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uist-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a project belongs at UIST — testing it against the interface-systems contribution bar (novel technique, toolkit, or hardware that works), making the CHI-vs-UIST routing call explicitly, and re-routing to CSCW, IMWUT, TEI, ISMAR, IUI, or TOCHI when the artifact is not the contribution.
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# UIST Topic Selection
UIST publishes papers whose contribution **is an interface artifact**: a new
interaction technique, an enabling piece of hardware, a toolkit or authoring system,
or an algorithm that makes a previously impossible interaction possible. The venue
grew out of demo culture and still reviews like it — the implicit first question is
"what did you build, and can I imagine holding it?" Use this skill before any UIST
plan is made; the March deadline punishes late routing discoveries.
## The artifact-subtraction test
Delete the system from the paper and see what survives:
- If what survives is a **finding about people** (how users behave, adopt, trust,