UbiqUM 2008
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| UbiqUM 2008 | |
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Ubiquitous User Modeling
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| Subevent of | International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2008) |
| Start | January 13 2008 (iCal) |
| End | January 13 2008 |
| Homepage: | Homepage |
| Location | |
| City: | Gran Canaria |
| Country: | Spain |
| Important dates | |
| Papers due: | November 19 2007 |
| Submissions due: | November 19 2007 |
| Notification: | December 3 2007 |
| Camera ready due: | December 13 2007 |
Event in series UbiqUM
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In today's information world, small personal computerized devices, such as PDAs, smart phones and other smart appliances, become widely available and essential tools in many situations. The ongoing expansion of computers into everyday life leads to so-called ubiquitous environments, where computational power and networking capabilities are available (and used) everywhere. The strive of providing personal services to users made user modeling capability an essential part of any ubiquitous application.
Ubiquitous user modeling describes ongoing modeling and exploitation of user behaviour with a variety of systems that share their user models. These shared user models can either be used for mutual or for individual adaptation goals. Ubiquitous user modeling can be differentiated from generic user modeling by the three additional concepts: ongoing modeling, ongoing sharing and ongoing exploitation. Systems that share their user models will improve the coverage, the level of detail, and the reliability of the integrated user models and thus allow better functions of adaptation. Ubiquitous user modeling covers and integrates the two following aspects:
- User modeling for ubiquitous computing environments. The shift in human-computer interaction from desktop computing to mobile, real-world interaction in augmented and instrumented environments, as introduced in the research area of ubiquitous computing, highly influences the needs and possibilities for future decentralized user-adaptive systems. One of the main challenges for the success of ubiquitous computing is the design of personalized services and interfaces. The ultimate goal of the personalized services is to provide users with an easy access to relevant information in a flexible way, reflecting the changes in user needs and availability of resources. Provision of such services requires collecting user models, i.e., details about users' interests, behaviour, preferences and more.
- Ongoing user modeling with a variety of systems and applications. The idea is to enable isolated user modeling applications to exchange partial user models with each other. While adaptive hypermedia systems on the World Wide Web are already provided with the means to communicate, wireless networks technically allow one to integrate any kind of user-adaptive systems with another. Especially, the semantic integration of distributed, heterogeneous user models with Semantic Web technology promises long term user modeling and interoperability.
[edit] Topics of Interest
Ubiquitous user modeling implies new challenges of scalability, scrutability and privacy. Furthermore, new issues of decentralization, communication and integration have to be addressed. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- User modeling in mobile and ubiquitous computing
- Distributed and externalized user modeling
- Integrated reasoning and inferences with user and context models
- Spatial and temporal reasoning for ubiquitous user modeling
- Construction and acquisition of distributed user models
- Conflict resolution within ubiquitous user modeling
- Machine learning for ubiquitous user modeling
- User modeling in intelligent environments like smart homes or smart cars
- Semantic Web approaches and ontologies for distributed user modeling
- Ubiquitous user modeling for entertainment and cultural heritage
- Personalized user interfaces in pervasive computing
- Privacy, security and trust in ubiquitous user modeling
- Evaluation of ubiquitous user modeling
- Interoperability of applications like recommender systems, adaptive hypermedia, e-learning, adaptive navigation guides, personalized shopping guides
[edit] Organization Commitee
- Shlomo Berkovsky, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Dominik Heckmann, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany
- Antonio Krüger, University of Münster, Germany
- Tsvi Kuflik, University of Haifa, Israel
[edit] Program Committee
- Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy
- Lora Aroyo, Free University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Jörg Baus, DFKI GmbH, Germany
- Francesca Carmagnola, University of Torino, Italy
- Keith Cheverst, Lancaster University, England
- Nadja De Carolis, University of Bari, Italy
- Peter Dolog, L3S Research Center, Germany
- Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, UK
- Cristina Gena, University of Torino, Italy
- Judy Kay, University of Sidney, Australia
- Alexander Kröner, DFKI GmbH, Germany
- Andreas Lorenz, Fraunhofer Institut, Germany
- Francesco Ricci, ITC-irst, Italy
- Andreas Schmidt, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany
- Ilaria Torre, University of Torino, Italy
- Andreas Zimmermann, FIT, Germany
- Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia
