UIST

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to New York City for UIST 2010, the Twenty-Third Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. UIST is the premier forum for the presentation of research 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 many areas, including web and graphical interfaces, new input and output devices, information visualization, interactive displays, tangible computing and CSCW. The single-track schedule, intimate size, and location in the most exciting city in the world, make UIST 2010 an ideal place to exchange results and forge future collaborations.

The call for papers attracted 207 full paper and tech note submissions from more than 20 countries. The program committee accepted 38 papers (18%) after a thorough review process. Each anonymous submission was assigned primary and secondary program committee members. The primary committee member assigned at least two external reviewers for each submission, and the secondary at least one. After receiving the reviews, both program committee members wrote a meta-review for every submission. Authors were then given all reviews and the opportunity to write a short rebuttal. The program committee then met in New York on June 4-5, 2010, to examine each submission and select the top papers. Submissions were finally accepted only after the authors provided a final revision addressing the committee's comments.

For this year we are very fortunate to have, as our invited speakers, Marvin Minsky, Natalie Jeremijenko, and Jaron Lanier -- three great geniuses at different stages in their careers. Each, in their unique way, is a deep and pioneering thinker about the interface between human and machine, whose many and profound contributions effortlessly span the range of technology, culture and the arts.

Returning this year is the Student Innovation Contest, which challenges student teams to develop new interactions on unique hardware. This year's contest features a prototype keyboard that incorporates a touchscreen, designed by Microsoft Adaptive Sciences. Posters, demos and the eighth annual Doctoral Symposium complete the program. These are described in the UIST program companion distributed at the conference. Also, for the first time we are holding a special contest that asks contributors to look twenty years into the future and submit an abstract for a paper they might present at UIST 2030 (demos optional).