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<jats:p> In this, the second of three sets of position papers for the CTG-CSTG co-sponsored symposium on Computers and Telecommunications in the Year 2000, we begin with a paper by Leah Kaufman and Jim Stewart on the human factors challenges involved in creating an effective multimodal communications environment. Bruce Thomas continues with a position paper outlining the advantages and disadvantages of technology miniaturisation, and how these advantages and disadvantages impact our approaches to user interface design. In the final paper in this set, Gerhard Deffner describes the portability-functionality dilemma, in which designers are confronted with two distinct user goals that are difficult to meet simultaneously. </jats:p>