UIST'97 Preliminary Program

October 14-17, 1997
Banff Park Lodge
Banff, Alberta, Canada

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Tuesday, October 14


 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm		Registration

 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm		Reception and Registration


Wednesday, October 15


 8:00 am			Registration

 8:00 am - 9:00 am		Morning Refreshments

 9:00 am - 10:30 am		Opening Session

	Introductory Remarks
		George Robertson, Microsoft Research
		Chris Schmandt, MIT Media Lab

	Invited Talk  
		Banff to Banff:  A UISTful Restrospective
		John Sibert, George Washington University

 10:30 am - 11:00 am		Break & Refreshments

 11:00 am - 12:30 pm		3D Interaction Techniques

	Session Chair: Jock Mackinlay, Xerox PARC

	Usability Analysis of 3D Rotation Techniques
		Ken Hinckley, Microsoft Research
		Joe Tulio, Randy Pausch, Dennis Proffitt, Neal Kassell
		  University of Virginia

	Immersion in Desktop Virtual Reality
		George Robertson, Mary Czerwinski, Maarten van Dantzich
		  Microsoft Research

	Worldlets: 3D Thumbnails for Wayfinding in Virtual Environments	
		T. Todd Elvins and David R. Nadeau
		  San Diego Supercomputer Center
		David Kirsh, University of California San Diego	

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm		Lunch

 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm		Picking and Pointing

	Session Chair: Chris Shaw, University of Regina

	Pick and Drop:  A Direct Manipulation Technique
	for Multi-Display Environments
		Jun Rekimoto, Sony Computer Science Laboratory

	A Finger-Mounted, Direct Pointing Device
	for Mobile Computing (TechNote)
		John Sibert and Mehmet Goturk
		  George Washington University

	Time Slider: An Interface to Specify Time Point (TechNote)
		Yuichi Koike, Atsushi Sugiura, and Yoshiyuki Koseki, NEC

	Pen Based Interaction Techniques for Organizing Material
	on an Electronic Whiteboard
		Thomas P. Moran, Patrick Chiu, William van Melle
		  Xerox PARC

 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm		Break & Refreshments

 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm		Synchronous Collaboration

	Session Chair: Mark Ackerman, UC Irvine

	Transparent Sharing of Java Applets:  A Replicated Approach
		Bo Begole, Craig Struble, Cliff Shaffer, Virginia Tech
		Randy Smith, SunSoft

	Simplifying Component Development
	in an Integrated Groupware Environment
		Mark Roseman and Saul Greeberg, University of Calgary

	A Shared Command Line in a Virtual Space:
	The WorkingMan's MOO (TechNote)
		Mark Guzdial, Georgia Institute of Technology

 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm		Demos: Banff Center for the Arts

	CyberDesk:  A Framework for Providing Self-Integrating
	Ubiquitous Software Services
		Anind K. Dey, Gregory Abowd, Mike Pinkerton, Andrew Wood
		  Georgia Institute of Technology

	Alice:  Easy to Use Interactive 3D Graphics
		Jeffrey S. Pierce, Steve Audia, Tommy Burnette,
		Kevin Christiansen, Dennis Cosgrove, Matt Conway,
		Ken Hinckley, Kristen Monkaitis, James Patten,
		Joe Schochet, David Staack, Brian Stearns, Chris Sturgill, 
		George Williams, Randy Pausch
		  Carnegie Mellon University

	A Spreadsheet Approach to Information Visualization
		Ed Huai-hsin Chi, Joe Konstan, Phillip Barry, John Riedl
		  University of Minnesota

	Gamut:  Demonstrating Whole Applications
		Richard G. McDaniel, Brad A. Myers
		  Carnegie Mellon University

	Orthogonal Extensions to the WWW User Interface
	Using Client-Side Technologies
		Armando Fox, Steven D. Gribble, Yatin Chawathe, Anthony S.
		Polito, Andrew Huang, Benjamin Ling, Eric A. Brewer
		  U.C. Berkeley

	The CSLU Toolkit:  Rapid Prototyping of Spoken Language Systems
		Stephen Sutton, Ronald Cole, Oregon Graduate Institute


Thursday, October 16


 8:30 am			Registration

 8:00 am - 9:00 am		Morning Refreshments

 9:00 am - 10:30 am		Constraints

	Session Chair: Randy Smith, Sun Microsystems

	Solving Linear Arithmetic Constraints
	for User Interface Applications
		Alan Borning and Kim Marriott, Monash University
		Peter Stuckey and Yi Xiao, University of Melbourne

	An Interactive Constraint-Based System for Drawing Graphics
		Kathy Ryall and Stuart Shieber, Harvard University
		Joe Marks, MERL

	Interactive Beautification:
	A Technique for Rapid Geometric Design
		Takeo Igarashi, Satoshi Matsuoka, Sachiko Kawachiya,
		Hidehiko Tanaka 
		  University of Tokyo

10:30 am - 11:00 am		Break & Refreshments

11:00 am - 12:30 pm		Panel

	UIST'007:  Where will we be 10 years from now?
	Organizer:
	  Robert J.K. Jacob, Tufts University
	Panelists:
	  Steven K. Feiner, Columbia University
	  James D. Foley, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
	  Jock D. Mackinlay, Xerox PARC
	  Dan R. Olsen, Jr., Carnegie Mellon University

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm		Lunch

 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm		Asynchronous Collaboration

	Session Chair: Dan Olsen, Carnegie Mellon University

	Designing and Implementing Asynchronous Collaborative
	Applications with Bayou
		W. Keith Edwards, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Karin Petersen,
		Mike J. Spreitzer, Douglas B. Terry, Marvin M. Theimer
		  Xerox PARC

	Supporting Cooperative and Personal Surfing
	with a Desktop Assistant
		Hannes Marais and Krishna Bharat
		  DEC Systems Research Center

	Flexible Conflict Detection and Management
	in Collaborative Applications
		W. Keith Edwards, Xerox PARC

 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm		Break & Refreshments

 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm		Facilitating Visual Output

	Session Chair: Beth Mynatt, Xerox PARC

	Fix and Float (TechNote)
		George Robertson, Microsoft Research
		Stuart Card, Xerox PARC

	Systematic Output Modification in a 2D UI Toolkit
		W. Keith Edwards, Xerox PARC
		Scott E. Hudson, Joshua Marinacci,
		Roy Rodenstein, and Ian Smith 
		  Georgia Institute of Technology
		Thomas Rodrigues, JavaSoft

	Supporting Dynamic Downloadable Appearances
	in an Extensible UI Toolkit
		Scott E. Hudson and Ian Smith
		  Georgia Institute of Technology

 5:15 pm - 5:45 pm		Town Meeting

 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm		Banquet


Friday, October 17


 8:00 am - 9:00 am		Morning Refreshments

 9:00 am - 10:30 am		Invited Talk

	Flows in the Convergence of Television and Computing
		Jim Kajiya, Microsoft Research

10:30 am - 11:00 am		Break & Refreshments

11:00 am - 12:30 pm		Making Things Visible

	Session Chair: Joe Marks, Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab

	Elastic Windows: A Heirarchical Multi-Window
	World-Wide Web Browser
		Eser Kandogan and Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland

	Debugging Lenses:  A New Class of Transparent tools
	for UI Debugging
		Scott E. Hudson, Roy Rodenstein, and Ian Smith
		Georgia Institute of Technology

	An Interactive Visual Query Environment for Exploring Data
		Mark Derthick, John Kolojejchick, and Steven F. Roth
		Carnegie Mellon University

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm		Lunch

 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm		Blurring Physical and Virtual

	Session Chair: Debby Hindus, Interval Research

	A Virtual Office Environment Based on a Shared Room Realizing
	  Awareness Space and Transmitting Awarness Information
		Shinkuro Honda, Hironari Tomioka, Takaaki Kimura,
		Takaharu Ohsawa, Kenichi Okada and Yutaka Matsushita
		  Keio University

	HoloWall Designing a Finger, Hand, Body, and Object Sensitive Wall
	(TechNote)
		Nobuyuki Matsushita, Keio University
		Jun Rekimoto, Sony

	Audio Aura: Light-Weight Audio Augmented Reality (TechNote)
		Elizabeth Mynatt, Maribeth Back, Roy Want, Ron Frederick
		  Xerox PARC

	The Omni-directional Treadmill:
	A Locomotion Device for Virtual Worlds
		Rudolph Darken, William Cockayne
		  Naval Postgraduate School
		David Carmein, Virtual Space Devices

	The MetaDESK:  Models and Prototypes for Tangible User Interfaces
		Brygg Ullmer and Hiroshi Ishii, MIT Media Lab


Saturday, October 18

UIST'97 Banff Scenic Tour with Sulphur Mountain Gondola Lift

A 4-1/2 hour tour of the Banff area with a ride on the gondola and lunch on Sulphur Mountain will cost $50 Canadian (or about $35 US). That includes lunch and GST tax. Please register for this by October 1 to make sure we have sufficient numbers to do it! Registration Form