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Tutorials and Workshops
Sunday, January 13th
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Invited Speaker: Theodore W. Berger
Monday, January 14th, 9:00 am - 10:30 am
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Implantable Biomimetic Electronics as Neural Prostheses for Lost Memory Function
Theodore W. Berger (University of Southern California, US)
Abstract
Dr. Berger will present results of a multi-disciplinary project that is developing a microchip-based neural prosthesis for the hippocampus, a region of the brain responsible for the formation of long-term memories. Damage to the hippocampus is frequently associated with epilepsy, stroke, and dementia (Alzheimer's disease), and is considered to underlie the memory deficits related to these neurological conditions. The essential goals of Dr. Berger’s multi-laboratory effort include: (1) experimental study of neuron and neural network function -- how does the hippocampus encode information?, (2) formulation of biologically realistic models of neural system dynamics -- can that encoding process be described mathematically to realize a predictive model of how the hippocampus responds to any event?, (3) microchip implementation of neural system models -- can the mathematical model be realized as a set of electronic circuits to achieve parallel processing, rapid computational speed, and miniaturization?, and (4) creation of hybrid neuron-silicon interfaces -- can structural and functional connections between electronic devices and neural tissue be achieved for long-term, bi-directional communication with the brain? By integrating solutions to these component problems, we are realizing a microchip-based model of hippocampal nonlinear dynamics that can perform the same function as part of the hippocampus. Through bi-directional communication with other neural tissue that normally provides the inputs and outputs to/from a damaged hippocampal area, the biomimetic model could serve as a neural prosthesis. A proof-of-concept will be presented in which the CA3 region of the hippocampal slice is surgically removed, and is replaced by a microchip model of CA3 nonlinear dynamics – the "hybrid" hippocampal circuit displays normal physiological properties. Major strides also have been made in creating "hybrid electro-biological" systems in the behaving animal, and these will be described as well.
About Theodore W. Berger
Dr. Theodore W. Berger is the David Packard Professor of Engineering, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience, and Director of the Center for Neural Engineering at the University of Southern California. Dr. Berger received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1976; his thesis work received the James McKeen Cattell Award from the New York Academy of Sciences. He conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California, Irvine from 1977-1978, and was an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow at The Salk Institute from 1978-1979. Dr. Berger joined the Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh in 1979, being promoted through to Full Professor in 1987. During that time, he received a McKnight Foundation Scholar Award, twice received an NIMH Research Scientist Development Award, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Since 1992, he has been Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience at the University of Southern California, and was appointed the David Packard Chair of Engineering in 2003. While at USC, Dr. Berger has received an NIMH Senior Scientist Award, was given the Lockheed Senior Research Award in 1997, and was elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 1998. Dr. Berger also received a Person of the Year "Impact Award" by the AARP in 2004 for his work on neural prostheses, was a National Academy of Sciences International Scientist Lecturer in 2003, and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in 2004-2005. Dr. Berger was elected a Senior Member of the IEEE in 2005, received a "Great Minds, Great Ideas" award from the EE Times in the same year, and in 2006 was awarded the USC Associates Award for Creativity in Research and Scholarship. Dr. Berger became Director of the Center for Neural Engineering in 1997, an organization which helps to unite USC faculty with cross-disciplinary interests in neuroscience, engineering, and medicine. Dr. Berger has published over 200 journal articles and book chapters, and is the co-editor of a book recently published by the MIT Press on Toward Replacement Parts for the Brain: Implantable Biomimetic Electronics as Neural Prostheses. In addition to applications in the arena of neural prostheses, Dr. Berger's mathematical models of neural processing have been applied more broadly to temporal pattern recognition problems. Acoustic recognition systems based on Dr. Berger's models have been used successfully to detect and classify real-world signals in the domain of security breaching noises, which has led to commercialization efforts through Safety Dynamics, Inc., for military troop and installation protection, urban crime prevention, and homeland security border monitoring. In summary, Dr. Berger's research interests include: (i) the development of biologically realistic, experimentally-based, mathematical models of higher brain function, (ii) application of biologically realistic neural network models to real-world signal processing problems, (iii) VLSI-based implementations of biologically realistic models of higher brain function, (iv) neuron-silicon interfaces for bi-directional communication between brain and VLSI systems, and (v) next-generation brain-implantable, biomimetic signal processing devices for neural prostheses.
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Papers: Input Methods
Monday, January 14th, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
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PaleoSketch: Accurate Primitive Sketch Recognition and Beautification
Brandon Paulson, Tracy Hammond (Texas A&M University, USA)
Automatically Detecting Pointing Performance
Amy Hurst, Scott E. Hudson, Jennifer Mankoff (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Whatís in a gaze? The Role of Eye-Gaze in Reference Resolution in Multimodal Conversational Interfaces
Zahar Prasov, Joyce Chai (Michigan State University, USA)
EMG-based Hand Gesture Recognition for Realtime Biosignal Interfacing
Jonghwa Kim, Stephan Mastnik, Elisabeth André (Institute of Computer Science, University of Augsburg,Germany)
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Papers: Agent-Based Interfaces
Monday, January 14th, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
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VizScript: On the Creation of Efficient Visualizations for Understanding Complex Multi-Agent Systems
Jing Jin, Romeo Sanchez, Rajiv T Maheswaran, Pedro Szekely (Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA)
Integrating Rich User Feedback into Intelligent User Interfaces
Simone Stumpf, Erin Sullivan, Erin Fitzhenry (Oregon State University, USA)
An Intelligent Fitting Room Using Multi-Camera Perception
Wei Zhang, Takashi Matsumoto, Juan Liu (Oregon State University, USA)
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Fast Forward Poster Session
Monday, January 14th, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
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Relative Keyboard Input System
Daniel Rashid, Noah Smith (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Multimodal Chinese Text Entry with Speech and Keypad on Mobile Devices
Yingying Jiang, Xugang Wang, Feng Tian (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Notification of Dangerous Situation for Elderly People using Visual Cues
Hideaki Kanai, Goushi Tsuruma, Toyohisa Nakada (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Find me if you can: Designing Interfaces for People Search
Junichiro Mori, Nathalie Basselin, Alexander Kröner (DFKI, Germany)
Intelligent Email: Reply and Attachment Prediction
Mark Dredze, Tova Brooks, Josh Carroll (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Temporal semantic compression for video browsing
Brett Adams, Stewart Greenhill, Svetha Venkatesh (Curtin University of Technology,USA)
All Eyes on the Monitor: Gaze Based Interaction in Zoomable Multi-Scaled Information-Spaces
Emilie Mollenbach, Thorarinn Stefansson, John Paulin Hansen (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
An Embodied Interface for Teaching Computational Thinking
Judith Good, Pablo Romero, Benedict du Boulay (University of Sussex, UK)
Modeling of interaction design by end users through discourse modeling
Cristian Bogdan, Hermann Kaindl, Juergen Falb (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Long-Term and Session-Specific User Preferences in a Mobile Recommender System
Quang Nhat Nguyen, Francesco Ricci (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Intelligent User Assistance for Cost Effective Usage of Mobile Phone
Deepak P, Anuradha Bhamidipaty, Swati Challa (IBM India Research Lab, India)
Modeling Situated Conversational Agents as Partially Observable Markov Decision Proccesses
William Thompson, Darren Gergle (Northwestern University, USA)
Assistive Browser for Conducting Web Transactions
Jalal Mahmud, Yevgen Borodin, I.V. Ramakrishnan (Stony Brook University, USA)
UBIGIouS - An Ubiquitous Mixed-Reality Geographic Information System
Daniel Porta, Jan Conrad (Institute of Engineering Design/CAD, Saarland University, Germany)
Improving Word-Recognizers Using an Interactive Lexicon with Active and Passive Words
Per Ola Kristensson, Shumin Zhai (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
Between Ontology and Folksonomy: A Study of Collaborative and Implicit Ontology Evolution
Jiahui Liu, Daniel Gruen (Northwestern University, USA)
Multimodal Question Answering for Mobile Devices
Tom Yeh, Trevor Darrell (CSAIL MIT, USA)
SketchMagic: A Paper Based Animation System
Andrea Colaco, Naveen Sundar G (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India)
Case-based reasoning for procedure learning by instruction
Jim Blythe, Tom Russ (Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA)
Sonic Grid : An Auditory Interface for the Visually Impaired to Navigate GUI-based Environments
Deepak Jagdish, Mohit Gupta, Rahul Sawhney (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute for Information and Communication Technology, India)
Predicting User Action from Skin Conductance
Laszlo Laufer, Bottyan Nemeth (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Constraint-based Reasoning for Improving Literacy: LODE a Web-System for Young Deaf Users
Ornella Mich, Rosella Gennari (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
A presentation model for multimedia summaries of behavior
Martin Molina, Victor Flores (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
Towards Intelligent Assistance for ToDo Lists
Yolanda Gil, Varun Ratnakar (University of Southern California, USA)
FreePad: A Novel Handwriting-based Text Input for Pen and Touch Interfaces
Bharath A, Sriganesh Madhvanath (Hewlett-Packard Labs, India)
TrueKeys: Identifying and Correcting Typing Errors for People with Motor Impairments
Shaun Kane, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Mark Harniss (University of Washington, USA)
Improved Recommendation based on Collaborative Tagging Behaviors
Shiwan Zhao, Nan Du, Andreas Nauerz (IBM China Research Lab, China)
EMMA: an Automated Intelligent Actor in E-drama
Li Zhang (University of Teesside, UK)
Relating Documents via User Activity: The Missing Link
Elin Pedersen, David W McDonald (Google, USA)
RelAltTab: Assisting Users in Finding the Next Window
Nuria Oliver, Mary Czerwinski, Greg Smith (Microsoft Research, USA)
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Demo Presentation
Monday, January 14th, 6:15 pm - 7:45 pm
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An Adaptive 3D Virtual Environment for Learning the X3D Language
Luca Chittaro, Roberto Ranon (HCI Lab, USA)
Intelligent Sticky Notes that can be Searched, Located and can Send Reminders and Messages
Pranav Mistry, Pattie Maes (MIT Media Laboratory, USA)
Building Mashups By Example
Rattapoom Tuchinda, Pedro Szekely, Craig Knoblock (Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA)
Capricorn - An Intelligent Interface for Mobile Widgets
Fredrik Boström, Patrik Floréen, Tianyan Liu (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland)
sMail - Semantic Email for User-Supportive Email Clients
Simon Scerri (National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland)
An Innovative User Interface Concept for Large Hierarchical Data Spaces by Example of the Electronic Product Management Domain
Fredrik Gundelsweiler (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Interfaces for Team Coordination
Romeo Sanchez, Jing Jin, Rajiv T. Maheswaran (Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA)
Lips Animation Based on Japanese Phoneme Context for an Automatic Reading System with Emotion
Futoshi Sugimoto, Masahide Yoneyama (Toyo University, Japan)
Facial Expression Recognition as A Creative Interface
Alejandro Jaimes (IDIAP Research Institute, USA)
Laserpointer-Interaction between Art and Science
Werner A. König, Joachim Böttger, Nikolaus Völzow, Harald Reiterer (University of Konstanz, Germany)
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Papers: Visualizationi II
Tuesday, January 15th, 9:00 am - 10:30 pm
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An Optimization-based Approach to Dynamic Data Transformation for Smart Visualization
Zhen Wen, Michelle Zhou (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Multi-modal presentation of medical histories
Catalina Hallett (The Open University, UK)
An Interactive Game-Design Assistant
Mark Nelson, Michael Mateas (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
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Papers: Visualization I
Tuesday, January 15th, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
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Adaptive Layout for Dynamically Aggregated Content
Evan Schrier, Charles Jacobs, Mira Dontcheva (University of Washington, USA)
Systematic Yet Flexible Discovery: Guiding Domain Experts through Exploratory Data Analysis
Adam Perer, Ben Shneiderman (University of Maryland, USA)
Managing a Document-Based Information Space
Matthias Deller, Stefan Agne, Achim Ebert (DFKI GmbH, Germany)
Improving Interaction with Virtual Globes through Spatial Thinking: Helping Users Ask "Why?"
Johannes Schoening, Brent Hecht, Martin Raubal (Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster, Germany)
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Papers: Example-Based Interfaces
Tuesday, January 15th, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
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Building Mashups By Example
Rattapoom Tuchinda, Pedro Szekely, Craig Knoblock (Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA)
Mobilization by Demonstration: Using Traces to Re-author Existing Web Sites
Jeffrey Nichols, Tessa Lau (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
Recovering from Errors during Programming by Demonstration
Jiun-Hung Chen, Daniel Weld (University of Washington, USA)
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Papers: Finding Things
Tuesday, January 15th, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Transcendence: Enabling a Personal View of the Deep Web
Jeffrey Bigham, Anna Cavender, Ryan Kaminsky (University of Washington, USA)
In Search of Personal Information: Narrative-Based Interfaces
Daniel Gonalves, Joaquim Jorge (Technical University of Lisboa, Portugal)
Seeing is retrieving: Building information context from what the user sees
Karl Gyllstrom, Craig Soules (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
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Papers: Recommenders
Wednesday, January 16th, 91:00 am - 10:30 am
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Generating Summary Keywords for Emails Using Topics
Mark Dredze, Hanna Wallach, Danny Puller (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Automatically Finding and Recommending Resources to Support Knowledge Workers’ Activities
Jianqiang Shen, Werner Geyer, Michael Muller (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Intelligent Debugging and Repair of Utility Constraint Sets in Knowledge-based Recommender Applications
Alexander Felfernig, Erich Teppan, Gerhard Friedrich (University Klagenfurt, Austria)
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Papers: Analyzing Interfaces
Wednesday, January 16th, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
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Toward Establishing Trust in Adaptive Agents
Alyssa Glass, Deborah McGuinness, Michael Wolverton (Stanford University, USA)
Beyond Attention: The Role of Deictic Gesture in Intention Recognition in Multimodal Conversational Interfaces
Shaolin Qu, Joyce Chai (Michigan State University, USA)
Automatic Evaluation of Assistive Interfaces
Pradipta Biswas, Peter Robinson (University of Cambridge, UK)
Correspondence Validation Method for GUI Operations and Scenarios by Operation History Analysis
Junko Shirogane, Yoshiaki Fukazawa (Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Japan)
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Papers: Speech
Wednesday, January 16th, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
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Scalable Summaries of Spoken Conversations
Sumit Basu, Surabhi Gupta, Milind Mahajan (Microsoft research, USA)
Meeting Adjourned: Off-line Learning Interfaces for Automatic Meeting Understanding
Patrick Ehlen, Matthew Purver, John Niekrasz (Stanford University, USA)
Exploiting Referential Context in Spoken Language Interfaces for Data-Poor Domains
William Schuler, Stephen Wu (University of Minnesota, USA)
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Invited Talk: Enrico Motta
Wednesday, January 16th, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Exploiting large scale web semantics to build end user applications
Enrico Motta (Open University, UK)
Abstract
A large scale semantic web, already characterized by thousands of ontologies and millions of RDF documents, is now a reality and this rapidly growing resource is opening the way to a new generation of intelligent applications. In this talk I will show some work we have been doing on building end-user applications which exploit this unprecedented resource. In particular, I will show how large scale semantics can be used to try and enhance typical web-centric activities, such as web browsing, searching for information, and rating and reviewing consumer items. While most of this work is still at a rather early stage, it already provides evidence that the Semantic Web can be concretely used to bring new functionalities to the users. These positive results also show that it is possible to build intelligent and robust applications, while at the same time doing away with the traditional assumptions in knowledge-based systems, that the available domain knowledge has to be consistent, well-designed and high quality.
About Enrico Motta
Prof. Enrico Motta is Professor in Knowledge Technologies and Former Director (2000 -2007) of the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) at the Open University in UK. Prof. Motta has a Laurea in Computer Science from the University of Pisa in Italy and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the Open University. Prof. Motta is one of the leading scientists in the world in the new field of the semantic web, which can be seen as a large scale web of data, able to support large scale machine interoperability, thus enabling novel intelligent functionalities for locating and dynamically aggregating information on the web. Over the years, Prof. Motta has obtained over £6M in research funding and has led KMi's contribution to numerous high-profile projects, such as the highly prestigious, EPSRC-funded Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration on Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT), as well as several EU-funded ones, most recently NeOn, X-Media, and Open Knowledge. Prof. Motta is Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Human Computer Studies and is also on the editorial board of IEEE Intelligent Systems and the Journal of Web Semantics. He founded the ground-breaking European Summer School on Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web, which is now in its sixth edition. He is the author of 180 refereed publications. These include the book, Reusable Components for Knowledge Modelling, which is published by IOS Press. Prof Motta also chaired the 14th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2004) and was the Programme Chair of the 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005).
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