CONTEXT
Enabling technologies make it possible to create more and more complex systems in terms of functional core, new interaction techniques and context-of-use dynamics. Coming along with systems complexity, the user requires a better understanding and control of her/his applications.
SUI workshops. In contrast to “pervasive intelligibility” research, SUI workshops focus on the design and engineering of UIs to foster intelligibility and control. UI intelligibility has been approached from different perspectives. The concept of “Meta-UI” has been introduced as a metaphorical UI to control and evaluate the state of interactive ambient spaces [1]. Other works focus on self-explanatory UIs, and make it possible for the end-user to understand the design of the user interface [3], or to control the media distribution and the component discovery [2].
Supportive user interfaces. Gathering these many approaches into a shared definition has been the main outcome of SUI 2011. Specifically, Supportive UIs exchange information about an interactive system with the user, and/or enable its modification, with the goal of improving the effectiveness and quality of the user's interaction with that system.
CURRENT EDITION
| Issue | Topic | Date and location |
|---|
| SUI 2012 |
"Design, implementation and evaluation of Supportive User Interfaces: engineering challenges and approaches ..." |
at EICS 2012: June 25-28 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark |
PAST EDITIONS
| Issue | Topic | Proceedings | Pictures |
|---|
| SUI 2011 |
"Enhancing interaction with supplementary Supportive User Interfaces:
Meta-UIs, Mega-UIs, Extra-UIs, Supra-UIs ..." |
CEUR-WS Vol.828 |
Cheese! |
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