UIST 2004 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION -- ADVANCE REGISTRATION ENDS OCTOBER 17! Seventeenth Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology http://www.acm.org/uist October 24-27, 2004 La Fonda on the Plaza Santa Fe, NM Sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGGRAPH Don't miss the October 17 advance registration deadline for UIST 2004, the premier forum for innovations in the software and technology of human-computer interfaces! Featured speakers: Keynote: Bridging the Gap from Theory to Practice: The Path toward Innovation in Human-Computer Interaction. Mary Czerwinski (Microsoft Research) Invited Survey: Physical User Interfaces---What They Are and How to Build Them. Saul Greenberg (Univ. of Calgary) Invited Survey: Olfactory Display. Joseph 'Jofish' Kaye (Cornell Univ.) Sponsored by ACM's special interest groups on computer-human interaction (SIGCHI) and computer graphics (SIGGRAPH), UIST brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse areas that include graphical & web user interfaces, tangible & ubiquitous computing, very large & very small displays, pen-based & gestural user interfaces, virtual & augmented reality, multimedia, new input & output devices, and CSCW. The intimate size, the single track, and comfortable surroundings make this symposium an ideal opportunity to exchange research results and implementation experiences. The UIST 2004 program features 24 full-length papers, 12 shorter TechNotes, 14 posters, and 14 demos Monday-Wednesday, October 25-27, preceded by an invitation-only doctoral symposium and a welcome reception on Sunday October 24. There's still time to register at http://www.acm.org/uist Join us in Santa Fe! Steve Feiner UIST 2004 General Chair Corporate Champions: Intel Corporate Benefactors: Microsoft Pacific Northwest National Laboratory SMART Technologies Inc. Corporate Donors: FXPAL Google IBM Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Sun Microsystems ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Advance Program Sunday, October 24 Doctoral Symposium (by invitation only) Welcome Reception Monday, October 25 Opening Session Keynote: Mary Czerwinski (Microsoft Research), Bridging the Gap from Theory to Practice: The Path toward Innovation in Human-Computer Interaction Pens & Sketching CrossY: A Crossing-Based Drawing Application. Georg Apitz and Francois Guimbretiere (Univ. of Maryland) Hierarchical Parsing and Recognition of Hand-Sketched Diagrams. Levent Burak Kara (CMU) and Thomas F. Stahovich (UC Riverside) SketchREAD: A Multi-Domain Sketch Recognition Engine. Christine Alvarado and Randall Davis (MIT) Gestures Simple vs. Compound Mark Hierarchical Marking Menus. Shengdong Zhaom and Ravin Balakrishnan (Univ. of Toronto) SHARK2: A Large Vocabulary Shorthand Writing System for Pen-based Computers. Per-Ola Kristensson (Linkoping Univ.) and Shumin Zhai (IBM Almaden Research Center) The Radial Scroll Tool: Scrolling Support for Stylus- or Touch-Based Document Interaction. Graham Smith and mc schraefel (Univ. of Southampton) Navigating Documents with the Virtual Scroll Ring. Tomer Moscovich and John Hughes (Brown Univ.) Manipulating Space Multi-Finger Gestural Interaction with 3-D Volumetric Displays. Tovi Grossman, Daniel Wigdor, and Ravin Balakrishnan (Univ. of Toronto) Achieving Higher Magnification in Context. Sheelagh Carpendale (Univ. of Calgary), John Light (Intel Research), and Eric Pattison (Univ. of Calgary) Tangible NURBS-Curve Manipulation Techniques Using Graspable Handles on a Large Display. Seok-Hyung Bae (Gifu Univ.), Takahiro Kobayashi (Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences), Ryugo Kijima (Gifu Univ.), and Won-Sup Kim (KAIST) Collapse-to-Zoom: Viewing Web Pages on Small Screen Devices by Interactively Removing Irrelevant Content. Patrick Baudisch, Xing Xie (Microsoft Research), Chong Wang (Tsinghua Univ.), and Wei-Ying Ma (Microsoft Research) The IBar: A Perspective-Based Camera Widget. Cindy Grimm (Washington Univ. in St. Louis), Karan Singh (Univ. of Toronto), and Nisha Sudarsanam (Washington Univ. in St. Louis) Demo Reception: View refereed demos, sponsored demos, and demos of systems presented in the paper sessions. Tuesday, October 28 Interactive Surfaces Video-Based Document Tracking: Unifying Your Physical and Electronic Desktops. Jiwon Kim, Steve Seitz (Univ. of Washington) and Maneesh Agrawala (Microsoft Research) Who Cares? Reflecting Who is Reading What on Distributed Community Bulletin Boards. Toshiya Yamada, Jun Shingu (Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd), Elizabeth Churchill, Les Nelson, Jonathan Helfman, and Murphy Paul (FX Palo Alto Laboratory) Visual Tracking of Bare Fingers for Interactive Surfaces. Julien Letessier, Francois Berard (Univ. of Grenoble) Automatic Projector Calibration with Embedded Light Sensors. Johnny Lee (CMU), Paul Dietz (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs), Dan Maynes-Aminzade (Stanford Univ.), Ramesh Raskar (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs), and Scott Hudson (CMU) Large Public Displays A Remote Control Interface for Large Displays. Azam Khan, George Fitzmaurice, Don Almeida, Nicolas Burtnyk, and Gordon Kurtenbach (Alias) Interactive Public Ambient Displays: Transitioning from Implicit to Explicit, Public to Personal, Interaction with Multiple Users. Daniel Vogel and Ravin Balakrishnan (Univ. of Toronto) C-Blink: A Hue-Difference-Based Light Signal Marker for Large Screen Interaction via Any Mobile Terminal. Kento Miyaoku, Suguru Higashino, and Yoshinobu Tonomura (NTT) A Gesture-Based Authentication Scheme for Untrusted Public Terminals. Shwetak Patel, Jeffrey Pierce, and Gregory Abowd (Georgia Tech) Invited Surveys Physical User Interfaces---What They Are and How to Build Them. Saul Greenberg (Univ. of Calgary) Olfactory Display. Joseph 'Jofish' Kaye (Cornell Univ.) Document Interaction ScreenCrayons: Annotating Anything. Dan Olsen, Trent Taufer (Brigham Young Univ.), and Jerry Fails (Univ. of Maryland) Clip, Connect, Clone: Combining Application Elements to Build Custom Interfaces for Information Access. Jun Fujima, Aran Lunzer (Hokkaido Univ.), Kasper Hornbaek (Univ. of Copenhagen), and Yuzuru Tanaka (Hokkaido Univ.) Citrine: Providing Intelligent Copy and Paste. Jeffrey Stylos, Brad A. Myers, and Andrew Faulring (CMU) Interacting with Hidden Content Using Content-Aware Free-Space Transparency. Edward Ishak and Steven Feiner (Columbia Univ.) Combining Crossing-Based and Paper-Based Interaction Paradigms for Dragging and Dropping Between Overlapping Windows. Pierre Dragicevic (Univ. Toulouse III) Banquet Wednesday, October 27 Tools DART: A Toolkit for Rapid Design Exploration of Augmented Reality Experiences. Blair MacIntyre, Maribeth Gandy, Steven Dow, and Jay David Bolter (Georgia Tech) An Explanation-Based, Visual Debugger for One-way Constraints. Brad Vander Zanden, David Baker, and Jing Jin (Univ. of Tennessee) Topiary: A Tool for Prototyping Location-Enhanced Applications. Yang Li, Jason Hong (UC Berkeley), and James Landay (Intel Research Seattle / Univ. of Washington) Speech In, X Out An Optimization-Based Approach to Dynamic Data Content Selection in Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces. Michelle Zhou and Vikram Aggarwal (IBM T. J. Watson) Augmenting Conversations using Dual-Purpose Speech. Kent Lyons, Christopher Skeels, Thad Starner, Cornelis Snoeck, Benjamin Wong, and Daniel Ashbrook (Georgia Tech) Toolkits A Toolkit for Managing User Attention in Peripheral Displays. Tara Matthews (UC Berkeley), Anind Dey (Intel-Berkeley Research Lab), Jennifer Mankoff, Scott Carter, and Tye Rattenbury (UC Berkeley) The MaggLite Post-WIMP Toolkit: Draw It, Connect It and Run It. Stephane Huot, Cedric Dumas (Ecole des Mines de Nantes), Pierre Dragicevic (LIIHS-IRIT), Jean-Daniel Fekete (INRIA Futurs/LRI), and Gerard Hegron (CERMA UMR CNRS) Revisiting Visual Interface Programming: Creating GUI Tools for Designers and Programmers. Stephane Chatty, Stephane Sire (IntuiLab), Jean-Luc Vinot, Patrick Lecoanet (CENA), Alexandre Lemort (IntuiLab), and Christophe Mertz (IntuiLab, CENA) Wacky Hardware "Killer App" of Wearable Computing: Wireless Force Sensing Body Protectors for Martial Arts. Ed H. Chi (PARC / Stanford Taekwondo Program), Jin Song, and Greg Corbin (Impact Measurement) Using Light Emitting Diode Arrays as Touch-Sensitive Input and Output Devices. Scott Hudson (CMU) Haptic Pen: A Tactile Feedback Stylus for Touch Screens. Johnny Lee (CMU), Paul Dietz, Darren Leigh, William Yerazunis (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs), and Scott Hudson (CMU) Closing Session Posters will be on display throughout the conference, introduced in a one-minute overview per poster in a special session, and presented in parallel by their authors during "poster breaks": Augmented Reality Kitchen: Task-Specific Projection in a Multi-User Work Environment. Leonardo Bonanni, Chia-Hsun Lee, Rob Gens, and Ted Selker (MIT) Automatically Generating Personalizable User Interfaces. Krzysztof Gajos, Raphael Hoffmann, and Daniel Weld (Univ. of Washington) Changes in Mental Workload during Task Execution. Shamsi Iqbal, Piotr Adamczyk, Xianjun Zheng, and Brian Bailey (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) DataJockey: A Proposed Interface for Data Exchange Using the Lazy Susan Metaphor. Akihiko Kodama and Michiaki Yausmura (Keio Univ.) EnhancedMovie: Movie Editing on an Augmented Desk as a Large-sized Display. Yasuto Nakanishi (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture & Technology), Yoko Ishii, Hideki Koike (Univ. of Electro-Communications), Kenji Oka, and Yoichi Sato (Tokyo Univ.) Interaction Design for the Media PC. Kelvin Cheng (Univ. of Sydney), David Vronay and Frank Yu (Microsoft Research Asia) Interactive, Immaterial FogScreen. Ismo Rakkolainen and Karri Palovuori (Tampere Univ. of Technology) The Negotiometer. Alex Pentland, Jarhad Curhan, Ron Caneel, Anmol Madan, Nathan Eagle, and Martin C. Martin (MIT) Qualities of the Past---Telephones of the Future. Peng Cheng (Nokia Mobile Phones R&D) and Jacob Buur (Univ. of Southern Denmark) Teaching with Tangibles: A Tool for Defining Dichotomous Sorting Activities. Lori Scarlatos (Brooklyn College, CUNY), Audrey Mbogho (CUNY Graduate Center), and Magdalena Jaworska (Brooklyn College, CUNY) The Sharing Palette: A User Interface for File and Service Sharing. Stephen Voida (Georgia Tech), W. Keith Edwards (PARC), and Mark W. Newman (PARC / UC Berkeley) Stained Glass Photo Collages. Andreas Girgensohn and Patrick Chiu (FX Palo Alto Laboratory) WATARIDORI: Multiple Ghost Cursors for Speech Based Cursor Movement. Yoshiyuki Mihara (Tokyo Inst. of Technology), Shin Takahashi (Univ. of Tsukuba), and Etsuya Shibayama (Tokyo Inst. of Technology) Workplane-Orientation-Sensing Techniques for Tablet PCs. Gabor Blasko, William Beaver, Maryam Kamvar, and Steven Feiner (Columbia Univ.) Demonstrations will be presented during the Monday night Demo Reception: Refereed Demonstrations ProofRite: A Paper-Augmented Word Processor. Kevin Conroy, Dave Levin, and Frangois Guimbretihre (Univ. of Maryland) Multimodal Feedback for Tilt Controlled Speed Dependent Automatic Zooming. Parisa Eslambolchilar (Hamilton Institute), John Williamson (Univ. of Glasgow), and Rod Murray-Smith (Univ. of Glasgow) MessyBoard: Lowering the Cost of Communication and Making it More Enjoyable. Adam M. Fass and Randy Pausch (CMU) EyeWindow: Using Eye-Controlled Zooming Windows for Focus Selection. David Fono and Roel Vertegaal (Queen's Univ.) Organizing Photos of People. Andreas Girgensohn, John Adcock, and Lynn Wilcox (FX Palo Alto Laboratory) prefuse: A Toolkit for Interactive Information Visualization. Jeffrey Heer (UC Berkeley). Stuart K. Card (PARC), and James A. Landay (Univ. of Washington) MESH: Supporting Mobile Multi-modal Interfaces. Stephen Hughes, Ian Oakley, and Sile O'Modhrain (Media Lab Europe) Regional Undo for Spreadsheets. Yoshinori Kawasaki and Takeo Igarashi (Univ. of Tokyo) Muscle Tremor as an Input Mechanism. Steven Strachan (Hamilton Institute) and Roderick Murray-Smith (Univ. of Glasgow) Goromi: To Browse Information on the Web, Not Web Pages. Goro Otsubo (DENSO IT Laboratory, Inc.) A Demonstration of TouchLight, an Imaging Touch Screen and Display for Gesture-Based Interaction. Andrew D. Wilson (Microsoft Research) Sponsored Demonstrations Designing a Conferencing Interface: Bridgit Conferencing Software. Vicki Noel (SMART Technologies) Fast, Detailed Inference of Diverse Daily Human Activities. Matthai Philipose, Sunny Consolvo, Tanzeem Choudhury, Kenneth Fishkin, Ian Smith (Intel Research Seattle), Dieter Fox, Henry Kautz, and Donald Patterson (Univ. of Washington) Place Lab: Wide-scale Device Positioning Using Radio Beacons in the Wild. Anthony LaMarca, Yatin Chawathe, Ian Smith, Sunny Consolvo, Jeff Hightower, James Scott, Tim Sohn, Pauline Powledge, Anand Balachandran, Gaetano Borriello, and Bill Schilit (Intel Research Seattle)