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The submission deadline has been extended to April 8, 2009.
The workshop date has changed from the 22nd to the 26th of June 2009
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You are kindly invited to contribute to the Sixth Workshop on
User-Centred Design and Evaluation of Adaptive Systems (UDEAS),
which will be held in the context of the UMAP’09 conference,
and follows in the tracks of five successful workshops held in
conjunction with UM2001, UM2003, AH2004, UM2005 and AH 2006.
The workshop's guiding perspective is that novel design approaches,
adequate evaluation methods, and reliable assessment criteria and
metrics are prerequisites for improving the quality and usability
of the next generations of adaptive systems. This instalment of
the workshop has a special focus on the user-centred design of
adaptive systems, and early formative evaluation studies that inform
and guide the development process. This includes the re-use
or tailoring of usability- and requirements- engineering methods
to facilitate the design and assessment of concepts and prototypes
in all phases of system development.
Workshop web site:
http://www.easy-hub.org/hub/workshops/umap2009/
Web sites and proceedings of the five previous workshops:
http://www.easy-hub.org/hub/workshops.jsp
The workshop, continuing in the steps of its predecessors, will
focus on the following general themes:
Design
- Which user-centred design methods can be used
to inform different development stages of adaptive systems? And
how?
- How do you account for adaptivity during requirements
engineering?
- Are there examples of design patterns for adaptive
systems and their employment in the design of new adaptive systems?
- How can potential trade-offs of adaptivity and
usability be resolved (e.g., consistency vs. context-sensitivity)?
- How do you account for typical user problems
that come with adaptive systems (e.g., privacy, reduced control
over system behaviour, reduced levels of predictability) during
design?
- Case studies on the design of an adaptive system
which involved end-users.
Evaluation
- What new criteria need to be introduced to specifically
cater for the presence of user modelling and adaptation in the
evaluated systems?
- Which criteria can be used during the evaluation
of a specific sub-class of adaptive systems (e.g., adaptive search
engines or adaptive learning systems) and the underlying user
models?
- How can we evaluate variables like perceived
and real privacy, system scrutability, user trust, user satisfaction,
system effectiveness, system efficiency, learnability and enjoyment?
- Which user-centred evaluation methods can be
used or adapted to inform different development stages of adaptive
systems? And how?
- How do you evaluate adaptivity without a full-working
system?
Case studies on the evaluation of an adaptive
system which involved end-users.
Experiences, problems and plans
- What problems did you run into while conducting
design activities with users for an adaptive system or while
evaluating it with users? And, if applicable, how did you solve
them?
- If you have a user-centred design approach or
evaluation plan, but have not conducted the activities yet: What
does the design look like and why did you choose for a certain
method and the variables to assess?
- Do you have any preliminary insights regarding
user-centred design or evaluation of previous experiences that
you want to share with the community?
- Are there still open issues in your design approach
or evaluation plan and you want to discuss with the community,
what are they?
The workshop will be divided into two parts. One part will include
an introduction delivered by the workshop organizers, on the state
of the art in formative evaluation methods for adaptive systems.
This talk is intended as a condensed overview of the results of
previous workshops, and will serve both as a mini “tutorial” on
the subject of empirically evaluating adaptive systems, and as
a basis for further discussion among participants.
The second part will be devoted to paper presentations and discussions.
In order to allow as much time as possible for interaction between
participants during the workshop, the allowed duration of presentations
will be kept short. Discussions will be organized around the general
research themes outlined above. Participants of the workshop are
expected to share their experiences and discuss the issue of what
constitutes good and bad practice in studies targeting adaptive
systems. To encourage as much interchange as possible, participants
will be divided in smaller groups, each addressing a different
topic; topics will be derived from the workshop themes and questions,
as well as from the workshop submissions to ensure the highest
possible relevance to the people present. Furthermore, the group
discussions aim to provide the participants that have questions
about their design or evaluation studies with answers.
Submissions will be evaluated in regard to their relevance to
/ contribution towards the themes. Two types of submissions will
be solicited to achieve this goal: studies and position papers.
Each study will be discussed in terms of experience gathered. The
submission of case studies is explicitly encouraged, as these can
be very informative for other participants. This is also true for "unsuccessful
studies", which can help share insights about potential pitfalls
and how these may be avoided. Persons with a paper
in the main conference that contains a design or evaluation study
are encouraged to send an elaborated discussion of this study as
a paper.
Papers reporting studies are expected to describe the design or
evaluation activities and their outcomes. Furthermore, they must
report 'lessons learned' which can be valuable to others who are
about to design or evaluate an adaptive system.
Position papers are solicited on the design and evaluation themes.
Authors of such papers are expected to build upon related experience
to discuss and propose either new (or, reworked existing) metrics
/ approaches for user-centred design or evaluation of adaptation,
or, address other related methodological or organisational issues.
Papers on ‘experiences, problems and plans’ are expected
to shortly summarize the (planned) study and the experiences the
authors gained from it, or the problems they were confronted with.
Submissions should not exceed 10 pages for studies / position
papers and 4 pages for "experiences, problems and plans" papers,
and should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines.
Please refer to the submission page for
more information.
Workshop papers will be published in full length in the workshop
proceedings and presented in talks at the workshop.
Please, submit your paper by e-mail to umap2009-workshop
at easy-hub.org until Monday, March 30th, 2009.
Portable Document Format (*.pdf) and Postscript (*.ps) files are
preferred.
April 8th, 2009:
March 30th, 2009 |
Submission of papers |
April 30th,
2009: |
Notification of authors |
May 15th, 2009: |
Delivery of camera-ready copy |
June 26th, 2009
June 22nd, 2009: |
Workshop day; the conference lasts from June
22nd to June 26th, 2009 |
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