Themes
	Business Success
	next wave
	education & science
	security
	health

Refereed Track: Browsers & User Interfaces

The Web browser UI has become the face of cyberspace, and a ubiquitous access mechanism for most of the world's online services and media channels. As new uses of the Internet are invented and network bandwidth goes up, web user interfaces will need to become richer and more interactive. Systems that facilitate interpersonal communication and transactions (e.g., meeting rooms, communities of trust, social networks, web logs, auctions) are becoming very popular and present interesting design challenges. To be successful, deployment on the Web requires delivering a good user experience across a variety of platforms and form factors, which is a non-trivial exercise. Also, given the Web's international nature, content and services may need to be supported in a range of languages, with cultural sensitivity. The spread of pervasive and ubiquitous computing has resulted in new types of interactions, such as those with mobile phones, embedded devices, location-aware services and shared displays. One of the questions this track should address is whether familiar paradigms will be able to evolve to accommodate new devices, high bandwidth interaction, and future use cases, or whether a radical change is needed in Web interface design.

The Browsers and User Interfaces track at WWW'2006 focuses on promoting novel research directions and providing a forum where researchers, theoreticians, and practitioners can introduce new approaches, paradigms, applications, share their knowledge and opinions about problems and solutions related to accessing and interacting with data , services, and other humans over the Web. We invite original papers describing both theoretical and experimental research including (but not limited to) the following topics: