Design and User Acceptance of Dynamic User Interface Adaptations Based on Situation-Awareness and Emotion-Recognition

The SitAdapt system is an architecture and runtime system for the construction of adaptive interactive applications. The system is integrated into the PaMGIS framework for pattern- and model-based user interface development and generation. This paper first discusses the relevant related work on rule-based and situation-aware systems for creating adaptive interactive software. SitAdapt uses emotion recognition and monitoring of bio-physical signals to better understand the true nature of the situations encountered in user-sessions. The paper also discusses the software process for interactive systems with adaptive functionality. To study the acceptance of the various possible user interface adaptations an online user survey was carried out with a subsequent test of the individual possible adaptations demonstrated for an example from an adaptive travel-booking application.