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.

这笔资金将用于支持目前在美国攻读博士学位的6-8名学生的旅行，他们将在2011年7月11日至15日在西班牙赫罗纳举行的2011年用户建模、适应和个性化国际会议（UMAP）上展示他们接受的论文和海报，并/或参加博士联盟。 UMAP是世界上首屈一指的用户建模会议，成立于2009年，是长期运行和成功的两年一度的用户建模会议系列的合并（UM，1986-2007）和自适应超媒体和自适应基于Web的系统（AH，2000-2008年）;前者提供了一个论坛，来自许多领域的学术和工业研究人员参与用户建模研究这些专家（人工智能、人机交互、教育、语言学、心理学和信息科学）可以就用户建模问题交换互补的见解，而后者则为传播超媒体和其他基于网络的系统的自适应技术提供了一个论坛。 用户建模已经被发现可以显著提高软件系统在各个领域的有效性和可用性。 用户模型是特定用户的属性的显式表示;构造和咨询用户模型的系统可以使其性能的各个方面适应单个用户。 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的和可穿戴系统、智能环境以及个人桌面系统、群件、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博士生联盟将为博士生在论文研究中途提供一个独特的机会，以获得该领域顶尖研究人员的宝贵反馈。 该活动将在一个特别会议上举行，该会议对所有学生开放，不仅是那些接受出席的学生，也是定期会议的与会者，其目的是为所有出席的学生提供一个很好的教育机会，这是一个独特的活动，整个社区可以与学生讨论新出现的主题，预期的严谨性，评估方法，每名学生将被分配15分钟的时间来介绍他/她的工作（包括一个简短的演示，如果合适的话），与额外的15分钟分配给问题和讨论。 在提问/讨论期间和随后的非正式互动中，委员会成员和其他与会者将对学生的工作提出建设性意见，并试图解决他/她要求咨询的工作的任何方面。 学生论文将在会议的主要会议记录上发表。 更广泛的影响：将年轻和创造性的研究人员带到UMAP 2011将有助于推进一个重要的和有社会价值的研究领域。 NSF的资助将对下一代用户建模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，否则他们将不得不错过。 学生将有机会在社区中获得更广泛的曝光，以促进他们的创新工作，并从研究界的高级成员那里获得反馈和指导。 参与将有助于培养这些年轻研究人员的社区意识，使他们能够在自己之间以及在其专业发展的关键阶段与高级研究人员建立社会网络。 在分配NSF资金给参与者时，组织者将优先考虑由于会议在欧洲的位置而处于不利地位的学生;他们将努力在选定的学生中实现多个方面的多样性（性别，种族，民族，残疾，机构等），此外，他们亦会采取特别措施，鼓励学生人数相对较多的院校，即代表性不足的团体，参与有关计划。