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UIST History
| Year | Place | Program Chair | General Chair | ACM # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Virtual Event | Ranjitha Kumar / Michael Nebeling | Jeff Nichols | |
| 2020 | Virtual Event (was Minneapolis, MN, USA) | Fanny Chevalier / Stefanie Mueller | Shamsi Iqbal / Karon MacLean | |
| 2019 | New Orleans, LA, USA | Michael Bernstein / Katharina Reinecke | François Guimbretière | |
| 2018 | Berlin, Germany | Andy Wilson | Patrick Baudisch / Albrecht Schmidt | |
| 2017 | Quebec City, Canada | Jennifer Mankoff / Chris Harrison | Krzysztof Gajos | |
| 2016 | Tokyo, Japan | Jacob O. Wobbrock / Daniel Avrahami | Jun Rekimoto / Takeo Igarashi | |
| 2015 | Charlotte, NC, USA | Bjoern Hartmann / Tovi Grossman | Celine Latulipe | |
| 2014 | Honolulu, Hawaii, USA | Mira Dontcheva / Daniel Wigdor | Hrvoje Benko | |
| 2013 | St. Andrews, UK | Ivan Poupyrev / Takeo Igarashi | Shahram Izadi / Aaron Quigley | |
| 2012 | Cambridge, MA, USA | Hrvoje Benko / Celine Latulipe | Rob Miller | |
| 2011 | Santa Barbara, CA, USA | Maneesh Agrawala / Scott Klemmer | Jeff Pierce | 609112 |
| 2010 | New York, NY, USA | Mary Czerwinski / Rob Miller | Ken Perlin | 609102 |
| 2009 | Victoria, BC, Canada | François Guimbretière | Andrew D. Wilson | 429092 |
| 2008 | Monterey, CA, USA | Michel Beaudouin-Lafon | Steve Cousins | 429082 |
| 2007 | Newport, RI, USA | Ravin Balakrishnan | Chia Shen / Rob Jacob | 429072 |
| 2006 | Montreux, Switzerland | Ken Hinckley | Pierre Wellner | 429062 |
| 2005 | Seattle, WA, USA | Dan Olsen | Patrick Baudisch / Mary Czerwinski | 429052 |
| 2004 | Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA | James Landay | Steve Feiner | 429042 |
| 2003 | Vancouver, BC, Canada | Gregory Abowd / Blair MacIntyre | Joseph A. Konstan | 429032 |
| 2002 | Paris, France | Keith Edwards | Michel Beaudouin-Lafon | 429022 |
| 2001 | Orlando, FL, USA | Beth Mynatt | Joe Marks | 429012 |
| 2000 | San Diego, CA, USA | Scott Hudson | Mark Ackerman / Keith Edwards | 429002 |
| 1999 | Asheville, NC, USA | Joe Marks | Brad Vander Zanden | 429992 |
| 1998 | San Francisco, CA, USA | Rob Jacob | Elizabeth Mynatt | 429982 |
| 1997 | Banff, Alberta, Canada | Chris Schmandt | George Robertson | 429972 |
| 1996 | Seattle, WA, USA | Marc Brown | David Kurlander | 429962 |
| 1995 | Pittsburgh, PA, USA | George Robertson | Brad A. Myers | 429952 |
| 1994 | Marina del Rey, CA, USA | Steve Feiner | Pedro Szekely | 429946 |
| 1993 | Atlanta, GA, USA | Randy Pausch | Scott Hudson | 429936 |
| 1992 | Monterey, CA, USA | Mark Green | Jock Mackinlay / Mark Green | 429923 |
| 1991 | Hilton Head, SC, USA | Jock Mackinlay | James R. Rhyne | 429913 |
| 1990 | Snowbird, UT, USA | Scott Hudson | Dan Olsen | 429902 |
| 1989 | Williamsburg, VA, USA | Dan Olsen | John Sibert | 429892 |
| 1988 | Banff, Alberta, Canada | John Siebert | Mark Green | 429881 |
UIST Pre-history
| Year | Place | Name | Proceedings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Seattle, WA | Software Tools UI Management | Computer Graphics, Vol. 21, No. 2 |
| 1983 | Seeheim, Germany | Workshop on UIMS | User Interface Management Systems, G. Pfaff (ed.), Springer-Verlag, 1985 |
| 1982 | Seattle, WA | GIIT Workshop | Computer Graphics, Vol. 17, No. 1 |
UIST Lasting Impact Awards
| Year | Lasting Impact Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2021 | Shahram Izadi, David Kim, Otmar Hilliges, David Molyneaux, Richard Newcombe, Pushmeet Kohli, Jamie Shotton, Steve Hodges, Dustin Freeman, Andrew Davison, and Andrew Fitzgibbon for KinectFusion: Real-time 3D Reconstruction and Interaction Using a Moving Depth Camera, published in 2011. |
| 2020 | Michael S. Bernstein, Greg Little, Robert C. Miller, Björn Hartmann, Mark S. Ackerman, David R. Karger, David Crowell, and Katrina Panovich for Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside, published in 2010. |
| 2019 | Takeo Igarashi for Interactive Beautification: A Technique for Rapid Geometric Design and A suggestive interface for 3D drawing, both published in 2007. |
| 2018 | Meredith Ringel Morris and Eric Horvitz for SearchTogether: An Interface for Collaborative Web Search, published in 2007. |
| 2017 | Ivan Poupyrev, Shigeaki Maruyama, Jun Rekimoto for Ambient Touch: Designing Tactile Interfaces for Handheld Devices, published in 2002. |
| 2016 | Jefferson Y. Han for Low-Cost Multi-Touch Sensing through Frustrated Total Internal Reflection, published in 2005. |
| 2015 | Saul Greenberg and Chester Fitchett for Phidgets: Easy Development of Physical Interfaces through Physical Widgets, published in 2001. |
| 2014 | Per-Ola Kristensson and Shumin Zhai for SHARK2: A Large Vocabulary Shorthand Writing System for Pen-based Computers, published in 2004. |
| 2013 | Jun Rekimoto and Katashi Nagao for The World through the Computer: Computer Augmented Interaction with Real World Environments, published in 1995. |
| 2012 | Paul H. Dietz and Darren Leigh for Diamond Touch: A Multi-User Touch Technology, published in 2001. |
| 2011 | Ken Hinckley, Jeff Pierce, Mike Sinclair, and Eric Horvitz for Sensing Techniques for Mobile Interaction, published in 2000. |
| 2010 | Steven Feiner, Blair MacIntyre, Marcus Haupt, and Eliot Solomon for Windows on the World: 2D Windows for 3D Augmented Reality, published in 1993. |
| 2009 | Brygg Ullmer and Hiroshi Ishii for The metaDESK: Models and Prototypes for Tangible User Interfaces, published in 1997. |
| 2008 | Randy Pausch for his contributions to UIST, in particular for SUIT: The Pascal of User Interface Toolkits, by Randy Pausch, Nathaniel R. Young II, Robert DeLine (University of Virginia), published in 1991. |
| 2007 | Barry Arons for SpeechSkimmer: Interactively Skimming Recorded Speech, published in 1993. |
| 2006 | Ramana Rao, Stuart Card, Herbert Jellinek, Jock Mackinlay, and George Robertson for The Information Grid: A Framework for Information Retrieval and Retrieval-Centered Applications, published in 1992. |
| 2005 | Gord Kurtenbach and Bill Buxton, for Issues in Combining Marking and Direct Manipulation Techniques, published in 1991. |
| 2004 | Bay-Wei Chang for his work on animation in user interfaces, in particular for Animation: From Cartoons to the User Interface, published in 1993. |
| 2003 | Pierre Wellner for his early work on DigitalDesk, in particular for The DigitalDesk Calculator: Tangible Manipulation on a Desk Top Display, published in 1991. |
UIST Best Paper Awards
| Year | Award | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Best paper | Yujie Tao, Shan-Yuan Teng, and Pedro Lopes: "Altering Perceived Softness of Real Rigid Objects by Restricting Fingerpad Deformation" |
| 2021 | Best paper | Mohamed Kari, Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl, Alexander Jagaciak, David Bethge, Reinhard Schütte, and Christian Holz: "SoundsRide: Affordance-Synchronized Music Mixing for In-Car Audio Augmented Reality" |
| 2021 | Best paper | Philip Guo: "Ten Million Users and Ten Years Later: Python Tutor's Design Guidelines for Building Scalable and Sustainable Research Software in Academia" |
| 2020 | Best paper | Toby Jia-Jun Li, Jingya Chen, Haijun Xia, Tom M. Mitchell, and Brad A. Myers: "Multi-Modal Repairs of Conversational Breakdowns in Task-Oriented Dialogs" |
| 2020 | Best paper | Jun Nishida, Soichiro Matsuda, Hiroshi Matsui, Shan-Yuan Teng, Ziwei Liu, Kenji Suzuki, and Pedro Lopes: "HandMorph: a Passive Exoskeleton that Miniaturizes Grasp" |
| 2020 | Best paper | Neung Ryu, Woojin Lee, Myung Jin Kim, and Andrea Bianchi: "ElaStick: A Handheld Variable Stiffness Display for Rendering Dynamic Haptic Response of Flexible Object" |
| 2019 | Best paper | Arshad Khan, Joan Sol Roo, Tobias Kraus, and Jürgen Steimle: "Soft Inkjet Circuits: Rapid Multi-Material Fabrication of Soft Circuits using a Commodity Inkjet Printer" |
| 2019 | Best paper | Yuhua Jin, Isabel Qamar, Michael Wessely, Aradhana Adhikari, Katarina Bulovic, Parinya Punpongsanon, and Stefanie Mueller: "Photo-Chromeleon: Re-Programmable Multi-Color Textures Using Photochromic Dyes" |
| 2019 | Best paper | Zheer Xu, Pui Chung Wong, Jun Gong, Te-Yen Wu, Aditya Shekhar Nittala, Xiaojun Bi, Jürgen Steimle, Hongbo Fu, Kening Zhu, and Xing-Dong Yang: "TipText: Eyes-Free Text Entry on a Fingertip Keyboard" |
| 2018 | Best paper | David Porfirio, Allison Sauppé, Aws Albarghouthi and Bilge Mutlu: "Authoring and Verifying Human-Robot Interactions" |
| 2018 | Best paper | Alok Mysore and Philip J. Guo: "Porta: Profiling Software Tutorials Using Operating-System-Wide Activity Tracing" |
| 2018 | Best paper | Patrick Parzer, Florian Perteneder, Kathrin Probst, Christian Rendl, Joanne Leong, Sarah Schuetz, Anita Vogl, Reinhard Schwoediauer, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Siegfried Bauer and Michael Haller: "RESi: A Highly Flexible, Pressure-Sensitive, Imperceptible Textile Interface Based on Resistive Yarns" |
| 2017 | Best paper | Nora Willett, Wilmot Li, Jovan Popovic, Adam Finkelstein: "Triggering Artwork Swaps for Live Animation" |
| 2017 | Best paper | Inrak Choi, Heather Culbertson, Mark Miller, Alex Olwal, Sean Follmer: "Grabity: A Wearable Haptic Interface for Simulating Weight and Grasping in Virtual Reality" |
| 2017 | Best paper | Dingzeyu Li, Avinash Nair, Shree Nayar, Changxi Zheng: "AirCode: Unobtrusive Physical Tags for Digital Fabrication" |
| 2016 | Best paper | Mathieu Le Goc, Lawrence H Kim, Ali Parsaei, Jean-Daniel Fekete, Pierre Dragicevic, Sean Follmer: "Zooids: Building Blocks for Swarm User Interfaces" |
| 2016 | Best paper | Artem Dementyev, Hsin-Liu (Cindy) Kao, Inrak Choi, Deborah Ajilo, Maggie Xu, Joseph A. Paradiso, Chris Schmandt, Sean Follmer: "Rovables: Miniature On-Body Robots as Mobile Wearables" |
| 2016 | Best paper | Gierad Laput, Robert Xiao, Chris Harrison: "ViBand: High-Fidelity Bio-Acoustic Sensing Using Commodity Smartwatch Accelerometers" |
| 2016 | Best paper | Joanne Leong, Patrick Parzer, Florian Perteneder, Teo Babic, Christian Rendl, Anita Vogl, Hubert Egger, Alex Olwal, Michael Haller: "proCover: Sensory Augmentation of Prosthetic Limbs Using Smart Textile Covers" |
| 2015 | Best paper | Simon Olberding (Max Planck Institute for Informatics), Sergio Soto Ortega (Max Planck Institute for Informatics), Klaus Hildebrandt (Max Planck Institute for Informatics), Jurgen Steimle (Max Planck Institute for Informatics): "Foldio: Digital Fabrication of Interactive and Shape-Changing Objects With Foldable Printed Electronics" |
| 2015 | Best paper | Augusto Esteves (Lancaster University), Eduardo Velloso (Lancaster University), Andreas Bulling (Max Planck Institute for Informatics), Hans Gellersen (Lancaster University): "Orbits: Gaze Interaction for Smart Watches using Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements" |
| 2015 | Best paper | Clemens Klokmose (Aarhus University), James Eagan (Télécom ParisTech, CNRS), Siemen Baader (Aarhus University), Wendy Mackay (INRIA, Université Paris-Sud), Michel Beaudouin-Lafon (Université Paris-Sud, CNRS): "Webstrates: Shareable Dynamic Media" |
| 2014 | Best paper | Ken Hinckley (Microsoft Research), Michel Pahud (Microsoft Research), Hrvoje Benko (Microsoft Research), Pourang Irani (Microsoft Research, University of Manitoba), Marcel Gavriliu (Microsoft Research), François Guimbretière (Microsoft Research, Cornell University), Xiang 'Anthony' Chen (Microsoft Research), Fabrice Matulic (Microsoft Research), William Buxton (Microsoft Research), Andrew Wilson (Microsoft Research): "Sensing Techniques for Tablet+Stylus Interaction" |
| 2014 | Best paper | Daniela Retelny Stanford University, Sébastien Robaszkiewicz Stanford University, Alexandra To Stanford University, Walter Lasecki (University of Rochester), Jay Patel Stanford University, Negar Rahmati Stanford University, Tulsee Doshi Stanford University, Melissa Valentine Stanford University, Michael Bernstein Stanford University: "Expert Crowdsourcing with Flash Teams" |
| 2014 | Best paper | Simon Olberding, Michael Wessely, Jürgen Steimle (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland University): "PrintScreen: Fabricating Highly Customizable Thin-film Touch-Displays" |
| 2013 | Best paper | Christian Holz, Patrick Baudisch (Hasso Platner Institute, Germany): "Fiberio: A Touchscreen that Senses Fingerprints" |
| 2013 | Best paper | Lining Yao, Ryuma Niiyama, Jifei Ou, Sean Follmer, Clark Della Silva, Hiroshi Ishii (MIT Media Lab): "PneUI: Pneumatically Actuated Soft Composite Materials for Shape Changing Interfaces" |
| 2013 | Best paper | Makoto Ono, Buntarou Shizuki, Jiro Tanaka (University of Tsukuba): "Touch & Activate: Adding Interactivity to Existing Objects using Active Acoustic Sensing" |
| 2012 | Best paper | Neel Joshi (Microsoft Research), Sisil Mehta (Georgia Institute of Technology), Eric Stollnitz (Microsoft Research), Steven Drucker (Microsoft Research), Hugues Hoppe (Microsoft Research), Matt Uyttendaele (Microsoft Research), Michael Cohen (Microsoft Research): "Cliplets: Juxtaposing Still and Dynamic Imagery" |
| 2012 | Best paper | Jeffrey Rzeszotarski (Carnegie Mellon University), Aniket Kittur (Carnegie Mellon University): "CrowdScape: Interactively visualizing crowd behavior and output" |
| 2012 | Best paper | Sean Follmer (MIT Media Lab, Daniel Leithinger (MIT Media Lab, Alex Olwal (MIT Media Lab), Nadia Cheng (MIT Media Lab), Hiroshi Ishii (MIT Media Lab): "Jamming User Interfaces: Programmable Particle Stiffness and Sensing for Malleable and Shape-Changing Devices" |
| 2011 | Best paper | Karl D.D. Willis (Carnegie Mellon University, Disney Research Pittsburgh), Ivan Poupyrev (Disney Research Pittsburgh), Scott E Hudson (Carnegie Mellon University), Moshe Mahler (Disney Research Pittsburgh): "SideBySide: Ad-hoc Multi-user Interaction with Handheld Projectors" |
| 2011 | Notable paper | James Eagan, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Wendy Mackay (INRIA, LRI, Univ. Paris-Sud & CNRS): "Cracking the Cocoa Nut: User Interface Programming at Runtime" |
| 2011 | Notable paper | Manolis Savva (Stanford University), Nicholas Kong (University of California, Berkeley), Arti Chhajta (Stanford University), Li Fei-Fei (Stanford University), Maneesh Agrawala (University of California, Berkeley), Jeffrey Heer (Stanford University): "ReVision: Automated Classification, Analysis and Redesign of Chart Images" |
| 2011 | Notable paper | Raphael Wimmer (University of Munich), Patrick Baudisch (Hasso Plattner Institute): "Modular and Deformable Touch-Sensitive Surfaces Based on Time Domain Reflectometry" |
| 2010 | Best paper | Jeffrey Bigham (University of Rochester), Chandrika Jayant (University of Washington), Hanjie Ji (University of Rochester), Greg Little (MIT CSAIL), Andrew Miller (University of Central Florida), Robert C. Miller (MIT CSAIL), Robin Miller (University of Rochester), Aubrey Tatarowicz (MIT CSAIL), Brandyn White (University of Maryland), Samuel White (University of Rochester), Tom Yeh, University of Maryland: "VizWiz: Nearly Real-Time Answers to Visual Questions" |
| 2009 | Best student paper | Michael S. Bernstein (MIT CSAIL), Greg Little (MIT CSAIL), Robert C. Miller (MIT CSAIL), Bjoern Hartmann UC Berkeley, Mark S. Ackerman University of Michigan, David R. Karger (MIT CSAIL), David Crowell (MIT CSAIL), Katrina Panovich (MIT CSAIL): "Soylent: A Word Processor with a Crowd Inside" |
| 2009 | Best paper | Nicolas Villar, Shahram Izadi, Dan Rosenfeld, Hrvoje Benko, John Helmes, Jonathan Westhues, Steve Hodges, Eyal Ofek, Alex Butler, Xiang Cao, Billy Chen (Microsoft Research Cambridge & Redmond, Microsoft Corp): "Mouse 2.0: Multi-touch meets the Mouse" |
| 2009 | Best student paper | Tom Yeh, Tsung-Hsiang Chang, Robert C. Miller (MIT CSAIL): "Sikuli: Using GUI Screenshots for Search and Automation" |
| 2008 | Best paper | Andrew Wilson, Shahram Izadi, Otmar Hilliges, Armando Garcia-Mendoza, David Kirk: "Bringing Physics to the Surface" |
| 2008 | Best student paper | Björn Hartmann, Loren Yu, Abel Allison, Yeonsoo Yang, Scott Klemmer (Stanford University): "Design As Exploration: Creating Interface Alternatives through Parallel Authoring and Runtime Tuning " |
| 2007 | Best paper |
Steve Hodges, Shahram Izadi, Alex Butler, Alban Rrustemi, Bill
Buxton:
"ThinSight: Versatile Multi-touch Sensing for Thin Form-factor
Displays" |
| 2006 | Best paper | Björn Hartmann, Scott Klemmer, Michael Bernstein, Leith Abdulla, Brandon Burr, Avi Robinson-Mosher, and Jennifer Gee for their paper Reflective Physical Prototyping through Integrated Design, Test, and Analysis |
| 2006 | Best student paper | Anastasia Bezeranios, Pierre Dragicevic, and Ravin Balakrishnan for their paper Mnemonic Rendering: An Image-Based Approach for Exposing Hidden Changes in Dynamic Displays |
| 2005 | Best paper | Michael Bolin, Matthew Webber, Philip Rha, Tom Wilson, Robert Miller: Automation and Customization of Rendered Web Pages |
| 2004 | Best paper | Georg Apitz & François Guimbretière (University of Maryland): CrossY: A Crossing-Based Drawing Application |
| 2004 | Best paper | Tovi Grossman, Daniel Wigdor, Ravin Balakrishnan (University of Toronto): Multi-Finger Gestural Interaction with 3D Volumetric Displays |
| 2003 | Best paper | Eric Saund, David Fleet, Daniel Larner, James Mahoney (Palo Alto Research Center): "Perceptually-Supported Image Editing of Text and Graphics" |
| 2003 | Best student paper | Bongwon Suh, Haibin Ling, Ben Bederson, and David Jacobs (University of Maryland): "Automatic Thumbnail Cropping and its Effectiveness" |
| 2002 | Best paper | Takeo Igarashi (University of Tokyo) & John F. Hughes (Brown University) "Clothing Manipulation " |
| 2002 | Best student paper | Haowei Hsieh, Frank Shipman (Texas A&M University): "Manipulating Structured Information in a Visual Workspace," |
| 2001 | Best paper | Saul Greenberg and Chester Fitchett (University of Calgary): "Phidgets: Easy Development of Physical Interfaces through Physical Widgets" |
| 2001 | Best student paper | Blaine Bell, Steven Feiner and Tobias Hoellerer (Columbia University): "View Management for Virtual and Augmented Reality" |
| 2000 | Best paper | Ken Hinckley, Jeff Pierce, Mike Sinclair, and Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Research): "Sensing Techniques for Mobile Interaction" |
| 1996 | Best paper | Alan Borning, Richard Anderson, and Bjorn Freeman-Benson (University of Washington): "Indigo: A Local Propagation Algorithm for Inequality Constraints" |
UIST People’s Choice Best Talk Winners
| Year | People's Choice Best Talk Winner |
|---|---|
| 2018 | Alex Olwal, Jon Moeller, Greg Priest-Dorman, Thad Starner, Ben Carroll for "I/O Braid: Scalable Touch-Sensitive Lighted Cords Using Spiraling, Repeating Sensing Textiles and Fiber Optics" |
| 2017 | Teddy Seyed, Xing-Dong Yang, Daniel Vogel for "A Modular Smartphone for Lending" |
| 2016 | Chiuan Wang, Hsuan-Ming Yeh, Bryan Wang, Te-Yen Wu, Hsin-Ruey Tsai, Rong-Hao Liang, Yi-Ping Hung, Mike Y. Chen for "CircuitStack: Supporting Rapid Prototyping and Evolution of Electronic Circuits" |
| 2016 | Gierad Laput, Robert Xiao, Chris Harrison for "ViBand: High-Fidelity Bio-Acoustic Sensing Using Commodity Smartwatch Accelerometers" |
| 2015 | Gierad Laput for "EM-Sense: Touch Recognition of Uninstrumented, Electrical and Electromechanical Objects" |
| 2014 | Yuta Sugiura for "Graffiti fur: turning your carpet into a computer display", |
| 2014 | James McCrae for "FlatFitFab: Interactive Modeling with Planar Sections" |
| 2014 | Rubaiat Habib Kazi for "Kitty: sketching dynamic and interactive illustrations". |
UIST Keynote Speakers
| Year | Keynote Speakers |
|---|---|
| 2021 | Tessa Lau (Dusty Robotics), Manohar Swaminathan (Microsoft Research India), Melody Ivory (Thrivafy) |
| 2020 | Afua Bruce (DataKind), Sasha Costanza-Chock (MIT) |
| 2019 | Elizabeth Gerber (Northwestern), Cristina (Crista) Lopes (UCI) |
| 2018 | Jaime Teevan (Microsoft), Selma Sabanovic (Indiana University) |
| 2017 | Gabriella Coleman (McGill University), Niki Kittur (CMU) |
| 2016 | Takeo Kanade (CMU), Naoto Fukasawa (NAOTO FUKASAWA DESIGN) |
| 2015 | Ramesh Raskar (MIT), Blaise Aguera y Arcas (Google) |
| 2014 | Mark Bolas (USC), Bret Victor (worrydream.com) |
| 2013 | Raffaello D'Andrea (ETH Zurich) |
| 2012 | Margaret Livingstone (Harvard) |
| 2011 | Ge Wang (Stanford), Dan Jurafsky (Stanford) |
| 2010 | Marvin Minsky (MIT), Natalie Jeremijenko (NYU), Jaron Lanier |
| 2009 | Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde (Barrow Neurological Institute), Eric Paulos (CMU) |
| 2008 | Dan Olsen (BYU), Cynthia Breazeal (MIT) |
| 2007 | David Woods Measuring How Design Changes Cognition at Work, Jeremy Wolfe Capturing the user's attention: Insights from the study of human vision |
| 2006 | Computing Versus Human Thinking Peter Naur (University of Copenhagen) |
| 2005 | Personal Computing in the 21st Century, Gary Starkweather |
| 2004 | Mary Czerwinski (Microsoft Research): Theory-driven design in HCI (slides) |
| 2003 | Ben Shneiderman (University of Maryland): Creative Support Tools: A grand Challenge for Interface Designers, Sandra Marshall (UC San Diego): New Techniques for Evaluating Innovative Interfaces for Eye-tracking |
| 2002 | Peter Wegner (Brown University): Models of Interactive Computation, Jakub Wejchert (European Commission): The Disappearing Computer, Tony R. Martinez (Brigham Young University): Introduction to Machine Learning and Neural Networks |
| 2001 | Jef Raskin: Making Machines Fit for Human Consumption, Miguel Nicolelis (Duke University): Building Brain-machine Interfaces to Restore Neurological Functions |
| 2000 | Eric Brewer (Berkeley): User Interfaces in the Infrastructure Age, James D. Foley (Yamacraw): Economic Development--The New University Imperative |
| 1999 | Seth Rosenthal (Industrial Light + Magic): Motion Capture for Feature Films: Challenges in Using Actors as Input for Digital Character Animation, Turner Whitted (Microsoft Research): Technologies for Computing Off the Desktop |
| 1998 | Jim Waldo (Sun Microsystems): The Jini Approach to Distributed Computing, Adele Goldberg (Neometron): Storytelling, Ping Pong, and Improvisation |
| 1997 | John Sibert (George Washington University): Banff to Banff: A UISTful Restrospective, Jim Kajiya (Microsoft Research): Flows in the Convergence of Television and Computing |
| 1996 | James Gosling (SUN): Java: a Language Driven by a UI Vision, Fred Brooks (UNC Chapel Hill): 3-D User Interfaces: When Results Matter |
| 1995 | Maria Klawe (University of British Columbia): Is Edutainment an Oxymoron?, Jim Morris (Carnegie Mellon University): Effective User Interfaces, Bill Buxton (Alias Research): Proximal Sensing: Supporting Context Sensitive Interaction |
| 1994 | Don Norman (Apple Computer): Trends in the Computer Industry: Life-Long Subscriptions, Magical Cures, and Profits Along the Information Highway, Mark Weiser (Xerox PARC): Creating the Invisible Interface |
| 1993 | Terry Winograd (Stanford University and Interval Research): From Virtual Reality to Real Virtualities: Designing the Worlds In Which We Live, Bruce Tognazzini (SunSoft): CyberSpace in the New Millennium |
| 1992 | Raj Reddy (Carnegie Mellon): User Interfaces in GigaPC Environments, Tony Hoeber (GO Corporation): Bringing the Computer into the World |
| 1991 | Robert S. Williges (Virginia Tech): Software Interfaces for Users with Special Needs, Andries van Dam (Brown University): Escaping Flatland |
| 1990 | Stuart Card (Xerox PARC): Information Workspaces, Elaine Rich (MCC AI Lab): Natural Language for Natural Access to Text Data Bases |
| 1989 | Jim Thomas (Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories), Jaron Lanier (VPL Research) |
Father of UIST Award
2007 Presented to Dan R. Olsen Jr.
Please also see the 20th anniversary archive of UIST (includes digitized videos of early conferences).