Workshop 1

Common Sense and Intelligent User Interfaces 2009: Story Understanding and Generation for Context-Aware Interface Design

Capturing common sense knowledge often involves uncovering the implicit, unstated assumptions behind communication, often best expressed through stories. The maturity of common sense knowledge bases; statistical and corpora-based natural language understanding techniques; the explosion of participatory knowledge collection over the Web; progress in cognitive science; the popularity of Web-based storytelling media such as blogs; and new common sense reasoning techniques are all enablers of the new generation of work on stories.

Catherine Havasi
Laboratory for Linguistics and Computation Brandeis University Volen Center for Complex Systems
MS 018 Waltham
MA 02454-9110
havasi at cs.brandeis.edu
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~havasi

Henry Lieberman
MIT Media Laboratory
20 Ames St. 384A
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
lieber at media.mit.edu

Erik T. Mueller
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
19 Skyline Drive
Hawthorne, NY 10532
erikthomasmueller at comcast.net
http://www.research.ibm.com/people/e/etm/

URL: http://csc.media.mit.edu/iuiStories/

Workshop 2

Multimodal Interfaces for Automotive Applications (MIAA)

Multimodal interaction constitutes a key technology for intelligent user interfaces (IUI). The possibility to control devices and applications in a natural way enables an easier access to complex functionality as well as infotainment contents. This kind of interaction is particularly suited for use in automotive scenarios where additional restrictions with respect to input and output modalities have to be taken into account. In recent years, the complexity of on-board and accessory devices, infotainment services, and driver assistance systems in cars has experienced an enormous increase. This development emphasizes the need for new concepts for advanced human-machine interfaces that support the seamless, intuitive and efficient use of this large variety of devices and services.

This workshop is intended to gather novel, innovative interaction concepts for automotive applications with the aim to foster collaborations in the field and to establish a IUI-wide consciousness for the specific user interface requirements in the area of car- centered applications.

The topics include but are not restricted to:

• novel interfaces on any sort (e.g. see-trough displays)
• speech in the car
• tangible (haptic) interfaces, e.g. novel means of interaction with switches, knobs, levers, etc
• multi-party interaction: there's more people in the car than only the driver
• sensor networks (car2car, car2X) involving user interaction (i.e. information-seeking dialogs)
• access to services
• referring to the outside world
• beyond directions

Dr. Christian Müller
DFKI GmbH, , Campus D3 2
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
+49 (681) 302 -5269 (office) -5020 (fax)
christian.mueller at dfki.de
http://www.dfki.de/~cmueller

Dr. Gerald Friedland
International Computer Science Institute
1947 Center Street, Suite 600
CA-94704 Berkeley, USA
Office: +1/510/666-2987
Mobile: +1/510/529-6514
http://www.gerald-friedland.org

URL: http://w5.cs.uni-sb.de/~cmueller/m3i/php/website2.php?pagetype=static&id=miaa&style=iui

Workshop 3

Human Interaction with Intelligent & Networked Systems

Increasingly systems have the ability to undertake decisions and execute actions without reference to people in either the choice of decision or the course of action. Additionally such systems have the ability to work both alongside and with people. However how these systems manage and execute their work alongside people and with people and communicate and interact with those people is a subject of current research concern. Issues arise such as how do people who are in some sense part of a system that includes “autonomous” components communicate, coordinate and collaborate together to avoid conflict, failure or worse. Similarly, issues concern the recognition and communication of intent, and implication with respect to human-system interaction. Extending considerations to system - system interaction when we create system that must communicate, coordinate and collaborate with each other. These systems have to be designed but their behaviours and ongoing interactions are often not well understood and/or evolve as the systems develop. Examples of these systems are developing in many areas including health, agriculture, transport, energy and defence. The focus of this research is to bring together researchers from different disciplines who have interests in understanding, designing, deploying and assessing the such systems from the perspective of their interaction with people and how they communicate, coordinate and collaborate. Drawing out such issues as awareness, understanding, sharing and joint activity, and considering such aspects as intentions, states, goals, and resources, through mechanisms such as negotiation, planning, task-allocation and task sharing.

This is a timely workshop and IUI is the main area that offers the chance for these different communities to come together to focus on the nature and form of human interaction with complex, networked and autonomous systems. (Note: because the boundaries between these systems are blurred we are not wishing to exclude any and while there are distinctions we do not want to use those to divide or exclude possible attendees).

Objectives:

• Bring together a community of researchers and practitioners to develop the research agenda needed to enhance human interaction with increasingly powerful and independent intelligent systems e.g. sensors networks, autonomous systems, agents and robotic systems.
• This community will include but not be limited to those with interest in decision-making, human computer interaction, collaborative work, human-robot/agent interaction and sensor networks (see ‘Communities’ section below).
• To define and harness the potential synergies between isolated communities of interest such that they can collaborate to identify and tackle the higher-level problems/research questions relating both to the current generation of complex, powerful, independent, intelligent systems and the next.

Potential Participants:
The workshop will be of interest to researchers and practitioners from a number of communities. In particular we welcome attendees from different communities working in:

• Human computer interaction
• Intelligent systems and decision making
• Sensors and networks
• Human – Robot/Agent interaction
• Collaborative systems

The workshop will have two distinct phases – first sharing attendees interests, research areas, research problems and research approaches. From this we will construct a capability map and identify where research problems, approaches, come together and cluster across the attendees. The second phase will focus upon identifying a research agenda, where and how different approaches might be fruitfully brought together to address these research challenges, identify potential collaborative research projects, and identify the structure, themes and authors for a special issue of a journal.

Peter Johnson, Rachid Hourizi, Christopher Middup
Department of Computer Science, University of Bath Bath
BA2 7AY
p.johnson at bath.ac.uk
r.hourizi at bath.ac.uk
c.p.middup at bath.ac.uk

Mark T. Maybury
Information Technology Division MITRE
Boston, MA.
USA
maybury at mitre.org

URL: http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/hiins

Workshop 4

Users’ Preferences Regarding Intelligent User Interfaces: Differences Among Users and Changes Over Time

Users often differ considerably in their attitudes and behavior with regard to (particular aspects of) intelligent user interfaces (IUIs). Moreover, these preferences often change considerably over time.

For example, a part of an innovative intelligent interface may be considered amusing and potentially useful by User A but distracting and obviously useless by User B. At a later time, User A may no longer find the interface amusing, and User B may somehow have found out how to make good use of it after all.

Some of these differences and changes are due simply to the fact that the needs and capabilities of users can differ and change over time. But other factors are at work as well, such as (a) subjective evaluations of the often novel and controversial aspects of IUIs, such as proactivity and human-like system behavior; and (b) aspects of the process of forming preferences and making decisions about IUIs, which may, for example, involve quick heuristic assessments on the basis of limited experience.

Without an adequate understanding of such factors, designers and evaluators of IUIs are not in a good position to influence or predict how their systems will be used and accepted by a broad range of users over extended periods of time. But in most published research on intelligent user interfaces, differences and changes in preferences have been mentioned only in passing, if at all.

The goal of this workshop is to remedy this imbalance. Contributions are encouraged from researchers and practitioners who have experience, data, and/or theoretical ideas relevant to the workshop topic. Before the workshop, the various contributions will be collected, preprocessed, and organized on a wiki. During the workshop itself, participants will interact face-to-face to formulate a coherent synthesis of the contributions. After the workshop, interested participants will help to bring the results into a form suitable for publication (e.g., as a journal article or a special issue).

Anthony Jameson and Silvia Gabrielli
FBK-irst
via Sommarive, 18
I-38100 Trento, Italy
{jameson, sgabrielli}at fbk.eu
http://i3.fbk.eu/people/jameson
http://i3.fbk.eu/people/gabrielli

Antti Oulasvirta
Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT)
P.O. Box 9800
FIN-02015 TKK, Finland
aoulasvirta at acm.org
http://www.hiit.fi/~oulasvir/

URL: http://prevolution.fbk.eu

Workshop 5

Visual Interfaces to the Social and the Semantic Web

The advent of the Social Web (Web 2.0) and the Semantic Web has resulted in even more data created, published and consumed by users. The ability to easily integrate vast amounts of data from across the Social and Semantic Web raises significant and exciting research challenges, not least of which how to provide effective access to and navigation across heterogeneous data sources. As the Web continues to evolve from a read-mainly to a read-write medium, and the level of social interaction supported on the Web increases, there is also a pressing need to support end-users who engage in a wide range of online tasks, such as publishing and sharing their own data on the Web. In this context, the workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from different fields, such as Human-Computer Interaction, Information Visualization, Semantic Web, and Personal Information Management, to discuss latest research results and challenges in designing, implementing, and evaluating intelligent interfaces supporting access, navigation and publishing of different types of contents on the Social and Semantic Web.

Siegfried Handschuh and VinhTuan Thai
DERI
National University of Ireland, Galway
IDA Business Park,
Lower Dangan,
Galway, Ireland
siegfried.handschuh at deri.org
vinhtuan.thai at deri.org

Tom Heath
Talis
Knights Court
Solihull Parkway
Birmingham Business Park
B37 7YB
United Kingdom
tom.heath at talis.com

URL: http://www.smart-ui.org/events/vissw2009/index.html

Workshop 6

Sketch Recognition

Sketch Recognition is the automated understanding of a hand drawn diagram by a computer. Topics in sketch recognition include the development of mathematical algorithms to improve recognition, the development, use, and impact of applications using sketch recognition, user interface implications and improvements of sketch-recognition based applications, and the development and commentary on interaction modalities that involve sketch recognition.

Call for Papers:
Possible paper topics include, but are not restricted to:

• Sketch Recognition Algorithms
• Sketch Recognition Applications
• User Interface Issues
• User Studies
• Multimodal Interfaces that include Sketch Recognition
• Editing and Display Concerns in Sketch Recognition Applications
• Algorithm Comparisons
• Research Overviews
• Problem Statements

Paper submissions should be 4-10 pages in the IUI format. A small selection of papers will be chosen for long talks (20 minutes), and others will be chosen for short talks (10 minutes).

Call for Demonstrations:
Participants are also urged to submit demos of previous work to the demo session.

Call for Competition Submissions:
A sketch recognition competition will take place during the conference. The domain for the competition will be posted on the website. Two months before the start of the workshop, the training set will be posted on the workshop website. During the workshop, workshop participants will draw additional diagrams for the competition. Participants will be provided with instructions and stub code to enable them to create algorithms that will fit in with the testing architecture. Prizes will be awarded to the best-performing algorithms.

Dr. Tracy Hammond
Sketch Recognition Lab
Texas A&M University
Department of Computer Science
Mail Stop 3112
College Station, TX 77840
+1 979 324 6022 (cell)
+1 979 680 1789 (home)
+1 979 862 4284 (office)
hammond at cs.tamu.edu
srl at cs.tamu.edu
http://srl.cs.tamu.edu

URL: http://srl.csdl.tamu.edu/workshops/2009/iui/index.html

Workshop 7

Model Driven Development of Advanced User Interfaces (MDDAUI 2009)

Model Driven Development (MDD) is an important paradigm in Software Engineering. In MDD, applications are specified systematically using abstract, platform-independent models. The models are then transformed into executable code for different platforms and target devices. Model-driven techniques become ever more prominent in any kind of application, such as multimedia and Web, ubiquitous and automotive applications.

The workshop will be a platform for discussing the modeling of advanced user interfaces, such as interfaces supporting complex interactions, visualizations, multimedia representations, multimodality, adaptability or customization. It will contribute to a better integration of knowledge from the Human-Computer Interaction community and the Software Engineering community. Guiding principle is the demand for a flexible composition of various different models to support the modeldriven development of user interfaces with a high degree of usability and customization.

Workshop Format
The workshop takes one half day. The workshop will consist of a limited number of short paper presentations followed by in-depth discussions on selected topics.

Topics of Interest
We solicit papers addressing one or more of these issues:

• Models required for modeling (specific aspects of) advanced or non-standard user interfaces clearly stating their added value for the targeted applications compared to the relevant models discussed in literature.
• Adaptation and customization mechanisms for model transformations leading to tailored user interfaces with a high degree of usability.
• Integration of informal techniques and tools from traditional UI design, i.e. by transformations from/to (non-trivial) UI design tools and different kinds of prototypes.
• Project experience on user interface development using a model-driven development approach.
• Problems and requirements on model-driven engineering emerging from the application area of model-driven user interface development.

Submissions
Short papers must not exceed 4 pages in ACM style. Submissions with in-depth discussion of one topic are preferred above submissions with a broader topic. Usage of an illustrative example is encouraged. Both academic position papers and industrial experience papers are solicited.

All submitted papers will be reviewed by members of the program committee. All accepted papers will be published electronically as CEUR proceedings.

Participants
Intended audience of the workshop are specialists from the areas of Human-Computer Interaction and Software Engineering. Researchers and practitioners from either domain that are interested in bridging the gap to the other domain are welcome to attend the workshop. Knowledge about user interface modelling and Model Driven Development is recommended. Participants are requested to submit a position paper.

Gerrit Meixner (primary contact)
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Phone: +49 631 205-3707, Fax: +49 631 205-3705
Gerrit.Meixner at dfki.de
http://www.dfki.de, http://www.zmmi.de

Kai Breiner
Fraunhofer-Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE)
Fraunhofer-Platz 1, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
breiner at cs.uni-kl.de
http://www.iese.fraunhofer.de

Daniel Goerlich
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
Trippstadter Strasse 122, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany
Daniel.Goerlich at dfki.de
http://www.dfki.de, http://www.zmmi.de

Heinrich Hussmann
University of Munich, LFE Medieninformatik
Amalienstr. 17, D-80333 Muenchen, Germany
heinrich.hussmann at ifi.lmu.de
http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de

Andreas Pleuss
University of Munich, LFE Medieninformatik
Amalienstr. 17, D-80333 München, Germany
andreas.pleuss at ifi.lmu.de
http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de

Stefan Sauer
University of Paderborn, Software Quality Lab (s-lab)
Warburger Str. 100, D-33098 Paderborn, Germany
sauer at s-lab.upb.de
http://s-lab.upb.de

Jan Van den Bergh
Hasselt University, Expertise Centrum Digitale Media
Wetenschapspark 2, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
jan.vandenbergh at uhasselt.be
http://www.uhasselt.be/, http://www.edm.uhasselt.be/

URL: http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/mddaui2009/index.html

Workshop 8

Collaborative Information Visualization on Interactive Surfaces - CIVIS'09

The amount and complexity of data we collect has drastically increased in the last number of years. As a result, a whole team of analysts is often required to make informed decisions in information-rich environments. Teams often gather formally or informally to discuss and analyze data in face-to-face meetings in order to effectively evaluate and interpret information. As such, the design of collaborative interfaces for data analysis and visual analytics is an emerging area in intelligent user interfaces. Interactive tabletops and display walls lend themselves especially well to co-located collaboration. The design of collaborative systems that offer computational support for these types of analysis scenarios, however, poses new challenges for tool designers, including:

• design of information visualization or visual analytics interfaces and environments for co-located collaborative work
• design of visual representations for co-located collaborative work
• the use of interactive tabletop and wall displays to visualize and interact with information
• social components in collaborative visualization environments
• aspects of cognition in multi-user information visualization environments
• evaluation of collaborative information visualization and visual analytics
• multiple and coordinated views for collaborative data analysis systems
• design of multi-display environments
• collaborative visualization applications
• experience with traditional collaboration in information intensive fields

The goal of this workshop is to bring together people with different backgrounds to discuss issues in multi-user information visualization and visual analytics systems for co-located work.

Dominikus Baur (Primary Contact)
University of Munich
Media Informatics
Amalienstrasse 17
80333 Munich
Germany
Email: dominikus.baur at ifi.lmu.de
http://www.mimuc.de/team/dominikus.baur

Petra Isenberg
University of Calgary
Department of Computer Science
2500 University Dr. NW
Calgary, AB T2N 1N4
Canada
Email: petra.isenberg at ucalgary.ca
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~pneumann

Michael Sedlmair
BMW Group
Research and Technology
Hanauer Strasse 46
80992 Mnchen
Germany
Email: michael.sedlmair at bmw.de
http://www.bmwgroup.com

Andreas Butz
University of Munich
Media Informatics
Amalienstrae 17
80333 Munich
Germany
Email: butz at ifi.lmu.de
http://www.butz.org

URL: http://www.medien.ifi.lmu.de/civis09