IUI

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2017 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'17). It is the twenty-second IUI conference, continuing its tradition of being the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research at the intersection of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The work that appears at IUI bridges these two fields and delves also into related fields, such as psychology, cognitive science, computer graphics, the arts, and many others. Members of the IUI community are interested in improving the symbiosis between humans and computers, and in making systems adapt to humans rather than the other way around.

The call for papers attracted 272 submissions from Africa, America, Asia, Australia and Europe, a record number for the IUI series, 58 submissions of posters and demos and 25 submissions to the students' consortium. The program committee accepted 63 papers, covering a diverse set of topics, reflected in the session titles "Recommender Systems", "Multimodal and Augmented Interaction", "Understanding Users", "Information Visualization", "Personalization", "Interactive Programming and Automation", "Trust", "Intelligent Training and Educational Interfaces", "Intelligent Systems", "Gestural and Haptic Interaction", "Analytics", "Interactive Machine Learning and Explanation", "Machine Learning", and "Information Retrieval". We also have 19 posters and 13 demos and 16 doctoral consortium papers. Following the tradition of collaboration with TiiS journal, 5 papers that were published during 2016 are presented at IUI 2017 and selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to the journal. In addition, the conference provides six workshops and three tutorials.

One of the main attractions of the conference is provided by the scientific keynotes: Dr. Shumin Zhai opens the conference program with a keynote on "Modern Touchscreen Keyboards as Intelligent User Interfaces: A Research Review", Professor George Samaras' second day keynote is on "Utilizing Human Cognitive and Emotional Factors for User-Centered Computing" and the last day keynote, by Professor Panos Markopoulos, is on "Interaction Design for Rehabilitation". The conference program is available for IUI participants on Conference Navigator. IUI 2017 has a few novelties: For the first time, IUI introduced parallel sessions throughout the conference. The doctoral consortium papers were integrated into the main program for the first time in IUI. Another novelty of IUI 2017 is the introduction of the "most impactful IUI paper" award.