Achieving Usability of Adaptable Software: The Amf-Based Approach

Abstract

This chapter proposes a novel model-based approach for adapting interactive applications to various contexts while ensuring its usability. After a brief overview of the existing software architecture models for HCI and strategies for adaptation, we detail the models we are proposing. This includes task, concept, platform, and user models as well as an interaction model. All these models are linked via an underly- ing architecture called AMF. It ensures the relationships between all the other models and encapsulates the key usability attributes. We will also show how these models are embedded in a process and a method for building adaptive software.