8 Personalizing the user interface for people with disabilities
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Julio Abascal
Abstract
Computer applications and internet access 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 part of the population with disabilities to have computer access. Adapting the user interface to people with disabilities requires considering their physical, sensory or cognitive abilities and restrictions and providing alternative access procedures according to their capacities. This chapter presents a number of 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 internet access 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 part of the population with disabilities to have computer access. Adapting the user interface to people with disabilities requires considering their physical, sensory or cognitive abilities and restrictions and providing alternative access procedures according to their capacities. This chapter presents a number of 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.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Introduction V
- Contents IX
- List of Contributing Authors XI
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Part I: Foundations of personalization
- 1 Theory-grounded user modeling for personalized HCI 1
- 2 User-centered recommender systems 33
- 3 Fairness of information access systems 59
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Part II: User input and feedback
- 4 Personalization and user modeling for interaction processes 81
- 5 How to use socio-emotional signals for adaptive training 99
- 6 Explanations and user control in recommender systems 129
- 7 Feedback loops and mutual reinforcement in personalized interaction 153
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Part III: Personalization purposes and goals
- 8 Personalizing the user interface for people with disabilities 175
- 9 Personalized persuasion for behavior change 205
- 10 Personalization approaches for remote collaborative interaction 237
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Part IV: Personalization domains
- 11 Listener awareness in music recommender systems: directions and current trends 279
- 12 Tourist trip recommendations – foundations, state of the art and challenges 313
- 13 Pictures as a tool for matching tourist preferences with destinations 337
- Index 355
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Introduction V
- Contents IX
- List of Contributing Authors XI
-
Part I: Foundations of personalization
- 1 Theory-grounded user modeling for personalized HCI 1
- 2 User-centered recommender systems 33
- 3 Fairness of information access systems 59
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Part II: User input and feedback
- 4 Personalization and user modeling for interaction processes 81
- 5 How to use socio-emotional signals for adaptive training 99
- 6 Explanations and user control in recommender systems 129
- 7 Feedback loops and mutual reinforcement in personalized interaction 153
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Part III: Personalization purposes and goals
- 8 Personalizing the user interface for people with disabilities 175
- 9 Personalized persuasion for behavior change 205
- 10 Personalization approaches for remote collaborative interaction 237
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Part IV: Personalization domains
- 11 Listener awareness in music recommender systems: directions and current trends 279
- 12 Tourist trip recommendations – foundations, state of the art and challenges 313
- 13 Pictures as a tool for matching tourist preferences with destinations 337
- Index 355
