2009 Conference Program

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Sunday, Feb 8 Monday, Feb 9 Tuesday, Feb 10 Wednesday, Feb 11
Workshops 8:45-9:00
Opening remarks		 9:00-10:15
Invited Talk: Jun Rekimoto		 9:00-10:15
Invited Talk: Alon Halvey
9:00-10:15
Invited Talk: Trevor Darrell
10:15-10:45
Coffee Break		 10:15-10:45
Coffee Break		 10:15-10:45
Coffee Break
10:45-12:40
Summarization		 10:45-12:40
Information & Knowledge Management		 10:45-12:40
Mobile Interaction
12:40-14:00
Lunch		 12:40-14:00
Lunch		 12:40-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:55
Recommendations		 14:00-15:55
Demonstration Based Interfaces		 14:00-15:55
Intelligent Assistants
15:55-16:15
Coffee break		 15:55-16:15
Coffee break		 15:55-16:15
Coffee break
16:15-18:00
Intelligent Web Systems
Poster Madness
(Krzysztof Gajos officiating)		 16:15-18:00
Novel Input & Output		 16:15-18:00
Visualization & Designer Tools
Closing remarks
19:00-21:00
Poster Session + Food		 20:00-23:00
Conference Banquet: Best paper and student paper award		  


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Workshops
Sunday, February 8th

 

Workshop 1: Common Sense and Intelligent User Interfaces 2009: Story Understanding and Generation for Aware and Interactive Interface Design (ACM Digital Library Link)

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/

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Workshop 2: Multimodal Interfaces for Automotive Applications (MIAA) (ACM Digital Library Link)

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

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Workshop 3: Human Interaction with Intelligent & Networked Systems (ACM Digital Library Link)

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

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Workshop 4: Users’ Preferences Regarding Intelligent User Interfaces: Differences Among Users and Changes Over Time (ACM Digital Library Link)

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 (ACM Digital Library Link)

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

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Workshop 6: Sketch Recognition (ACM Digital Library Link)

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

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Workshop 7: Model Driven Development of Advanced User Interfaces (MDDAUI 2009) (ACM Digital Library Link)

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

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Invited Talk: Trevor Darrell
Monday, February 9th, 9:00 - 10:15

 

Image Recognition for Intelligent Interfaces (ACM Digital Library Link)
Trevor Darrell (UC Berkeley EECS & ICSI)

Abstract
When interaction concerns the physical world, interfaces should do their best to search for information using direct observation. Image-based interfaces have been tried in the past, but generally required artificial barcode tags to be affixed to each viewed object or surface. Recent advances in computer vision and content-based image retrieval have enabled fast and robust indexing from images of individual objects--CD covers, book jackets, magazine advertisements, etc.--even on relatively low-power platforms such as camera-equipped mobile phones. I'll review the relevant algorithms and design of such systems, and discuss what types of image recognition interfaces are feasible in the near term. I'll describe very recent work on multimodal question answering interfaces, which combine image and text query matching with human-in-the-loop interaction. I'll close with a discussion of the anticipated future progress on category-level visual recognition, and what classes of interfaces it may enable.

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Papers: Summarization
Monday, February 9th, 10:45 - 12:40

 

User-Oriented Document Summarization through Vision-Based Eye-Tracking (ACM Digital Library Link)
Songhua Xu (Zhejiang University, Yale University & The University of Hong Kong)
Hao Jiang (The University of Hong Kong)
Francis C.M. Lau (The University of Hong Kong)

Improving Meeting Summarization by Focusing on User Needs: A Task-Oriented Evaluation (ACM Digital Library Link)
Pei-Yun Hsueh (University of Edinburgh)
Johanna D. Moore (University of Edinburgh)

Rich Interfaces for Reading News on the Web (ACM Digital Library Link)
Earl J. Wagner (Northwestern University)
Jiahui Liu (Northwestern University)
Larry Birnbaum (Northwestern University)
Kenneth D. Forbus (Northwestern University)

Have A Say Over What You See: Evaluating Interactive Compression Techniques (ACM Digital Library Link)
Simon Tucker (University of Sheffield)
Steve Whittaker (University of Sheffield)

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Papers: Recommendations
Monday, February 9th, 14:00 - 15:55

 

Best Paper Award:
Tagsplanations: Explaining Recommendations Using Tags (ACM Digital Library Link)
Jesse Vig (University of Minnesota)
Shilad Sen (University of Minnesota)
John Riedl (University of Minnesota)

A Low-Order Markov Model integrating Long-Distance Histories for Collaborative Recommender Systems (ACM Digital Library Link)
Geoffray Bonnin (LORIA)
Armelle Brun (LORIA)
Anne Boyer (LORIA)

Discovery-oriented Collaborative Filtering for Improving User Satisfaction (ACM Digital Library Link)
Yoshinori Hijikata (Osaka University)
Takuya Shimizu (Osaka University)
Shogo Nishida (Osaka University)

Do You Know? Recommending People to Invite into Your Social Network (ACM Digital Library Link)
Ido Guy (IBM Haifa Research Lab)
Inbal Ronen (IBM Haifa Research Lab)
Eric Wilcox (IBM Almaden Research Center)

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Papers: Intelligent Web Systems
Monday, February 9th, 16:15 - 18:00

 

Learning to Recognize Valuable Tags (ACM Digital Library Link)
Shilad Sen (University of Minnesota)
Jesse Vig (University of Minnesota)
John Riedl (University of Minnesota)

End-User Programming of Mashups with Vegemite (ACM Digital Library Link)
James Lin (IBM Almaden Research Center)
Jeffrey Wong (Carnegie Mellon University)
Jeffrey Nichols (IBM Almaden Research Center)
Allen Cypher (IBM Almaden Research Center)
Tessa A. Lau (IBM Almaden Research Center)

Context-Based Page Unit Recommendation for Web-Based Sensemaking Tasks (ACM Digital Library Link)
Wen-Huang Cheng (National Taiwan University)
David Gotz (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

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Short Papers
Monday, February 9th, 19:00 - 21:00

 

A Bayesian Reinforcement Learning Approach for Customizing Human-Robot Interfaces (ACM Digital Library Link)
Amin Atrash (McGill University)
Joelle Pineau (McGill University)

Collaborative Translation by Monolinguals with Machine Translators (ACM Digital Library Link)
Daisuke Morita (Kyoto University)
Toru Ishida (Kyoto University)

A Comparative User Study on Rating vs. Personality Quiz based Preference Elicitation Methods (ACM Digital Library Link)
Rong Hu (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL))
Pearl Pu (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL))

Context Restoration in Multi-Tasking Dialogue (ACM Digital Library Link)
Fan Yang (Oregon Health & Science University)
Peter A. Heeman (Oregon Health & Science University)

CRAFTing an Environment for Collaborative Reasoning (ACM Digital Library Link)
Susanne C. Hupfer (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Steven I. Ross (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Jamie C. Rasmussen (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
James E. Christensen (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Stephen E. Levy (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Daniel M. Gruen (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
John F. Patterson (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

Designing User Interface Adaptation Rules with T:XML (ACM Digital Library Link)
Víctor López-Jaquero (University of Castilla-La Mancha)
Francisco Montero (University of Castilla-La Mancha)
Fernando Real (University of Castilla-La Mancha)

From Geek to Sleek: Integrating Task Learning Tools to Support End Users in Real-World Applications (ACM Digital Library Link)
Aaron Spaulding (SRI International)
Jim Blythe (University of Southern California)
Will Haines (SRI International)
Melinda Gervasio (SRI International)

Generating Pictorial-Based Representation of Mental Images for Video Monitoring (ACM Digital Library Link)
Chuan-Heng Hsiao (National Taiwan University)
Wei-Chia Huang (National Taiwan University)
Kuan-Wen Chen (National Taiwan University)
Li-Wei Chang (Carnegie Mellon University)
Yi-Ping Hung (National Taiwan University)

Hand Gesture Recognition and Virtual Game Control Based on 3D Accelerometer and EMG Sensors (ACM Digital Library Link)
Xu Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China)
Xiang Chen (University of Science and Technology of China)
Wen-hui Wang (University of Science and Technology of China)
Ji-hai Yang (University of Science and Technology of China)
Vuokko Lantz (Nokia Research Center)
Kong-qiao Wang (NOKIA (CHINA) Investment CO. LTD.)

Handling Conditional Preferences in Recommender Systems (ACM Digital Library Link)
Zhiyong Yu (Northwestern Polytechnical University & Kyoto University)
Zhiwen Yu (Kyoto University)
Xingshe Zhou (Northwestern Polytechnical University)
Yuichi Nakamura (Kyoto University)

Illuminac: Simultaneous Naming and Configuration for Workspace Lighting Control (ACM Digital Library Link)
Ana Ramírez Chang (University of California at Berkeley)
John Canny (University of California at Berkeley)

MediaGLOW: Organizing Photos in a Graph-based Workspace (ACM Digital Library Link)
Andreas Girgensohn (FX Palo Alto Laboratory)
Frank Shipman (Texas A&M University)
Lynn Wilcox (FX Palo Alto Laboratory)
Thea Turner (FX Palo Alto Laboratory)
Matthew Cooper (FX Palo Alto Laboratory)

Multi-touch Interaction for Robot Control (ACM Digital Library Link)
Mark Micire (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
Jill L. Drury (The MITRE Corporation)
Brenden Keyes (The MITRE Corporation)
Holly A. Yanco (University of Massachusetts Lowell)

MusicSim: Integrating Audio Analysis and User Feedback in an Interactive Music Browsing UI (ACM Digital Library Link)
Ya-Xi Chen (University of Munich)
Andreas Butz (University of Munich)

Predictive Text Input in a Mobile Shopping Assistant: Methods and Interface Design (ACM Digital Library Link)
Petteri Nurmi (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT)
Andreas Forsblom (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT)
Patrik Floréen (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT)
Peter Peltonen (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT)
Petri Saarikko (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT)

Pulling Strings from a Tangle: Visualizing a Personal Music Listening History (ACM Digital Library Link)
Dominikus Baur (University of Munich)
Andreas Butz (University of Munich)

A Scientific Workflow Construction Command Line (ACM Digital Library Link)
Paul T. Groth (University of Southern California)
Yolanda Gil (University of Southern California)

Skipping Spare Information in Multimodal Inputs during Multimodal Input Fusion (ACM Digital Library Link)
Yong Sun (The University of Sydney & National ICT Australia)
Yu Shi (National ICT Australia)
Fang Chen (The University of Sydney & National ICT Australia)
Vera Chung (The University of Sydney)

Structuring and Manipulating Hand-Drawn Concept Maps (ACM Digital Library Link)
Yingying Jiang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Feng Tian (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Xugang Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Xiaolong Zhang (The Pennsylvania State University)
Guozhong Dai (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Hongan Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Using Salience to Segment Desktop Activity into Projects (ACM Digital Library Link)
Daniel Lowd (University of Washington)
Nicholas Kushmerick (Decho Corporation)

You Can Play That Again: Exploring Social Redundancy to Derive Highlight Regions in Videos (ACM Digital Library Link)
Jose San Pedro (University of Sheffield)
Vaiva Kalnikaite (University of Sheffield)
Steve Whittaker (University of Sheffield)

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Demonstrations
Monday, February 9th, 19:00 - 21:00

 

Fully Automatic User Interface Generation from Discourse Models (ACM Digital Library Link)
Jüergen Falb (Vienna University of Technology)
Sevan Kavaldjian (Vienna University of Technology)
Roman Popp (Vienna University of Technology)
David Raneburger (Vienna University of Technology)
Edin Arnautovic (Vienna University of Technology)
Hermann Kaindl (Vienna University of Technology)

Interactive Multimodal Transcription of Text Images Using a Web-based Demo System (ACM Digital Library Link)
Verónica Romero (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
Luis A. Leiva (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
Alejandro H. Toselli (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
Enrique Vidal (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)

IVEA: Toward a Personalized Visual Interface for Exploring Text Collections (ACM Digital Library Link)
Vinh Tuan Thai (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Siegfried Handschuh (National University of Ireland, Galway)

A Meta User Interface to Control Multimodal Interaction in Smart Environments (ACM Digital Library Link)
Dirk Roscher (DAI Labor, TU Berlin)
Marco Blumendorf (DAI Labor, TU Berlin)
Sahin Albayrak (DAI Labor, TU Berlin)

Parakeet: A Demonstration of Speech Recognition on a Mobile Touch-Screen Device (ACM Digital Library Link)
Keith Vertanen (University of Cambridge)
Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge)

Prime III: An Innovative Electronic Voting Interface (ACM Digital Library Link)
Shaneé Dawkins (Auburn University)
Tony Sullivan (Auburn University)
Greg Rogers (Auburn University)
E. Vincent Cross II (Auburn University)
Lauren Hamilton (Auburn University)
Juan E. Gilbert (Auburn University)

Serious Processing for Frivolous Purpose - A Chatbot Using Web-mining Supported Affect Analysis and Pun Generation (ACM Digital Library Link)
Rafal Rzepka (Hokkaido University)
Wenhan Shi (Hokkaido University)
Michal Ptaszynski (Hokkaido University)
Pawel Dybala (Hokkaido University)
Shinsuke Higuchi (Hokkaido University)
Kenji Araki (Hokkaido University)

Tribal Taste: Mobile Multiagent Recommender System (ACM Digital Library Link)
Magnus Jändel (Stockholm University)
Mehdi Elahi (Stockholm University)

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Invited Talk: Jun Rekimoto
Tuesday, February 10th, 9:00 - 10:15

 

Sensonomy: Intelligence Penetrating into the Real Space (ACM Digital Library Link)
Jun Rekimoto (The University of Tokyo & Sony Computer Science Laboratories)

Abstract:
Recent commoditization of mobile digital devices and net-working brought us to use them as a very large-scale sensing platform. We call this possibility "Sensonmoy", which is an integration of collective intelligence (also known as "folk-sonomy") and pervasive sensing. As many users own mobile devices with sensing facilities, a collection of sensing data from these devices becomes quite important, and integration of them can be used in a very different manner. Such feature could be a new way to create intelligent systems and inter-faces. In this talk, I am going to discuss a possibility of con-necting a large number of simple devices to produce intelligent interactions. As a realistic example of them, I will introduce a city-scale indoor and outdoor positioning system that we have developed, and how its database can be evolved by using the idea of Sensonomy. I would also like to discuss computer-augmented memory and lifelong computing based on our platform.

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Papers: Information & Knowledge Management
Tuesday, February 10th, 10:45 - 12:40

 

Detecting and Correcting User Activity Switches: Algorithms and Interfaces (ACM Digital Library Link)
Jianqiang Shen (Oregon State University)
Jed Irvine (Oregon State University)
Xinlong Bao (Oregon State University)
Michael Goodman (Oregon State University)
Stephen Kolibaba (Oregon State University)
Anh Tran (Oregon State University)
Fredric Carl (Oregon State University)
Brenton Kirschner (Oregon State University)
Simone Stumpf (Oregon State University)
Thomas G. Dietterich (Oregon State University)

An Interactive Smart Notepad for Context-Sensitive Information Seeking (ACM Digital Library Link)
Jie Lu (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)
Michelle X. Zhou (IBM China Research Lab)

An Interface for Targeted Collection of Common Sense Knowledge Using a Mixture Model (ACM Digital Library Link)
Robert Speer (MIT CSAIL)
Jayant Krishnamurthy (MIT CSAIL)
Catherine Havasi (Brandeis University)
Dustin Smith (MIT Media Lab)
Henry Lieberman (MIT Media Lab)
Kenneth Arnold (MIT Media Lab)

Passages Through Time: Chronicling Users' Information Interaction History by Recording When and What They Read (ACM Digital Library Link)
Karl Gyllstrom (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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Papers: Demonstration Based Interfaces
Tuesday, February 10th, 14:00 - 15:55

 

What Were You Thinking? Filling in Missing Dataflow Through Inference in Learning from Demonstration (ACM Digital Library Link)
Melinda T. Gervasio (SRI International)
Janet L. Murdock (SRI International)

Best Student Paper Award:
Learning to Generalize for Complex Selection Tasks (ACM Digital Library Link)
Alan Ritter (University of Washington)
Sumit Basu (Microsoft Research)

TrailBlazer: Enabling Blind Users to Blaze Trails Through the Web (ACM Digital Library Link)
Jeffrey P. Bigham (University of Washington)
Tessa Lau (IBM Almaden Research Center)
Jeffrey Nichols (IBM Almaden Research Center)

Fixing the Program My Computer Learned: Barriers for End Users Barriers for the Machine (ACM Digital Library Link)
Todd Kulesza (Oregon State University)
Weng-Keen Wong (Oregon State University)
Simone Stumpf (Oregon State University)
Stephen Perona (Oregon State University)
Rachel White (Oregon State University)
Margaret M. Burnett (Oregon State University)
Ian Oberst (Oregon State University)
Andrew J. Ko (University of Washington)

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Papers: Novel Input & Output
Tuesday, February 10th, 16:15 - 18:00

 

Simplified Facial Animation Control Utilizing Novel Input Devices: A Comparative Study (ACM Digital Library Link)
Nikolaus Bee (University of Augsburg)
Bernhard Falk (University of Augsburg)
Elisabeth André (University of Augsburg)

Automatic Design of a Control Interface for a Synthetic Face (ACM Digital Library Link)
Nicolas Stoiber (Orange Labs)
Renaud Seguier (Supelec)
Gaspard Breton (Orange Labs)

Positive Effects of Redundant Descriptions in an Interactive Semantic Speech Interface (ACM Digital Library Link)
Lane Schwartz (University of Minnesota)
Luan Nguyen (University of Minnesota)
Andrew Exley (University of Minnesota)
William Schuler (University of Minnesota)

Data-Driven Exploration of Musical Chord Sequences (ACM Digital Library Link)
Eric Nichols (Indiana University)
Dan Morris (Microsoft Research)
Sumit Basu (Microsoft Research)

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Invited Talk: Alon Y. Halevy
Wednesday, February 11th, 9:00 - 10:15

 

User-Focused Database Management (ACM Digital Library Link)
Alon Y. Halevy (Google Inc.)

Abstract:
This talk describes two projects whose over goal is to make database management systems usable by a wider audience. Dataspaces aim to eliminate the upfront effort involved in creating a database. Data mangement for collaboration attempts to shift the focus of data mangement to supporting users in their natural environments and workflow.

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Papers: Mobile Interaction
Wednesday, February 11th, 10:45 - 12:40

 

Parakeet: a demonstration of speech recognition on a mobile touch-screen device (ACM Digital Library Link)
Keith Vertanen (University of Cambridge)
Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge)

Understanding the Intent Behind Mobile Information Needs (ACM Digital Library Link)
Karen Church (Telefonica Research)
Barry Smyth (University College Dublin)

Searching Large Indexes on Tiny Devices: Optimizing Binary Search with Character Pinning (ACM Digital Library Link)
Guy Shani (Microsoft Research)
Bo Thiesson (Microsoft Research)
Tim Paek (Microsoft Research)
Christopher Meek (Microsoft Research)
Gina Venolia (Microsoft Research)

Subobject Detection through Spatial Relationships on Mobile Phones (ACM Digital Library Link)
Benjamin Brombach (Bauhaus-University Weimar)
Erich Bruns (Bauhaus-University Weimar)
Oliver Bimber (Bauhaus-University Weimar)

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Papers: Intelligent Assistants
Wednesday, February 11th, 14:00 - 15:55

 

Discovering Frequent Work Procedures From Resource Connections (ACM Digital Library Link)
Jianqiang Shen (Oregon State University)
Erin Fitzhenry (Oregon State University)
Thomas G. Dietterich (Oregon State University)

A Probabilistic Mental Model For Estimating Disruption (ACM Digital Library Link)
Bowen Hui (University of Toronto)
Grant Partridge (University of Manitoba)
Craig Boutilier (University of Toronto)

Intelligently Creating and Recommending Reusable Reformatting Rules (ACM Digital Library Link)
Christopher Scaffidi (Carnegie Mellon University)
Brad Myers (Carnegie Mellon University)
Mary Shaw (Carnegie Mellon University)

Intelligent Wheelchair (IW) Interface using Face and Mouth recognition (ACM Digital Library Link)
Jin Sun Ju (Konkuk University)
Yunhee Shin (Konkuk University)
Eun Yi Kim (Konkuk University)

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Papers: Visualization & Designer Tools
Wednesday, February 11th, 16:15 - 18:00

 

Behavior-Driven Visualization Recommendation (ACM Digital Library Link)
David Gotz (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Zhen Wen (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)

A Multimedia Interface for Facilitating Comparisons of Opinions (ACM Digital Library Link)
Giuseppe Carenini (University of British Columbia)
Lucas Rizoli (University of British Columbia)

Modality effects on cognitive load and performance in high-load information presentation (ACM Digital Library Link)
Yujia Cao (University of Twente)
Mariët Theune (University of Twente)
Anton Nijholt (University of Twente)

UI Fin: A Process-Oriented Interface Design Tool (ACM Digital Library Link)
Angel Puerta (RedWhale Software)
Martin Hu (Redwhale Software and Stanford University)

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