Towards Adaptive User Interfaces Generation
Víctor López‐Jaquero, Francisco Montero, Antonio Fernández‐Caballero, María Dolores Lozano · Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks · 2006
User interface generation has become a Software Engineering branch of increasing interest, probably due to the great amount of money, time and effort used to develop user interfaces and the increasing level of exigency of user requirements for usability (Nielsen, 1993) and accessibility (W3C, 2002) compliances. There are different kinds of users, and that is a fact we cannot ignore. Human society is full of diversity and that must be reflected in human-computer interaction design. Thus, we need to engage users in a new kind of interaction concept where user interfaces are tailored-made, and where user interfaces are intelligent and adaptive. A new generation of specification techniques is necessary to face these challenges successfully. Model-based design has proved to be a powerful tool to achieve these goals. A first step towards adaptive user interface generation is introduced by means of the concept of connector applied to model-based design of user interfaces.