Supporting Students Attending the User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization 2010 Conference

支持学生参加 2010 年用户建模、适应和个性化会议

• 批准号: 1016237
• 负责人: David Chin
• 金额: $ 1.49万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-03-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1016237&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Supporting; Students; Attending; User; Modeling

User interfaces that adapt themselves to individual needs and preferences or available user information are becoming increasingly important, to the degree where adaptability 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. Personalized interfaces are of special importance in dealing with information overload and navigation by personalizing and improving the quality of information retrieval and filtering, information restructuring and annotation, as well as information visualization.User modeling has been found to enhance the effectiveness and usability of software systems in a variety of situations. A user model is an explicit representation of properties of a particular user, and 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.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 8 graduate students to present their accepted papers and posters at and/or to present their research plans at the Doctoral Consortium associated with the 18th event in the UMAP series, to be held June 20-24, 2010, in Waikoloa, Hawaii. More information about the conference is available at http://www.hawaii.edu/UMAP2010. UMAP-10 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-10 adjunct 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. Both during the question/discussion period and during subsequent informal interactions, the 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. Lively discussions with young researchers are also useful to more experienced investigators, in that they provide 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 committed that the majority of funded students will be currently enrolled in Ph.D. programs in the United States. In selecting the students who will receive travel funds, the organizers will give preference to students who can reasonably prove that they would have difficulty participating in the conference due to financial constraints, and will also strive for diversity (gender, racial, ethnic, disabilities, institutional, etc.) among the selected students.

适应个人需求和偏好或可用用户信息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的程度。 具有构建和咨询用户模型的能力的系统可以将其性能的各个方面调整到单个用户或用户组中，从而在各种情况下增强其有效性，可用性和/或接受。 个性化接口在处理信息过载和导航方面非常重要，通过个性化和提高信息检索和过滤质量，信息重组和注释的质量以及信息可视化。用户建模可提高各种情况下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单个用户。 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。 用于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。每年的有关用户建模，适应性和个性化（UMAP）的国际国际会议（UMAP）提供了首要的论坛，提供了这些领域的学术和工业研究人员，这些领域的所有这些领域都可以交流其配置的用户建模问题。 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8位研究生的旅行资金，以在与UMAP系列中的第18届活动相关的博士联盟中介绍他们接受的论文和海报，并于2010年6月20日至24日在夏威夷惠子举行。 有关会议的更多信息，请访问http://www.hawaii.edu/umap2010。 UMAP-10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，将邀请写一篇论文，该论文将在UMAP-10辅助程序中发表。 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/讨论期间和随后的非正式互动期间，组织委员会成员和其他参与者都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。BROADER的影响：在UMAP上，在UMAP上，在其领域的顶级会议上，将对未来一代人的自动建模者和个人化适应性研究人员和个人化适应性研究者产生重大影响。 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。 与年轻研究人员的生动讨论对更有经验的研究人员也很有用，因为他们提供了新的观点和新的想法。 因此，博士联盟对参与的学生来说是一个极大的信心建设者，并且对参加的既定研究人员都非常刺激。 组织者已承认，大多数资助的学生目前将获得博士学位。美国计划。 在选择将获得旅行资金的学生时，组织者将偏爱可以合理地证明他们由于财务限制而难以参加会议的学生，并且还将努力争取多样性（性别，种族，种族，族裔，残疾，机构，机构等）。