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The International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces is the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and development in intelligent user interfaces. The IUI-03 Program Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial Program. Tutorials will be held Sunday, 12 January 2003 immediately prior to the technical conference.

Tutorials should serve one or more of the following objectives:

• Introduce novices to major topics of Intelligent User Interfaces.
• Provide instruction in established practices and methodologies.
• Survey a mature area of IUI research and/or practice.
• Motivate and explain an IUI topic of emerging importance.
• Introduce expert non specialists to an IUI subarea.

Previous IUI tutorials have included:

• Introduction to Intelligent Interfaces
• Designing and Evaluating IUIs
• Intelligent Interface Agents
• Designing User-Adaptive Systems
• Programming by Demonstration
• Animated Pedagogical Agents

Duration

Tutorials are a half-day in duration (three hours long, not including breaks) and typically run from 9:00 am-12:30pm or 1:30pm to 5:00 pm.

Basic Requirements

• Submissions must be in English.
• Submissions should be electronic (contact the tutorial chair in advance if that causes a problem).
• Submissions will not be accepted by fax.
• Submissions arriving after the deadline will not be considered.
• Submissions should contain no proprietary or confidential material and should cite no proprietary or confidential publications.
• Responsibility for permissions to include copies of material, articles, video, audio, or pictures of identifiable people is the responsibility of the tutorial presenter, not with IUI.
• Submitters will receive email notification upon receipt of their submissions.

Submission Format

Those interested in presenting a tutorial should submit a proposal to the Tutorial Chair of 5 pages or less. A tutorial proposal should contain the following information:

• Title. Title of the tutorial, up to 60 characters.
• Description. A brief description of the tutorial, suitable for inclusion in the conference registration brochure. This should include both a single sentence description of the tutorial and a paragraph description.
• Objective. Indicate which of the above objectives are best served by the proposed tutorial.
• Justification. A description of why the tutorial topic would be of interest to a substantial part of the IUI audience or will attract new participants to IUI.
• Audience. Characterization of the potential target audience for the tutorial, including prerequisite knowledge.
• Outline. A detailed outline of the tutorial including a schedule of events with time allocations.
• Instructor Biography. A brief resume of the presenter(s), which should include name, postal address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address, background in the tutorial area, any available example of work in the area (optionally, a published tutorial-level article or slides on the subject), evidence of teaching experience (including references that address the proposer's presentation ability), and evidence of scholarship in IUI/computer science (equivalent to a published IUI conference paper, UMUAI journal article, or tutorial syllabus).
• Materials. Describe and provide samples of materials that will be included in the tutorial notes
• Multiple Instructors. In cases of multiple instructors, indicate role and percentage involvement of each instructor.
• Requirements. Any materials needed to run the tutorial such as audio/visual needs, supplies for each participant, and/or limitations on number of participants.

Tutorials are intended to provide an overview of the field and should therefore present well established information in a balanced way. Tutorials should not advocate a single avenue of research or promote a product.

If the proposed tutorial has been given previously, the proposal should include where the tutorial has been given and how it will be modified for IUI 2003. If the tutorial has been given at a previous IUI conference, describe how changes to the tutorial will address comments from previous attendees and/or changes in the field. Additional materials may be submitted, but will not necessarily be included in the review process.

Presenters must obtain all permissions for any copyrighted material in their notes, without fees to IUI, and the length of the notes should not exceed 100 pages.

Tutorial Notes

Tutorial notes should include:

• an introduction to the topic
• copies of all overhead transparencies and slides
• an annotated bibliography
• copies of relevant background material or scholarly papers (for which the instructors have obtained any necessary reprint permission)
• tutorial exercises, as necessary

Instructors must sign a release form giving IUI 2003 one-time-only permission to utilize the notes for tutorial participants and to sell notes at the conference.

Review Criteria

Tutorial proposals will be evaluated on the basis of their estimated benefit for prospective participants and on their fit within the tutorials program as a whole. Factors to be considered include:

• relevance, timeliness, importance, audience appeal, and attendance limits;
• suitability for presentation in a half-day or full-day tutorial format;
• use of presentation methods that offer participants direct experience with the material being taught; and
• past experience and qualifications of the instructors.

Selection is also based on the overall distribution of topics, approaches (overview, theory, methodology, how-to), audience experience levels, and specialties of the intended audiences. Accordingly, not all tutorials of technical merit can be accommodated.

Schedule

• October 28, 2002 Proposal Submission Deadline
• November 4, 2002 Acceptance Notification
• November 15, 2002 Title, Abstract, and Speaker Biography Deadline
• December 15, 2002 Tutorial notes due
• January 12-15, 2003 IUI-03, Miami, Florida

Tutorial acceptance is conditional upon the instructors' compliance with deadlines and requirements.

Cancellation

IUI reserves the right to cancel any tutorial if deadlines are missed or if too few attendees register for the tutorial to support the costs of running the tutorial.

Submissions

Proposals should be submitted on-line by clicking on the link above. Hardcopy supplementary materials, if any should be sent to the track chair:

Chair

Dr. Mark T. Maybury
IUI-03 Tutorial Program Chair

Information Technology Division
The MITRE Corporation, 3K-205
202 Burlington Road
Bedford, MA 01730
maybury@mitre.org
Tel: +1 (781) 271-7230
Fax: +1 (781) 271-2780