A UNIFYING APPROACH FOR INTERFACE GENERATION IN ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS

In the context of the « cartable électronique ® »project, we have developed an adaptive hypermedia, providing the pupils with information on cultural events. We propose a general approach allowing to adapt the information to a given user in a particular context. This adaptation is performed thanks to the user preferences, of course, but also by exploiting the context of use of the system (device, location of the user). The generation of the adapted user interface can be seen as the generation of an adaptive document where the result is obtained through the combination of the adequate fragments of information. Our approach is based on constraints generated from the user preferences and from the context (e.g. depending on the device, some fragments are disabled). An architecture is also presented in which we explain how we adapt the information (selection of what to present – contents and decision on how to present them – display)