www.acm.org

This web site gives you access to the complete set of UIST papers (full text access requires a subscription to the ACM Digital Library), to the UIST adjunct proceedings since 2002, and to all the videos published at UIST since 1995.

UIST (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology) 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.

How can physical work, play, and living spaces be enhanced through digital information systems? How can the long biological experience of humans in manipulating physical objects be exploited as an interface to information systems? Researchers propose that contemporary models that focus on the computer as a separate appliance will seem like an anachronism in the digitally enhanced future. Sensing, computing, and communication functions will become invisible and integrated into the manufacture of many objects and the architectural arrangements of spaces. UC can also be defined as an art of technology transparency or tangible computing. In the words of Bill Buxton (1998): "Rather than turning inward to an artificial world, ubiquitous media encourages us to look outward. It expands our perception and interaction in the physical world."

Past Issues

Solutions based on freely distributed software will give libraries another choice for obtaining the support services that best meet the needs of their users.

Autopoiesis

ACM position on Software Engineering as a Licensed Engineering Profession as of July/2000. (they are against it).

Classic software engineering (/architecture) article by David Parnas on criteria for decomposing a system. It discusses naïve flow-based decompositions versus information-hiding based techniques.