Clui: A Platform for Handles to Rich Objects
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Author(s)
Pham, Hubert
Paluska, Justin Mazzola
Miller, Robert C.
Ward, Stephen A.
Date Issued
October 2012
Journal
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Citation
Pham, Hubert et al. "Clui: A Platform for Handles to Rich Objects." Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology - UIST’12, October 7–10, 2012, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
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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.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2380116&CFID=529955150&CFTOKEN=85797049
