-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [WI] CfP: IUI 2011 Workshop on Semantic Models for Adaptive Interactive Systems Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:18:46 +0200 From: Stephan Lukosch s.g.lukosch@tudelft.nl To: bcs-hci@jiscmail.ac.uk, cscw-sig@jiscmail.ac.uk, contici@uni-siegen.de, wi@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de, CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS@LISTSERV.ACM.ORG, fgcscw@gi-ev.de, aisworld@lists.aisnet.org CC: Stephan Lukosch s.g.lukosch@tudelft.nl, "Hussein, Tim" tim.hussein@uni-due.de, Gaelle Calvary gaelle.calvary@imag.fr, Heiko Paulheim heiko.paulheim@sap.com, Jürgen Ziegler juergen.ziegler@uni-due.de
========================================================================= 2nd IUI Workshop on Semantic Models for Adaptive Interactive Systems (SEMAIS 2011)
February 13, 2011, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Abstract submission deadline: November 19, 2010 http://www.semais.org Proceedings will be published electronically (CEUR-WS) =========================================================================
WORKSHOP GOALS
Semantic technologies and, in particular, ontologies as formal, shareable representations of a domain of interest play an increasingly important role also for the design, development, and execution of user interfaces and more generally interactive systems. Semantic models can serve a number of different purposes in this context. They can be used as application or interface models in model-driven design, generation at design time as well as at runtime, and integration of user interfaces. Ontologies may enhance the visualization and interaction capabilities of user interfaces in various ways, e.g., by providing input assistance, intelligently clustering information, or adapting the user interface according to the user’s context.
Especially in the latter case, ontologies can be applied for representing the various kinds of context information for context-aware and adaptive systems. In particular, they have promised to provide a technique for representing external physical context factors such as location, time or technical parameters and ‘internal’ context such as user interest profiles or interaction context in a consistent, generalized manner. Owing to these properties, semantic models can also contribute to bridging gaps, e.g., between user models, context-aware interfaces and model-driven UI generation.
There is, therefore, a considerable potential for using semantic models as a basis for adaptive interactive systems. The range of potential adaptations is wide comprising, for example, context- and user-dependent recommendations, interactive assistance when performing application-specific tasks, adaptation of the application functionality, or adaptive retrieval support. Furthermore, a variety of reasoning and machine learning techniques exist, that can be employed to achieve adaptive system behavior.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Following up the succesfull 1st SEMAIS workshop at IUI 2010, the workshop will address, among others, the following research issues: - Improve UI quality by using semantic models. - Representing user models, systems and their behavior, domain knowledge and interaction context by means of semantic models. - Cognitively or neurally founded reasoning techniques such as activation spreading for semantic user models. - Context-aware interaction based on semantic models. - Adaptation strategies and techniques based on semantic models for e.g. recommender systems, adaptive retrieval, collaboration support systems and others. - Generating explanations or visualizations to increase user confidence and support traceability. - Scalability and performance of semantic model-based interactive systems. - Semantic model-driven UI development. - Generation and evolution of semantic models for interactive systems. - Suitability of highly formal vs. light-weight semantic representations. - Consuming linked data in user interfaces. - Bringing ontologies together with current UI modeling languages, such as UsiXML. - Evaluation approaches for adaptive interaction.
SUBMISSIONS AND PARTICIPATION
Prospective participants should submit a 2-page position paper describing their interests and work in the topic of the workshop. First comments on (one or more of) the following topics we intend to discuss at the workshop are also welcome, but not mandatory (additional questions are also welcome): - What are the major challenges (technical, organizational etc.) for developing or generating user interfaces based on semantic models? - For which kinds of systems or applications are semantic models particularly useful? - In which ways will semantic technologies affect user interfaces in the future? - What kinds of context-adaptivity do you see as particularly promising? - How can adaptive model driven user interfaces be evaluated?
We will select participants based on the abstract's quality and the diversity of their backgrounds, aiming at an interdisciplinary group. The selected presenters will be asked to provide an extended 5-page position paper one month before the workshop. These position papers will be circulated in advance for participants to get an understanding of the mutual views and to provide a starting point for the discussion.
Accepted submissions will be published electronically via CEUR-WS. Please submit your contributions in PDF format to submissions@semais.org.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadline: November 19, 2010 Notification of acceptance: November 26, 2010 Revised, formatted document due: December 22, 2010 Workshop date: February 13, 2011
ORGANIZERS
Tim Hussein (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) Stephan Lukosch (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) Heiko Paulheim (SAP Research Center Darmstadt, Germany) Juergen Ziegler (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) Gaëlle Calvary (University of Grenoble, France)
Workshop Homepage: http://www.semais.org