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At ACM UMAP 2025, 33rd ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, held in New York City between 16 and 19 June, the following awards were handed out:
Best Full Paper Award
Synthetic Voices: Evaluating the Fidelity of LLM-Generated Personas in Representing People’s Financial Wellbeing
Arshnoor Kaur, Amanda Aird, Harris Borman, Andrea Nicastro, Anna Leontjeva, Luiz Pizzato, and Dan Jermyn
Best Short Paper Award
Strangers in a new culture see only what they know": Evaluating Effectiveness of GPT-4 Omni for Detecting Cross-Cultural Communication Norm Violations
Tzu-Yu Weng, Hanna Alzughbi, Isaac Rabago, Erin Arévalo Chaves, Erik Vagil, Nancy Fulda, Erin Ash, Mainack Mondal, Bart Knijnenburg, and Xinru Page
Best Student Paper Award
Legal but Unfair: Auditing the Impact of Data Minimization on Fairness and Accuracy Trade-off in Recommender Systems
Salvatore Bufi, Vincenzo Paparella, Vito Walter Anelli, and Tommaso Di Noia
Best LBR Paper Award
Simulating Human Opinions with Large Language Models – Opportunities and Challenges for Personalized Survey Data Modeling
Carolin Kaiser, Jakob Kaiser, Vladimir Manewitsch, Lea Rau, and Rene Schallner
Best Reviewers Award
Gianmaria Biancofiore, Bereket A. YILMA, Lien Michiels, Marta Moscati, Giuseppe Spillo, and Vojtěch Vančura
Test-of-Time Award
Modeling Individualization in a Bayesian Networks Implementation of Knowledge Tracing
Zach Pardos and Neil T. Heffernan (originally published at UMAP 2010)
Special ‘Tilley Hat’ Award
Awarded to Peter Brusilovsky for his continued service and impact in the UMAP community.
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ACM UMAP 2025 - 33rd ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
16-19 June 2025 - New York, NY, USA
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ACM UMAP 2024 - The 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
1-4 July - Cagliari, Italy
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ACM UMAP 2023 - The 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
26-30 June, 2023 - Limassol, Cyprus
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At ACM UMAP 2022, the 30st International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization - held in Barcelona, Spain - the following awards were handed out:
Best Paper Award
Walking with PACE – Personalized and Automated Coaching Engine
Madhurima Vardhan, Narayan Hegde, Srujana Merugu, Shantanu Prabhat, Deepak Nathani, Martin Seneviratne, Nur Muhammad, Pranay Reddy, Sriram Lakshminarasimhan, Rahul Singh, Karina Lorenzana, Eshan Motwani, Partha Talukdar and Aravindan Raghuveer
James Chen Best Student Paper Award
How to Ask for Donations? Learning User-Specific Persuasive Dialogue Policies through Online Interactions
Nhat Tran, Malihe Alikhani and Diane Litman
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30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
July 4-7, 2022 - Barcelona, Spain - Onsite and online. Co-located with ACM WebSci 2022 and the ACM Hypertext 2022
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At ACM UMAP 2021, the 29th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization - held online from Utrecht, the Netherlands - the following awards were handed out:
Best Paper Award
Data-Driven Modeling of Learners' Individual Differences for Predicting Engagement and Success in Online Learning
Kamil Akhuseyinoglu and Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
James Chen Best Student Paper Award
Generating Interesting Song-to-Song Segues With Dave
Giovanni Gabbolini and Derek Bridge (Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University College Cork, Ireland)
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At ACM UMAP 2020, the 28th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization - held online from Genoa, Italy - the following awards were handed out:
Best Paper Award
Personalized Recommendation of PoIs to People with Autism
Noemi Mauro, Liliana Ardissono and Federica Cena, University of Turin, Italy
James Chen Best Student Paper Award
Predicting User Intents and Satisfaction with Dialogue-based Conversational Recommendations
Wanling Cai and Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
Best Late-Breaking Results Award
A Stable Personalised Partner Selection for Collaborative Privacy Education
Rita Yusri, Adel Abusitta and Esma Aïmeur
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29th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
Utrecht, the Netherlands & Online
June 21-25, 2021
Judith Masthoff & Eelco Herder, General Chairs
Nava Tintarev & Marko Tkalcic, Program Chairs