Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!widener!sven From: sven@cs.widener.edu (Sven Heinicke) Newsgroups: comp.human-factors Subject: Re: adaptive user interfaces Message-ID: Date: 16 Jun 91 19:13:03 GMT References: <1991Jun12.182221.10179@cs.sfu.ca> Organization: Widener CS Dept Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: kathy@cs.sfu.ca's message of 12 Jun 91 18:22:21 GMT In article <1991Jun12.182221.10179@cs.sfu.ca> kathy@cs.sfu.ca (Kathy Peters) writes: I am interested in the concept of adaptive user interfaces - somehow tailoring the user interface for individual skills and preferences. (Rather than just having categories like 'naive', 'expert', etc.). I think that this all sounds like a great idea, but the kinds of interfaces that most people like are those that they have used in the past. This would be fine too but if anything that gets written with the format that comes into conflict with compinies like Lotus, Apple and some other compinies there might be a lawsuit brewing. I do hope what ever Kathy is working on that it will come through. It is just something to wory about. I still get shocked sometimes when I think that lotus brought a company to court for using the same user interface. -- sven@cs.widener.edu Widener CS system manager Sven Mike Heinicke and Student (pssmheinicke@cyber.widener.edu (if you must))