Needs and wishes regarding the interaction with ICT solutions change over time and vary between older adults. They depend on the user's physical and mental capabilities and his/her preferences. Thus the user interface is considered critical to the success or failure of an ICT product or service.
Since many years researchers and developers try to automatize the process of user interface generation with different approaches. The aim is to create more than just operable user interfaces based on an abstract description describing only basic interaction elements.
With different transformation processes, including context and user information, these adaptation processes should deliver appreciable and usable interfaces, some taking care of accessibility issues, others hardly or not all.
Several languages and procedures have been developed, with different application areas. Some of these approaches were stopped at prototype stage, others are widely adopted and some are still under development.
We invited to share ideas, findings, experiences and knowledge about how users with all kinds of abilities and special needs can interact in an easy way with automatic generated user interfaces.
Papers in this session address one ore more of the following topics
• Prototypes of highly innovative and intuitive automatic generation user interfaces
• Speech in/output
• (Multi)Touch interfaces
• Mobile Devices
• Pervasive and ubiquitous methods
• Multimodal user interfaces description languages
• Adaptive and self adapting user interfaces
• Best practice examples of large scale and long term usability trials
• Approaches for the standardisation and interoperability of user interfaces and underlying systems
• Other topics dealing with the accessibility and usability of automatic user interface generation
They cover some of the following criteria
• Detailed description of the automatic generation process of UIs
• Detailed descriptions and illustrations of the user interface
• Statistical evaluation with a high number of users
• Long time evaluations
• Lessons learned
Martin Morandell has graduated in computer science with focus on Assistive Technology (AT) and graduated as academic expert in a four-semester university course on AT. His focus is on Ambient Assisted Living, HCI for older adults and people with cognitive impairments, AT for visually impaired end-users as well as on how to apply AT in a successful and lasting way. Joining the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH in 2008 he works as a project manager and takes part in international projects on AAL. He also offers trainings on AT for people with disabilities and gives lectures. Currently he attends master courses in law and business for technicians at the JKU-Linz.
Christopher Mayer, PhD in applied mathematics has joined the biomedical engineering group of AIT during his studies. He has graduated in 2004 and received the doctor's degree in 2007 at the Vienna University of Technology. His research focus is on the one hand on smart home environments, sensor integration and the analysis of data from sensor systems by means of different pattern recognition technique and on the other hand on user interaction. Furthermore he is project coordinator of the AAL JP project AALuis and involved in various international AAL projects (e.g. universAAL, NovaHome, E-MOSION).