Programme

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June 25
   
  Workshops
 

Full day schedule

A3H: Fifth International Workshop on Authoring of Adaptive and Adaptable Hypermedia
Alexandra Cristea, Rosa M. Carro
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Personalisation in E-Learning Environments at Individual and Group Level
Peter Brusilovsky, Maria Grigoriadou, Kyparisia Papanikolaou
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Personalization Enhanced Access to Cultural Heritage
Lora Aroyo, Tsvi Kuflik, Oliviero Stock, Massimo Zancanaro
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Data Mining for User Modeling
Ryan S.J.D. Baker, Joseph E. Beck, Bettina Berendt, Alexander Kroener, Ernestina Menasalvas, Stephan Weibelzahl
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  Tutorials
 

Morning

Affective Natural Language Generation
Fiorella de Rosis, Chris Mellish
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Afternoon

Modeling, Discovering and Using User Communities
Myra Spiliopoulou, Dimitris Pierrakos, Tanja Falkowski
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June 26
   
  Workshops

 

Full day schedule

Towards User Modelling and Adaptive Systems for All
Martyn Cooper, Carlos Velasco, Jesus G. Boticario, Olga Santos
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SociUM: Adaptation and Personalisation in Social Systems: Groups, Teams, Communities
Julita Vassileva, Manolis Tzagarakis, Vania Dimitrova
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2nd Workshop on Personalisation for E-Health
Floriana Grasso, Alison Cawsey, Cecile Paris, Silvana Quaglini, Ross Wilkinson
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UbiDeUM: Ubiquitous and Decentralized User Modeling
Shlomo Berkovsky, Keith Cheverst, Peter Dolog, Dominik Heckmann, Tsvi Kuflik, Phivos Mylonas, Jerome Picault, Julita Vassileva
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  Tutorials
 

Morning

Evaluation 1: Fundamental Empirical Techniques and Caveats
David Chin
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Afternoon

Evaluation 2: Formative Evaluation Methods for Adaptive Systems
Stephan Weibelzahl, Alexandros Paramythis, Judith Masthoff
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June 27
09:00-09:25: Welcome
09:25-10:40: Invited Talk
  Chair: George Paliouras
  The Disappearing Computer: User-Centered Interaction Design for Smart Artefacts
Norbert Streitz
10:40-11:10: Break
11:10-12:30: Evaluating User/Student Modeling Techniques
 

Chair: Joseph Beck

Exploiting Evidence Analysis in Plan Recognition
Sandra Carberry and Stephanie Elzer

Modeling the Acquisition of Fluent Skill in Educational Action Games
Ryan Baker, Jacob Habgood, Shaaron Ainsworth and Albert Corbett

A User Modeling Server for Contemporary Adaptive Hypermedia: an Evaluation of Push Approach to Evidence Propagation
Michael Yudelson and Peter Brusilovsky

12:30-14:00: Lunch
14:00-15:45: Data Mining / Machine Learning for User Modeling
 

Chair: Bamshad Mobasher

Principles of Lifelong Learning for Predictive User Modeling
Ashish Kapoor and Eric Horvitz

Users in Volatile Communities: Studying Active Participation and Community Evolution
Myra Spiliopoulou and Tanja Falkowski

Learning From What Others Know: Privacy Preserving Cross System Personalization
Bhaskar Mehta

Construction of Ontology-Based User Model for Web Personalization
Hui Zhang, Yu Song and Han-tao Song

15:45-16:15: Break
16:15-17:30: Collaborative Filtering and Recommender Systems
 

Chair: Mathias Bauer

Preference-based Organization Interfaces: Aiding User Critiques in Recommender Systems
Li Chen and Pearl Pu

"More Like This" or "Not For Me": Delivering Personalised Recommendations in Multi-User Environments
David Bonnefoy, Makram Bouzid, Nicolas Lhuillier and Kevin Mercer

Featured-weighted User Model for Recommender Systems
Panagiotis Symeonidis, Alexandros Nanopoulos and Yannis Manolopoulos

17:30-18:00:

Demo Spotlight Presentations

 

Chairs: Alexandros Paramythis, Yannis Ioannidis

Demonstrations Schedule

   
19:30-22:00: Poster Session & Reception
  Poster Session & Reception
 
June 28
 
09:00-10:15: Invited Talk
  Chair: Cristina Conati
  Experience Medium: Toward a New Medium for Exchanging Experiences
Yasuyuki Sumi
10:15-10:45: Break
10:45-12:30: Cognitive Modeling
 

Chair: Stephanie Elzer

Evaluating a Simulated Student using Real Students Data for Training and Testing
Noboru Matsuda, William W. Cohen, Jonathan Sewall, Gustavo Lacerda and Kenneth R. Koedinger

Modeling Students' Natural Language Explanations
Albert Corbett, Angela Wagner, Sharon Lesgold, Harry Ulrich and Scott Stevens

Applications for Cognitive User Modeling
Marcus Heinath, Jeronimo Dzaack, Andre Wiesner and Leon Urbas

Identifiability: A Fundamental Problem of Student Modeling
Joseph Beck

12:30-14:00: Lunch
14:00-15:45: User Adaptation and Usability
 

Chair: Lora Arroyo

Understanding the Utility of Rationale in a Mixed-Initiative System for GUI Customization
Andrea Bunt, Joanna McGrenere and Cristina Conati

Respecting User's Individual Privacy Constraints in Web Personalization
Yang Wang and Alfred Kobsa

Personalized Previews of Alternative Routes in Virtual Environments
Mehmed Kantardzic and Pedram Sadeghian

Visual Attention in Open Learner Model Presentations: An Eye-Tracking Investigation
Susan Bull, Neil Cooke and Andrew Mabbott

15:45-16:15: Break
16:15-18:15: Doctoral Consortium
 

Chairs: George D. Magoulas, Kurt VanLehn

Doctoral Consortium Papers

19:45: Departure to Conference Banquet venue
20:30: Conference Banquet
 
June 29
 
09:00-10:15: Invited Talk
  Chair: Kathleen McCoy
  Intelligent Assistive Technology: The Present and the Future
Martha Pollack
10:15-10:45: Break
10:45-12:30: Modeling Affect and Meta-cognition
 

Chair: Ryan Baker

EEG-Related Changes in Cognitive Workload, Engagement and Distraction as Students Acquire Problem Solving Skills
Ron Stevens, Trysha Galloway and Chris Berka

Eliciting Motivation Knowledge from Log Files towards Motivation Diagnosis for Adaptive Systems
Mihaela Cocea and Stephan Weibelzahl

Assessing Learner's Scientific Inquiry Skills across Time: a Dynamic Bayesian Network Approach
Choo-Yee Ting and Mohammad Reza Beik Zadeh els.

From Modelling Domain Knowledge to Metacognitive Skills: Extending a Constraint-based Tutoring System to Support Collaboration
Nilufar Baghaei and Tanja Mitrovic

12:30-14:00: Lunch
14:00-15:45: Mobile, Ubiquitous and Context Aware User Modeling
 

Chair: Alfred Kobsa

Mobile Opportunistic Planning: Methods and Models
Eric Horvitz, Paul Koch and Muru Subramani

Analyzing Museum Visitors' Behavior Patterns
Massimo Zancanaro, Tsvi Kuflik, Zvi Boger, Dina Goren-Bar and Dan Goldwasser

A Context-Aware Movie Preference Model Using a Bayesian Network for Recommendation and Promotion
Chihiro Ono, Mori Kurokawa, Hideki Asoh and Yoichi Motomura

Intrinsic Motivational Factors for the Intention to Use Adaptive Technology: Validation of a Causal Model
Fabio Pianesi, Ilenia Graziola and Massimo Zancanaro

15:45-16:15: Break
16:15-17:30: Intelligent Information Retrieval, Information Filtering and Content Personalization
 

Chair: Vania Dimitrova

Improving Social Filtering Techniques through WordNet-based User Profiles
Pasquale Lops, Marco Degemmis and Giovanni Semeraro

Push-Poll Recommender System: Supporting Word of Mouth
Andrew Webster and Julita Vassileva

Evaluation of Modeling Music Similarity Perception via Feature Subset Selection
Dionyssios N. Sotiropoulos, Aristomenis S. Lampropoulos and George A. Tsihrintzis

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