Avital

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WEB SCRIBE

• Avital
• Mitrabhanu
• Reetal
• Sangita

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Hypothesis

• Easy annotation of web pages.
• Helps recall on future visits to the web pages.
• Provide traditional annotation functionalities.

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WebScribe Features

• Allows several types of annotations
• Highlight
• Tool tip
• Notes
• Links
• Text font manipulations
• Undo annotations
• Undo all annotations on a page
• Show annotations on a page

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WebScribe Implementation

• HTA- HTML Application
• Browser design
• Oracle database to store annotations
• Java Servlets
• Java Applet to help retrieval of annotations
• Dynamic modification of web pages using
  JavaScript

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WebScribe Cool features

• Multicolored highlighting shades of meaning
• Not quite IE but still.
• Functionality reduces cognitive overhead
• Delete single as well as multiple annotations on
  a page
• Addition of tool tips to both a link and text

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WebScribe Ideas from Hypertext Literature

• Adaptive Hypermedia (AHAM)
• Fluid Links
• Tool tips describing destination document
• Tool tips describing author intent
• Typed Links
• Tool tips describing link relationship
• Addresses user disorientation and cognitive
  overhead in hypertext

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WebScribe User Survey

• How do you traditionally annotate pages ?
• How intuitive is the user interface ?
• Would you use it as opposed to traditional
  methods of annotation?
• Which functionality did you use the most and
  which one the least ?
• Would you like any other functionality to be
  provided by an annotation system ?

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WebScribe Future Work

• Recognize users automatically.
• Share annotations among users.
• Accomplish WebScribe functionality in IE.
• Thorough user evaluation and survey phase.
• Page validations to perceive changes in content.

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WebScribe Browser
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WebScribe Highlight
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WebScribe Tool tips
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WebScribe Notes
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WebScribe Text modifications
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Underline
Bold