Automatically generating personalized user interfaces with Supple

Today's computer-human interfaces are typically designed with the assumption that they are going to be used by an able-bodied person, who is using a typical set of input and output devices, who has typical perceptual and cognitive abilities, and who is sitting in a stable, warm environment. Any deviation from these assumptions may drastically hamper the person's effectiveness--not because of any inherent barrier to interaction, but because of a mismatch between the person's effective abilities and the assumptions underlying the interface design. We argue that automatic personalized interface generation is a feasible and scalable solution to this challenge. We present our Supple system, which can automatically generate interfaces adapted to a person's devices, tasks, preferences, and abilities. In this paper we formally define interface generation as an optimization problem and demonstrate that, despite a large solution space (of up to 1017 possible interfaces), the...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: AI
• Authors: Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Daniel S. Weld, Jacob O. Wobbrock
• Keywords: Able-bodied Person, AI 2010, Artificial Intelligence, Computer-human Interfaces, Cost Function