Conference Program

General Timetable

Sunday,
June, 22 (Morning)
Sunday,
June, 22 (Afternoon)
Monday,
June, 23 (Morning)
Monday, June, 23 (Noon) -
Thursday, June 26 (Noon)
W1: Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems W3: Empirical Evaluation of Adaptive Systems T1: Evaluating the Effectiveness of User Models by Experiments Conference Sessions
W2: Assessing and Adapting to User Attitudes and Affect: Why, When and How? T2: Systems That Adapt to Their Users: An Integrative Overview
W6: Machine Learning, Information Retrieval and User Modeling W4: Personalization in Future TV
W5: User and Group Models for Web-based Adaptive Collaborative Environments W7: User Modeling in Ubiquitous Computing

Workshop Timetable (22, June)

09:00am - 10:30am workshop session
10:30am - 11:00am coffee break
11:00am - 12:30pm workshop session
12:30pm - 01:45pm lunch
01:45pm - 03:15pm workshop session
03:15pm - 03:45pm coffee break
03:45pm - 05:15pm workshop session
05:15pm - 05:30pm coffee break
05:30pm - 07:00pm joint workshop panel
07:15pm - 08:30pm dinner

Workshop/Tutorial Timetable (23, June)

08:30am - 10:00am workshop session
10:00am - 10:30am coffee break
10:30am - 12:15pm workshop session
12:15pm - 1:30pm lunch

Conference Timetable

Time Monday,
June, 23
Tuesday,
June, 24
Wednesday,
June, 25
Thursday,
June, 26
8:00        
  Adaptive Web Invited Talk:
Michael Pazzani
Invited Talk:
Kurt VanLehn
9:00
  Break Break
10:00 Evaluation Student Modelling and Learning Environments
  Government-Sponsored Program Break
11:00 Workshop Synthesis Break
  Emerging Issues of User Modelling
12:00 Closure
  Lunch Lunch  
1:00 Lunch
  Conference Opening Doctoral Consortium
2:00 Invited Talk:
Rosalind Picard
Poster Session II
 
3:00 Break
  Group Modeling and Cooperation Break Plan Recognition and Natural Language
4:00 Adaptive Hypermedia
 
5:00
  Poster Session I Break
6:00 Depart for Social Dinner Applications
  Reception Social Dinner
7:00  
   
8:00
 

SUNDAY, JUNE, 22

7:30am   Registration opens
9:00am - 10:30am   Parallel workshop sessions:

W1: Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems
W2: Assessing and Adapting to User Attitudes and Affect: Why, When and How?
W5: User and Group Models for Web-based Adaptive Collaborative Environments
W6: Machine Learning, Information Retrieval and User Modeling

10:30am - 11:00am   Coffee Break
11:00am - 12:30pm   Parallel workshop sessions continue:

W1: Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems
W2: Assessing and Adapting to User Attitudes and Affect: Why, When and How?
W5: User and Group Models for Web-based Adaptive Collaborative Environments
W6: Machine Learning, Information Retrieval and User Modeling

12:30pm - 1:45pm   Lunch
1:45pm - 3:15pm   Parallel workshop sessions:

W2: Assessing and Adapting to User Attitudes and Affect: Why, When and How?
W3: Empirical Evaluation of Adaptive Systems
W6: Machine Learning, Information Retrieval and User Modeling
W7: User Modeling in Ubiquitous Computing

3:15pm - 3:45pm   Coffee Break
3:45pm - 5:15pm   Parallel workshop sessions continue

W2: Assessing and Adapting to User Attitudes and Affect: Why, When and How?
W3: Empirical Evaluation of Adaptive Systems
W6: Machine Learning, Information Retrieval and User Modeling
W7: User Modeling in Ubiquitous Computing

5:15pm - 5:30pm   Break
5:30pm - 6:45pm   Open Panel on Affective and Attitude User Modeling
Chair: Eva Hudlicka
Panelists:
Fiorella de Rosis (University of Bari, Italy),
Anthony Jameson (DFKI - German Research Center for AI, Germany),
Rosalind Picard (MIT Media Lab, USA),
Dylan Schmorrow (DARPA, USA).
7:15pm - 8:30pm   Dinner

MONDAY, JUNE, 23

7:30am   Registration opens
8:30am - 10:00amm   Parallel workshop/tutorial sessions:

T1: Evaluating the Effectiveness of User Models by Experiments
T2: Systems That Adapt to Their Users: An Integrative Overview
W4: Personalization in Future TV
W7: User Modeling in Ubiquitous Computing

10:00am - 10:30am   Coffee break
10:30am - 12:00pmm   Parallel workshop/tutorial sessions continue:

T1: Evaluating the Effectiveness of User Models by Experiments
T2: Systems That Adapt to Their Users: An Integrative Overview
W4: Personalization in Future TV
W7: User Modeling in Ubiquitous Computing

10:30am - 12.15pm   Pre-Conference Session: Government-Sponsored Programs: Future Directions and Challenges
Co-Chairs: Ronald Larsen, Alfred Kobsa

U.S. Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program
Helen M. Gigley,
National Coordination Office for Information Technology Research and Development (NCO/ITRD)


Information and Intelligent Systems Programs at NSF
Michael Pazzani,
National Science Foundation


Augmenting Cognition and Beyond
Dylan Schmorrow,
Information Processing Technology Office, DARPA

12:15pm - 1:30pm   Lunch
1:30pm - 2:00pm   Conference Opening
2:00pm - 3:00pm   Invited Speaker

Computers that Recognize and Respond to User Emotions
Rosalind Picard
Chair: Fiorella de Rosis

3:00pm - 3:15pm   Break
3:15pm - 5:15pm   Paper Session: Group Modeling and Cooperation
Chair: Ingrid Zukerman

Motivating Cooperation on Peer to Peer Networks
Helen Bretzke and Julita Vassileva

Discourse Analysis Techniques for Modeling Group Interaction
Alexander Feinman and Richard Alterman

Group Decision Making Through Mediated Discussions
Daniel Kudenko, Mathias Bauer and Dietmar Dengler

Modeling Task-Oriented Discussion Groups
Roy Wilson

5:15pm - 7:15pm   Poster Session I
(with Reception starting at 6:15pm)

Adaptive Web:
Modelling users' needs for an adaptive on-line information system
Enrique Alfonseca and Pilar Rodriguez

Declarative Specifications for Adaptive Hypermedia based on Semantic Web Approach
Serge Garlatti, Sebastien Iksal

NL and Dialog:
Using Dialog Games to Maintain Diagnostic Interactions
Vania Dimitrova

Plan Recognition:
Plan Recognition to Aid the Visually Impaired
Marcus J. Huber and Richard Simpson

A User Guided Model for Collaborative Intent Inference
Joshua Introne and Richard Alterman

Evaluation:
The Continuous Empirical Evaluation Approach: Evaluating Adaptive Web-based Courses
Alvaro Ortigosa and Rosa M. Carro

Emerging Issues:
A multiagent approach to obtain open and flexible user models in adaptive learning communities
Felix Hernandez, Elena Gaudioso and Jesus G. Boticario

A Model for Integrating an Adaptive Information Filter Utilizing Biosensor Data to Assess Cognitive load
Curtis S. Ikehara, David N. Chin and Martha E. Crosby

Ontology-based User Modeling for Knowledge Management Systems
Liana Razmerita, Albert Angehrn and Alexander Maedche

VlUM: A Web-Based Visualisation of Large User Models
James Uther and Judy Kay

Applications:
Customising interactive configuration
Liliana Ardissono, Anna Goy, Matthew Holland, Giovanna Petrone and Ralph Schaefer

Does Adapted Information Help Patients with Cancer?
Diana Bental, Alison Cawsey, Janne Pearson and Ray Jones

Empirical Evaluation of Adaptive User Modeling in a Medical Information Retrieval Application
Eugene Santos Jr., Hien Nguyen, Qunhua Zhao and Erik Pukinskis

Multivariate Preference Models and Decision Making with the MAUT Machine
Christian Schmitt, Dietmar Dengler and Mathias Bauer

6:15pm - 7:15pm   Reception

TUESDAY, JUNE, 24

8:30am - 10:30am   Paper Session: Adaptive Web
Chair: Carlo Tasso

Word Weighting based on User's Browsing History
Yutaka Matsuo

SNIF-ACT: A Model of Information Foraging on the World Wide Web
Peter Pirolli and Wai-Tat Fu

Adapting to the User's Internet Search Strategy
Jean-David Ruvini

Learning a Model of a Web User's Interests
Tingshao Zhu, Russ Greiner and Gerald Haeubl

10:30 - 10:45am   Break
10:45am - 12:15pm   Workshop Synthesis
12:15pm - 1:25pm   Lunch
1:25pm - 3:30pm   Doctoral Consortium

Session A. User Models: Acquisition, Navigation, and Visualization
Chair: Cristina Conati

Learning Knowledge Rich User Models from the SemanticWeb
Gunnar Aastrant Grimnes

Modeling User Navigation
Eelco Herder

A Longitudinal, Naturalistic Study of Information Search & Use Behavior as Implicit Feedback for User Model Construction & Maintenance
Diane Kelly

Scrutable User Models in Decentralised Adaptive Systems
Andrew Lum

Visualizing a user model for educational adaptive information retrieval
Swantje Willms

Session B. User-Adaptive Interaction
Chair: Sandra Carberry

Dynamic Scaffolding for Independence for Persons with Cognitive Impairments
Stefan Carmien

Adaptations of Multimodal Content in Dialog Systems Targeting Heterogeneous Devices
Songsak Channarukul

Facilitating the Comprehension of Online Learning Courses with Adaptivity
Stefan Lippitsch

A pseudo-supervised approach to improve a recommender based on collaborative filtering
Jose Martin-Guerrero

3:30pm - 3:45pm   Break
3:45pm - 5:15pm   Paper Session: Adaptive Hypermedia
Chair: Judy Kay

The three Layers of Adaptation Granularity
Alexandra Cristea and Licia Calvi

Adaptive presentation of multimedia interface Case study: "Brain Story" Course
Halima Habieb-Mammar, Franck Tarpin-Bernard and Patrick Prevot

Discovering Prediction Rules in AHA! Courses
Cristobal Romero, Sebastián Ventura, Paul de Bra and Carlos de Castro

5:30pm   Depart for Social Dinner
Heritage Discovery Center.
Buses will depart for the dinner between 5:30pm and 6:15pm. Come early to have a chance to tour the Museum during the cocktail hour from 6:00pm to 7:15pm. We will start dinner around 7:15pm.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE, 25

8:30am - 9:30am   Invited Speaker

Adaptive Interfaces for Ubiquitous Web Access
Michael Pazzani
Chair: Peter Brusilovsky

9:30am - 9:45am   Break
9:45am - 10:45am   Paper Session: Evaluation
Chair: David Chin

Performance Evaluation of User Modeling Servers Under Real-World Workload Conditions
Alfred Kobsa and Josef Fink

Evaluating the Inference Mechanism of Adaptive Learning Systems
Stephan Weibelzahl and Gerhard Weber

10:45am - 11:15am   Break
11:15am - 12:45pm   Paper Session: Emerging Issues of User Modeling
Chair: Gord McCalla

Privacy Preservation Improvement by Learning Optimal Profile Generation Rate
Tsvi Kuflik, Bracha Shapira, Yuval Elovici and Adlai Maschiach

Exploring Interfaces for Eliciting New User Preferences in Recommender Systems
Sean M. McNee, Shyong K. Lam, Joseph A. Konstan and John Riedl

Modeling Multitasking Users
Malcolm Slaney, Jayashree Subrahmonia and Paul Maglio

12:45pm - 2:00pm   Lunch
2:00pm - 3:30pm   Poster Session II

Group Modeling & Cooperation:
Modeling the Multiple People that are Me
Judith Masthoff

Student Modeling:
Assessing Student Proficiency in a Reading Tutor that Listens
Joseph E. Beck, Peng Jia and Jack Mostow

Adaptive Bayes for a Student Modeling Prediction Task based on Learning Styles
Gladys Castillo, João Gama and Ana M. Breda

User Modeling and Problem-space representation in the Tutor Runtime Engine
Steven Ritter and Stephen Blessing

A Neuro-Fuzzy Approach in Student Modeling
Regina Stathacopoulou, Maria Grigoriadou, George D. Magoulas and Denis Mitropoulos

Learning Environments:
Towards Intelligent Agents for Collaborative Learning: Recognizing the Roles of Dialogue Participants
Bradley Goodman, Janet Hitzeman, Frank Linton and Helen Ross

Modeling Student Performance to Enhance the Pedagogy of AutoTutor
Tanner Jackson, Eric Mathews, David Lin, Andrew Olney and Art Graesser

Modeling Hinting Strategies for Geometry Theorem Proving
Noboru Matsuda and Kurt VanLehn

Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing:
User modelling in the car
Niels Ole Bernsen

User modelling and mobile learning
Susan Bull

D-Me: a Multi-Agent System for Personal Interaction in Smart Environments
Berardina De Carolis, Sebastiano Pizzutilo, Victor Macavero and Ignazio Palmisano

A User Modeling Markup Language (UserML) for Ubiquitous Computing
Dominik Heckmann and Antonio Krueger

Purpose-based User Modelling
Xiaolin Niu, Gordon McCalla and Julita Vassileva

User Modeling in Adaptive Audio-Augmented Museum Environments
Andreas Zimmermann, Andreas Lorenz and Marcus Specht

3:30pm - 5:30pm   Paper Session: Plan Recognition and Natural Language
Chair: Diane Litman

Plan Inference from Information Graphics
Stephanie Elzer, Nancy Green, Sandra Carberry and Kathleen McCoy

Emotional Dialogs With an Embodied Agent
Addolorata Cavalluzzi, Berardina De Carolis, Valeria Carofiglio and Giuseppe Grassano

Evaluating a Model to Disambiguate Natural Language Parses on the Basis of User Language Proficiency
Lisa N. Michaud and Kathleen F. McCoy

Incorporating a User Model into an Information Theoretic Framework for Argument Interpretation
Ingrid Zukerman, Sarah George and Mark George

5:30pm-5:45pm   Break
5:45pm-6:45pm   Paper Session: Applications
Chair: Alfred Kobsa

IEMS : helping users manage email
Eric McCreath and Judy Kay

Modelling Reputation in Agent-Based Marketplaces to Improve The Performance of Buying Agents
Thomas Tran and Robin Cohen

THURSDAY, JUNE, 26

8:30am-9:30am   Invited Speaker

The Advatages of Explicitly Representing Problem Spaces
Kurt VanLehn
Chair: Albert Corbert

9:30am-9:45am   Break
9:45am - 11:45am   Paper Session: Student Modeling and Learning Environments
Chair: Julita Vassileva

Predicting student help-request behavior in an intelligent tutor for reading
Joseph E. Beck, Peng Jia, June Sison, and Jack Mostow

A comparative analysis of cognitive tutoring and constraint-based modeling
Antonija Mitrovic, Ken Koedinger and Brent Martin

Student Modeling for an Intelligent Agent in a Collaborative Learning Environment
Frank Linton, Bradley Goodman, Robert Gaimari, Jeffrey Zarrella and Helen Ross

A teacher model exploiting cognitive conflict driven by a bayesian network
Kaye Stacey, Liz Sonenberg, Ann Nicholson, Tal Boneh and Vicki Steinle

11:45am - 12:15pm   Conference Closure