people, recipes, and businesses, but there are no interoperable handles for high-level semantic objects that users can grab. This paper proposes Clui, a platform for exploring a new data type, called a Webit, that provides uniform handles to rich objects. Clui uses plugins to 1) create Webits on existing pages by extracting semantic data from those pages, and 2) augmenting existing sites with drag and drop targets that accept and interpret Webits. Users drag and drop Webits between sites to transfer data, auto-fill search forms, map associated locations, or share Webits with others. Clui enables experimentation with handles to semantic objects and the standards that underlie them.

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Clui: a platform for handles to rich objects
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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UIST '12: Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

October 2012

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ISBN:9781450315807

DOI:10.1145/2380116

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MIT CSAIL, USA
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