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Supporting Users Tasks with Personal Information Management and Web Forms Augmentation

Supporting Users Tasks with Personal Information Management and Web Forms Augmentation

  • Sergio Firmenich19,20,
  • Vincent Gaits20,
  • Silvia Gordillo19,21,
  • Gustavo Rossi19,20 &
  • …
  • Marco Winckler22 
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Abstract

Currently, many tasks performed on the Web prompt users to provide personal information through forms. Despite the fact that most users are familiarized with this kind of interaction technique, the use of Web forms is not always straightforward. Indeed, some users might need assistance to understand labels and complex data format required to fill in form fields that, quite often, vary from a Web site to another even when requesting similar data. Filling in forms can be tedious and repetitive as many Web sites request similar information. In this work we analyze user’s interactions with Web forms and propose an approach for enhancing Web forms using client-side adaptation techniques in order to assist users to fill in Web forms. As the use of Web forms is closely related to the management of personal information our approach includes the support for data exchange between user’s personal information management systems (PIMs) and third-party Web forms. The approach is illustrated by a set of client-side adaptation tools and a pervasive Personal Information Management Systems called PIMI.

Keywords

  • Personal Information
  • Credit Card
  • Interaction Technique
  • Form Field
  • Personal Assistant

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  1. LIFIA, Facultad de Informática, Argentina

    Sergio Firmenich, Silvia Gordillo & Gustavo Rossi

  2. Universidad Nacional de La Plata and Conicet, Argentina

    Sergio Firmenich, Vincent Gaits & Gustavo Rossi

  3. CiCPBA, Argentina

    Silvia Gordillo

  4. IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier, France

    Marco Winckler

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  1. Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Via Ponzio 34/5, 20133, Milano, Italy

    Marco Brambilla

  2. Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Oookayama, 152-8552, Tokyo, Japan

    Takehiro Tokuda

  3. Institut für Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin, Königin-Luise-Strasse 24-26, 14195, Berlin, Germany

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Firmenich, S., Gaits, V., Gordillo, S., Rossi, G., Winckler, M. (2012). Supporting Users Tasks with Personal Information Management and Web Forms Augmentation. In: Brambilla, M., Tokuda, T., Tolksdorf, R. (eds) Web Engineering. ICWE 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7387. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31753-8_20

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