Supporting Inclusive Design of User Interfaces with a Virtual User Model

Kirisci, Pierre T.; Klein, Patrick; Modzelewski, Markus; Lawo, Michael; Mohamad, Yehya; Fiddian, Thomas; Bowden, Chris; Fennell, Antoinette; Connor, Joshue O.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-21663-3_8

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“…Now, the terms 'inclusive design' or 'universal design' are becoming more common within the designers vernacular. There is a greater awareness of the value of inclusive design methodologies for both the designer and the end-user, such as the user testing of product prototypes [43].…”

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Towards standardisation of user models for simulation and adaptation purposes

Kaklanis

Biswas

Mohamad

et al. 2014

Univ Access Inf Soc

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The use of user models can be very valuable when trying to develop accessible and ergonomic products and services taking into account users specific needs and preferences. Simulation of userproduct interaction using user models may reveal accessibility issues at the early stages of design and development, and this results to a significant reduction in costs and development time. Moreover, user models can be used in adaptive interfaces enabling the personalised customisation of user interfaces that enhances the accessibility and usability of products and services. This paper presents the efforts of the Virtual User Modelling and Simulation Standardisation VUMS cluster of projects towards the development of an interoperable user model, able to describe both able-bodied and people with various kinds of disabilities. The VUMS cluster is consisted by the VERITAS, MyUI, GUIDE, and VICON FP7 European projects, all involved in user modelling from different perspectives. The main goal of the VUMS cluster was the development of a unified user model that could be used by all the participant projects and that could be the basis of a new user model standard. Currently, within the VUMS cluster, a common user model has been defined and converters that enable the transformation from each projects specific user model to the VUMS user model and vice versa have been developed enabling, thus, the exchange of user models between the projects

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Section: User Modelling Requirements From the Simulation Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Towards standardisation of user models for simulation and adaptation purposes

Kaklanis

Biswas

Mohamad

et al. 2014

Univ Access Inf Soc

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“…The main barriers in adopting inclusive designs include technical complexities, time-cost effectiveness, lack of knowledge, lack of guidelines, lack of awareness, lack of motivation, and a lack of appropriate design [5,6] . As a result, the more a product's design evolves, the more time and cost it will take to develop [7] .…”

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An Ergonomics Study and Rapid Upper Limb Assessments (RULA) for a Car Interior to Support Limb Disabled Drivers

Suliano

Ahmad

As’arry

et al. 2022

j. of manag. sci. & eng. res.

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The demanding market shows that the need for the disabled vehicles have been increasing over the recent years. However, these factory setting cars are pricey, and its buy-sell process is time-consuming. These cars also are not meant as a universal design or inclusion design type of car, so that when it is designed for the disabled, it can be beneficial for all. With the motivation to include limbs disabled drivers in designing a universally designed car, this study aims to determine the preferred ergonomics interior of the car which can improve features needed to meet the mobility of impaired individuals in most scenarios. 5 simulations were carried out to simulate these conditions using the RULA analysis, in order to simulate the ergonomics impact on the manikin. In the final analysis, the simulations showed a virtuous score, which was between 1 and 2 for the newly redesigned interior, compared to the score of 3 to 6 for current cars. Another verification made, post questionnaire delineates positive responses upon the redesigned parts scoring 70%~90% level of ergonomics rated. Therefore, this research has set forth the necessity of redesigning a car interior and improved its ergonomic features extensively, specifically for lower limb and combined limb disabled drivers.

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Future Challenges of User Modelling for Accessibility

Mohamad

Kouroupetroglou²,

Kirisci

2014

Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Design and Development Methods for Universal Access

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Abstract. User models are abstract representations of user properties including their needs, preferences, knowledge, as well as physical, cognitive, and behavioral characteristics. These characteristics are usually represented by variables. User models are instantiated by the declaration of these variables for a particular user or group of users. Such instances of user models are called user profiles. A user profile captures the kind of information about an individual user that is considered by an adaptive system to adapt to aspects of a certain situation and preferences of different users.Complimentarily the process of user modelling can be applied to enhance the accessibility of user interfaces by generating or adapting them according to the particular user needs and preferences represented in the user profiles. In spite of the different approaches in this area, further research and development is necessary, particularly in addressing the need for standards to support the interoperability and portability of user models across implementations. More specifically, one of the main challenges of user modelling is the lack of a common approach for integrating user profiles that support different user models within individual implementations, and for migrating profiles from one implementation to another. This can be attributed to the broad variety of user profiles and the incompatibilities that can occur among them. For example, differences in user profiles can occur due to differences in scope of the modelling, source of information for the modelling, time sensitivity and update methods of the model (static vs. dynamic model). In this paper a thorough review of the latest developments in the area of user modelling for accessibility is presented. Further, in the core of the paper future potentials and challenges that this technology has to face in order to gain significant traction and adoption from wider audiences is analyzed.

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Supporting Inclusive Design of User Interfaces with a Virtual User Model

Cited by 7 publications

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Towards standardisation of user models for simulation and adaptation purposes

Towards standardisation of user models for simulation and adaptation purposes

An Ergonomics Study and Rapid Upper Limb Assessments (RULA) for a Car Interior to Support Limb Disabled Drivers

Future Challenges of User Modelling for Accessibility

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