Automatically determine and adjust settings
This feature automatically determines the user’s needs while he/she operates the product. This will be especially useful for setting things like keyboard bounce time and mouse movement speed, which otherwise require a guess-and-check trial to set correctly.
Discussion by Disabilities
Automatically learning user needs makes it easy for people with physical disabilities to find the best features for their conditions. Instead of guessing and checking with innumerable options, they can find an optimal solution simply based on their interaction with the system.
Existing Products
Related Research and Papers
- Supple: Automatic Generation of Personalized User Interfaces(link is external) – University of Washington (2008).
- Automating accessibility: the dynamic keyboard(link is external) – IBM – Trewin, S. (2004)
- Toward Goldilocks’ pointing device: determining a “just right” gain setting for users with physical impairments(link is external) – Koester, H.H., LoPresti, E., and Simpson, R.C. (2005)
- Who’s asking for help?: a Bayesian approach to intelligent assistance(link is external) – University of Toronto – Hui, B. and Boutilier, C. (2006)
- Apparatus and method to automatically adjust volume or control operation of an appliance(link is external)- Patrick L. Connor
- Display device which can automatically adjust its resolution(link is external)- Tsung-hsun Wu