Supporting Context Changes for Plastic User Interfaces: A Process and a Mechanism (2001)
| Venue: | in “People and Computers XV – Interaction without Frontiers”, Joint Proceedings of AFIHM-BCS Conference on Human-Computer Interaction IHM-HCI’2001 (Lille |
| Citations: | 17 - 6 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Calvary01supportingcontext,
author = {Gaelle Calvary and Joelle Coutaz and David Thevenin},
title = {Supporting Context Changes for Plastic User Interfaces: A Process and a Mechanism},
booktitle = {in “People and Computers XV – Interaction without Frontiers”, Joint Proceedings of AFIHM-BCS Conference on Human-Computer Interaction IHM-HCI’2001 (Lille},
year = {2001},
pages = {349--363},
publisher = {Springer-Verlag}
}
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Abstract
this paper, we present a process and a software mechanism that support context changes for plastic user interfaces. We propose to structure adaptation as a three-step process: recognition of the situation, computation of a reaction to cope with the situation, and execution of the reaction. Reactions are specified in an evolution model which, in turn, is executed by a context supervisor. This supervisor is notified of context changes by a software probe that automatically detects deviations from the current situation. When notified, the supervisor executes the evolution model, and, when possible, adapts the user interface to the new context of use. Keywords: human computer interaction, plasticity, adaptation, context of use, platform, environment. 1 Introduction Recent years have seen the introduction of many types of access devices including Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and mobile phones (cf. Figure 1). Systems like CyberGuide (Abowd et al., 19
