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Sixth Workshop on
User-Centred Design and Evaluation of Adaptive Systems
in conjunction with UMAP'09
You are kindly invited to contribute to the Sixth Workshop on
User-Centred Design and Evaluation of Adaptive Systems (UDEAS),
which will be held in the context of the UMAP'09 conference,
and follows in the tracks of five successful workshops held in
conjunction with UM2001, UM2003, AH2004, UM2005 and AH 2006.
The workshop's guiding perspective is that novel design
approaches, adequate evaluation methods, and reliable
assessment criteria and metrics are prerequisites for improving
the quality and usability of the next generations of adaptive
systems. This instalment of the workshop has a special focus on
the user-centred design of adaptive systems, and early
formative evaluation studies that inform and guide the
development process. This includes the re-use or tailoring of
usability- and requirements- engineering methods to facilitate
the design and assessment of concepts and prototypes in all
phases of system development.
Workshop web site:
http://www.easy-hub.org/hub/workshops/umap2009/
Web sites and proceedings of the five previous workshops:
http://www.easy-hub.org/hub/workshops.jsp
Thematic Areas
The workshop, continuing in the steps of its predecessors, will
focus on the following general themes:
Design
* Which user-centred design methods can be used to inform
different development stages of adaptive systems? And how?
* How do you account for adaptivity during requirements
engineering?
* Are there examples of design patterns for adaptive systems
and their employment in the design of new adaptive systems?
* How can potential trade-offs of adaptivity and usability
be resolved (e.g., consistency vs. context-sensitivity)?
* How do you account for typical user problems that come
with adaptive systems (e.g., privacy, reduced control over
system behaviour, reduced levels of predictability) during
design?
* Case studies on the design of an adaptive system which
involved end-users.
Evaluation
* What new criteria need to be introduced to specifically
cater for the presence of user modelling and adaptation in the
evaluated systems?
* Which criteria can be used during the evaluation of a
specific sub-class of adaptive systems (e.g., adaptive search
engines or adaptive learning systems) and the underlying user
models?
* How can we evaluate variables like perceived and real
privacy, system scrutability, user trust, user satisfaction,
system effectiveness, system efficiency, learnability and
enjoyment?
* Which user-centred evaluation methods can be used or
adapted to inform different development stages of adaptive
systems? And how?
* How do you evaluate adaptivity without a full-working
system?
* Case studies on the evaluation of an adaptive system which
involved end-users.
Experiences, problems and plans
* What problems did you run into while conducting design
activities with users for an adaptive system or while
evaluating it with users? And, if applicable, how did you solve
them?
* If you have a user-centred design approach or evaluation
plan, but have not conducted the activities yet: What does the
design look like and why did you choose for a certain method
and the variables to assess?
* Do you have any preliminary insights regarding user-
centred design or evaluation of previous experiences that you
want to share with the community?
* Are there still open issues in your design approach or
evaluation plan and you want to discuss with the community,
what are they?
Workshop Format
The workshop will be divided into two parts. One part will
include an introduction delivered by the workshop organizers,
on the state of the art in formative evaluation methods for
adaptive systems. This talk is intended as a condensed overview
of the results of previous workshops, and will serve both as a
mini "tutorial" on the subject of empirically evaluating
adaptive systems, and as a basis for further discussion among
participants.
The second part will be devoted to paper presentations and
discussions. In order to allow as much time as possible for
interaction between participants during the workshop, the
allowed duration of presentations will be kept short.
Discussions will be organized around the general research
themes outlined above. Participants of the workshop are
expected to share their experiences and discuss the issue of
what constitutes good and bad practice in studies targeting
adaptive systems. To encourage as much interchange as possible,
participants will be divided in smaller groups, each addressing
a different topic; topics will be derived from the workshop
themes and questions, as well as from the workshop submissions
to ensure the highest possible relevance to the people present.
Furthermore, the group discussions aim to provide the
participants that have questions about their design or
evaluation studies with answers.
Solicited Contributions
Submissions will be evaluated in regard to their relevance to /
contribution towards the themes. Two types of submissions will
be solicited to achieve this goal: studies and position papers.
Each study will be discussed in terms of experience gathered.
The submission of case studies is explicitly encouraged, as
these can be very informative for other participants. This is
also true for "unsuccessful studies", which can help share
insights about potential pitfalls and how these may be avoided.
Persons with a paper in the main conference that contains a
design or evaluation study are encouraged to send an elaborated
discussion of this study as a paper.
Papers reporting studies are expected to describe the design or
evaluation activities and their outcomes. Furthermore, they
must report 'lessons learned' which can be valuable to others
who are about to design or evaluate an adaptive system.
Position papers are solicited on the design and evaluation
themes. Authors of such papers are expected to build upon
related experience to discuss and propose either new (or,
reworked existing) metrics / approaches for user-centred design
or evaluation of adaptation, or, address other related
methodological or organisational issues.
Papers on 'experiences, problems and plans' are expected to
shortly summarize the (planned) study and the experiences the
authors gained from it, or the problems they were confronted
with.
Submission Format
Submissions should not exceed 10 pages for studies / position
papers and 4 pages for "experiences, problems and plans"
papers, and should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS
guidelines. Please refer to the submission section of the
workshop's web site for more information on the submission
format.
Workshop papers will be published in full length in the
workshop proceedings and presented in talks at the workshop.
Please, submit your paper by e-mail to umap2009-workshop at
easy-hub.org until Monday, March 30th, 2009.
Portable Document Format (*.pdf) and Postscript (*.ps) files
are preferred.
Important Dates
March 30th, 2009: Submission of papers
April 30th, 2009: Notification of authors
May 15th, 2009: Delivery of camera-ready copy
June 22nd, 2009: Workshop day; the conference lasts from June 22nd
to June 26th, 2009
Programme Committee
1. David Chin, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
2. Betsy van Dijk, University of Twente, The Netherlands
3. Christina Gena, University of Turin, Italy
4. Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Germany
5. Anthony Jameson, DFKI, Germany
6. Judith Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, UK
7. Alexandros Paramythis, Johannes Kepler University Linz,
Austria
8. Lex van Velsen, University of Twente, The Netherlands
9. Gerhard Weber, University of Education Freiburg, Germany
10. Stephan Weibelzahl, National College of Ireland, Ireland
Organizers
Dr.Stephan Weibelzahl
National College of Ireland Dublin
Mayor Street IFSC
Dublin 1
Ireland
+353 1 4498 579
sweibelzahl at ncirl.ie
http://www.weibelzahl.de/
Dr.Judith Masthoff
Department of Computing Science
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 3UE
Scotland, UK
+44 1224 272299
jmasthoff at csd.abdn.ac.uk
http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~jmasthof/
Alexandros Paramythis
Institute for Information Processing and Microprocessor
Technology (FIM)
Johannes Kepler University Linz
Altenbergerstr. 69
A-4040 Linz, AUSTRIA
+43 732 2468 8442
alpar at fim.uni-linz.ac.at
http://www.fim.uni-linz.ac.at/staff/paramythis/
Lex van Velsen
Department of Technical & Professional Communication
University of Twente
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede, the Netherlands
+31 53 4892416
l.s.vanvelsen at utwente.nl
http://www.lexvanvelsen.nl
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