Supporting Students Attending the User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization 2012 Conference

支持学生参加 2012 年用户建模、适应和个性化会议

• 批准号: 1237292
• 负责人: Bamshad Mobasher
• 金额: $ 1.52万
• 依托单位: DePaul University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2014-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1237292&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Supporting; Students; Attending; User; Modeling

User interfaces that adapt themselves to available user information (such as special needs or individual preferences) are becoming increasingly important, so much so that adaptability has become a selling point for software products. A system with the ability to construct and consult a user model (an explicit representation of properties of a particular user or group of users) can adapt diverse aspects of its performance and enhance its effectiveness, usability and/or acceptance in a variety of situations (e.g., to reduce information overload, to improve the quality of information retrieval, filtering and annotation, and to generate useful information visualizations). 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. The annual International Conferences on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP) provide the premier forum in which academic and industrial researchers from all of these fields can exchange their complementary insights on user modeling issues. UMAP is a merger of the long-running and successful International Conferences on User Modeling (UM, 1986-2007), and the more recent important series of Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems Conferences (AH, 2000-2008). This is funding to support travel by approximately 10 graduate students to present their accepted papers and posters and/or to present their research plans at the Doctoral Consortium associated with the 20th event in the UMAP series, to be held July 16-20, 2012, in Montreal, Canada. More information about the conference is available at http://umap2012.polymtl.ca/en. UMAP-12 will include a Doctoral Consortium session, thereby continuing a tradition established at UMAP-09 and before that at both the UM and AH conferences. Lively and useful discussions have enabled students to receive suggestions about their ongoing research and allowed more experienced participants to hear some fresh ideas and view some of the new trends in the field. Students whose work has been selected for presentation at the Doctoral Consortium will be invited to write a paper that will be published in the UMAP-12 conference proceedings. They will have 15 minutes to present their work (which may include a short demonstration if appropriate), to be followed by an additional 15 minutes for questions and discussion. During both the question/discussion period and in subsequent informal interactions, organizing committee members and other participants will provide constructive comments on each student's work and attempt to address aspects on which the student has requested advice. Broader Impacts: Attending and presenting their work at UMAP, the top conference in its field, will have a significant impact on the careers of the future generation of user modeling, adaptation, and personalization researchers. Students who participate in the Doctoral Consortium will also benefit from that experience in several ways. First, they will have the opportunity to present their work to a knowledgeable audience and get useful comments at an early stage of their research when it will be most useful. Just as importantly, they will have an opportunity to meet established researchers and other graduate students doing similar work, to exchange ideas, and to make contacts that will be invaluable to them as they progress in their scientific careers. Interacting with the young researchers is also useful to more experienced investigators, by providing new perspectives and fresh ideas. Thus, the Doctoral Consortium is a great confidence builder for the students involved, and highly stimulating to the established researchers who participate. The organizers have reaffirmed the long-standing and demonstrated UMAP commitment to diversity. To this end, they will make special efforts to recruit women and members of under-represented groups from among the candidates for receiving financial support, and they will ensure institutional diversity by supporting no more than one student from any single institution.

适应可用用户信息（例如特殊需求或个人喜好）的用户界面变得越来越重要，以至于适应性已成为软件产品的卖点。 具有构建和咨询用户模型（明确表示特定用户或一组用户的属性）的系统可以调整其性能的各个方面并提高其有效性，可用性和/或在各种情况下的可用性和/或接受（例如，减少信息过载，减少信息过载，以减少信息检索，过滤和注释质量，过滤和注释和生成信息的信息）。 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。关于用户建模，适应和个性化（UMAP）的年度国际会议（UMAP）提供了一个首要论坛，其中所有这些领域的学术和工业研究人员可以在其中交换他们对用户建模问题的互补见解。 UMAP是长期且成功的用户建模国际会议的合并（UM，1986-2007），以及最新的重要系列自适应超媒体和基于自适应的基于Web的系统会议（AH，2000-2008）。 这是为了支持大约10名研究生的旅行资金，以介绍他们所接受的论文和海报和/或在与UMAP系列的第20次活动相关的博士财团中介绍他们的研究计划，该联盟将于2012年7月16日至20日在加拿大蒙特利尔举行。 有关会议的更多信息，请访问http://umap2012.polymtl.ca/en。 UMAP-12将包括博士联盟会议，从而延续UMAP-09建立的传统，在此之前，在UM和AH会议之前。 生动且有用的讨论使学生能够就其正在进行的研究收到建议，并允许更多经验丰富的参与者听到一些新的想法并查看该领域的一些新趋势。 将邀请已在博士财团中选择工作的学生写一篇论文，该论文将在UMAP-12会议程序中发表。他们将有15分钟的时间介绍自己的工作（如果适当的话，可能包括简短的演示），然后再进行15分钟的问题进行问题和讨论。 在问题/讨论期和随后的非正式互动中，组织委员会成员和其他参与者将对每个学生的工作提供建设性的评论，并试图解决学生要求建议的方面。更广泛的影响：参加并在其领域的顶级会议UMAP参加并介绍他们的工作将对未来一代用户建模，适应和个性化研究人员的职业产生重大影响。 参加博士联盟的学生也将以几种方式从这种经验中受益。 首先，他们将有机会向知识渊博的受众介绍自己的作品，并在最有用的研究的早期阶段获得有用的评论。 同样重要的是，他们将有机会与既定的研究人员和其他研究生进行类似的工作，交换想法以及建立联系对他们的科学职业进步，这对他们来说是无价的。通过提供新的观点和新想法，与年轻的研究人员互动对于更有经验的研究人员也很有用。 Thus, the Doctoral Consortium is a great confidence builder for the students involved, and highly stimulating to the established researchers who participate. 组织者重新确认了长期存在的对多样性的承诺。 为此，他们将做出特别的努力，以招募妇女和代表性不足的群体的成员以获得财务支持，并通过支持任何一家机构的一名学生来确保机构多样性。