Final CfP: 18th Int'l Conf on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2010)

UMAP 2010 Ê-- Ê18thÊINTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON USER MODELING, ADAPTATION, AND PERSONALIZATION Ê Big Island of Hawaii, June 20-24, 2010 http://www.hawaii.edu/UMAP2010/ Ê Ê FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Ê Ê 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.ÊUMAP is the successor to the biannualÊUser ModelingÊandÊAdaptive HypermediaÊconferencesÊthat were merged in 2009. It is organized under the auspices ofÊUser Modeling Inc. Support for the conference is provided by the National Science Foundation, Microsoft, the Chang Family Foundation, Springer Verlag, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Ê Ê TOPICS Ê 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,Ê... - 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, assistiveÊtechnologies, digital libraries, office work, recommender systems, targeted advertisement, digital TV,Ê... - Environments for UMAP: web-based systems (including the semantic/social Web), desktop systems, groupware systems, mobile andÊwearable 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, ... Ê Ê SUBMISSION CATEGORIESÊ Ê RESEARCH PAPERS (abstracts due Jan. 11, 2010; full papers Jan. 18) - Long research papersÊ(12 pages maximum)Êshould present original reportsÊof substantive new research. They should place the work withinÊthe field, and clearly indicate its innovative aspects and its significance. - Short research papers (6 pages) should present original andÊunpublished highly promising research, whose merit will beÊassessed in terms of originality and importance rather thanÊmaturity 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. Ê INDUSTRY PAPERSÊ(abstracts due Jan. 11, 2010; full papers Jan. 18) The Industry Track solicitsÊsubmissions covering innovative commercial implementations orÊapplications of UMAP technologies, and experience in applyingÊrecent research advances to practical situations. Submissions may be either long papers (12 pages maximum) whose technicalÊdensity should be comparable to that of research trackÊsubmissions, or short papers (6 pages).ÊIndustry Track submissions must describe work performed inÊindustry or concern industrial applications, and will typically include at least one industry author.Ê Ê DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PAPERS (due Jan. 18, 2010) The Doctoral Consortium is a forum for Ph.D. studentsÊto get feedback and advice from the Doctoral Consortium committee.ÊSubmissions (4 pages)Êshould include original and unpublished descriptions of theÊstudent's topic, proposed contributions, and results achieved soÊfar. They shouldÊclearly indicate the work that remains to beÊdone and the questions on which the student would especially likeÊto receive advice. Ê Ê SUBMISSION FORMAT AND REVIEW PROCESS All submissions must adhere to the SpringerÊLNCS format,ÊandÊbe made through theÊEasyChairÊconference system. They must describe original research work and may not have been published or submitted elsewhere. Submissions will be reviewed forÊrelevance, originality, significance, validity and clarity.ÊReviews for research papers will beÊintegrated by a lead reviewerÊand by the program chairs. Ê BEST PAPER AWARDS The conference will elect the winners of the Springer Best Paper Award and of the two James Chen Best Student Paper Awards, each in the amount of U.S.$ 1,000.ÊFor a paper to qualify for the Best Student Paper award, a student must be the lead author.Ê Ê 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 throughÊSpringerLink. They will also beÊindexed in theÊACM Digital Library. 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. Ê Ê Ê CONFERENCE COMMITTEEÊ Ê General Chair ÊÊ David N. Chin, University of Hawaii, Manoa Ê Program Co-Chairs ÊÊ Alfred Kobsa, University of California, Irvine ÊÊ Paul De Bra, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands Ê Industry Track Co-Chairs ÊÊ Kurt Partridge, PARC, Palo Alto, California ÊÊ Bhaskar Mehta, Google, Zurich, Switzerland Ê Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs ÊÊ Judith Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom ÊÊ Yang Wang, University of California, Irvine Ê Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs ÊÊ Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia ÊÊ Liana Razmerita, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Ê Demo and Poster Co-Chairs ÊÊ Luz Quiroga, University of Hawaii, Manoa ÊÊ Fabian Bohnert, Monash University,ÊMelbourne,ÊAustralia Ê Local Arrangements Chair ÊÊ Keith Edwards, University of Hawaii, Hilo Ê Publicity Chair ÊÊ ÊEelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Hanover, Germany Ê Ê VENUEÊ UMAP 2010 will be held at theÊHilton Waikoloa VillageÊon the Kona side of the ñBig Islandî of Hawaii. Additional student housing will be available at theÊAston ShoresÊat WaikoloaÊand the AstonÊWaikoloa Colony Villas. Ê STUDENT SUPPORT This conference series has awarded considerable travel support to students in the past, and it is nearly certain that there will also be student funds available for UMAP 2010. Authors of accepted technical and doctoral consortium papers will receive highest priority.