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UMAP2015: 23rd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and
Personalization
29th June – 3rd July 2015, Dublin, Ireland
http://um.org/umap2015/
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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.
UMAP 2015 is focused on bringing together cutting edge research
from user interaction & modeling, adaptive technologies and
delivery platforms. UMAP 2015 will have the theme
“Contextualizing the World”, highlighting the significance and
impact of User Modeling & Adaptive Technologies on a large
number of everyday application areas such as: intelligent
learning environments, recommender systems, ecommerce,
advertising, personalized information retrieval and access,
digital humanities, eGovernment, cultural heritage, and
personalized health.
UMAP2015 will explore, study and shape a broad range of
dimensions faced by modern user adaptive systems, covering the
following topics:
Techniques in User Modeling & Adaptive Technologies
- Personalizing information access
- Recommending products
- Adapting/Contextualizing search
- Enhancing learning outcomes
- Adapting interfaces
- Personalizing search and information retrieval
- Adapting activities and workflow
Innovative Applications for User Modeling & Adaptive
Technologies
- E-commerce
- E-learning
- Cultural heritage
- Digital libraries
- Social media, digital TV, advertisement
- Assistive technologies and healthcare
- Entertainment and games
- Recommender systems
User Characteristics for User Modeling & Adaptive
Technologies
- Knowledge and skills
- Interests and preferences
- Special needs
- Affective states, personality
- Goals & Plans
- Contexts of use, roles
- Cultural characteristics
Environments for User Modeling & Adaptive Technologies
- Web-based systems
- Desktop systems
- Virtual or immersive environments
- Mobile and wearable systems
- Smart objects
- Groupware systems
Design, Usability and Evaluation issues for User Modeling &
Adaptive Technologies
- Ensuring user adequate control, understanding and &
predictability
- Preserving privacy, security and diversity
- Avoiding excessive narrowing of experience
- Requirements capture
- Formative evaluation
- User testing and validation
Computational methods for User Modeling & Adaptive
Technologies
- Data collection
- User model construction & representation
- Algorithms for personalization & adaptation
- Mediation of user models
- Architectures for user modeling & adaptive technologies
UMAP 2015 will include high quality peer-reviewed papers related
to the above topics and is organized into three main tracks:
research track, experience track and industry track.
Research track
Peer reviewed, original, and principled research papers
addressing the theory and practice of User Modeling, Adaptation
and Personalization. Papers will be assessed based on the
originality and significance of the presented contribution to
the research field, as well as their technical soundness and
overall readability.
Experience track
Peer reviewed papers showcasing innovative use of User Modeling,
Adaptation and Personalization, exploring the benefits and
challenges of applying user modeling techniques and adaptation
technology in real-life applications and contexts. Papers will
be assessed based on the novelty of the application, the
potential impact from the utilization of user modeling and
adaptation technologies in the specific case, and the usefulness
of the presented experience for extending the UMAP research and
application.
Industry track
Peer reviewed papers showcasing mature and solid use of User
Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, clearly illustrating
the benefits and challenges of applying user modeling techniques
and adaptation technology in commercial contexts. Papers will be
assessed based on the maturity and the robustness of the
solution, and the economic and social impact.
The Research and Experience track will accept the submission of
both “long" papers (12 pages) and “short" papers (6 pages).
Submissions to the Industry track should be of a maximum 8 pages
with a specific commercial focus. In order to maintain the high
quality and impact of the UMAP series, each paper in all three
tracks will have three reviews by program committee members. The
program chairs will coordinate the review process.
SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair conference system
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap2015
They must be formatted according to Springer’s LNCS style
guidelines
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0
and not exceed the page length, as specified above.
The long and short paper categories will be strictly kept apart
in the submission and review process. Accepted papers will be
distributed to conference attendees, and also published by
Springer in both online and printed conference proceedings.
At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the
conference and present the paper there.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission: January 30th 2015
Papers submission: February 6th 2015
Notification to authors: 23rd March 2015
Camera-ready submission: 13th April 2015
The submissions times are 11:59pm Hawaii time.
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
General Chairs: Owen Conlan and Séamus Lawless
Program Chairs: Kalina Bontcheva and Francesco Ricci
CONFERENCE WEB SITE
http://um.org/umap2015/
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