The UMUAI James Chen Award is given to the best annual UMUAI journal article. Below the list of award winners thus far.

2019

A cognition-centered personalization-framework for cultural-heritage content
George E. Raptis, Christos Fidas, Christina Katsini, Nikolaos Avouris
UMUAI 29(1): 9–65

2018

Wen Wu, Li Chen, Yu Zhao
Personalizing recommendation diversity based on user personality
UMUAI 28 (3), pp 237-276
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11257-018-9205-x

2017

Mor Peleg, Yuval Shahar, Silvana Quaglini, Adi Fux, Gema García-Sáez, Ayelet Goldstein, M. Elena Hernando, Denis Klimov, Iñaki Martínez-Sarriegui, Carlo Napolitano, Enea Parimbelli, Mercedes Rigla, Lucia Sacchi, Erez Shalom, Pnina Soffer.
MobiGuide: a personalized and patient-centric decision-support system and its evaluation in the atrial fibrillation and gestational diabetes domains
UMUAI 27(2), 159–213
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11257-017-9190-5

2016

Bruno Lepri, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
Jacopo Staiano, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, CNRS, LIP6, Paris, France
Erez Shmueli, Dep. of Industrial Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
Fabio Pianesi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
Alex Pentland, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, USA
The role of personality in shaping social networks and mediating behavioral change
UMUAI 26(2-3), 143–175
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11257-016-9173-y

2015

Dietmar Jannach, Lukas Lerche, Iman Kamehkhosh, Michael Jugovac
What recommenders recommend: an analysis of recommendation biases and possible countermeasures
UMUAI Vol. 25, issue 5, pp. 427–491
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11257-015-9165-3

2014

Rita Orji, Julita Vassileva, and Regan L. Mandryk
Modeling the Efficacy of Persuasive Strategies for Different Gamer Types in Serious Games for Health
UMUAI Vol. 24, issue 5, pp. 453–98.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11257-014-9149-8

2013

Peter Pirolli and Sanjay Kairam:
A knowledge-tracing model of learning from a social tagging system
UMUAI Vol. 23, Issue 2-3, pp. 139–168.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11257-012-9132-1

2012

Joseph A. Konstan and John Riedl
Recommender Systems: from Algorithms to User Experience
UMUAI 22 (1-2), 2012, 101–123
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11257-011-9112-x?LI=true

2011

Kasia Muldner, Winslow Burleson, Brett Van de Sande and Kurt VanLehn
An analysis of students’ gaming behaviors in an intelligent tutoring system: predictors and impacts
UMUAI 21:1-2, 2011, 99-135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11257-010-9086-0

Brent Martin, Antonija Mitrovic, Kenneth R. Koedinger and Santosh Mathan
Evaluating and improving adaptive educational systems with learning curves

UMUAI 21:3, 2011, 249–28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11257-010-9084-2

2009

Mingyu Feng, Neil Hefferman, and Kenneth Koedinger
Addressing the assessment challenge with an online system that tutors as it assesses

Volume 19, Number 3, pp. 243-266, 2009
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11257-009-9063-7

2008

H. Cramer, V. Evers, S. Ramlal, M. van Someren, L. Rutledge, N. Stash, L. Aroyo and B. Wielinga
The Effects of Transparency on Trust in and Acceptance of a Content-based Art Recommender

Volume 18, Number 5, 2008
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11257-008-9051-3

2007

O. Stock, M. Zancanaro, P. Busetta, C. Callaway, A. Krüger, M. Kruppa, T. Kuflik, E. Not, C. Rocchi
Adaptive, Intelligent Presentation of Information for the Museum Visitor in PEACH

Volume 17, Number 3, 2007
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11257-007-9029-6

2006

Stephanie Elzer, Nancy Green, Sandra Carberry and James Hoffman
A Model of Perceptual Task Effort for Bar Charts and its Role in Recognizing Intention

Volume 16, Number 1 / March, 2006
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11257-006-9002-9

2004

Anton Leuski and James Allan
Interactive Information Retrieval Using Clustering and Spatial Proximity
Volume 14(2-3), pp. 259-288, June 2004

2003

Justine Cassell and Timothy Bickmore
Negotiated Collusion: Modeling Social Language and its Relationship Effects in Intelligent Agents

Vol. 13(1+2), 2003, pp. 89-132

2002

Cristina Conati, Abigail Gertner, Kurt VanLehn
Using Bayesian Networks to Manage Uncertainty in Student Modeling

UMUAI 12(4), 2002