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Modelling Safe Interface Interactions in Web Applications

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Conceptual Modeling - ER 2009 (ER 2009)

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Current Web applications embed sophisticated user interfaces and business logic. The original interaction paradigm of the Web based on static content pages that are browsed by hyperlinks is, therefore, not valid anymore. In this paper, we advocate a paradigm shift for browsers and Web applications, that improves the management of user interaction and browsing history. Pages are replaced by States as basic navigation nodes, and Back/Forward navigation along the browsing history is replaced by a full-fledged interactive application paradigm, supporting transactions at the interface level and featuring Undo/Redo capabilities. This new paradigm offers a safer and more precise interaction model, protecting the user from unexpected behaviours of the applications and the browser.

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  1. Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133, Milano, Italy

    Marco Brambilla & Michael Grossniklaus

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, St. George Street 140, M5S 3G4, Toronto, Canada

    Jordi Cabot

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos 6627, Prédio do ICEx, sala 4010, Pampulha , Belo, 31270-901, Horizonte, MG, Brazil

    Alberto H. F. Laender

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Informazione, DICo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Comelico, 39/41, 20135, Milano, Italy

    Silvana Castano

  3. Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, 1501 Page Mill Rd., 94304, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Umeshwar Dayal

  4. Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Via sommarive 14, 38050, Povo (Trento), Italy

    Fabio Casati

  5. Instituto de Informática, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Caixa Postal 15.064, 91.501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil

    José Palazzo M. de Oliveira

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Brambilla, M., Cabot, J., Grossniklaus, M. (2009). Modelling Safe Interface Interactions in Web Applications. In: Laender, A.H.F., Castano, S., Dayal, U., Casati, F., de Oliveira, J.P.M. (eds) Conceptual Modeling - ER 2009. ER 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5829. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04840-1_29

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