Gisatie: A User Interface Adaptation Life-Cycle

Abstract

Adapting the User Interface of an interactive application consists in modifying its different elements according to various levels of granularity. Adaptation aims at addressing specific needs, wishes, and requirements either of a particular user or a group of users. While user interface adaptation has been extensively studied, in particular for context awareness, one of the most widely used adaptation life cycles is Dieterich’s survey of adaptation techniques. This survey considers only the execution part of the adaptation lifecycle and involves only one actor, user or system, in each adaptation stage. To overcome these shortcomings, we introduce GISATIE, a user interface adaptation life-cycle specifying which agents are involved in each adaptation stage: goals, initiative, specification, application, transition, interpretation, and evaluation.