Objectives

MyUI technologies will comprise a Virtual User Lab and a modelling and adaptivity framework to as a development tools for industrial development of highly personalized and accessible systems. The MyUI technologies will be used, refined and validated in the MyUI reference implementations by our industrial project partners. Empirical research lays the basis for all the developed results: user research will be integrated in the framework and virtual user lab default models, the adaptation rules, and UI design patterns library so that these development components offer valid adaptivity mechanisms. User involvement will comprise work with industrial developers as well as end users in system validation.

Objective 1. Compile a user model and context ontology that includes all relevant end user characteristics and environmental aspects influencing the accessibility and usability of the ICT products and services to be addressed in MyUI: interactive TV device, interactive physiotherapy application and social communication service.

Objective 2. Develop a distributed user and context management infrastructure that collects information about a specific user and her context in real-time. The infrastructure shall integrate and store user and context information from various sources (e.g. sensors, tracking user interaction behaviour, explicit configuration, etc.).

Objective 3. Develop a user interface adaptation engine for ICT products and services such as the ones to be developed in MyUI (cf. objective 1). The MyUI Adaptation Engine shall support the development of selflearning systems that increasingly adapt to a specific end user and context of use.

Objective 4. Develop a Virtual User Lab that will serve as an illustrative virtual environment for exploring individual user and context models. A unique feature of the virtual user lab will be the integration of physical/motor, perceptual and cognitive perspectives on user modelling and the provision of adequate and vivid visualisations.

Objective 5. Provide extensive support for developers in embedding accessibility within future mainstream ICT-based products and services. Developer support will include different aspects and artefacts: