ACM UMAP 2016 invites tutorials that address the interests of its varied audience: people new to the User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalisation researchers and practitioners who wish to learn new technologies, users of Personalized technologies, and representatives of government and funding agencies as well as potential private investors in Personalized technologies. We welcome submissions of tutorial proposals on all major topics related to user modeling and personalisation technologies. We especially solicit proposals for tutorials of the following types:

• Tutorials with a coherent theme providing an introduction to new user modeling technologies, methods, techniques, and trends (e.g. exploiting data-mining and big data analytics for user modeling, evaluation methodologies, data visualizationetc.).
  
  
• Tutorials describing the application of user modeling and personalization technologies in specific domains (e.g., health sciences, e-government, e-commerce, cultural heritage, education, internet of things, mobile, music, information retrieval, NLP, etc.).

• Tutorials presenting techniques from other fields that are of relevance for user modeling and personalization research, including social sciences, digital humanities, biomedical or cognitive science, and neuroscience research.
  Tutorials may focus on theoretical topics, however, we encourage organizers to incorporate hands-on sessions where appropriate. The tutorial should reach a good balance between the topic coverage and its relevance to the community. Tutorials can be half a day (3 hours) or full day (6 hours).

Timeline for Tutorials

Tutorial proposals due: April 10, 2016
Notification of acceptance: April 25, 2016
Tutorial Days: 13 July (Wednesday) and/or 17 July (Sunday) 2016

Responsibilities

Organizers of accepted tutorials are responsible for preparing the materials for attendees (slide sets, additional teaching material, software installation and usage guides for practical hands-on sessions, etc.) to the Tutorial Chairs. The UMAP 2016 Organizing Committee is responsible for providing publicity for the tutorials as part of the conference publicity activities, and on-site logistical support to the organizers and attendees.

General Information

In the interest of the overall quality of the conference, the Tutorial Chairs reserve the right to merge tutorials and/or adjust the scope thereof in case a minimum number of registrations is not reached by the early registration deadline.

Submission details

Tutorial proposals should not exceed 5 pages, and should contain the following information:

• Abstract. 200 words maximum, for inclusion on the UMAP2016 website.
  
  
• Tutorial description: objectives of the tutorial and relevance to UMAP2016; information about the scope and level of detail of the material to be covered; intended audiences; learning objectives; practical sessions.
  
  
• Tutorial length. The tutorial can be full or half day
  
  
• Specify other venues to which the tutorial or part thereof has been or will be presented, in addition to explaining how the current tutorial differs from the other editions. Links to the slides of previous tutorial editions (if applicable) should be included in the proposal.
  
  
• Brief professional biography of the presenter(s) indicating previous training and speaking experience (such as teaching and tutorial presentation).
  All proposals will be reviewed by the tutorial chairs and discussed within the organization committee of the UMAP2016.

Submission

Proposals should be submitted in PDF format by email to the tutorial chairs at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by April 10, 2016.

Tutorials Chairs

Federica Cena, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy, email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Jie Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.