Adaptive user interface
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An adaptive user interface (also known as AUI) is a user interface (UI) which adapts, that is changes, its layout and elements to the needs of the user or context and is similarly alterable by each user.[1][2]
These mutually-reciprocal qualities of both adapting and being adaptable are, in a true AUI (sometimes referred to as an AUII[citation needed]), also innate to elements that comprise the interface's components; portions of the interface might adapt to and affect other portions of the interface.
This later mechanism is usually employed to integrate two logically-distinct components, such as an interactive document and an application (e.g. a web browser) into one seamless whole.
The user adaptation is often a negotiated process, as an adaptive user interface's designers ignore where user interface components ought to go while affording a means by which both the designers and the user can determine their placement, often (though not always) in a semi-automated, if not fully automated manner.
Advantages
User interfaces are malleable to variant user interface paradigms, logical orderings, user preferences, and their surroundings, allowing them to be tailored almost perfectly to "the task at hand."
Disadvantages
Flexible interfaces require additional facilities for the servicing of applications, as buttons and menu items are not only moved about a plane on the screen but are also moved through, that is up and down, logical action orderings and hence may not be where they were when the interface was first designed and released.
Though for some this indicates additional opportunities in employment and further innovation, others consider it a cost.
See also
References
- ^ "Workshop on Social Adaptive User Interfaces (SoAUI'07) September 11, 2007 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil". Retrieved 8 October 2011.
- ^ Malinowski, edited by Matthias Schneider-Hufschmidt, Thomas Kühme, Uwe (1993). Adaptive user interfaces : principles and practice. Amsterdam: North-Holland. ISBN 978-0-444-81545-3.
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Further reading
- from Matthias Schneider-Hufschmidt at Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing
- Hartmut Dieterich, Uwe Malinowski, Thomas Kühme, Matthias Schneider-Hufschmidt: State of the Art in Adaptive User Interfaces and
- David Benyon: Accomodating Individual Differences through an Adaptive User Interface
- Eric Sherman and Edward Shortliffe: A User-Adaptable Interface to Predict Users' Needs
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