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	9:00 - 10:00 Opening Session Plenary Address James Foley	9:00 - 10:30 Papers III Presentation Aids & Coordination	9:00 - 10:00 Papers VI Applications
	10:30 - 12:00 Papers I Planning-Based Approaches	11:00 - 12:30 Papers IV I/O Support Spatial Awareness	10:30 - 12:00 Panel II Compelling Intelligent User Interfaces
	2:00 - 3:30 Debate Direct Manipulation vs. Interface Agents Ben Shneiderman & Pattie Maes	2:30 - 4:00 Panel I Computational Approaches to Interface Design	2:00 - 3:30 Papers VII World Wide Web & Hypermedia
	4:00 - 5:30 Papers II Interface Agents	4:30 - 6:00 Papers V Automation of Presentations	4:00 - 5:00 Closing Remarks Plenary Address Doug Riecken
7:00 - 10:00 Welcome Opening Reception	6:30 - 9:00 Poster Reception Interactive Posters Informal Demos

Welcome
Monday, Jan 6th - 7:00 to 10:00 pm

Opening Reception and Registration Center Ballroom, Hilton at Walt Disney World Village

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Opening Session
Tuesday, Jan 7th - 9:00 to 10:00 am

Welcoming Remarks: Angel Puerta, IUI97 Conference Co-Chair, Stanford University, USA Plenary Address: Why Are Intelligent User Interfaces Always a Year Away? James Foley, MERL - A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, USA Abstract: Transferring intelligent user interface (IUI) research from the university research environment to shrink-wrap or web-ready use seems to take longer than we as researchers would like. Certainly, this is true of my own UIDE work. Why is this? Some reasons are generic, as discussed in my September 1996 CACM article: tech transfer is a contact sport; requires grass-roots efforts; requires rewards which are alien to some academics' values; requires understanding of industry's implementation process; and is facilitated by prototypes implemented for the target language and OS. Other reasons are more specific to intelligent user interfaces: the UI software infrastructure to support IUIs is not in place; maybe IUIs aren't as useful as we like to think they are; maybe IUIs are just too hard to build; and maybe we expect too much of IUIs. In this opening talk, I will outline these issues, striving to provoke controversy and hence discussion.

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Papers I
Tuesday, Jan 7th - 10:30 to 12:00 noon

Planning Based Approaches

Local Plan Recognition in Direct Manipulation Interfaces (ACM Digital Library Link) Annika Wærn, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden Interaction with a Mixed-Initiative System for Exploratory Data Analysis (ACM Digital Library Link) Robert St. Amant, North Carolina State University, USA Paul R. Cohen, University of Massachusetts, USA Segmented Interaction History in a Collaborative Interface Agent (ACM Digital Library Link) Charles Rich, MERL - A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, USA Candace L. Sidner, Lotus Development Corporation, USA

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Debate
Tuesday, Jan 7th - 2:00 to 3:30 pm

Direct Manipulation vs. Interface Agents

Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, USA Position Statement: I believe that user-controlled direct manipulation has the most viable philosophy for the design of advanced user interfaces. Users want comprehensible, predictable and controllable interfaces that offer end-user programming, control panels, style sheets, and effective dialog boxes. Overviews for visibility of the world of action, combined with rapid, incremental filtering and zooming offer appealing opportunities for designers. The dynamic queries strategies with starfield, treemap, cone-tree, LifeLines, network or other information visualizations will enable designers to create appealing information-abundant interfaces. Pattie Maes, MIT Media Laboratory, USA Position Statement: Software agents will bring about a revolution in the way we interact with computers. Agents differ from traditional software in that they are personalized, proactive, long-lived and adaptive. The current dominant metaphor of direct manipulation will be augmented by agents actively assisting the user -- to use Alan Kay's words human-computer interaction as "indirect management". This change in interaction is needed because the personal computer is no longer a tool used in isolation, but rather a window onto a vast and dynamic world of people and information.

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Papers II
Tuesday, Jan 7th - 4:00 to 5:30 pm

Interface Agents

The Selection Recognition Agent: Instant Access to Relevant Information and Operations (ACM Digital Library Link) Milind S. Pandit and Sameer Kalbag, Intel Architecture Laboratories, USA Using Agents to Personalize the Web (ACM Digital Library Link) Christoph G. Thomas, GMD FIT, Germany Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Multimodal User Interfaces in the Open Agent Architecture (ACM Digital Library Link) Douglas B. Moran, Adam J. Cheyer, Luc E. Julia, David L. Martin, SRI International, USA Sangkyu Park, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea

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Poster Reception
Tuesday, Jan 7th - 6:30 to 9:00 pm

An Adaptive Short List for Documents on the World Wide Web (ACM Digital Library Link) Matjaz Debevc, University of Maribor, Slovenia Beth Meyer, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Rajko Svecko, University of Maribor, Slovenia An Interface Agent for Nonroutine Tasks (ACM Digital Library Link) Yuzo Fujishima, NEC Corporation, Japan An Interface for Collaborative and Coached Approaches to Learning Critical Inquiry (ACM Digital Library Link) Dan Suthers and the Advlearn Project, University of Pittsburgh, USA Automating a Classification Task Based on an Augmented Thesaurus (ACM Digital Library Link) Eunok Paek and Hye-Jeong Jeon, LG Electronics Research Center, Korea Easing Interaction through User Awareness (ACM Digital Library Link) Alain Karsenty, Eurecom Institut, France Individual User Interfaces and Model Based User Interface Software Tools (ACM Digital Library Link) Egbert Schlungbaum, University of Rostock, Germany Inductive Task Modeling for User Interface Customization (ACM Digital Library Link) David Maulsby, Stanford University, USA Intelligent Network News Reader (ACM Digital Library Link) Hitoshi Isahara and Hiromi Ozaku, Communications Research Laboratory, Japan Intelligent Word-Prediction to Enhance Text Input Rate (A Syntactic Analysis-Based Word-Prediction Aid for People with Severe Motor and Speech Disability) (ACM Digital Library Link) Nestor Garay-Vitoria and Julio Gonzalez-Abascal, University of the Basque Country, Spain Interactive Model-Based Coding for Face Metaphor User Interface in Network Communications (ACM Digital Library Link) Kazuo Ohzeki, Telecommunications Advancement Organization, Japan Takahiro Saito, Kanagawa University, Japan Masahide Kaneko and Hiroshi Harashima, The University of Tokyo, Japan Management of Interface Design Knowledge with MOBI-D (ACM Digital Library Link) Angel Puerta and David Maulsby, Stanford University, USA Providing User Support for Interactive Applications with FUSE (ACM Digital Library Link) Frank Lonczewski, Munich University of Technology, Germany Response Model of CG Character Based on Timing of Interactions in a Multi-modal Human Interface (ACM Digital Library Link) Kenji Sakamoto, Haruo Hinode, Keiko Watanuki, Susumu Seki, Jiro Kiyama and Fumio Togawa, SHARP Corporation, Japan The Stick-e Note Architecture: Extending the Interface Beyond the User (ACM Digital Library Link) Jason Pascoe, University of Kent at Canterbury, United Kingdom Wizards, Guides, and Beyond: Rational and Empirical Methods for Selecting Optimal Intelligent User Interface Agents (ACM Digital Library Link) D. Christopher Dryer, IBM, USA

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Papers III
Wednesday, Jan 8th - 9:00 to 10:30 am

Presentation Aids / Coordination

Generating Web-Based Presentations in Spatial Hypertext (ACM Digital Library Link) Frank M. Shipman III, Richard Furuta and Catherine C. Marshall , Texas A&M University, USA Adding Animated Presentation Agents to the Interface (ACM Digital Library Link) Thomas Rist, Elisabeth André and Jochen Müller, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany Dynamic Dramatization of Multimedia Story Presentations (ACM Digital Library Link) Nikitas M. Sgouros, George Papakonstantinou, Panagiotis Tsanakas , National Technical University of Athens, Greece

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Papers IV
Wednesday, Jan 8th - 11:00 to 12:30 pm

I/O Support / Spatial awareness

Description and Recognition Methods for Sign Language Based on Gesture Components (ACM Digital Library Link) Hirohiko Sagawa, Masaru Takeuchi and Masaru Ohki, Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, Japan Haptic Output in Multimodal User Interfaces (ACM Digital Library Link) Stefan Münch and Rüdiger Dillmann, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Helping Users Think in Three Dimensions: Steps Toward Incorporating Spatial Cognition in User Modeling (ACM Digital Library Link) Michael Eisenberg, Ann Nishioka and M. E. Schreiner, University of Colorado, USA

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Panel I
Wednesday, Jan 8th - 2:30 to 4 pm

Computational Approaches To Interface Design: What Works, What Doesn't, What Should, and What Might (ACM Digital Library Link)

Organizer: Chris Miller, Honeywell Technology Center, USA Panelists: Kevin Corker, NASA Ames Research Center, USA Mark Maybury, MITRE Corporation, USA Chris Miller, Honeywell Technology Center, USA Angel Puerta, Stanford University, USA Panel Statement: Tools which make use of computational processes-- mathematical, algorithmic and/or knowledge-based-- to perform portions of the design, evaluation and/or construction of interfaces have become increasingly available and powerful. Nevertheless, there is little agreement as to the appropriate role for a computational tool to play in the interface design process. Current tools fall into broad classes depending on which portions, and how much, of the design process they automate. The purpose of this panel is to review and generalize about computational approaches developed to date, discuss the tasks which for which they are suited, and suggest methods to enhance their utility and acceptance. Panel participants represent a wide diversity of application domains and methodologies. This should provide for lively discussion about implementation approaches, accuracy of design decisions, acceptability of representational tradeoffs and the optimal role for a computational tool to play in the interface design process.

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Papers V
Wednesday, Jan 8th - 4:30 to 6:00pm

Automation of Presentations

Top-Down Hierarchical Planning of Coherent Visual Discourse (ACM Digital Library Link) Michelle X. Zhou and Steven K. Feiner, Columbia University, USA Declarative Models of Presentation (ACM Digital Library Link) Pablo Castells, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Pedro Szekely, Information Sciences Institute, USA Ewald Salcher, Graz University of Technology, Austria Integrating Planning and Task-Based Design for Multimedia Presentation (ACM Digital Library Link) Stephan Kerpedjiev, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Giuseppe Carenini, University of Pittsburgh, USA Steven Roth, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Johanna Moore, University of Pittsburgh, USA

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

Applications

The Pedagogical Design Studio: Exploiting Artifact-Based Task Models for Constructivist Learning (ACM Digital Library Link) James C. Lester, Patrick J. FitzGerald and Brian A. Stone, North Carolina State University, USA Some Interface Issues in Developing Intelligent Communication Aids for People with Disabilities (ACM Digital Library Link) Kathleen F. McCoy, Patrick Demasco, and Christopher Pennington, University of Delaware and A.I. duPont Institute Hospital for Children Arlene L. Badman, Prentke Romich Company

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Panel II
Thursday, Jan 9th - 10:30 to 12:00noon

Compelling Intelligent User Interfaces: How Much AI is Enough?

Organizer: Joe Marks, MERL - A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, USA Panelists: Larry Birnbaum, Institute for Learning Sciences, USA Eric Horvitz, Microsoft, USA David Kurlander, Microsoft, USA Henry Lieberman, MIT Media Lab, USA Steve Roth, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Panel Statement: Efforts to incorporate intelligence into the user interface have been underway for decades, but the commercial impact of this work has not lived up to early expectations, and is not immediately apparent. This situation appears to be changing. However, so far the most interesting intelligent user interfaces (IUIs) have tended to use minimal or simplistic AI. In this panel we consider whether more or less AI is the key to the development of compelling IUIs. The panelists will present examples of compelling IUIs that use a selection of AI techniques, mostly simple, but some complex. Each panelist will then comment on the merits of different kinds and quantities of AI in the development of pragmatic interface technology.

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Papers VII
Thursday, Jan 9th - 2:00 to 3:30 pm

Web / Hypermedia

Evaluating the Utility and Usability of an Adaptive Hypermedia System (ACM Digital Library Link) Kristina Höök, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden Multi-level User Support through Adaptive Hypermedia: A Highly Application-Independent Help Component (ACM Digital Library Link) L. Miguel Encarnação, University of Tübingen, Germany Decision Making in Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM Digital Library Link) Constantine Stephanidis, Charalampos Karagiannidis and Adamantios Koumpis, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (ICS-FORTH), Greece

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Closing Remarks
Thursday, Jan 9th - 4:00 to 5:00 pm

Closing Remarks: Introducing the next IUI Conference Ernest Edmonds, IUI97 Conference Co-Chair, Loughborough University of Technology, United Kingdom Plenary Address: What Makes an Intelligent User Interface Intelligent? (ACM Digital Library Link) Doug Riecken, Bell Laboratories, USA Abstract: In this talk, I wish to consider and examine both current research and state-of-the-art technologies applied in advancing human-computer interaction. With a focus on user interfaces, a critical question will be addressed. What makes an Intelligent User Interface (IUI) intelligent? This question provides two distinct venues of investigation. First, the implications of a user's "human intelligence" as applied in a set of dialogs and goal directed tasks performed collectively by both a user and a computer. Second, the potential ability for "computers" to perform in such a manner that they elicit users to interpret a computer's actions as providing a type of "conscious" behavior. The essence of this investigation will attempt to determine: "where is the intelligence?"