2000 ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

This conference occupies the currently "hot" area that lies midway between the traditional fields of AI--represented by conferences such as the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence--and human-computer interface--represented by conferences such as the ACM Computers and Human Interaction (CHI) Conference and the Interact Conference in Europe. As AI technologies become more widely used, user interface technologies for AI will become increasingly more important, and as traditional interactive graphic user interfaces become more complex, people will look to AI technologies as a way of making them smarter and more sensitive to their users. A growing band of researchers is focusing on these issues, which demand an interdisciplinary outlook, and the intelligent user interface conference series is the premiere venue. This year's conference took place in the fascinating city of New Orleans and was attended by about 150 people, slightly more than last year. Despite the small size of the conference, it achieved a high degree of international participation, with papers from Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Sweden, and Brazil.