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The adaptable user interface

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Eliezer Kantorowitz,

Oded SudarskyAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 32, Issue 11

Pages 1352 - 1358

https://doi.org/10.1145/68814.68820

Published: 01 November 1989 Publication History

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A single adaptable user interface (AUI) which allows the user to switch between any number of different dialogue modes at any time—even in the middle of a command—can be useful to a variety of users who are neither beginners nor experts. It can also be used in applications where different dialogue modes are appropriate for the various parameters of a single command. An implemented user interface management system (UIMS) suggests the practicality of AUIs and their automatic generation.

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The authors propose an adaptable user interface to allow a user to switch modes of input (for example, from menu mode to command language mode) even in the middle of an interaction with the system. They point out that an individual user will have different levels of proficiency with system concepts and details, and the user can benefit from easy (almost unnoticed, ideally) shift in modes. This allows the expert to enter commands at touch-typing speed, only falling back into menu mode when the application characteristics (for example, designed for direct manipulation), user preference, or system guidance (such as that provided for the user to recover from an error) require it. In GUIDE (Graphic User Interface Design Environment) the authors define menu mode quite broadly (a menu can be the whole screen containing text, graphics, and bitmapped images) and command mode as a traditional linear text string (though they believe the structure provided by GUIDE should be able to handle the structure of spoken command strings). They consider that an adaptable user interface should :9Bsupport at least two modes of input, allow the user to switch modes at any time (at the token level of granularity), support smooth and natural user switching, make it easy for the user to learn the different modes (especially command language) while using the system, enable people without programming skills to specify and modify a user interface, and make it easy to add new interaction devices with only a few changes to the underlying lexical, syntactic, and semantic dialogue model. The paper describes their design, which uses a recursive transition network implemented on an IBM PC/AT–compatible machine and written for the most part in dBASE III PLUS. At the time of writing, GUIDE had been used to support the user interface for a simple directed graph editor, a program to specify an entity-relation diagram, and an editor for the RTN used in GUIDE. The authors acknowledge that the current implementation has somewhat slow response time, but they believe that re-implementation in a compiled form would improve interactivity. No report of feedback from users is included. The computing practices outlined in this paper follow very much in the user interface management system (UIMS) tradition (see, for example, Pfaff [1] and subsequent articles in the ACM SIGGRAPH literature). These are useful ideas to keep before designers, though they are sometimes hard to put into practice within current operating systems and operating environments.

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Nov. 1989

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DOI:10.1145/68814

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