1998 Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces (PUI'98) November 5-6, 1998 San Francisco, CA http://research.microsoft.com/PUIWorkshop Last October, the first Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces (PUI'97) was held in Banff, Canada. This meeting began a dialog which will continue this year with the 1998 Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces (PUI'98), to be held at the Mark Hopkins Inter-Continental Hotel in San Francisco, California. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and industry with common interests in making human-computer interaction more natural and compelling by integrating perceptual capabilities into the user interface. The two-day workshop will be structured to facilitate a high degree of interaction. There will be oral and poster presentations of current research, invited talks, focused discussion or break-out sessions, panel discussions, and open discussion time. The meeting directly follows the ACM UIST'98 conference, to be held at a nearby hotel. Topics of interest include speech and sound recognition, vision-based interfaces, haptics, multimodal interfaces, learning and user modeling, cognitive studies, integrating multiple sources of information, and systems issues associated with perceptual user interfaces. There are three categories of submissions, due by July 10, 1998: (1) FULL PAPER describing original research in areas related to perceptual user interfaces. Accepted papers will be presented orally at the workshop. (2) RESEARCH NOTE describing ongoing research and/or demonstrations. Accepted research notes will be presented at a poster/demo session. (3) WORKSHOP PROPOSAL describing a panel, break-out session, or mini-workshop, intending to promote and provoke relevant discussion. See the workshop's web site for more detailed submission instructions. Program committee: Matthew Turk (Chair), Matthew Brand, Phil Cohen, Joelle Coutaz, Jim Crowley, Trevor Darrell, Eric Horvitz, Javier Movellan, Sharon Oviatt, Alex Pentland, Byron Reeves, George Robertson, Steven Shafer, Chris Schmandt, Alex Waibel Important dates: July 10, 1998 Submission deadline August 21, 1998 Notification of acceptance September 25, 1998 Workshop registration deadline For further information, visit the PUI'98 web site at http://research.microsoft.com/PUIWorkshop.