Inclusive Personlization of User Interfaces
This paper presents a user modelling system that facilitates developing and using interfaces for people with wide range of abilities. It consists of a simulator that helps designers to understand, visualize and measure effect of physical impairment on use
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Abstract This paper presents a user modelling system that facilitates developing and using interfaces for people with wide range of abilities. It consists of a simulator that helps designers to understand, visualize and measure effect of physical impairment on user interfaces. The modelling system also consists of a web service to customize static features (like font size, colour contrast) of an interface and a pointing facilitation module that predicts users’ intended target. The paper highlights applications of the system in product design and developing a web based geo-tagging application for reporting civic, healthcare issues and disaster warning messages by elderly users themselves. Keywords User modelling puter interaction
Inclusive design Target prediction Human com-
1 Introduction A huge part of social communication now takes place through electronic media though lot of it remains inaccessible to the growing elderly population. Many existing user interfaces often work for ‘average’ user and does not cater the need of the growing population of elderly users. The World Health Organization also says that 15% of the world’s population is disabled in some form, the world’s largest minority. This number is growing every day due to increased medical advancements and an aging population. How can we design inclusive intelligent interface or interaction? Say for example you have decided to launch a new tablet which will be easier to use than P. Biswas (&) K. Maheshwary S. Arjun Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India e-mail: [email protected] A. Halder K. Maheshwary Department of Computer Science, Manipal University, Jaipur, India © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017 A. Chakrabarti and D. Chakrabarti (eds.), Research into Design for Communities, Volume 1, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies 65, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-3518-0_26
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existing devices by people with disabilities and elderly users and thus will conquer a wider market segment than competitors. How can you achieve that? One possibility is to enlighten the development team about the problems faced by people with different range of abilities with existing devices and ask them to develop a solution which does not have such problems. Another possibility will be to take an existing tablet, load it with a few profiles tuned for different range of abilities—like profile for low vision, colour blindness, Parkinson’s Disease and so on and ask end users to activate an appropriate profile after buying the tablet. The third possibility is more ambitious—we can have an online intelligent agent observing human machine interaction as part of the operating system of the tablet and adapting the user interfaces as users kept on using their devices. This paper presents the Inclusive User Model that supports all these possibilities. It has a simulator which can help designers to visualize, understand and measure effect of physical impairment on designers. A part of the
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