Human-centric (Self-Adaptive) Software Engineering

Humans are different - age, gender, language, culture, personality, emotions, physical and mental challenges, living and working situations, and many other ways. Most software adopts a one-size-fits all approach and has limited adaptive properties to these human diversities. In this talk I will discuss some of our work over the years that has explored adaptive software systems, including run-time plug-ins for collaboration, user interface adaptation, infrastructure, security controls, visual modelling, and more recently, adapting to human differences to provide a better software solution. I will discuss some of our current projects addressing the later, including adaptive user interfaces, floor plans, MDE for adaptation, and directions in end user specified software adaptation and AI-supported software adaptation.