UMAP 2010 - UMAP 2010 -- 18th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ONUSER MODELING, ADAPTATION, AND PERSONALIZATION

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Deadline: January 18, 2010 | Date: June 20, 2010

Venue/Country: Hawaii, U.S.A

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

USER MODELING, ADAPTATION, AND PERSONALIZATION

Big Island of Hawaii, June 20-24, 2010

http://www.hawaii.edu/UMAP2010/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and

practitioners working on systems that

adapt to their individual users, or to groups of users, and collect

and represent information about users

for this purpose. UMAP is the successor to the biannual User Modeling

and Adaptive Hypermedia

conferences that were merged in 2009. It is organized under the

auspices of User Modeling Inc.

TOPICS

The conference spans, but is not restricted to, the following topics:

- Purposes of UMAP: personalizing information, recommending products,

tailoring search results,

enhancing learning outcomes, personalizing help, assuming routine

tasks, adapting interfaces, ...

- User characteristics for UMAP: knowledge and skills, interests and

preferences, special needs,

affective states, goals and plans, contexts of use, roles, cultural

characteristics, ...

- Application domains for UMAP: e-commerce, e-learning, cultural

heritage, healthcare, assistive

technologies, digital libraries, office work, recommender systems,

targeted advertisement, digital TV, ...

- Environments for UMAP: web-based systems (including the

semantic/social Web), desktop systems,

groupware systems, mobile and wearable systems, smart environments,

smart objects, virtual

environments, ...

- Computational methods for UMAP: data collection, user model

extraction and representation,

adaptation methods, architectures for UMAP, ...

- Evaluation of UMAP: requirements specification, formative

evaluation, user testing, validation,

performance tests, ...

- Practical aspects of UMAP: privacy and security, cost-justifying

UMAP, integrating UMAP, valuing user

experience, ...

SUBMISSION CATEGORIES

WORKSHOP PROPOSALS (due Nov. 23, 2009)

Workshop proposals (3 pages) should outline the area, goals, scope and

format of the workshop,

introducing also the members of the organizing team and their

backgrounds. Preference will be given

to workshops that aim to produce answers to one or more explicitly

formulated questions and that

involve interactive presentations and constructive work, as opposed to

"miniconferences" that comprise

mainly paper presentations.

TUTORIAL PROPOSALS (due Nov. 23, 2009)

Tutorial proposals (3 pages) should describe the topic of the tutorial

and its importance, the intended

style of presentation, and the instructor's qualifications. Conference

participants can attend tutorials at

no extra charge. Tutorial instructors will receive a complementary

conference registration.

RESEARCH PAPERS (abstracts due Jan. 11, 2010; full papers Jan. 18)

- Long research papers (12 pages maximum) should present original

reports of substantive new

research. They should place the work within the field, and clearly

indicate its innovative aspects and its

significance.

- Short research papers (6 pages) should present original and

unpublished highly promising research,

whose merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance

rather than maturity and technical

validation.

Both categories will be strictly kept apart in the review process.

Only in extremely unusual

circumstances can long papers be relegated to the short paper category.

INDUSTRY PAPERS (abstracts due Jan. 11, 2010; full papers Jan. 18)

The Industry Track solicits submissions covering innovative commercial

implementations or

applications of UMAP technologies, and experience in applying recent

research advances to practical

situations. Submissions may be either long papers (12 pages maximum)

whose technical density should

be comparable to that of research track submissions, or short papers

(6 pages). Industry Track

submissions must describe work performed in industry or concern

industrial applications, and will

typically include at least one industry author.

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PAPERS (due Jan. 18, 2010)

The Doctoral Consortium is a forum for Ph.D. students to get feedback

and advice from the Doctoral

Consortium committee. Submissions (3 pages) should include original

and unpublished descriptions of

the student's topic, proposed contributions, and results achieved so

far. They should clearly indicate

the work that remains to be done and the questions on which the

student would especially like to

receive advice.

DEMONSTRATIONS (due May 18, 2010)

Demonstrations will showcase research prototypes of UMAP-based systems

at the conference.

Descriptions of demonstrations (3 pages) should be original and

unpublished accounts of such

systems. They should be accompanied by a specification of the system

requirements, and by a draft

poster of up to 9 slides or a single slide of about 24"x36" / ISO A1.

POSTERS (due May 18, 2010)

Descriptions of posters (3 pages) should be original and unpublished

accounts of innovative research

ideas, projects, or results. They should be accompanied by a draft

poster of up to 9 slides or a single

slide of about 24"x36" / ISO A1.

SUBMISSION FORMAT AND REVIEW PROCESS

All submissions must adhere to the Springer LNCS format, and be made

through the EasyChair

conference system (workshop and tutorial proposals should be sent

directly to the respective co-

chairs). They will be reviewed for relevance, originality,

significance, validity and clarity. Reviews for

research papers will be integrated by a lead reviewer and by the program chairs.

PUBLICATION

Accepted research, industry and doctoral consortium papers will be

published by Springer in their

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, both in hardcopy and

electronically through

SpringerLink. They will also be indexed in the ACM Digital Library.

Accepted descriptions of posters,

demonstrations, workshops and tutorials will be published in the UMAP

Adjunct Proceedings.

Significantly enhanced versions of research papers can be submitted to

User Modeling and User-

Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI)

after the conference.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

General Chair

? David N. Chin, University of Hawaii, Manoa

Program Co-Chairs

? Alfred Kobsa, University of California, Irvine

? Paul De Bra, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands

Industry Track Co-Chairs

? Kurt Partridge, PARC, Palo Alto, California

? Bhaskar Mehta, Google, Zurich, Switzerland

Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs

? Judith Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

? Yang Wang, University of California, Irvine

Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs

? Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

? Liana Razmerita, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Demo and Poster Co-Chairs

? Luz Quiroga, University of Hawaii, Manoa

? Fabian Bohnert, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Local Arrangements Chair

? Keith Edwards, University of Hawaii, Hilo

VENUE

UMAP 2010 will be held at the Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Kona side

of the “Big Island” of Hawaii.

Additional student housing will be available at the Aston Shores at

Waikoloa and the Aston Waikoloa

Colony Villas.

STUDENT SUPPORT

This conference series has awarded considerable travel support to

students in the past, and it is

expected that there will also be student funds available for UMAP

2010. Authors of accepted technical

and doctoral consortium papers will receive highest priority.