11. UM 2007: Corfu, Greece
Cristina Conati, Kathleen F. McCoy, Georgios Paliouras (Eds.): User Modeling 2007, 11th International Conference, UM 2007, Corfu, Greece, June 25-29, 2007, Proceedings. Springer 2007 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 978-3-540-73077-4
Invited Papers
Norbert Streitz: The Disappearing Computer: User-Centered Interaction Design for Smart Artefacts. 1-2
Yasuyuki Sumi: Experience Medium: Toward a New Medium for Exchanging Experiences. 3-4
Martha E. Pollack: Intelligent Assistive Technology: The Present and the Future. 5-6
Evaluating User/Student Modeling Techniques

Ryan Shaun Joazeiro de Baker, M. P. Jacob Habgood, Shaaron Ainsworth, Albert T. Corbett: Modeling the Acquisition of Fluent Skill in Educational Action Games. 17-26
Michael Yudelson, Peter Brusilovsky, Vladimir Zadorozhny: A User Modeling Server for Contemporary Adaptive Hypermedia: An Evaluation of the Push Approach to Evidence Propagation. 27-36
Data Mining and Machine Learning for User Modeling

Tanja Falkowski, Myra Spiliopoulou: Users in Volatile Communities: Studying Active Participation and Community Evolution. 47-56
Bhaskar Mehta: Learning from What Others Know: Privacy Preserving Cross System Personalization. 57-66
Hui Zhang, Yu Song, Han-Tao Song: Construction of Ontology-Based User Model for Web Personalization. 67-76
Collaborative Filtering and Recommender Systems

David Bonnefoy, Makram Bouzid, Nicolas Lhuillier, Kevin Mercer: "More Like This" or "Not for Me": Delivering Personalised Recommendations in Multi-user Environments. 87-96
Panagiotis Symeonidis, Alexandros Nanopoulos, Yannis Manolopoulos: Feature-Weighted User Model for Recommender Systems. 97-106
Cognitive Modeling
Noboru Matsuda, William W. Cohen, Jonathan Sewall, Gustavo Lacerda, Kenneth R. Koedinger: Evaluating a Simulated Student Using Real Students Data for Training and Testing. 107-116
Albert T. Corbett, Angela Z. Wagner, Sharon Lesgold, Harry Ulrich, Scott M. Stevens: Modeling Students' Natural Language Explanations. 117-126
Marcus Heinath, Jeronimo Dzaack, Andre Wiesner, Leon Urbas: Applications for Cognitive User Modeling. 127-136
User Adaptation and Usability
Andrea Bunt, Joanna McGrenere, Cristina Conati: Understanding the Utility of Rationale in a Mixed-Initiative System for GUI Customization. 147-156
Yang Wang, Alfred Kobsa: Respecting Users' Individual Privacy Constraints in Web Personalization. 157-166
Mehmed M. Kantardzic, Pedram Sadeghian: Personalized Previews of Alternative Routes in Virtual Environments. 167-176
Susan Bull, Neil Cooke, Andrew Mabbott: Visual Attention in Open Learner Model Presentations: An Eye-Tracking Investigation. 177-186
Modeling A?ect and Meta-cognition
Ronald H. Stevens, Trysha Galloway, Chris Berka: EEG-Related Changes in Cognitive Workload, Engagement and Distraction as Students Acquire Problem Solving Skills. 187-196
Mihaela Cocea, Stephan Weibelzahl: Eliciting Motivation Knowledge from Log Files Towards Motivation Diagnosis for Adaptive Systems. 197-206
Choo-Yee Ting, Mohammad Reza Beik Zadeh: Assessing Learner's Scientific Inquiry Skills Across Time: A Dynamic Bayesian Network Approach. 207-216
Nilufar Baghaei, Antonija Mitrovic: From Modelling Domain Knowledge to Metacognitive Skills: Extending a Constraint-Based Tutoring System to Support Collaboration. 217-227
Mobile, Ubiquitous, and Context Aware User Modeling

Massimo Zancanaro, Tsvi Kuflik, Zvi Boger, Dina Goren-Bar, Dan Goldwasser: Analyzing Museum Visitors' Behavior Patterns. 238-246
Chihiro Ono, Mori Kurokawa, Yoichi Motomura, Hideki Asoh: A Context-Aware Movie Preference Model Using a Bayesian Network for Recommendation and Promotion. 247-257
Fabio Pianesi, Ilenia Graziola, Massimo Zancanaro: Intrinsic Motivational Factors for the Intention to Use Adaptive Technology: Validation of a Causal Model. 258-267
Intelligent Information Retrieval, Information Filtering, and Content Personalization
Pasquale Lops, Marco Degemmis, Giovanni Semeraro: Improving Social Filtering Techniques Through WordNet-Based User Profiles. 268-277
Dionisios N. Sotiropoulos, Aristomenis S. Lampropoulos, George A. Tsihrintzis: Evaluation of Modeling Music Similarity Perception Via Feature Subset Selection. 288-297
Poster Papers
Max Van Kleek, Howard E. Shrobe: A Practical Activity Capture Framework for Personal, Lifetime User Modeling. 298-302
Julieta Noguez, Luis Enrique Sucar, Enrique David Espinosa: A Probabilistic Relational Student Model for Virtual Laboratories. 303-308
Federica Cena, Lora Aroyo: A Semantics-Based Dialogue for Interoperability of User-Adaptive Systems in a Ubiquitous Environment. 309-313
Georgios Rigas, Christos D. Katsis, George Ganiatsas, Dimitrios I. Fotiadis: A User Independent, Biosignal Based, Emotion Recognition Method. 314-318
Olivier Villon, Christine L. Lisetti: A User Model of Psycho-physiological Measure of Emotion. 319-323
Heung-Nam Kim, Ae-Ttie Ji, Cheol Yeon, GeunSik Jo: A User-Item Predictive Model for Collaborative Filtering Recommendation. 324-328
Diana Rosario Pérez Marín, Enrique Alfonseca, Pilar Rodríguez, Ismael Pascual-Nieto: Automatic Generation of Students' Conceptual Models from Answers in Plain Text. 329-333
Ka Cheung Sia, Shenghuo Zhu, Yun Chi, Koji Hino, Belle L. Tseng: Capturing User Interests by Both Exploitation and Exploration. 334-339
Elena Vildjiounaite, Otilia Kocsis, Vesa Kyllönen, Basilis Kladis: Context-Dependent User Modelling for Smart Homes. 345-349
Shamsi T. Iqbal, Eric Horvitz: Conversations Amidst Computing: A Study of Interruptions and Recovery of Task Activity. 350-354
Shlomo Berkovsky, Tsvi Kuflik, Francesco Ricci: Cross-Domain Mediation in Collaborative Filtering. 355-359
Santi Caballé, Fatos Xhafa, Thanasis Daradoumis, Raul Fernandez: Enabling Efficient Real Time User Modeling in On-Line Campus. 365-369
Teresa Hurley, Stephan Weibelzahl: Eliciting Adaptation Knowledge from On-Line Tutors to Increase Motivation. 370-374
Sunyoung Lee, Scott W. McQuiggan, James C. Lester: Inducing User Affect Recognition Models for Task-Oriented Environments. 380-384
Yiwen Wang, Lora Aroyo, Natalia Stash, Lloyd Rutledge: Interactive User Modeling for Personalized Access to Museum Collections: The Rijksmuseum Case Study. 385-389
Sunkyoung Baek, Myunggwon Hwang, PanKoo Kim: Kansei Processing Agent for Personalizing Retrieval. 390-394
Jörg Müller, Antonio Krüger, Tsvi Kuflik: Maximizing the Utility of Situated Public Displays. 395-399

Mark Assad, David J. Carmichael, Judy Kay, Bob Kummerfeld: MyPlace Locator: Flexible Sharing of Location Information. 410-414
Minh Dang Thang, Vania Dimitrova, Karim Djemame: Personalised Mashups: Opportunities and Challenges for User Modelling. 415-419
Giovanni Cozzolongo, Berardina De Carolis, Sebastiano Pizzutilo: Personalized Control of Smart Environments. 420-424

Zachary A. Pardos, Neil T. Heffernan, Brigham Anderson, Cristina Linquist-Heffernan: The Effect of Model Granularity on Student Performance Prediction Using Bayesian Networks. 435-439
Giuseppe Lugano, Pertti Saariluoma: To Share or Not to Share: Supporting the User Decision in Mobile Social Software Applications. 440-444
Francesca Carmagnola, Federica Cena, Omar Cortassa, Cristina Gena, Ilaria Torre: Towards a Tag-Based User Model: How Can User Model Benefit from Tags? 445-449
Nicolás Poggi, Toni Moreno, Josep Lluis Berral, Ricard Gavaldà, Jordi Torres: Web Customer Modeling for Automated Session Prioritization on High Traffic Sites. 450-454
Kurt VanLehn, Kenneth R. Koedinger, Alida Skogsholm, Adaeze Nwaigwe, Robert G. M. Hausmann, Anders Weinstein, Benjamin Billings: What's in a Step? Toward General, Abstract Representations of Tutoring System Log Data. 455-459
Doctoral Consortium Papers
F. Maxwell Harper: Encouraging Contributions to Online Communities with Personalization and Incentives. 460-464
Styliani Kleanthous: Semantic-Enhanced Personalised Support for Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Communities. 465-469
Nava Tintarev: Explaining Recommendations. 470-474
Hien Nguyen: Designing Persuasive Health Behaviour Change Dialogs. 475-479
Yiwen Wang: User-Centered Design for Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage. 480-484



