Supporting Students Attending the 2008 Adaptive Hypermedia Doctoral Consortium

这笔资金用于支持目前在美国注册博士项目的6名学生在即将于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展示他们被接受的论文和海报，并参加博士联盟。适应个人需求和偏好或可获得的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一个卖点。具有构建和咨询用户模型的能力的系统可以使其性能的不同方面适应个人用户或用户组，从而增强其在各种情况下的有效性、可用性和/或接受度。这导致了自适应超媒体的概念，即提供个性化界面的基础，该界面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，随着网站探索个性化的方法，它们还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应用程序外，教育应用程序和面向不同类型残疾用户的应用程序也可以受益于自适应系统。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基于网络的自适应系统研究的主要论坛，每两年举行一次；2008年AH会将是该系列的第五次活动，代表着自适应超媒体和用户建模社区的结合，这两个社区都是主要赞助商。青年研究人员积极参加会议对实地和研究人员本身的健康都是非常重要的。AH2008博士联盟为博士生提供了一个独特的机会，让他们在论文研究的中途获得更广泛的社区曝光率，并从该领域的资深人士那里获得反馈和指导。经验表明，在过去的UM和AH会议上，大多数博士联合会的参与者后来都能够扩大和发表他们最初在联合会上展示的工作。广泛的影响：将年轻和有创造力的研究人员带到2008年AH将有助于推进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，使他们中的许多人能够参加否则他们不得不错过的重要活动。参与还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与处于专业发展关键阶段的资深研究人员建立一个社交网络。国际和平协会表示，她将采取行动，确保传统上代表性不足的机构的成员参与，并将密切关注少数群体和妇女的纳入。

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.