User Interfaces for All: New Perspectives into Human- Computer Interaction

This chapter introduces the notion of User Interfaces for All, elaborates on the motivating rationale and examines its key implications on Human-Computer Interaction. The underlying vision of User Interfaces for All is to provide an approach for the development of computational environments catering for the broadest possible range of human abilities, skills, requirements and preferences. Consequently, User Interfaces for All should not be conceived as an effort to advance a single solution for everybody. Instead, it is a new perspective into Human-Computer Interaction, seeking to unfold and reveal challenges and insights, and to instrument appropriate solutions for alleviating the current obstacles to the access and use of advanced information technologies by the widest possible end-user population.