International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
Name	International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
Abbrev	IUI
Discipline	Human–computer interaction; Artificial intelligence
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery; ACM SIGCHI; ACM SIGAI
Frequency	Annual
First	1993

International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces is an annual academic conference focusing on research at the intersection of Human–computer interaction and Artificial intelligence. The conference brings together researchers from institutions such as Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Cambridge, and University of California, Berkeley alongside industry groups like Google, Microsoft, Apple Inc., Amazon (company), and Facebook. IUI serves as a venue for work related to interactive systems developed by teams from IBM, Intel, NVIDIA, Adobe Systems, Samsung Electronics, Huawei Technologies, and Sony Corporation.

Overview

IUI addresses topics where interfaces and agents meet, attracting participants from Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Washington, University of Toronto, University of Oxford, Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, Columbia University, University of Michigan, and University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. Typical attendees include members of organizations such as ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGAI, IEEE Computer Society, European Association for Artificial Intelligence, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and research labs like Microsoft Research, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Facebook AI Research, Apple Machine Learning Research, IBM Research, Yahoo Research, Baidu Research, Tencent AI Lab, and Alibaba DAMO Academy. The program mixes talks, poster sessions, workshops, and demonstrations from groups such as MIT Media Lab, SRI International, Bell Labs, PARC (company), and RIKEN.

History

IUI was established in the early 1990s with founders and early contributors from institutions including Stanford Research Institute, University of California, San Diego, University of Toronto Scarborough, University College London, Technical University of Munich, and Darmstadt University of Technology. Early conferences featured pioneers affiliated with Apple Computer, Xerox PARC, and Bell Labs Innovations as they explored connections among researchers from Brown University, Duke University, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, Imperial College London, University of Edinburgh, University of Melbourne, and University of Sydney. Over time IUI has been hosted in cities like San Diego, New York City, Honolulu, Gran Canaria, San Francisco, Santa Monica, Granada, Kyoto, New Orleans, and Copenhagen, and involved program committees with members from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, University of Helsinki, Aalto University, Seoul National University, KAIST, Tsinghua University, and Peking University.

Conference Scope and Topics

IUI covers research areas represented by contributors from labs at Cambridge University Engineering Department, ETH Zurich, University of Zurich, Max Planck Society, Fraunhofer Society, CNRS, INRIA, University of Amsterdam, Delft University of Technology, TU Berlin, University of Potsdam, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and Technical University of Denmark. Topics include work on systems and methodologies developed by teams at Microsoft Research Cambridge, Google Brain, DeepMind, NVIDIA Research, Adobe Research, Oracle Corporation, SAP SE, Siemens AG, Hitachi, Panasonic Corporation, LG Electronics, and Philips. Research themes often draw on methods popularized at events like NeurIPS, CHI, ICML, ACL (conference), EMNLP, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, UbiComp, WWW Conference, ISWC, KDD, SIGGRAPH, and IROS.

Organization and Governance

The conference is organized by program chairs and general chairs typically affiliated with universities such as Purdue University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of Southern California, Delft University of Technology, University of British Columbia, McGill University, University of Waterloo, Simon Fraser University, University of Alberta, University of Victoria, and collaborating societies including ACM, IEEE, AAAI, EURASIP, and British Computer Society. Steering committees have included representatives from ACM SIGCHI, ACM SIGAI, IEEE Computer Society, European Association for Artificial Intelligence, and organizations like NSF (United States), European Commission, EPSRC, DST (India), DFG (German Research Foundation), ERC (European Research Council), and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Hosts have coordinated with local institutions such as University of California, Irvine, University of Texas at Austin, University of British Columbia, Monash University, University of Auckland, Nanyang Technological University, and National University of Singapore.

Proceedings and Publications

Proceedings are published through outlets connected to ACM Digital Library, ACM Press, and sometimes in special issues of journals like ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Human–Computer Interaction (journal), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Artificial Intelligence (journal), and Computers & Graphics. Papers often cite methods from work at NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI, EMNLP, ACL (conference), CVPR, SIGGRAPH, CHI, and journals such as Nature (journal), Science (journal), Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Communications of the ACM. IUI also issues workshop reports, demo catalogs, and doctoral consortium summaries involving contributors from SIGGRAPH Asia, CHI PLAY, MobileHCI, PerCom, and UbiComp.

Notable Papers and Contributions

Notable contributions have included work on embodied conversational agents linked to research at MIT Media Lab, Carnegie Mellon University, HITLab, Sony CSL, and Bristol Robotics Laboratory; adaptive user modeling tied to efforts at SRI International, IBM Research, Microsoft Research Redmond, Google Research, and Yahoo Research. Influential papers connected to prototypes and systems from Apple Computer and Xerox PARC have informed later work at Amazon Web Services, Facebook AI Research, DeepMind, OpenAI, NVIDIA Research, and Intel Labs. Cross-disciplinary contributions drew collaborators from Stanford Vision and Learning Lab, Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR), Oxford Robotics Institute, Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, RIKEN AIP, Inria Saclay, EPFL Data Science Lab, and KDD Lab.

Awards and Recognition

IUI presentations and authors have received broader recognition in communities and awards administered by ACM, IEEE, AAAI, Royal Society, MacArthur Foundation, Turing Award nominees, ACM SIGCHI Awards, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and national honors such as National Medal of Science, National Medal of Technology and Innovation, Royal Society Fellowship, Japan Prize, CEDEC Awards, and prizes affiliated with universities like Harvard University, Stanford University, MIT, and Princeton University. Best paper, best student paper, and demonstration awards are commonly conferred by IUI organizers, and awardees often later present at venues such as CHI, NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI, KDD, and CVPR.

Category:Academic conferences