Apparition Crowdsourced User Interfaces That Come To Life As You Sketch Them Walter S. Lasecki, Juho Kim, Nicholas Rafter, Onkur Sen, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Michael S. Bernstein Presented By, Paurav Surendra

INTRODUCTION Tool designed to quickly create Wizard-of-Oz Prototypes with the help of the crowd It is self managing and provides real time coordination Crowd involves skilled workers who provide small pieces to form a bigger solution Allows designers to envision their product in matter of minutes

CHALLENGES Supporting synchronous editing of interface mockups Avoiding repetitive work and production blocking Allowing the crowd to upgrade the interface over time Remembering behaviors so that the interfaces are immediately Wizard-of-Oz’ed

TOOLS AND FEATURES Synchronized To-Do Lists Write Locks Replace a layer Flag Malicious Workers Refine a layer Search Add constraints Speak out the requirements

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QUESTIONS Advantages over a traditional method ? Extent of real world use ? How can this be extended for programmers ?