NSF WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-CENTERED SYSTEMS: INFORMATION, INTERACTIVITY, AND INTELLIGENCE (HCS)

February 17-19, 1997
Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Arlington, VA

Co-Directors:

J. L. Flanagan, Rutgers University
T. S. Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Hosted by Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ATTENDANCE BY INVITATION ONLY

The main goal of the Workshop is to ascertain the future research directions of the important and exciting emerging field of Human-Centered Intelligent Systems. Ultimately, all computer systems are user centered. Without human computer intelligent interaction, the vast future power of supercomputers, ultrahigh speed networks, and giant multimedia repositories cannot be tapped efficiently and to the fullest extent.

Human computer intelligent interaction includes multidodal human computer interface, multimedia data representation and management, intelligent information processing, studies on human performance and cognition, and organizational and societal issues. Around 40 leading researchers in computer science, engineering, Speech/language understation, computer vision, artificial intelligence, psychology, cognitive science, and other relevant fields will actively participate in this Workshop. The two and half day Workshop will consist of plenary talks and breakout group discussions. A report of the Workshop will be written and widely distributed.

It is hoped that the Workshop will have a positive and significant impact on the future research directions of Human-Centered Intelligent Systems.

Workshop Description

Workshop Schedule

Participants

Steering Committee
Plenary speakers (Linked to abstracts of talks)
Breakout Groups (BOG) (Linked to position papers)
Observers from government agencies (Linked to position papers)
Travel and local arrangement

BOG themes and issues for discussion

BOG1: Information Organization and Context (How to make sense in an information rich world)

BOG2: Communication and Collaboration

BOG3: Human-Centered Design

BOG4: Organization and Social Analysis: Social Informatics

BOG Reports Links

BOG1:In HTML format.

BOG2:In HTML format.

BOG3:In HTML format, or in RTF format, or in Macintosh MS Word 5 file format.

BOG4:In HTML format.

Workshop Final Report:

In HTML format.

In Microsoft Word 97 format.

Related and Followup Activities

1. In the July/August 1997 issue of the IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, there is an article on "Toward Human Centered Systems" which gives an overview of our Workshop with emphasis on Visualization and Interfaces.

2. Panel on Human-Centered Systems: the role of Image Processing and Understanding, at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Oct. 26-29, 1997, Santa Barbara, CA. The Panel will be held on Sunday, Oct. 26, 1997, 4:30-5:30 pm, in Sierra Madra South. For details see http://www.ifp.uiuc.edu/icip97panel/

3. NSF/ARL/BI (NAB) Workshop on Toward Human-Centered Systems For Solving National Challenge Problems, Nov. 13-14, 1997, Sheraton City Center Hotel, Washington, DC. For details see http://www.ifp.uiuc.edu/nabhcs/