Completely Customizing Modern GUIs Through Command-Driven Interfaces

Customization;System;Computer Science

Dicker, Jeff

University of Waterloo

关键词: Customization;    System;    Computer Science;   

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瑞士|英语

来源: UWSPACE Waterloo Institutional Repository

【 摘 要 】

An ideal user interface accommodates the requirements and abilities of its users, and every user has a specific set of needs that must be fulfilled in order for an interface to be useful.This thesis concentrates on using the post-deployment tailoring technique of customization in order to ensure that an interface meets a user;;s needs and abilities in a final, user-driven design step.To this end, the more entirely a UI can be customized, the more perfectly it can be transformed into a state that best suits its user.Very few systems offer complete customization: allowing the entirety of an interface to be customized, baring change to its interaction style.While a few systems do offer complete customization, no fully customizable system exists that is built using modern widget-based GUI;;s.This is the goal of the architecture described in this thesis, the Interface Manager.It uses interface building techniques to make cosmetic customizations and a command-driven style similar to that of Unix shells to make functionality customizations.This system allows interfaces to become well suited to their user, but it also offers open questions about user-initiated innovation in software and the scaling of visual interface design tools.