UMAP 2010 - UMAP 2010 -- 18th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON USER MODELING, ADAPTATION, AND PERSONALIZATION

UMAP 2010 ?-- ?18th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
USER MODELING, ADAPTATION, AND PERSONALIZATION

Big Island of Hawaii, June 20-24, 2010
http://www.hawaii.edu/UMAP2010/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS


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 is the successor to the biannual User Modeling
and Adaptive Hypermedia
conferences that were merged in 2009. It is organized under the
auspices of User Modeling Inc.


TOPICS

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, ...
- 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, assistive
technologies, digital libraries, office work, recommender systems,
targeted advertisement, digital TV, ...
- Environments for UMAP: web-based systems (including the
semantic/social Web), desktop systems,
groupware systems, mobile and wearable 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, ...


SUBMISSION CATEGORIES

WORKSHOP PROPOSALS (due Nov. 23, 2009)
Workshop proposals (3 pages) should outline the area, goals, scope and
format of the workshop,
introducing also the members of the organizing team and their
backgrounds. Preference will be given
to workshops that aim to produce answers to one or more explicitly
formulated questions and that
involve interactive presentations and constructive work, as opposed to
"miniconferences" that comprise
mainly paper presentations.

TUTORIAL PROPOSALS (due Nov. 23, 2009)
Tutorial proposals (3 pages) should describe the topic of the tutorial
and its importance, the intended
style of presentation, and the instructor's qualifications. Conference
participants can attend tutorials at
no extra charge. Tutorial instructors will receive a complementary
conference registration.

RESEARCH PAPERS (abstracts due Jan. 11, 2010; full papers Jan. 18)
- Long research papers (12 pages maximum) should present original
reports of substantive new
research. They should place the work within the field, and clearly
indicate its innovative aspects and its
significance.
- Short research papers (6 pages) should present original and
unpublished highly promising research,
whose merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance
rather than maturity 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.

INDUSTRY PAPERS (abstracts due Jan. 11, 2010; full papers Jan. 18)
The Industry Track solicits submissions covering innovative commercial
implementations or
applications of UMAP technologies, and experience in applying recent
research advances to practical
situations. Submissions may be either long papers (12 pages maximum)
whose technical density should
be comparable to that of research track submissions, or short papers
(6 pages). Industry Track
submissions must describe work performed in industry or concern
industrial applications, and will
typically include at least one industry author.

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM PAPERS (due Jan. 18, 2010)
The Doctoral Consortium is a forum for Ph.D. students to get feedback
and advice from the Doctoral
Consortium committee. Submissions (3 pages) should include original
and unpublished descriptions of
the student's topic, proposed contributions, and results achieved so
far. They should clearly indicate
the work that remains to be done and the questions on which the
student would especially like to
receive advice.

DEMONSTRATIONS (due May 18, 2010)
Demonstrations will showcase research prototypes of UMAP-based systems
at the conference.
Descriptions of demonstrations (3 pages) should be original and
unpublished accounts of such
systems. They should be accompanied by a specification of the system
requirements, and by a draft
poster of up to 9 slides or a single slide of about 24"x36" / ISO A1.

POSTERS (due May 18, 2010)
Descriptions of posters (3 pages) should be original and unpublished
accounts of innovative research
ideas, projects, or results. They should be accompanied by a draft
poster of up to 9 slides or a single
slide of about 24"x36" / ISO A1.


SUBMISSION FORMAT AND REVIEW PROCESS
All submissions must adhere to the Springer LNCS format, and be made
through the EasyChair
conference system (workshop and tutorial proposals should be sent
directly to the respective co-
chairs). They will be reviewed for relevance, originality,
significance, validity and clarity. Reviews for
research papers will be integrated by a lead reviewer and by the program chairs.

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 through
SpringerLink. They will also be indexed in the ACM Digital Library.
Accepted descriptions of posters,
demonstrations, workshops and tutorials will be published in the UMAP
Adjunct Proceedings.
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.


CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

General Chair
? David N. Chin, University of Hawaii, Manoa

Program Co-Chairs
? Alfred Kobsa, University of California, Irvine
? Paul De Bra, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands

Industry Track Co-Chairs
? Kurt Partridge, PARC, Palo Alto, California
? Bhaskar Mehta, Google, Zurich, Switzerland

Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs
? Judith Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
? Yang Wang, University of California, Irvine

Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs
? Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
? Liana Razmerita, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Demo and Poster Co-Chairs
? Luz Quiroga, University of Hawaii, Manoa
? Fabian Bohnert, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Local Arrangements Chair
? Keith Edwards, University of Hawaii, Hilo


VENUE
UMAP 2010 will be held at the Hilton Waikoloa Village on the Kona side
of the “Big Island” of Hawaii.
Additional student housing will be available at the Aston Shores at
Waikoloa and the Aston Waikoloa
Colony Villas.

STUDENT SUPPORT
This conference series has awarded considerable travel support to
students in the past, and it is
expected that there will also be student funds available for UMAP
2010. Authors of accepted technical
and doctoral consortium papers will receive highest priority.