Personalization of user accessibility options
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsRobert Sinclair, Gilma Perkins, Michael Winser, Ramkumar Subramanian, Paul Reid
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Abstract
A computing environment can dynamically respond to user preferences and personal abilities by enabling computer users to configure their computing experience by implicitly gathering information about the users' needs. The system can detect users' issues during the natural course of interaction with the system and offer to make adjustments to make their tasks simpler and more enjoyable. The system can allow for the configuration of settings that can impact users' abilities to receive important information from the system or provide input to the system.
Claims20
A method for personalizing user accessibility options, comprising:
- monitoring interaction of a computer user with at least one device, wherein the electronic device is electronically coupled with a computer system;
- inferring accessibility information about a computer user by way of the monitoring;
- and
- configuring at least one accessibility setting within the computer system based on the accessibility information.
An adaptive computing environment, comprising:
- a computer system with which a user interacts;
- a monitoring service that tracks user behavior during interaction of the user with the computer system;
- and
- a personalization wizard, wherein the personalization wizard configures accessibility settings based on information from the monitoring service.
One or more computer-readable media having encoded thereon a data structure comprising a computer user profile, the computer user profile comprising:
- a plurality of data representing at least one visual setting corresponding to a computer user;
- and
- a plurality of data representing at least one audio setting corresponding to the computer user;
- wherein at least one setting is inferred via monitoring user interaction with a computer system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.