Hotel Hvide Hus Aalborg

Hotel Hvide Hus Aalborg
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Table of Contents
Welcome to UMAP 2014 ............................................................................ 3
UMAP 2014 Conference - Organization Committee .................................... 4
Program at a glance ................................................................................... 5
General Information .................................................................................. 8
Social Program ......................................................................................... 17
Detailed Program ..................................................................................... 26
Notes ....................................................................................................... 54
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Welcome to UMAP 2014
UMAP is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on
systems that adapt to their individual users, or to groups of users, and collect and represent
information about users for this purpose. UMAP is the successor to the biennial User Modeling (UM) and Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH) conferences
that were merged in 2009. It is organized under the auspices of User Modeling Inc. The
conference spans a wide scope of topics related to user modeling, adaptation and personalization, considering: UMAP in the era of big data, social data, and pervasive computing;
technological and socio-pedagogical underpinning of user modelling and user adaptive interaction; applications of adaptation and personalisation.
The 22nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization will be held in Hotel Comwell Hvide Hus in Aalborg, North of Denmark. Aalborg is a multi-faceted city - full of
contrasts. A city with a lust for life and all of its pleasures. It is also grand on a manageable
scale. All the major city attractions are concentrated within easy distance. From fast-paced
fun to peaceful oases. From a foaming draft beer to sublime gastronomy. From the Viking
era to the Middle Ages, to modern art.
Thanks for coming and welcome to Aalborg and Denmark.
Peter Dolog
General co-chair
Tsvi Kuflik
Program co-chair
Geert-Jan Houben
General co-chair
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Vania Dimitrova
Program co-chair
UMAP 2014 Conference
Organization Committee
General co-chairs
Program co-chairs
Workshop co-chairs
Tutorial Chairs
Peter Dolog
Aalborg University, Denmark
Geert-Jan Houben
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Vania Dimitrova
University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Tsvi Kuflik
The University of Haifa, Israel
Rosta Farzan
University of Pittsburg, USA
Robert Jäschke
University of Hannover, Germany
Judith Masthoff
University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Robin Burke
DePaul University, USA
Doctoral Symposium co-chairs
Francesco Ricci,
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
David Chin
University of Hawaii, USA
Demo and Poster co-chairs
Min Chi
North Carolina State University, USA
Ivan Cantador
Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Project liaison co-chairs
Publicity co-chairs
Oliver Brdiczka
Palo Alto Research Center, USA
Dhaval Thakker
University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Christoph Trattner
Know-Center, Austria
Ben Steichen,
University of British Columbia, Canada
Nava Tintarev
University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Local Organizing Chairs
Hanne Kristiansen
VisitAalborg, Denmark
Lise Søndergaard Jensen
VisitAalborg, Denmark
Conference secretary
Student Volunteers Chair and Web Chair
Martin Leginus
Aalborg University, Denmark
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General
Information
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Comwell Hvide Hus
Conference Venue
The 22nd International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2014) will
be held in Comwell Hvide Hus in Aalborg, North of Denmark. The hotel offers excellent facilities for the
conference including the internet connection. Comwell Hvide Hus Aalborg is located in the largest green
spot of Aalborg - the beautiful Kildeparken. Surrounded by the scenic park you will stay in style and comfort during your conference stay in Aalborg. The hotel has 16 floors and a stunning view over the Limfjord
and North Jutland’s beautiful countryside. Comwell Hvide Hus Aalborg has 198 tastefully decorated
rooms, all with new bathroom and own balcony. Comwell Hvide Hus Aalborg is located in the centre of
Aalborg city and is only a short walk from the charming pedestrians’ streets which offers great shopping,
cozy cafés, delightful entertainment, well-preserved buildings and modern architecture etc.
Address:
Comwell Hvide Hus
Vesterbro 2
DK-9000 Aalborg
Distance to the airport: 7 km
Distance to train station: 200 m
Train station
Bus terminal
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At the Conference Center
Registration and facilities + Maps
The registration desk is located on the ground floor of Hotel Hvide Hus and the opening hours are:
Monday, Tuesday:
8:00 — 9:00
Monday, Tuesday and Other days:
during coffee breaks
In case you would like to register outside the opening hours feel free to contact local organizers: Peter Dolog, Martin Leginus and volunteers wearing dark blue t-shirts. We will try to ensure that at least one volunteer will be present during the entire conference at the reception desk to register you or help with
other issues.
Internet:
Free wireless internet access to the Comwell Hvide Hus Aalborg network.
The access password is Comwell
Conference navigator
PAWS Lab provides Conference Navigator for UMAP 2014 - a personal conference scheduling tool with
social linking and recommendation features. The aim of this application is to enhance your experience at
UMAP2014.
Conference rooms
Available at: http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/proceedingswithauthors.php?
conferenceID=129
Registration Desk
Poster/Demo session will take place here
on Wednasday together with lunch.
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At the Conference Center
Maps
The main conference auditorium
Restaurant on the 15th floor where
lunches on Monday, Tuesday,
Thursday and Friday will take place.
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Author Instructions
For Oral Presentation
Presentation:
UMAP 2014 presenters are advised to come to the session room 15 minutes before the scheduled time of
the session start in order to try to connect their laptop to the provided projector. The assumption is that
each presenter uses their own laptop, if this is not the case, a presenter should agree with other copresenters from the given session to use their laptop for presentation. The length of the presentation is
restricted to 30 minutes for long presentation, 20 minutes for short presentations including questions (last
5 minutes of each presentation slot are allocated for questions).
Official language:
The official language of the conference is English for presentations, discussion and conference activities.
Chairman Instruction:
Please be in the session room 15 minutes before start of the session and ensure smooth presentation
delivery. As our schedule is very tight and we try to synchronize parallel sessions, please follow the
presentation slots strictly - maximum of 30 min for long presentations and 20 min for short presentations,
including the time for questions.
Demonstrations
UMAP 2014 demo presenters will present twice on Wednesday, July 9th. One will be at the poster
madness session in the second part of 11:00-12:30pm session in Det Ny Kilden (main auditorium), the
other will be during 12:30-16:00pm at Kildecafeen. Each demo must be accompanied by a draft poster of a
single slide of about 24"x36" (ISO A1) or alternatively up to 9 ISO A4 slides. We encourage single-slide
submissions. Criteria for judging demos include content and design.
Posters
UMAP 2014 poster presenters will present twice on Wednesday, July 9th. One will be at the poster
madness session in the second part of 11:00-12:30pm session in Det Ny Kilden (main auditorium), the
other will be during 12:30-16:00pm at Bøgesalen Each poster must be accompanied by a draft poster of a
single slide of about 24"x36" (ISO A1) or alternatively up to 9 ISO A4 slides. We encourage single-slide
submissions. Criteria for judging posters include content and design.
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Accommodation
Aalborg offers a wide range of accommodation facilities including options for students 1,500 hotel rooms within comfortable walking distance of Hotel Comwell Hvide Hus.
Special conference rate
Please note that we as local organizers have picked out the most convenient and best hotels in advance for you to choose from. Booking through the registration link or through email to VisitAalborg you will benefit from special rates and, at the same time, make sure
that there is plenty of opportunity to network with your colleagues outside the conference
programme.
Flexibility in your booking
It’s also worth noticing; that you will not be required to pay for hotel accommodation in advance, and that changes in the booking will even be accepted until 2 days prior to arrival.
You can make your hotel reservation in connection with your registration for the UMAP
2014. Doing this, you will benefit from the special conference rates.
Hotel reservation after registration
In case you have already registered and afterwards wish to make a hotel reservation, please
feel free to contact us and we will help you do so – of course making sure that you will still
benefit from the special conference rates.
Please contact us by phone or e-mail and inform us of your choice of hotel, date of arrival
and departure, type of room, special requirements, etc. Payments are made directly to the
hotel; however. Please use the registration link and fill in the form and fax it to us. As soon
as we have made the reservation for you, we will send you a confirmation.
Contact information:
Lise Søndergaard Jensen, Visit Aalborg
Kjellerups Torv 5, Level 13
9000 Aalborg, Denmark
Phone: +45 9931 7523 E-mail: [email protected]
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Hotel
Cabinn Aalborg**
About:
Since October 2009, CABINN have welcomed guests at this modern economy-class hotel in
the heart of Aalborg. CABINN’s next-door neighbor is the new shopping centre Friis. The
hotel has 239 rooms, all with private bath and toilet as well as phone, TV and a free wireless Internet. Many of Aalborg’s excellent restaurants are only a 15-minute walk from the
hotel, and a 5-minute walk will take you to the scenic waterfront and the two spectacular
cultural centres Utzon and Nordkraft.
Address:
CABINN Aalborg
Fjordgade 20
9000 Aalborg
Denmark
Location:
Distance to the conference venue: 1500 m
Distance to the airport: 9 km
Distance to train station: 500 m
For more information on the hotel, please visit:
http://www.cabinn.com/
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Travel Arrangements
For the airy - by plane
Beautifully situated in Northern Denmark, Aalborg is well connected in several ways. With
an excellent internal air, rail and road network, getting to Aalborg has never been easier. Visitors from abroad will usually either connect through one of the three daily 85-minute flights directly from Amsterdam Schiphol that is very well connected worldwide with more
than 200 destinations. Besides connecting through Amsterdam, international visitors can fly
to Aalborg via Copenhagen Airport which has a virtual air bridge to Aalborg with more than
40 daily connecting flights and a flight time of only 35-minutes; you will have arrived to Aalborg.
In addition to the frequent daily connections to and from Copenhagen, Aalborg Airport has
scheduled airline connections with Oslo in Norway, Helsinki in Finland, London in England,
Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Malaga in Spain and the Faroe Islands during the summer.
For further information about flights to and from Aalborg see Aalborg Airport's website:
http://www.aal.dk/
Airlines:
KLM
SAS
Norwegian
British Airways
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Travel Arrangements
Alternatives to flights
By train or bus
In centre of the city close to conference venue you will find Aalborg’s main railway and bus
station. From here intercity trains between Copenhagen and Aalborg run on an hourly basis. For more information on the rail network within DK, visit the official carriers,
www.dsb.dk
Nordjyllands Trafikselskab operates locally in the region and runs an extensive network of
local buses in Aalborg. There are also long distance bus routes that link Aalborg with Copenhagen, Odense, Esbjerg and other major cities in Denmark as well as Europe, please visit www.rejseplanen.dk to arrange your travel. The site combines train, regional and city
busses to provide you with the fastest and/or most convenient travel plan, http://
www.nordjyllandstrafikselskab.dk/default.aspx
For the modern and ultra green
Arriving by plane you will find yourself at Aalborg Airport, only 10 minutes by bus and taxi
from the city centre. Bus no. 2 leaves from the airport two times per hour and takes you to
the city centre.
The bus fare is DKK 20 per person, danish cash only. Taxis are outside the terminal and will
take you directly to your hotel. Price for taxi ride is DKK 180-300 depending on hotel destination. Contact details: +45 9810 1010.
Transport – bus and cabs
To and from Aalborg Airport, bus no. 2 takes you to the city centre in 10 mins
To and from your hotel as well as in the city, please visit Rejseplanen for bus schedules
Free bus rides during your stay, please visit AalborgCard
or feel free to call a cab +45 98101010 (Aalborg Taxi)
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Nice to Know
While staying in Aalborg
For the one who wants to see the big picture
You will find a map of Aalborg that should provide you with an overview of where everything is situated in proportion to each other.
Map over the city of Aalborg, please scan the QR Code:
· Hotels
· Restaurants and cafés
· Shopping streets
For the cultural
During your stay, get a chance to explore the cultural vibe in Aalborg either by strolling
down the newly established Harbourfront in the evening or exploring the inner city visiting
its art museums and galleries. Please scan the QR code to visit the official Tourist Bureau’s
website VisitAalborg to get more information on:
· Attractions
· Activities
· Events etc.
For the shopaholic
With its abundance of shops Aalborg’s high streets are an eldorado for anyone who loves to
shop. But, whatever you do, don’t miss the side streets. They are packed with exciting little
shops selling the work of young designers and craftspeople. You never know what you’ll
find. The opening hours are:
Monday - Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
1st Sunday of the month:
10:00 - 17:30
10:00 - 19:00
10:00 - 15:00
11:00 - 15:00
Read more about shopping streets or about Friis Shopping Centre by scanning the QR Code.
Friis Shopping Centre has longer opening hours than regular shops. Monday-Friday 10:00 19:00, Saturday 10:00 - 16:00, and 1st Sunday of the month: 10:00 - 16:00.
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Nice to Know
While staying in Aalborg
For the thirsty
Need a beer after a day with lots of impressions? An Aalborg Beerwalk makes an agreeable
finish to a busy day and a perfect start to a fun afternoon or evening in Aalborg. Reward
yourself to an Aalborg Beerwalk and taste 6 well-poured, special beers in as many as six
great pubs in the centre of Aalborg. The Aalborg Beerwalk consists of; an Aalborg Beerwalk
tasting glass, vouchers for six samples of excellent beer, a guide to six charming handpicked
pubs in Aalborg, and a lot of fun. At each pub simply present a voucher and they will pour
you a sample in your very own Aalborg Beerwalk tasting glass.
· Aalborg Beerwalk, please visit Aalborg Beerwalk to read more about the concept
http://goo.gl/TRxBo
For the Forest Gump
Even when staying in the city, beautiful oases of nature – perfect for a great work out – are
never far away. A different experience awaits you, if you go for a run in Mølleparken during
twilight. Here, you can follow a 2.5 km route lit up by lanterns.
· Please ask your hotel for inspiration
For the yuppies
Danish Kroner (DKK) is the currency in Denmark. Banks are open from 10:00 - 16.00 Monday to Friday. Though, in most hotels, restaurants, cafés and shops international credit
cards are widely accepted. If you would like to change your foreign currency to Danish krone, you can visit Forex which is located at Ved Stranden 22.
For the generous
Tipping: In Denmark, tipping isn't common - all service bills that you receive already include
gratuity, and it is unnecessary (but always appreciated) to add a tip in Denmark.
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Nice to Know
While staying in Aalborg
For the meteorologist
Weather in Denmark varies with the seasons. Denmark has a temperate climate and can be
humid and overcast. The winters are usually mild and windy, and the summers can be cool
or sunny. The weather in Denmark is a popular subject for discussion as it often changes
from day to day and even during the day. It is therefore a good idea to bring a coat or an
umbrella on outdoor activities. To check the weather forecast when you visit Aalborg, please visit the website of the Danish Meteorological Institute www.dmi.dk for the latest forecast. View the forecast for the next 5 days here: http://www.dmi.dk/eng/index/
forecasts.htm
For the Benjamin Franklin
Electrical appliances run at 230 volts in Denmark. Electrical outlets in Denmark use a twoprong plug typical for continental Europe. Most laptops will automatically work with 220230 volts (check the back of your laptop for power input markings).
For Cary Grant
The conference is a non-smoking event and smoking is prohibited throughout the venue.
However, for those who do not want to walk outside for smoking, there are a smokers’
lounge and a smokers’ terrace in the building.
For the one who wears a seat belt
Generally speaking, Denmark is a very safe country and Aalborg is a particularly safe city.
Like in most major cities in the world, however, it is advisable to watch ones belongings and
valuables while being in public places and to keep cars locked.
Currency and Banks
Denmark’s official currency is the Danish krone. The krone is issued through the National
Bank of Denmark and is also used in the provinces of Greenland and the Faroe Islands. The
currency is pegged at approximately 7.46 kroner per euro (€).
There are numerous ATM with 24-hours service cash dispenser in the city. Major credit
cards are widely accepted in the hotel, restaurant, taxi and stores.
Time
The time in Aalborg is Central European Time (Summer Time GMT+1)
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Welcome Reception at Utzon Center
Monday, 7th of July 2014 18:30 - 20:30
The City of Aalborg’s official opening reception will be held at Utzon Center. The Utzon Center functions as a venue for diffusion and innovation, where art, architecture and design interact with exhibition, education, conferences, meetings and culinary experiences - an apt
tribute to the Danish architect Jørn Utzon (1918-2008). Jørn Utzon grew up in Aalborg. It is
therefore obvious that this architecture, design and cultural centre should be placed in Aalborg – in the same area at Honnørkajen where he use to walk by on his way to school every
day. The Center is designed by Jørn Utzon himself in cooperation with his son Kim Utzon.
Utzon Center has become a gathering point at the water front where there is an active life
for students, for the locals as well as visitors from Denmark and foreign nations. A light selection of snacks and beverages will be served and you will have free access to enjoy the
current exhibitions at Utzon Center that evening.
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Conference Dinner with power!
Wednesday, 9th of July 2014 at 19:30
The Conference Dinner for UMAP will be held at Nordkraft which is a former power plant
located in the centre of Aalborg. Now, the old, coal-fired power station generates a completely different kind of power – Culture Power. Nordkraft opened its doors in 2009. Nordkraft
brings together culture, sports, and recreation, combining sports facilities, a cinema, theatres, and restaurants under one roof – all in a fusion of contemporary architecture and authentic industrial styles that create a very special atmosphere. The exciting, unique and impressive building located in the centre of the city, is the perfect setting for the Conference
Dinner. The dinner will be served in the
concert hall, Skraaen. The Conference
Dinner is included in the registration fee,
and the Conference Dinner is open to
both participants and accompanying persons. The price for accompanying person
for The Conference Dinner is DKK 600 /
EUR 80.
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Running Aalborg
Tuesday, 8th or Thursday, 10th of July 2014 at 7am (not included in the registration fee)
The concept is pretty simple: Running Aalborg is combining
running, sightseeing and the beautiful city of Aalborg. We
meet at a specific location and you will run with a guide
though the city. The distances are relatively short, and the
running pace will be adapted to the group´s speed. We will
make some small stops along the way. The guide will provide
history or anecdotes about what we are seeing. Also the stop will allow you to catch your
breath and enjoy the view. When participating, you should dress comfortably and according
to weather conditions. So be sure to check the local weather forecast. Please note that it can
get very windy by the water in Aalborg, so we recommend a windbreaker. Rain will not keep
us away from giving you a Running tour. During UMAP 2014 Running Aalborg is held on Tuesday and Thursday at 7:00 am and the tour lasts app. 45 min. – 1 hour. Meeting point will be
distributed via e-mail in the week before the conference.
Price per person per tour is DKK 100 / EUR 14. Max. 15 participants pr. tour.
Aalborg Beerwalk
Tuesday, 8th or Thursday, 10th of July 2014 in the evening (not included in the registration fee)
Need a beer after a day with lots of impressions? An
Aalborg Beerwalk makes an agreeable finish to a busy
day and a perfect start to a fun afternoon or evening in
Aalborg. Take the time to go on an Aalborg Beerwalk,
taste 6 well-poured, special beers in as many as 6 great pubs in the centre of Aalborg and meet and greet
your UMAP’ colleagues on your Beerwalk. The Aalborg
Beerwalk consists of: an Aalborg Beerwalk tasting
glass, vouchers for 6 samples of excellent beer, a guide
to 6 charming handpicked pubs in Aalborg, and a lot of fun. At each pub simply present a voucher and they will pour you a sample in your very own Aalborg Beerwalk tasting glass. We
suggest for you to go on the Aalborg Beerwalk on Tuesday, 8 July 2014 or Thursday, 10 July
2014 in the evening and explorer the pubs in Aalborg, but feel free to use the voucher any
day you prefer. The price for The Aalborg Beerwalk is DKK 100 / EUR 14!
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Technical Program
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Monday July 7th 2014, Tutorial 1, 9:00 - 12:30
User Affect and Sentiment Modelling by Björn W. Schuller
Room: room P1
Abstract: Affect and Sentiment Recognition have matured to the degree
where they are ready for real-world application. At the same time, the interest in such technology has tremendously grown over the last decade, and
expectancy is nothing short of a potential to drastically change our way we
interact with technology. Affect and emotion are omni-present - be it if a
system does not react in the way we want it to, or - in the better case - because it does. In addition, users may be affected by other influences and humans certainly take such cues into account when interacting. Accordingly,
there is great interest in having future interactive systems do so as well to
make communication with them feel more natural, sensitive, and
"intelligent". Modelling of "affect" thereby comprises an increasingly broader range of mental states beyond the "big six" basic emotions. Today's approaches target increasingly more subtle affective states including also social emotions or mental states such as cognitive and physical load, intoxication, pain, or sleepiness, just to name a few. Models to represent affect are various, and dimensional modelling is increasingly more used rather than looking at a closed inventory of discrete labels. Sentiment can be considered as one of these dimensions, highly related to valence, but usually in connection with an object or target the sentiment is directed at.
This tutorial introduces the principles, methods, and state-of-the-art in user affect and sentiment
modelling focussing first on speech and text, but also including facial expression, body gestures,
physiological sensors, interaction patterns and context. It further introduces typical databases,
tools, and benchmarks in the field, and touches upon use-cases and examples of affect-aware systems and their engineering. Emphasis is thereby laid on modelling and recognition "in the wild"
and independent of the user. In detail, it will guide through the following parts:
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Motivation for User Affect and Sentiment Modelling, Classes, Dimensions and Other representation forms, Affect and Sentiment Data & Benchmarks, Database creation, Monomodal, Multimodal databases, Benchmark tests and challenges, Affect and Sentiment Recognition, Modalities, Pre-processing and de-noising, Features and selection, Classification and regression, Autonomous learning and adaptation, Affective Output and Feedback, Affect synthesis, Feedback generation, System integration aspects, Confidence measures, Context integration, Distributed processing, Encoding, Tools, Labelling Toolkits, Feature Extraction Toolkits, Learning
Toolkits, Use-Cases, The (likely) "next big things" in the field
Presenter: Björn W. Schuller received his diploma in 1999, his doctoral degree for his study on Automatic Speech and Emotion Recognition in 2006, and his habilitation in 2012 all in electrical engineering and information technology from TUM/Germany. He is a Senior Lecturer in Imperial College London's Machine Learning Group in London/UK (since 2013) and a tenured faculty member
heading the Machine Intelligence and Signal Processing Group at TUM’s Institute for HumanMachine Communication since 2006 as well as CEO of audEERING UG (limited). He is also a permanent Visiting Professor at the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin/P.R. China. Previously, he was
heading the Institute for Sensor Systems as full professor at the University of Passau/Germany, a
Visiting Professor at the Université de Genève/Switzerland in the Centre Interfacultaire en Sciences
Affectives remaining an appointed associate of the institute, with JOANNEUM RESEARCH, in Graz/
Austria, remaining an expert consultant, and with the CNRS-LIMSI Spoken Language Processing
Group in Orsay/France among others. Best known are his works advancing Affective Computing. Dr.
Schuller is president of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing (AAAC, former
HUMAINE Association), elected member of the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical
Committee, and (co-)authored 5 books and more than 400 publications in the field (5800+ citations,
h-index = 39). He was co-founding member and secretary of the steering committee and guest editor, and still serves as associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, is associate
editor for the Computer Speech and Language, associate editor IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE
Transactions on Cybernetics, and the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems,
and guest editor for the IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine, Neural Networks, Speech Communication, Image and Vision Computing, Cognitive Computation, and the EURASIP Journal on Advances in
Signal Processing. Further he is/was co-general chair of ACM ICMI 2014, program chair of the ACM
ICMI 2013, IEEE SocialCom 2012, and ACII 2011, and workshop and challenge organizer including
the INTERSPEECH 2009-2014 annual Computational Paralinguistics Challenges and 2011-2014 Audio/Visual Emotion Challenges and Workshops. Advisory board activities comprise his membership
as invited expert in the W3C Emotion Markup Language Incubator Groups.
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Friday July 11th 2014, Tutorial 3, 14:00 - 18:00
Title: Social Information Access
Room: room P1
Abstract: The power of the modern Web, which is frequently called the Social Web or Web 2.0, is
frequently traced to the power of users as contributors of various kinds of contents through Wikis,
blogs, and resource sharing sites. However, the community power impacts not only the production of Web content, but also the access to all kinds of Web content. A number of research groups
worldwide explore what we call social information access techniques that help users get to the
right information using “collective wisdom” distilled from actions of those who worked with this
information earlier.
Social information access can be formally defined as a stream of research that explores methods
for organizing users' past interaction with an information system (known as explicit and implicit
feedback), in order to provide better access to information to the future users of the system. It
covers a range of rather different systems and technologies from social navigation to collaborative
filtering. An important feature of all social information access systems is self-organization. Social
information access systems are able to work with little or no involvement of human indexers, organizers, or other kinds of experts. They are truly powered by a community of users. Due to this
feature, social information access technologies are frequently considered as an alternative to the
traditional (content-oriented) technologies. The goal of this tutorial is to provide an overview of
the emerging social information access research stream and to provide some practical guidelines
for building social information access systems.
Presenter: Peter Brusilovsky is a Professor of Information Science and Intelligent Systems at the University of Pittsburgh, where he directs Personalized
Adaptive Web Systems (PAWS) lab. Peter has been working in the field of
adaptive educational systems, user modeling, and intelligent user interfaces
for over 20 years. He published numerous papers and edited several books
on adaptive hypermedia and the adaptive Web. He was holding visiting faculty appointments at the Moscow State University (Russia), Sussex University
(UK), Tokyo Denki University (Japan), University of Trier (Germany), Free University of Bolzano (Italy), National College of Ireland, and Carnegie Mellon University. Peter is the
Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies and a board member of
several journals including User Modeling and User Adapted Interaction, ACM Transactions on the
Web, and Web Intelligence and Agent Systems. He is also the current President of User Modeling
Inc., a professional association of user modeling researchers.
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Friday July 11th 2014, Tutorial 2, 9:00 - 12:30
Title: Personalization for behaviour change
Room: room P1
Abstract: Digital behaviour intervention is a growing area of research which investigates how interactive systems can encourage and support people to change their behaviour, for their own or
communal benefits. Personalization plays an important role in this, as the most effective persuasive and motivational strategies are likely to depend on user characteristics such as the user’s personality, affective state, existing attitudes, behaviours, knowledge, and goals. Example application
areas include healthcare (e.g., encouraging people to eat more healthily and exercise more), education (e.g., motivating learners to study more), environment (e.g., encouraging people to use less
energy and more public transport), and collaborative content development (e.g., incentivising people to annotate resources, participate online). This tutorial will cover the role of personalization
in behaviour change technology, and methods and techniques to design personalized behaviour
change technology. The tutorial will include both traditional and more recent approaches (such as
gamification). It will be highly interactive, with short interactive lectures, exercises and miniexperiments.
Presenters: Julita Vassileva is a professor of Computer Science at the
University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Her research areas involve human
issues in decentralized software environments: user modeling and personalization, and in designing incentive mechanisms for encouraging
participation and facilitating trust in web, cloud and mobile applications.
She is interested in how to use personalized recommendations, games
and social influence to support people in their learning and engaging in
beneficial behaviours. She serves on the Editorial Boards of User Modelling and User Adapted Interaction, Computational Intelligence and IEEE
Transactions on Learning Technologies. She has served on the PC of Persuasive since 2006.
Judith Masthoff is an associate professor of Computing Science at the
University of Aberdeen, UK. Her research is in personalisation and intelligent user interfaces. She is interested in personalizing behavior change mechanisms for encouraging people to live more healthily and sustainably, and in adapting motivating and emotional support messages to
personality. She has co-organized four workshops on behavior change
technology. She serves on the editorial board of User Modeling and
User-Adapted Interaction, and is current guest-editing a special issue on
Personalization and Behavior Change. She was program chair of the
UMAP conference in 2012 and is a director of User Modeling Inc., the professional association of
user modeling researchers. She has served on the PC of Persuasive since 2006.
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Monday July 7th 2014, ProS 2014 9:00 - 18:00
UMAP Project Synergy (UMAP ProS) Workshop
Room: Birkesalen
Description: UMAP ProS workshop aims to bring together participants from several International
projects to exchange ideas and experience relating to the approaches they are implementing or
planning to implement, based on experiences in user modelling, adaptation and personalisation.
The workshop invites projects employing User modelling, adaptation and personalisation techniques and technologies in these themes to submit a presentation proposal to present their project at the workshop.
The workshop program will contain presentation from 8-10 projects and a panel discussion.
UMAP Project Synergy workshop is a specialised workshop organised to provide a platform to International projects related to UMAP to showcase the exciting work they are doing.
In particular, we are inviting projects in the following UMAP themes to submit their presentation
proposal:
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UMAP in the social era
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UMAP in the era of big data
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UMAP in the era of pervasive computing
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Infrastructures, architectures, and methodologies
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Human factors and Models
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Personal and Societal issues
Web: http://umappros.wordpress.com/
Dhaval Thakker
University of Leeds,
United Kingdom
Oliver Brdiczka
Palo Alto Research Center,
USA
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Christoph Trattner
Know-Center,
Austria
Accepted papers for UMAP Project Synergy (UMAP ProS):
INTUITEL – Intelligent Tutorial Interface for Technology Enhanced Learning
Peter Henning, Florian Heberle, Kevin Fuchs, Christian Swertz, Alexander Schmölz, Alexandra Forstner, Andrea Zielinski
Tourists’ Dynamic Needs and Affects in Personalised Travel Route Recommendations
Petr Aksenov, Astrid Kemperman, Theo Arentze
Adaptive Interest Modeling Enables Proactive Content Services at the Network Edge
Hua Li, Ralph Costantini, David Anhalt, Rafael Alonso, Mark-Oliver Stehr, Carolyn Talcott, Minyoung Kim,
Timothy McCarthy, Sam Wood
The CHESS Project: Adaptive Personalized Storytelling Experiences in Museums
Maria Vayanou, Manos Karvounis, Akrivi Katifori, Marialena Kyriakidi, Maria Roussou, Yannis Ioannidis
Pheme: Veracity in Digital Social Networks
Leon Derczynski, Kalina Bontcheva
User-Item Reciprocity in Recommender Systems: Incentivizing the Crowd
Alan Said, Martha Larson, Domonkos Tikk, Paolo Cremonesi, Alexandros Karatzoglou, Frank Hopfgartner,
Roberto Turrin, Joost Geurts
PRISE : Adaptive Environment for Consolidated Management of Digitals Resources
Daouda Sawadogo, Ronan Champagnat, Pascal Estraillier
Supporting Workplace Learning in Small Enterprises by Personal Learning Environments
Milos Kravcik, Kateryna Neulinger, Ralf Klamma
Informal Learning at the Workplace via Adaptive Video
Milos Kravcik, Petru Nicolaescu, Ralf Klamma
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Monday July 7th 2014, PIA 2014 9:00 - 18:00
The Joint Workshop on Personalized Information Access
Room: Bøgesalen
Description: This unique workshop was a result of merging two workshops with overlapping
topics - the First Workshop on Personalized Multilingual Information Access (PMIA 2014), and the
First Workshop on Personalizing Search - From Search Engines to Exploratory Search Systems
(PESE 2014):
• The PMIA 2014 workshop was designed to share, discuss, and combine ideas for novel solutions that support users according to their particular language abilities, as well as other characteristics (e.g. culture, domain expertise) and contexts (e.g. intent, topic) that influence what
and how information should be retrieved, composed, and presented.
• The PESE 2014 workshop was designed to explore another subtopic of personalized information access: addressing the challenges in user modeling when aiming to bring personalization
to complex exploratory search tasks.
During the reviewing process, the organizers discussed the overlapping nature of the workshops
and a broader scope of interesting submissions, and decided that it would be most appropriate to
merge these workshops under a broader topic of personalized information access. The organizers
hope that the workshop results will directly influence the design of personalized applications that
support more effective access to knowledge and deliver users search experiences which are tailored to their information needs and contexts.´
Web: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~steichen/PMIA2014/, http://pese2014.com/
Organizers:
Ben Steichen
UBC,
Canada
Maristella Agosti
University of Padua,
Italy
Séamus Lawless
Trinity College Dublin,
Ireland
Vincent Wade
Trinity College Dublin,
Ireland
Oswald Barral
Tuukka Ruotsalo Giulio Jacucci
Peter Brusilovsky
Aalto University, University of Helsinki, University of Pittsburgh, University of Helsinki,
Finland
Finland
USA
Finland
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Samuel Kaski
Aalto University,
Finland
Schedule for The Joint Workshop on Personalized Information Access
09:15-09:30:
09:30-10:30:
Introduction
Keynote by Pia Borlund
Evaluation of interactive information retrieval by use of simulated work task situations.
The talk introduces the test instrument named a
"simulated work task situation" that is commonly used in
evaluations of interactive information retrieval (IIR). IIR
evaluations focus on users’ satisfaction with retrieved
information and use of IR systems. The test instrument
takes the form of written search task descriptions that
are assigned to the test participants. The objective of the
use of simulated work task situations is to obtain realistic, reliable, and comparable search and assessment behaviour during testing. The talk
presents the concept of simulated work task situation, and the requirements for the use of
it as a test instrument. The talk further emphasises the importance tailoring of the simulated work task situations towards the group of test participants by providing illustrative
examples of successfully tailored simulated work task situations and less successfully ones.
10:30-11:00:
Coffee break
11:00-11:20:
Supporting Exploratory Search Through User Modeling.
Kumaripaba Athukorala, Antti Oulasvirta, Dorota Glowacka, Jilles Vreeken, Giulio Jacucci
11:20-11:40:
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Stereotype User Models for Recommendations on Mobile
Devices.
Béatrice Lamche, Enrico Pollok, Wolfgang Wörndl, Georg Groh
11:40-12:00:
Influence of Reading Speed on Pupil Size as a Measure of Perceived Relevance.
Oswald Barral, Ilkka Kosunen, Giulio Jacucci
12:00-12:20:
Increasing Top-20 Search Results Diversity Through Recommendation Post-Processing.
Matevz Kunaver, Stefan Dobravec, Tomaz Pozrl, Andrej Kosir
12:20-13:45:
Lunch
13:45-14:05:
Does Personalization Benefit Everyone in the Same Way? Multilingual Search Personali
zation for English vs. Non-English Users.
M. Rami Ghorab, Séamus Lawless, Alexander O'Connor, Vincent Wade
14:05-14:20:
Work in Progress: Multicultural Concept Map Editor.
Iñaki Calvo, Ana Arruarte, Jon A. Elorriaga, Mikel Larrañaga
14:20-14:40:
Users as Crawlers: Exploiting Metadata Embedded in Web Pages for User Profiling.
Dario De Nart, Carlo Tasso, Dante Degl'Innocenti
14:40-15:30:
Group discussions
15:30-16:00:
Coffee Break
16:00-17:30:
Group reporting & general discussion
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Friday July 11th 2014, PALE 2014 9:00 - 18:00
Workshop on Personalization Approaches in Learning Environments
Room: Det Ny Kilden
Description: The PALE 2014 workshop is a follow-up of the three previous editions of PALE. The
focus of this workshop series is put on the different and complementary perspectives in which
personalization can be addressed in learning environments. From the past experience we have
identified new areas of interest in this research scope to complement the previous ones. In this
workshop we would like to share and discuss the current research on how user modeling and associated artificial intelligent techniques provide the personalization support in a wide range of
learning environments, which are increasingly more sensitive to the learners and their context,
such as: intelligent tutoring systems, learning management systems, personal learning environments, serious games, agent-based learning environments, and others. We are especially interested in the enhanced sensitivity towards learners’ interactions (e.g., sensor detection of affect in
context) and technological deployment (including web, mobiles, tablets, tabletops), and how can
this wide range of situations and features impact on modeling the learner interaction and context.
Furthermore, we aim to cover the every time more demanding need of personalized learning in
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Topics of interest:
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Affective computing, ambient intelligence
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Personalization of MOOCs
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Learner and context awareness
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Social and educational issues to be addressed
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Open-corpus educational systems, adaptive mobile learning
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Successful methods and techniques
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Reusability, interoperability, scalability
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Evaluation of adaptive learning environments
Web: http://adenu.ia.uned.es/workshops/pale2014
Organizers:
Milos Kravcik
RWTH Aachen University
Germany
Olga C. Santos
aDeNu Research Group, UNED
Spain
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Jesus G. Boticario
aDeNu Research Group, UNED
Spain
Schedule for Workshop on Personalization Approaches in Learning Environments
Session 1: Modelling issues: student's performance, user's profile management in a standardize way:
09:10 - 09:20
Integrating Knowledge Tracing and Item Response Theory: A Tale of Two Frameworks
Khajah et al.
09:20 - 09:30
User profile modelling for researcher digital resource management systems
Sawadogo et al.
09:30 - 10:00
Learning Café 1 - round 1.
10:00 - 10:30
Learning Café 1 - round 2.
10:30 - 10:40
Summary of the Learning Café 1.
10:40 - 11:00
Coffee Break.
Session 2: Learner's attributes: reputation and mind wandering to improve the personalized support
11:00 - 11:10
Towards a transferable and domain-independent reputation indicator to group students
in the Collaborative Logical Framework approach
Lobo et al.
11:10 - 11:20
Evaluation of a Personalized Method for Proactive Mind Wandering Reduction
Bixler et al.
11:20 - 11:50
Learning Café 2 - round 1.
11:50 - 12:20
Learning Café 2 - round 2.
12:20 - 12:30
Summary of the Learning Café 2.
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Break.
Session 3: Learner's attributes: detecting affective states to improve the personalized support
14:00 - 14:10
Providing Personalized Guidance in Arithmetic Problem Solving
Arevalillo-Herráez et al.
14:10 - 14:20
Modifying Field Observation Methods on the Fly: Metanarrative and Disgust
in an Environmental MUVE
Ocumpaugh et al.
14:20 - 14:50
Learning Café 3 - round 1.
14:50 - 15:20
Learning Café 3 - round 2.
15:20 - 15:30
Summary of the Learning Café 3.
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break.
Session 4: Applying user modeling in new contexts, such as MOOCs and gamified environments
16:00 - 16:10
Personalized Web Learning: Merging Open Educational Resources into Adaptive Courses
for Higher Education
Henning et al.
16:10 - 16:20
Gamification: metacognitive scaffolding towards long term goals?
Tang et al.
16:20 - 16:50
Learning Café 4 - round 1.
16:50 - 17:20
Learning Café 4 - round 2.
17:20 - 17:30
Summary of the Learning Café 4.
17:30 - 18:00
Closing PALE workshop.
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Friday July 11th 2014, PEGOV 2014 9:00 - 12:30
Workshop on Personalization in eGovernment Services and Applications
Room: Bøgesalen
Description: The advent of e-government (e-Gov) initiatives has changed the interaction between governments and citizens. Services can now be delivered by means of virtual channels, e.g. through Web portals
or mobile apps, or even online communities, and citizens can exploit these channels to interact with public
administration. In this new scenario, innovative solutions based on e-Gov service offers, that are better
tailored to citizens needs, can facilitate the access to services and reduce the red tape that usually characterizes the public service provision. Even though several personalization methods and user modeling
techniques have been proposed and successfully applied in several domains (e.g., e-commerce), the application of these approaches in the eGovernment domain is still in its infancy. As an example, while, in an ecommerce, we can quite easily catch user preferences and subsequently make suggestions according to
the user profile, in the e-Gov domain the concept of preference itself is difficult to define. There are also
potentially ethical (including privacy) issues related to the fact that citizens might be in a dependence relationship with governments, and automatic user profiling might be considered big brother and not desirable. The major goal of this workshop is to stimulate the attention of the scientific and business community
on the aforementioned issues to move towards more user-aware and adaptive services in e-Gov by means
of personalization methods. We are specifically interested in the role of user modeling and profiling in advanced public service design and delivery by dealing also with aspects related to privacy, security, and
multilingualism. Following on the successful inaugural edition of the UMAP-PEGOV workshop of last year,
this second workshop on Personalization in eGovernment Services and Applications aims to stimulate
further interest of the scientific and business communities on the aforementioned issues to move towards
more user-aware and adaptive services in the e-Gov domain by means of personalization methods.
Topics of interest:
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Motivations, benefits, and issues of personalization in e-Gov, Approaches for the personalization of
inclusive, personal and interactive e-Gov services, User and context awareness in personalization of
e-Gov services ,Multilingual e-Gov services, Adaptation, personalization and recommendation models and goals in e-Gov, User, group and family modeling in e-Gov, Mining of user behavior, opinion
mining, and sentiment analysis in e-Gov
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Services for personalized access to (Linked) Open Government Data, Persistence, removal, and update of citizen profiles, Semantic techniques for user profiling and personalization in e-Gov, Ethical
issues, including privacy, in e-Gov, Usability of e-Gov applications,Evaluation of personalized services
in e-Gov, Applications of personalization methods in e-Gov, Communities and social networks in participatory e-Gov, Citizen-centered service design and modeling
Web: http://pegov.disco.unimib.it/
Organizers:
Nikolaos Loutas Fedelucio Narducci
PwC,
University of Milano-Bicocca,
Belgium
Italy
Matteo Palmonari Adegboyega Ojo Cécile Paris
University of Mila- Insight - NUI,
CSIRO,
no-Bicocca,
Ireland
Computational
Italy
Informatics,
Australia
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Giovanni Semeraro
University of Bari
“Aldo Moro”,
Italy
Schedule for Workshop on Personalization in eGovernment Services and Applications:
First Session
9.00 - 9.10
Opening
9.10 ­ 9.30
Community Mapping for Participatory Decision-Making Processes
(short)
9.30 ­ 10.00
TweetAlert: Semantic Analytics in Social Networks for Citizen Opinion
Mining in the City of the Future (long)
10.00 - 10.30
Personalization of Parliamentary Document Retrieval using different
User Profiles (long)
10.30 - 11.00
Coffee break
Second Session
11.00 - 11.30
A Fuzzy Model for Service Value Assessment (long)
11.30 - 12.00
Product Line-based customization of e-Government documents (long)
12.00 - 12.30
Final discussion
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Friday July 11th 2014, EMPIRE 2014 9:00 - 18:00
Workshop on Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services
Room: Birkesalen
Description: The 2nd workshop on Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services will be organized in
conjunction with the UMAP 2014 conference and will be held in Aalborg, Denmark, as a full-day workshop
on 11. July 2014. Personality and emotions shape our daily lives by having a strong influence on our preferences, decisions and behaviour in general. Hence, personalized systems that want to adapt to end users
need to be aware of the user’s personality and/or emotions to perform well. Affective factors may include
long-term personality traits or shorter-term states ranging from ‘affect dispositions’, ‘attitudes’ (liking, loving, hating,…), ‘interpersonal stances’ (distant, cold, warm,…), ‘moods’ (cheerful, irritable, depressed,…) or
‘real emotions’. Recently, there have been extensive studies on the role of personality on user preferences, gaming styles and learning styles. Furthermore, some studies showed that it is possible to extract personality information about a user without annoying questionnaires, by analyzing the publicly available
user’s social media feeds. Also, the affective computing community has developed sophisticated techniques that allow for accurate and unobtrusive emotion detection. Generally, emotions can be used in
personalized systems in two ways: (i) either to change the emotion (or mood, e.g. from a negative to a positive) or (ii) to sustain the current emotion (e.g. keep a user “charged” while doing sports). Recent studies
showed that such information can be used in various personalized systems like emotion-aware recommender systems.
Topics of interest:
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Adaptation strategies using affect and/or personality (e.g. to different learning styles, openness to
diverse content etc.)
Scenarios/domains where emotions and personality could be utilized effectively
Privacy issues, Evaluation measures/strategies
Emotions as context, Emotions in the decision-making process for recommender systems, Role of
personality on user similarities, Emotion detection in recommended content consumption, Emotion
detection as non-invasive feedback, Affective tagging of multimedia content and services, Emotionbased evaluation metrics (satisfaction…)
Lifestyle recommender systems, Personality and mood for group decision making
Incorporating personality and emotions in user models
Datasets for affective modeling (collecting, available)
Personality traits acquisition (explicit and implicit), Personality and interfaces/control/bubblecontrol
Could interfaces/control/bubble-control be personalized based on personality traits
Personality and users’ tasks/goals
Social signal processing for personalized services, Strategies for modeling emotions and personality,
Detecting triggers and causes of emotion
Theories about the relationship between reasoning and affect, between decision-making and affect,
Methods for evaluating the utility of adaptation to affective factors
Personality-based preference elicitation
Web: http://empire2014.wordpress.com/
Organizers:
Marko Tkalčič
Johannes Kepler
University Linz,
Austria
Berardina De Carolis
University of Bari
Aldo Moro,
Italy
Marco de Gemmis
University of Bari
Aldo Moro,
Italy
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Ante Odić
Outfit7 (Slovenian subsidiary Ekipa2 d.o.o.),
Slovenia
Andrej Košir
University of
Ljubljana,
Slovenia
Schedule for Workshop on Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services:
9:00 – 10:30
FIRST SESSION (chair: Marko Tkalčič)
Welcome, Marko Tkalčič
How are you doing? Emotions and Personality in Facebook,
Golnoosh Farnadi, Geetha Sitaraman, Mehrdad Rohani, Michal Kosinski, David Stillwell, MarieFrancine Moens, Sergio Davalos, Martine De Cock
Social Media Sources for Personality Profiling,
David N. Chin, William R. Wright
10:30 – 11:00
COFFEE BREAK
11:00 – 12:30
SECOND SESSION (chair: Marco de Gemmis)
Enhancing Music Recommender Systems with Personality Information and Emotional States:
A Proposal,
Bruce Ferwerda, Markus Schedl
Human Decisions in User Modeling: Motivation, Procedure and Example Application,
Andrej Košir, Ante Odić, Marko Tkalčič, Matija Svetina
Gathering a Dataset of Multi-Modal Mood-Dependent Perceptual Responses to Music,
Matevž Pesek, Primož Godec, Mojca Poredoš, Gregor Strle, Jože Guna, Emilija Stojmenova,
Matevž Pogačnik, Matija Marolt
12:30 – 14:00
LUNCH
14:00 – 15:30
THIRD SESSION (chair: Andrej Košir )
Towards Learning Relations Between User Daily Routines and Mood,
Berardina De Carolis, Stefano Ferilli
Self-Monitoring of Emotions: a Novel Personal Informatics Solution for an Enhanced SelfReporting,
Federica Cena, Ilaria Lombardi, Amon Rapp, Federico Sarzotti
Social Structure and Personality Enhanced Group Recommendation,
Michal Kompan, Maria Bielikova
15:30 – 16:00
COFFEE BREAK
16:00 – 18:00
FOURTH SESSION (chair: Berardina De Carolis)
Using Social Media Mining for Estimating Theory of Planned Behaviour Parameters,
Marko Tkalčič, Bruce Ferwerda, Markus Schedl, Cynthia Liem, Mark Melenhorst, Ante
Odić, Andrej Košir
Wrap-up & farewell
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Friday July 11th 2014, NRA 2014 14:00 - 18:00
Workshop on News Recommendation and Analytics
Room: Bøgesalen
Description: The news domain is characterized by a constant flow of unstructured, fragmentary,
and unreliable news stories from numerous sources and different perspectives. Finding the right
information, either in terms of individual news stories or aggregated knowledge from analyzing
entire news streams, is a tremendous challenge that necessitates a wide range of technologies
and a deep understanding of user preferences, news contents, and their relationships. This workshop addresses primarily news recommender systems and news analytics, with a particular focus
on user profiling and techniques for dealing with and extracting knowledge from large-scale news
streams. The news streams may originate in large media companies, but may also come from social sites, where user models are needed to decide how user-generated content is to be taken into
account. This workshop aims to create an interdisciplinary community that addresses design issues in news recommender systems and news analytics, and promote fruitful collaboration opportunities between researchers, media companies and practitioners.
Topics of interest:
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News semantics and ontologies, News summarization, classification and sentiment analysis
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Recommender systems and news personalization, Group recommendation for
news
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User profiling and news context modeling
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News evolution and trends , Large-scale news mining and analytics
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Evaluation methods
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News from social media , Big Data technologies for news streams
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News recommendation and analytics on mobile platforms
Web: http://research.idi.ntnu.no/nra2014/
Organizers:
Jon Atle Gulla
Ville Ollikainen
Nafiseh Shabib
Norwegian University of
Science and Technology
VTT Technical Research Norwegian University of
Science and Technology
Centre of Finland
Norway
Finland
Norway
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Özlem Özgöbek
Norwegian University of
Science and Technology
Norway
Schedule for Workshop on News Recommendation and Analytics
14.00 - 14.45
Keynote Speech "Miley Cyrus” vs "War-Torn Syria”: Content recommendations in the
real world by Aleksander Øhrn, Cxense Chief Technology Officer
"I love seeing smart algorithms operate at scale. It's the clo
sest thing to magic there is."
As Chief Technology Officer, Aleksander Øhrn is in charge of the
overall technological strategy for Cxense. His particular focus is
on ensuring that the Extraordinary Insight Engine both enables
unique user experiences and serves as a foundation for the ecosystems of our customers and partners.
Before joining Cxense, Aleksander worked for Microsoft's Bing
web search engine, particularly in the area of analytics, and was
Chief Scientist for FAST, where he worked on search technology and computational linguistics.
Aleksander has a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Norwegian University of Science
and Technology (NTNU), and holds a position as Adjunct Professor at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway.
14.45 - 15.10
Data Sets and News Recommendation
Özlem Özgöbek, Nafiseh Shabib and Jon Atle Gulla
15.10 - 15.30
Using a Rich Context Model for a News Recommender System for Mobile Users
Alisa Sotsenko, Marc Jansen and Marcelo Milrad
15.30 - 16.00
Coffee Break
16.00 - 16.30
Stories around You: Location-based Serendipitous Recommendation of News Articles
Yonata Andrelo Asikin and Wolfgang Wörndl
16.30 - 17.00
Method for Novelty Recommendation Using Topic Modelling
Matúš Tomlein and Jozef Tvarožek
17.00 - 17.30
Building Rich User Profiles for personalized news recommendations
Youssef Meguebli, Mouna Kacimi, Bich-Lien Doan and Fabrice Popineau
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Monday July 7th 2014, Doctoral Consortium 14:00 - 18:00
Room: room P1 ,
14:00 - 15:30
Opening and First Session
Introduction to the DC: David Chin and Francesco Ricci (10 min)
Presentations I (20 min presentation + 15 min discussion - each)
Improving Mobile Recommendations through Context-Aware User Interaction
Beatrice Lamche (Mentor Marco de Gemmis)
Hybrid Solution of the Cold-Start Problem in Context-Aware Recommender Sy
stems
Matthias Braunhofer (Mentor Pasquale Lops)
Poster Slam (10 mins)
Automatic Assembly of Adaptive User-Interfaces via Dynamic Discovery and De ployment of
Profile Providers, Decision Makers and Component Repositories
Effie Karuzaki (Mentor Maria Bielikova)
WiBAF: Within Browser Adaptation Framework
Alejandro Montes Garcıa (Mentor Eelco Herder)
Affective standards-based modeling in educational contexts from mining multi modal data
sources
Sergio Salmeron-Majadas (Mentor Marko Tkalcic)
15:30 - 16:00
Coffe Break and Posters
16:00 - 18:00
Posters and Oral Presentation II Sessions
Posters Session continues (15 mins)
Presentations II (20 min presentation + 15 min discussion each)
Enhancing Exploratory Information-Seeking Through Interaction Modeling
Kumaripaba M. Athukorala (Mentor Francesco Ricci)
Personality profiling from text and grammar
William R. Wright (Mentor Maria Bielikova)
Personalized Cultural Heritage Experience Outside the Museum: Connecting the
Museum Experience to the Outside World
Alan J. Wecker (Mentor David Chin)
Organizers:
Francesco Ricci
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Italy
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David N. Chin
University of Hawaii
USA
Tuesday July 8th 2014, Keynote Speaker 1, 9:30 - 10:30
Title: The ABCS: A Framework for Thinking about People-Centered
Systems Design
Presenter: Elisabeth Churchill
Room: Det Ny Kilden Chairman: Vania Dimitrova
Abstract: Interactive technologies pervade every aspect of modern life. Web sites, mobile devices, household gadgets, automotive controls, aircraft flight decks; everywhere you look, people are interacting with
technologies. This trend is set to continue as we move towards a world comprising Smart Cities built around
the Internet of Things. Unfortunately, much of the rhetoric surrounding this dawning age of ubiquitous and
embedded computing fails to appropriately consider the people at the centre of it. These people are embodied social agents with motivations, emotions, capabilities, capacities, proclivities and predilections. Technological imaginings around the Internet of Things are often steeped in generalities or idealised scenarios of
use. Such imaginings typically forget that design is always about meeting particular peoples' needs in particular contexts. From concept to ideation to prototype and evaluation, the design of interactive technologies
and systems that are intended for people should start with some understanding of who the users will be,
what tasks and experiences they are aiming for, and what the circumstances, conditions or context(s) are at
play. In this talk, I will discuss a simple people-centric framework devised with my colleagues and coauthors
to inform the way we think about design, the ABCS of designing interactive systems. A descriptive guide rather than a prescriptive checklist, the framework draws on basic research in ergonomics, psychology and user
modeling. It is intended to focus design thinking about people as the users of interactive, computational systems. It is intended to support us as the designers of interactive technologies as we scope, draft and iterate
on the design space of imagined interactive experiences. Using examples from my own work, I will illustrate
how this framework has been explicitly and/or tacitly applied in the design, development and evaluation of
interactive, multimedia systems. In particular, I will consider how this framework is currently being applied
to rethinking the concept of personalization.
Resume: Dr. Elizabeth Churchill is a an applied social scientist working in the area of social media, interaction design and mobile/ubiquitous computing. She is currently Director of Human Computer Interaction at
eBay Research Labs (ERL) in San Jose, California. She was formerly a Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo!
Research, where she founded, staffed and managed the Internet Experiences Group. Until September of
2006, she worked at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), California, in the Computing Science Lab (CSL).
Prior to that she formed and led the Social Computing Group at FX Palo Laboratory, Fuji Xerox’s research
lab in Palo Alto. Originally a psychologist by training, throughout her career Elizabeth has focused on understanding people’s social and collaborative interactions in their everyday digital and physical contexts.
She has studied, designed and collaborated in creating online collaboration tools (e.g. virtual worlds, collaboration/chat spaces), applications and services for mobile and personal devices, and media installations in
public spaces for distributed collaboration and communication. Her current focus is on developing principles for Human Centered Commerce. With over 150 peer reviewed publications and 5 edited books, topics
she has written about include implicit learning, human-agent systems, mixed initiative dialogue systems,
social aspects of information seeking, digital archive and memory, and the development of emplaced media spaces. She has been a regular columnist for ACM interactions since 2008. Her co-authored book, Foundations for Designing User-Centered Systems will be published by Springer in early 2014.
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Wednesday July 9th 2014, Keynote Speaker 2, 9:00 10:00
Title: Mobile Sensing and Understanding User Behavior in Urban
Contexts
Presenter: Kaj Gronbæk
Room: Det Ny Kilden
Chairman: Peter Dolog
Abstract: In the EcoSense project we strive to understand human activity in urban contexts and how it
impacts the local environment and the climate in general. We develop methods that combine mobile
sensing, mobile experience sampling, and qualitative ethnographic methods to understand behavioral
patterns, their impacts, and the potentials to change behavior where needed. The methods involve dissemination of smartphone apps to the general public or specific user groups to sense and probe their activities in order to make analysis as well as to support the everyday life of the users. Examples of environmental domains for mobile sensing and analysis are transportation behavior, green transportation
campaigns (e.g. promotion of biking and electric vehicles), pollution mapping, as well as sensing presence
and energy related activities in large buildings. But the methods may also generalize beyond climate related behavior to e.g. safety mapping of city areas, and understanding participant behavior during large
urban cultural events. The talk will give an overview of the methods being developed and examples of
their usage. Finally I will discuss important challenges ranging from collection of data from a large number of heterogeneous devices, maintaining data collection, making sense of big data from mobile sensing,
Resume: Kaj Gronbæk is a professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark, where his is heading the Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction research group. He is manager of
the interdisciplinary Center for Interactive Spaces (2003 - present) that has developed a number of physically large-scale interactive systems, e.g. interactive floors for learning, interactive sports training
equipment, and urban installations stimulating movement and social interaction. The research has lead to
products being marketed by two companies the Alexandra Institute A/S and Redia A/S. He is a part time
Research and Innovation Manager for Interaction at the Alexandra Institute. He is currently research manager of two larger government funded projects: 1) The EcoSense project (Danish Council for Strategic Research) developing participatory mobile sensing and visualization methods and tools for personal environmental awareness and environmental decision making in companies and societies. 2) The PosLogistics project (Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation) developing logistics and service task managemet
for hospitals based on indoor positioning and other context information. His research areas span: Ubiquitous Computing, Interaction Design, Interactive Spaces, Hypermedia/Web, Augmented Reality, Contextaware Computing, Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW);, Participatory Design (system development with active user involvement);
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Thursday July 10th 2014, Keynote Speaker 3, 9:00 - 10:00
Title: Computing and Autism: How a real problem drives computing research
Presenter: Gregory D. Abowd
Room: Det Ny Kilden
Chairman: Tsvi Kuflik
Abstract: In 2002, I had a fortunate collision of my personal and professional lives when I realized that
work in ubiquitous computing, specifically the automated capture of live experiences for later access,
could actually have an impact on the world of autism. I am the father of two boys with autism, and for
the past decade I have seen many different ways that computing technology can address challenges faced by a wide variety of stakeholder communities linked with autism, from the individuals and their families, to educators, therapists, clinicians and researchers. In this talk, I want to explain how a concrete applications domain, such as autism and related developmental disabilities, can present a wide variety of
opportunities for computing research.
Resume: Gregory D. Abowd is a Regents' and Distinguished Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech where he leads the Ubicomp Research Group. His research interests concern how the
advanced information technologies of ubiquitous computing (or ubicomp) impact our everyday lives when
they are seamlessly integrated into our living spaces. Dr. Abowd's work has involved schools (Classroom
2000) and homes (The Aware Home), with a recent focus on health and particularly autism.
Dr. Abowd received the degree of B.S. in Honors Mathematics in 1986 from the University of Notre Dame.
He then attended the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, earning the degrees of M.Sc. (1987) and
D.Phil. (1991) in Computation from the Programming Research Group in the Computing Laboratory. From
1989-1992 he was a Research Associate/Postdoc with the Human-Computer Interaction Group in the Department of Computer Science at the University of York in England. From 1992-1994, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Software Engineering Institute and the Computer Science Department at
Carnegie Mellon University. He has been a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology since 1994. He
is an ACM Fellow, a member of the CHI Academy and recipient of the SIGCHI Social Impact Award and
ACM Eugene Lawler Humanitarian Award. Much more news about his research group, both personal and
professional, can be found here.
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Tuesday July 8th 2014, S1: Large scale personalization, 11:00 - 12:30
Chairman:
Alessandro Micarelli
Room: Det Ny Kilden
Doing More with Less: Student Modeling and Performance Prediction with Reduced Content Models (short presentation)
Yun Huang, Yanbo Xu and Peter Brusilovsky
Utilizing Mind-Maps for Information Retrieval and User Modelling (short presentation)
Joeran Beel, Stefan Langer, Marcel Genzmehr and Bela Gipp
Combining Distributional Semantics and Entity Linking for Context-aware Content-based Recommendation (short presentation)
Cataldo Musto, Giovanni Semeraro, Pasquale Lops and Marco de Gemmis
Client-side hybrid rating prediction for recommendation (short presentation)
Andres Moreno, Harold Castro and Michel Riveill
Tuesday July 8th 2014, S2: Considering emotions and behaviour for user
modeling, 11:00 - 12:30
Chairman:
Andrea Bunt
Room: Birkesalen
Towards Understanding the Nonverbal Signatures of Engagement in Super Mario Bros
(short presentation)
Noor Shaker and Mohammad Shaker
Modelling Long term Goals (long presentation)
Debjanee Barua, Judy Kay, Bob Kummerfeld and Cecile Paris
A computational model for mood recognition (long presentation)
Christina Katsimerou, Judith Redi and Ingrid Heynderickx
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Tuesday July 8th 2014, S3: Social and societal aspects in personali­
zation, 14:00 - 15:30
Chairman:
Milos Kravcik
Room: Det Ny Kilden
Hoeffding-CF: Neighbourhood-Based Recommendations on Reliably Similar Users (long presentation)
Pawel Matuszyk and Myra Spiliopoulou
Using DBpedia as a Knowledge Source for Culture-related User Modelling Questionnaires
(long presentation)
Dhavalkumar Thakker, Lydia Lau, Ronald Denaux, Vania Dimitrova, Paul Brna and Christina Steiner
Balancing Adaptivity and Customisation: In Search of Sustainable Personalisation in Cultural Heritage (short presentation)
Elena Not and Daniela Petrelli
Tuesday July 8th 2014, S4: Personalization in the social WEB 1,
14:00 - 15:30
Chairman:
Eelco Herder
Room: Birkesalen
Sparrows and Owls: Characterization of Expert Behaviour in StackOverlfow (long presentation)
Jie Yang, Ke Tao, Alessandro Bozzon and Geert-Jan Houben
User Partitioning Hybrid for Tag Recommendation (long presentation)
Jonathan Gemmell, Bamshad Mobasher and Robin Burke
Hybrid Recommendation in Heterogeneous Networks (long presentation)
Robin Burke, Fatemeh Vahedian and Bamshad Mobasher
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Tuesday July 8th, S5: Personalization in the social WEB 2, 16:00 - 18:00
Chairman:
Robin Burke
Room: Birkesalen
IntelWiki: Recommending Resources to Help Users Contribute to Wikipedia (short presentation)
Mohammad Noor Nawaz Chowdhury and Andrea Bunt
Towards Personalized Multilingual Information Access - Exploring the Browsing and Search Behavior of Multilingual Users (long presentation)
Ben Steichen, M. Rami Ghorab, Séamus Lawless, Alexander O'Connor and Vincent Wade
iSCUR: Interest and Sentiment-Based Community Detection for User Recommendation on
Twitter (short presentation)
Davide Feltoni Gurini, Fabio Gasparetti, Alessandro Micarelli and Giuseppe Sansonetti
Evil Twins: Modeling Power Users in Attacks on Recommender Systems (long presentation)
David Wilson and Carlos Seminario
Tuesday July 8th, S6: Human factors and social Web, 16:00 - 18:30
Chairman:
Liliana Ardissono
Room: Det Ny Kilden
Extending Log-Based Affect Detection to a Multi-User Virtual Environment for Science
(short presentation)
Ryan S.J.D. Baker, Jaclyn Ocumpaugh, Sujith Gowda, Amy Kamarainen and Shari Metcalf
The Magic Barrier of Recommender Systems -- No Magic, Just Ratings (long presentation)
Alejandro Bellogin, Alan Said and Arjen de Vries
When the Question is Part of the Answer: Examining the Impact of Emotion Self-Reports
on Student Emotion (short presentation)
Michael Wixon and Ivon Arroyo
Personality profiling from text: Introducing Part-of-speech N-grams (long presentation)
William Wright and David Chin
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Wednesday July 9h 2014, S7: Context aware adaptation + Poster madness (30 minutes), 10:30 - 12:30
Chairman:
Ivan Cantador
Room: Det Ny Kilden
Predicting User Locations and Trajectories (long presentation)
Eelco Herder, Patrick Siehndel and Ricardo Kawase
Recommendation based on Contextual Opinion (long presentation)
Guanliang Chen and Li Chen
Towards Identifying Contextual Factors on Parking Lot Decisions (short presentation)
Klaus Goffart, Michael Schermann, Christopher Kohl, Jörg Preissinger and Helmut Krcmar
Poster madness talks (30 minutes)
Wednesday July 9th 2014, S8: User modeling infrastructure and applications, 16:00 - 18:00
Chairman:
Bob Kummerfeld
Room: Det Ny Kilden
Adaptive support versus alternating worked examples and tutored problems: Which leads
to better learning? (long presentation)
Amir Shareghi Najar, Tanja Mitrovic and Bruce M. McLaren
The Role of Adaptive Elements in Web-Based Surveillance System User Interfaces (short
presentation)
Ricardo Lage, Peter Dolog and Martin Leginus
Uncovering Latent Knowledge: A Comparison of Two Algorithms (short presentation)
Danny J. Lynch and Colm P. Howlin
Graph-Based Recommendations: Make the Most Out of Social Data (short presentation)
Amit Tiroshi, Shlomo Berkovsky, Mohamed Ali Kaafar, David Vallet and Tsvi Kuflik
Fast incremental matrix factorization for recommendation with positive-only feedback
(short presentation)
João Vinagre, Alípio Mário Jorge and João Gama
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Wednesday July 9th 2014, S9: Social Big Data, 16:00 - 18:00
Chairman:
Bamshad Mobasher
Room: Birkesalen
Collaborative Compound Critiquing (long presentation)
Haoran Xie, Li Chen and Feng Wang
Generalizability of Goal Recognition Models in Narrative-Centered Learning Environments
(short presentation)
Alok Baikadi, Jonathan Rowe, Bradford Mott and James Leste
Text-based User-kNN: measuring user similarity based on text reviews (long presentation)
Maria Terzi, Matthew Rowe, Maria Angela Ferrario and Jon Whittle
Time-Sensitive User Profile for Optimizing Search Personalization (long presentation)
Ameni Kacem, Mohand Boughanem and Rim Faiz
Thursday July 10th 2014, S10: Societal Aspects of personalization,
10:30 - 12:30
Chairman:
Julita Vassileva
Room: Det Ny Kilden
Privacy and user trust in context-aware systems (long presentation)
Saskia Koldijk, Gijs Koot, Mark Neerincx and Wessel Kraaij
Who's afraid of job interviews? Definitely a question for User Modelling (short presentation)
Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Paola Rizzo, Ionut Damian, Tobias Baur, Elisabeth Andre, Nicolas Sabouret Hazael,
Jones, Keith Anderson and Evi Chryssafidou
Trust-based Decision-Making for Energy-Aware Device Management (short presentation)
Stephan Hammer, Michael Wißner and Elisabeth Andre
Towards Personalized Multilingual Information Access - Exploring the Browsing and Search Behavior of Multilingual Users (long presentation)
Ben Steichen, M. Rami Ghorab, Séamus Lawless, Alexander O'Connor and Vincent Wade
A Personalisation Method based on Human Factors for Improving Usability of User Authentication Tasks (long presentation)
Marios Belk, Panagiotis Germanakos, Christos Fidas and George Samaras
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Thursday July 10th 2014, S11:Using Eye Gaze for adaptation
14:00 - 15:30
Chairman:
Kaska Porayska-Pomsta
Room: Det Ny Kilden
Toward Fully Automated Person-Independent Detection of Mind Wandering (long presentation)
Robert Bixler and Sidney D'Mello
Te,Te,Hi,Hi: Eye Gaze Sequence Analysis for Informing User-Adaptive Information Visualizations (long presentation)
Ben Steichen, Michael M.A. Wu, Dereck Toker, Cristina Conati and Giuseppe Carenini
Eye tracking to understand user differences in visualization processing with highlighting
interventions (long presentation)
Dereck Toker and Cristina Conati
Thursday July 10th 2014, Panel and closing ceremony
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Det Ny Kilden
Panel on UMAP in the Era of Pervasive Computing and Big Data
The panel will comment on and discuss about challenges and research directions of UMAP in the Era of
Pervasive Computing and Big Data.
Participants:
Gregory Abowd, Elizabeth Churchill, Panagiotis Germanakos, Judy Kay, Geert-Jan Houben, Julita Vassileva,
Paul De Bra, Alfred Kobsa
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Conference dinner with power! on
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Welcome reception on Monday,
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