A Summary of “Coping with Diversity - A System for End-users to Customize Web User Interfaces”

• Mailson de Queiroz Proença Federal University of São Carlos
• Vivian Genaro Motti George Mason University https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1336-3743
• Kamila Rios da Hora Rodrigues University of São Paulo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9176-8709
• Vânia Paula de Almeida Neris Federal University of São Carlos https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4059-8700

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/ihc_estendido.2022.225410

Abstract

This communication is a summary, in Portuguese, of a paper presented at the ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems - EICS 2020. The intention of this communication is to discuss the results within the Brazilian Human-Computer Interaction community as part of the International Papers Track during the Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems - IHC 2022. The paper presents UIFlex, a web-based browser plugin that enables users to define their interaction profile. In this task, users are supported by fifteen web-based design rules that were extracted from the literature and the knowledge of authorities. To customize the presentation of web interfaces, UIFlex relies on a set of rules defined for each individual user and "injects" JavaScript codes, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and in some cases HyperText Markup Language (HTML) codes in any page that follows W3C standards.

Keywords: Interface, UIFlex, Web Interfaces, Adaptive, Adaptable, Flexible, Tool

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