SENSE – Semantic-guided Communication & Composition in a Widget/Dashboard Environment

The second research project (alongside Topic/S) that i’ve been heading since January 2012, namely SENSE – Intelligent Storage and Exploration of large Document Sets evenly denotes its first accepted scientific paper at the ICWE’13 – 13th International Conference on WebEngineering – 5th International Workshop on Lightweight Integration on the Web to be held July 8-12, 2013, in Aalborg, Denmark. The paper is entitled “Semantic-guided Communication & Composition in a Widget/Dashboard Environment” and summarizes the work in progress of just the user interface part or layer of the the ongoing research project. This is the preliminary reference:

Wehner, P. and Krüger, R.: Semantic-guided Communication & Composition in a Widget/Dashboard Environment.Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Lightweight Integration on the Web (ComposableWeb), 13th International Conference on WebEngineering (ICWE’13), Aalborg, Germany, Springer, 2013

Paper / Slides

Do note that the SENSE project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education
and Research (bmbf) under grant No. 01IS11025A and constitutes a part of “KMUInnovativ: IKT” initiative.

Have fun. P

Evaluating free mockup apps: pencil and prototyper-free

There is quite a lot of mockup apps around whereas only some of them are under active development and additionally are offered with a non-commercial licene. I (only rawly) evaluated two of them, namely pencil (2.0.3) and prototyper-free (2.1.0) for an application in a web-ui project.

pencil is a classic in the mockup scene and may became most popular by shipping a firefox plugin variant that allows for quick web-based mockup production. however, since firefox meanwhile outruns any developer by updates, the current plugin rendered incompatible with my running firefox installation and i settled for the windows installation package. prototyper-free is, on the other hand, a branch of the commercial, fully fledged mockup tool that has been restricted in functionality and more specific in extensionability (see below) without preventing you from getting your mockup job done efficiently.