2008 Conference Program

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Sunday, Jan 13 Monday, Jan 14 Tuesday, Jan 15 Wednesday, Jan 16
Tutorials and Workshops 9:00 - 10:30
Opening and
Invited Talk: Theodore Berger		 9:00 - 10:30
Papers: Visualization II		 9:00 - 10:30
Papers: Recommenders
10:30 - 11:00
Break		 10:30 - 11:00
Break		 10:30 - 11:00
Break
11:00 - 1:00
Papers: Input Methods		 11:00 - 1:00
Papers: Visualization I		 11:00 - 1:00
Papers: Analyzing Interfaces
1:00 - 2:30
Lunch		 1:00 - 2:30
Lunch		 1:00 - 2:30
Lunch
2:30 - 4:00
Papers: Agent-Based Interfaces		 2:30 - 4:00
Papers: Example-Based Interfaces		 2:30 - 4:00
Papers: Speech
4:00 - 4:30
Break		 4:00 - 4:30
Break		 4:00 - 4:30
Break
4:30 - 6:00
Fast Forward Poster Session		 5:00 - 6:00
Finding Things		 5:00 - 6:00
Invited Talk: Enrico Motta
and Farewell
6:15 - 7:45
Welcome Reception		 6:15 - 7:45
Poster + Demo Presentation
& Poster Cocktail		 8:00 - 11:00
Conference Banquet

Tutorials and Workshops
Sunday, January 13th

 


Tutorial 1: (CANCELLED) Adaptive and Context-Sensitive Information Retrieval Systems

Joemon M Jose
University of Glasgow
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~jj/

Information Retrieval systems and tools are playing an unavoidable part in our day to day life. Most people encounter these tools in the form of web search engines, desk-top search engine, email search or as retrieval tools on digital libraries. A number of factors affect the effectiveness of such tools.

Recently, the importance of adaptive and context sensitive retrieval approaches have been emphasised. Adaptation means tailoring the retrieval according to the user needs and context. The purpose of this tutorial is to familiarise the participants with this important practical and research area.

This tutorial covers an overview of information retrieval concepts with particular emphasis on interactivity. Further it elaborates on the role of adaptively and context sensitivity with the discussion of theoretical issues and also with the description of case studies. In addition, we will discuss the evaluation methodology in information retrieval again emphasising techniques for the evaluation of the adaptive and context-sensitive systems.

Tutor Biography

Joemon Jose is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. He holds post-graduate degrees in Statistics, in Software systems and a PhD degree in Information Retrieval. He has been an active researcher in information retrieval since 1993 and has authored more than 70 journal and conference articles. He is the principal investigator for many externally funded projects on information retrieval, multimedia retrieval, multimodal interaction and adaptive information retrieval. He currently directs a team of 12 researchers on topics related to adaptive and context sensitive information retrieval.


Tutorial 2: (CANCELLED) Semantic Web for Computer and Users?

Martin Dzbor
Knowledge Media Institute Open University - UK
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/people/dzbor/enter.html

Marja-Riitta Koivunen
Annotea and W3C

When skilfully used, Semantic Web technologies can support user experience in many ways. They provide standards for applications for metadata creation; they support metadata integration and make it easy to create connections between metadata from different contexts, services, and user communities. They can also be used to easily extend existing metadata and support extensions to tools. However, the use of Semantic Web technologies does not guarantee good user experience, and vice-versa, good user experience does not mean that machine-oriented formalisms of the Semantic Web shall be avoided at all costs. In this tutorial show the benefits and the pitfalls of using the Semantic Web technologies as a basis for knowledge-intensive user interaction (UI) with the tools. We explore the existing relationships between IUI and Semantic Web – highlighting areas where the two successfully meet. Then we discuss design practices and approaches that are relevant to designing UI for the Semantic Web content and to using Semantic Web formalisms as drivers of UI adaptation and customization.

Tutors Biography

Martin Dzbor
Dr Dzbor is a Research Fellow at Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), The Open University since 2002, and also a technical lead of the work investigating the challenges of human-ontology interaction in the context of the flagship European project to develop tools and infrastructure for the next generation semantically aware applications – NeOn: Lifecycle Support for Networked Ontologies. He is also the author of one of the first web browser extensions that embedded semantics into standard web browsing experience. Together with his PhD students Dr Dzbor is active in the area of developing novel user interfaces (e.g. semantic web browsing and contextual visualization) and embedding novel interactive aspects into familiar tasks (e.g. trust, recommendations and reviewing).

Dr Dzbor authored five journal papers and more than twenty conference publications primarily in the domain of semantic web, e-learning, design support, and user-based application evaluation and analysis. Dr Dzbor is a member of W3C Interest Group on Semantic Web Education and Outreach and in the past delivered seminars and tutorials e.g. at the European Semantic Web Conference (UserSWeb:End User Aspects of the Semantic Web), for the UK’s Society of Archivists (Semantic Web: To be browsed or what?) and the Annual Czech and Slovak Conference on Knowledge Mgt – Znalosti 2006 (Evolution of the idea of the Semantic Web and its implications on practice).

Marja-Ritta Koivunen
Dr Koivunen has MSc from Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Technical Physics (Software Engineering and Biophysics), Tech Lic.and PhD (D.Tech) in Computer Science (the first PhD thesis in Finland concerning usability). In her career she was interested in user interfaces and usability and pioneered teaching human-computer interaction, starting a usability research group, networking with universities teaching Arts and Cognitive Psychology, educating Finnish companies, developing usability testing in Helsinki University of Technology as an Assistant Professor. She started the first Finnish usability laboratory.

In 1997 Ms. Koivunen took leave of absence to visit Helsinki Telephone Corporation and do research in the area of usability in information society helping to develop new services to Web, e.g. Infocities for Helsinki City services, Virtual Language School, 3D Digital Meeting Place called Underground Helsinki and Helsinki Arena 2000.

In 1998-2004 Ms. Koivunen has worked as W3C Fellow and a Research Scientist at the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) in MIT in the Web Accessibility and the Semantic Web research areas. Soon after her arrival to W3C she initiated an annotation project for Web based annotations called Annotea, which has been the essential part of the W3C Semantic Web Activity. Since 2004 she extends Annotea focusing on shared, social bookmarks as an Open Source project. She also does research and consulting related to usability, user experience, and Web technologies.


Workshop 1: Enculturating Conversational Interfaces by Socio-cultural Aspects of Communication (ACM Digital Library Link)

The workshop aims at enculturating conversational interfaces by discussing computationally viable models of cultural aspects of conversations which should be grounded reliable empirical data on cultural/cross-cultural interaction.

Matthias Rehm, University of Augsburg
Elisabeth André, University of Augsburg
Yukiko Nakano, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University

URL: http://mm-werkstatt.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/ECI/


Workshop 2: International Workshop on IUI for Ambient Assisted Living (IUI4AAL 2008) (ACM Digital Library Link)

This workshop aims at identifying challenges and setting up a research community for discussing and sharing possible solutions for IUI in the emerging area of Assisted Living

Kizito Ssamula Mukasa, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Austria
Arthur Karshmer, University of San Francisco, USA

URL: http://www.iese.fraunhofer.de/download/iui4aal


Workshop 3: Intelligent User Interfaces for Developing Regions (ACM Digital Library Link)

This workshop aims to focus on easy-to-use and affordable, yet powerful, user interfaces that can be used by people in developing regions where literacy and cost are a challenge.

Sheetal K. Agarwal, IBM Research, India
John Canny, UC Berkeley, USA
Apala Lahiri Chavan, Human Factors International, India
Nitendra Rajput, IBM Research, India

URL: http://research.ihost.com/iui4dr


Workshop 4: Theories and Applications of Ubiquitous User Modeling (ACM Digital Library Link)

Ubiquitous user modeling describes ongoing modeling and exploitation of user behaviour with a variety of systems that share their user models. The workshop brings together academia and industry to discuss important issues and trends.

Shlomo Berkovsky, University of Haifa, Israel
Dominik Heckmann, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany
Antonio Krüger, University of Münster, Germany
Tsvi Kuflik, University of Haifa, Israel

URL: http://www.u2m.org/ubiqum2008/


Workshop 5: Recommendation and Collaboration (ReColl 2008) (ACM Digital Library Link)

This workshop aims to identify emerging trends in recommendation technology and collaborative environments in the context of intelligent user interfaces. We will explore these two topics separately as well as the synergies between them.

Lawrence Bergman, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Jihie Kim, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute
Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University
Stefan Rueger, Open University, Knowledge Media Institute
Stefan Siersdorfer, University of Sheffield, Dept. of Information Studies
Sergej Sizov, University of Koblenz-Landau, Dept. of Computer Science
Markus Stolze, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

URL: http://isweb.uni-koblenz.de/recoll2008


Workshop 6: Common Sense Knowledge and Goal-Oriented Interfaces (CSKGOI 2008) (ACM Digital Library Link)

This workshop brings together researchers from different backgrounds that focus on analyzing, structuring and leveraging commonsense knowledge and goal-oriented representations for the design of intelligent user interfaces.

Andrew Gordon, The Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California
Catherine Havasi, Laboratory for Linguistics and Computation, Brandeis University
Mathias Lux, Institute of Information Technology, Klagenfurt University
Markus Strohmaier, Knowledge Management Institute, Graz University of Technology

URL: http://csc-master.media.mit.edu/cskgoi/

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Invited Speaker: Theodore W. Berger
Monday, January 14th, 9:00 am - 10:30 am

 

Implantable Biomimetic Electronics as Neural Prostheses for Lost Memory Function (ACM Digital Library Link)
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

 

PaleoSketch: Accurate Primitive Sketch Recognition and Beautification (ACM Digital Library Link)
Brandon Paulson, Tracy Hammond (Texas A&M University, USA)

Automatically Detecting Pointing Performance (ACM Digital Library Link)
Amy Hurst, Scott E. Hudson, Jennifer Mankoff (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

What's in a gaze? The Role of Eye-Gaze in Reference Resolution in Multimodal Conversational Interfaces (ACM Digital Library Link)
Zahar Prasov, Joyce Chai (Michigan State University, USA)

EMG-based Hand Gesture Recognition for Realtime Biosignal Interfacing (ACM Digital Library Link)
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

 

VizScript: On the Creation of Efficient Visualizations for Understanding Complex Multi-Agent Systems (ACM Digital Library Link)
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 (ACM Digital Library Link)
Simone Stumpf, Erin Sullivan, Erin Fitzhenry (Oregon State University, USA)

An Intelligent Fitting Room Using Multi-Camera Perception (ACM Digital Library Link)
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

 

Relative Keyboard Input System (ACM Digital Library Link)
Daniel Rashid, Noah Smith (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Multimodal Chinese Text Entry with Speech and Keypad on Mobile Devices (ACM Digital Library Link)
Yingying Jiang, Xugang Wang, Feng Tian (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Notification of Dangerous Situation for Elderly People using Visual Cues (ACM Digital Library Link)
Hideaki Kanai, Goushi Tsuruma, Toyohisa Nakada (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

Find me if you can: Designing Interfaces for People Search (ACM Digital Library Link)
Junichiro Mori, Nathalie Basselin, Alexander Kröner (DFKI, Germany)

Intelligent Email: Reply and Attachment Prediction (ACM Digital Library Link)
Mark Dredze, Tova Brooks, Josh Carroll (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Temporal semantic compression for video browsing (ACM Digital Library Link)
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 (ACM Digital Library Link)
Emilie Mollenbach, Thorarinn Stefansson, John Paulin Hansen (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

An Embodied Interface for Teaching Computational Thinking (ACM Digital Library Link)
Judith Good, Pablo Romero, Benedict du Boulay (University of Sussex, UK)

Modeling of interaction design by end users through discourse modeling (ACM Digital Library Link)
Cristian Bogdan, Hermann Kaindl, Juergen Falb (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

Long-Term and Session-Specific User Preferences in a Mobile Recommender System (ACM Digital Library Link)
Quang Nhat Nguyen, Francesco Ricci (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)

Intelligent User Assistance for Cost Effective Usage of Mobile Phone (ACM Digital Library Link)
Deepak P, Anuradha Bhamidipaty, Swati Challa (IBM India Research Lab, India)

Modeling Situated Conversational Agents as Partially Observable Markov Decision Proccesses (ACM Digital Library Link)
William Thompson, Darren Gergle (Northwestern University, USA)

Assistive Browser for Conducting Web Transactions (ACM Digital Library Link)
Jalal Mahmud, Yevgen Borodin, I.V. Ramakrishnan (Stony Brook University, USA)

UBIGIouS - An Ubiquitous Mixed-Reality Geographic Information System (ACM Digital Library Link)
Daniel Porta, Jan Conrad (Institute of Engineering Design/CAD, Saarland University, Germany)

Improving Word-Recognizers Using an Interactive Lexicon with Active and Passive Words (ACM Digital Library Link)
Per Ola Kristensson, Shumin Zhai (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)

Between Ontology and Folksonomy: A Study of Collaborative and Implicit Ontology Evolution (ACM Digital Library Link)
Jiahui Liu, Daniel Gruen (Northwestern University, USA)

Multimodal Question Answering for Mobile Devices (ACM Digital Library Link)
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 (ACM Digital Library Link)
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 (ACM Digital Library Link)
Deepak Jagdish, Mohit Gupta, Rahul Sawhney (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute for Information and Communication Technology, India)

Predicting User Action from Skin Conductance (ACM Digital Library Link)
Laszlo Laufer, Bottyan Nemeth (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

Designing and assessing an intelligent e-tool for deaf children (ACM Digital Library Link)
Ornella Mich, Rosella Gennari (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)

A presentation model for multimedia summaries of behavior (ACM Digital Library Link)
Martin Molina, Victor Flores (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)

Towards Intelligent Assistance for To-Do Lists (ACM Digital Library Link)
Yolanda Gil, Varun Ratnakar (University of Southern California, USA)

FreePad: A Novel Handwriting-based Text Input for Pen and Touch Interfaces (ACM Digital Library Link)
Bharath A, Sriganesh Madhvanath (Hewlett-Packard Labs, India)

TrueKeys: Identifying and Correcting Typing Errors for People with Motor Impairments (ACM Digital Library Link)
Shaun Kane, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Mark Harniss (University of Washington, USA)

Improved Recommendation based on Collaborative Tagging Behaviors (ACM Digital Library Link)
Shiwan Zhao, Nan Du, Andreas Nauerz (IBM China Research Lab, China)

EMMA: an Automated Intelligent Actor in E-drama (ACM Digital Library Link)
Li Zhang (University of Teesside, UK)

Relating Documents via User Activity: The Missing Link (ACM Digital Library Link)
Elin Pedersen, David W McDonald (Google, USA)

RelAltTab: Assisting Users in Switching Windows (ACM Digital Library Link)
Nuria Oliver, Mary Czerwinski, Greg Smith (Microsoft Research, USA)

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Demo Presentation
Monday, January 14th, 6:15 pm - 7:45 pm

 

An Adaptive 3D Virtual Environment for Learning the X3D Language (ACM Digital Library Link)
Luca Chittaro, Roberto Ranon (HCI Lab, USA)

Intelligent Sticky Notes that can be Searched, Located and can Send Reminders and Messages (ACM Digital Library Link)
Pranav Mistry, Pattie Maes (MIT Media Laboratory, USA)

Building Mashups By Example (ACM Digital Library Link)
Rattapoom Tuchinda, Pedro Szekely, Craig Knoblock (Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA)

Capricorn - An Intelligent Interface for Mobile Widgets (ACM Digital Library Link)
Fredrik Boström, Patrik Floréen, Tianyan Liu (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland)

Semanta: Your Personal Email Semantic Assistant (ACM Digital Library Link)
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 (ACM Digital Library Link)
Fredrik Gundelsweiler (University of Konstanz, Germany)

Interfaces for Team Coordination (ACM Digital Library Link)
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 (ACM Digital Library Link)
Futoshi Sugimoto, Masahide Yoneyama (Toyo University, Japan)

Facial Expression Recognition as a Creative Interface (ACM Digital Library Link)
Alejandro Jaimes (IDIAP Research Institute, USA)

Laserpointer-Interaction between Art and Science (ACM Digital Library Link)
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

 

An Optimization-based Approach to Dynamic Data Transformation for Smart Visualization (ACM Digital Library Link)
Zhen Wen, Michelle Zhou (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)

Multi-modal presentation of medical histories (ACM Digital Library Link)
Catalina Hallett (The Open University, UK)

An Interactive Game-Design Assistant (ACM Digital Library Link)
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

 

Adaptive Layout for Dynamically Aggregated Documents (ACM Digital Library Link)
Evan Schrier, Charles Jacobs, Mira Dontcheva (University of Washington, USA)

Systematic Yet Flexible Discovery: Guiding Domain Experts through Exploratory Data Analysis (ACM Digital Library Link)
Adam Perer, Ben Shneiderman (University of Maryland, USA)

Managing a Document-Based Information Space (ACM Digital Library Link)
Matthias Deller, Stefan Agne, Achim Ebert (DFKI GmbH, Germany)

Improving Interaction with Virtual Globes through Spatial Thinking: Helping Users Ask "Why?" (ACM Digital Library Link)
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

 

Building Mashups By Example (ACM Digital Library Link)
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 (ACM Digital Library Link)
Jeffrey Nichols, Tessa Lau (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)

Recovering from Errors during Programming by Demonstration (ACM Digital Library Link)
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

 

Transcendence: Enabling a Personal View of the Deep Web (ACM Digital Library Link)
Jeffrey Bigham, Anna Cavender, Ryan Kaminsky (University of Washington, USA)

In Search of Personal Information: Narrative-Based Interfaces (ACM Digital Library Link)
Daniel Gonalves, Joaquim Jorge (Technical University of Lisboa, Portugal)

Seeing is retrieving: Building information context from what the user sees (ACM Digital Library Link)
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

 

Generating Summary Keywords for Emails Using Topics (ACM Digital Library Link)
Mark Dredze, Hanna Wallach, Danny Puller (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Automatically Finding and Recommending Resources to Support Knowledge Workers’ Activities (ACM Digital Library Link)
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 (ACM Digital Library Link)
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

 

Toward Establishing Trust in Adaptive Agents (ACM Digital Library Link)
Alyssa Glass, Deborah McGuinness, Michael Wolverton (Stanford University, USA)

Beyond Attention: The Role of Deictic Gesture in Intention Recognition in Multimodal Conversational Interfaces (ACM Digital Library Link)
Shaolin Qu, Joyce Chai (Michigan State University, USA)

Automatic Evaluation of Assistive Interfaces (ACM Digital Library Link)
Pradipta Biswas, Peter Robinson (University of Cambridge, UK)

Correspondence Validation Method for GUI Operations and Scenarios by Operation History Analysis (ACM Digital Library Link)
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

 

Scalable Summaries of Spoken Conversations (ACM Digital Library Link)
Sumit Basu, Surabhi Gupta, Milind Mahajan (Microsoft research, USA)

Meeting Adjourned: Off-line Learning Interfaces for Automatic Meeting Understanding (ACM Digital Library Link)
Patrick Ehlen, Matthew Purver, John Niekrasz (Stanford University, USA)

Exploiting Referential Context in Spoken Language Interfaces for Data-Poor Domains (ACM Digital Library Link)
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

 

Exploiting large scale web semantics to build end user applications (ACM Digital Library Link)
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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