MyUI: generating accessible user interfaces from multimodal design patterns

  • Authors:
  • Matthias Peissner;Dagmar Häbe;Doris Janssen;Thomas Sellner

  • Affiliations:
  • Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO, Stuttgart, Germany;Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO, Stuttgart, Germany;Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO, Stuttgart, Germany;Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO, Stuttgart, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Adaptive user interfaces can make technology more accessible. Quite a number of conceptual and technical approaches have been proposed for adaptations to diverse user needs, multiple devices or multiple environments. Little work, however, has been directed at integrating all the essential aspects of adaptive user interfaces for accessibility in one system. In this paper, we present our generic MyUI infrastructure for increased accessibility through automatically generated adaptive user interfaces. The multimodal design patterns repository serves as the basis for a modular approach to individualized user interfaces. This open and extensible pattern repository makes the adaptation rules transparent for designers and developers who can contribute to the repository by sharing their knowledge about accessible design. The adaptation architecture and procedures enable user interface generation and dynamic adaptations during run-time. For the specification of an abstract user interface model, a novel statecharts-based notation has been developed. A development tool supports the interactive creation of the graphical user interface model.