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UM
2003: 9th International Conference on User Modeling
http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~um2003
June
22 to June 26, 2003
University of Pittsburgh Conference
Center
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
CALL FOR PAPERS
The
International User Modeling Conferences are the events at which
research
foundations are being laid for the personalization of computer
systems. In
the last 15 years, the field of User Modelling has produced
significant new
theories and methods to analyze and model computer users in
short and
long-term interactions. A user model is an explicit representation
of
properties of individual users or user classes. It allows the system
to
adapt its performance to user needs and preferences. Methods
for
personalizing human-computer interaction based on user models have
been
successfully developed, applied and evaluated in a number of domains,
such
as information filtering, e-commerce, adaptive natural language
and
hypermedia presentation and tutoring systems.
New trends in HCI
create new and interesting challenges for User Modeling.
While consolidating
results in traditional domains of interest, the User
Modeling field now also
addresses problems of personalized interaction in
mobile, ubiquitous and
context-aware computing and in user interactions with
embodied, autonomous
agents. It also considers adaptation to user attitudes
and affective states.
Previous successes in User Modeling research reflect
the cooperation of
researchers in different fields, including artificial
intelligence,
human-computer interaction, education, cognitive psychology
and linguistics.
The International User Modeling Conferences are
characterized by active
participation of people from these areas and by
lively discussions in a
pleasant environment. UM 2003 is the latest in a
conference series begun in
1986, and follows recent meetings in Sonthofen
(2001), Banff (1999), Sardinia
(1997), Hawaii (1996) and Cape Cod (1994). As
in past conferences, UM03
offers the following forms of participation:
tutorials, invited talks, paper
and poster sessions, a doctoral consortium,
workshops and system
demonstrations.
AREAS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited
to:
* theoretical issues of user modeling:
inference techniques (neural networks, numerical uncertainty
management,
logic-based formalisms, machine learning); consistency
checking;
* construction of user models:
contents
of user and student models (including knowledge, beliefs,
goals, plans,
attitudes, personalities and emotions);
observation of
users' behavior, user modeling agents; user modeling in
mobile
systems;
* exploitation of user models to
achieve:
adaptive information filtering and retrieval,
personalized natural
language understanding and generation,
delegation of tasks from user to
system, adaptation of tutorial
strategies;
* applications of user modeling
techniques:
teaching systems, on-line help environments,
e-commerce, adaptive NL and
hypermedia generation, embodied conversational
agents, support of
collaboration, support of users with special
needs;
* practical issues of user modeling: privacy, security,
evaluation.
DEADLINES
November 11, 2002 - preliminary workshop
proposals
November 18, 2002 - papers
November 25, 2002 -
posters
November 25, 2002 - final workshop proposals
November 25, 2002 -
tutorial proposals
January 25, 2003 - Doctoral Consortium
submissions
INVITED SPEAKERS
Michael Pazzani, Information and
Computer Science, University of California,
Irvine
Rosalind Picard, MIT
Media Laboratory
Kurt VanLehn, Computer Science Department, University of
Pittsburgh
SUBMISSIONS:
Papers and Posters:
Submissions are
invited that describe original academic or industrial
research on some aspect
of user modeling. Following the past User Modeling
conferences, the
proceedings of UM'2003 will be published by Springer-Verlag
in Lecture Notes
in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS). The paper and
poster submissions
should follow as close as possible the Springer LNCS
format and should be
submitted electronically as PDF or Postscript files.
For instructions on the
LNCS paper format, see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
The
page limit is 10 pages for paper submissions and 3 pages for posters.
Please
indicate whether the first (or main) author is a student to qualify
for the
best student award. Detailed submission instructions will be
available from
the conference web site.
Workshops and Tutorials
The purpose of
the workshops is to provide an informal forum for
practitioners and
researchers to discuss novel applications and techniques
of user modeling.
The formats of the workshops will be determined by their
organizers, who are
encouraged to foster discussion and exchange of ideas by
including mechanisms
other than traditional paper presentations,
differentiating their workshops
clearly from typical conference sessions.
All workshops will last either
one-half day or (preferably) a full day.
The purpose of a tutorial is
either to offer an introduction to a fairly
broad topic for newcomers to user
modeling or to enable experienced
participants to deepen their knowledge of a
more specific topic. Each
tutorial will last one-half day. Detailed
submission instructions for
workshop proposals and tutorials will be
available
from the conference web site http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~um2003.
Doctoral
Consortium
Continuing a tradition that started in 1994, the UM Doctoral
Consortium aims
to provide qualified Ph.D. students with the opportunity to
present their
on-going research to the UM community. The Doctoral Consortium
is a great
forum to receive useful feedback from a knowledgeable audience, to
exchange
ideas, compare approaches and meet fellow researchers in the
field.
Submissions should describe Ph.D. research that is at a stage where
feedback
from the broader UM community might be of value. Thus, we
expect students
to be close to make their research proposal, or to have made
it but have at
least a year of work remaining before completion of their
thesis.
Submissions must be a maximum of three pages (including
references) and
should clearly specify: (i) the problem(s) that the proposed
research is
addressing (ii) the main contribution(s) of the research to the
UM field
(iii) the proposed solution(s), including a brief description of
work
already done and a tentative plan for future
work. Detailed
submission instructions will be available from the conference
web site http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~um2003
CONFERENCE
SITE:
Following UM conference series practice, UM'03 conference will be
held at
the Conference Center at the University of Pittsburgh at
Johnstown
(http://www.pitt.edu/~ccupj). The center is
tucked into 650 acres of
beautiful woodlands in the Laurel Highlands of
Pennsylvania, a region well
known for its hiking, biking, and whitewater
opportunities as well as for
several world-class attractions such as Frank
Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater
(http://www.paconserve.org)
ORGANIZATION:
Conference
Chair:
Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Program
Co-Chairs:
Albert Corbett, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Fiorella de
Rosis, University of Bari, Italy
Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs:
Sandra
Carberry, University of Delaware, USA
Cristina Conati, University of British
Columbia, Canada
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Frank Wittig, Saarland
University, Germany
Anthony Jameson, DFKI, Germany
Program
Committee:
David Albrecht, Australia
Liliana Ardissono, Italy
Mathias
Bauer, Germany
Sandra Carberry, USA
Noelle Carbonell, France
Keith
Cheverst, UK
David Chin, USA
Cristina Conati, Canada
Piotr
Gmytrasiewicz, USA
Brad Goodman, USA
Haym Hirsh, USA
Kristina H=F6=F6k,
Sweden
Eric Horvitz, USA
Anthony Jameson, Germany
Judy Kay,
Australia
Alfred Kobsa, USA
Antonio Krger, Germany
Diane Litman,
USA
Gordon McCalla, Canada
Kathleen McCoy, USA
Antonija Mitrovic, New
Zealand
Riichiro Mizoguchi, Japan
Helen Pain, UK
Cecile Paris,
Australia
Barry Smyth, Ireland
Constantine Stephanidis, Greece
Carlo
Tasso, Italy
Julita Vassileva, Canada
Gerhard Weber, Germany
Ingrid
Zukerman, Australia
Local Advisory Committee:
Ken Koedinger, Carnegie
Mellon University
Christian Lebiere, Carnegie Mellon University
Jack
Mostow, Carnegie Mellon University
Publicity Chair:
Ayse Goker, The
Robert Gordon University, UK
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Chair: Peter
Brusilovsky
School of Information Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
135
North Bellefield Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
email:
peterb@pitt.edu
Tel.: +1 (412) 624 9404
http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~peterb
UM03
is being organized under the auspices of User Modeling, Inc. The list
of
sponsors currently includes Microsoft, Kluwer Academic Publishers, and
James
Chen Family.
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