Promoción de la Interacción Persona-Ordenador, la usabilidad y el diseño centrado en el usuario
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UMADR2010 at UMAP2010: Call for Papers
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
USER MODELING AND ADAPTATION FOR DAILY ROUTINES (UMADR'2010):
PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL AND SPECIFIC NEEDS
At The 18th Intl. Conference on
User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2010)
Fecha: June 21st, 2010
Lugar: Big Island of Hawaii
IMPORTANT DATES
* Paper submission: March 29th, 2010* Notification of acceptance: May 3rd, 2010
* Camera-ready version of accepted papers: May 24th, 2010
* Workshop: June 21st, 2010
Motivation
During our life, we are involved in a huge variety of activities that we constantly repeat associated to diverse contexts. These activities can be related to domestic routines, working tasks, everyday urban-life, and so on. However, not all users have the same capabilities. For example, whilst travelling in public transportation can be trivial for some users, it can be quite hard for others (i.e., elder people, or those with cognitive limitations or motor disabilities). The same happens with most daily routines.
Similarly, during each day, there are a lot of decisions to be taken, both in regular situations (e.g. "what would I buy for tonight dinner?") and in unexpected ones (e.g.: "the underground is not working, how will I go home now?"). While some users can take this type of decisions with an insignificant effort, it may not be easy at all for others. For example, it seems to be more complicated for users with special needs (such as those with psychological or cognitive limitations), or users facing situation for the first time.
The main aim of this workshop is to bring light about how adaptive methods and techniques can be used to help users (with some kind of either disability or specific need) to accomplish daily tasks and to take decisions, both in foreseen and unforeseen situations, considering their capabilities, preferences and needs in each context. In this direction, modeling user’s capabilities, limitations and needs is an essential task.
The workshop targets work on analysis, design, implementation and evaluation of adaptive models, methodologies, systems or technologies to assist users with special/specific needs daily, with special emphasis on major trends in: modeling user features, limitations and special/specific needs; representing daily activities and potential problems during the day; designing and building adaptive assistants for daily routines; and evaluating the use of this type of assistants. The workshop will focus on the following key questions to be discussed:
- Which are the difficulties and the potential solutions for helping the users to carry out routine tasks?
- How can usual tasks and expected/unexpected situations be modeled?
- Which aspects of the user (capabilities, preferences, personality, cognitive limitations, motor disabilities, affective states, context, etc.) should be taken into account to assist to users in their daily routines at different contexts, such as home, work, transport, learning, leisure, etc.?
- What adaptation methods and techniques are more appropriate for adaptive assistance in daily activities?
- How should adaptive systems’ potential trade-offs (e.g. proactivity, predictability, privacy) be managed in the context of adaptive assistants for daily routines?
- How can recommendations of context-based adaptive assistants for daily routines be evaluated?
- Which experiences exist in this research area?
All submissions must adhere to the Springer LNCS format (see the example document with author instructions), and be made through the EasyChair conference system.
They must describe original research work and may not have been published or submitted elsewhere. Submissions will be reviewed for relevance, originality, significance, validity and clarity.
All articles selected for publication will be blind reviewed by at least two reviewers with expertise in the area. Participants can also send proposals of "key questions" in advance to be discussed during the workshop.
Full papers: 10-12 pages.
Short papers: 4-6 pages.
Posters: 2 pages.
Creado: 21-Enero-2010 a las 12:28 por Elena Lafuente Lapena
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