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 interface...

We describe two mechanisms, rendering task scheduling and the render cache, used to optimize graphics rendering in a scenegraph to provide continuous visual feedback and high interactivity in large-scale sketch-based user interfaces. We have implemented these mechanisms in SATIN, a toolkit to support development of sketch-based user interfaces. Our experiments with DENIM, an early-stage web sit...

We describe several approaches for using prosodic features of speech and audio localization to control interactive applications. This information can be used for parameter control, as well as for disambiguating speech recognition. We discuss how characteristics of the spoken sentences can be exploited in the user interface; for example, by considering the speed with which the sentence was spoke...

People feel very comfortable when they interact with their mobile devices by using natural user interfaces (NUIs). However, when they enter a vehicle, this feeling degrades rapidly, since many in-vehicle infotainment systems (IVIs) still do not offer natural user interfaces and use different user interface interaction paradigms. For this reason, we show how mobile devices can be integrated and ...

Interactively Evolving User Interfaces

The development of user-definable templates interfaces which allow the user to design new templates definitions in a user-friendly way is a new issue in the field of information extraction. The LOLITA user-definable templates interface allows the user to define new templates using sentences in natural language text with a few restrictions and formal elements. This approach is rather different f...

The need for Natural Language Interfaces to databases (NLIs) has become increasingly acute as more and more people access information through their web browsers, PDAs, and cell phones. Yet NLIs are only usable if they map natural language questions to SQL queries correctly — people are unwilling to trade reliable and predictable user interfaces for intelligent but unreliable ones. We describe a...

This paper discusses some of the aspects of task requirements, user expectations, and technological capabilities that influence the design of a voice interface and then identifies several components of user interfaces that are particularly critical in successful voice applications. Examples from several applications are provided to demonstrate how these components are used to produce effective ...

This paper examines how our existing HUGE architecture aids fulfilling requirements emerging from the everyday expansion of new multimedia applications. Trends in humancomputer interaction stream towards creating natural user interfaces which apply rules from human-human interaction. Virtual humans who look natural, and behave believably fit perfectly in the concept of creating natural user int...