Special Interest Group at CHI 2003: Toward a Unified Universal Remote Console Standard Thursday, April 10, 2003 9:00 - 10:30am Wireless communication technologies make it feasible to remotely control devices and services from virtually any mobile and stationary device. However, there is no standard available today which would allow manufacturers to define an abstracted user interface for their product whose functionality can be instantiated and presented in different ways and modalities on a wide variety of controller technologies, such as, phones, PDAs, and computers. Such a standard could also facilitate usability, natural language agents, internationalization, and accessibility. Participants in this SIG will present and discuss requirements and current activities that could contribute to the development of a `Universal Remote Console' standard. The goal of this SIG is to gather requirements, identify related research, development, commercial, and other activities, and to initiate an ongoing effort developing a unified Universal Remote Console standard in the future. Purpose of the SIG The purpose of the SIG is to gather people who are interested in this topic or in components of the topics, in order to harmonize the V2 effort with related activities, and ultimately work towards a unified URC standard that meets the requirements of users and industry. Agenda Introductions and hands-on demonstration of V2 URC prototypes (20 min) Discussion of requirements for URC standard (20 min) Report on INCITS-V2 standardization work (20 min) Open discussion, including reports from other URC related efforts (20 min) Wrap-up & discussion of follow-up activities (10 min) Organizers Gottfried Zimmermann, Trace Center, Univ. Wisconsin-Madison Marney Beard, Sun Microsystems Bill LaPlant, US Census Bureau Sharon Laskowski, National Institute of Standards and Technology Toby Nixon, Microsoft Eran Sitnik, Panasonic Technologies Shari Trewin, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Gregg Vanderheiden, Trace Center, Univ. Wisconsin-Madison For more information on this SIG see http://trace.wisc.edu/docs/2003-CHI- Unified-Remote-Console-Standard/.