Naslov
Geppeto: Promoting End-users to Gadget Developers

Autori
Srbljić, Siniša ; Žužak, Ivan ; Krolo, Jakov

Izvornik
Geppeto: Promoting End-users to Gadget Developers

Vrsta, podvrsta
Ostale vrste radova, ostalo

Godina
2008

Ključne riječi
Consumer Computing

Sažetak
The Google Gadgets platform has over 220.000 gadgets and more than ten million end-users. What if gadget users were presented an intuitive development system and also became gadget developers? Having non-programmers building gadgets may be a significant win given that more developers will build more diverse Gadgets which could lead to even wider user adoption. More importantly, this gives end- users the opportunity to personalize gadgets whose value others could easily appreciate. Furthermore, end-users have more specific domain knowledge allowing them to share highly targeted domain-specific gadgets. And although end-users may not be programmers and they may not know HTML and JavaScript, they do know how to use gadgets. The challenge we are therefore facing is to make building gadgets as simple as using gadgets. In this talk, we present and demo Geppeto: End- User Tool for Gadget Composition, a research project which received a Google Research Award. In our research, we focus on a gadget development methodology which is simple enough for end-users, think in terms of iGoogle Gadget Maker, but still expressive enough to go beyond a predefined set of gadget templates. The key aspect of our methodology is developing new gadgets by composition.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Računarstvo

Napomena
Google Inc., Mountain View, California, USA, 28.05.2008.,

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