Essay on Intelligent User Interfaces and adaptivity

User interfaces have emerged from command lines to direct manipulation and now faces a new generation. From the user’s point of view, intelligent interfaces should provide adaptivity, context sensitivity and more assistance with the task at hand. To achieve these goals, the system needs to understand multimodal and possibly imprecise input, generate coordinated multimodal presentations and manage the interaction. The use of models to represent and reason about the user, domain, task, discourse and situation becomes important in building intelligent user interfaces.