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Designing User Interfaces for a Variety of Users: Possible Contributions from Model-Based Development Schemes

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As User Interfaces for All penetrate software applications, multidimensional design concepts become increasingly important. Both, for structured and user-oriented interface development, model-based approaches have turned out to be beneficial. However, most of these approaches remain vague with respect to the explicit representation of information about users and different modalities of interaction, as well as the structural and dynamic interfacing of user models to context and interaction models. However, these interfaces are required to provide different access possibilities for a functional core, and to allow switching between different modalities of interaction when serving a variety of users. In this paper we structure the requirements and evaluate existing model-based representation schemes against the structured set of requirements. The results reveal that model-based representation schemes should be enhanced through dedicated relationships and interface-management capabilities to mutually tune the models representing users, tasks, applicationdomain data, interaction styles and interactive devices.

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  1. Department of Business Information Systems Communications Engineering, University of Linz, Freistädter Straße 315, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Chris Stary

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  1. LORIA, UMR CNRS & INRIA, Université Henri Poincare, Nancy 1, Campus Scientifique, BP 239, 54506, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Cedex, France

    Noëlle Carbonell

  2. Institute of Computer Science Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Science & Technology Park of Crete, Heraklion, 71110, Crete, Greece

    Constantine Stephanidis

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Stary, C. (2003). Designing User Interfaces for a Variety of Users: Possible Contributions from Model-Based Development Schemes. In: Carbonell, N., Stephanidis, C. (eds) Universal Access Theoretical Perspectives, Practice, and Experience. UI4ALL 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2615. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36572-9_7

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