Towards effective adaptive user interfaces design

  • Authors:
  • Tomas Cerny;Michael J. Donahoo;Eunjee Song

  • Affiliations:
  • Czech Technical University, Czech Rep.;Baylor University, One Bear Place, Waco, TX;Baylor University, One Bear Place, Waco, TX

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2013 Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The increasing use of Web-based applications continues to broaden the user groups of enterprise applications at large. The importance of providing easy-to-use user interfaces (UIs) that conform to each user's specific preferences, such as different skill levels, capabilities and physical locations has, therefore, been significantly increasing. Unfortunately, designing a single UI satisfying all end users remains challenging. To address this issue, researchers and developer are looking to Adaptive User Interfaces (AUIs) that aim to provide end users with more personalized user interaction experiences. However, very few production system provide such malleable interfaces due to the excessive cost for the development and maintenance. In this paper, we propose a technique that provides AUIs for production enterprise systems while reducing development and maintenance efforts to a level comparable with a single UI development, called Rich Entity Aspect/Audit Design (READ). READ complies with application development standards used in industry to support an easy transition from design to production systems. We conclude by evaluating our approach along with a case study that demonstrates reduction in development and maintenance efforts while preserving performance.