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IUI 2006 seeks high-quality, original submissions of reports on research about intelligent user interfaces. It encourages participation from around the globe by both academic and industrial researchers and developers. All submissions will be reviewed by a distinguished international program committee.

Please note: We have placed the submission deadline as close as possible to the publication date. It will therefore be impossible for us to grant even the smallest extension. For clarity and fairness, the server will stop accepting submissions just after 11:59 pm Pacific Daylight Time (i.e., California USA time). Please plan accordingly when preparing your submissions!

Tracks	Submission Deadlines
Long Papers	Submissions due	Monday, 19 September 2005, 11:59 pm PDT	Closed
Short Papers	Submissions due	Monday, 19 September 2005, 11:59 pm PDT	Closed
Tutorials	Proposals due	Friday, 26 August 2005	Closed
Workshops	Proposals due	Friday, 26 August 2005	Closed
Demos	Proposals due	Open in late October	Closed

All paper submissions and reviews will be handled via www.conferencereview.com

Why Submit to IUI 2006?

The series of annual conferences on Intelligent User Interfaces is the principal international forum for the presentation and discussion of outstanding research and applications involving intelligent user interfaces. Its proceedings, which are available both as hard copy and via the ACM Digital Library, are widely read and cited.

The central track of the technical program comprises plenary presentation of fulllength papers, which are selected by the program committee after in-depth analysis and discussion. A complementary set of short paper presentations and demos stimulates discussion on work in progress.

The conference experience also includes a variety of other activities: workshops, tutorials, invited talks by leading figures, and an occasional panel. Just as important are the lively informal discussions that are encouraged by the fact that most of the conference events are attended by all of the participants.

IUI 2006 encourages submissions from those who have done relevant work but who have not previously submitted to an IUI conference. In case of doubt about the relevance of your work, do not hesitate to ask the program chairs (papers at iuiconf.org) or the short paper chairs (short-papers at iuiconf.org) for advice.

Topics
Submission of Long and Short Papers
Outstanding Paper Award
Call for Tutorials
Call for Workshops
Call for Workshop Papers and Participation

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Topics for Papers for IUI 2006

Topics of interest for IUI include all aspects of intelligent user interfaces. Successful papers will include aspects of both intelligence and interface. The following are sample topics:

Interpretation of user input Processing of multimodal input Natural language and speech processing Generation of system output Intelligent visualization tools Intelligent generation of multimedia presentations Ubiquitous computing Intelligent interfaces for ubiquitous computing Smart environments Help Intelligent assistants for complex tasks Support for collaboration in multiuser environments Intelligent information and knowledge management

Categories of intelligence Novel intelligent interfaces Affective interfaces User-adaptivity in interactive systems Personalization and recommender systems Modeling and prediction of user behavior Planning and plan recognition IUI Design Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation Proactive and agent-based paradigms for user interaction Example- and demonstration-based interfaces User studies User studies concerning intelligent interfaces Evaluations of implemented intelligent user interfaces

The programs of previous IUI conferences are available via the conference web site (see www.iuiconf.org/pastiui.html).

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Submission of Long and Short Papers

There are two categories of paper submissions:

LONG PAPER submissions should report on substantial contributions of lasting value. Each accepted long paper will be presented in a plenary session of the main conference program. An accompanying demonstration can be presented in a poster/demo session. The maximum length is 8 pages in the two-column ACM conference format.

SHORT PAPER submissions typically discuss exciting new work that is not yet mature enough for a long paper. Each accepted short paper will be presented in a poster/demo session. The presentation may include a system demonstration. The maximum length is 3 pages.

All submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Each long paper submission will also be read by a "meta-reviewer": a senior program committee member who will produce a coherent summary of the reviews. Accepted papers from both categories will be included in the conference proceedings, to be published in hard copy by the ACM Press and electronically in the ACM Digital Library (http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm).

Instructions for formatting long and short papers are available at:
http://www.iuiconf.org/instructions.htm. Use this formatting to submit your paper. It will also be used for accepted papers.

Multiple submissions policy: A paper should not be submitted to IUI 2006 if the same paper - or a substantially similar version - has already been accepted for publication by another conference, if it is currently under review for another conference, or if it will be submitted to another conference by 1 November 2005.

Timeline for long and short papers:
Monday, 19 September 2005, 11:59 pm PDT	Submission of manuscripts for review
Monday, 7 November 2005	Notification about acceptance or rejection
Monday, 21 November 2005	Submission of camera-ready copy for accepted papers

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Outstanding Paper Award

An Outstanding Paper Award will be presented to the one or two strongest papers submitted to the long paper track. These papers will be selected by the program committee on the basis of the significance of the contribution, the relevance to the IUI conference, and the quality of the writing. The Outstanding Paper(s) will be publicized before and after the conference, and the authors will receive a modest monetary award and a framed award certificate in recognition of their contribution to the field.

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Call for Tutorials

Scope

Tutorials provide conference participants with the opportunity to gain new insights, knowledge, and skills in intelligent user interfaces. Tutorial topics may range from practical guidelines and standards to academic issues and theory. Proposals will be reviewed by the tutorial co-chairs.

Objectives

Tutorials should serve one or more of the following objectives:

	Introduce novices to major topics concerning 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 IUI experts to an IUI subarea in which they are not specialists.

Duration

Tutorials may last a half day or a full day. Half-day tutorials are three hours long (not including breaks). Full-day tutorials are six hours long (not including breaks).

Important Dates
Proposals due	August 26, 2005
Notification of acceptance	September 5, 2005
Tutorial announcement due	September 12, 2005
Camera-ready summary due	November 14, 2005
Tutorial date	January 29, 2006

Submission Format

Those interested in presenting a tutorial should submit a proposal to the Tutorial Chairs by email with a maximum length of 5 pages in PDF. A tutorial proposal should contain the following information:

	Title. Title of the tutorial
	Description. A brief description of the tutorial, suitable for inclusion in the conference registration brochure, including both a one-sentence and a one-paragraph description.
	Duration. Duration of your tutorial (half- or full-day).
	Objective. Indicate which of the objectives listed above are best served by the proposed tutorial.
	Justification. An explanation of why the tutorial topic would be of interest to a substantial part of the IUI audience.
	Audience. Characterization of the potential target audience for the tutorial, including prerequisite knowledge.
	Outline. A detailed outline of the tutorial including a tentative schedule of topics to be dealt with with time allocations.
	Instructor Biography. A brief resume of the instructor(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 (ideally, a published tutorial-level article or slides on the subject), evidence of teaching experience, and evidence of scholarship in IUI, AI, and/or HCI.
	Requirements. List any materials needed to run the tutorial, such as audio/visual needs, supplies for each participant, and/or limitations on the 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 information about where the tutorial has been given and how it will be modified for IUI 2006. If the tutorial has been given at a previous IUI conference, describe how changes to the tutorial will address comments from previous attendees. Additional materials may be submitted, but they will not necessarily be taken into consideration in the review process.

Tutorial Notes

The presenters will be asked to prepare substantial tutorial notes, which 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)
	Material for any tutorial exercises

Printing of tutorial notes will be done by the conference organization.

Review Criteria

Tutorial proposals will be evaluated on the basis of their estimated benefit for prospective participants and on their fit within the tutorial 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 a full-day tutorial format
	Use of presentation methods that offer participants direct experience with the material being taught
	Past experience and qualifications of the instructors

Selection will also be based on the overall distribution of topics, approaches (overview, theory, methodology, how-to), audience experience levels, and specialties of the intended audiences.

A one page advance summary of each tutorial will appear in the Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.

Compensation for presenting a tutorial will include one complimentary conference registration (assuming a minimum number of 10 participants at the tutorial who are registered by the time the tutorials begin).

IUI-2006 Tutorials Co-Chairs

Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany
Yasuyuki Sumi, Kyoto University, Japan

Contact: tutorials at iuiconf.org

The purpose of a tutorial is either to offer an introduction to a fairly broad topic for newcomers to intelligent user interfaces or to enable experienced participants to deepen their knowledge of a more specific topic.

Further information about the submission of tutorial proposals will be available on the IUI website in mid-June.

Timeline for Tutorial Proposal Submissions:
Monday, 15 August 2005	Submission of proposal
Monday, 29 August 2005	Notification about acceptance or rejection
Monday, 5 September 2005	Submission of tutorial description

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Call for Workshops

The purpose of a workshop is to provide an informal forum where practitioners and researchers can discuss their current work and issues of common interest. The formats of the workshops will be determined by their organizers, who are encouraged to foster discussion and exchange of ideas by including mechanisms other than traditional paper presentations.

Possible foci of workshops may include:

	principles/emerging areas/concerns/applications of intelligent interfaces and their applications in the field of human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence
	methodologies, applications, and evaluation
	tools, design environments, and related infrastructure that assist designers and developers in the user interface development life cycle

Workshops are intended to last a half day or a full day. They will be held on Sunday, 29 January 2006, just before the technical sessions.

Submission Format

Each proposal should contain the following information:

1. A cover page including:
   • Workshop title
   • Name, affiliation, postal address, and e-mail address for each organizer
   • Identification of the primary contact person(s)
   
   
2. Background and Motivation: What is the overall topic of the workshop? Why is this topic of particular interest at this time? If the workshop has been organized in the past at an IUI or other conference, please give details (audience, URL) and describe why it should be held again and how improvements will be made.
   
   
3. Objectives: What are the objectives that the workshop aims to achieve? Objectives may include (a) targeting a predefined set of focus questions, (b) presenting alternate views on a particular issue that is of concern to the IUI community and attempting to resolve the issue, (c) identifying priorities for new directions of research, and/or (d) initiating the appropriate collaborations.
   
   
4. Format: Give a description of the proposed workshop format, including the planned activities (such as position statements, invited talks, panels, demos, and general discussion), as well as how these activities address the workshop objectives. Preference will be given to proposals for activities designed to fuel discussion and interaction among participants; workshops consisting solely of paper presentations are discouraged. Provide a preliminary schedule with estimated times. Design your schedule for a length of 3 hours (half-day workshop) or 6 hours (full-day workshop) with a lunch break and one or two coffee breaks, respectively.
   
   
5. Potential Participants: Indicate how you plan to select participants and contributions to the workshop. State your estimate of the number of participants. If possible, give a list of tentatively confirmed participants.
   
   
6. Workshop attraction: Indicate how you plan to attract submissions and/or participants. If you have a plan to edit a book or a journal special issue as a result of your workshop, please indicate it.
   
   
7. Organizers: Give short descriptions of each of the organizers' qualifications related to the workshop topics. Indicate if you are planning to have a program committee to help with the organization/review process, and give names and contact information of PC members, if available.

Organizer's Responsibilities

The organizers of a workshop will be responsible for:

	Producing a one-page abstract for inclusion in the conference proceedings.
	Producing and distributing a Call for Participation.
	It should be made clear that all workshop participants are required to register for both the IUI conference and for the workshop.
	Selecting the workshop participants and the contributions to be included in the workshop.
	Maintaining a web site that contains the materials from the workshop and links common important dates to the IUI website to ensure coherence.
	Producing one large printable PDF with workshop material (if applicable/required) in order that the conference may print workshop proceedings.
	All workshop materials must be made available via the workshop website.
	Scheduling and coordinating the activities of the workshop.

Important Dates
Proposals due	August 26, 2005
Notification of acceptance	September 5, 2005
Submission of CFP due	September 12, 2005
Workshop date	January 29, 2006

Submission

Proposals should be sent in electronic form (preferably, PDF) to:

IUI-2006 Workshops Co-Chairs

Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz, Germany
Yasuyuki Sumi, Kyoto University, Japan

Contact: workshops at iuiconf.org

The purpose of the workshops is to provide an informal forum for practitioners and researchers to discuss their current work and issues of common interest. The formats of the workshops will be determined by their organizers, who are encouraged to foster discussion and exchange of ideas by including mechanisms other than traditional paper presentations, differentiating their workshops clearly from typical conference sessions.

Further information about the submission of workshop proposals will be on the IUI website in mid-June.

Time Line for Workshop Proposal Submissions:
Monday, 15 August 2005	Submission of proposal
Monday, 29 August 2005	Notification about acceptance or rejection
Monday, 5 September 2005	Submission of call for participation

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Call for Workshop Papers and Participation

Workshops at the ACM International Conference in Intelligent User Interfaces IUI-2006

WS1: Workshop on Cognitive Prostheses and Assisted Communication (CPAC)
WS2: Multi-User and Ubiquitous User Interfaces (MU3I '06)
WS3: Intelligent User Interfaces for Intelligence Analysis
WS4: Effective Multimodal Dialogue Interfaces

Important Deadlines
Workshop paper submissions due	November 14, 2005
Workshop paper notification to authors	December 5, 2005
Workshops held at IUI-2006 in Sydney, Australia	January 29, 2006

For a more detailed description see below.
For submission details refer to the individual workshop webpages given below.

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Workshop 1

First International Workshop on Cognitive Prostheses and Assisted Communication (CPAC)

Various prostheses have been developed to help people with physical impairments, by replacing lost or underdeveloped abilities, and these have played an important part in facilitating the person's social participation. Providing prostheses for lost or underdeveloped cognitive abilities, however, presents a challenge of a different order. Some work on memory aids and daily schedule management systems has shown promise, but progress in this field will depend upon keeping up to date with our advancing knowledge about cognition generally as well as emerging technologies which could be platforms for various kinds of cognitive support. This workshop will offer the opportunity for researchers in the fields of assistive technology, cognitive psychology, user interface design and context-awareness to present the state of the art in each field and to discuss an approach and a research agenda for realizing effective cognitive prostheses. While the intended audience for this workshop includes those with experience or interest in Assistive Technology especially for people with dementia and their care, it is also crucial to have participation by those with expertise in other areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent User Interface Design, Context-aware systems, and Cognitive Psychology. For the full call for papers and information on previous workshops, please refer to http://www.irc.atr.jp/cpac2006

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Workshop 2

Multi-User and Ubiquitous User Interfaces (MU3I '06)

The third workshop on multi-user and ubiquitous user interfaces (MU3I) aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field to discuss open questions such as

	shared use of multiple services by multiple users using multiple devices
	spatial, temporal and conceptual consistency of user interfaces
	new 'devices' such as tags or everywhere displays
	new UI paradigms such as tangible, physical and hybrid UIs
	new UI metaphors for bridging the physical and virtual world
	larger and 3-dimensional space of interaction
	spatial and temporal mappings between real and virtual world
	dynamic sets of devices (i.e. people moving in and out)
	shared devices, such as public displays
	dynamic adaptation among several dimensions: devices, users, services
	restrictions of technical resources in the environment
	restrictions of cognitive resources of users
	presentation planning for single users vs. groups
	use of virtual characters as moderators, mediators and/or contact personas
	tracking and modeling social behavior and protocols
	physical, visual, and auditory design of ubiquitous Interfaces

This year, we want to emphasise two issues, namely interface consistency across multiple devices and interfaces for public displays. MU3I 2006 is a discussion-oriented workshop inviting position papers of up to two pages. For the full call for papers and information on previous workshops, please refer to http://www.mu3i.org

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Workshop 3

Intelligent User Interfaces for Intelligence Analysis

Intelligence analysis is a difficult and complex activity due to the nature of the task, inherent limitations in human cognitive processes, and the environment. However, it becomes an increasingly important area for many sectors (e.g., government and financial). The main purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who are interested in developing and applying the state-of-art intelligent user interface (IUI) technologies to enhance intelligence analysis. Ideally, the developed IUI technologies or tools can capitalize on human strength (e.g., reasoning and detecting visual patterns) and compensate for human weakness in a process of intelligence analysis. We welcome paper submissions (2-4 pages), system demos (1-2 pages), and panel proposals (1-2 pages that address issues in the following areas:

	Identify key research areas and challenges in designing and developing intelligent user interface technologies for intelligence analysis.
	Identifying practical applications that can leverage IUI technologies to benefit intelligence analysis
	Identify unclassified data sets for evaluation and activities to create common standards

For the full call for papers and information on previous workshops, please refer to http://isweb.uni-koblenz.de/ia2005

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Workshop 4

Effective Multimodal Dialogue Interfaces

This workshop addresses the issue of evaluating multimodal dialogue systems, in particular the characteristics and interaction styles that are particularly effective for human-machine collaborative task performance. These may include features that are known to be effective and important in human-human interaction. Conversely, it may be the case that certain effective interaction design decisions (e.g. for overcoming speech-recognition error) are less .natural..

We encourage participation by dialogue system and HCI researchers, interaction designers, as well as linguists, psychologists, and sociologists interested in human-human interaction and in evaluation of effective human-machine interaction. The workshop format will involve both longer presentations and shorter responses and position statements, as well as discussion sessions and panels.

Targeted outcomes of the workshop include a better understanding of how to design and build multimodal dialogue interfaces that support successful collaborative task performance, and a method and set of metrics for evaluating such interfaces and their effectiveness.

For the full call for papers and information on previous workshops, please refer to http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~lcavedon/emmdi-wshop.html

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