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CALL FOR PAPERS
UM 2001
8th International Conference on User Modeling
http://www.dfki.de/um2001/
July 13 to July 17, 2001
AlpenCongressCentrum in Sonthofen, Bavaria, Germany
The field of user modeling (UM) has resulted in significant
amounts of theoretical work, as well as practical experience, in
developing UM-based applications in traditional areas of
human-computer interaction and tutoring systems. It also promises
to have an enormous impact on recent developments in areas like
information filtering, e-commerce, adaptive presentation
techniques, and interface agents.
A user model is an explicit representation of properties of a
particular user, which allows the system to adapt diverse aspects
of its performance to individual users. Techniques for UM have
been developed and evaluated by researchers in a number of
fields, including artificial intelligence, education, psychology,
linguistics, human-computer interaction. UM01 follows UM99
(Banff), UM97 (Sardinia), UM96 (Hawaii), UM94 (Hyannis), UM92
(Dagstuhl), UM90 (Hawaii) and UM86 (Maria Laach). It will offer
tutorials, invited talks, paper and poster sessions, a doctoral
consortium, workshops, and system demonstrations.
AREAS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to:
* construction of user models: knowledge, beliefs and
misconceptions, preferences, goals and plans, cognitive styles,
user modeling agents and brokers
* exploitation of user models to achieve: adaptive information
filtering and retrieval, tailored information presentation,
transfer of task performance from user to system, selection of
instructional actions, interface adaptation
* learning and inference techniques for UM, including: neural
networks and other machine learning techniques, numerical
uncertainty management, epistemic logic or other logic-based
formalisms, stereotype or task hierarchies
* applications of UM techniques in various areas, such as:
adaptive learning and on-line help environments, e-commerce,
interface agents, explanation of system actions, adaptive
hypermedia and multimodal interaction, support of
collaboration, and support of users with special needs
* practical issues of UM, such as privacy, consistency,
evaluation, standardization.
INVITED TALKS:
* Alfred Kobsa
"User Modeling and Expert Finding"
* Joseph A. Konstan
"Heavyweight Applications of Lightweight User Models:
A Look at Collaborative Filtering, Recommender Systems,
and Real-Time Personalization"
* Sandra Marshall
"Eye Tracking: A Rich Source of Information for User
Modeling"
UM01 is being organized under the auspices of User Modeling, Inc.
SUBMISSIONS:
Submissions are invited that describe original academic or
industrial research on some aspect of user modeling. Since
Springer Verlag is the conference proceedings publisher, it is
required that the submissions follow as closely as possible the
Springer Lecture Notes format. The page limit for paper
submissions is 10 pages and for posters - 3 pages. Detailed
submission instructions (including those for workshops and
tutorials) are available from the conference web site:
http://www.dfki.de/um2001/.
DEADLINES:
Nov 4, 2000 - abstracts
Nov 11, 2000 - PAPERS
Nov 11, 2000 - informal workshop proposals
Nov 18, 2000 - tutorial proposals
Nov 18, 2000 - posters
Nov 25, 2000 - workshop proposals
CONFERENCE SITE:
The AlpenCongressCentrum is part of the Allgaeu Stern Hotel,
located in Sonthofen, the southernmost city of Germany in the
Bavarian Alps. It is easily accessible from several major
European airports, for example, Munich, Zurich, and Frankfurt.
ORGANIZATION:
Conference Chair:
Mathias Bauer, German Research Center for AI (DFKI)
Program Co-Chairs:
Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Piotr Gmytrasiewicz, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Organizing Chair:
Marc Roessel, Atrada Trading Network AG
Program Committee:
Liliana Ardissono, Italy
David Benyon, UK
Ben du Boulay, UK
Peter Brusilovsky, USA
Susan Bull, Canada
Sandra Carberry, USA
David Chin, USA
Gerhard Fisher, USA
Abigail Gertner, USA
Brad Goodman, USA
Russ Greiner, Canada
Eric Horvitz, USA
Anthony Jameson, Germany
Paul Kamsteeg, Netherlands
Judy Kay, Australia
Alfred Kobsa, Germany
Neal Lesh, USA
Diane Litman, USA
Mark Maybury, USA
Michael McTear, UK
Antonija Mitrovic, New Zealand
Riichiro Mizoguchi, Japan
Ann Nicholson, Australia
Toshikazu Nishimura, Japan
Cecile Paris, Australia
Charles Rich, USA
Fiorella de Rosis, Italy
John Self, UK
Adelheit Stein, Germany
Carlo Tasso, Italy
Loren Terveen, USA
Wolfgang Wahlster, Germany
Ingrid Zukerman, Australia
SHORT BIOS OF INVITED SPEAKERS:
Alfred Kobsa is an Associate Professor at the Department of
Information and Computer Science of the University of California,
Irvine, and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of
Essen, Germany. Before he was a Director of the Institute for
Applied Information Technology (FIT) at the German National
Research Center for Information Technology (GMD). Dr Kobsa's
research focuses on user-adaptive information environments, user
modeling, expert finders, multimedia educational software,
information visualization, and user interfaces for handicapped
and elderly people. He is the editor of User Modeling and
User-Adapted Interaction, editorial board member of World-Wide
Web and Universal Access in the Information Society, and was the
founding president of User Modeling Inc. Dr. Kobsa edited several
books and authored over a hundred publications in the areas of
user-adaptive systems, human-computer interaction and knowledge
representation.
Joseph A. Konstan is Associate Professor of Computer Science and
Engineering at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches and
conducts research on user interfaces and UI software systems.
Together with colleague John Riedl, he leads the GroupLens
Research Project, which is best known for its research on
collaborative filtering recommender systems and for its MovieLens
research system (www.movielens.org). Dr. Konstan is a co-founder
of Net Perceptions, a leader in real-time personalization
software, and he serves as an advisor or consultant to many
software firms exploring user interfaces, user models, and
personalization.
Dr. Sandra Marshall is President & CEO of EyeTracking, Inc.,
Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University, and
Director of the SDSU Cognitive Ergonomics Research Facility. Her
research in cognition and assessment has received federal funding
for the past twenty years and has had important theoretical and
practical impact. Her recent work has focused on the use of eye
tracking in understanding cognitive activity in training and
performance. In research sponsored by the Office of Naval
Research and Air Force Office of Scientific Research, she
developed new methods for assessing cognitive strategies and
cognitive workload based on eye measures.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Mathias Bauer, DFKI
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
66123 Saarbruecken, Germany
email: [log in to unmask]
Tel.:(+49 681) 302-5260
Fax: (+49 681) 302-5341
MORE INFORMATION is available at the (user-adaptive) conference
website: http://www.dfki.de/um2001/
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