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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/

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KEY DATES
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- Paper submission: March 29, 2010
- Notification: May 3, 2010
- Final Copy Due: May 24, 2010
- Workshop date: June 20, 2010


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CALL FOR PAPERS
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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.


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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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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


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SUBMISSIONS
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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


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WORKSHOP CHAIRS
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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/

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-- 
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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