Emerging issues in visual interfaces

The continual growth of the Global Information Infrastructure (GII) prompts dramatic changes in both the types of information involved, and the kind o f people who access it. In this paper, we briefly survey the most recent re sults with respect to the User Interface area, as emerged from the work pre sented at the fourth edition of the Conference on Advanced Visual Interface s (AVI'98), focusing on interaction with large information spaces, multimod ality, and usability issues.