Supporting Students Attending the User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization 2011 Conference

这笔资金用于资助6-8名目前在美国攻读博士学位的学生，他们可以在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上发表论文和海报，或者参加博士联盟。UMAP是世界上首屈一指的用户建模会议，成立于2009年，是由用户建模（UM, 1986-2007）和自适应超媒体和自适应网络系统（AH, 2000-2008）这两个长期存在且成功的两年一次的系列会议合并而成；前者提供了一个论坛，来自涉及用户建模研究的许多领域（人工智能、人机交互、教育、语言学、心理学和信息科学）的学术和工业研究人员可以交换他们对用户建模问题的互补见解，而后者提供了一个论坛，用于传播超媒体和其他基于web的系统的自适应技术。用户建模已经被发现在许多领域显著地提高了软件系统的有效性和可用性。用户模型是特定用户属性的显式表示；构建和咨询用户模型的系统可以根据个人用户调整其性能的不同方面。用户建模的应用程序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、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博士联盟将为正在进行论文研究的博士生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，对所有学生开放，不仅是那些被接受出席的学生，还有定期参加会议的学生，旨在为所有参加会议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就新兴主题、预期的严谨性、评估方法等进行讨论。每个学生参与者将被分配15分钟的时间来展示他/她的作品（包括一个简短的演示，如果合适的话），另外15分钟用于提问和讨论。在提问/讨论期间和随后的非正式互动中，委员会成员和其他会议参与者将对学生的工作提供建设性的意见，并试图解决他/她要求建议的工作的任何方面。学生论文将发表在会议的主要论文集上。更广泛的影响：将年轻和有创造力的研究人员带到2011年UMAP将有助于推进一个重要的和具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他们原本无法参加的重要活动。学生们将有机会在社区中获得更广泛的创新工作曝光，并获得研究社区资深成员的反馈和指导。参与将有助于在这些年轻研究人员中培养一种社区意识，使他们能够在他们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会网络。在向与会者分配NSF资金时，组织者将优先考虑由于会议地点在欧洲而处于不利地位的学生；他们将努力在多个方面（性别、种族、民族、残疾、机构等）实现入选学生的多样性，并将采取特别步骤，促进来自代表性不足群体的学生人数相对较多的机构的参与。

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.