This workshop aims to gather researchers in the field of user interface design tools to identify important themes for the next decade of research. User interface tools aid in the design and development of interactive systems. They include tools for designing the interface, development environments for writing code, and toolkits that provide software architectures and building blocks to aid development. These tools have provided tremendous benefit for the designers and developers of graphical user interfaces. The CHI community has shown that the next generation of user interfaces is moving off the desktop: these emerging interfaces employ novel input techniques such as tangible, haptic, and camera-based interaction, access to vast information repositories and sensor networks, and information presentation to a wide range of devices. In this workshop, we will discuss common themes, conflicting ideas, and future directions for the next generation of tool support for ubiquitous computing.

Themes:

• What common “big goals” should the UI tools community have?
• How does input that is continuous, ambiguous, and/or multi-user impact tool design?
• What tools can be used to rapidly prototype novel physical devices? How do these tools bridge the physical and electronic worlds?
• How can interface tools not just lower the threshold for existing areas, but be catalysts for growth and experimentation?
• How can we design for heterogeneous devices? What is the role for model-based UIs?
• End user, visual, and physical programming of interactions

Workshop position papers should be two pages long and send to Scott Klemmer at srk(at)cs.stanford.edu by January 3rd. Feel free to contact us beforehand with more information.