UIST

It is our pleasure to welcome you to Montreux, Switzerland for UIST 2006, the Nineteenth Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. UIST is the premier forum for innovations in the software and technology of human-computer interfaces. Sponsored by ACM's special interest groups on computer-human interaction (SIGCHI) and computer graphics (SIGGRAPH), UIST brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse areas that include traditional graphical & web user interfaces, tangible & ubiquitous computing, virtual & augmented reality, multimedia, new input & output devices, and CSCW. The intimate size, the single track, and comfortable surroundings make this symposium an ideal opportunity to exchange research results and implementation experiences.The call for papers attracted 177 submissions, and the program committee accepted 40 (23%), covering a range of topics, including novel pointing techniques, visualization, sensing, browsing, gestures, paper, and projector-based systems. In addition, the program includes the 2005 Turing Award Lecture from Peter Naur on Computing Versus Human Thinking, and an invited survey by José del R. Millán on Brain-Machine Interfaces. Posters, demos, and the Doctoral Symposium complete the program. You can find these contributions in the UIST adjunct proceedings, which is distributed at the conference along with a DVD containing videos for the papers, technotes, posters and demonstrations.