Call for Tutorial Proposals

The 33rd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (ACM UMAP 2025) is the premier international conference bringing together research in AI and HCI to support effective human-AI collaboration via interactive systems that can model, adapt and personalize to their users. ACM UMAP 2025 is pleased to invite proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference.

Tutorials are expected to be instructional sessions aimed to provide a comprehensive introduction to established or emerging research topics of interest for the UMAP community. An ideal tutorial should be broad enough to provide a basic introduction to the chosen area, but it should also cover the most important topics in depth. Tutorials are encouraged to be as dynamic and interactive as possible. Example topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • User modeling in the era of generative artificial intelligence.
  • Application of user modeling and personalization techniques for specific domains.
  • Responsible user modeling and personalization.
  • Strategies to let users be in control of the personalization process.
  • Fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in human-centered generative AI.
  • Effective evaluation of personalized applications.

Tutorial presenters can have 3 pages (including references) in the adjunct proceedings.

Important Dates

January 20, 2025

Tutorial Proposal Submission

January 31, 2025

Notification

February 12, 2025

Tutorial Description & Website URL Submission

May 5, 2025

Tutorial Summary Camera-ready Submission (TAPS system)

June TBD, 2025

Tutorial Days

Note: the submission deadline is at 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time.

Submission

All workshop proposals must be written in English. Proposals should be submitted electronically, in a PDF format, through the EasyChair submission system, https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=umap2025, by selecting the “UMAP25 Workshop and Tutorial Proposals” track.

Length and Formatting

Format. Each proposal should be arranged into a single PDF document, at most 3 pages (references included).

Template. Following the ACM Publication Workflow, the proposal should be arranged based on the new ACM two-column format. Instructions for the organizers are given below:

Should you have any questions or issues going through the instructions above, please contact support at acmtexsupport@aptaracorp.com for LaTeX and Microsoft Word inquiries.

Structure. The proposal should include the following information:

  • Title and abstract of the tutorial (200 words maximum). Tutorial description:
    • Learning objectives of the tutorial and relevance to ACM UMAP 2025
    • Targeted audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced) and prerequisite knowledge or skills
    • Brief outline of the tutorial structure
    • Brief description of the practical sessions
  • Tutorial length (ideally 1 hour and a half)
  • 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, and from other tutorials on the same or similar topics (please specify conference name and year)
  • Name, email address, affiliation and brief professional biography of each tutorial organizer, indicating previous training and speaking experience
  • Number of organizers attending in person (mandatory)

Evaluation Criteria. All proposals will be reviewed by the ACM UMAP 2025 Tutorial Chairs. The features that will be evaluated are:

  • ability of the tutorial to contribute to strengthening the foundations of UMAP research
  • clarity of the tutorial, which should emerge from its description
  • good organization, as appearing from the outline
  • the value of any materials released with the tutorial for the community
  • background/experience of tutorial instructor(s) in teaching the target topics

Instructions

Support. We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit tutorial proposals. Researchers interested in submitting a tutorial proposal are invited to contact us in advance, so we can help to design successful proposals. In particular, we are happy to assist in further developing and implementing the ideas for tutorial proposals with novel interactive formats.

Diversity. We suggest involving organizers from different institutions, bringing their different perspectives to the tutorial topic. We welcome tutorials with a creative structure that may attract various types of participants and may ensure rich interactions.

Expectations. The organizers of accepted tutorials are expected to set up a webpage for the tutorial including detailed information about the tutorial organization and timeline, and disseminate a call for participation. They will be responsible for their own publicity.

Proceedings. There will be conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM, and available via the ACM Digital Library. A camera-ready summary of the tutorial should be written by the organizers to be included in these adjunct proceedings.

Camera-ready Information. Accepted summaries will require further revision to meet the requirements and the page limits of the camera-ready format required by ACM. After acceptance, instructions for preparing the camera-ready versions of the summaries will be provided. We strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX/Overleaf for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting. Users of the Word template must use the version for Microsoft Word for Windows, Macintosh Office 2011, or Macintosh Office 2016 (other formats such as Open Office, etc., are not admitted) for the camera-ready submission to avoid incompatibility issues.

Registration and Participation Policy

Each tutorial must be managed by all organizers. Therefore, we require that at least 50% of the tutorial organizers (with a minimum of one) attend in person. Additionally, all organizers must be registered for the conference.  Organizers attending online must register with a Workshop/Tutorial-only regular registration. Each accepted tutorial summary will be included in the conference adjunct proceedings. The official publication date is when the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks before the first day of UMAP 2025. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

Workshop Chairs

  • Claudio Pomo, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy
  • Ming Yin, Princeton University, USA
  • Wolfgang Wörndl, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Contact information: umap2025-wt@um.org

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