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UIST 2026 Opens in Detroit on 2 November, and Maes and Shneiderman Are Restarting Their Argument
The ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology runs 2–5 November at the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center. Pattie Maes and Ben Shneiderman return to the direct-manipulation-versus-interface-agents debate they helped define in the late 1990s — a question that reads very differently now that the agents actually exist.