Experimental design of multimedia contents aware of users' skills and computer environments

We have already proposed a new concept of `universal multimedia access' intended to narrow the digital divide by providing appropriate multimedia expressions according to users' (mental and physical) abilities, computer facilities, and network environments. Our previous work has evaluated some types of multimedia user interfaces only for younger persons who can utilize keyword search functions. In this paper, we describe multimedia contents to support the user interface switching function aware of users' skills and computer environments.