User Modeling 2007 : 11th International Conference, UM 2007, Corfu, Greece, July 25-29, 2007, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on User Modeling, UM 2007, held in Corfu, Greece in July 2007. Coverage includes evaluating user/student modeling techniques, data mining and machine learning for user modeling, user adaptation and usability, modeling affect and meta-cognition, as well as intelligent information retrieval, information filtering and content personalization.

Invited Papers.- The Disappearing Computer: User-Centered Interaction Design for Smart Artefacts.- Experience Medium: Toward a New Medium for Exchanging Experiences.- Intelligent Assistive Technology: The Present and the Future.- Full Papers.- Exploiting Evidence Analysis in Plan Recognition.- Modeling the Acquisition of Fluent Skill in Educational Action Games.- A User Modeling Server for Contemporary Adaptive Hypermedia: An Evaluation of the Push Approach to Evidence Propagation.- Principles of Lifelong Learning for Predictive User Modeling.- Users in Volatile Communities: Studying Active Participation and Community Evolution.- Learning from What Others Know: Privacy Preserving Cross System Personalization.- Construction of Ontology-Based User Model for Web Personalization.- Preference-Based Organization Interfaces: Aiding User Critiques in Recommender Systems.- “More Like This” or “Not for Me”: Delivering Personalised Recommendations in Multi-user Environments.- Feature-Weighted User Model for Recommender Systems.- Evaluating a Simulated Student Using Real Students Data for Training and Testing .- Modeling Students’ Natural Language Explanations.- Applications for Cognitive User Modeling.- Identifiability: A Fundamental Problem of Student Modeling.- Understanding the Utility of Rationale in a Mixed-Initiative System for GUI Customization.- Respecting Users’ Individual Privacy Constraints in Web Personalization.- Personalized Previews of Alternative Routes in Virtual Environments.- Visual Attention in Open Learner Model Presentations: An Eye-Tracking Investigation.- EEG-Related Changes in Cognitive Workload, Engagement and Distraction as Students Acquire Problem Solving Skills.- Eliciting Motivation Knowledge from Log Files Towards Motivation Diagnosis for Adaptive Systems.- Assessing Learner’s Scientific Inquiry Skills Across Time: A Dynamic Bayesian Network Approach.- From Modelling Domain Knowledge to Metacognitive Skills: Extending a Constraint-Based Tutoring System to Support Collaboration.- Mobile Opportunistic Planning: Methods and Models.- Analyzing Museum Visitors’ Behavior Patterns.- A Context-Aware Movie Preference Model Using a Bayesian Network for Recommendation and Promotion.- Intrinsic Motivational Factors for the Intention to Use Adaptive Technology: Validation of a Causal Model.- Improving Social Filtering Techniques Through WordNet-Based User Profiles.- Push-Poll Recommender System: Supporting Word of Mouth.- Evaluation of Modeling Music Similarity Perception Via Feature Subset Selection.- Poster Papers.- A Practical Activity Capture Framework for Personal, Lifetime User Modeling.- A Probabilistic Relational Student Model for Virtual Laboratories.- A Semantics-Based Dialogue for Interoperability of User-Adaptive Systems in a Ubiquitous Environment.- A User Independent, Biosignal Based, Emotion Recognition Method.- A User Model of Psycho-physiological Measure of Emotion.- A User-Item Predictive Model for Collaborative Filtering Recommendation.- Automatic Generation of Students’ Conceptual Models from Answers in Plain Text.- Capturing User Interests by Both Exploitation and Exploration.- Conceptualizing Student Models for ICALL.- Context-Dependent User Modelling for Smart Homes.- Conversations Amidst Computing: A Study of Interruptions and Recovery of Task Activity.- Cross-Domain Mediation in Collaborative Filtering.- Driver Destination Models.- Enabling Efficient Real Time User Modeling in On-Line Campus.- Eliciting Adaptation Knowledge from On-Line Tutors to Increase Motivation.- Improving User Taught Task Models.- Inducing User Affect Recognition Models for Task-Oriented Environments.- Interactive User Modeling for Personalized Access to Museum Collections: The Rijksmuseum Case Study.- Kansei Processing Agent for Personalizing Retrieval.- Maximizing the Utility of Situated Public Displays.- Modeling Preferences in a Distributed Recommender System.- Multiple Evidence Combination in Web Site Search Based on Users’ Access Histories.- MyPlace Locator: Flexible Sharing of Location Information.- Personalised Mashups: Opportunities and Challenges for User Modelling.- Personalized Control of Smart Environments.- Studying Model Ambiguity in a Language ITS.- Tailoring and the Efficiency of Information Seeking.- The Effect of Model Granularity on Student Performance Prediction Using Bayesian Networks.- To Share or Not to Share: Supporting the User Decision in Mobile Social Software Applications.- Towards a Tag-Based User Model: How Can User Model Benefit from Tags?.- Web Customer Modeling for Automated Session Prioritization on High Traffic Sites.- What’s in a Step? Toward General, Abstract Representations of Tutoring System Log Data.- Doctoral Consortium Papers.- Encouraging Contributions to Online Communities with Personalization and Incentives.- Semantic-Enhanced Personalised Support for Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Communities.- Explaining Recommendations.- Designing Persuasive Health Behaviour Change Dialogs.- User-Centered Design for Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage.