[apologies for multiple postings] ============================================================ FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
User Models for Motivational Systems: the affective and the rational routes to persuasion Sunday June 20, Big Island of Hawaii http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~floriana/UM4Motivation/ In conjunction with UMAP 2010 User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization http://www.hawaii.edu/UMAP2010/ =============== KEY DATES =============== - Paper submission: March 29, 2010 - Notification: May 3, 2010 - Final Copy Due: May 24, 2010 - Workshop date: June 20, 2010 =============== CALL FOR PAPERS =============== Recent years have witnessed the growth of three parallel strands of research, all directing towards a more complex cognitive model of rational and extra-rational features, involving emotions, persuasion, motivation and argumentation. On one side, Persuasive Technology is emerging as a very strong research field, interested in the use of interactive systems to influence human thought and behavior. The international Persuasive conference is now well established at its 5th edition, and a series of other small events, like the Persuasive Technology Symposia (with AISB in 2008 and 2009), confirm the importance of the field in the research landscape. Parallel to this, Affective Computing is interested in the use, understanding and modelling of emotions and affect in computer systems. From the early 90s, which also saw two UM workshops (at UM03 and UM05), Affective Computing is now an established discipline, with an international conference (ACII), a professional society (HUMAINE) and, recently, a new journal (IEEE Trans. on Affective Computing). Finally, Argument and Computation is also emerged in the past decade as a research strand interested in computational models of theories of argumentation and persuasion coming from Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence. Again, an increasing number of events dedicated to the topic, including two annual workshop series (Argumentation in MultiAgent Systems, now at its 7th edition, and Computational Models of Natural Argument, at its 10th edition) and a biennial international conference (COMMA), have recently been complemented by a new journal (Argument and Computation). This workshop intends to sit at the intersection between these three areas of research, and focus on how adaptive and personalised systems can motivate people, for instance to improve health, or to use sustainable resources, or to achieve goals or specific skills, by using persuasion and argumentation techniques and/or techniques involving the affective and emotional sphere. ================== TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== The workshop will focus on strategies, techniques and evaluation for motivational systems that tailor to cognitive and affective state of the individual. Suggested topics include: - user models for persuasive motivational systems: - Modeling receiver involvement, and position; - Modeling personality and affective state for persuasion, - Identifying relevant affective aspect in user modeling, - Integrating affective and non-affective aspect in user models, - Recognition and interpretation of the users’ communicative intentions and affective states and updating of the user model, - Investigating the relationship between recognized affective states and their impact on users’ beliefs and motivation, - Effect of cultural differences on persuasion; - adaptive strategies for persuasion: - Generating persuasive arguments; - Ontologies for persuasion; - Persuasive discourse processing: understanding what users say in terms of argumentation schemes; - Computational models of argumentation tailored to a specific user; - Rhetoric and affect: the role of emotions, personalities, etc. in models of persuasion and argumentation; - motivation and affect: - mutual interactions and synergies, - peripheral routes of persuasion (humor, mood induction, enhancing source credibility) - persuasive interfaces: - ambient persuasion, - use of embodied conversational agents, - serious games - applications and evaluations: - intelligent tutoring systems, - health promotion, - e-democracy, - advertising, - entertainment, - coaching, - decision support. - ethical issues and evaluation of the impact of affective factors in motivation ============ SUBMISSIONS ============ The workshop encourages submissions in three categories: - Long papers, describing mature research (up to 12 pages) - Short papers describing work in progress (up to 6 pages) - Demonstration of implemented systems: submissions should be accompanied by written reports (up to 6 pages). Authors should contact the organisers to ensure suitable equipment is available. Papers should be formatted according to the style guide of UMAP'10 (Springer LNCS) see here: http://web41.its.hawaii.edu/www.hawaii.edu/UMAP2010/index.php/paper-submission Papers will be reviews by at least two members of the programme committee. Accepted papers will be included in the workshops notes, distributed at the event. Paper submission will be handled by the Easychair conference system. Please submit your paper here: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=um4motivation ================ WORKSHOP CHAIRS ================ Nadja De Carolis Dipartimento di Informatica University of Bari Bari, Italy decarolis(AT)di.uniba.it www.di.uniba.it/~nadja/ Floriana Grasso Department of Computer Science University of Liverpool Liverpool L69 3BF, UK floriana(AT)csc.liv.ac.uk www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~floriana/ Judith Masthoff Department of Computing Science University of Aberdeen Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK j.masthoff(AT)abdn.ac.uk www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~jmasthof/ ======================== -- Irene Mazzotta PhD, Research Assistant University of Bari Department of Informatics Via Orabona, 4 70126 - Bari Italy Phone: +39.080.544.32.82 http://www.di.uniba.it/intint/people/irene.html mazzotta_AT_di.uniba.it
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