Abstract

User interfaces are getting more and more complex, and adaptable and adaptive interfaces have been proposed to address this issue. Previous studies have shown that users prefer interfaces that they can simply adapt themselves to self-adjusting ones. However, most existing user interface toolkits provide very little support for creating adaptable interfaces. As a consequence, interface customization techniques are still very primitive and usually constricted to particular applications. In this paper, we present User Interface Façades, a system that provides end-users with simple ways to adapt and recombine existing graphical interfaces, through the use of drag-and-drop paradigm. User Interface Façades employs a more appropriate level of granularity for adaptation compared to previous work and also allows end-users to adapt the interaction of arbitrary applications. Finally, we show several examples to demonstrate the power of the new technique. ACM Classification: H5.2 [Information interfaces and

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