Preface The 23rd International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015) was held in Dublin, Ireland, between 29th of June and the 3rd of July, 2015. Poster and demonstration papers contain original and unpublished accounts of innovative research ideas, preliminary results, industry showcases, and system prototypes, addressing both the theory and practice of User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization. A total of 21 submissions were received. Similarly to the main tracks of the conference, each of them was reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. Submissions have been assessed based on their originality and novelty, potential contribution to the research field, potential impact in particular use cases, and the usefulness of presented experiences, as well as their overall readability. For these proceedings, 11 papers (6 posters, 5 demos) were accepted based on this process, for presentation at the UMAP 2015 conference, on the 1st of July 2015.
• Anthony Cruickshank, Subramanian Ramamoorthy and Richard Shillcock. Predicting actions using a probabilistic model of human decision behaviours •
Dario De Nart, Dante Degl'Innocenti and Carlo Tasso. Introducing Distiller: a Lightweight Framework for Knowledge Extraction and Filtering Abstract: Semantic content analysis is an activity that can greatly support a broad range of user modelling applications. Several automatic tools are available, however such systems usually provide little tuning possibilities and do not support integration with different systems. Personalization applications, on the other hand, are becoming increasingly multi-‐lingual and cross-‐domain. In this paper we present a novel framework for Knowledge Extraction, whose main goal is to support the development of new strategies and technologies and to ease the integration of the existing ones.
Aidan Jones, Susan Bull and Ginevra Castellano. Teacher Scaffolding of a Student's Self-‐ regulated Learning using an Open Learner Model
Fahim A. Salim, Killian Levacher, Owen Conlan and Nick Campbell. Examining Multimodal Characteristics of Video to Understand User Engagement • • •
Cameron Summers and Phillip Popp. Large Scale Discovery of Seasonal Music From User Data •
Robert Moro and Maria Bielikova. Utilizing Gaze Data in Learning: From Reading Patterns Detection to Personalization
• Cornelius A. Ludmann, Marco Grawunder and H.-‐Jürgen Appelrath. OdysseusRecSys:
Collaborative Filtering based on a Data Stream Management System • • • Panagiotis Germanakos, Marios Belk, Argyris Constantinides and George Samaras. The PersonaWeb System: Personalizing E-‐Commerce Environments based on Human Factors Guibing Guo, Jie Zhang, Zhu Sun and Neil Yorke-‐Smith. LibRec: A Java Library for Recommender Systems Alejandro Montes García, Natalia Stash and Paul De Bra. Adaptive applications to assist students with autism in succeeding in higher education Abstract: This demo shows adaptation of presentation and information for students entering a university, especially for students with autism. These students not only have specific information need, they are also more concerned about their privacy. We use WiBAF (Within Browser Adaptation Framework) for user modeling and adaptation to give users control over the sharing of their data. •
Khalil Muhammad, Aonghus Lawlor, Rachael Rafter and Barry Smyth. Generating Personalised and Opinionated Review Summaries We thank all authors for submitting and presenting their works, and members of the Program Committee for providing their valuable time and expertise for reviewing and selecting the papers. All their efforts made UMAP 2015 poster and demo results possible.
Kenro Aihara National Institute of Informatics Omar Alonso Microsoft Liliana Ardissono University of Torino Hideki Asoh AIST Mathias Bauer mineway GmbH Maria Bielikova Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Pradipta Biswas Wolfson College, Cambridge University Robin Burke DePaul University Iván Cantador Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Federica Cena Department of Computer Science, University of Torino Min Chi North Carolina State University David Chin University of Hawaii Mihaela Cocea School of Computing, University of Portsmouth Paolo Cremonesi Politecnico di Milano Sidney D'Mello University of Notre Dame Paul De Bra TU/e Marco De Gemmis Dipartimento di Informatica -‐ University of Bari Ernesto Diaz-‐Aviles IBM Reseach Vania Dimitrova School of Computing, University of Leeds Peter Dolog Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University Benedict Du Boulay Informatics Department, University of Sussex Casey Dugan IBM T.J. Watson Research Fabio Gasparetti Artificial Intelligence Laboratory -‐ ROMA TRE University Mouzhi Ge Universitaet der Bundeswehr Munich Cristina Gena Department of Computer Science, University of Torino Werner Geyer IBM T.J. Watson Research Bradley Goodman The MITRE Corporation Eelco Herder L3S Research Center Dietmar Jannach TU Dortmund Robert Jäschke L3S Research Center W. Lewis Johnson Alelo Inc. Judy Kay University of Sydney Styliani Kleanthous University of Cyprus Bart Knijnenburg University of California, Irvine Tsvi Kuflik The University of Haifa Pasquale Lops University of Bari Bernd Ludwig Chair for Information Science Gordon McCalla University of Saskatchewan Tanja Mitrovic Intelligent Computer Tutoring Group, University of Canterbury, Christchurch Riichiro Mizoguchi Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Elena Not FBK-‐irst Aditya Pal IBM Georgios Paliouras Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, NCSR "Demokritos" Luiz Augusto Pizzato Octosocial Labs Katharina Reinecke University of Zurich
Alan Said Recorded Future Olga C. Santos aDeNu Research Group (UNED) Giovanni Semeraro Dipartimento di Informatica -‐ University of Bari Aldo Moro Bracha Shapira Ben-‐Gurion University Barry Smyth University College Dublin Myra Spiliopoulou U. Magdeburg Ben Steichen University of British Columbia Dhavalkumar Thakker University of Leeds Marko Tkalcic Johannes Kepler University Department of Computational Perception Christoph Trattner KMI, TU-‐Graz Jian Wang LinkedIn Corporation Stephan Weibelzahl Private University of Applied Sciences Göttingen Markus Zanker Alpen-‐Adria-‐Universitaet Klagenfurt Jie Zhang Nanyang Technological University Yong Zheng DePaul University