Newsgroups: comp.human-factors Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!trillium.waterloo.edu!azieba From: azieba@trillium.waterloo.edu (Warren Baird) Subject: Re: adaptive user interfaces Message-ID: <1991Jun17.190956.11212@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Sender: news@watdragon.waterloo.edu (News Owner) Organization: University of Waterloo References: <1991Jun12.182221.10179@cs.sfu.ca> <1991Jun16.205355.12316@psych.toronto.edu> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 19:09:56 GMT Lines: 26 In article <1991Jun16.205355.12316@psych.toronto.edu> dsy@psych.toronto.edu (Desiree Sy) writes: > >Microsoft has done a little work on this. Users can adjust their >menus and keystroke combinations in Word 4.0. I love this feature, >and would be delighted if more applications would incorporate it. Sun's old UI, SunView, provided a lot of user definable parameters. You can tell the UI where and how big you want your scrollbars, where your icons go when you close them, and many other things. It also provides a graphical defaults editor to change and save these parameters. OpenWindows, Sun's new UI, doesn't seem to provide quite the same level of flexibility (although I admit that I haven't used it nearly as much as I have SunView). I certainly agree that user interfaces should allow the user to customize them, but I'm not sure if AI is the way to go. It seems to me that for most current interfaces, a list of parameters would be sufficent, perhaps with a pretty/intellegent interface. Warren > >-desiree >