# Koala: Capture, Share, Automate, Personalize Business Processes on the Web

Introduces Koala, a collaborative web automation system that records browser interactions as editable pseudo-natural-language scripts. Scripts are shared through a wiki and instantiated with personal or corporate data for reuse by other users.

- Catalog URL: https://awesomecua.github.io/resources/url-cccd967aa993404d74d0/
- Original source: https://doi.org/10.1145/1240624.1240767
- Kind: paper
- Review: curated
- Scope: core
- Environments: web
- Topics: web-navigation, workflow, recording
- Evidence checked: 2026-10-17T09:55:21Z
- ID: url:cccd967aa993404d74d0

## Limitations

The annotation was reviewed against retained primary publication sources. Experiments have not been independently reproduced. This proposal is the specific Koala paper. It does not automatically merge every later CoScripter publication or project record.

- Record JSON: https://awesomecua.github.io/resources/url-cccd967aa993404d74d0/record.json

## Authors

Greg Little, Tessa A. Lau, Allen Cypher, James Lin, Eben M. Haber, Eser Kandogan

## Citation exports

- BibTeX: https://awesomecua.github.io/resources/url-cccd967aa993404d74d0/citation.bib
- CSL JSON: https://awesomecua.github.io/resources/url-cccd967aa993404d74d0/citation.csl.json

## Publication record

- Title: Koala: Capture, Share, Automate, Personalize Business Processes on the Web
- Authors: Greg Little, Tessa A. Lau, Allen Cypher, James Lin, Eben M. Haber, Eser Kandogan
- Publication date (recorded precision): 2007
- Publication source: https://doi.org/10.1145/1240624.1240767
- Publication BibTeX: https://awesomecua.github.io/resources/url-cccd967aa993404d74d0/publication-citation.bib
- Publication CSL JSON: https://awesomecua.github.io/resources/url-cccd967aa993404d74d0/publication-citation.csl.json
- venue: CHI 2007 Proceedings
- pages: 943-946
- doi: 10.1145/1240624.1240767
- date basis: Supplied year precision: 2007. CHI 2007 proceedings heading and copyright year The IBM page has an unlabeled Date of 22 Oct 2007, while the paper gives April/May event dates. Their roles do not establish a reliable day-level publication date.
- identity basis: No same-work record located in the full active catalog. Similarity screening was not used as automatic identity approval. The raw archive and exclusions are additionally checked during normalization.
- notes: This proposal is the specific Koala paper. It does not automatically merge every later CoScripter publication or project record. Exact publication date is unresolved; only the clearly established year is proposed.
- Publication evidence: https://research.ibm.com/publications/koala-capture-share-automate-personalize-business-processes-on-the-web, https://plunk.org/eben/PublishedPapers/KoalaCHI.pdf

## License declarations

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## Primary evidence

- https://research.ibm.com/publications/koala-capture-share-automate-personalize-business-processes-on-the-web (retrieved 2026-10-17T09:53:23Z; SHA-256 ae61a94cca68e058858244b6ff54ed9409973a5cecaf25c0e325b27adaf0e3dd)
- https://plunk.org/eben/PublishedPapers/KoalaCHI.pdf (retrieved 2026-10-17T09:55:21Z; SHA-256 944b6f74a6cdb88fc253009f364dcc71cc42186b4907e04720da128c5292e357)
- https://plunk.org/eben/PublishedPapers/KoalaCHI.pdf (retrieved 2026-10-17T09:55:21Z; SHA-256 944b6f74a6cdb88fc253009f364dcc71cc42186b4907e04720da128c5292e357)
- https://research.ibm.com/publications/koala-capture-share-automate-personalize-business-processes-on-the-web (retrieved 2026-10-17T09:53:23Z; SHA-256 ae61a94cca68e058858244b6ff54ed9409973a5cecaf25c0e325b27adaf0e3dd)