Developing Client-Side Mashups: Experiences, Guidelines and the Road Ahead

Interaction & User Interface Work Package participated in the 14th MindTrek Conference, presenting the paper "Developing Client-Side Mashups: Experiences, Guidelines and the Road Ahead" by Arto Salminen, Tommi Mikkonen, Feetu Nyrhinen and Antero Taivalsaari.

Software mashups that combine content from multiple web sites to an integrated experience are a popular trend. However, methods and tools for creating mashups are still rather undeveloped, and there is little engineering support behind them. In the paper the authors provide insight into mashup development based on their practical experiences in implementing various sample mashup applications and tools for creating them. Unlike most commonly used mashup development tools, which are rather server-centric, they focus primarily on client-side mashup development. They have grouped their experiences into guidelines that can serve as a helpful starting point for the design of new mashups. The long-term goal of the work is to facilitate the development of robust, secure and compelling mashup applications, and more generally ease the transition towards web-based software development.

The full-text article can be accessed at ACM Digital Library.
The slides from the conference presentation are available at MindTrek 2010 site.