Final Announcement 1998 Workshop on Perceptual User Interfaces (PUI'98) November 5-6, 1998 San Francisco, CA http://research.microsoft.com/PUIWorkshop Early registration deadline: September 25, 1998 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 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. Program committee: Matthew Turk (Chair), Microsoft Research Matthew Brand, MERL Phil Cohen, Oregon Graduate Institute Joelle Coutaz, CLIPS-IMAG Jim Crowley, INPG Trevor Darrell, Interval Research Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research Javier Movellan, UCSD Sharon Oviatt, Oregon Graduate Institute Alex Pentland, MIT Media Lab Byron Reeves, Stanford University George Robertson, Microsoft Research Steven Shafer, Microsoft Research Chris Schmandt, MIT Media Lab Yoichi Takebayashi, Toshiba Alex Waibel, Carnegie Mellon University For further information, visit the PUI'98 web site at http://research.microsoft.com/PUIWorkshop