Technical Program Descriptions

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Tuesday, May 18

• Other Activity: CHIkids and childcare

• Plenary: Sci-Fi @CHI: Science-Fiction Authors Predict Future User Interfaces

• Other Activity: Highlight on Exhibits
• Other Activity: Newcomers' Orientation

• Late-Breaking Results: Seeing is Understanding: New Visualization Techiques
• Panel: Trust Me, I'm Accountable: Trust and Accountability Online
• Papers: Alternatives to QWERTY
• Papers: Groupware
• Papers: Object Manipulation Studies in Virtual Environments
• Special Interest Group: Making Minds Meet in your Local Chapter: The Case of SIGCHI.NL
• Special Interest Group: The GOMS SIG: Troubleshooting, Lessons Learned, Novel Applications, Teaching Techniques, & Future Research

• Demonstrations: Tools for Design
• Interview: Web and Web Design Limits to HCI
• Late-Breaking Results: Novel Collaborative Paradigms
• Panel: Senior CHI: How Can We Make Technology "Elder-Friendly?"
• Papers: Social Foundations and Impacts of HCI
• Papers: Wearable and Tangible Audio
• Special Interest Group: Computer Supported Co-operative Design: Towards Effective Solutions
• Special Interest Group: Visual Interaction Design

• Late-Breaking Results: New Metaphors for User Interfaces

• Demonstrations: Tangible, Dynamic, and Accessible Interfaces
• Panel: Comparative Evaluation of Usability Tests
• Papers: Characters and Agents
• Papers: Collaborative and Multimedia Systems
• Papers: Progress in Drawing and CAD
• Special Interest Group: Examining Computer-Mediated Interactions: Tasks, Measures and Featured Information
• Special Interest Group: The Impact of Unified Messaging on the User

• Other Activity: Reception

Wednesday, May 19

• Other Activity: CHIkids and childcare

• Demonstrations: Interfaces for Group Work
• Late-Breaking Results: Overcoming Human Limitations
• Papers: Gaze and Purpose
• Papers: Programming Techniques and Issues
• Papers: Touching, Pointing, and Choosing
• Special Interest Group: One Size Fits All? Cultural Diversity in User Interface Design
• Special Interest Group: User Interfaces for Electronic Product Catalogs

• Other Activity: Student Posters

• Other Activity: Highlight on Posters

• Demonstrations: Visual Interfaces
• Interview: Human Limits to HCI
• Late-Breaking Results: Exploring the Frontiers of Interface Design
• Panel: Third Generation Computer Tutors: Learn From or Ignore Human Tutors
• Papers: Foundations for Navigation
• Papers: Working with People Near and Far
• Special Interest Group: Consolidating a New HCI Community: The Brazilian Experience
• Special Interest Group: The Consultants' Forum

• Plenary: How to Become an Internet Felon in Three Easy Steps

• Demonstrations: Free-form Interaction
• Late-Breaking Results: HCI: Bridging the Gulf Between Humans and Computers
• Panel: Counting on Community in Cyberspace
• Papers: Profiles, Notes, and Surfaces
• Papers: Stories and Narratives
• Papers: Tagging and Tracking Objects in Physical UIs
• Special Interest Group: Current Issues in Assessing and Improving Documentation Usability
• Special Interest Group: Universal Web Access: Delivering Services to Everyone

• Interview: Methodological Limits to HCI (with a special look at HCI and older users)
• Late-Breaking Results: New Interaction Techniques
• Panel: Social Navigation: What is it Good For?
• Papers: Augmented Surfaces
• Papers: Cognitive Models of Screen Interaction
• Papers: Tools for Building Interfaces and Applications
• Special Interest Group: HCI Journals: Valuable Reading or Waster Paper?
• Special Interest Group: SIGCHI's Role in Influencing Technology Policy

• Other Activity: Tour: MAYA Design Group Tour and Night on the Southside

• Other Activity: ACM/SIGCHI Business Meeting

Thursday, May 20

• Other Activity: CHIkids and childcare

• Demonstrations: Advances in Graphical Interaction
• Late-Breaking Results: MIT is the Limit
• Panel: Is ActiMates Barney Ethical? The potential good, bad, and ugly of high-tech playmates
• Papers: Learning and Reading
• Papers: Vision and Fitts' Law
• Special Interest Group: CHI 99 Special Interest Group on Natural Language in Computer-Human Interaction
• Special Interest Group: Usability in Online/Distance Education

• Other Activity: Student Posters

• Demonstrations: Augmenting Reality
• Interview: Organizational Limits to HCI
• Late-Breaking Results: The Medium is the Message
• Papers: Navigation and Visualization
• Papers: Virtual Reality and Embodiment
• Special Interest Group: Encouraging CHI Collaboration in Latin America
• Special Interest Group: Use Cases in Task Modeling and User Interface Design

• Late-Breaking Results: Experimental Answers to Interaction Issues
• Panel: What makes Strategic Usability Fail? Lessons Learned From the Field
• Papers: Advances in User Participation
• Papers: Organizing Information on the Web
• Papers: Speech and Multimodal Interfaces
• Special Interest Group: Automated Data Collection for Evaluating Collaborative Systems
• Special Interest Group: Measuring Website Usability

• Plenary: Civil Rights in Cyberspace: How Online Free Speech Restrictions Will Inhibit Online Diversity