International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

Intelligent Interfaces: An Introduction
Mark Maybury, The MITRE Corporation

Intelligent user interfaces promise to improve interaction for all.  Drawing upon material from the recently completed Readings in Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) (Maybury and Wahlster, 1998), this tutorial will define terms, outline the history, describe key subfields, and exemplify and demonstrate intelligent user interfaces in action.

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Designing and Evaluating Intelligent User Interfaces
Kristina Höök, SICS, Swedish Institute of Computer Science

Intelligent user interfaces have been proposed as a means to overcome some of the problems that direct-manipulation interfaces cannot handle, such as: information overflow problems; providing help on how to use complex systems; or real-time cognitive overload problems. Intelligent user interfaces are also being proposed as a means to make sys-tems individualised or personalised, thereby increasing the systems flexibility and appeal.

But in order for intelligent user interface to gain ground and be of real use to their users, more attention has to be given to usability issues. In this tutorial we shall discuss methods for design and evaluation of intelligent user interfaces from a usability perspective.

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Intelligent Interface Agents
Henry Lieberman, MIT Media Lab

Attendees will come away with a real, no-nonsense under-standing of "the agent phenomenon"; why people are ex-cited about agents, what the range of applicability of interface agent systems is, what is good and bad about agents, how to learn more about agents, and what is necessary to build them.

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