Jie Liu, Epstein ISE PhD candidate, presented a full paper presentation titled "From Driving to Expressive Music Performance: Ensuring Tempo Smoothness" at the first ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment, June 14-16.  The paper, led by Jie, focuses on mapping strategies devised to ensure tempo smoothness in the ESP interface. Acceptance rate for full papers was a competitive 12%.  The paper and abstract can be found at http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~echew/papers/ACE2006.