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Custom interfaces make for faster, easier, more accessible computing
Insert your key in the ignition of a luxury car and the seat and steering wheel will automatically adjust to preprogrammed body proportions. Stroll through the rooms of Bill Gates' mansion and each room will adjust its lighting, temperature and music to accommodate your personal preference. But open any computer program and you're largely subject to a design team's ideas about button sizes, fonts and layouts.
Off-the-shelf designs are especially frustrating for disabled and elderly people 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 ...
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