WORKSHOP: Doctoral Consortium at the 2017 ACM User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Conference (UMAP 2017)

研讨会：2017 年 ACM 用户建模、适应和个性化会议上的博士联盟 (UMAP 2017)

• 批准号: 1738024
• 负责人: David Chin
• 金额: $ 1.43万
• 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: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-04-01 至 2018-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1738024&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WORKSHOP; Doctoral; Consortium; 2017; ACM

This is funding to support travel for about 8 students enrolled in PhD programs in U.S. institutions, to present their accepted papers and posters and/or to attend the Doctoral Consortium associated with the 25th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2017), to be held July 9-12 at the Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia, and which is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB. 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 UMAP conference is the premier forum at which academic and industrial researchers from all these fields gather to present their latest research and to exchange their complementary insights on user modeling issues. To encourage student participation, UMAP has established two annual awards valued at $1,000 each endowed by the family of the late James Chen, an active User Modeling researcher, for best student papers (papers that represent primarily student research work and where students are lead authors). More information about the conference is available online at http://www.um.org/umap2017/. Attending and presenting their work at UMAP will have a significant impact on the careers of the future generation of user modeling, adaptation, and personalization researchers. First, they will have the opportunity to present their work to a knowledgeable audience and through lively discussions get useful comments at an early stage of their research when it will be most useful. Just as importantly, they will have a chance 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 young researchers is also beneficial to experienced investigators, by providing fresh ideas and new perspectives. Thus, the Doctoral Consortium is a great confidence builder for the students involved, and highly stimulating to the senior researchers as well. Many past participants in the UMAP Doctoral Consortium have gone on to become well-regarded researchers and practitioners in the field. Students whose work has been selected for presentation at the Doctoral Consortium will benefit from that experience in a number of additional ways. They will be invited to write a paper that will be published in the UMAP 2017 conference proceedings, which will be included in the ACM Digital Library. And they will have a 30-minute window in which to present their work (with a short demonstration where appropriate), including time for questions and discussion. During 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. 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 when selecting the candidates to receive financial support.

This is funding to support travel for about 8 students enrolled in PhD programs in U.S. institutions, to present their accepted papers and posters and/or to attend the Doctoral Consortium associated with the 25th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2017), to be held July 9-12 at the Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia, and which is sponsored by ACM Sigchi和Sigweb。 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。 年度UMAP会议是所有这些领域的学术和工业研究人员聚集的主要论坛，以介绍他们的最新研究，并在用户建模问题上交换他们的互补见解。为了鼓励学生的参与，UMAP已建立了两个年度奖项，该奖项是由已故的活跃用户建模研究人员的詹姆斯·陈（James Chen）家族赋予最佳学生论文（主要代表学生研究工作以及学生是主要作者的论文）的两个年度奖项。 有关会议的更多信息，请访问http://www.um.org/umap2017/。 参加并介绍他们在UMAP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。 首先，他们将有机会向知识渊博的受众展示自己的作品，并通过生动的讨论在最有用的时候在研究的早期阶段就会获得有用的评论。 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，交换想法并建立联系，这对他们的科学职业进展，这对他们来说是无价的。 通过提供新的思想和新观点，与年轻的研究人员互动对经验丰富的研究人员也有益。 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，并且对高级研究人员也充满了刺激。 UMAP博士联盟的许多过去的参与者都继续成为该领域备受推崇的研究人员和从业人员。 已选择工作在博士联盟中演讲的学生将以多种其他方式从这种经验中受益。 他们将被邀请写一篇论文，该论文将在UMAP 2017会议记录中发表，该论文将包含在ACM数字图书馆中。 他们将有一个30分钟的窗口，可以在其中展示自己的作品（在适当的情况下进行简短的演示），包括提问和讨论的时间。 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。 组织者重申了长期存在的对多样性的承诺。为此，他们将在选择候选人获得财务支持时做出特别的努力，以招募妇女和代表性不足的团体的成员。