UIST 2008 Program
21st UIST @ Monterey, CA

      

       

       

 

       

       

 

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Preliminary program (Subject to change)

Sunday, October 19, 2008                                 Back to top

8:00am-6:00pm Doctoral Symposium, by invitation only
5:00pm-9:00pm Registration 
5:00pm-9:00pm Welcome Reception
 

Monday, October 20, 2008                                 Back to top

8:00am Registration & Continental Breakfast 
9:00-9:15am Opening Remarks
9:15-10:15am Keynote: Dan Olsen
Session Chair: Steve Cousins
10:15-10:45am Break
10:45am-12:30pm

Papers Session 1: Interaction with Space and Time
Session Chair: Wendy MacKay, INRIA France

Video Object Annotation, Navigation, and Composition
Dan B Goldman, Adobe
Chris Gonterman, University of Washington
Brian Curless, University of Washington
David Salesin, Adobe \ University of Washington
Steven M. Seitz, University of Washington

Creating Map-based Storyboards for Browsing Tour Videos
Suporn Pongnumkul, University of Washington
Jue Wang, Adobe Systems
Michael Cohen, Microsoft Research

An Application-independent System for Visualizing User Operation History
Toshio Nakamura, The University of Tokyo
Takeo Igarashi, The University of Tokyo / JST ERATO

Annotating Gigapixel Images  
Qing Luan, University of Science and Technology of China
Steven Drucker, Microsoft Live Labs Research
Johannes Kopf, University of Konstanz
Ying-Qing Xu, Microsoft Research Asia
Michael Cohen, Microsoft Research

12:30-2:00pm Lunch on your own at nearby restaurants
2:00-3:30pm   

Papers Session 2: Gestures for Interaction
Session Chair: Patrick Baudisch, Microsoft Research, USA

OctoPocus: A Dynamic Guide for Learning Gesture-Based Command Sets
Olivier Bau, INRIA Saclay / LRI
Wendy Mackay, INRIA Saclay / LRI

Kinematic Templates: End-User Tools for Content-Relative Cursor Manipulations
Richard Fung, University of Waterloo
Edward Lank, University of Waterloo
Celine Latulipe, UNC Charlotte
Michael Terry, University of Waterloo

Attribute Gates
Ahmed Sulaiman, Culture Lab - Newcastle University
Patrick Olivier, Culture Lab - Newcastle University

3:30-4:00pm Break
4:00-5:15pm   

Papers Session 3: Touch and Pressure
Session Chair: Kelly Booth, University of British Columbia, Canada

Bringing Physics to the Surface
Andrew Wilson, Microsoft Research
Shahram Izadi, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Otmar Hilliges, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Armando Garcia-Mendoza, Microsoft Research Cambridge
David Kirk, Microsoft Research Cambridge

Sphere: Multi-Touch Interactions on a Spherical Display
Hrvoje Benko, Microsoft Research
Andrew D. Wilson, Microsoft Research
Ravin Balakrishnan, University of Toronto \ Microsoft Research

Extending 2D Object Arrangement with Pressure-Sensitive Layering Cues
Philip Davidson, Perceptive Pixel
Jefferson Han, Perceptive Pixel
 

5:15-6:00pm One-minute madness
7:00-11:00pm Demo Reception

Tuesday, October 21, 2008                                 Back to top

8:00am Registration & Continental Breakfast 
9:00-10:30am

Papers Session 4: Tools and Infrastructures
Session Chair: James Fogarty, University of Washington, USA

Design As Exploration: Creating Interface Alternatives through Parallel Authoring and Runtime Tuning
Björn Hartmann, Stanford University
Loren Yu, Stanford University
Abel Allison, Stanford University
Yeonsoo Yang, Stanford University
Scott Klemmer, Stanford University

An Infrastructure for Extending Applications' User Experiences Across Multiple Personal Devices
Jeffrey Pierce, IBM Research
Jeffrey Nichols, IBM Research

Iterative Design and Evaluation of an Event Architecture for Pen-and-Paper Interfaces
Ron Yeh, Stanford University
Andreas Paepcke, Stanford University
Scott Klemmer, Stanford University
 

10:30-11:00am Morning Break
11:00am-12:30pm

Papers Session 5:  Text and Speech
Session Chair: Dan Olsen, Brigham Young University, USA

"Is the Sky Pure Today?" AwkChecker: An Assistive Tool for Detecting and Correcting Collocation Errors
Taehyun Park, University of Waterloo
Edward Lank, University of Waterloo
Pascal Poupart, University of Waterloo
Michael Terry, University of Waterloo

Inky: A Sloppy Command Line for the Web with Rich Visual Feedback
Robert Miller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Victoria Chou, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Bernstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Greg Little, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Max Van Kleek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Karger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
mc schraefel, University of Southampton

Search Vox: Leveraging Partial Knowledge and Multimodal Refinement for Mobile Voice Search
Tim Paek, Microsoft Research
Bo Thiesson, Microsoft Research
Y.C. Ju, Microsoft Research
Bongshin Lee, Microsoft Research

12.30-2:00pm Lunch on your own at nearby restaurants
2:00-3:30pm

Papers Session 6:  Sketching, Drawing and Painting
Session Chair: James Landay, University of Washington, USA

ILoveSketch: As-Natural-As-Possible Sketching System for Creating 3D Curve Models
Seok-Hyung Bae, University of Toronto
Ravin Balakrishnan, University of Toronto
Karan Singh, University of Toronto

Lineogrammer: Creating Diagrams by Drawing
Robert Zeleznik, Brown University
Andrew Bragdon, Brown University
Chu-Chi Liu, Brown University
Andrew Forsberg, Brown University

Edge-Respecting Brushes
Dan Olsen, Brigham Young University
Mitchell Harris, Brigham Young University
 

3:30-4:00pm Coffee break
4:00-5:30pm 

Papers Session 7:  Scratching, Tapping, Rubbing and Rolling
Session Chair: Steven Feiner, Columbia University, USA

Tapping and Rubbing: exploring new dimensions of tactile feedback with voice coil motors
Kevin Li, University of California, San Diego
Patrick Baudisch, Microsoft Research
James Hollan, University of California, San Diego
William Griswold, University of California, San Diego

An Exploration of Pen Rolling for Pen-based Interaction
Xiaojun Bi, University of Toronto
Tomer Moscovich, University of Toronto
Gonzalo Ramos, Microsoft Live Labs
Ravin Balakrishnan, University of Toronto
Ken Hinckley, Microsoft Research

SideSight: Multi-"touch" interaction around small devices
Alex Butler, Microsoft Research, Cambridge
Shahram Izadi, Microsoft Research, Cambridge
Steve Hodges, Microsoft Research, Cambridge

Scratch Input: Creating Large, Inexpensive, Unpowered and Mobile Finger Input Surfaces
Chris Harrison, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Scott E. Hudson, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

7:00-10:30pm Banquet at Monterey Bay Aquarium

Wednesday: October 22, 2008                                 Back to top

8:00am Registration & Continental Breakfast 
9:00-10:00am

Keynote: Cynthia Breazeal
Session Chair: Steve Cousins

10:00-10:30am Break
10:30-Noon

Papers Session 8: Activity-Based Interaction
Session Chair: Meredith Ringel Morris, Microsoft Research, USA

Re-framing the Desktop Interface Around the Activities of Knowledge Work
Stephen Voida, University of Calgary
Elizabeth D. Mynatt, GVU Center \ Georgia Institute of Technology
W. Keith Edwards, GVU Center \ Georgia Institute of Technology

The ProD Framework for Proactive Displays
Ben Congleton, University of Michigan
Mark Ackerman University of Michigan
Mark Newman University of Michigan

Taskposé: Exploring Fluid Boundaries in an Associative Window Visualization
Michael Bernstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jeff Shrager, Stanford University
Terry Winograd, Stanford University

Backward Highlighting: Enhancing Faceted Search
Max L. Wilson, University of Southampton
Paul André, University of Southampton
m.c. schraefel, University of Southampton

Noon-1:30pm Lunch on your own at nearby restaurants
1:30pm-3:00pm

Papers Session 9: Interacting with the Web
Session Chair: m.c. schraefel, University of Southampton, UK

Zoetrope: Interacting with the Ephemeral Web
Eytan Adar, University of Washington, CSE
Mira Dontcheva, Adobe Systems, Advanced Technology Labs
James Fogarty, University of Washington, CSE
Daniel Weld, University of Washington, CSE

Highlight: A System for Creating and Deploying Mobile Web Applications
Jeffrey Nichols, IBM Research
Zhigang Hua, Georgia Insitute of Technology
John Barton, IBM Research

Browsing Large HTML Tables on Small Screens
Keishi Tajima, Kyoto University
Kaori Ohnishi, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

3:00-3:30pm Break
3:30-4:45pm

Papers Session 10: Display and Input Technologies
Session Chair: Scott Klemmer, Stanford University, USA

Going Beyond the Display: A Surface Technology with an Electronically Switchable Diffuser
Shahram Izadi, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Steve Hodges, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Stuart Taylor, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Dan Rosenfeld, Microsoft
Nicolas Villar, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Alex Butler, Microsoft Research Cambridge
Jonathan Westhues, Microsoft

Lightweight Material Detection for Placement-Aware Mobile Computing
Chris Harrison, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Scott E. Hudson, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Towards More Paper-like Input: Flexible Input Devices for Foldable Interaction Styles
Dave Gallant, Queen's University
Andrew Seniuk, Queen's University
Roel Vertegaal, Queen's University

Foldable Interactive Displays
Johnny Lee, Carnegie Mellon University
Scott Hudson, Carnegie Mellon University
Edward Tse, University of Calgary

4:45-5:15pm Town Hall Meeting

Demos & Posters: Monday, October 20, 2008, 7pm -11pm

 


DEMONSTRATIONS

The UnMousePad:  An Inexpensive Pressure-Sensitive Multi-Touch Input
Pad Ilya Rosenberg, Ken Perlin
New York University Media Research Lab

Augmenting Real-world Objects by Detecting "Invisible" Visual Markers
Yasuyuki Kono, Yuuki Nouta Kwansei
Gakuin University

Rapid Prototyping of Multimodal Interactive Applications Based on Off-The-Shelf Heterogeneous Components
Jean-Yves Lawson, Jean Vanderdonckt, Benoit Macq
Université catholique de Louvain

uWave: Accelerometer-based Personalized Gesture Recognition
Jiayang Liu, Zhen Wang, Lin Zhong, Rice University
Jehan Wickramasuriya, Venu Vasudevan Motorola Labs

Peek and Look: Accessing Off-Screen Targets Using Head Tracking
Clayton Epp, Miguel Nacenta, Carl Gutwin, Regan Mandryk
University of Saskatchewan

Amplifying Community Content Creation with Mixed-Initiative Information Extraction
Raphael Hoffmann, Saleema Amershi, Kayur Patel, Fei Wu, James Fogarty, Daniel S. Weld
University of Washington

Cooperative Multi-Application Sketching
Ryan Dixon, Timothy Sherwood
University of California, Santa Barbara

TweezersDevice: A Device Facilitating Pick and Move Manipulation in Spatial Works
Akimasa Uesaka, Kengo Fukuda, Fumihisa Shibata, Hideyuki Tamura
Ritsumeikan University
Asako Kimura, PRESTO

Ambient Life: Permanent Tactile Life-like Actuation as a Status Display in Mobile Phones
Fabian Hemmert
Deutsche Telekom Laboratories

Camera-Assisted Self Portraits on Mobile Devices: Although I can't see, I can hear.
Nathan Sakunkoo, Patty Sakunkoo
Stanford University

DashSearch: Desktop Widget based Desktop Search for Metadata Exploitation
Takayuki Goto
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies
Hideaki Takeda
National Institute of Informatics

Michiaki Yasumura
Faculty of Environmental Information, Keio University

ILoveSketch: As-Natural-As-Possible Sketching System for Creating 3D Curve Models
Seok-Hyung Bae, Ravin Balakrishnan, Karan Singh
University of Toronto

Creating Map-based Storyboards for Browsing Tour Videos
Suporn Pongnumkul
University of Washington

Jue Wang
Adobe Systems

Michael Cohen
Microsoft Research

Search Vox: Leveraging Multimodal Refinement and Partial Knowledge for Mobile Voice Search
Tim Paek, Bo Thiesson, Yun-Cheng Ju, Bongshin Lee
Microsoft Research

Attribute Gates
Ahmed Sulaiman, Patrick Olivier
Culture Lab - Newcastle University

Backward Highlighting: Enhancing Faceted Search
Max L. Wilson, Paul André, m.c. schraefel
University of Southampton

"Is the Sky Pure Today?"
AwkChecker: An Assistive Tool for Detecting and Correcting Collocation Errors

Taehyun Park, Ed Lank, Pascal Poupart, Michael Terry
University of Waterloo

Sphere: Multi-Touch Interactions on a Spherical Display
Hrvoje Benko, Andrew D.  Wilson
Microsoft Research
Ravin Balakrishnan
University of Toronto

SideSight: Multi-"touch" interaction around small devices
Alex Butler, Shahram Izadi, Steve Hodges
Microsoft Research

Going Beyond the Display: A Surface Technology
Shahram Izadi, Steve Hodges, Stuart Taylor, Nicolas Villar, Alex Butler
Microsoft Research
Dan Rosenfeld, Jonathan Westhues
Microsoft

Annotating Gigapixel Images
Qing Luan
University of Science and Technology of China
Steven Drucker
Microsoft Live Labs Research
Johannes Kopf
University of Konstanz
Ying-Qing Xu
Microsoft Research Asia
Michael Cohen
Microsoft Research

Highlight: A System for Creating and Deploying Mobile Applications
Jeffrey Nichols, John Barton
IBM Research
Zhigang Hua
Georgia Institute of Technology

An Infrastructure for Extending Applications' User Experiences Across Multiple Personal Devices
Jeffrey Pierce, Jeffrey Nichols
IBM Research

Kinematic Templates: End-User Tools for Content-Relative Cursor Manipulations
Richard Fung, Edward Lank, Michael Terry
University of Waterloo
Celine Latulipe
UNC Charlotte

In*quire: Faceted search for people
Julia Grace, IBM Almaden Research Center
Jan Pieper, IBM Almaden Research Center

Customizing content on a digital table for collaborative learning
Edward Tse, SMART Technologies
Gerald Morrison, SMART Technologies

What the iPhone can and can't do well: Novel interaction techniques for touch enabled mobile devices
Volker Roth, FX Palo Alto Laboratory

Posters

Harvesting Helpfulness: A Case Study of an Online Farmers' Forum
Neil Patel, Greg Schwartz, Steve Marmon
Stanford University

Ideas2Ideas: Encouraging constructive ideation in an on-line, mass-participation brainstorming system
Michel Krieger, Yan Yan Wang
Stanford University

Obtaining Help with GUI using Screenshots
Tom Yeh, Rob Miller
MIT

Rehearse: Coding Interactively while Prototyping
William Choi, Joel Brandt, Scott Klemmer
Stanford University

Testing Physical Computing Prototypes Through Time-Shifted & Simulated Input Traces
Timothy Cardenas, Marcello Bastea-Forte, Antonio Ricciardi, Bjoern Hartmann, Scott Klemmer
Stanford University

A Framework for using the iPhone as a Wireless Input Device for Interactive Systems
Jonathan Diehl, Jan-Peter Krämer, Jan Borchers
RWTH Aachen University

An Event Optimization Scheme for the Multi-Window System on Mobile Phones
Jianming Wu, Toshiaki Uemukai, Kazunori Matsumoto, Yasuhiro Takishima, Fumiaki Sugaya
KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc.

Improving List Selection Performance with Pressure-Sensitivity on a Scroll Ring
Jonathan Diehl, Maximilian Möllers, Jan Borchers
RWTH Aachen University

Froggy: A Tool for Enhancing Web Page Readability
Chen-Hsiang Yu, Robert C. Miller
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Interaction Methods for Large-Group Coordination in Single-Display Groupware
Neema Moraveji, Michael Smith, Marcia Lee
Stanford University

AtomsMasher: Personal Reactive Automation for the Web
Max Van Kleek, Michael Bernstein, David Karger, Rob Miller
MIT
Paul Andre, mc schraefel
University of Southampton
Mikko Perttunen
University of Oulu

SemantiLynx: Using Context Based Icons for Web Navigation and Directed Search Tasks
Vidya Setlur
Nokia Research Center
Sam Rossoff, Bruce Gooch
University of Victoria

Correcting Distorted Objects Formed in a Concave Mirror
Yukio Ishihara, Makio Ishihara
Faculty of Information Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology

Aiding Human Discovery of Handwriting Recognition Errors
Ryan Stedman, Edward Lank, Michael Terry
University of Waterloo

A Literal Digital Clay Medium
Michael Reed
Blue Sky Studios

Tangible Interaction Techniques for Tabletop Architectural Design
Takuma Hosokawa, Atsunobu Narita, Mitsunori Hirano, Kazuhiko Tanaka NTT COMWARE

 

Doctoral Symposium: Sunday, October 19, 2008, 8am-6pm

 

 

Designing Easily Learnable Eyes-free Interaction
Kevin Li
University of California, San Diego

Tracing, indexing, and retrieving desktop activity with the Passages system
Karl Gyllstrom
UNC-Chapel Hill

Interaction and Presentation Techniques for Situated Visualization
Sean White
Columbia University

Automatic Assessment and Adaptation to Real World Pointing Performance
Amy Hurst
Carnegie Mellon

Context-Sensitive Intelligent Cueing
Julie Weber
University of Michigan

Real-Time Hand-Tracking as a User-Input Device
Robert Wang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cross-display Object Movement in Multi-Display Environments
Miguel Nacenta
University of Saskatchewan

Common and User-Friendly Text Input Interfaces for Asian Syllabic Languages Mobile Devices
Ye Kyaw Thu
Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies, Waseda University

 


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