Toward a Measure of Appropriateness of User Interfaces Adaptations Solutions

The development of adaptive user interfaces (UI) presents for a long time an important research area in which researcher attempt to call upon the full resources and skills of several disciplines, The adaptive UI community holds a thorough knowledge regarding the adaptation of UIs with users and with contexts of use. Several solutions, models, formalisms, techniques and mechanisms were proposed to develop adaptive UI. In this paper, we propose an approach based on the fuzzy set theory for modeling the concept of the appropriateness of different solutions of UI adaptation with different situations for which interactive systems have to adapt their UIs.

Authors:

• A. Siam
• R. Maamri
• Z. Sahnoun

Keywords:

• Adaptive user interfaces
• adaptation solution’s appropriateness
• fuzzy sets.

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