Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:18:40 BST CiteULike: brusilovskys adaptability http://www.citeulike.org/user/brusilovsky/tag/adaptability CiteULike.org en-gb Copyright © 2004-2008 citeulike.org http://www.citeulike.org/user/brusilovsky/article/2932014 <i>(2008), pp. 1729-1738.</i><br /><br />Information awareness applications offer the exciting potential to help people to better manage the data they encounter on a routine basis, but customizing these applications is a difficult task. Most applications allow users to perform basic customizations or programmers to create advanced ones. We present an intermediate customization space and Cocoa Buzz, an application that demonstrates one way to bridge these two extremes. Cocoa Buzz runs on an extra display on the user's desktop or on a large shared display and cycles through different information sources customized by the user. We further demonstrate some of the customizations that have been made using this approach. We show some preliminary evidence to suggest that this approach may be useful at providing users with the ability to perform customizations across this spectrum. The buzz: supporting user tailorability in awareness applications James Eagan John Stasko doi:10.1145/1357054.1357324 (2008), pp. 1729-1738. 2008-06-26T19:41:05-00:00 2008 1729 1738 ACM adaptability awareness http://www.citeulike.org/user/brusilovsky/article/2931514 <i>(2008), pp. 1267-1270.</i><br /><br />Coarse-grained approaches to customization allow the user to enable or disable groups of features at once, rather than individual features. While this may reduce the complexity of customization and encourage more users to customize, the research challenges of designing such approaches have not been fully explored. To address this limitation, we conducted an interview study with 14 professional software developers who use an integrated development environment that provides a role-based, coarse-grained approach to customization. We identify challenges of designing coarse-grained customization models, including issues of functionality partitioning, presentation, and individual differences. These findings highlight potentially critical design choices, and provide direction for future work. Evaluation of a role-based approach for customizing a complex development environment Leah Findlater Joanna Mcgrenere David Modjeska doi:10.1145/1357054.1357251 (2008), pp. 1267-1270. 2008-06-26T17:44:52-00:00 2008 1267 1270 ACM adaptability adaptive-interface empirical-study http://www.citeulike.org/user/brusilovsky/article/1263375 <i>(2006), pp. 309-318.</i> User interface fa&\#231;ades: towards fully adaptable user interfaces Wolfgang Stuerzlinger Olivier Chapuis Dusty Phillips Nicolas Roussel doi:10.1145/1166253.1166301 (2006), pp. 309-318. 2007-04-28T14:05:47-00:00 2006 309 318 ACM Press 2470-072 2470-081 adaptability adaptive-interface en http://www.citeulike.org/user/brusilovsky/article/1106142 <i>(2007), pp. 92-101.</i> Supporting interface customization using a mixed-initiative approach Andrea Bunt Cristina Conati Joanna Mcgrenere doi:10.1145/1216295.1216317 (2007), pp. 92-101. 2007-02-14T00:28:42-00:00 2007 92 101 ACM Press adaptability adaptive-interface en http://www.citeulike.org/user/brusilovsky/article/210859 <i>(2004), pp. 89-96.</i> A comparison of static, adaptive, and adaptable menus Leah Findlater Joanna Mcgrenere doi:10.1145/985692.985704 (2004), pp. 89-96. 2005-05-25T20:45:59-00:00 2004 89 96 ACM Press adaptability adaptive-interface end http://www.citeulike.org/user/brusilovsky/article/274045 <i>(2004), pp. 117-124.</i><br /><br />As computer applications become larger with every new version, there is a growing need to provide some way for users to manage the interface complexity. There are three different potential solutions to this problem: 1) an adaptable interface that allows users to customize the application to suit their needs; 2) an adaptive interface that performs the adaptation for the users; or 3) a combination of the adaptive and adaptable solutions, an approach that would be suitable in situations where users are not customizing effectively on their own. In this paper we examine what it means for users to engage in effective customization of a menu-based graphical user interface. We examine one aspect of effective customization, which is how characteristics of the users' tasks and customization behaviour affect their performance on those tasks. We do so by using a process model simulation based on cognitive modelling that generates quantitative predictions of user performance. Our results show that users can engage in customization behaviours that vary in efficiency. We use these results to suggest how adaptive support could be added to an adaptable interface to improve the effectiveness of the users' customization. What role can adaptive support play in an adaptable system? Andrea Bunt Cristina Conati Joanna Mcgrenere doi:10.1145/964442.964465 (2004), pp. 117-124. 2005-08-04T19:12:33-00:00 2004 117 124 ACM Press adaptability adaptive-interface en