Publication | ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology 2012
Waken
Reverse Engineering Usage Information and Interface Structure from Software Videos
Abstract
Waken: Reverse Engineering Usage Information and Interface Structure from Software Videos
Nikola Banovic, Tovi Grossman, Justin Matejka, George Fitzmaurice
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology 2012
We explore the possibilities and opportunities related to reverse engineering usage information from screen-captured application video tutorials. We develop an application-independent system that recognizes UI components and activities, such as cursor movements and icon clicks, from an input set of video tutorials, We then present Waken, an enhanced video player, which showcases some of the design opportunities the are introduced by having this additional meta-data. In particular, users can directly interact with UI components in the video, such as icons and menus, to display associated information, or navigate to relevant moments in other videos. Initial results suggest that the system can successfully reconstruct many aspects of a UI without any prior application-dependent knowledge.
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Nikola Banovic
Dept. of Computer Science University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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