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Deadline extension: February 25th, 2007
CFP TUMAS-A Workshop
Towards User Modelling and Adaptive Systems for All (TUMAS-A 2007)
http://adenu.ia.uned.es/workshops/um07/tumasa07/
in conjunction with UM'2007
http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/um2007/
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There is a growing interest in providing technology-mediated lifelong
learning services (LLL) for ALL. Although an increasing number of the
users interested in these services are adult learners and people with
disabilities most available settings do not consider functional
diversity requirements. Moreover, it is a hot research issue how to
acquire, update and manage user models that consider the functional
diversity of users so that their accessibility needs are met.
On the one hand, user modelling is supposed to provide the appropriate
content transformations and adapted resources to users' needs when
available. On the other hand, contents are supposed to follow Web
Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 1.0), which version 2.0 of these
guidelines is near completion. Moreover, users access contents and
services with a variety of devices and with different interaction modes
that should consider personal characteristics (including disabilities)
and the context of usage.
In addition, to make this framework interoperable, flexible and
extensible, contents, user models and device descriptions should be
standardized. In this respect, available specifications, such as IMS
AccessForAll Specifications are currently being adopted within an ISO
standard under development in that organisation's committee known as
JTC1 SC34. There has also been work towards profiling the AccessForAll
metadata to the IEEE LOM - Learning Object Metadata standard and the
Dublin Core (DCMI) metadata set.
Workshop Topics
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Users features dealing with different access strategies and the usage of
assistive technologies
* Modelling group collaboration where users may have different access needs
* User, usage and environment data to be considered when developing
accessible user models
* Existing standards and limitations for the user modelling approach
* Management of user modelling and adaptation issues in ePortfolios
* Accessible web user interfaces and user modelling
* User profile specifications and their limitations for user modelling
(e.g. IMS-AccLIP versus CC/PP)
* Problems to be considered when integrating user and device profiles
* Evaluation of user experience providing adapted responses to people
with functional diversity
* Modelling users in the life long learning paradigm and related user
modelling and accessibility issues
* Context awareness and device modelling
* Recommender systems to promote dynamics for students with special needs
* Types of architectures to support adaptive and accessible resource
delivery
Workshop Format
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The format of the workshop is based on question-oriented organization
with lively discussions rather than mini-conference organization. In
particular, the methodology used will be based on an adaptation of the
"learning discussion forum" (aka Learning Café Methodology) which
involve expert's introductions and group discussions ensuring that all
participants can have a direct impact in addressing the workshop questions.
Submissions
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The format for the workshop papers should be the standard Springer
format used for the main conference BUT with narrower margins:
TOP and BOTTOM - 3cm;
LEFT and RIGHT - 3.5cm.
The length of the papers will be 3 pages with direct answers to some of
the challenging open questions. The authors are encouraged to answer
only those questions that have been previously address in their research
works.
Each paper will be pair reviewed by 3 experts, who will provide valuable
feedback for the work.
Submissions should be in Open Document Format (ODT file), although RTF
format is also accepted.
Workshop papers will be published in the workshop proceedings by the
UM2007 Organizing Committee, and will also be available on the workshop
Web site.
Important dates
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Paper submission: February 25, 2007
Paper notification: March 16, 2007
Final versions due: April 15, 2007
Early registration: March 19, 2007
Workshop date: June 26, 2007
Workshop Program Committee
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Martyn Cooper (Open University, UK)
Helen Petrie (University of York, UK)
Carlos Velasco (Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology
-FIT, Germany)
Alfred Kobsa (University of California Irvine, US)
Jesus G. Boticario (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia -UNED,
Spain)
Olga C. Santos (UNED, Spain)
Yehya Mohamad (FIT, Germany)
Daniel Burgos (Spain)
Christopher Power (University of York, UK)
Daniel Borrajo (Univesidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Alejandro Rodriguez Ascaso (UNED, Spain)
Gerhard Weber (Technical University Dresden , Germany)
Loïc Martinez Normand (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
Manuel Ortega Cantero (Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
Ramon Fabregat Gesa (Universidad de Gerona, Spain)
Antonio Rodriguez Anaya (UNED, Spain)
Lydia Montandón (ATOS Origin, Spain)
Alicia Fernandez del Viso (Soluziona, Spain)
Workshop Organizers
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Martyn Cooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Open University, UK
Carlos Velasco (http://access.fit.fraunhofer.de/) Fraunhofer Institute
for Applied Information Technology, Germany
Jesús G. Boticario ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Universidad Nacional de Educacion a
Distancia, Spain
Olga C. Santos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Universidad Nacional de Educacion
a Distancia, Spain
