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Inky: A Sloppy Command Line for the Web with Rich Visual Feedback

Inky: A Sloppy Command Line for the Web with Rich Visual Feedback
Inky: A Sloppy Command Line for the Web with Rich Visual Feedback
We present Inky, a command line for shortcut access to common web tasks. Inky aims to capture the efficiency benefits of typed commands while mitigating their usability problems. Inky commands have little or no new syntax to learn, and the system displays rich visual feedback while the user is typing, including missing parameters and con- textual information automatically clipped from the target web site. Inky is an example of a new kind of hybrid be- tween a command line and a GUI interface. We describe the design and implementation of two prototypes of this idea, and report the results of a field study.
Miller, Robert C.
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Chou, Victoria H.
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Little, Greg
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Van Kleek, Max
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Karger, David
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Van Kleek, Max
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Miller, Robert C., Chou, Victoria H., Bernstein, Michael, Little, Greg, Van Kleek, Max, Karger, David and schraefel, m.c. (2008) Inky: A Sloppy Command Line for the Web with Rich Visual Feedback. UIST 08, Monteray. 19 - 22 Oct 2008.

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Abstract

We present Inky, a command line for shortcut access to common web tasks. Inky aims to capture the efficiency benefits of typed commands while mitigating their usability problems. Inky commands have little or no new syntax to learn, and the system displays rich visual feedback while the user is typing, including missing parameters and con- textual information automatically clipped from the target web site. Inky is an example of a new kind of hybrid be- tween a command line and a GUI interface. We describe the design and implementation of two prototypes of this idea, and report the results of a field study.

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Published date: October 2008
Additional Information: Event Dates: October 19-22
Venue - Dates: UIST 08, Monteray, 2008-10-19 - 2008-10-22
Organisations: Agents, Interactions & Complexity

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Local EPrints ID: 266861
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/266861
PURE UUID: da2cc6e9-f22e-4e49-8541-e58eca46ad42
ORCID for m.c. schraefel: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9061-7957

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Date deposited: 05 Nov 2008 20:01
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:16

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Author: Robert C. Miller
Author: Victoria H. Chou
Author: Michael Bernstein
Author: Greg Little
Author: Max Van Kleek
Author: David Karger
Author: m.c. schraefel ORCID iD

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