Support for U.S. Students to Present at the 2018 ACM User Modeling, Adaptation and Personlization (UMAP) Conference

这笔资金用于资助大约10名在美国教育机构攻读硕士或博士课程的学生的旅费，展示他们被录取的论文和海报，和/或参加与第26届用户建模、适应和个性化国际会议(UMAP 2018)相关的博士联盟，该会议将于2018年7月8-11日在新加坡南洋理工大学举行，该会议由ACM SIGCHI和SIGWEB赞助。适应可用的用户信息(如特殊需求或个人偏好)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一个卖点。具有构建和咨询用户模型(特定用户或用户组的属性的显式表示)的能力的系统可以适应其性能的不同方面，并在各种情况下增强其有效性、可用性和/或接受性(例如，以减少信息过载、提高信息检索、过滤和注释的质量，以及生成有用的信息可视化)。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和智能环境，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。一年一度的UMAP会议是来自所有这些领域的学术和行业研究人员聚集在一起展示他们的最新研究成果并就用户建模问题交换互补见解的主要论坛。参加并在UMAP上展示他们的工作将对下一代用户建模、适应和个性化研究人员的职业生涯产生重大影响。欲了解更多有关这次会议的信息，请访问http://www.um.org/umap2018/.。UMAP的学生作者和博士联盟的参与者都将有机会向知识渊博的受众展示他们的工作，并通过活跃的讨论在他们的研究的早期阶段获得有用的评论，当它最有用的时候。同样重要的是，他们将有机会与从事类似工作的知名研究人员和其他研究生见面，交流思想，建立联系，这些对他们在科学事业中的进步将是无价的。通过提供新的想法和新的视角，与年轻的研究人员互动也对经验丰富的研究人员有利。因此，博士团对参与其中的学生来说是一个很好的信心建立者，对高级研究人员也是非常有刺激性的。被选中在博士联盟发表论文的学生将被邀请撰写一篇论文，并将发表在UMAP 2018年会议记录中，该论文将被纳入ACM数字图书馆。他们将有30分钟的时间展示他们的作品(适当时有一个简短的演示)，包括提问和讨论的时间。在提问/讨论期间和随后的非正式互动中，组委会成员和其他参与者将对每个学生的工作提出建设性的意见，并试图解决学生要求提供建议的方面。组织者重申了UMAP长期以来对多样性的承诺；为此，他们将在选择接受财政支持的候选人时特别努力招募妇女和代表性不足群体的成员。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This is funding to support travel for about 10 students enrolled in MS or PhD programs in U.S. educational institutions, to present their accepted papers and posters and/or to attend the Doctoral Consortium associated with the 26th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2018), to be held July 8-11, 2018 at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, 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. 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. More information about the conference is available online at http://www.um.org/umap2018/. Student authors at UMAP and attendees in the Doctoral Consortium will both 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. 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 2018 conference proceedings, which will be included in the ACM Digital Library. 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 award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.