UMAP 2012 — 20th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
USER MODELING, ADAPTATION, AND PERSONALIZATION
Montreal, Canada, 16-20 July, 2012
http://www.umap2012.org/
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.
The conference will take place at the UQAM university campus, situated in the very heart of the arts and entertainment district of Montreal. The city offers a wide array of attractions and a unique blend of North American and European culture.
TOPICS
The conference spans a wide range of topics related to user modeling and personalization, including but not restricted to the following:
- Purposes of UMAP: personalizing information, recommending products, tailoring search results, enhancing learning outcomes, adapting interfaces, personalizing support, assuming routine tasks
- User characteristics for UMAP: knowledge and skills, interests and preferences, special needs, affective states, personality, goals and plans, contexts of use, roles, cultural characteristics
- Computational methods for UMAP: data collection, user model extraction and representation, algorithms for personalization and adaptation, architectures for UMAP
- Usability issues for UMAP: ensuring adequate control, understanding, and predictability, preserving privacy and security, avoiding excessive narrowing of experience
- Methods for design and evaluation of UMAP: requirements gathering, formative evaluation, user testing, validation, performance tests
- 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
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