In Traction

A preliminary program for EIS 2007 is online. I will be presenting in the session on Models for Reasoning from 09:00 to 13:00 on Saturday, March 24.

We sent in the camera-ready version of our paper yesterday, after an unpleasant experience with trying to convert our original LaTeX version to a Word document. Fortunately, it took us less time than expected thanks to Yves who wrote a few Word macros to help with the conversion.

I’m looking forward to the conference. The list of accepted papers seems interesting.

This week, I was in Bucharest for CADUI 2006. I presented the demo paper Kris, Kristof and I submitted for the conference (A Generic Approach for Multi-Device User Interface Rendering with UIML). Actually I am still in Bucharest at the moment, tomorrow I’m flying back to Belgium.

CADUI was the first conference I ever attended. At first, I didn’t really know what to expect, but it turned out to be a very pleasant experience. I met a lot of nice people, and saw interesting talks. CADUI is a very friendly conference, which resulted in a comfortable atmosphere that only further fueled the interaction.

After the last presentation today, there were books handed out from Springer-Verlag for the best paper and best talk, and also a lottery giving away another four books amongst the participants of the conference. The best paper was A Generic Approach for Pen-based User Interface Development by S. Mancé and E. Anquetil, which describes a pretty impressive system.

First I won a book from the lottery, and then I also got the best talk award! So my backpack is going to be a bit heavier on the way back I guess