We invite researchers and practitioners to submit a 4--6 page (excluding references) position paper in the CHI Extended Abstract format to participate in the workshop. Submissions can reflect on past work, in-progress projects, present challenges and approaches, identified opportunities, or critical opinions and arguments covering but not limited to the following topics:
Combination: It is crucial to provide designers with fine-granularity control for their design while providing choices that UI designers need to make. Optimization-based approaches can give designers more control over their design; data-driven approaches are better at generating different final results and suggestions. Thus, analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of both kinds of approaches and exploring their combination shows significant potential to advance the topic.
Datasets: Data-driven approaches highly depend on datasets. Large datasets, such as the RICO dataset, have triggered a stream of research on this topic. New meaningful datasets can be the basis of future research. Given datasets, foundation models can also bring significant opportunities to build AI-infused applications.
Representations: The representations of user interfaces are essential for understanding and generating layouts. Novel UI representations have the potential to extend the scope of applications and surpass the limitations of existing representations. For example, UIBERT and Screen2Vec show the promise of UI representations. Similarly, ORC Layout represents UI layouts as a constraint system with OR-constraints which enables new UI resize behaviors.
Human Traces: Most existing works focused on understanding static user interfaces. To understand user intentions during UI usage, analyzing dynamic human UI usage traces is critical.
Domain Extension: 2D interface approaches can of course be extended to 3D. Yet, if we consume UIs in mixed reality, how we generate user interfaces will change drastically. It is still challenging to understand how physical objects and virtual interfaces connect, and further how to optimize virtual interfaces to adapt to user preferences and cognitive load.
Participants should submit the position papers by sending the PDF document to the email user.interface.workshop@gmail.com.
Each submission will be reviewed by the workshop organizers and program committee members, and selection will be based on the paper’s quality, novelty, and fit to the topic while aiming for a balance of different perspectives.
Accepted papers will be optionally made available on the workshop website (with consent from the authors). At least one author of each accepted position paper must register and attend the workshop and register for at least one day of the conference. The workshop will be in a hybrid structure. Authors of each accepted position paper will present their work at the workshop.