12.312, Calls: Communication, User Modelling

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-12-312. Tue Feb 6 2001. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 12.312, Calls: Communication, User Modelling

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1)
Date:  Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:10:59 -0800
From:  jeffs at audiospeech.ubc.ca (Jeff Small)
Subject:  Fifth International Conference on Communication, Aging, and Health

2)
Date:  Mon, 05 Feb 2001 09:37:31 -0600
From:  Julita Vassileva <jiv at cs.usask.ca>
Subject:  UM2001 Workshop on User Modelling for Context-Aware Applications

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:10:59 -0800
From:  jeffs at audiospeech.ubc.ca (Jeff Small)
Subject:  Fifth International Conference on Communication, Aging, and Health

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The website for the Fifth International Conference on Communication,
Aging, and Health, to be held in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, June 29-July
2, 2001 is:

http://www.ihear.ubc.ca/cah

The deadline for abstract submission is March 16, 2001.


Cordially,

Jeff Small (co-chair, with Dr. Kathy Pichora-Fuller)

P.S. please direct inquiries about the conference to the CAH e-mail
address: cah at audiospeech.ubc.ca


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Date:  Mon, 05 Feb 2001 09:37:31 -0600
From:  Julita Vassileva <jiv at cs.usask.ca>
Subject:  UM2001 Workshop on User Modelling for Context-Aware Applications


                          Call for Submissions

                    WORKSHOP ON USER MODELING
                 FOR CONTEXT-AWARE APPLICATIONS
                       http://orgwis.gmd.de/~gross/um2001ws/

                             In conjunction with UM2001
                                   July 13-17, 2001
                                  Sonthofen, Germany
                            http://www.dfki.de/um2001/

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Context-aware applications capture and analyze information about
the current context of a user such as their current physical
location, their past navigation, their technological equipment,
other users in their environment, and so forth. The system then
provides the user with information and functionality that is best
suited to their current situation. This includes information that
is adapted to the user's location, the user's interaction
history, etc., but also information and functionality that
provides a shared context among geographically dispersed users to
facilitate group interaction. In order to adapt the information
and functionality to the current context and the current user a
mapping between a user model and the potential contexts of use
has to be identified.

Topics of interest include:
- user modeling techniques for context aware applications
- learning about users from localization and real world tracking data
- using context models for adaptive services
- group awareness based on group modeling
- personalized context aware services
- contextualized interaction models and interfaces
- nomadic information systems

Important Dates

March 8, 2001: Deadline for workshop submissions
April 1, 2001: Notification to authors
July 13, 2001: Workshop

Participants will be selected on the basis of their
submission - either a 4-5 page full paper or a 2-3 page position
statement. Submissions should be sent to Tom.Gross at gmd.de.

Program Committee

Marcus Specht, GMD-FIT, St. Augustin, marcus.specht at gmd.de
Tom Gross, GMD-FIT, St. Augustin, tom.gross at gmd.de
Anthony Jameson, Saarland University, jameson at cs.uni-sb.de
Anind Dey, Georgia Tech, anind at cc.gatech.edu
Christian Feichtner, Mobile Network Solutions, Siemens Austria,
christian.feichtner at siemens.at

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