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# **30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and
Personalization (UMAP ’22)**<br>
<br>
Barcelona*, Spain, July 4–7, 2022<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.um.org/umap2022/" target="_BLANK">http://www.um.org/umap2022/</a><br>
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(*) Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we are planning for a
hybrid conference and will accommodate online presentations where
needed.<br>
<br>
Submission Deadline:<br>
- Abstracts due: February 10, 2022 (mandatory)<br>
- Full paper due: February 17, 2022<br>
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**BACKGROUND AND SCOPE**<br>
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**ACM UMAP** – ***User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization***
– is the premier international conference for researchers and
practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or
to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user
information. **ACM UMAP** is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI (<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sigchi.org"
target="_BLANK">https://sigchi.org</a>) and SIGWEB (<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sigweb.org"
target="_BLANK">https://www.sigweb.org</a>), and organized with
User Modeling Inc. (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://um.org" target="_BLANK">https://um.org</a>) as the
core Steering Committee, extended with past years’ chairs. The
proceedings are published by the **ACM** and will be part of the
ACM Digital Library (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://dl.acm.org" target="_BLANK">https://dl.acm.org</a>).<br>
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**ACM UMAP** covers a wide variety of research areas where
personalization and adaptation may be applied. The main theme of
**UMAP 2022** is ***“User control in personalized systems”***.
Specifically, we welcome submissions related to user modeling,
personalization, and adaptation in all areas of personalized
systems, with an emphasis on how to balance adaptivity and user
control. Below we present a short (but not prescriptive) list of
topics of importance to the conference.
<br>
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ACM UMAP is co-located and collaborates with the ACM Hypertext
conference (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://ht.acm.org/ht2022/" target="_BLANK">https://ht.acm.org/ht2022/</a>).
UMAP takes place one week after Hypertext, and uses the same
submission dates and formats. We expect authors to submit research
on personalized systems to UMAP and invite authors to submit their
Web-related work without a focus on personalization to the
Hypertext conference. The two conferences will organize one shared
track on **personalized recommender systems** (same track chairs
and PC, see the track description).<br>
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**IMPORTANT DATES**<br>
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- Paper Abstracts: February 10, 2022 (mandatory)<br>
- Full paper: February 17, 2022<br>
- Notification: April 11, 2022<br>
- Conference: July 4-July 7, 2022<br>
<br>
**Note**: The submissions deadlines are at 11:59pm AoE time
(Anywhere on Earth)<br>
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**CONFERENCE TOPICS**<br>
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We welcome submissions related to *user modeling, personalization,
and adaptation in any area*. The topics listed below are not
intended to limit possible contributions. **Detailed descriptions
and the suggested topics for each track are reported in the online
version of the CFP on the UMAP 2022 web site.**<br>
<br>
<br>
### **Personalized Recommender Systems***<br>
**Track Chairs: Osnat Mokryn (University of Haifa), Eva Zangerle
(University of Innsbruck, Austria) and Markus Zanker (University
of Bolzano, Italy, and University of Klagenfurt, Austria)**<br>
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(*) This is a joint track between ACM UMAP and ACM Hypertext (same
track chairs, overlapping PC). Authors planning to contribute to
this track can submit to either conference, depending on their
broader interest in either Hypertext or UMAP. Track chairs
organize a special issue in the journal New Review of Hypermedia
and Multimedia.<br>
<br>
This track aims to provide a forum for researchers and
practitioners to discuss open challenges, latest solutions and
novel research approaches in the field of recommender systems. In
addition to mature research works addressing technical aspects
pertaining to recommendations, we also particularly welcome
research contributions that address questions related to the user
perception and the business value of recommender systems.<br>
<br>
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### **Adaptive Hypermedia, Semantic, and Social Web**<br>
**Track Chairs: Alexandra I. Cristea (Durham University, UK) and
Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh, US)**<br>
<br>
This track aims to provide a forum to researchers to discuss open
research problems, solid solutions, latest challenges, novel
applications, and innovative research approaches in adaptive
hypermedia, semantic and social web. We invite original
submissions addressing all aspects of personalization, user models
building, and personal experience in online social systems.<br>
<br>
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### **Intelligent User Interfaces**<br>
**Track chairs: Elisabeth Lex (Graz University of Technology,
Austria) and Marko Tkalcic (University of Primorska, Slovenia)**<br>
<br>
This topic can be characterized by exploring how to make the
interaction between computers and people smarter and more
productive, which may leverage solutions from human-computer
interaction, data mining, natural language processing, information
visualization, and knowledge representation and reasoning.<br>
<br>
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### **Technology-Enhanced Adaptive Learning**<br>
**Track chairs: Judy Kay (University of Sydney, Australia) and
Sharon Hsiao (Santa Clara University, US)**<br>
<br>
This track invites researchers, developers, and practitioners from
various disciplines to present their innovative learning
solutions, share acquired experience, and discuss their modeling
challenges for personalized adaptive learning.<br>
<br>
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### **Fairness, Transparency, Accountability, and Privacy**<br>
**Track chairs: Bamshad Mobasher (DePaul University College of
Computing and Digital Media, US) and Munindar P. Singh (NC State
University, US)**<br>
<br>
Adaptive systems researchers and developers have a social
responsibility to care about the impact of their technologies on
individual people (users, providers, and other stakeholders) and
on society. This track invites work that pertains to the science
of building, maintaining, evaluating, and studying adaptive
systems that are fair, transparent, respectful of users’ privacy,
and beneficial to society.<br>
<br>
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### **Personalization for Persuasive and Behavior Change Systems**<br>
**Track chairs: Julita Vassileva (University of Saskatchewan,
Canada) and Panagiotis Germanakos (SAP SE, Germany)**<br>
<br>
This track invites original submissions addressing the areas of
personalization and tailoring for persuasive technologies,
including but not limited to personalization models, user models,
computational personalization, design and evaluation methods, and
personal experience designing personalized and adaptive behaviour
change technologies.<br>
<br>
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### **Virtual Assistants and Personalized Human-robot
Interaction**<br>
**Track chairs: Radhika Garg (Syracuse University, US) and
Cristina Gena (University of Torino, Italy)**<br>
<br>
This track aims at investigating new models and techniques for the
adaptation of synthetic companions (e.g., virtual assistants,
chatbots, social robots) to the individual user.<br>
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### **Research Methods and Reproducibility**<br>
**Track chairs: Odd Erik Gundersen (Norwegian University of
Science and Technology, Norway) and Dietmar Jannach (University of
Klagenfurt, Austria)**<br>
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This track accepts works on methodologies for the evaluation of
personalized systems, benchmarks, measurement scales, with
particular attention to reproducibility of results and of
techniques.<br>
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**SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS**<br>
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Please consult the conference website for the submission link: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.um.org/umap2022/"
target="_BLANK">
http://www.um.org/umap2022/</a>.<br>
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The maximum length is **14 pages (excluding references) in the ACM
new single-column format**. We encourage papers of any length up
to 14 pages; reviewers will be asked to comment on whether the
length is appropriate for the contribution.<br>
<br>
**Additional review criteria are available in the online version
of the CFP on the UMAP 2022 web site.**<br>
<br>
Each accepted paper will be included in the conference proceedings
and presented at the conference.
<br>
<br>
UMAP uses a **double blind** review process. Authors must omit
their names and affiliations from submissions, and avoid obvious
identifying statements. For instance, citations to the authors'
own prior work should be made in the third person. Failure to
anonymize your submission results in the desk-rejection of your
paper.<br>
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**ORGANIZERS**<br>
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**General chairs**<br>
- Ludovico Boratto, University of Cagliari, Italy<br>
- Alejandro Bellogín, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain<br>
- Olga C. Santos, Spanish National University for Distance
Education, Spain<br>
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**Program Chairs**<br>
- Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy<br>
- Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University, US<br>
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**RELATED EVENTS**<br>
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Separate calls will be sent for Workshops and Tutorials, Doctoral
Consortium, and Demo/Late-Breaking Results, as these have
different deadlines and submission requirements.</p>
<p><font size="-1" color="#686868"><span class="moz-txt-tag">-- <br>
</span>Helma Torkamaan <br>
Researcher <br>
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University of Duisburg-Essen <br>
Interactive Systems Group <br>
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Room LF 288, Forsthausweg 2, 47057 Duisburg, GERMANY <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:helma.torkamaan@uni-due.de">helma.torkamaan@uni-due.de</a>
/ +49 203 379-2276
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