IJCAI-99 Workshop
Learning About Users
July 31, 1999, Stockholm, Sweden
www.dfki.de/~bauer/ijcai99-ws
As computer systems become more powerful and complex, our
interactions with them have become more information laden and,
consequently, more burdensome. It is now generally recognized
within the HCI and intelligent user interfaces communities that
as systems become more complex, this need for higher-bandwidth
interfaces should be addressed by learning about and adapting to
the user. The pieces to this puzzle are coming together from a
variety of disciplines, including machine learning, user
modeling, intelligent tutoring, information retrieval, and data
mining. Furthermore, related work is discussed in the field of
autonomous agents. This workshop aims at bringing together
researchers from these different communities.
Scope
We seek high-quality, original papers describing research on
systems that learn about their users in order to adapt to their
particular needs and goals. Submissions may focus on any
particular facet of this overall problem but should address the
following technical issues, which comprise the focus of the
workshop:
* Problem Domain
o what is the task?
o what is unique about the task and why is it important?
o what will a solution in this domain tell us about
general solutions?
* Approach or Method
o how was data (from which to learn) collected?
o what learning algorithm was used?
o was learning on-line or off-line?
o how was the learned model utilized?
* Evaluation
o how do you measure success on the overall task?
o how do you measure improvement for a given user?
o what were the causes for success or failure?
The goal of the workshop is to make a first step towards a
framework within which research on systems that adapt to their
users can be proposed, identified, conducted and evaluated. The
results of the workshop -- a structured view of the field --
shall be reported in an edited collection containing overview
chapters together with improved versions of the best submitted
contributions.
Important Dates
Submission deadline: March 27, 1999
Notification of acceptance: April 24, 1999
Camera ready copy and author registration due: May 22, 1999
Workshop: July 31, 1999
Submission Procedure
Researchers interested in presenting their results at the
workshop are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 6000
words. Other potential participants are expected to submit a
short (1000 words) statement of interest outlining their research
and their reasons for participation. To submit your paper
* send a plain ASCII version of your title page including
title, abstract, author names (including affiliations,
email
and postal addresses), and the file name of your
submission
to asa@sics.se.
* submit the file by anonymous ftp to
ftp.sics.se/pub/incoming/ijcai-ws.
Please use a file name starting with the name of the first
author.
Note that only PostScript and PDF versions are acceptable. Try to
make sure that they can be printed on both A4 and 8.5" x 11"
paper. The layout should follow the formatting instructions of
the main IJCAI99 conference (see www.dsv.su.se/ijcai-
99/home.html). Please contact Asa Rudstrom or any member of the
organizing committee in case you have questions or problems to
comply with these rules.
Further Procedure
The final versions of accepted papers will be made public to all
participants on the workshop web site. Prospective participants
should plan to read the other accepted papers prior to the
workshop, so as to maximize the quality of technical interaction
during the workshop sessions. Focussed discussion topics will be
posted on the web site to help stimulate the refinement of
participants' respective ideas. We expect this will lead to a
lively workshop in Stockholm and prove beneficial to everyone's
ongoing research efforts on adaptive user interfaces. As
mentioned above, a publication of workshop results is planned in
the form of an edited collection (which may be issued as a book
or as a special issue of a journal). According to IJCAI
regulations, attendance will be limited to at most 40 people.
Please note that all workshop participants are expected to
register for the main IJCAI conference and that an additional
workshop fee will be charged for each participant.
Organizing Committee
Mathias Bauer
German Research Center for AI Wolfgang Pohl
(DFKI) GMD FIT, HCI Department
bauer@dfki.de Wolfgang.Pohl@gmd.de
Wayne Iba Asa Rudstrom
Stanford University SICS
iba@apres.stanford.edu asa@sics.se
Program Committee Members
* Haym Hirsh, Rutgers University, USA
* Henry Lieberman, MIT Media Lab, USA
* Katharina Morik, University of Dortmund, Germany
* Hiroshi Motoda, Osaka University, Japan
* Geoff Webb, Deakin University, Australia
Proceedings
The workshop proceedings will be printed and distributed at the
workshop. Papers will also be available from the workshop web
site at
www.dfki.de/~bauer/ijcai99-ws