************************* CFP ************************** 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