Proceedings First Australasian User Interface Conference. AUIC 2000 (Cat. No.PR00515)

The following topics were dealt with: the Stretchable Selection Tool, breaking the copy/paste cycle; finger tracking for the Digital Desk; developing adaptable user interfaces for component-based systems; EMCE (a multimodal environment augmenting conferencing experiences); stepping into cooperative buildings; applying ecological interface design to experimental apparatus used to monitor a refrigeration plant; WAP enabling existing HTML applications; exploring visualizations through subspace composition; activity breakdowns in QuickTime virtual reality environments; visual gesture interfaces for virtual environments; task and dialogue modelling (bridging the divide with Lean Cuisine+); user interfaces for lightweight in-line editing of Web pages; the metaphor of the face as an interface for communicating non-quantitative information; BUS (a browser-based user interface service for Web-based applications); evaluation of animation effects to improve indirect manipulation; supporting special-purpose health care models via Web interfaces; distortion-oriented displays in 3D; question-driven classification of retrieved documents; and programming without a computer (a new interface for children under eight)