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User interface façades: towards fully adaptable user interfaces

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Wolfgang Stuerzlinger,

Olivier Chapuis,

Dusty Phillips,

Nicolas RousselAuthors Info & Claims

UIST '06: Proceedings of the 19th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

Pages 309 - 318

https://doi.org/10.1145/1166253.1166301

Published: 15 October 2006 Publication History

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User interfaces are becoming more and more complex. Adaptable and adaptive interfaces have been proposed to address this issue and previous studies have shown that users prefer interfaces that they can adapt to self-adjusting ones. However, most existing systems provide users with little support for adapting their interfaces. Interface customization techniques are still very primitive and usually constricted to particular applications. In this paper, we present User Interface Façades, a system that provides users with simple ways to adapt, reconfigure, and re-combine existing graphical interfaces, through the use of direct manipulation techniques. The paper describes the user's view of the system, provides some technical details, and presents several examples to illustrate its potential.

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1. Human-centered computing
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Reviewer: Alan M Arnfeld

The march toward increased commonality and standards for software applications (online and offline) will, through Darwinian-like cycles, provide greatly improved user experiences. However, not all users are the same. This paper addresses a technique for allowing a more individual user experience to be created without always needing to recode the underlying application. User interface facades are a way of creating new screens to interact with. These sit above the original screen software. In the past, this has been referred to as "screen scraping," but this paper describes a more sophisticated approach. A toolkit allows users more adaptability in their user interface design and function than that allowed by out-of-the box options within commercial software. This approach is ideal for individuals and organizations who do not own the original software or do not wish to update the underlying code. For example, it allows a pull-down combo box of regions to be replaced by an interactive map. The authors discuss a range of categories of application. This paper discusses an exciting concept and introduces a tool that allows the user to modify the user interface without any coding. Although the paper describes the process for using the tool at a high level, it is unclear exactly how easy it is to apply in an industrial or commercial setting. More detailed information is eagerly awaited. Online Computing Reviews Service

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UIST '06: Proceedings of the 19th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

October 2006

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ISBN:1595933131

DOI:10.1145/1166253

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Microsoft Research, USA

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