IAAA – Interaction Analysis for Automated Adaptation
Daniel Kern, Thomas Neumayr, Josef Altmann, Mirjam Augstein, Werner Kurschl · 2015
There is a sustainable spread of interactive software systems in a large portion of our everyday lives. An aging society and the near omnipresence of computer-based systems make it ever more important to personalize software systems and by doing so prevent usage errors and create a good user experience. A major drawback of personalization, however, is that it is a very time and resource consuming process. Therefore, the IAAA project aims to provide automated adaptation after a user’s interaction capabilities with several input modalities have been assessed. Yet, the mere selection of input modalities can be a critical factor for the success of such endeavors which is why we also focus on the careful selection of input devices. Thus, an extensive task-based user observation involving the actual target group was conducted during the project’s initial phase. Later on, first functional prototypes were evaluated within the same target group. The subjects of this paper cover the general objectives of the IAAA project, the process and methodology of, and aims behind the user observation and outlines the most important results.