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             International Conference on User Modeling
                    http://www.dfki.de/um2001/
                     July 13 to July 17, 2001
         AlpenCongressCentrum in Sonthofen, Bavaria, Germany



              Workshop on Personalization in Future TV
                         July 13-14, 2001


                        CALL FOR PAPERS




With the advent of digital networks, the  world of TV as we know it --
mass-media broadcast -- is undergoing tremendous changes. The increase
of  the  number of  available  channels,  the  convergence of  TV  and
internet,  and  the proliferation  of  new  interactive services  will
transform  the TV box  function from  a program  watching device  to a
portal towards  all kinds  of content and services.  

The  next TV era  will revolve around sophisticated set-top  boxes
integrating viewing, listening and recording  functionalities, connections
to  several sources  (internet, cable, satellite), games, as well as
communications features. In order to cope  with the  complexity of such
an environment  and efficiently
choose among the huge amount  of available alternatives, the users are
in  need  of  an advanced  user  interface  to  provide them  with  an
intelligent assistance.

In particular, personalization is taking an increasingly important
role in the design of adaptive user interfaces, which can focus
on the services interesting to the user and tailor the suggestion of
the available options to her interests.


The aim  of this workshop is  to provide a forum  in which researchers
from diverse fields such as machine learning,   knowledge  engineering,
psychology, cognitive sciences, adaptive user interfaces, user modeling
and business intelligence can examine the personalization aspects of the
user interface in future TV.

Topics to be addressed include, but are not limited to:


- Position papers: new interactive services, 
                social and business implications
- Applications: TV portal architectures, 
                personal TV recommender systems
- Content recommendation: new architectures for recommender systems,
                cross-domain recommendation
- Adaptive presentation: adaptive hypermedia techniques for EPGs,
                EPGs for all: adaptivity to users with special needs
- Interaction: new browsing paradigms, conversational interfaces
- Management of the user model: 
                acquisition and management of individual user models,
                adaptation to changing user interests,
                inspectability and editability of user models,
                ontology models,
                individual user models and group models,
                acquisition of models of user communities,
                security and privacy aspects in TV services
- Context: single user vs. multiple users,
           context detection and integration (mood, time, location, ...)
- Community formation and social influences





SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
All papers must include in the first page: the title, author's name(s),
affiliation, mailing address, phone number, e-mail, home page URL, and up
to five keywords.

Full papers must also include an abstract of 200 words maximum.


Papers should be prepared as PostScript or PDF files, written in Times,
11pt and printable on A4 paper or US Letter. If possible, the papers
should be formatted according to the guidelines used for the papers of the
main conference (see http://www.dfki.de/um2001/).
Suitable templates (LaTex2e | LaTex | Tex | MS Word (PC) | MS Word (Mac))
can be retrieved from the LNCS Web site at the following
URL: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.


The size of original submission is limited to 4 pages for position 
papers and 8 pages for full papers.


Electronic submission of the URL address of the paper is preferred, 
although e-mail submissions of the Postscript/PDF files will be accepted. 
Send your submission to Liliana Ardissono: liliana@di.unito.it.



All contributions will be made available in a Web site before the UM'01
Conference, so that people can read them in advance. 
In addition, the Proceedings will be published as an informal Annex to the
main Conference Proceedings. 



Time Schedule
   Submission of contributions: March 8, 2001
   Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2001
   Submission of final contributions: April 20, 2001




Program Committee
   Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy
   Patrick Baudisch, Xerox PARC, USA
   Fabio Bellifemine, CSELT, Italy
   Yassine Faihe, Philips Research, The Netherlands
   Yeun-Bae Kim, NHK Labs, Japan




Organizers
   Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy
   Yassine Faihe, Philips Research, The Netherlands



For more information contact
  Liliana Ardissono
  Dipartimento di Informatica - Universita` di Torino
  Corso Svizzera 185
  I-10149 Italy
  E-mail: liliana@di.unito.it

and

  Yassine Faihe
  Philips Research
  New Media Systems & Applications
  Prof. Holstlaan 4
  NL-5656 AA Eindhoven
  The Netherlands
  E-mail: yassine.faihe@philips.co