From Cultural to Individual Adaptive End-User Interfaces: Helping People with Special Needs

Authors:
Rüdiger Heimgärtner;Andreas Holzinger;Ray Adams
Affiliations:
Intercultural User Interface Design (IUID), IUID, Undorf, Germany 93152;Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics & Documentation (IMI) Research Unit HCI4MED, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria 8036;School of Computing Science Collaborative International Research Centre for Universal Access (CIRCUA), Middlesex University London, United Kingdom
Venue:
ICCHP '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Culture heavily influences human---computer interaction (HCI) since the end-user is always within a cultural context. Cultural and informational factors correlate to jointly influence the look and feel of interactive systems, e.g. widget position or information density. Every single individual also develops a specific culture (eating style, walking style etc.), i.e. characteristics and behavior as well as attitudes and values. Consequently, individual adaptability can be essential to cover individual needs of the culturally but uniquely imprinted end-users with special needs e.g. reducing the workload by recognizing and knowing the individual expectances of the end-user. This improves usability and leads to shorter training and improves universal access.