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.
Uist Topic Selection is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the testing sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/uist-topic-selection/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: 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.
The Uist Topic Selection Claude Code skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 168,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/uist-topic-selection curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/uist-topic-selection/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/uist-topic-selection/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/uist-topic-selection/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/uist-topic-selection/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\uist-topic-selection\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/uist-topic-selection/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Uist Topic Selection is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Engineering category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{uist-topic-selection-2026,
author = {brycewang-stanford},
title = {Uist Topic Selection [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/uist-topic-selection/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-07-31 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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