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Advances in Ubiquitous User Modelling pp 94–110Cite as

AUGUR: Interface Adaptation for Small Screen Devices

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The amount of functionality offered by nowadays applications is constantly growing, mostly leading to more and more complex user interfaces. This decreases their usability especially in settings with limited input and output capabilities like in mobile or ubiquitous computing. In these settings the interaction costs are much higher than for traditional desktop applications. Adapting the interface to the available devices as well as to the user’s preferences and tasks is the key to reducing interaction costs and increasing usability of applications. In this paper, we present the AUGUR system that can automatically generate user- and device-adapted interfaces. For that purpose, we developed the FxL* algorithm which is introduced in this paper. FxL* is the first algorithm that considers the individual user as well as her current situation to determine which user interface elements should be presented. We show that it clearly outperforms algorithms that do not take the user’s situation into account.

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  1. Telecooperation Group, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Hochschulstraße 10, D-64289, Darmstadt, Germany

    Melanie Hartmann & Daniel Schreiber

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  1. Management Information Systems Department, The University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, 31905, Haifa, Israel

    Tsvi Kuflik

  2. Tasmanian ICT Centre, CSIRO, Castrayh Esplanade, 7001, Hobart, Australia

    Shlomo Berkovsky

  3. Depatment of Computer Science, University of Turin, Corso Svizzera 185, 10149, Turin, Italy

    Francesca Carmagnola

  4. German Reserach Center for Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent User Interfaces, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123, Saarbrcken, Germany

    Dominikus Heckmann

  5. Innovative Retail Laboratory (IRL), German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Antonio Krüger

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Hartmann, M., Schreiber, D. (2009). AUGUR: Interface Adaptation for Small Screen Devices. In: Kuflik, T., Berkovsky, S., Carmagnola, F., Heckmann, D., Krüger, A. (eds) Advances in Ubiquitous User Modelling. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5830. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05039-8_6

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