Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

Abstract

In March 1988, a group of researchers gathered in Monterey, California to participate in a workshop titled: "Architectures for Intelligent Interfaces". It was the beginning of what at first would be a slow but steady development of the field of Intelligent User Interfaces. Three years later, the book "Intelligent User Interfaces" was published edited by Joe Sullivan and Sherman Tyler, the organizers of the workshop. The book highlighted the main papers presented in the workshop and served as a basis for not only future work, but also future events that continued that work. It was not until 1993, however, that Bill Hefley organized the First International Workshop on Intelligent User Interfaces, which took place in Orlando, Florida. The event, sponsored by ACM, attracted a nascent group of researchers whose work clearly defined the field as a novel and promising intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Human-Computer Interaction.With a growing body of work in the field of IUI and a lack of an established outlet for such work at the time, Angel Puerta and Ernest Edmonds led an effort to create a permanent leading forum for research in intelligent user interfaces. The result was the first IUI conference in 1997 defined as a yearly event and conceived from the start as a highly selective program focusing on the quality of research, and on the value of the contribution of each accepted paper. Over the ten-year span since that initial event, the IUI conferences have established the significance and breadth of the field, and have built a valuable reference body that inspires new research every day across the globe.With IUI2007, we start the second decade of the IUI conferences. Our program this year highlights 26 papers accepted from a total of 118 submissions. Topics range from foundation items, such as user modeling, demonstration-based interfaces, and information retrieval, to current trends, such as social software, personal assistants, and recommender systems, to intelligent interaction methods including multi-modal, natural language, and gesture-based interfaces. The papers program is complemented by the always popular Posters and Demonstrations session where authors of accepted short papers can showcase their work and where many published authors present live demos of their systems. In addition, this year we count with two outstanding invited speakers: Susan Dumais of Microsoft Research and Thomas Strothotte of the University of Rostock. Finally, the main conference program is greatly augmented by an excellent offer of Tutorials and dedicated Workshops.