2002 Conference Program

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Sunday, Jan 13	Monday, Jan 14	Tuesday, Jan 15	Wednesday, Jan 16
	9:00 - 10:15 Opening Session Plenary Address Don Norman	9:00 - 10:30 Papers III Sketching and Visualization	9:00 - 10:00 Papers VI Intelligent Assistants for Complex Tasks
	11:00 - 12:30 Papers I Interaction Through The Physical World	11:00 - 12:30 Invited Speaker Plenary Address Eric Horvitz	11:00 - 12:30 Papers VII Building and Exploiting Interface Models
	2:30 - 4:00 Panel I Hollywood Meets Simulation: Creating Immersive Training Environments at the ICT	2:30 - 4:00 Papers IV Collaboration and Information Sharing	2:30 - 4:00 Panel II Intelligent Interaction and (Human) Learning: Possible Directions and Possible Pitfalls
	4:30 - 6:00 Papers II Multiple Devices and Modalities	4:30 - 6:00 Papers V Intelligent Agents	4:30 - 5:30 Closing Session Plenary Address Harry Gottlieb
7:00 - 9:00 Welcome Opening Reception	7:00 - 9:00 Poster Reception Interactive Posters and Demos	7:00 - 9:00 Poster Reception Interactive Posters and Demos

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Welcome
Sunday, Jan 13th - 7:00 to 9:00 pm

Opening Reception and Registration San Francisco W Hotel

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Opening Session
Monday, Jan 14th - 9:00 to 10:15 am

Opening Remarks: Kristian Hammond - Northwestern University, IUI 2002 Chair Plenary Address: Complexity Versus Difficulty: Where should the Intelligence Be? Don Norman - Northwestern University, Nielsen Norman group Abstract: Complexity refers to the internal workings of the system, difficulty to the face provided to the user -- the factors that affect ease of use. The history of technology demonstrates that the way to make simpler, less difficult usage often requires more sophisticated, more intelligent, and more complex insides. Do we need intelligent interfaces? I don't think so: The intelligence should be inside, internal to the system. The interface is the visible part of the system, where people need stability, predictability and a coherent system image that they can understand and thereby learn. About Don Norman: Dr. Norman is Prof. of Computer Science at Northwestern and cofounder of the Nielsen Norman Group, an executive consulting firm. He serves on numerous boards and advisory committees, for industry, education, and non-profit organizations. He is also Prof. Emeritus of both Cognitive Science and Psychology at the University of California, San Diego, former Vice President of Apple Computer's Advanced Technology Group, and an executive at Hewlett Packard and at UNext, a distance education company. He is a Fellow of numerous societies, including the ACM. He has received an honorary degree from the University of Padua (Italy). He is the author of "The Design of Everyday Things" (DOET), "Things That Make Us Smart" and most recently, "The Invisible Computer," a book that Business Week has called "the bible of the "post PC thinking." Norman is now contemplating the sequel to DOET. His website is at http://www.jnd.org.

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Papers I
Monday, Jan 14th - 11:00 to 12:30 pm

Interaction Through The Physical World

Light Widgets: Interacting in Every-day Spaces (ACM Digital Library Link) Jerry Alan Fails and Dan Olsen Jr. (Brigham Young University) Navigational Blocks - Navigating Information Space with Tangible Media (ACM Digital Library Link) Ken Camarata, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Brian R. Johnson, Mark D. Gross (University of Washington) Plan-Based Interfaces: Keeping Track of User Tasks and Acting to Cooperate (ACM Digital Library Link) David Franklin, Jay Budzik, and Kristian Hammond (Northwestern University)

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Panel I
Monday, Jan 14th - 2:30 to 4:00 pm

Hollywood Meets Simulation: Creating Immersive Training Environments at the ICT Bill Swartout (moderator) Jeff Rickel Randy Hill Jon Gratch David Traum Dick Lindheim

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Papers II
Monday, Jan 14th - 4:30 to 6:00 pm

Multiple Devices and Modalities

A Resource-Adaptive Mobile Navigation System (ACM Digital Library Link) Jorg Baus, Antonio Krueger, Wolfgang Wahlster (University of Saarbrucken) Device-Dependant Modality Selection for User Interfaces - An Empirical Study Christian Elting, Jan Zwickel, and Rainer Malaka (European Media Laboratory GmbH) A Semantic Approach to the Dynamic Design of Interaction Controls in Conversation Systems (ACM Digital Library Link) Michelle X. Zhou and Keith Houck (IBM T. J. Watson)

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Poster Reception
Monday, Jan 14th - 7:00 to 9:00 pm

POSTERS: Personalized Navigation of Heterogeneous Product Spaces using SmartClient (ACM Digital Library Link) Pearl Pu and Boi Faltings (Swiss Institute of Technology Lausanne) Intelligent User Interface for a Web Search Engine by Organizing Page Information Agents (ACM Digital Library Link) Seiji Yamada and Fumihiko Murase (Tokyo Institute of Technology) User Interface Tailoring for Multi-Platform Service Access (ACM Digital Library Link) Guido Menkhaus and Wolfgang Pree (University of Constance) GUI Prototype Generation by Merging Use Cases (ACM Digital Library Link) Junko Shirogane and Yoshiaki Fukazawa (Waseda University) Do Users Tolerate Errors from Their Assistant? Experiments with an E-mail Classifier (ACM Digital Library Link) Jean-David Ruvini and Jean-Marc Gabriel (e-Lab Bouygues SA) An Intelligent Interface for Sorting Electronic Mail (ACM Digital Library Link) Elisabeth Crawford, Judy Kay (The University of Sydney) Eric McCreath (The Australian National University) Design and Evaluation of Just-in-time Help in a Multi-Modal User Interface (ACM Digital Library Link) Judith Masthoff (University of Brighton) Ashok Gupta (University College London) Generating and Presenting User-Tailored Plans (ACM Digital Library Link) Detlef Küpper (University of Essen) Alfred Kobsa (University of California) Shared Reality: Spatial Intelligence in Intuitive User Interfaces (ACM Digital Library Link) Tom Stocky and Justine Cassell (MIT Media Lab) Language Modeling for Soft Keyboards (ACM Digital Library Link) Joshua Goodman, Gina Venolia, Keith Steury (Microsoft Research) Chauncey Parker (University of Washington) Measuring Task Models in Designing Intelligent Products (ACM Digital Library Link) Elyon DeKoven and David V. Keyson (Delft University of Technology) Information Programming for Personal User Interfaces (ACM Digital Library Link) Stephen Farrell, Volkert Jurgens, Christopher S. Campbell, and Paul P. Maglio (IBM Almaden Research Center) User Acceptance of a Decision-Theoretic Location-Aware Shopping Guide (ACM Digital Library Link) Thorsten Bohnenberger, Anthony Jameson, Antonio Kruger, and Andreas Butz (Saarland University) DEMOS: autoCAID: A model-based GUI Tool for Machine Tools (ACM Digital Library Link) Detlef Zuehlke (University of Kaiserslautern) Martin Wahl (AUDI AG) mpME!: Music Recommendation and Exploration (ACM Digital Library Link) Louis Lapat, Jared Dunne, Marc Flury, Mustafa Shabib, Tom Warner, Jay Budzik, Kris Hammond and Lawrence Birnbaum (Northwestern University) Java Settlers: A Research Environment for Studying Multi-Agent Negotiation (ACM Digital Library Link) Robert S. Thomas and Kristian J. Hammond (Northwestern University)

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Papers III
Tuesday, Jan 15th - 9:00 to 10:30 am

Sketching and Visualization

Sketching for Knowledge Capture: A Progress Report (ACM Digital Library Link) Kenneth D. Forbus and Jeffery Usher (Northwestern University) Annotating and Sketching on 3D Web Models (ACM Digital Library Link) Thomas Jung, Mark D. Gross, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do (University of Washington) Designing Visual Thinking Tools for Mixed Initiative Systems (ACM Digital Library Link) Pearl Pu and Denis Lalanne (Swiss Institute of Technology Lausanne)

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Invited Speaker
Tuesday, Jan 15th - 11:00 to 12:30pm

Uncertainty, Intelligence, and Interaction (ACM Digital Library Link) Eric Horvitz Abstract: Uncertainty about a user's knowledge, intentions, and attention is inescapable in human-computer interaction. I will survey challenges and opportunities of harnessing explicit representations of uncertainty and preferences in intelligent user interfaces. After reviewing representative projects at Microsoft, I will describe longer-term research directions aimed at embedding representation, inference, and learning under uncertainty more deeply into the fabric of computer systems and interfaces. About Eric Horvitz: Eric Horvitz is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, where he manages the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group. His interests include principles of sensing, learning, and reasoning under uncertainty, and applications of probability and utility in human-computer interaction, information retrieval, and problem solving. He is Area Editor of the Decisions, Uncertainty, and Computation Area of the Journal of the ACM, and serves on the Information Science and Technology (ISAT) board of DARPA and the Naval Research Advisory Committee (NRAC). He received PhD and MD degrees from Stanford University. More information is available at: http://research.microsoft.com/~horvitz

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Papers IV
Tuesday, Jan 15th - 2:30 to 4:00pm

Collaboration and Information Sharing

NuggetMine: Intelligent Groupware for Opportunistically Sharing Information Nuggets (ACM Digital Library Link) Jeremy Goecks (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Dan Cosley (University of Minnesota) Exposing Document Context in the Personal Web (ACM Digital Library Link) David Wolber, Michael Kepe, and Igor Ranitovic (University of San Francisco) Getting to Know You: Learning New User Preferences in Recommender Systems (ACM Digital Library Link) Al Mamunur Rashid, Istvan Albert, Dan Cosley, Shyong K. Lam, Sean McNee, Joseph A. Kostan, and John Riedl (University of Minnesota)

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Papers V
Tuesday, Jan 15th - 4:30 to 6:00

Intelligent Agents

Hosting Activities: Experience with and Future Directions for a Robot Agent Host (ACM Digital Library Link) Candace L. Sidner (MERL) and Myroslava Dzikovska (University of Rochester) A Writer's Collaborative Assistant (ACM Digital Library Link) Tamara Babaian (Bentley College), Barbara Grosz and Stuart M. Shieber (Harvard University) Multiple Selections in Smart Text Editing (ACM Digital Library Link) Robert C. Miller and Brad A. Myers (Carnegie Mellon University)

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Poster Reception II
Tuesday, Jan 15th - 7:00 to 9:00 pm

POSTERS: Themometers and Themostats: Characterizing and Controlling Thematic Attributes of Information (ACM Digital Library Link) Marko Krema, Larry Birnbaum, Jay Budzik, and Kristian J. Hammond (Northwestern University) Automatically Indexing Documents: Content vs. Reference (ACM Digital Library Link) Shannon Bradshaw and Kristian Hammond (Northwestern University) IIPS: an Intelligent Information Presentation System (ACM Digital Library Link) Yuangui Lei, Enrico Motta and John Domingue (The Open University) XIML: A Common Representation for Interaction Data (ACM Digital Library Link) Angel Puerta and Jacob Eisenstein (RedWhale Software) Linking Dynamic Query Interfaces to Knowledge Models (ACM Digital Library Link) Maria De Carvalho, J. Tan, J. Domingue (The Open University) Helgi Petursson (INNN hf.) Exploiting Information Access Patterns for Context-Based Retrieval (ACM Digital Library Link) Travis Bauer and David B. Leake (Indiana University) Dynamic "Intelligent Handler" of Frequently Asked Questions (ACM Digital Library Link) Dick Ng'ambi (University of Cape Town) An Empirical Evaluation of an Adaptive Web Site (ACM Digital Library Link) Cristina Gena (Università di Torino) Exploiting Visual Information in Programming by Demonstration (ACM Digital Library Link) Eric Schwarzkopf, Mathias Bauer and Dietmar Dengler (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence) Camera Agents in a Theatre of Work (ACM Digital Library Link) Leonie Schäfer (German National Research Center for Information Technology) Stefan Küppers (The Bartlett University College London) Storyboard Frame Editing for Cinematic Composition (ACM Digital Library Link) Scott McDermott, Junwei Li, and William Bares (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) Intelligent Elicitation of Military Lessons (ACM Digital Library Link) Rosina Weber (Drexel University) David W. Aha (Naval Research Laboratory) Designing Dynamic Web Pages and Persistence in the WYSIWYG Interface (ACM Digital Library Link) David Wolber, Yingfeng Su, and Yih Tsung Chiang (University of San Francisco) Flytrap: Intelligent Group Music Recommendation (ACM Digital Library Link) Andrew Crossen, Jay Budzik, and Kristian J. Hammond (Northwestern University) The AIL Automated Interface Layout System (ACM Digital Library Link) Simon Lok and Steven K. Feiner (Columbia University) DEMOS: The Interactive Chef: A Task-Sensitive Assistant (ACM Digital Library Link) Leonard Chen, Sandra Cheng, Larry Birnbaum, and Kristian J. Hammond (Northwestern University) Jambalaya: An Interactive Environment for Exploring Ontologies (ACM Digital Library Link) Margaret-Anne Storey (MIT) Natasha F. Noy, Mark Musen (Stanford University) Casey Best (University of Victoria) Ray Fergerson (Stanford University) A GUI Editor that Generates Tutoring Agents (ACM Digital Library Link) Jacob Eisenstein and Charles Rich (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories) The Active Learning Framework (ACM Digital Library Link) Russell Maulitz and Debra McGrath (MCP-Hahnemann University and Drexel University) Emotional Dialogue Simulator (ACM Digital Library Link) William R. Wiltschko (eDrama Learning, Inc.) Sketching for knowledge capture: A Demonstration (ACM Digital Library Link) Kenneth D. Forbus and Jeffery Usher (Northwestern University)

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Papers VI
Wednesday, Jan 16th - 9:00 to 10:00 am

Intelligent Assistants for Complex Tasks

New Paradigms in Problem Solving Environments for Scientific Computing (ACM Digital Library Link) George Chin Jr., L. Ruby Leung, Karen Schuchardt, and Debbie Gracio (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) Information Delivery in Support of Learning Reusable Software Components on Demand (ACM Digital Library Link) Yunwen Ye (SRA Tokyo) and Gerhard Fischer (University of Colorado) Domain, Task, and User Models for an Adaptive Hypermedia Performance Support System (ACM Digital Library Link) Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh) and David W. Cooper (Antech Systems Inc.)

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Papers VII
Wednesday, Jan 16th - 11:00 to 12:30pm

Building and Exploiting Interface Models

Towards Automated Exploration of Interactive Systems (ACM Digital Library Link) Mark O. Riedl and Robert St. Amant (North Carolina State University) Intelligent Analysis of User Interactions with Web Applications (ACM Digital Library Link) Laila Paganelli and Fabio Paterno (National Research Council of Italy - CNUCE) Agents and GUIs from Task Models (ACM Digital Library Link) Jacob Eisenstein and Charles Rich (MERL)

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Panel II
Wednesday, Jan 16th - 2:30 to 4:00pm

Intelligent Interaction and (Human) Learning: Possible Directions and Possible Pitfalls John Domingue - Chair

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Closing Remarks
Wednesday, Jan 16th - 4:30 to 5:30 pm

The Interactive Conversation Interface (ICI): a proposed successor to GUI for an interactive broadband world (ACM Digital Library Link) Harry Gottlieb Abstract: This presentation will demonstrate and discuss the design principles to create interactive programs featuring a doctor talking to you about healthcare...to a florist talking to you about flowers...to a teacher talking to you about geometry. The Interactive Conversation Interface is a more engaging way to provide services and information for nearly any major site on the Web and provide an answer to the question: "What is an interactive television show?" (And no, it isn't clicking on Jennifer Aniston's sweater so your daughter can stop the program, right in the middle of a funny scene, and buy it while you sit there waiting to get back to the show). ICI is a form of interactive mass communication that can be used on any platform, whether it is a PC, wireless device, interactive television or just a regular phone. It's cool: why interact with a "page" when you can interact with a "person"? About Harry Gottlieb: Harry Gottlieb is the founder and chief creative director of Jellyvision, Inc. Harry was the designer and director of the interactive franchise You Don't Know Jack. Actually, he was stuck in a very small sound booth for days at a time on the first version of Jack on which he also played the host, "Nate Shapiro." Harry designed and directed the CD-ROM version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and had the pleasure of putting Regis Philbin into that same little sound booth for three days. With a background in television and film production, Harry is also the creator of Smush, the late-night television game show on USA Network that launched the night that this bio was written ("Oh please God, give us good ratings). Harry's programs have won gazillions of awards and sold schlmillions of units. It was during the early development of Jack, that Harry realized that the design principles used in the game to make the host sound like "he was really there," could be applied well beyond games, to make a more engaging interactive experience dealing with any subject matter at all. Over the next several years, Harry applied what he called The Jack Principles to create demonstration projects for interactive news, financial advice, commercials, auctions and tour guides (you'll see some of these demos in the presentation). It is through this research that Harry discovered the core concepts of a new way for a human being to interact with a machine: the Interactive Conversation Interface (ICI). He codified The Jack Principles of the Interactive Conversation Interface in a document first presented at the Game Developer's Conference in 1997. In the GDC's survey of attendees, Harry's presentation was the highest rated of the conference. That went to his head and since then, he completely lost his edge.

 

 

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