SEMAIS

Workshop

The SEMAIS 2010 Workshop will be held in conjunction with the 2010 International Conference On Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2010) in Hong Kong, China, on February 7th.

Motivation and goals

Semantic technologies and, in particular, ontologies as formal, shareable representations of a domain of interest play an increasingly important role also for the design and development of user interfaces and more generally interactive systems. Semantic models can serve a number of different purposes in this context. They can be used as application or interface models in model-driven design and generation of user interfaces. Semantic Models can also be applied for representing the various kinds of context information for context-aware and adaptive systems.

In particular, they have promise to provide a technique for representing external physical context factors such as location, time or technical parameters and 'internal' context such as user interest profiles or interaction context in a consistent, generalized manner. Owing to these properties, semantic models can also contribute to bridging gaps, e.g., between user models, context-aware interfaces and model-driven UI generation.

There is, therefore, a considerable potential for using semantic models as a basis for adaptive interactive systems. The range of potential adaptations is wide comprising, for example, context- and user-dependent recommendations, interactive assistance when performing application-specific tasks, adaptation of the application functionality, or adaptive retrieval support. Furthermore, a variety of reasoning and machine learning techniques exist, that can be employed to achieve adaptive system behavior.

The workshop generally aims at sharing experiences and identifying a set of shared research issues that need to be addressed in future research.

Topics of interest

• Representing user models, domain knowledge and interaction context by means of semantic models.
• Cognitively or neurally founded reasoning techniques such as activation spreading for semantic user models.
• Context-aware interaction based on semantic models.
• Adaptation strategies and techniques based on semantic models for e. g. recommender systems, adaptive retrieval, collaboration support systems and others.
• Generating explanations or visualizations to increase user confidence and support traceability.
• Scalability of semantic model-based interactive systems.
• Semantic model-driven UI development.
• Generation and evolution of semantic models for interactive systems.
• Evaluation approaches for adaptive interaction.

Submission guidelines

Prospective participants should submit a 2-page position paper describing their interests and work in the topic of the work-shop. First comments on (one or more of) the following topics we intend to discuss at the workshop are also welcome, but not mandatory (additional questions are also welcome):

• What are the major challenges (technical, organizational etc.) for developing or generating user interfaces based on semantic models?
• For which kinds of systems or applications are semantic models particularly useful?
• In which ways will semantic technologies affect user interfaces in the future?
• What kinds of context-adaptivity do you see as particularly promising?
• How can adaptive model driven user interfaces be evaluated?

We will select participants based on the abstract's quality and the diversity of their backgrounds, aiming at an interdisciplinary group. The selected presenters will be asked to provide an extended 5-page position paper one month before the workshop. These position papers will be circulated in advance for participants to get an understanding of the mutual views and to provide a starting point for the discussion.

Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format to submissions [at] semais [dot] org

Schedule

	09:00	09:05	Introduction and organizational issues
Collaboration	09:05	09:30	Kolfschoten, Lukosch & Seck	Modeling and simulating collaboration processes to understand process interventions
	09:30	09:55	Joop & Ziegler	Group context-based adaptations for recommendation
	09:55	10:00	Session Discussion
	10:00	10:30	Coffee Break
Ubiquitous / Mobile Computing	10:30	10:55	Nikolova, Cook	Building semantic networks to improve word finding in assistive communication tools
	10:55	11:20	Lee	Exploiting context for mobile user experience
	11:20	11:45	Gross	Towards semantic modelling in adaptive ubiquitous environments
	11:45	12:00	Session Discussion
	12:00	14:00	Lunch Break
UI Generation	14:00	14:25	Pohjalainen	Self-configuring user interface components
	14:25	14:50	Paulheim, Probst	Ontology-based User Interface Integration
	14:50	15:15	Hussein, Muenter	Automated generation of a faceted navigation interface using semantic models
	15:15	15:30	Session Discussion
	15:30	16:00	Coffee Break
Spreading Activation	16:00	16:25	Hussein, Neuhaus	Explanation of spreading activation based recommendations
	16:25	16:50	Ishikawa, Kiriyama, Kitazawa, Takebayashi	A study of constructing a thinking process model based on multimodal behavior analysis
	16:50	17:15	Akim, Dix	Simulating Scaling Spreading Activation over Ontologies
	17:15	17:30	Session Discussion
	17:30	18:00	Discussion, Future Activities, Closing Remarks
Session	Time		Authors	Title