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{{Other uses|AUI (disambiguation)}}

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An '''adaptive user interface''' (also known as '''AUI''') is a [[user interface]] (UI) which adapts, that is changes, its layout and elements to the needs of the user or context and is similarly alterable by each user.<ref>{{cite web|title=Workshop on Social Adaptive User Interfaces (SoAUI'07) September 11, 2007 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.|url=http://soaui.albacete.org/|accessdate=8 October 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|lasteditor-first1=MalinowskiMatthias|firsteditor-last1=edited by Matthias Schneider-Hufschmidt, |editor-first2=Thomas |editor-last2=Kühme, |editor-first3=Uwe|editor-last3=Malinowski|title=Adaptive user interfaces : principles and practice|year=1993|publisher=North-Holland|___location=Amsterdam|isbn=978-0-444-81545-3|url=http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/524434/description#toc|access-date=2010-02-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707133211/http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/524434/description#toc|archive-date=2010-07-07|url-status=dead}}</ref>

These mutually reciprocal qualities of both adapting and being adaptable are, in a true AUI, also innate to elements that comprise the interface's components; portions of the interface might adapt to and affect other portions of the interface.

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The advantages of an adaptive user interface are found within its ability to conform to a users needs. The properties of an AUI allow to show only relevant information based on the current user. This creates less confusion for less experienced users and provides ease of access throughout a system.

Depending on the task, can increase the stability of a system.<ref name="books 0N9xdnrutSoC">{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=0N9xdnrutSoC&oi=fnd&pg=PR13&dq=adaptive+user+interface&otspg=ptuTByPgVq&sigPR13 |title =fey06Y5zy_4wUfnyxuKZpfjUt-Q#v Adaptive User Support: Ergonomic Design of Manually and Automatically Adaptable Software|isbn =onepage&q 9780805816556|last1 =adaptive%20user%20interface&f Oppermann|first1 = Reinhard|date = August 1994| publisher=falseCRC Press }}</ref>

==Disadvantages==

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The goal behind adaptive presentation is to display certain information based on the current user. This may mean that users with only basic knowledge of a system will only be shown minimal information. Conversely, a user with advanced knowledge will have access to more detailed information and capabilities.

A way that the AUI can achieve this differentiation could be to hide information to be presented based on the user's experience level. Another possibility is to control the amountnumber of links to relevant sources on the page.<ref name="wa-uihealth">{{cite web|url=http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-uihealth/|title=Adaptive user interfaces for health care applications|publisher=ibm.com|accessdate=4 August 2015}}</ref>

===Adaptive navigation===

Adaptive navigation intends to guide a user to their specific goal within the system by altering the way the system is navigated based on certain factors of the user. These factors can include the users expertise level with the system/subject, the current goal within the system, and other relevant factors.

Examples of adaptive navigation can be achieved in many ways, similar to adaptive presentation. These can includedinclude examples such as providing links to help achieve a usersuser's specific goal, giving reference on a page to where a user is, or altering the resources available to the user.

==Uses in industry==

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==Further reading==

* from [https://web.archive.org/web/20090510083823/http://www.cc.gatech.edu:80/computing/classes/cs8113d_94_fall/homepage.html Matthias Schneider-Hufschmidt at Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing]

** Hartmut Dieterich, Uwe Malinowski, Thomas Kühme, Matthias Schneider-Hufschmidt: [http://www.cc.gatech.edu/computing/classes/cs8113d_94_fall/ps-files/Siemens.ps.Z State of the Art in Adaptive User Interfaces]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and

** David Benyon: [http://www.soc.napier.ac.uk/~dbenyon/inddiff.pdf Accommodating Individual Differences through an Adaptive User Interface]