Connectionists: ACM UMAP 2022 : First Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

[Helma Torkamaan]

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# **30th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and 
Personalization (ACM UMAP'22)**

Barcelona, Spain, and Online

4 - 7 July 2022

https://www.um.org/umap2022/

Proposal Submission Deadline: January 27, 2022

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**BACKGROUND AND SCOPE**
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**ACM UMAP'22** is pleased to invite proposals for workshops and 
tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference. ACM UMAP is the 
premier international conference for researchers and practitioners 
working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, 
and which collect, represent, and model user information.

We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit 
workshop and tutorial proposals. We strongly suggest involving 
organizers from different institutions, bringing different perspectives 
to the workshop or tutorial topic. We welcome workshops and tutorials 
with a creative structure that may attract various types of attendees 
and ensure rich interactions. All the tutorials and workshops should 
support both virtual and physical attendance (although we hope physical 
to be the preferred option).

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**Call for Workshop Proposals**
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The workshops provide a venue to discuss and explore emerging areas of 
User Modeling and Adaptive Hypermedia research with like-minded 
researchers and practitioners from industry and academia.

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**Important Dates**
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- Proposals due: January 27, 2022
- Notification to proposers: February 10, 2022
- Workshop day(s): July TBD, 2022

All deadlines are 11:59 pm, AoE time (Anywhere on Earth).

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**Workshop Formats**
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In this edition, our goal is to have a balanced workshop program, 
comprising workshops with different formats and addressing newly 
emerging, currently evolving and established research topics. Different 
schemas to organize the workshop are possible, such as:

- Working group meetings around a problem or topic.
- Mini-conferences on special topics, having their own paper submission 
and review processes.
- Mini-competitions or challenges around selected topics with individual 
or team participation.
- Interactive discussion meetings focusing on subtopics of the UMAP 
general research topics.
- Joint panels for different workshops.

The detailed instructions for the proposal content, the submission, the 
responsibilities, the proceedings and the registration are provided at 
https://www.um.org/umap2022/call-for-workshops/.

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**Call for Tutorial Proposals**
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Tutorials are intensive instructional sessions that provide a 
comprehensive introduction to established or emerging research topics of 
interest for the UMAP community.

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**Important Dates**
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- Proposals due: January 27, 2022
- Notification to proposers: February 10, 2022
- Tutorial day: July TBD, 2022

All deadlines are 11:59 pm, AoE time (Anywhere on Earth).

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**Tutorial Topics**
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An ideal tutorial should be broad enough to provide a basic introduction 
to the chosen area, but it should also cover the most important topics 
in depth. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- New user modeling technologies, methods, techniques, and trends (e.g., 
exploiting data mining and big data analytics for user modeling, 
evaluation methodologies, data visualization, etc.).
- User modeling and personalization techniques for specific domains 
(e.g., health, e-government, e-commerce, cultural heritage, education, 
internet of things, mobile, music, information retrieval, human-robot 
interaction etc.).
- Application and impact of the user modeling and personalization 
techniques for information retrieval and recommender systems, including 
beyond-accuracy aspects (e.g., fairness).
- Eliciting and learning user preferences by taking into account users'; 
emotional state, physical state, personality, trust, cognitive factors.

The detailed instructions for the proposal content, the submission, the 
responsibilities, the proceedings and the registration are provided at 
https://www.um.org/umap2022/call-for-tutorials/.

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**Workshop and Tutorial Chairs**
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- Mirko Marras, University of Cagliari, Italy
- Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova, Romania

- Contact: [umap2022-wt at um.org](mailto:umap2022-wt at um.org)