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 | |
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Dates
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December 1, 2009
Submission deadline
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December 14, 2009
Notification of acceptance
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January 7, 2010
Revised, formatted document due
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February 7, 2010
Workshop date
Workshop location
The workshop will be located in the Monet Room A (see floor plan).
Organizers
Alan Dix
Lancaster University
Computing Department, InfoLab21
Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK
E-Mail: alan [at] hcibook [dot] com
Web: http://www.hcibook.com/alan
Tim Hussein
University of Duisburg-Essen
Interactive Systems / Interaction Design
Lotharstr. 65, 47057 Duisburg, Germany
E-Mail: tim.hussein [at] uni-due [dot] de
Web: http://interactivesystems.info/hussein
Stephan Lukosch
Delft University of Technology
Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management
PO Box 5015, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands
E-Mail: s.g.lukosch [at] tudelft [dot] nl
Web: http://www.tudelft.nl/sglukosch
Juergen Ziegler
University of Duisburg-Essen
Interactive Systems / Interaction Design
Lotharstr. 65, 47057 Duisburg, Germany
E-Mail: juergen.ziegler [at] uni-due [dot] de
Web: http://interactivesystems.info/ziegler