For Your Eyes Only: Custom Interfaces Make Computer Clicking Faster, Easier
From: Science Daily - 07/15/2008

Off-the-shelf user interface designs are especially frustrating for the
disabled, the elderly, and anybody who has trouble controlling a mouse. A new
approach to design, developed at the University of Washington, would put each
person through a brief skills test and then generate a mathematically-based
version of the user interface optimized for his or her vision and motor
abilities. 

Submitted by Jerry Weisman

Read the entire article at:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080715152316.htm
http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=42817

Links:
Krzysztof Gajos
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/kgajos/

Decision-Theoretic User Interface Generation
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/kgajos/papers/kgajos-nectar08.pdf
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/weld/papers/gajos-aaai08.pdf

Automatic Generation of Personalizable User Interfaces
http://www.cs.washington.edu/ai/supple/

Improving User Interface Personalization
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/gajos04improving.html

Every User Deserves a Personalized Interface
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3168

Dan Weld
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/weld/

Jacob Wobbrock
http://faculty.washington.edu/wobbrock/