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From: "Alfred Kobsa" <ak@sbsvax.uucp>
To: mod-ki@unido.uucp
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 89 18:07:36 +0200 (MET dst)
Subject: 2nd User Modeling Workshop, Hawaii
Keywords: Konferenzen

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               Second International Workshop on User Modeling
                     Hawaii, March 30 - April 1, 1990

                         Call for Participation

Objectives

User models have recently attracted much research interest in the  field
of  computer  dialog  systems.  It   has   become   evident   that   the
cooperativeness of such systems can be greatly improved  if  the  system
has a model of the  user  available  which  contains  assumptions  about
his/her background knowledge as well  as  his/her  goals  and  plans  in
consulting the system. Research in the field of user models investigates
how such assumptions  can  be  automatically  created,  represented  and
exploited by the system in the course of an interaction with the user.

This workshop (a sequel of one in Germany in 1986) will provide a  forum
for the discussion of research topics central to the development of user
modeling components in  dialog  systems.  The  issues  to  be  addressed
include (but are not restricted to):
 
   - Acquisition of user and student models
   - Plan recognition
   - Representation of user models
   - User stereotypes
   - Dialog planning and response tailoring
   - Levels of user expertise
   - Student modeling and tutoring strategies
   - Shell systems for user modeling
   - Conceptual models, mental models

An explicit aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working
on  user  modeling  in  the  fields  of  Artificial   Intelligence   and
Human-Computer Interaction,  as  well  as  researchers  working  in  the
related field of student modeling in Intelligent Tutoring Systems.

Program chairman    David Chin, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, 2565 The Mall,
+ local arrangement Honolulu, HI 96822, U.S.A.
                    Phone: (808) 948-8162
                    E-mail: chin@cultis.ics.hawaii.edu

General Chairman    Wolfgang Wahlster, Dept.of Computer Science, Univ.of
                    Saarbruecken, D-6600 Saarbruecken 11, West Germany
                    Phone: +49 681 302 2363
                    E-mail: wahlster%fb10vax.uni-saarland.dbp.de
                          ...[U.S.: uunet!]unido!sbsvax!wahlster

Program committee:  Sandra Carberry, Univ. of Delaware, U.S.A.
                    Robin Cohen, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
                    Thomas Green, Univ. of Cambridge, U.K.
                    Anthony Jameson, Univ. of Nijmegen, Netherlands
                    Aravind Joshi, Univ. of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
                    Alfred Kobsa, Univ. of Saarbruecken, W. Germany
                    Gordon McCalla, Univ. of Saskatchewan, Canada
                    Kathleen McCoy, Univ. of Delaware, U.S.A.
                    Cecile Paris, Univ. of Southern California, U.S.A.
                    Elaine Rich, MCC, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
                    Derek Sleeman, Univ. of Aberdeen, U.K.
                    Michael Tauber, Univ. of Paderborn, W. Germany

To encourage interaction and a broad exchange  of  ideas,  the  workshop
will be kept to a moderate size - preferably to  about  50  participants
who  will  either  be  presenters  or  commentators  on   presentations.
Attendance is by invitation only. Interested presenters  should  send  4
copies of an extended abstract or a full paper  of  their  talk  to  the
program  chairman  ( at  least  6  pages,  double-spaced ).   Interested
commentators should send him a short statement  of  interest.  Inquiries
regarding the program and local arrangements should be directed to David
Chin, and all other inquiries to Wolfgang Wahlster.

Deadlines:          Nov. 31, 1989: Extended abstracts due
                    Dec. 31, 1989: Statement of interest of
                                   commentators due
                    Jan. 31, 1990: Notification about acceptance of
                                   presentation or attendance.

The papers of the  workshop  may  be  published  in  the  newly  founded
international  journal  'User Modeling  and  User-Adapted  Interaction'.
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