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Inclusive User Modeling and Simulation

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A Multimodal End-2-End Approach to Accessible Computing

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This chapter presents a concept of user modeling including users with different range of abilities. The chapter starts with a brief summary of existing approaches of user modeling and points out the uniqueness of our work. The user model is implemented through a simulator and a set of web services. The simulator is intended to be used as a tool for improving interface designs while the web services provide runtime adaptation. We have presented brief detail of both the simulator and the web service, their applications and conclude by discussing implications and limitations of user modeling. Later, Chap. 10 presents a concept of extending the idea of user modeling across different types of projects and standardizing it.

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    Pradipta Biswas & Pat Langdon

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  1. Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Sreet, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

    Pradipta Biswas

  2. Department of Informatics, University of Lisbon, Campo Grande, Lisbon, 1749-016, Portugal

    Carlos Duarte

  3. Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, United Kingdom

    Patrick Langdon

  4. Centro de Computação Gráfica, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Azurém, Guimarães, 4800-058, Portugal

    Luis Almeida

  5. Fraunhofer IGD, Fraunhoferstr. 5, Darmstadt, 64283, Germany

    Christoph Jung

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Biswas, P., Langdon, P. (2013). Inclusive User Modeling and Simulation. In: Biswas, P., Duarte, C., Langdon, P., Almeida, L., Jung, C. (eds) A Multimodal End-2-End Approach to Accessible Computing. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5082-4_4

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