Preliminary Call for Full and Short Papers

UMAP 2025 – The 33rd ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
June 16-20, 2025
New York City, NY
https://www.um.org/umap2025/call-for-papers/

Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 23, 2025
Deadline for submission of papers: January 30, 2025

ACM UMAP is the premier international conference bringing together research in AI and HCI to support effective human-AI collaboration via interactive systems that can model, adapt and personalize to their users. The conference is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. User Modeling Inc., as the core Steering Committee, oversees the conference organization. UMAP operates under the ACM Conference Code of Conduct.

ACM UMAP 2025 will bring together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from around the world to discuss the latest developments in human-centered approaches to design and use AI systems that adapt to human needs while ensuring user control, fairness, accountability, transparency, inclusivity and sustainability. The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, accessible through the ACM Digital Library.

IMPORTANT DATES

January 23, 2025:  Abstract submission
January 30, 2025:  Paper submission
March 3-7, 2025:  Rebuttal phase
March 20, 2025:  Notification of acceptance
April 3, 2025:  Camera-ready papers
April 3, 2025:  Registration deadline for authors
June 16-19, 2025:  Conference

TOPICS OF INTEREST INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO

• Recommender systems
• Data mining techniques for user modeling, adaptation, and personalization
• Generative AI techniques for user modeling, adaptation, and personalization
• Large Language Models and Natural Language Processing methods for user modeling, adaptation and personalization
• Knowledge graphs, Linked data, and semantics for user modeling, adaptation, and personalization
• Intelligent user interfaces
• Intelligent and personalized e-learning applications and educational games
• Personalized behavior change and persuasive applications
• Modeling and adapting to human affective states
• Virtual assistants, conversational agents, personalization in augmented reality
• Group modeling and collaborative team formation
• Ethical issues of personalization and human-centered AI systems: Privacy, Fairness, Accountability, Transparency
• Creativity in User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
• Sustainability-aware methods and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for user modeling, adaptation, and personalization
• Personalized approaches for preventing eco-chambers, user manipulation, and disinformation
• Research methods and reproducibility

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

• Papers should be original and not previously published or under review elsewhere
• Full Papers should be no more than 8 pages in length, excluding the references
• Short papers should be no more than 4 pages in length, excluding the references
• Paper formatting will follow the ACM Two Column Format
• Papers should be anonymized for double-blind review process
• Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format via EasyChair

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

• Present your research to a global audience of experts in your field
• Connect with leading industry partners
• Network with colleagues and potential collaborators
• Learn about the latest developments in the intersection of AI and Human-Computer Interaction

HOW TO SUBMIT

Please submit your paper electronically via the conference website on EasyChair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap2025

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Cataldo Musto, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy (cataldo.musto@uniba.it)
Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan, Canada