Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII) – Personalisierte Benutzerschnittstellen / Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII) – Towards Personal User Interfaces

Abstract

Today’s desktop and mobile platforms allow for the user to individually configure presentation and interaction aspects, in order to experience a personal user interface. However, there are hardly any cross-platform solutions available. This is particularly cumbersome for users with disabilities and elderly users who often have to adjust many adaptation aspects for getting barrier-free access, and who mostly do not know their system well enough to be able to configure it in an optimal way. This article describes the GPII approach for personalization of user interfaces, in particular the use of cross-platform user profiles for user interface settings, and rule-based and statistical approaches for matchmaking. The GPII approach has been preliminarily validated in a first user test.