Making systems sensitive to the user's changing resource limitations
Author: Jameson, Anthony and Schäfer, Ralph and Weis, Thomas and Berthold, Andre and Weyrath, Thomas
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Situationally determined limitations in users'
"resources" (e.g., time and working memory) constitute an
increasingly important challenge to adaptive interfaces--one
which does not yield easily to straightforward solutions. This
article gives an overview of a research program that emphasizes
empirically based understanding of this problem and the use of an
explicit model of the relevant causal relationships. After
introducing the challenge and comparing several possible
approaches to it, we summarize related work on adaptive systems
and the empirical research that forms the basis of the READY
prototype. The structure and workings of this prototype are
discussed and illustrated with examples. We conclude by
summarizing how the results obtained so far can form the basis
for practically applied systems.
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