Designing user-adapted interfaces: the unified design method for transformable interactions

摘要

In the interface design process, diverse user requirements and characteristics lead to alternative dialogue patterns. User-adapted interfaces, capable of self-adapting to individual end-user requirements, should encompass alternative dialogue components into a single implementation form. The process of designing user-adapted interactive applications necessarily engages the manipulation of alternative design artifacts, while for the implementation process a single design is needed, as opposed to alternative design versions. The unified design method is targeted towards the organization of alternative design artifacts into a single representation structure. Relationships among alternative artifacts in user-adapted design, such as exclusion; compatibility; augmentation and substitution, need to be explicitly represented.