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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|last=Malinowski|first=edited by Matthias Schneider-Hufschmidt, Thomas Kühme, Uwe|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}}</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.

This later mechanism is usually employed to integrate two logically- distinct components,

such as an interactive document and an [[Application software|application]] (e.g. a [[web browser]]) into one seamless whole.