Comet: a new generation of widget for supporting user interface plasticity

  • Authors:
  • Olfa Daâssi;Gaëlle Calvary;Joëlle Coutaz;Alexandre Demeure

  • Affiliations:
  • CLIPS-IMAG;CLIPS-IMAG;CLIPS-IMAG;CLIPS-IMAG

  • Venue:
  • IHM 2003 Proceedings of the 15th French-speaking conference on human-computer interaction on 15eme Conference Francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Adaptation of User Interfaces (UI) to context of use is becoming a major issue in HCI. By context of use, we mean the triplet. Plasticity refers to the ability of UIs to withstand variations of context of use while preserving usability. Based on a reference framework that provides designers with a powerful tool for reasoning about plasticity, this paper addresses plasticity at the level of interactors. Comets (COntext sensitive Multi-target widgETS) are a new kind of widget that support adaptation at any level of abstraction: concepts and tasks, abstract, concrete and final UIs. This paper proposes a model as well as run-time software mechanisms that support the design of comets as well as run-time adaptation. Run-time is ruled according to a set of strategies and politics.