Welcome!NEW in UMAP this year:

- Move across the Atlantic (after 3 years in Europe)- Move to ACM as a sponsor (after 22 years UM Inc)- Move to ACM as a publisher (after 15 years with

Springer)- New presentation model – short talks & posters

Review Process & Stats

• 123 submissions, each with 3 or even 4 reviews• 21 long papers (23.9% acceptance rate) • 13 short papers (27.6% acceptance rate) • 17 extended abstracts for poster presentation • posters, demos, and late breaking results

showcase the wide spectrum of novel ideas and latest results in user modeling, adaptation and personalization

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submissionsAdaptive, Intelligent, & Multimodal User Interfaces

Architectures, techniques & methodologies for UMAP

Personalization in the Social Web & Crowdsourcing Era

Adaptive & Personalized Ed-ucational Systems

User Modelling for Rec-ommender Systems

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country authors submitted accepted PC membersUnited States 73 21,32 14,27 24Italy 48 14,3 4,92 17France 27 9,98 3,33 2Australia 22 4,8 2 9Canada 22 8,34 3,81 9Ireland 17 8 4 7United Kingdom 17 5,85 1,63 19Austria 15 3,25 1,25 6Netherlands 13 3,25 3,25 10Brazil 11 3 1 0Tunisia 11 5 0 0Germany 10 4,37 3,17 13Israel 10 3,44 1 2Turkey 10 2,01 0,13 0Norway 9 3,42 0,42 0Japan 8 3 2 2Slovakia 7 2 0 1

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Program Committee & Reviewers

• 132 PC members• 49 sub-reviewers• Track Chairs coordinated the reviews &

recommendations to PC Chairs• at least 3 reviews per submission• 95% of the submissions received 4 reviews• meta-reviews

leading researchers of user modeling & adaptive hypermedia communities

Track ChairsUser Modelling for Recommender Systems• Alexander Felfernig & Pasquale Lops

Adaptive & Personalized Educational Systems• Antonija Mitrovic & Kalina Yacef

Personalization in the Social Web & Crowdsourcing Era• Alessandro Bozzon & Harith Alani

Track ChairsAdaptive, Intelligent, & Multimodal User Interfaces• Hatice Gunes & Julien Epps

Architectures, Techniques & Methodologies for UMAP• Mihaela Cocea & Stephan Weibelzahl

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Comparison with previous UMAPs

UMAP 2014 Aalborg - 138

Non studentsStudents

UMAP 2015 Dublin - 125

Non studentsStudents

UMAP 2016 Halifax - 128

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Thanks to our sponsors:

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Organization• James Blustein & Eelco Herder – brothers in arms (in chairs)…

• Lora Aroyo & Sidney D’Mello – PC Chairs• Federica Cena & Jie Zhang – Workshop Chairs• Maria Bielikova & Vania Dimitrova – Doctoral Consortium Chairs• Michel Desmarais & Darina Dicheva – Poster, Demo and LBR

Track Chairs

Big thanks also to• Cristina Gena, Vania Dimitrova, Sidney D’Mello, Bamshad

Mobasher – Student Funding • Christoph Trattner - Publicity; Eelco Herder – Website design,

Emmanuel Kaku – web help• Peter Brusilovsky, Paul De Bra and Alfred Kobsa – invaluable advice• Courtney Larkin, Angie Bolivar, Anne Publicover – local wizzards• Lisa Tolles, Ashley Cozzi, Farrah Khan, Diana Brantuas, Maritza

Nichols – ACM contacts• Simon Harper (SIG-WEB) and Aaron Quigley (SIG-CHI) liaisons• Peter Dolog, Owen Conlan – statistics from previous UMAP

conferences