Updates:

• Slides from invited talks
• Online proceedings of PUI'98

The Mark Hopkins Inter-Continental Hotel, Nob Hill
San Francisco, CA
November 5-6, 1998

Human-computer interaction has not fundamentally changed for nearly two decades.  Most users are still limited to interacting with computers via keyboards and pointing devices.  However an increasing number of researchers in various areas of computer science are developing technologies to add perceptual capabilities such as speech and vision to the human-computer interface.  Such perceptual user interfaces are likely to be the next major paradigm in human-computer interaction. 

Last October, the first Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces (PUI 97) was held in Banff, Canada.  This meeting began a dialog which will continue this year with the 1998 Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces (PUI 98), to be held at the Mark Hopkins Inter-Contininental Hotel in San Francisco, California.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and industry working in vision, speech, user interfaces, machine learning, and user modeling, with common interests in making human-computer interaction more natural and compelling by integrating perceptual capabilities into the user interface.  The intimate size, focus on discussion, and comfortable surroundings will make this workshop an ideal opportunity to exchange ideas, share research results and learn about the various issues and technologies involved in creating the next generation of user interfaces.

The workshop will take place following UIST '98 (the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology), which will be held at the nearby Fairmont Hotel on November 2-4.  Workshop participants are encouraged to come early to attend UIST '98 as well.