University of Washington team wins UIST 2026 Best Paper for declarative dragging
The gist
A University of Washington team's declarative dragging technique won a Best Paper Award at UIST 2026.
It lets developers specify target states instead of writing drag geometry and animation code.
How it unfolded
- 2023 -06Andrew Blinn's whiteboard sketches a basic version of model-driven dragging for tree rewriting.
- 2023On a walk in Seattle's Capitol Hill, Andrew Blinn shares his draggy ideas with Josh Horowitz.
- date unknownDeclarative dragging, by Horowitz, Blinn and Heer at the University of Washington, earns a Best Paper Award at UIST 2026.
Key terms
- UIST
- Annual ACM conference on technical innovations in human–computer interfaces, sponsored by SIGCHI and SIGGRAPH.
- SVG
- An XML-based open-standard format for describing two-dimensional vector graphics with interactivity and animation.
- order-preserving maps
- A function between ordered sets that keeps the given order, so larger inputs give larger outputs.
Source: Wikipedia