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.