Supporting Students Attending the 2008 Adaptive Hypermedia Doctoral Consortium

这笔资金将用于资助6名目前在美国攻读博士学位的学生，他们将在即将于2008年7月28日至8月1日在德国汉诺威举行的自适应超媒体会议上发表论文和海报，并参加博士联盟。适应个人需求和偏好或可用用户信息的用户界面正变得越来越重要，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能力的系统可以根据个人用户或用户组调整其性能的不同方面，从而提高其在各种情况下的有效性、可用性和/或可接受性。这导致了自适应超媒体的概念，它提供了个性化界面的基础，可以成功地处理信息过载，同时提高信息检索和过滤、信息重组和注释、信息可视化等的质量。但是，当网站探索个性化的方式时，它们也必须调查这种算法对隐私、效率和我们传播新信息的能力的影响。除了无处不在的Web应用程序之外，教育应用程序和面向不同残疾用户的应用程序也可以从自适应系统中受益。自适应超媒体国际会议是科学交流和介绍自适应超媒体和自适应网络系统研究的主要论坛，每两年举行一次；AH 2008将是该系列的第五次活动，它代表了自适应超媒体和用户建模社区的结合，两者都是主要的赞助者。青年研究人员的积极参与对该领域的健康发展和研究人员本身都非常重要。AH 2008博士联盟为正在进行论文研究的博士生提供了一个独特的机会，使他们的创新工作在社区中获得更广泛的关注，并获得该领域资深人士的反馈和指导。经验表明，在过去的UM和AH会议上，大多数博士联盟的参与者后来都能够扩展并发表他们最初在联盟上发表的工作。更广泛的影响：邀请年轻和有创造力的研究人员参加ah2008将有助于推动一个重要的和具有社会价值的研究领域。对于许多研究生来说，参加会议的费用超过了他们的旅行预算。因此，NSF的资助将对下一代研究人员的职业生涯产生重大影响，使他们中的一些人能够参加一个重要的活动，否则他们就会错过。参与还将有助于培养这些年轻研究人员之间的社区意识，使他们能够在自己之间以及与处于专业发展关键阶段的资深研究人员建立一个社会网络。监狱长表示，她将采取行动，确保传统上代表性不足的机构的成员参与，并将密切注意将少数民族和妇女纳入其中。

This is funding to support travel by 6 students currently enrolled in PhD programs in the United States to present their accepted papers and posters, and to take part in the Doctoral Consortium, at the upcoming Adaptive Hypermedia Conference, to be held July 28-August 1, 2008 in Hannover, Germany. User interfaces that adapt themselves to individual needs and preferences, or to available user information, are becoming increasingly important, so much so that adaptivity has become a selling point for software products. A system with the ability to construct and consult user models can adapt diverse aspects of its performance to individual users or user groups, thus enhancing its effectiveness, usability and/or acceptance in a wide variety of situations. This leads to the concept of adaptive hypermedia as providing the underpinning of personalized interfaces that can successfully deal with information overload while improving the quality of information retrieval and filtering, information restructuring and annotation, information visualization, etc. But as Web sites explore ways to personalize, they must also investigate the effect of such algorithms on privacy, efficiency, and our ability to disseminate new information. In addition to the ubiquitous Web applications, educational applications and applications oriented to users with different kinds of disabilities can also benefit from adaptive systems. The International Conferences on Adaptive Hypermedia is the major forum for the scientific exchange and presentation of research in adaptive hypermedia and adaptive Web-based systems, held biannually; AH 2008 will be the 5th event in the series, and represents the marriage of the Adaptive Hypermedia and User Modeling communities, both of which are major sponsors. Active participation of young researchers in the conference is very important, both for the health of the field and for the researchers themselves. The AH 2008 Doctoral Consortium provides a unique opportunity for PhD students partway through their dissertation research to gain wider exposure in the community for their innovative work, and to obtain feedback and guidance from senior people in the field. Experience has shown that most Doctoral Consortium participants at past UM and AH conferences were later able to expand and publish their work originally presented at the Consortium.Broader Impacts: Bringing young and creative researchers to AH 2008 will help advance an important and socially valuable research field. For many graduate students, the cost of attending the conference exceeds their travel budget. Thus, NSF funding will significantly impact the careers of the next generation of researchers, by enabling a number of them to take part in an important event they would otherwise have to miss. Participation will also help foster a sense of community among these young researchers, by allowing them to create a social network both among themselves and with senior researchers at a critical stage in their professional development. The PI has indicated that she will act to assure participation by members of traditionally under-represented institutions, and will pay close attention to inclusion of minorities and women.