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International Workshop on Human-Centered Modeling and Adaptation for Digital Transformation (HUMAD 2024)

While digital transformation brings broad positive impacts, its rapid propagation varies across territories, accentuating disparities not only in the social and organizational contexts but even in industrial sectors. Acknowledging this digital divide, the International Workshop on Human-Centered Modeling and Adaptation for Digital Transformation (HUMAD 2024), organized by the University of Cagliari (Italy), in conjunction with Charles University (Czech Republic) and The Open University (United Kingdom), as part of the UMAP 24 International Conference, aims to reshape industrial and digital landscapes for equity and accessibility, specifically emphasizing the pivotal role of user modeling and artificial intelligence.

Discussions will center on personalized user modeling and holistic, human-centered approaches tailored for an industrial context. The workshop will explore applications in critical sectors, including smart cities, tourism, industrial production, healthcare, education, and well-being, focusing on delivering quality digital interactions and services tuned to industrial and human-centric needs.

GMAP 2024: 3rd Workshop on Group Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization

Most existing recommender systems are designed to support single users, but there are various situations where these systems address the needs of groups. In such scenarios, collective factors such as interpersonal relationships, group mood, and emotional contagion play a crucial role in group dynamics. Still, they are often ill-defined and absent from systems’ modeling. Alongside the need to include group dynamics, producing fair, privacy-protecting, and explainable recommendations is a notorious challenge of group recommender systems. The potential of large language models to enhance explainability merits exploration, as they may provide a novel way to tackle such challenges. Lastly, the problem of defining a comprehensive evaluation methodology that covers the particularities of group recommender systems is a long-standing issue in the field.

To address these challenges and opportunities, the 3rd Workshop on Group Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (GMAP) aims to bring together a community of researchers from multiple disciplines, including Psychology, Computer Science, and Organizational Behavior. In this workshop, researchers will have the opportunity to share research and ideas, fostering a vibrant and inclusive community and creating opportunities for networking and collaboration. Such communities will contribute to advancing our understanding of group modeling, adaptation and personalization, identifying key challenges and opportunities, and developing a shared research agenda to guide future works in the field.

UCAI ’24: Workshop on User-Centered Artificial Intelligence

The proliferation of AI-based techniques poses a range of new challenges for the design and engineering of intelligent and adaptive systems since they tend to either act as black boxes or, more generally, not offer the user sufficient transparency, control, and interaction opportunities, which are considered major goals of user-centered design in the HCI field. This workshop aims to share and discuss recent developments at the intersection of HCI and AI and to explore novel methodological, technical, and interaction approaches. Researchers and practitioners with diverse disciplinary backgrounds can and should contribute to addressing the challenges in this emerging field of human-centered artificial intelligence.

1st International Workshop on User-Centered Practices of Knowledge Discovery in Educational Data

By offering a large number of highly diverse resources, learning platforms have been attracting lots of participants, 

and the interactions with these systems have generated a vast amount of learning.

Their collection, processing and analysis have promoted a significant growth of machine learning and knowledge discovery approaches and have opened up new opportunities for supporting educational experiences in a data-driven fashion. 

Modelling students’ learning behaviour to provide data-driven decisions is one of the key challenges in the educational domain.

However, the use of knowledge discovery in education also raises a range of ethical challenges including transparency, reliability fairness, and inclusiveness.

In this workshop event, we focus on providing a common ground for researchers and practitioners working in this vibrant area, 

with the ultimate ambitious goal of bridging the UMAP community with the domain-oriented educational sister communities.ì

WEBIUM - 1st Workshop on Wearable Devices and Brain-Computer Interfaces for User Modelling

Embracing Wearable Devices (WDs) in our daily lives has revolutionized human interaction and paved the way for groundbreaking innovations, offering new perspectives also for user modelling and personalization.

This workshop is dedicated to exploring and emphasising the crucial role and the profound impact of WDs on user modelling, profiling, and personalization, focusing on the potential of data derived from these devices. Attendees will delve into methodologies, challenges, and opportunities associated with leveraging data from these innovative sources.

Topics include data processing techniques, ethical considerations, and the development of user models that encapsulate daily life, health patterns, and interaction behaviours.

Complementary to the main conference, this workshop focuses specifically on the unique aspects of WDs and Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs), for user modelling, profiling, and personalization.

Second Workshop on Context Representation in User Modelling

The evolving landscapes of user modelling, adaptation, and personalisation necessitate a nuanced exploration of context and its impact on human-computer interaction. This evolution represents a paradigm shift towards placing the user at the centre of context representation, acknowledging the multifaceted nature of context as it intertwines with user needs, environmental changes, and technological advancements. The second edition of the Context Representation in User Modeling (CRUM) workshop, themed “Human-Centric Context,” seeks to foster a comprehensive understanding of context by focusing on the dynamic interplay between subjective and objective contexts in enhancing user experience. We welcome submissions that explore the nuances of human-centric context across various domains, aiming to standardise context modelling practices that enhance user engagement, privacy, and trust in multi-stakeholder environments.

5th Workshop on Adapted intEraction with SociAl Robots (cAESAR)

Human Robot Interaction (HRI) is a field of study dedicated to understanding, designing, and evaluating robotic systems for use by, or with, humans. In HRI there is a consensus about the design and implementation of robotic systems that should be able to adapt their behavior based on user actions and behavior. The robot should adapt to emotions, personalities, and it should also have a memory of past interactions with the user to become believable. This is of particular importance in the field of social robotics and social HRI. The aim of this Workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who are working on various aspects of social robotics and adaptive interaction. The expected result of the workshop is a multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future research directions and forge some research collaborations.

6th Workshop on Explainable User Models and Personalized Systems (ExUM)

The ExUM workshop seeks to provide a platform for in-depth discussions, addressing the problems, challenges, and innovative research approaches. By bringing together researchers and practitioners, the workshop aims to foster collaboration, knowledge exchange, and the development of novel solutions. Through this collective effort, we can advance the understanding and implementation of transparent and interpretable approaches in adaptive and personalized systems, including integrating Language Models (LLMs) to enhance transparency and enable users to comprehend the internal mechanisms guiding these systems.

The 15th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2024)

Following the successful series of PATCH workshops, PATCH 2024, the new link in the long chain of PATCH workshops series, will be again the meeting point between state-of-the-art cultural heritage research and personalization – using any kind of technology, while focusing on ubiquitous and adaptive scenarios, to enhance the personal experience in cultural heritage sites. The workshop is aimed at bringing together researchers and practitioners who are working on various aspects of cultural heritage and are interested in exploring the potential of state-of-the-art mobile technology (onsite as well as online) to enhance the CH visit experience. The expected result of the workshop is a multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future research directions and hopefully, forge some research collaborations.

9th International Workshop on Human Aspects in Adaptive and Personalized Interactive Environments – HAAPIE 2024

The vision of HAAPIE 2024 workshop is to bring more inclusively the “human-in-the-loop” in UMAP for increasing the usability, user experience and overall quality of systems and interactions. State-of-the-art approaches in adaptation and personalization research that consider information regarding the “traditional” user characteristics (i.e., experience, knowledge, interests, context), and related contextual or technology aspects (i.e., displays, connectivity, processing power) have shown significant improvements and benefits to the end- users. However, there is an urgent need for a step change in user modeling and adaptation that considers human aspects thoroughly, producing more holistic human-centered adaptation and personalization theories and practices. This requires broadening the scope including intrinsic human characteristics and abilities, such as perceptual, personality, visual, cognitive, and emotional factors as well as other diversity parameters ranging from more recognizable user characteristics, such as age, culture, status, to more inherent ones, such as motivation, self-actualization, and socio-cultural behavior. Accordingly, main goal of HAAPIE 2024 is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the areas of human aspects in adaptation and personalization to shape new human-centered adaptive interactive environments and personalized platforms that can contribute towards viable long-term solutions.