NPUC 2006 Conference Highlights

Kirill Kireyev

CU - Boulder

Automation and Customization of Rendered Web Pages

• Browser-side End-User Development• ChickenFoot

– http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/chickenfoot/

ApplicationsBookmark my latest bank statement:

Change UI:

Integrate multiple web sites (“mashups”):

SocialText: Enterprise Wikis• Social software: engaging much more people in

low-threshold activities– e.g. Wikipedia has only a (relatively) few writers, but– Many Wikipedia readers act as SPAM filters, and– Gives individual opportunity to contribute perhaps

only once, but with expertise only they hold

RealTravel

Ideas:• “Reduce friction for useful behavior”• Scaffolding structure (“snap to grid”)

Flickr

Future Issues...

• Consolidation vs. Segmentation

• New paradigms of use– Less email, more IM, more cell phones....

• Attention deficit

• Gated communities

• “Online Collectivism”