An Agile Adaptation Framework for Context-Aware User Interfaces

Although the adaptation approaches are evolving with changes in the technical landscape, their purposes are still to increase user satisfaction and result in successful interactions. Commonly, adaptation is intended to ensure context-aware interaction meeting user expectations. Thereby ‘context-awareness’ as well as ‘user-centeredness’ becomes mandatory to adapt the UI in response to context changes. However, interface adaptations are mostly managed at design time, instead of conforming current situations and the ambient-contexts. Thus, an accurate adaptation approach should be context-aware, flexible and incremental. It have a crosscutting impact on software patterning, with an insignificant cost. In order to address these main shortcomings and support stakeholders to bridge the gap between adaptation goals and user needs, this proposal conveys a theoretical framework establishing runtime context-aware adaptation within an agile perspective.