Researchers from Microsoft Research’s Cambridge and Redmond labs participated in the 22nd Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2009), held Oct. 4-7 in Victoria, British Columbia.

UIST is the premier forum for innovations in the software and technology of human-computer interfaces. Sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery's special interest groups on computer-human interaction and computer graphics, UIST brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse areas that include traditional graphical and Web user interfaces, tangible and ubiquitous computing, virtual and augmented reality, multimedia, and new input and output devices.

Microsoft Research presented 13 of the 33 papers accepted for oral presentation at the conference, 39 percent of the oral papers program. Nine of the 13 Microsoft Research papers accepted this year were written in collaboration with university partners, and another is from the Microsoft Research-INRIA Joint Centre, one of the collaborative institutes supported by the Microsoft External Research group.

Andy Wilson, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond, was the general conference chair of this year’s UIST conference.

Papers written entirely or in part by Microsoft Research presented during UIST 2009:

Ripples: Utilizing Per-Contact Visualizations to Improve User Interaction with Touch Displays (video)
Daniel Wigdor, Microsoft; Sarah Williams, Microsoft; Michael Cronin, Microsoft; Robert Levy, Microsoft; Katie White, Microsoft; Maxim Mazeev, Microsoft; and Hrvoje Benko, Microsoft Research.

Contact Area Interaction with Sliding Widgets (video)
Tomer Moscovitch, Microsoft Research-INRIA Joint Centre.

Detecting and Leveraging Finger Orientation for Interaction with Direct-Touch Surfaces
Feng Wang, Kochi University of Technology; Xiang Cao, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Xiangshi Ren, Kochi University of Technology; and Pourang Irani, University of Manitoba.

Mouse 2.0: Multi-Touch Meets the Mouse
Nicolas Villar, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Shahram Izadi, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Dan Rosenfeld, Microsoft; Hrvoje Benko, Microsoft Research Redmond; John Helmes, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Jonathan Westhues, Microsoft; Steve Hodges, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Eyal Ofek, Microsoft; Alex Butler, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Xiang Cao, Microsoft Research Cambridge; and Billy Chen, Microsoft.

A Reconfigurable Ferromagnetic Input Device
Jonathan Hook, Newcastle University; Stuart Taylor, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Alex Butler, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Nicolas Villar, Microsoft Research Cambridge; and Shahram Izadi, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

Collabio: A Game for Annotating People within Social Networks (video)
Michael Bernstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Desney Tan, Microsoft Research Redmond; Greg Smith, Microsoft Research Redmond; Mary Czerwinski, Microsoft Research Redmond; and Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research Redmond.

Interactions in the Air: Adding Further Depth to Interactive Tabletops
Otmar Hilliges, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Shahram Izadi, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Andrew D. Wilson, Microsoft Research Redmond; Steve Hodges, Microsoft Research Cambridge; Armando Garcia-Mendoza, Microsoft Research Cambridge; and Andreas Butz, University of Munich.

Augmenting Interactive Tables with Mice & Keyboards
Björn Hartmann, Stanford University; Meredith Ringel Morris, Microsoft Research Redmond; Hrvoje Benko, Microsoft Research Redmond; and Andrew D. Wilson, Microsoft Research Redmond.

Enabling Always-Available Input with Muscle-Computer Interfaces
T. Scott Saponas, University of Washington; Desney S. Tan, Microsoft Research Redmond; Dan Morris, Microsoft Research Redmond; Ravin Balakrishnan, University of Toronto; Jim Turner, Microsoft; and James A. Landay, University of Washington.

Optically Sensing Tongue Gestures for Computer Input
T. Scott Saponas, University of Washington; Daniel Kelly, University of Washington; Babak A. Parviz, University of Washington; and Desney S. Tan, Microsoft Research Redmond.

Integrated Videos and Maps for Driving Directions (video)
Billy Chen, Microsoft; Boris Neubert, University of Konstanz; Eyal Ofek, Microsoft; Oliver Deussen, University of Konstanz; and Michael F. Cohen, Microsoft Research.

Changing How People View Changes on the Web
Jaime Teevan, Microsoft Research Redmond; Susan T. Dumais, Microsoft Research Redmond; Daniel J. Liebling, Microsoft Research Redmond; and Richard L. Hughes, Microsoft Research Redmond.

Overview-Based Example Selection in End-User Interactive Concept Learning
Saleema Amershi, University of Washington; James Fogarty, University of Washington; Ashish Kapoor, Microsoft Research Redmond; and Desney Tan, Microsoft Research Redmond.