PERSONALIZATION OF MOBILE APPLICATION INTERFACES ON THE BASIS OF INTERFACE PATTERNS FOR PEOPLE WITH special needs
This article is devoted to the problem of personalization of the interface for people with disabilities. Users with special needs do not feel comfortable using applications that could help them to overcome some of the social barriers in everyday life. The process of personalizing the interface for specific users cannot be performed in one step; we suggest to take into account the information which is collected during user interaction with a mobile application. This work is a continuation of the research on the development of adaptive user interfaces. Much attention was paid to the study of existing approaches to the collection and analysis of information about user behavior and the concept of contextual information, as well as recommendations for adapting the interface. An improved interface adaptation mechanism was developed and described based on the ontological representation of interface patterns and knowledge of the end user and his behavior. A set of adaptation rules was developed and implemented in the ontology knowledge base. In the article, we described an improved ontology model and some examples of the ontological representation of interface patterns.