GitUI: A Community-Based Platform to Democratize User Interfaces

Sérgio Alves; Ricardo Costa; Kyle Montague; Tiago Guerreiro

doi:10.1145/3544549.3585668

GitUI: A Community-Based Platform to Democratize User Interfaces

Sérgio Alves, Ricardo Costa, Kyle Montague, Tiago Guerreiro

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Abstract

Customization empowers users to tailor user interfaces to their needs. Although beneficial, its adoption is limited by the required effort, skills, and creativity. Following the success of open software repositories, we present a novel community-based customization system where users can: 1) customize UIs for the self and others - using a customization toolkit; 2) use and further adapt public customization templates - found in an online repository; or 3) request customization assistance. We explored this concept in the context of Web technologies by developing GitUI. GitUI was iteratively developed and evaluated over two deployment phases. In a two-phase study (n=9), experts and non-experts 1) used, for two weeks, the customization toolkit; and 2) explored the repository. Results suggest that community-based customization is feasible. People are motivated to customize for others and enjoy the convenience of public templates. We present challenges and opportunities for future research seeking to democratize customization.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2023 - Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Albrecht Schmidt, Kaisa Väänänen, Tesh Goyal, Per Ola Kristensson, Anicia Peters
Place of Publication	New York, NY
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1-6
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450394222
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3585668
Publication status	Published - 19 Apr 2023
Event	2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023 - Hamburg, Germany Duration: 23 Apr 2023 → 28 Apr 2023

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Conference	2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Hamburg
Period	23/04/23 → 28/04/23

Keywords

Agency
Customization
Democratization
End-user
Personalization

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Alves, S, Costa, R, Montague, K & Guerreiro, T 2023, GitUI: A Community-Based Platform to Democratize User Interfaces. in A Schmidt, K Väänänen, T Goyal, PO Kristensson & A Peters (eds), CHI 2023 - Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 150, ACM, New York, NY, pp. 1-6, 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023, Hamburg, Germany, 23/04/23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3585668

GitUI: A Community-Based Platform to Democratize User Interfaces. / Alves, Sérgio; Costa, Ricardo; Montague, Kyle et al.
CHI 2023 - Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ed. / Albrecht Schmidt; Kaisa Väänänen; Tesh Goyal; Per Ola Kristensson; Anicia Peters. New York, NY: ACM, 2023. p. 1-6 150.

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