Automatically Generating User Interfaces Adapted To Users' Motor And Vision Capabilities

Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Jacob O. Wobbrock and Daniel S. Weld


Abstract

Thumbnail visual representation of this article Most of today's GUIs are designed for the typical, able-bodied user; atypical users are, for the most part, left to adapt as best they can, perhaps using specialized assistive technologies as an aid. In this paper, we present an alternative approach: SUPPLE++ automatically generates interfaces which are tailored to an individual's motor capabilities and can be easily adjusted to accommodate varying vision capabilities. SUPPLE++ models users' motor capabilities based on a onetime motor performance test and uses this model in an optimization process, generating a personalized interface. A preliminary study indicates that while there is still room for improvement, SUPPLE++ allowed one user to complete tasks that she could not perform using a standard interface, while for the remaining users it resulted in an average time savings of 20%, ranging from an slowdown of 3% to a speedup of 43%.

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Related Projects

This work builds upon SUPPLE and Arnauld projects.

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Gajos, K. Z., Wobbrock, J. O., and Weld, D. S. (2007). Automatically generating user interfaces adapted to users' motor and vision capabilities. In UIST '07: Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, pages 231-240, New York, NY, USA. ACM Press.

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