CFP: IUI 2010 Workshop on Semantic Models for Adaptive Interactive Systems

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IUI 2010 Workshop on

Semantic Models for Adaptive Interactive Systems (SEMAIS)

February 7, 2010
Hong Kong, China

Submission deadline: November 15, 2009

http://www.semais.org
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Motivation and goals
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Semantic technologies and, in particular, ontologies as formal,
shareable representations of a domain of interest play an increasingly
important role also for the design and development of user interfaces
and more generally interactive systems. Semantic models can serve a
number of different purposes in this context. They can be used as
application or interface models in model-driven design and generation of
user interfaces. Semantic Models can also be applied for representing
the various kinds of context information for context-aware and adaptive
systems.

In particular, they have promise to provide a technique for representing
external physical context factors such as location, time or technical
parameters and 'internal' context such as user interest profiles or
interaction context in a consistent, generalized manner. Owing to these
properties, semantic models can also contribute to bridging gaps, e.g.,
between user models, context-aware interfaces and model-driven UI
generation.

There is, therefore, a considerable potential for using semantic models
as a basis for adaptive interactive systems. The range of potential
adaptations is wide comprising, for example, context- and user-dependent
recommendations, interactive assistance when performing
application-specific tasks, adaptation of the application functionality,
or adaptive retrieval support. Furthermore, a variety of reasoning and
machine learning techniques exist, that can be employed to achieve
adaptive system behavior.

Topics of interest
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- Representing user models, domain knowledge and interaction context by
means of semantic models
- Cognitively or neurally founded reasoning techniques such as
activation spreading for semantic user models
- Context-aware interaction based on semantic models
- Adaptation strategies and techniques based on semantic models for e.g.
recommender systems, adaptive retrieval, collaboration support systems
and others
- Generating explanations or visualizations to increase user confidence
and support traceability
- Scalability of semantic model-based interactive systems.
- Semantic model-driven UI development
- Generation and evolution of semantic models for interactive systems
- Evaluation approaches for adaptive interaction

Objectives of the Workshop
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The workshop generally aims at sharing experiences and identifying a set
of shared research issues that need to be addressed in future research.
Specifically, we intend to identify and structure approaches and
techniques for ontology-based interaction and adaptation with the aim of
developing a conceptual framework, to identify the potential for
building and sharing ontologies for adaptive UIs and, possibly, to start
an initiative for developing them. Identify evaluation methods and
criteria for semantic model-based interactive systems (shorten)

Submission guidelines
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Prospective participants should submit a 2-page position paper
describing their interests and work in the topic of the workshop and
first comments concerning a list of research issues we will compile and
publish on the workshop website prior to the deadline. We will select
participants based on the abstract's quality and their response to the
list of issues; the diversity of their backgrounds, aiming at an
interdisciplinary group. A list of issues to be discussed at the
workshop will be distributed through the workshop Website. The selected
presenters will be asked to provide an extended 5-page position paper
one month before the workshop. These position papers will be circulated
in advance for participants to get an understanding of the mutual views
and to provide a starting point for the discussion.

Please send your submissions to submissions@semais.org

Important Dates:
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Submission deadline: November 15, 2009
Notification of acceptance: December 14, 2009
Revised, formatted document due: January 7, 2010
Workshop date: February 7, 2010

Plan for dissemination
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The results of the workshop will be available on the workshop website
and will be presented as an interactive poster during the IUI
conference. We will also consider an edited publication depending on the
workshop results.

Organizers
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Alan Dix (Lancaster University, GB)
Tim Hussein (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Stephan Lukosch (Delft University of Technology, NL)
Juergen Ziegler (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

Workshop Homepage: http://www.semais.org