Supporting Students Attending the International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization

这笔资金将用于资助目前在美国攻读博士学位的6-9名学生前往美国，在2009年6月22-26日于意大利特伦托举行的第一届用户建模、适应和个性化国际会议（UMAP 2009）上提交他们已接受的论文和海报，并参加博士联盟。 UMAP是世界上首屈一指的用户建模会议，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了用户建模研究这些领域的专家（人工智能、教育、心理学、语言学、人机交互和信息科学）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。 UMAP 2009年博士生联盟将为博士生提供一个独特的机会，通过他们的论文研究中途收到该领域顶级研究人员的宝贵反馈。 与会者将在会议上介绍他们的工作（15分钟，其中可能包括一个简短的演示，如果适当的话），与额外的时间分配给问题和讨论（15分钟）。 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/她要求建议的工作方面。 学生论文将发表在会议的附属程序，而摘要将包括在诉讼。 在向参与者分配NSF资金时，博士生联盟联合主席将优先考虑能够合理证明经济困难的学生，他们还将努力实现多样性（性别，种族，民族，残疾，机构等）。更广泛的影响：将年轻和有创造力的研究人员带到UMAP 2009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高级研究人员建立社会网络。

This is funding to support travel by 6-9 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 First International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2009), to be held in Trento, Italy, on June 22-26, 2009. UMAP, the premier user modeling conference in the world, is 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 in which academic and industrial researchers from the many fields involved in user modeling research (artificial intelligence, education, psychology, linguistics, human-computer interaction, 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. The UMAP 2009 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. Participants will present their work to the conference (15 minutes, which may include a short demo if appropriate), with additional time allocated to questions and for discussion (15 minutes). 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 the aspects of the work on which s/he requested advice. Student papers will be published in the adjunct proceedings of the conference, while summaries will be included in the proceedings. In allocating NSF funds to participants, the Doctoral Consortium Co-chairs will give preference to students who can reasonably prove financial hardship, and they will also strive for diversity (gender, racial, ethnic, disabilities, institutional, etc.) among the selected students.Broader Impacts: Bringing young and creative researchers to UMAP 2009 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 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.