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