Instructors:
Anthony Jameson, DFKI, Germany
Benefits:
You will acquire in-depth understanding of the usability issues
that arise in the design of systems that adapt to their
users—ranging from personalized e-commerce web sites to
adaptive user interfaces—and of ways of dealing with these
issues.
Origins:
First held in this form at CHI 2007, this course is based on
part of a longer tutorial on systems that adapt to their users
that had previously been given at CHI, IUI, and other conferences.
Features:
- Discuss case studies that concretely illustrate the usability issues raised by adaptation to users and ways in which they have been dealt with successfully.
- Learn a conceptual framework and general design strategies for avoiding usability problems while keeping the benefits of adaptation.
- Take away supplementary materials that expand on the presentation in the course and help you to apply its lessons in your own work.
Audience:
Practitioners and researchers who are or will be involved in
the design of systems that adapt to their users and who want
a deeper understanding of the associated usability issues than
that supplied by general guidelines and conventional wisdom.
Presentation:
Presentation and discussion of general concepts and principles
with reference to concrete case studies, including live
demonstrations.
Instructor Background:
Anthony Jameson is a project director at FBK/IRST (Italy) and
DFKI (Germany). He has been involved in research- and
application-oriented projects concerning systems that adapt to
their users for more than 15 years, including a current project
introducing personalization into a leading European web portal.
He is the author of the chapter Adaptive Interfaces
and Agents in the Human-Computer Interaction Handbook
(Erlbaum, 2003, and CRC Press, 2007).
Webpage:
http://dfki.de/~jameson/chi08-course
