CHI 98 Conference Program April 18-23, 1998, Los Angeles, CA USA

Tuesday, April 21, All-at-Once

08:30 - 10:00

Plenary: Codex, Memex, Genex: The Pursuit of Transformational Technologies
Ben Shneiderman
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland
Lab: http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/hcil/

A handwritten codex or printed book transformed society by allowing users to preserve and share information. Today, leather-bound volumes and illuminated manuscripts have given way to animated image maps and hot links. Vannevar Bush's memex has inspired the World Wide Web, which provides users with vast information resources and convenient communications. In looking to the future, we might again transform society by building a genex, a generator of excellence. Such an inspirational environment would empower personal and collaborative creativity by enabling users to:

This talk describes how a family of integrated software tools might support this four-phase model of creativity in health, education, entertainment and beyond.

Ben Shneiderman is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Head of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory and Member of the Institutes for Advanced Computer Studies and for Systems Research, all at the University of Maryland at College Park. He received an honorary doctorate of science from Guelph University in 1995 and was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing (ACM) in 1997.

Dr. Shneiderman is the author of Software Psychology: Human Factors in Computer and Information Systems (1980) and Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (1987, second edition 1992, third edition 1998), Addison-Wesley Publishers, Reading, MA. His 1989 book, co-authored with Greg Kearsley, Hypertext Hands-On!, contains a hypertext version on two disks. It was the world's first commercial electronic book and pioneered the highlighted embedded link. This concept was part of the Hyperties hypermedia system, produced by Cognetics Corporation, Princeton Junction, NJ. His starfield displays with dynamic queries has been implemented in the commercial product Spotfire.

Dr. Shneiderman has co-authored two textbooks, edited three technical books, and published more than 200 technical papers and book chapters. His 1993 edited book Sparks of Innovation in Human-Computer Interaction collects 25 papers from ten years of research at the University of Maryland. This collection includes Dr. Shneiderman's seminal paper on direct manipulation, a term he coined in 1981 to describe the graphical user interface design principles: visual presentation of objects and actions combined with pointing techniques to accomplish rapid incremental and reversible operations.

08:30 - 18:00

Other Activity: CHIkids
CHIkids attendees are taking part in four areas of technology exploration: creating multimedia stories in the Multimedia Storytelling area, trying the latest educational multimedia titles in the CD-ROM Field Trips area, testing emerging software technologies with CHI researchers in the Technology Workouts area or being conference reporters using desktop publishing tools and the WWW in the CHIkids Newsroom.

10:00 - 11:00

Other Activity: Highlight on Exhibits
The Exhibits provide an opportunity for conference attendees to learn about a broad spectrum of HCI offerings featuring the latest in HCI-oriented products and services from commercial vendors, institutions and publishers.

Other Activity: Newcomers' Orientation
Never been to CHI before? We're glad you are here and we want to meet you at the Newcomers' Orientation directly following the opening plenary. Please join us and meet SIGCHI and CHI 98 leaders, as well as many members of the CHI community and find out how to maximize your experience at CHI 98.

11:00 - 12:30

Late-Breaking Results: Support for Design: Experiments, Tools and Cyberfools
Session Chair: Andrew Sears, DePaul University

Panel: Public Information: Documents, Spectacles and the Politics of Public Participation
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Panelists

Papers: Entertainment
Session Chair: Anna M. Wichansky, Oracle Corporation

Papers: Squeezing, Stroking and Poking
Session Chair: Wendy Kellogg, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Papers: Web Page Design
Session Chair: Tom Carey, University of Waterloo

Special Interest Group: Competitive Testing: Issues and Methodology
Organizers

Special Interest Group: HCI Solutions for Managing the Information Technology Infrastructure
Organizers

13:00 - 13:45

Plenary: Is the Best Way to Predict the Future to Invent It? Or to Prevent It?
Alan Kay
The Walt Disney Company

History, and especially recent history, is littered with new useful ideas that have been rejected over and over again. Then, after desperate attempts to make them look like old existing ideas, they are grudgingly accepted. As Kuhn dryly noted, even in science it seems to take 25 years for a new idea framework to be accepted, because that is how long it takes for the old scientists to die off! Outside of science, it seems to take still longer.

In this talk, we will explore the nature of creativity-particularly in the computer and user interface areas-and then try to discover why what is creative to one group seems so destructive to another.

Dr. Kay, Disney Fellow and Vice President of Research and Development, is best known for the idea of personal computing, the conception of the intimate laptop computer and the inventions of the now ubiquitous overlapping-window interface and modern object-oriented programming. His deep interest in children and education was the catalyst for these ideas and continues to be a source of inspiration to him. As one of the founders of the Xerox PARC, Kay led one of the groups that in concert developed these ideas into modern workstations (and the forerunners of the Macintosh), Smalltalk, the overlapping-window interface, desktop publishing, the Ethernet, laser printing and network "client-servers." MP< Dr. Kay was a member of the University of Utah ARPA research team that developed 3-D graphics, where he earned a doctorate (with distinction) for the development of the first graphical object-oriented personal computer. He holds undergraduate degrees in mathematics and molecular biology from the University of Colorado. Kay also participated in the original design of the ARPANet, which later became the Internet. Kay has received numerous honors, including the ACM Software Systems Award and the J-D Warnier Prix D'Informatique. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society of Arts.

14:00 - 15:30

Demonstrations: HCI Lessons from Games
Session Chair: Tim Shea, Vivid Interface

Late-Breaking Results: See How You Feel: New Input Techniques and Modalities
Session Chair: Maribeth Back, Xerox PARC

Panel: Human-Computer Interaction in Health Care: What Works? What Doesn't
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Papers: Crafting Designs
Session Chair: Victoria Bellotti, Xerox PARC

Papers: Remote Collaboration
Session Chair: Tom Erikson, IBM Research, T. J. Watson Labs

Papers: The Eyes Have It
Session Chair: George G. Robertson, Microsoft Research

Special Interest Group: Making Technology Accessible for Older Users
Organizers

Special Interest Group: The SIGCHI International Issues Committee: Taking Action
Organizer

For details, see http://www-eurisco.onecert.fr/events/intlsig98.html.

16:00 - 17:30

Demonstrations: Avatars & Characters
Session Chair: Kristian Simsarian, Swedish Institute of Computer Science

Late-Breaking Results: The Raw and The Cooked: Experiments and Applications of Speech Interaction
Session Chair: Debby Hindus, Interval Research Corporation

Panel: Intelligent Interfaces in the Real World: Progress and Success Stories
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Papers: About Faces
Session Chair: Robert J. K. Jacob, Tufts University

Papers: Learner Centered Design
Session Chair: Mark Schlager, SRI International

Papers: Navigation
Session Chair: Marti Hearst, University of California

Special Interest Group: The CHI Conference Review Process: Writing and Interpreting Paper Reviews
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Special Interest Group: Virtual Reality Applications in Health Care
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19:30 - 22:30

Other Activity: Conference Reception: A Taste of Hollywood
CHI 98 is hosting the Conference Reception on the Plaza Pool Deck of the Westin Bonaventure Hotel (the CHI 98 Headquarters Hotel). Come and enjoy this outside venue which offers a beautiful view of the Los Angeles skyline. Since Hollywood is the "home to the stars," you will be treated to a dazzling, star-studded evening.

The Westin Bonaventure is within walking distance of the other conference hotels. The Conference Reception promises to delight all conference attendees with events that may include sites from the Hollywood Walk of Fame, visions of the Hollywood studios or the ambiance of the Pacific Coast along with musical entertainment and fine cuisine to satisfy your appetite.

We invite you to join your colleagues for an evening of entertainment and fun. The Conference Reception is included with conference registration and Accompanying Persons registration. Additional tickets may be purchased for US$50 with your advance registration or on site at the CHI Store.

This is an adult-only event. No one under the age of 18 will be permitted. Concerned caregivers should check with their hotel Concierge for child care options. The legal drinking age in California is 21 years old.

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