NPUC 2006 Conference Highlights

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• NPUC 2006 Conference Highlights
• Kirill Kireyev
• CU - Boulder

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Automation and Customization of Rendered Web Pages

• Browser-side End-User Development
• ChickenFoot
• http//groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/chickenfoot/

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Applications

• Bookmark my latest bank statement

• Change UI

• Integrate multiple web sites (mashups)

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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

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RealTravel

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

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Flickr
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Future Issues...

• Consolidation vs. Segmentation
• New paradigms of use
• Less email, more IM, more cell phones....
• Attention deficit
• Gated communities
• Online Collectivism