UIST '94 Advance Program


Tuesday,November 1

7.00 - 10.00 Evening Reception


Wednesday, November 2

9:00 - 10:30 Opening Session

Session Chair: Steve Feiner Introductory remarks: Pedro Szekely, Steven Feiner Invited Talk: Creating the Invisible Interface Mark Weiser, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

11:00 - 12:45 Visualization I

Session Chair: Marc Brown Galaxy of News: An Approach to Visualizing and Understanding Expansive News Landscapes Earl Rennison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laying Out and Visualizing Large Trees Using a Hyperbolic Space (TechNote) John Lamping and Ramana Rao, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Powers of Ten Thousand: Navigating in Large Information Spaces (TechNote) Henry Lieberman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Pad++: A Zooming Graphical Interface for Exploring Alternate Interface Physics Benjamin B. Bederson, Bell Communications Research James D. Hollan, University of New Mexico Reconnaissance Support for Juggling Multiple Processing Options (TechNote) Aran Lunzer, University of Glasgow

2:30 - 4:00 Speech and Sound

Session Chair: Rob Jacob Putting People First: Specifying Proper Names in Speech Interfaces Matt Marx and Chris Schmandt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology An Architecture for Transforming Graphical Interfaces W. Keith Edwards and Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Georgia Institute of Technology ENO: Synthesizing Structured Sound Spaces Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Universite' de Paris-Sud William W. Gaver, Rank Xerox EuroPARC

4:30 - 6:00 Groupware and 3D Tools

Session Chair: George Robertson An Architecture for an Extensible 3D Interface Toolkit Marc P. Stevens, Robert C. Zeleznik, and John F. Hughes, Brown University 3D Widgets for Exploratory Scientific Visualization (TechNote) Kenneth P. Herndon and Tom Meyer, Brown University Building Distributed, Multi-User Applications by Direct Manipulation Krishna Bharat, Georgia Institute of Technology Marc H. Brown, DEC Systems Research Center ramonamap-An Example of Graphical Groupware (TechNote) Joel F. Bartlett, DEC Western Research Laboratory

8:00 - 10:00 Demos

Pad++: Advances in Multiscale Interfaces Benjamin B. Bederson, Larry Stead, Bell Communications Research James D. Hollan, University of New Mexico Abstract Data Visualization at AT&T: Software and Beyond Brian S. Johnson, AT&T Bell Laboratories TacTool: A Tactile Interface Development Tool David Keyson, Institute for Perception Research, Eindhoven Powers of Ten Thousand: A Translucent Zooming Technique Henry Lieberman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology SpeechActs Nicole Yankelovich, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc.

Thursday, November 3

9:00 - 10:30 Demonstrational User Interfaces

Session Chair: Henry Lieberman Interactive Generation of Graphical User Interfaces by Multiple Visual Examples Ken Miyashita, Satoshi Matsuoka, Shin Takahashi, and Akinori Yonezawa, University of Tokyo A Pure Reasoning Engine for Programming by Demonstration Martin R. Frank and James D. Foley, Georgia Institute of Technology Evolutionary Learning of Graph Layout Constraints from Examples Toshiyuki Masui, Sharp Corporation

11:00 - 12:30 Visualization II

Session Chair: Chris Schmandt Developing Calendar Visualizers for the Information Visualizer Jock D. Mackinlay, George G. Robertson, and Robert DeLine, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Data Visualization Sliders (TechNote) Stephen G. Eick, AT&T Bell Labs, Napierville Translucent Patches-Dissolving Windows Axel Kramer, GMD (German National Research Center for Computer Science) Nova: Low-Cost Data Animation Using a Radar-Sweep Metaphor (TechNote) Ralph E. Griswold, University of Arizona Clinton L. Jeffery, University of Texas, San Antonio

2:30 - 4:00 Panel

Model-based User Interfaces: What are They and Why Should We Care? Organizers: Noi Sukaviriya, Georgia Institute of Technology Srdjan Kovacevic, US West Technologies Panelists: James D. Foley, Georgia Institute of Technology Brad Myers, Carnegie Mellon University Dan Olsen, Brigham Young University Matthias Schneider-Hufschmidt, Siemens Corporate Research, Munich

4:30 - 6:00 Constraints

Session Chair: Satoshi Matsuoka SkyBlue: A Multi-Way Local Propagation Constraint Solver for User Interface Construction Michael Sannella, University of Washington Dialing for Documents: An Experiment in Information Theory Harald Rau and Steven S. Skiena, State University of New York at Stony Brook Optimizing Toolkit-Generated Graphical Interfaces Bradley T. Vander Zanden, University of Tennessee

7:00 Banquet


Friday, November 4

9:00 - 10:30 Invited Talk

Session Chair: Pedro Szekely Trends in the Computer Industry: Life-Long Subscriptions, Magical Cures, and Profits Along the Information Highway Don Norman, Apple Computer

11:00 - 12:30 Drawing and Sketching

Session Chair: Noi Sukaviriya The Effects of Blending Graphics and Layout Steven H. Tang, Fujitsu Ltd. Mark A. Linton, Silicon Graphics A Perceptually-Supported Sketch Editor Eric Saund and Thomas P. Moran, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center A Mark-Based Interaction Paradigm for Free-Hand Drawing Thomas Baudel, Universite' de Paris-Sud

2:00 - 3:30 Two Hands and Three Dimensions

Session Chair: David Kurlander Extending a Graphical Toolkit for Two-Handed Interaction Ste'phane Chatty, Centre d'Etudes de la Navigation Ae'rienne Two-Handed Polygonal Surface Design Chris Shaw and Mark Green, University of Alberta A Survey of Design Issues in Spatial Input Ken Hinckley, Randy Pausch, John C. Goble, and Neal F. Kassell, University of Virginia

Symposium ends at 4pm