Rules of Etiquette, or How a Mannerly AUI Should Comport Itself to Gain Social Acceptance and be Perceived as Gracious and Well-Behaved in Polite Society

Adaptive User Interfaces

Volume

Papers from the 2000 AAAI Spring Symposium

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In this paper I take a wild stab at boiling down my research, experience and knowledge of the work of others, to pose a list of etiquette rules by which AUIs should live. I claim that such a list is needed, and quickly, if AUIs are to be accepted into society rather than be regarded as social boors, misfits or simpletons who really can’t help themselves.