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...

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Main Authors: Miller, Robert C., Chou, Victoria H., Bernstein, Michael S., Little, Danny Greg, Van Kleek, Max G., Karger, David R., schraefel, mc
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Association for Computing Machinery 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51696
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0024-5847
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0442-691X
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author Miller, Robert C.
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description 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 contextual information automatically clipped from the target web site. Inky is an example of a new kind of hybrid between 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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spelling mit-1721.1/516962022-09-23T10:31:34Z Inky: a sloppy command line for the web with rich visual feedback Miller, Robert C. Chou, Victoria H. Bernstein, Michael S. Little, Danny Greg Van Kleek, Max G. Karger, David R. schraefel, mc Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Miller, Robert C. Miller, Robert C. Chou, Victoria H. Bernstein, Michael S. Little, Danny Greg Van Kleek, Max G. Karger, David R. 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 contextual information automatically clipped from the target web site. Inky is an example of a new kind of hybrid between 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. Quanta Computer - TParty project National Science Foundation 2010-02-11T13:38:43Z 2010-02-11T13:38:43Z 2008 2008-10 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 978-1-59593-975-3 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51696 Miller, Robert C. et al. “Inky: a sloppy command line for the web with rich visual feedback.” Proceedings of the 21st annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology. Monterey, CA, USA: ACM, 2008. 131-140. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0024-5847 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0442-691X en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1449715.1449737 Proceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf Association for Computing Machinery author/dept web page
spellingShingle Miller, Robert C.
Chou, Victoria H.
Bernstein, Michael S.
Little, Danny Greg
Van Kleek, Max G.
Karger, David R.
schraefel, mc
Inky: a sloppy command line for the web with rich visual feedback
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title_short Inky: a sloppy command line for the web with rich visual feedback
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