The following paper has been chosen as the recipient of the 2015 James Chen Annual Award for Best Journal Article.
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
It was selected based on nominations from journal reviewers and editorial board members, and a subsequent comparative review by an award committee.
Predicting Individual Differences for Learner Modeling in Intelligent Tutors from Previous Learner Activities
Michael Eagle, Albert Corbett, John Stamper, Bruce Mclaren and Ryan Baker
On the Value of Reminders within E-Commerce Recommendations
Lukas Lerche, Dietmar Jannach and Malte Ludewig
Analyzing and Predicting Task Reminders
David Graus, Paul Bennett, Ryen White and Eric Horvitz
Springer celebrates 25 years of UMUAI - User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction - with free access to the Special Issue on Personality in Personalized Systems (edited by Marko Tkalcic, Daniele Quercia and Sabine Graf).
Starting with UMAP 2016, our conference series on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization is now ACM sponsored. UMAP is co-sponsored by SIGCHI and SIGWEB.
UMAP 2016
The 24th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
13-17 July 2016
Collocated with Hypertext 2016
Important Dates:
15 January 2016: Workshop Proposals
23 February 2016: Abstracts
1 March 2016: Full and Short Papers
7 May 2016: Posters, Demos, Late-Breaking Results, Workshop Papers
12-16 July 2016: UMAP 2016 Conference
The following papers have been awarded at UMAP 2015, the 23rd conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (Dublin, Ireland, 29 June - 3 July 2015):
The Mars and Venus Effect: The Influence of User Gender on the Effectiveness of Adaptive Task Support
Alexandria Katarina Vail, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Eric N. Wiebe, James C. Lester
(Springer Best Paper Award)
Counteracting Anchoring Effects in Group Decision Making
Martin Stettinger, Alexander Felfernig, Gerhard Leitner, Stefan Reiterer
(James Chen Best Student Paper Award)
Implicit Acquisition of User Personality for Augmenting Movie Recommendations
Wen Wu, Li Chen
(James Chen Best Student Paper Award)
The following paper has been chosen as the recipient of the 2014 James Chen Annual Award for Best Journal Article.
Rita Orji, Julita Vassileva, and Regan L. Mandryk
Modeling the Efficacy of Persuasive Strategies for Different Gamer Types in Serious Games for Health
Vol. 24, issue 5, pp. 453–98, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11257-014-9149-8
It was selected based on nominations from journal reviewers and editorial board members, and a subsequent comparative review by an award committee.
UMAP 2015
The 23rd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
June 29 - July 3, 2015
Important Dates: