Design and evaluation of an adaptive icon toolbar |
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Authors: | Matjaz Debevc Beth Meyer Dali Donlagic Rajko Svecko |
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Affiliation: | (1) Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Smetanova 17, 62000 Maribor, Slovenia;(2) School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 30332 Atlanta, GA, USA;(3) Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Smetanova 17, 62000 Maribor, Slovenia |
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Abstract: | As information systems become increasingly important in many different domains, the potential to adapt them to individual users and their needs also becomes more important. Adaptive user interfaces offer many possible ways to adjust displays and improve procedures for a user's individual patterns of work. This paper describes an attempt to design an adaptive user interface in a computer environment familiar to many users. According to one classification of adaptive user interfaces, the adaptive bar described in this paper would be classified as a user-controlled self-adaptation system.At the user's convenience, the adaptive bar offers suggestions for adding or removing command icons, based on the frequency and probability of specific commands. It also implements these changes once the user has agreed to them. Beyond the adaptive bar, the general behavior of the whole user interface does not change, thereby allowing the user to maintain a clear general model of the system. This paper describes the decision-making algorithm implemented in the bar. It also describes the bar's self-adaptive behavior of displaying the frequency of each icon's use through the icon's size. Finally, we present some encouraging preliminary results of evaluations by users. |
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Keywords: | user interfaces adaptive user interfaces icon toolbars software ergonomics user modelling user-controlled self-adaptation experimental studies of adaptive interface use |
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