Most of the time both the context of use ( ) and the user's task ( ) are supposed to be specified at design time before designing a User Interface (UI). In ubiquitous computing, the context of use may dynamically vary, as a result making it possible for user's goals to emerge opportunistically. This calls for being able to dynamically compose UIs. This paper relates a social study that aims at understanding to which extent dynamic composition of UIs is a push vs a pull technology. The study is made of 26 qualitative surveys and 3 focus groups. Even if the study could be further conducted, it provides interesting results to feed in software developments.
['Yoann Gabillon', 'Gaëlle Calvary', 'Nadine Mandran', 'Humbert Fiorino']
Composition dynamique d'interfaces homme-machine: besoin utilisateur ou défi de chercheur?