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Self-adapting user interfaces as assistive technology for handheld mobile devices

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Assets '06: Proceedings of the 8th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1168987.1169064

Published: 23 October 2006 Publication History

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The accessibility of handheld mobile devices is a unique problem domain. They present with a small form factor, constraining display size, and making serious demands on user mobility. Existing assistive technology tackles these problems with bespoke solutions and text-to-speech augmentation, bulking out the device, and forcing visual metaphors upon blind users. Stepping away from such "bolt-on" accessibility, this research revisits the processes by which user interfaces are designed, constructing a model of user interface development that allows for dynamic adaptation of the interface to match individual user capability profiles. In doing so, it abstracts content meaning from presentation, mapping interaction metaphors to categorized user capabilities within individual design spaces (visual, sonic, and haptic) and interaction metaphors to relevant content meaning.

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Higgins CKearns ÁRyan CFernstrom M(2016)The Role of Gamification and Evolutionary Computation in the Provision of Self-Guided Speech TherapyHandbook of Research on Holistic Perspectives in Gamification for Clinical Practice10.4018/978-1-4666-9522-1.ch008(158-182)Online publication date: 2016
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Montague KMiller RBenko HLatulipe C(2012)Interactions speak louder than wordsAdjunct proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology10.1145/2380296.2380315(39-42)Online publication date: 7-Oct-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2380296.2380315
Alabi HGooch BHirschfeld RVisser E(2011)The accessibility toolkitProceedings of the 10th SIGPLAN symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software10.1145/2089131.2089136(145-148)Online publication date: 22-Oct-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2089131.2089136

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Self-adapting user interfaces as assistive technology for handheld mobile devices
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing profession
      1. Assistive technologies
  2. User characteristics
    1. People with disabilities
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Integrated and visual development environments

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Assets '06: Proceedings of the 8th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility

October 2006

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ISBN:1595932909

DOI:10.1145/1168987

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University of Manchester, UK

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Higgins CKearns ÁRyan CFernstrom M(2016)The Role of Gamification and Evolutionary Computation in the Provision of Self-Guided Speech TherapyHandbook of Research on Holistic Perspectives in Gamification for Clinical Practice10.4018/978-1-4666-9522-1.ch008(158-182)Online publication date: 2016
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9522-1.ch008
Montague KMiller RBenko HLatulipe C(2012)Interactions speak louder than wordsAdjunct proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology10.1145/2380296.2380315(39-42)Online publication date: 7-Oct-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2380296.2380315
Alabi HGooch BHirschfeld RVisser E(2011)The accessibility toolkitProceedings of the 10th SIGPLAN symposium on New ideas, new paradigms, and reflections on programming and software10.1145/2089131.2089136(145-148)Online publication date: 22-Oct-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2089131.2089136

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