The James Chen Best Student Paper Award is given to the best student paper at the UMAP conference. Below the winners of the award thus far.
2022
How to Ask for Donations? Learning User-Specific Persuasive Dialogue Policies through Online Interactions
Nhat Tran, Malihe Alikhani and Diane Litman
2021
Generating Interesting Song-to-Song Segues With Dave
Giovanni Gabbolini and Derek Bridge (Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University College Cork, Ireland)
2020
Predicting User Intents and Satisfaction with Dialogue-based Conversational Recommendations
Wanling Cai and Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
https://doi.org/10.1145/3340631.3394856
2019
The 27th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, ACM UMAP 2019, in Larnaca, Cyprus, awarded the following paper:
One size does not fit all: Badge Behavior in Q&A sites
Stav Yanovsky, Nicholas Hoernle, Omer Lev and Kobi Gal
2018
The 26th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, ACM UMAP 2018, in Singapore, awarded the following papers:
Predict Demographic Information Using Word2vec on Spatial Trajectories
Adir Solomon, Ariel Bar, Chen Yanai, Bracha Shapira and Lior Rokach
Intent-aware Item-based Collaborative Filtering for Personalised Diversification
Jacek Wasilewski and Neil Hurley.
2017
The 25th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2016, in Bratislava, Slovakia, awarded the following papers:
Out of the Fr-“Eye”-ing Pan: Towards Gaze-Based Models of Attention during Learning with Technology in the Classroom
Stephen Hutt, Caitlin Mills, Nigel Bosch, Kristina Krasich, James Brockmole and Sidney D’Mello
Fine-Grained Open Learner Models: Complexity Versus Support
Julio Guerra-Hollstein, Jordan Barria-Pineda, Christian D. Schunn, Susan Bull and Peter Brusilovsky
2016
The 24th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2016, in Halifax, Canada, awarded the following papers:
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
2015
The 23rd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2015, in Dublin, Ireland, awarded the following papers:
Counteracting Anchoring Effects in Group Decision Making
Martin Stettinger, Alexander Felfernig, Gerhard Leitner, Stefan Reiterer
Implicit Acquisition of User Personality for Augmenting Movie Recommendations
Wen Wu, Li Chen
2014
The 22nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2014, in Aalborg, Denmark, awarded the following papers:
Toward Fully Automated Person-Independent Detection of Mind Wandering
Robert Bixler and Sidney D'Mello
Adaptive support versus alternating worked examples and tutored problems: Which leads to better learning?
Amir Shareghi Najar, Tanja Mitrovic and Bruce M. McLaren
2013
2013
The 21th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2013, in Rome, Italy, awarded the following paper:
Utilizing Dynamic Bayes Nets to Improve Early Prediction Models of Self-Regulated Learning
Jennifer Sabourin, Bradford Mott and James Lester
2012
The 20th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2012, in Montreal, Canada, awarded the following papers:
A Comparative Study of Users' Microblogging Behavior on Sina Weibo and Twitter
Qi Gao, Fabian Abel, Geert-Jan Houben and Yong Yu
Improving Construct Validity Yields Better Models of Systematic Inquiry, Even with Less Information
Michael Sao Pedro, Ryan S.J.D. Baker and Janice Gobert
2011
The 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2011, in Girona, Spain, awarded the following papers:
Early Detection of Potential Experts in Question Answering Communities
Aditya Pal, Rosta Farzan, Joseph A. Konstan and Robert E. Kraut
Walk the Talk
Denis Parra and Xavier Amatriain
2010
The 18th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2010, in Kona, Hawaii, USA, awarded the following paper:
Inducing Effective Pedagogical Strategies Using Learning Context Features
Min Chi, Kurt Van Lehn, Diane Litman and Pamela Jordan, CMU and University of Pittsburg, USA
2009
The 17th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2009, in Trento, Italy awarded the following papers:
Social Navigation Support for Information Seeking: If You Build It, Will They Come?
Rosta Farzan and Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburg, USA
Non-Intrusive Personalisation of the Museum Experience
Fabian Bohnert and Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia
2008
The Adaptive Hypermedia Conference AH'2008 in Hannover, Germany awarded the following papers:
The Effectiveness of Personalized Movie Explanations: An Experiment Using Commercial Meta-data
Nava Tintarev and Judith Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
User-Centric Profiling on the Basis of Cognitive and Emotional Characteristics: An Empirical Study
Nikos Tsianos, Zacharias Lekkas, Panagiotis Germanakos, Costas Mourlas, and George Samaras
2007
The 11th International Conference on User Modelling, UM07, in Corfu, Greece awarded the following papers:
Preference-based Organization Interfaces: Aiding User Critiques in Recommender Systems
Li Chen, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
A User Modeling Server for Contemporary Adaptive Hypermedia: an Evaluation of Push Approach to Evidence Propagation
Michael Yudelson, University of Pittsburg, USA
2006
The Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia 2006 Conference awarded the following two papers:
Social navigation support in a course recommendation system
Rosta Farzan and Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh
A Comparative Study of Compound Critique Generation in Conversational Recommender Systems
Jiyong Zhang and Pearl Pu, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
2005
The 10th International Conference on User Modelling, UM05, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 24-29, 2005 awarded the following two papers:
Assessing Cognitive Load in Adaptive Hypermedia Systems: Physiological and Behavioral Methods
Holger Schultheis and Anthony Jameson (DFKI, Germany)
Using SiteRank for Decentralized Computation of Web Document Ranking
Jie Wu and Karl Aberer (EPFL, Switzerland)
2004
The Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia 2004 Conference awarded two awards:
Exploiting Probabilistic Latent Information for the Construction of Community Web Directories
Dimitrios Pierrakos and Georgios Paliouras, Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, NCSR "Demokritos”
The impact of link suggestion on user navigation and user perception
Ion Juvina (University of Utrecht, the Netherlands) and Eelco Herder (University of Twente, the Netherlands)