UMUAI 2011 - Special Issue on Context-Adaptive Collaboration Support for Knowledge-intense Work User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research

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Deadline: March 31, 2011 | Date: October 19, 2011

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Call For Papers - CFP

Context-Adaptive Collaboration Support for Knowledge-intense Work

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction:

The Journal of Personalization Research

(An international journal published by Springer Verlag)

Web site: http://www.umuai.org/

Knowledge work in modern organizations is to a large extent collaborative.

Free riding, dominance, group think, hidden agendas, and especially

ill-structured tasks that emerge in the course of the collaborative process

are but a few phenomena in group work that make it a non straight-forward

effort. Users participating in a collaborative project may find themselves

in different physical environments or settings and may use a variety of

different devices. Also, users are often involved in more than one project

at a time, raising the need for frequent task or tool switches and for

rapid

cognitive adjustments to the subject at hand. For a successful

collaboration, these challenges need to be addressed.

A promising approach to solving these challenges are collaboration support

systems that can flexibly adapt themselves to the context of knowledge

workers. Context can here be understood in the widest sense: it comprises

external factors such as location, device used or time, but also factors

derived from the user?s interaction behavior such as interest profiles or

tasks the user is engaged in. Considering both external (exogenous) and

interaction-based (endogenous) factors creates an interesting intersection

between conventional, sensor-based context-adaption and adaptation based on

user models.

The proposed special issue aims at attracting use-oriented contributions

that discuss models, methods, techniques and empirical studies related to

collaborative context in this wide sense as well as to adaptation

techniques

for collaboration environments. Furthermore, we aim to discuss resulting

implications regarding the technical design of interfaces as well as soft-

and hardware architectures. Special attention is given to context modeling

and implementation of the various application scenarios as well as to the

issues related to manual (adaptability) or automatic (adaptivity)

in-use-adjustment.

We would like to invite in particular researchers and practitioners to

contributions dealing with the following questions:

- What practical experiences - positive as well as negative - have been

made

with regard to the usage of context-adaptive computing and collaboration in

real organizational settings? What experiences have been made with

adaptation mechanisms (automatic as well as interactive) of such systems in

these settings?

- What are different forms of adaptations for groups? How can this design

space be structured?

- How can relations between context descriptions/models, context sensors

and

context-based services be described in a way that they can be understood

and

used by end users? What framing conditions apply for interfaces that aim to

achieve this?

- What are suitable models for context management? How can context concepts

be represented and retrieved? How can privacy issues be dealt with?

- How can individual contexts dynamically aggregated into group context?

- How can context architectures be effectively designed for sustainable

usages (context evolution, context adaptation, traceability for end-users)?

- What are appropriate architectures for context-adaptive collaboration

support systems? How can such architectures be designed to support context

evolution, context adaptation, and traceability for end-users?

HOW TO SUBMIT

Submissions to the special issue should follow the UMUAI formatting

guidelines and submission instructions available at:

http://www.umuai.org/paper_submission.html

Each submission should note that it is intended for the Special Issue on

Context-Adaptive Collaboration Support for Knowledge-intense Work.

Potential authors are asked to submit a tentative title and short abstract

(which can be altered for the actual submission) to assist in the formation

of a panel of appropriate reviewers.

UMUAI is an archival journal that publishes mature and substantiated

research results on the (dynamic) adaptation of computer systems to their

human users, and the role that a model of the system about the user plays

in

this context. Many articles in UMUAI are quite comprehensive and describe

the results of several years of work. Consequently, UMUAI gives "unlimited"

space to authors (so long as what they write is important). Authors whose

paper exceeds 40 pages in journal format (including illustrations and

references) are however requested to supply a short justification upon

submission that explains why a briefer discussion of their research results

would not be advisable.

IMPORTANT DATES

Notification of tentative intent to submit: as soon as possible

Title and abstract submission deadline: February 28, 2011

Paper submission deadline: March 31, 2011

REVIEW PROCESS

Submissions will undergo the normal review process, and will be reviewed by

three established researchers selected from a panel of reviewers formed for

the special issue. Barring unforeseen problems, authors can expect to be

notified regarding the review results within three months of submission.

GUEST EDITORS

Stephan Lukosch

Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

s.g.lukoschtudelft.nl

http://www.tudelft.nl/sglukosch

Mark W. Newman

University of Michigan, USA

mwnewmanumich.edu

http://mwnewman.people.si.umich.edu/

Jürgen Ziegler

University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

juergen.ziegleruni-due.de

http://www.interactivesystems.info/Mitarbeiter/Personen/Ziegler

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Dr. rer. nat. Stephan G. Lukosch

Associate Professor

Delft University of Technology

Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management

Systems Engineering Section

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