[Asis-l] Call for participation - AVI2004 Workshop on "Environments for Personalized Information Access"

[Francesca Borri]

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Workshop on "Environments for Personalized Information Access"
http://www.di.uniba.it/avi2004/e4pia/

in conjunction with AVI 2004
Advanced Visual Interfaces
International Working Conference http://www.di.uniba.it/~avi2004/

Grand Hotel Costa Brada - Gallipoli (Lecce), Italy
May 25, 2004


GENERAL INFORMATION
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Nowadays, most large-scale applications are designed for a large variety
= of users. An emerging research issue is to enable these systems to
satisfy = heterogeneous needs. The traditional "one-size-fits-all"
approach is outdated: the challenge, = now, is to enhance the system's
ability to adapt its own behaviour to individual users needs. Some
research areas focus on automatically personalizing applications = based
on observations of user behaviour, employing techniques from machine
learning and the broader = Artificial Intelligence community. For
example, systems that observe a user's actions may be = able to infer
users' tasks and, through this understanding, be able to adapt user
interfaces that will = facilitate performance of tedious tasks or
provide assistance with complex procedures. Moreover, the
personalization of applications moves along another =
dimension:
in particular, with the advent of ubiquitous services, the adaptation to
= the characteristics of the transmission channel (broadband, quality of
service, etc.), to the user = device (memory size,
etc.) and to other factors (e.g., emergency, stress, etc.) become =
extremely important properties of the User Interfaces. The deep
heterogeneity of users and devices makes the design and = development of
usable Advanced Visual Interfaces a very challenging topic for the
research in = personalization, that can contribute to improve them by
enhancing their capabilities to adapt to specific = contextual
conditions. This workshop is intended to provide a forum in which
researchers from = diverse fields such as machine learning, knowledge
engineering, psychology, cognitive sciences, = adaptive user interfaces,
user modelling and virtual reality can examine the personalization
aspects of = the advanced user interfaces.


TOPICS
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- Intelligent User Interfaces
- Adaptive Hypermedia
- User Interface Design
- Usability
- User Interfaces for all
- Virtual Reality
- Ubiquitous Systems
- Data mining
- Standards for representing multimodal information
- Multimedia Information Systems
- Cross-system personalization


REGISTRATION
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Instructions for registration can be found at the AVI web site. Please,
notice that the deadline for the early registration is April 14, = 2004.
We also recommend that you check the web site asap for hotel =
registration:
spring is a very crowded season in the area and you might have trouble =
in finding a hotel room if you wait too much.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Liliana Ardissono
Dipartimento di Informatica
Universita` di Torino
Corso Svizzera 185
10149 Torino
Italy
liliana at di.unito.it


Giovanni Semeraro
Dipartimento di Informatica
Universita` di Bari
Via E. Orabona 4
70125 Bari
Italy
semeraro at di.uniba.it


LOCAL ORGANIZATION
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Marco Degemmis, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universit=E0 di Bari, Italy
(degemmis at di.uniba.it)
Pasquale Lops, Dipartimento di Informatica, Universit=E0 di Bari, Italy
(lops at di.uniba.it)