Crowdsourcing interface for collecting correspondences of web pages

One challenge in building a web design tool that attempts to leverage examples is gathering design alternatives and providing mappings between web page elements. We present a crowdsourcing interface to collect user-generated correspondences between two web pages. Our iterative refinement of the interface was guided by three main design principles: modularize the task, minimize user errors, and provide relevant information. As an initial experiment, we collected fifteen web pages with diverse style and layout, and deployed the interface on Amazons Mechanical Turk. Preliminary data analysis shows that Turkers take longer than experts and define fewer mappings in general. Further evaluation and experiments with different types of pages will identify directions for a web design tool that enables the use of any web page as a design template.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• crowdsourcing
• hci
• web
• design
• tool