Personalizing graphical user interfaces on flexible widget layout

The authors propose a method for personalizing the flexible widget layout (FWL) by adjusting the desirability of widgets with a pairwise comparison method, and show its implementation and that it actually works. Personalization of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) is important from a perspective of usability, and it is a challenge in the field of model-based user interface designs. The FWL is a model- and optimization-based layout framework of GUIs offering a possibility for personalization, but it has not actually realized it with any concrete method yet. In this paper, the authors implement a method for personalization as a dialog box and incorporate it into the existing system of the FWL; thus, users can personalize layouts generated by the FWL system at run-time.

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