A unifying approach for the generation of user interface in adaptative hypermedia systems

• Authors: Mathieu Barcikowski;Jean-Charles Marty;Laurence Vignollet
• 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

In the context of the ≪cartable électronique ®≫ project, we have developed an adaptive hypermedia, providing pupils with information on cultural events. We propose a general approach allowing the information to be adapted to a given user in a particular context. This adaptation is performed thanks to user preferences but also by exploiting the context of use of the system (device, location of the user). The generation of the adapted user interface can be seen as the generation of an adaptive document where the result is obtained through the combination of the adequate fragments of information and their display. Our approach is based on constraints generated from user preferences and from the context (e.g. depending on the device, some fragments are disabled). An architecture is also presented in which we explain how we adapt the information (selection of what to present contents and decision on how to present them on display).