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Title:	Evaluation of mashups from end-user application development perspective
Authors:	Liu Na (P51686)
Supervisor:	Ahmed Moosajee Patel, Prof. Dr.
Keywords:	Mashups (World Wide Web) Web 2.0 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia -- Dissertations Dissertations, Academic -- Malaysia
Issue Date:	20-Sep-2011
Description:	Web mashup is a Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 paradigm refers to new type of application where resources are loosely aggregated together to create a single high-order application with richer functionality called meta-application. Mashup application development is classified to be easy enough for any computer non-programmer to do. However, contrary to common believe, to establish Web mashup applications does require some basic programming skills to integrate applications using different types of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). To address this problem, several mashup tools have been made publically available, aiming to provide opportunities to make mashups to meet personal and commercial requirements that create customized Web applications. With the fast movement of Web technology and fierce market competitions, several mashup tools have seen the graveyard. Finding the real users’ requirements when they are remixing the Web resources and creating their personal Web applications is quite important for both users and mashup tools designers. Therefore, this experimental research has been generated to evaluate mashup development and the simplified usability of mashup tools. To assess mashup development, two different APIs, the Flickr APIs and the Google Map APIs have been remixed to develop an integrated application and then given to the respondents to implement using one mashup tool among Yahoo! Pipes, Intel Mash Maker and Dapper. To support evaluating purpose, a questionnaire was designed and given to thirty (30) selected participants from different subjects who were drilled into what is mashup. To help the respondents establish a basic knowledge of what is about Web mashup application and mashup tools, a conceptual introduction of integrated metaapplication and several visual demo video clips were shown to the participants before filling in the questionnaires. The participants included 77% (23) male and 23% (7) female with an average age of 27 years who are at the Bachelors, Masters or PhD degree level. They are 30% (9) with at least 1 year working experience in (Information and Communication Technology) ICT or related areas at a technical level and 57% (17) had experience in developing Web applications. The results show that 93% (28) consider is Web mashup easy to understand. After the participants watching the demo video clips about what mashup, 90% (27) of the respondents really felt interested, curious and exciting because they found they are capable of remixing Web resources. 67% (20) felt that mashup tools were too complicated for them to handle. One interesting observation noticed from this experiment is that no respondents chose Intel Mash Maker because people did not like the idea of adding plug-ins in their Web browser. The overall conclusions of this thesis show that mashup meta-application development is not easy for non-programmers lacking in ICT skills, which is contrary to the belief that it is easy.,“Certification of Master’s/Doctoral Thesis” is not available,Master Information Technology
Pages:	101
Call Number:	TK5105.88817.L538 2011 3 tesis
Publisher:	UKM, Bangi
Appears in Collections:	Faculty of Information Science and Technology / Fakulti Teknologi dan Sains Maklumat

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