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User Interface (UI) Personalization

Learn the fundamentals of creating web applications that can automatically adapt to a user's needs and preferences.

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Course Description

In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of user interface personalization in the context of web sites and web applications.
You will learn how user interface (UI) personalization can enable web pages to adapt to a diversity of needs, especially the needs of people with disabilities. The course will explain the difference between adaptable and adaptive user interfaces, and why adaptable user interfaces have been only moderately successful.
You will receive an introduction to the Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII) framework and its infrastructure of automatically adapting a user interface to a user's needs and preferences.
Optionally, you will also learn how to make an example web application adaptable by connecting it with the GPII framework.

Beginner Level

Time: 5 Weeks - 3-4 hours per week

Instructor Details

Christophe Strobbe

Christophe Strobbe has been a researcher in ICT accessibility for persons with disabilities since 2001. He has done research in 10 EU-funded research and development projects and several smaller projects. He has been a participant of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG) since March/April 2005 and was a member of the Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG) from March 2011 till January 2014.