10. Personalizing the user interface for people with disabilities
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Julio Abascal
Abstract
Computer applications, and especially the Internet, provide many people with disabilities with unique opportunities for interpersonal communication, social interaction, and active participation (including access to labor and entertainment). Nevertheless, rigid user interfaces often present accessibility barriers to people with physical, sensory, or cognitive impairments. Accordingly, user interface personalization is crucial to overcome these barriers, allowing a considerable section of the population with disabilities to have computer access. Adapting the user interface to people with disabilities requires taking into consideration their physical, sensory, or cognitive abilities and restrictions and then providing alternative access procedures according to their capacities. This chapter presents methods and techniques that are applied to research and practice on user interface personalization for people with disabilities and discusses possible approaches for diverse application fields where personalization is required: accessibility to the web using transcoding, web mining for eGovernment, and human-robot interaction for people with severe motor restrictions.
Abstract
Computer applications, and especially the Internet, provide many people with disabilities with unique opportunities for interpersonal communication, social interaction, and active participation (including access to labor and entertainment). Nevertheless, rigid user interfaces often present accessibility barriers to people with physical, sensory, or cognitive impairments. Accordingly, user interface personalization is crucial to overcome these barriers, allowing a considerable section of the population with disabilities to have computer access. Adapting the user interface to people with disabilities requires taking into consideration their physical, sensory, or cognitive abilities and restrictions and then providing alternative access procedures according to their capacities. This chapter presents methods and techniques that are applied to research and practice on user interface personalization for people with disabilities and discusses possible approaches for diverse application fields where personalization is required: accessibility to the web using transcoding, web mining for eGovernment, and human-robot interaction for people with severe motor restrictions.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Introduction V
- Contents IX
- List of Contributing Authors XI
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Part I: Foundations of user modeling
- 1. Theory-grounded user modeling for personalized HCI 1
- 2. Opportunities and challenges of utilizing personality traits for personalization in HCI 31
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Part II: User input and feedback
- 3. Automated personalization of input methods and processes 67
- 4. How to use socio-emotional signals for adaptive training 103
- 5. Explanations and user control in recommender systems 133
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Part III: Personalization approaches
- 6. Tourist trip recommendations – foundations, state of the art, and challenges 159
- 7. Pictures as a tool for matching tourist preferences with destinations 183
- 8. Towards personalized virtual reality touring through cross-object user interfaces 201
- 9. User awareness in music recommender systems 223
- 10. Personalizing the user interface for people with disabilities 253
- 11. Adaptive workplace learning assistance 283
- Index 303
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Introduction V
- Contents IX
- List of Contributing Authors XI
-
Part I: Foundations of user modeling
- 1. Theory-grounded user modeling for personalized HCI 1
- 2. Opportunities and challenges of utilizing personality traits for personalization in HCI 31
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Part II: User input and feedback
- 3. Automated personalization of input methods and processes 67
- 4. How to use socio-emotional signals for adaptive training 103
- 5. Explanations and user control in recommender systems 133
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Part III: Personalization approaches
- 6. Tourist trip recommendations – foundations, state of the art, and challenges 159
- 7. Pictures as a tool for matching tourist preferences with destinations 183
- 8. Towards personalized virtual reality touring through cross-object user interfaces 201
- 9. User awareness in music recommender systems 223
- 10. Personalizing the user interface for people with disabilities 253
- 11. Adaptive workplace learning assistance 283
- Index 303
