Workshop Format
he workshop will be held on October 20th and 21st, 1997, at the Banff Rocky Mountain Resort Hotel and Conference Center in Banff, Alberta, Canada, in the heart of the Canadian Rockies. The two-day event will be structured to facilitate a high degree of interaction. There will be oral and poster presentations of current research, as well as invited tutorials, panel discussions, and open discussion time. The program committee will accept presentations based on extended abstracts. The workshop proceedings will comprise these abstracts (rather than full papers). The format is intended to emphasize the interdisciplinary nature of perceptual user interfaces, and to expose the participants to the main issues and challenges in each of the related research areas.
Meals are included in the registration fee and will be served at the hotel.
Note on Sponsorship
The workshop is independent, not directly sponsored by a professional society or company (although Microsoft Corp. made a contribution to get things going). This was decided early on, primarily to ensure freedom to make our own decisions - but also because of time constraints. We will re-evaluate this situation for future meetings.
