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Tuesday, Jan 05	Wednesday, Jan 06	Thursday, Jan 07	Friday, Jan 08
9:30 - 12:30 Tutorial I Intelligent Interfaces	9:00 - 10:30 Opening Session Plenary Address Wolfgang Wahlster	8:45 - 9:50 Papers III Reactive and Adaptive Interfaces	8:45 - 9:40 Papers VI Programmable/ Instructable Interfaces
2:00 - 5:00 Tutorial II Designing and Evaluating IUIs	11:00 - 12:30 Papers I Information Retrieval Agents	10:30 - 12:00 Panel II IUI & Agents for the Millennium	10:15 - 11:05 Papers VII Model-based Interfaces
2:00 - 5:00 Tutorial III Intelligent Interface Agents	2:00 - 3:30 Panel I Bridging Science and Applications	1:45 - 2:45 Invited Speaker Plenary Address Candy Sidner and Daniel Coffman	11:30 - 12:30 Closing Session Plenary Address Kristian J. Hammond
7:30 - 9:00 Welcome Reception and Registration	4:00 - 5:05 Papers II Collaborative Filtering & Interfaces	3:00 - 3:55 Papers IV Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces
	7:00 - 9:00 Reception Interactive posters and demonstrations	4:30 - 5:20 Papers V Visual and Plan-based Interfaces
		7:00 - 9:00 Demo Night ISI Demo Night

Tutorial I
Tuesday, Jan 5th - 9:30 to 12:30 pm

Intelligent Interfaces: An Introduction (ACM Digital Library Link)
Mark Maybury, The MITRE Corporation

Abstract: Intelligent user interfaces promise to improve interaction for all. Drawing upon material from the recently completed Readings in Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) (Maybury and Wahlster, 1998), this tutorial will define terms, outline the history, describe key subfields, and exemplify and demonstrate intelligent user interfaces in action. About Mark Maybury: Mark Maybury received his M.Phil. in Computer Speech and Language Processing (1987) and his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence (1991) for his dissertation, "Generating Multisentential Text using Communicative Acts" at Cambridge University. He was awarded an MBA from RPI in 1989. Mark has organised multiple international symposia, given tutorials, and published over fifty technical and tutorial articles in the area of language generation, multimedia presentation, text summarization, and intelligent multimedia information retrieval. Mark is editor of Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces (AAAI/MIT Press, 1993), Intelligent Multimedia Information Retrieval (AAAI/MIT Press, 1997) and co-editor of Readings on Intelligent User Interfaces (Morgan Kaufmann Press, 1998), Advances in Text Summarization (MIT Press, 1999) and Readings in Knowledge Management (forthcoming). Mark is Executive Director for of MITRE’s Information Systems Division.

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Tutorial II
Tuesday, Jan 5th - 2:00 to 5:00 pm

Designing and Evaluating Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM Digital Library Link)
Kristina Höök, SICS, Swedish Institute of Computer Science

Abstract: Intelligent user interfaces have been proposed as a means to overcome some of the problems that direct-manipulation interfaces cannot handle, such as: information overflow problems; providing help on how to use complex systems; or real-time cognitive overload problems. Intelligent user interfaces are also being proposed as a means to make sys-tems individualised or personalised, thereby increasing the systems flexibility and appeal. But in order for intelligent user interface to gain ground and be of real use to their users, more attention has to be given to usability issues. In this tutorial we shall discuss methods for design and evaluation of intelligent user interfaces from a usability perspective. About Kristina Höök: Instructor Kristina Höök is a researcher at SICS, the Swed-ish Institute of Computer Science. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer and Systems Sciences. The thesis topic was the design, implementation and evaluation of an adaptive hy-permedia system to be used in an industrial setting at Er-icsson AB. Kristina also gives a course on Intelligent User Interfaces at the Royal Institute of Technology and Stock-holm University in Stockholm.

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Tutorial III
Tuesday, Jan 5th - 2:00 to 5:00 pm

Intelligent Interface Agents (ACM Digital Library Link)
Henry Lieberman, MIT Media Lab

Abstract: Attendees will come away with a real, no-nonsense under-standing of "the agent phenomenon"; why people are ex-cited about agents, what the range of applicability of interface agent systems is, what is good and bad about agents, how to learn more about agents, and what is necessary to build them. About Henry Lieberman: Henry Lieberman has been a Research Scientist at the MIT Media Laboratory since 1987. He is a member of the Software Agents group, which is concerned with making intelligent software that assists users in interactive interfaces. His current projects involve intelligent agents for the Web that learn by "watching what you do." Other projects include an interactive graphic editor that learns from examples, and from annotation on images and video; debugging and visualization for programming environments, and new graphic metaphors for information visualization and navigation. From 1972-87, he was a researcher at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where he worked in the group that originally developed Logo, and with Carl Hewitt on Actors. He introduced the notion of prototypes in object-oriented systems. He holds a doctoral-equivalent degree from the University of Paris VI and was a Visiting Professor there in 1989-90.

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Welcome
Tuesday, Jan 5th - 7:30 to 9:00 pm

Opening Reception and Registration

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Opening Session
Wednesday, Jan 6th - 9:00 to 10:30 am

Opening Remarks: Pedro Szekely, USC/ISI Christoph Thomas, GMD Mark Maybury, The MITRE Corporation Plenary Address: Agent-based multimedia interaction for virtual Web pages (ACM Digital Library Link) Wolfgang Wahlster, Director, German Research Center for AI (DFKI) About Wolfgang Wahlster: Wolfgang Wahlster is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Saarbruecken, Germany and the Director of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). He received his diploma and doctoral degree in computer science and computational linguistics from the University of Hamburg. Since 1975 he has been working in the field as a principal investigator in various intelligent user interface projects, including HAM-ANS, XTRA, VITRA, PHI, RAP and WIP, PPP and AiA. He has published more than 150 technical papers on man-machine communication.

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Papers I
Wednesday, Jan 6th - 11:00 to 12:30 pm

Information Retrieval Agents

Collapsible User Interfaces for Information Retrieval Agents (ACM Digital Library Link) Martin Frank and Pedro Szekely, USC/ISI Multi-agent Learning Approach to WWW Information Retrieval using Neural Network (ACM Digital Library Link) Yong S. Choi, Suk I. Yoo, Seoul National University IBOT: Application-independent agent communication through the user interface (ACM Digital Library Link) Luke S. Zettlemoyer, Martin S. Dulberg, Robert St. Amant, North Carolina State University Butterfly: A Conversation Finding Agent for Internet Relay Chat (ACM Digital Library Link) Neil Van Dyke, Henry Lieberman, Pattie Maes, MIT Media Laboratory

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Panel I
Wednesday, Jan 6th - 2:00 to 3:30 pm

Bridging Science and Applications (ACM Digital Library Link)
Organizer: Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin

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Papers II
Wednesday, Jan 6th - 4:00 to 5:05 pm

Collaborative Filtering & Interfaces

Documentation Know-how Sharing by Automatic Process Tracking (ACM Digital Library Link) Kenji Satoh and Akitoshi Okumura, NEC Corporation Collecting User Access Patterns for Building User Profiles and Collaborative filtering (ACM Digital Library Link) Ahmad M. Ahmad Wasfi, University of Science Malaysia Let's Browse: A Collaborative Web Browsing Agent (ACM Digital Library Link) Henry Lieberman, Neil Van Dyke, Adriana Vivacqua, MIT Media Laboratory

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Reception
Wednesday, Jan 6th - 7:00 to 9:00 pm

Interactive Posters and Demonstrations

ConCall: Edited and Adaptive Information Filtering (ACM Digital Library Link) Annika Waern, Mark Tierney, Asa Rudstrom, and Jarmo Laaksolahti, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) Adaptive Support: The Intelligent Tour Guide (ACM Digital Library Link) Marc Rössel, FORWISS (Bavarian Research Center for Knowledge-based Systems) Evaluating Adaptive Navigation Support (ACM Digital Library Link) Kristina Höök, HUMLE, SICS Martin Svensson, DSV, Stockholm Univeristy STARzoom - An Interactive Visual Database Interface (ACM Digital Library Link) Per Bruno, Viktor Ehrenberg and Lars Eric Holmquist, Viktoria Institute Visual Querying and Explanation of Recommendations from Collaborative Filtering Systems (ACM Digital Library Link) Junichi Tatemura, University of Tokyo Stack Search - A Graphical Search Model (ACM Digital Library Link) Ted Skolnick, The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition Opportunistic Exploration of Large Consumer Product Spaces (ACM Digital Library Link) Doug Bryan and Anatole Gershman, Andersen Consulting A Software Agent for Performance Improvement of Existing Information Retrieval Systems (ACM Digital Library Link) Maj. Bernard J. Jansen, United States Military Academy Multilingual "Worldtrek" for authoring and comprehension (ACM Digital Library Link) Marie-Luce Picard, Electricité de France Eric Boudaillier, Unifix WordView: Understanding Words in Context (ACM Digital Library Link) Lorraine Normore, Mark Bendig and Carol Jean Godby, Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) PESCE: A Visual Generator for Software Understanding (ACM Digital Library Link) Rogelio Adobbati, W. Lewis Johnson and Stacy Marsella, University of Southern California Visual Presentation Agents for 3D Environments (ACM Digital Library Link) Volker Paelke, University of Paderborn A High-Level "Tasking" Interface for Uninhabited Combat Air Vehicles (ACM Digital Library Link) Christopher A. Miller, Michael Pelican, and Robert Goldman, Honeywell Technology Center Mobile Communication and Interaction in Context (ACM Digital Library Link) Jo Herstad, University of Oslo Do Van Thanh, Ericsson AS Jan Arild Audestad, Telenor AS A Contextual Analysis of Referring Gestures (ACM Digital Library Link) Frederic Wolff and Laurent Romary, Loria The Optimization Assistant - Helping Engineers Explore Design Through Collaboration (ACM Digital Library Link) Ted Long, Engineous Software Inc. Story Mat: A Play Space with Narrative Memories (ACM Digital Library Link) Kimiko Ryokai and Justine Cassell, MIT Media Laboratory Programming Constraint System by Demonstration (ACM Digital Library Link) Takashi Hattori, Keio University

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Papers III
Thursday, Jan 7th - 8:45 to 9:50 am

Reactive and Adaptive Interfaces

Generating Mixed-Initiative Hypertexts: a Reactive Approach (ACM Digital Library Link) Berardina DeCarolis, University of Bari Making Systems Sensitive to the User's Time and Working Memory Constraints (ACM Digital Library Link) Anthony Jameson, Ralph Schafer, Thomas Weis, Andre Berthold and Thomas Weyrath, University of Saarbrucken Adapting to User Preferences in Crisis Response (ACM Digital Library Link) Wayne Iba and Melinda Gervasio, Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise

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Panel II
Thursday, Jan 7th - 10:30 to noon

IUI and Agents for the Millennium (ACM Digital Library Link)

Organizer: Henry Lieberman, MIT Media Lab Participants (Tentative): Henry Lieberman, MIT Media Lab Ted Selker, IBM Jeff Bradshaw, Boeing Yolanda Gil, ISI

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Invited Speaker
Thursday, Jan 7th - 1:45 to 2:45 pm

Plenary Address: Collaborative, Spoken-Language Interface Agents (ACM Digital Library Link) Candy Sidner, Research Scientist, Lotus Research Daniel Coffman, Research Staff, IBM Speech Research About Candy Sidner: Candy Sidner has been a research scientist at Lotus Development Corporation since 1993. Before coming to Lotus, she had been a member of the research staff at Cambridge Research Lab (Digital Equipment Corporation), visiting fellow at Harvard University, and a Division Scientist at Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. At Lotus, Candy is pursuing research in three areas: (1) collaborative interface agents, (2) the use of speech understanding with Lotus products, (3) studies of email overload and use in order to produce better email related tools. About Daniel Coffman: Dr. Coffman obtained his undergraduate degree in Physics from Yale University in 1979 and completed graduate study at the California Institute of Technology in 1986. For the following eight years he worked as a research associate in the physics department of Cornell University. While there he contributed to particle accelerator and detector design, cryogenic systems, and supercondcuting radio frequency cavities. His principle area of research was the study of photon-photon interactions. Since 1996, he has been employed by IBM at the T.J. Watson Research Center as a member of the Human Language Technologies department. His efforts there have been devoted to internet-based speech applications and conversational systems.

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Papers IV
Thursday, Jan 7th - 3:00 to 3:55pm

Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces

Mixing scripted interaction with task-oriented language processing in a conversational interface (ACM Digital Library Link) Gene Ball, Microsoft Research A Robust Selection System Using Real-time Multi-modal User-agent Interactions (ACM Digital Library Link) Katsumi Tanaka, Toshiba Cooperation, Kansai Research Laboratories User Acceptance of an Intelligent User Interface: A Rotorcraft Pilot's Associate Example (ACM Digital Library Link) Christopher A. Miller, Honeywell Technology Center Matthew D. Hannen, The Boeing Company

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Papers V
Thursday, Jan 7th - 4:30 to 5:20 pm

Visual and Plan-based Interfaces

Intelligent Multi-Shot Visualization Interfaces For Dynamic 3D Worlds (ACM Digital Library Link) William H. Bares and James C. Lester, North Carolina State University Integrating Organizational Memory and Performance Support (ACM Digital Library Link) Christopher Johnson, Larry Birnbaum, Northwestern University Ray Bareiss, Tom Hinrichs, Learning Sciences Corporation Planning and User Interface Affordances (ACM Digital Library Link) Robert St. Amant, North Carolina State University

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Reception
Thursday, Jan 7th - 7:00 to 9:00 pm

ISI Demonstration Night

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Papers VI
Friday, Jan 8th - 8:45 to 9:40 am

Programmable/Instructable Interfaces

Programming by Demonstration: An Inductive Learning Formulation (ACM Digital Library Link) Tessa A. Lau and Daniel S. Weld, University of Washington InfoBeans-Configuration of Personalized Information Services (ACM Digital Library Link) Mathias Bauer and Dietmar Dengler, DFKI An Instructable, Adaptive Interface for Discovering and Monitoring Information on the World-Wide Web (ACM Digital Library Link) Jude Shavlik, Susan Calcari, Tina Eliassi-Rad and Jack Solock, University of Wisconsin

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Papers VII
Friday, Jan 8th - 10:15 to 11:05 am

Model-based Interfaces

Developing Adaptable Hypermedia (ACM Digital Library Link) Fabio Paterno and Cristiano Mancini, CNUCE-C.N.R. Towards a General Computational Framework for Model-Based Interface (ACM Digital Library Link) Angel Puerta and Jacob Eisenstein, Stanford University

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Closing Session
Friday, Jan 9th - 11:30 to 12:30 pm

Plenary Address: Anticipating User’s Needs: Redeeming Big Brother in the Information Age (ACM Digital Library Link) Kristian J. Hammond, University of Chicago About Kristian Hammond: Kristian Hammond received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University in May of 1986. From 1986 until September of 1998, he was the Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Chicago and guided the development of intelligent agents in domains ranging from radiation treatment therapy to geometry problem solving and real-time game playing. His focus has been on the development of models of cognition based on episodic memory and the view of reasoning as reminding. Closing Remarks: Pedro Szekely, USC/ISI Christoph Thomas, GMD Mark Maybury, The MITRE Corporation