Abstract
Social Web applications have successfully transformed content consuming users into content producers. Aside of socializing, these applications are frequently used to disseminate information and coordinate purposeful activities, such as disaster response, political action, and neighborhood organizations. These activities are carried out via human interpreted messages. In many cases, dedicated information processing spaces would better serve such needs. Unfortunately, a typical Web user is not able to create even very simple applications, as they require significant technical know-how. This work proposes an approach towards creating simple collaborative applications. The approach, called WeFlow, proposes a collaborative application specification, an application generator, and an execution engine. The WeFlow framework is presented with focus on the implementation issues. A case study, where users report and track accessibility violations, is presented for demonstration purposes.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 2012 International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and 2012 International Confernece on Social Computing |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
Pages | 593-598 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-4673-5638-1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 5 Sept 2012 |
Event | 2012 ASE/IEEE 4th International Conference on Social Computing - Amsterdam, Netherlands Duration: 3 Sept 2012 → 6 Sept 2012 http://www.asesite.org/conferences/socialcom/2012/SocialCom2012_cfp.html |
Conference
Conference | 2012 ASE/IEEE 4th International Conference on Social Computing |
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Abbreviated title | SocialCom 2012 |
Country/Territory | Netherlands |
City | Amsterdam |
Period | 3/09/12 → 6/09/12 |
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Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- Internet
- social networking (online)
- user generated human computation applications
- Social Web applications
- content producers
- disaster response
- political action
- neighborhood organizations
- human interpreted messages
- information processing spaces
- We Flow framework
- Humans
- Collaboration
- Generators
- Input variables
- Birds
- Computers
- HTML
- Human-centered computing
- Collaborative computing
- Human information processing
- Workflow management
- Computer-supported collaborative work