2009 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)
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Abstract

In recent years, the proliferation of online authoring tools and services has encouraged end users to share their own creations on the web. As of January 2009, the video web site YouTube is averaging 15 hours of video uploaded every minute [6]. For many users, the best and sometimes only way to sift through the enormous amount of information that results are search engines. But while search engines provide users with a general method for locating information, a single query is not always sufficient. Moreover, search engines present users with pages related to their search terms, but further analysis and integration of the information becomes its own task. As for any open-ended task, Web developers cannot anticipate solutions to every possible use in their designs. Instead users must create their own solutions by adapting their activities, or by programming solutions of their own.
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