The International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP) is the oldest international conference for researchers and practitioners working on various kinds of user-adaptive computer systems such as
Adaptive hypermedia Adaptive hypermedia (AH) uses hypermedia which is adaptive according to a ''user model''. In contrast to linear media, where all users are offered a standard series of hyperlinks, adaptive hypermedia (AH) tailors what the user is offered based on a ...
systems,
Recommender system
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s,
Adaptive websites,
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,
Personalized learning
Personalized learning, individualized instruction, personal learning environment and direct instruction all refer to efforts to tailor education to meet the different needs of students.
Overview
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and
Intelligent tutoring systems and
Personalized search
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systems. All of these systems adapt to their individual users, or to groups of users (i.e.,
Personalization
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).
To achieve this goal, they collect and represent information about users or groups (i.e.,
User modeling User modeling is the subdivision of human–computer interaction which describes the
process of building up and modifying a conceptual understanding of the user. The main goal of user modeling is customization and adaptation of systems to the user' ...
).
The UMAP conferences have historically been organized under the auspices of User Modeling Inc., a professional organization of User Modeling researchers. Until 2015, the conference proceedings were published by
Springer
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. In 2016, the UMAP conference series became affiliated with the
Association for Computing Machinery
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(ACM), where it is supported by
ACM SIGWEB and
ACM SIGCHI.
History
UMAP is the successor of the biennial conference series on
User Modeling User modeling is the subdivision of human–computer interaction which describes the
process of building up and modifying a conceptual understanding of the user. The main goal of user modeling is customization and adaptation of systems to the user' ...
and
Adaptive Hypermedia Adaptive hypermedia (AH) uses hypermedia which is adaptive according to a ''user model''. In contrast to linear media, where all users are offered a standard series of hyperlinks, adaptive hypermedia (AH) tailors what the user is offered based on a ...
. The User Modeling series started in 1986 as the First International Workshop on User Modeling (UM) at Maria Laach,
Germany
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and was first officially called a conference at the Fourth International Conference on User Modeling in
Hyannis, Massachusetts
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. The last conference in the original series was UM 2007. The International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (abbreviated as AH) started in 2000. The last conference in this original series was AH 2008, held in 2008. For several years between 2000 and 2008, UM and AH ran biennially in alternate years. In 2009, the conference series merged into a single annual series under the UMAP designation. The first UMAP conference was in 2009.
The full list of conferences in the series can be found on the UM Inc. website and in a timeline on the Springer publisher website.
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