Adaptive User Interfaces: Principles and Practice

by M. Schneider-Hufschmidt, T. Kühme, U. Malinowski

Overview

The area of intelligent and adaptive user interfaces has been of interest to the research community for a long time. Much effort has been spent in trying to find a stable theoretical base for adaptivity in human-computer interaction and to build prototypical systems showing features of adaptivity in real-life interfaces. To date research in this field has not led to a coherent view of problems, let alone solutions. A workshop was organized, which brought together a number of well-known researchers in the area of adaptive user interfaces with a view to

develop a coherent view of the results accomplished in the field

organize basic ideas which might lead to a more general methodology for adaptivity in order to overcome the problem of specialized, non-generalizable solutions, and

discuss possible areas for future research in the field and to define criteria for the selection of the most promising directions of such research.

The results of the workshop are presented in this volume. The authors have collected papers from the participants which describe both their research and their views on questions which were dealt with during the workshop. A state-of-the-art report and taxonomy for the field of adaptive interfaces and a discussion summary are also included in this volume.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780444815453
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	07/08/1993
Series:	Human Factors in Information Technology , #10
Pages:	364
Product dimensions:	0.88(w) x 6.14(h) x 9.21(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction (T. Kühme, M. Schneider-Hufschmidt). Part I: Setting the stage. Part II: Modelling users, tasks, and dialogs. Part III: Prototypes and Systems. Part IV: Evaluation. About the authors. Subject index.

Editorial Reviews

The outcome of a workshop held in 1992 at Siemens Corporate Research and Development in Munich, Germany. The first part of the volume describes the context and the contents of adaptivity in user interfaces. Part two contains studies on components, tools, and environments for adaptive user interfaces. Part Three is devoted to experience reports from different adaptive user interface projects, while the final part deals with the question of evaluating the impact of adaptive user interfaces on the work process of their users. A state-of-the-art report and taxonomy for the field of adaptive interfaces and a discussion summary are also included. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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