Summary: my PhD thesis (defended in Dec. 2005) is entitled “Content accessibility: personalization of user's interactions with content and user's content presentation”. Personalization of user interfaces for browsing content is a key concept to ensure content accessibility. This personalization is especially needed for people with disabilities (e.g. visually impaired) and/or for highly mobile individuals (driving, off-screen environments) and/or for people with limited devices (PDAs, mobile phones, etc.). In this direction, personalization mechanisms, based on a user requirements study, are introduced in his PhD thesis. These mechanisms result in the generation of adapted multimodal user interfaces for browsing XML-content using user and context profiles. These on-the-fly generated user interfaces can use several modalities for increasing communication possibilities: in this way, interactions between the user and the system can take place in a more natural manner.

Examination committee: Cécile Roisin (referee), Jocelyne Nanard (referee), Florence Sèdes (examiner), Nadine Vigouroux (examiner), Régine André-Obrecht (supervisor), Nadine Baptiste-Jessel (co-supervisor).