Research Paper Topic Selections =============================== DESIGN Colin Mitchell Designing the muse: A Digital Music Stand for the Symphony Musician **design briefing**, CHI96, pp 436--441 Mike Gottlieb Sensuality in Product Design: a Structured Appraoch **design briefing**, CHI96, pp 428--435 WORLD WIDE WEB Rich Fantozzi, Dave Harris Using the Web Instead of a Window System CHI96, pp 103--10 Bryan Herger The Web Book and the Web Forager: An Information Worksapce for the WWW CHI96, pp 111--117 VIRTUAL REALITY Andreas Chalupa, Scott Dewitt The Lego Interface Toolkit (**Tech Note**) UIST96, pp 97--98 Ken Hopkinson, Shawn Larson Language-Level support for Exploratory Programming of Distributed Virtual Environments UIST '96 pp 83--94 Joseph Annino, Rick Tossavaienen Head-Tracked Orbital Viewing: An Interaction Technique for Immersive Vurtual Environments **TechNote**, UIST96, pp 81--82 EMPIRICAL STUDIES of GRAPHICS AND VISUAL DESIGN Man Lee Does Animation in User Interfaces Improve Decision Making CHI96, pp 27--34 VIRTUAL AND ENHANCED ENVIRONMENTS David Garner Integrating Augmented reality with intelligent home systems P57 ECDVRAT '96, pp 57--66 COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS Alexander Holmansky Email Overload: Expolring Personal Information Management of Email CHI96, pp 276--283 MULIMODAL APPLICATIONS Victor Yee Dual Device Interface Design: PDAs and Interactive Television CHI96, pp 79--86 DEVELOPMENT TOOLS Jeffrey Gomes, Patrick Lupiani, Manoj Wadhwani Reusable Hierarchical Command Objects (Amulet) CHI96, pp 260--267 GESTURE Linda Lim A gesture recognition architecture for sign language Assets '96, pp 102--109 AGENTS Matt Wilson, Jean-Etienne LaVallee, and Rebecca Weitzman Helping Users Program Their Personal Agents CHI96, pp 355--361 INFORMATION VISUALIZATION Phillip Thorne 3D Magic Lenses UIST '96, pp 51--57 LEARNING FROM USERS Robert Brandon and Andy Malinowski The Design of a Long-Term Use of a Personal Electronic Notebook: A Reflective Analysis CHI96, pp 11--18