FINAL CALL
UM 2003
9th International Conference on User Modeling
http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~um2003/
June 22 toJune 26, 2003
University ofPittsburghConferenceCenter
Johnstown,Pennsylvania,USA
DEADLINES:
November 11, 2002- preliminary workshop proposals
November 18, 2002- papers
November 25, 2002- posters
November 25, 2002- final workshop proposals
November 25, 2002- tutorial proposals
January 25, 2003- Doctoral Consortium submissions
February 10, 2003- Paper/Poster Notification
INVITED SPEAKERS
Michael Pazzani, Information and Computer Science,
UniversityofCalifornia,Irvine
Rosalind Picard, MIT Media Laboratory
Kurt VanLehn, Computer Science Department,UniversityofPittsburgh
CALL FOR PAPERS
The International User Modeling Conferences are the events at which research foundations are being laid for the personalization of computer systems. In the last 15 years, the field of User Modelling has produced significant new theories and methods to analyze and model computer users in short and long-term interactions. A user model is an explicit representation of properties of individual users or user classes. It allows
the system to adapt its performance to user needs and preferences. Methods for personalizing human-computer interaction based on user models have been successfully developed, applied and evaluated in a number of domains, such as information filtering, e-commerce, adaptive natural language and hypermedia presentation and tutoring systems.
New trends in HCI create new and interesting challenges for User Modeling. While consolidating results in traditional domains of interest, the User Modeling field now also addresses problems of personalized interaction in mobile, ubiquitous and context-aware computing and in user interactions with embodied, autonomous agents. It also considers adaptation to user attitudes and affective states.
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