Supporting Students Attending the User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization 2011 Conference

支持学生参加 2011 年用户建模、适应和个性化会议

• 批准号: 1135374
• 负责人: Peter Brusilovsky
• 金额: $ 1.54万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-04-15 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1135374&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Supporting; Students; Attending; User; Modeling

This is funding to support travel by 6-8 students currently enrolled in PhD programs in the United States to present their accepted papers and posters and/or to take part in the Doctoral Consortium at the 2011 International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP) to be held in Girona, Spain, on July 11-15, 2011. UMAP, the premier user modeling conference in the world, was formed in 2009 as a merger of the long-running and successful biennial conference series on User Modeling (UM, 1986-2007) and the Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH, 2000-2008); the former provided a forum where academic and industrial researchers from the many fields involved in user modeling research (artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, education, linguistics, psychology, and information science) could exchange their complementary insights on user modeling issues, while the latter provided a forum for dissemination of adaptive technology for hypermedia and other web-based systems. User modeling has been found to significantly enhance the effectiveness and usability of software systems in a variety of areas. A user model is an explicit representation of properties of a particular user; a system that constructs and consults user models can adapt diverse aspects of its performance to individual users. Applications for user modeling range from electronic commerce and intelligent learning environments to health care and assistive technologies. Relevant platforms for user modeling include mobile and wearable systems, and smart environments, as well as individual desktop systems, groupware, adaptive hypermedia, and other web-based systems. More information about the conference is available at http://www.umap2011.org. The UMAP 2011 Doctoral Consortium will provide a unique opportunity for PhD students partway through their dissertation research to receive valuable feedback from top researchers in the field. The event will be held in a special session that is open to all students, not only those accepted to present, as well as to regular conference attendees, and which is designed so as to provide a great educational opportunity for all attending students, a unique event where a community as a whole can engage in a discussion with students about emerging topics, expected rigor, evaluation approaches, etc. Each student participant will be allotted 15 minutes in which to present his/her work (including a short demo if appropriate), with an additional 15 minutes allocated to questions and for discussion. Both during the question/discussion period and in subsequent informal interactions, committee members and other conference participants will provide constructive comments on the student's work and attempt to address any aspects of the work on which s/he has requested advice. Student papers will be published in the main proceedings of the conference. Broader Impacts: Bringing young and creative researchers to UMAP 2011 will help advance an important and socially valuable research field. NSF funding will significantly impact the careers of the next generation of User Modeling researchers, by enabling a number of them to take part in an important event they would otherwise have to miss. The students will have an opportunity to gain wider exposure in the community for their innovative work, and to obtain feedback and guidance from senior members of the research community. Participation will help foster a sense of community among these young researchers, by allowing them to create a social network both among themselves and with senior investigators at a critical stage in their professional development. In allocating NSF funds to participants, the organizers will give preference to students who are placed at a disadvantage due to the conference's location in Europe; they will strive for diversity among the selected students across a number of dimensions (gender, racial, ethnic, disabilities, institutional, etc.), and they will also take special steps to promote participation from institutions with relatively large numbers of students from under-represented groups.

这是为了支持目前在美国参加博士学位课程的6-8名学生的旅行资金，以展示其公认的论文和海报和/或参加2011年2011年国际用户建模，适应和个性化国际会议（UMAP）的博士联盟，将于7月11日至15日在西班牙举行，2011年7月11日至15日，在2011年7月11日。两年一次的用户建模会议系列（UM，1986-2007）以及自适应超媒体和基于自适应的网络系统（AH，2000-2008）；前者提供了一个论坛，其中涉及用户建模研究的许多领域的学术和工业研究人员（人工智能，人工互动，教育，语言学，心理学和信息科学）可以交换其对用户建模问题的互补见解，而后者为HyperMedia和其他Web基于HyperMedia和其他基于Web的系统提供了一个论坛。 已经发现用户建模可显着提高各个领域软件系统的有效性和可用性。 用户模型是特定用户属性的明确表示；构建和咨询用户模型的系统可以将其性能的各个方面调整给个别用户。 用户建模的应用范围从电子商务和智能学习环境到医疗保健和辅助技术。 用户建模的相关平台包括移动和可穿戴系统，以及智能环境，以及单个桌面系统，组件，自适应超媒体和其他基于Web的系统。 有关会议的更多信息，请访问http://www.umap2011.org。 UMAP 2011博士联盟将通过论文研究为Partway提供一个独特的机会，以从该领域的顶级研究人员那里获得宝贵的反馈。 该活动将在一个向所有学生开放的特别会议上举行，不仅是被接受的人以及定期的会议参与者，并且设计为所有参加学生提供了一个很大的教育机会，一个独特的活动，整个社区都可以与学生进行讨论有关新兴的主题，预期的严格，评估方法等。每个人都将与15分钟的工作一起进行15分钟的工作，这是一家人的工作，该公司涵盖了15分钟的工作，这是一家人的工作。分钟分配给问题和讨论。 在问题/讨论期间和随后的非正式互动中，委员会成员和其他会议参与者都将就学生的工作提供建设性的评论，并试图解决他/她要求提供建议的工作的任何方面。 学生论文将在会议的主要论文集中发表。 更广泛的影响：将年轻和创意的研究人员带入UMAP 2011将有助于发展一个重要且具有社会价值的研究领域。 NSF的资金将通过使许多人能够参加他们原本要错过的重要事件，从而极大地影响下一代用户建模研究人员的职业。 学生将有机会在社区中获得更广泛的创新工作，并获得研究社区高级成员的反馈和指导。 参与将通过允许他们在专业发展的关键阶段与高级调查员建立社交网络，从而帮助培养这些年轻研究人员之间的社区意识。 在将NSF资金分配给参与者时，组织者将优先考虑因会议在欧洲的地点而处于不利地位的学生；他们将努力在选定的学生之间跨多个维度（性别，种族，种族，残疾，机构等）的多样性，他们还将采取特殊步骤来促进来自代表不足群体的相对较大学生的机构的参与。