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Efficient adaptation aims at ensuring that a user interface is adapted to a user's task according to the context of use, since the end user is carrying out a task with one or several computing platforms in a physical environment. This tutorial presents ...

The definition of different variants of a user interface at design time does not seem to be flexible enough to address future needs. Context sensitivity, user preferences and unforeseen situations require new means for automatic adaptation at runtime ...

Mobile information systems are operated in a large variety of different contexts especially during intermodal journeys. Every context has a distinct set of properties, so the suitability of user interfaces differs in various contexts. But currently, the ...