Potluck: Semi-Ontology Alignment for Casual Users (2009)
David F. Huynh, Robert C. Miller, David R. Karger
Abstract. Potluck is a web user interface (Figure 1) that lets casual users— those without programming skills and data modeling expertise—repurpose heterogeneous Semantic Web data. It lets users...
Exploring User Experience in “Blended Reality”: Moving Interactions Out of the Screen (2008)
David F. Huynh, Yan Xu, Shuo Wang
Video game players often learn to map their physical actions (e.g., pressing buttons) onto their on-screen avatars ’ actions (e.g., wielding swords) in order to play. We explored the experience...
Potluck: Semi-Ontology Alignment for Casual Users (2008)
David F. Huynh, Robert C. Miller, David R. Karger
Abstract. Potluck is a web user interface (Figure 1) that lets casual users— those without programming skills and data modeling expertise—merge and repurpose heterogeneous Semantic Web data. It...
David F. Huynh, David R. Karger, Robert C. Miller
is no surprise that Semantic Web researchers and enthusiasts are excited to publish and accumulate semi-structured data on the Web. Beyond our community, however, we see many authors with structured...
ABSTRACT Assisted Browsing for Semistructured Data (2008)
Vineet Sinha, David R. Karger, David F. Huynh
The development of the RDF[2] standard highlights the fact that a great deal of useful information is in the form of semistructured data—objects connected by relations fitting no rigorous schema....
Potluck: Data Mash-Up Tool for Casual Users (2008)
David F. Huynh, Robert C. Miller, David R. Karger
Abstract. As more and more reusable structured data appears on the Web, casual users will want to take into their own hands the task of mashing up data rather than wait for mash-up sites to be built...
User Interaction Experience for Semantic Web Information ABSTRACT (2007)
David F. Huynh, Dennis Quan, David R. Karger
The Semantic Web project [2] aims to add semantics to the existing World Wide Web. We propose an extension of the Web’s user interaction experience to take advantage of the added semantics. This...
The Semantic User Interface Paradigm for Presenting Semi-structured Information (2007)
David F. Huynh, Dennis Quan, Vineet Sinha, David Karger
seeks to store and manage semi-structured data in the user’s personal information corpus. There arises a need to present and allow the user to interact with such semi-structured
Adenine: A Metadata Programming Language (2007)
Dennis Quan, David F. Huynh, Vineet Sinha, David Karger
Haystack (Huynh et al., 2002), our personal information repository, uses a shared metadata store and a system of agents for helping the user manage his or her information. Agents use the shared...
Metadata-supported Agent Infrastructure (2007)
Dennis Quan, David F. Huynh, Vineet Sinha, David Karger
Agents are often useful for allowing users to delegate tedious or complicated tasks to the system. In many systems, multiple agents work in concert to achieve desired objectives. In these...
Semantic Navigation Through Semi-structured Information (2007)
Vineet Sinha, Dennis Quan, David F. Huynh, David Karger
The Haystack project seeks to help users effectively visualize and manage their information. To support the customizability and flexibility needed to let users store and navigate through information...
Enabling web browsers to augment web sites’ filtering and sorting functionalities (2006)
David F. Huynh, Robert C. Miller, David R. Karger
Existing augmentations of web pages are mostly small cosmetic changes (e.g., removing ads) and minor addition of third-party content (e.g., product prices from competing sites). None leverages the...
Enabling web browsers to augment web sites’ filtering and sorting functionalities (2006)
David F. Huynh, Robert C. Miller, David R. Karger
Existing augmentations of web pages are mostly small cosmetic changes (e.g., removing ads) and minor addition of third-party content (e.g., product prices from competing sites). None leverages the...
Time quilt: Scaling up zoomable photo browsers for large, unstructured photo collections (2005)
David F. Huynh, Steven M. Drucker, Patrick Baudisch, Curtis Wong
In the absence of manual organization of large digital photo collections, the photos ’ visual content and creation dates can help support time-based visual search tasks. Current zoomable photo...
Time quilt: Scaling up zoomable photo browsers for large, unstructured photo collections (2005)
David F. Huynh, Steven M. Drucker, Patrick Baudisch, Curtis Wong
In the absence of manual organization of large digital photo collections, the photos ’ visual content and creation dates can help support time-based visual search tasks. Current zoomable photo...
Dennis Quan, David F. Huynh, Vineet Sinha, David Karger
The Haystack platform (Huynh et al., 2002) is designed to store and manage personal information such as e-mail, documents, contacts, meetings, etc. These types of data are semi-structured in nature...