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State-Transition Diagram for Visual Programming Tool GUEST

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Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST 2008)

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Many people have been interested in Web 2.0, which is a new concept of Web service. Web sites became sources of information and functionality that enables users to create new content of their own. For this demand, more versatile browsers that enables users to edit and display content based on their creative concepts and preferences are required. Motivated by this demand, we have developed a state-transition diagram-based Web browser programming scheme that supports participatory Web use and enables end-user to interact with Web content. We implemented a prototype of our scheme called GUEST (Graphical User interface Editor by State-transition Diagram). GUEST enables users to define behaviors of a Web browser easily. However, there are some parts of complexity of user interfaces that prevent the users’ intuitive understanding in the original version of GUEST. Therefore, in this paper, we focus on user interface, and introduce a new concept of the design.

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  1. Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, Ibaraki, Japan

    Yuka Obu & Kazuhiro Maruo

  2. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Ibaraki University, Ibaraki, Japan

    Tatsuhiro Yonekura & Masaru Kamada

  3. Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Seikei University, Tokyo, Japan

    Shusuke Okamoto

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Obu, Y., Maruo, K., Yonekura, T., Kamada, M., Okamoto, S. (2009). State-Transition Diagram for Visual Programming Tool GUEST. In: Cordeiro, J., Hammoudi, S., Filipe, J. (eds) Web Information Systems and Technologies. WEBIST 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01344-7_16

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