sandy@snoopy.cs.umass.edu (& Wise) (06/19/91)
In article <1991Jun19.095117.19080@cs.ruu.nl> rloon@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Ronald van Loon) writes: > It seems to me that an adaptive interface is just a special case of > a customizable interface. This depends on what you mean by adaptation and customization. Customization for me means the ability to make presentation level changes to the interface. If adaptation means automatically changing the appearance of the interface (e.g., some menu systems were designed to move the users frequently selected menu choices to the top) then adaptive interfaces are a subset of customizable ones. However, if an adaptive interface is one that recognizes user actions and alters its behavior instead of its presentation (e.g., the CMU Gandalf system can recognize recuring user patterns and automatically record them as a script. When it detects the user beginning the pattern again, it automatically invokes the script to finish the action, or I3R, a document retreival system that uses which documents you have selected or rejected to narrow the search) then they are disjoint. /s -- Alexander Erskine Wise /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Software Development Laboratory /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ WISE@CS.UMASS.EDU /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\ This situation calls for large amounts of unadulterated CHOCOLATE! /\/\/\