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wide range of environments, including those with
scarce resources (e.g. smartphones). We argue on
our previous paper in (Gonçalves et al., 2011) that
mobile phone interfaces are particularly designed for
young people. This is a critical issue as the
population of elderly people is increasingly higher,
nowadays. We have shown the suitability of
constructing a flexible interface using the runtime
reconfigurable middleware approach that we
borrowed from OpenCom. This ensures that both the
young and the elderly people can make use of a
single adaptive interface implementation on a
smartphone. We have prototyped FlexInterface and
carried out experiments with the elderly people on a
Galaxy Samsung smartphone running Android.
In future work, we will better describe user
behavior collecting a greater amount of user
interaction data (touch screen clicks, keys, duration,
etc.). This interaction detail will also allow an
element of the screen to be reconfigured
independently of the others. For example, if a user
takes too long to click the Save key having already
entered all the contact data, the interface resets the
color of the key changes so that the user perceives
what action he should do to finish the task.
Accordingly, the detailed behavior together with
the reconfiguration of interface elements allows
these interfaces to adapt to a wider range of features
and skills of elderly users or not.
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