Relations, Cards, and Search Templates: User-Guided Web Data Integration and Layout

Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology |

Published by ACM Press New York, NY, USA

We present three new interaction techniques for aiding users in collecting and organizing Web content. First, we demonstrate an interface for creating associations between websites, which facilitate the automatic retrieval of related content. Second, we present an authoring interface that allows users to quickly merge content from many different websites into a uniform and personalized representation, which we call a card. Finally, we introduce a novel search paradigm that leverages the relationships in a card to direct search queries to extract relevant content from multiple Web sources and fill a new series of cards instead of just returning a list of webpage URLs.  Preliminary feedback from users is positive and validates our design.