Reprise of UIST and VRST
Thursday, 12 August
8:30 - 10:15 am
West Hall B

The User-Interface Software and Technology (UIST) Symposium and the Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) are two small conferences sponsored by ACM SIGGRAPH. In this session, five of the best papers from the most recent UIST and VRST symposia are presented in abbreviated form.

UIST

Perceptually-Supported Image Editing of Text and Graphics
Eric Saund
David Fleet
Daniel Larner
James Mahoney
Palo Alto Research Center
saund@parc.com

VisionWand: Interaction Techniques for Large Displays Using a Passive Wand Tracked in 3D
Xiang Cao
Ravin Balakrishnan
University of Toronto
caox@cs.toronto.edu

GADGET: A Toolkit for Optimization-Based Approaches to Interface and Display Generation
James Fogarty
Scott E. Hudson
Carnegie Mellon University
jfogarty@cs.cmu.edu


VRST

The CAT for Efficient 2D and 3D Interaction as an Alternative to Mouse Adaptations
Martin Hachet
Pascal Guitton
Patrick Reuter
Florence Tyndiuk
LaBRI, INRIA
hachet@labri.fr

Super Wide Viewer Using Catadioptrical Optics
Hajime Nagahara
Yasushi Yagi
Masahiko Yachida
Osaka University
nagahara@sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp