The Seventh International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI-2003)

ference was interfaces whose focus goes beyond rational “intelligence” to address psychological concerns such as emotion, personality, and motivation. The conference received an all-time record number of submissions, covering a wide range of areas and approaches. Oral presentation sessions were organized into seven major topics: (1) adaptive and collaborative interfaces, (2) affective interfaces, (3) agent-based interfaces, (4) knowledge acquisition and visualization, (5) model-based interface design, (6) multimodal input, and (7) natural language interfaces. The conference program included three invited talks, each reflecting a different direction for developing the intelligent interfaces of the future. In “What Users Want,” Daniel Weld, the University of Washington, discussed the tension between interfaces that adapt automatically and their users’ need for stability to maintain an accurate mental model, predict system behavior, and feel in control. Weld presented principles for addressing this tension, described algorithms for mining user action traces, and proposed the algorithms’ role in dynamically transforming interfaces. Hi■ The Seventh International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI-2003) was held 12–15 January 2003 in Miami Beach, Florida. The conference brought together researchers and practitioners to report on outstanding research and applications, examine emerging work, and delineate new avenues for intelligent user interfaces.