[agents] 2011 James Chen Annual Award for Best UMUAI paper

[Alfred Kobsa]

USER MODELING AND USER-ADAPTED INTERACTION: THE JOURNAL OF PERSONALIZATION RESEARCH (UMUAI) is pleased to announce that the papers

   	Kasia Muldner, Winslow Burleson, Brett Van de Sande and Kurt VanLehn
	An analysis of students’ gaming behaviors in an intelligent tutoring system: predictors and impacts
	UMUAI 21:1-2, 2011, 99-135, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11257-010-9086-0

	Brent Martin, Antonija Mitrovic, Kenneth R. Koedinger and Santosh Mathan
	Evaluating and improving adaptive educational systems with learning curves
	UMUAI 21:3, 2011, 249–28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11257-010-9084-2

have each been chosen as the recipients of the 2011 James Chen Annual Award for Best Journal Article. They were selected based on nominations from journal reviewers, guest editors and editorial board members, and a subsequent comparative review by an award committee.

The UMUAI annual best paper award has been established by the Chen Family in commemoration of James R. Chen, a creative researcher in the area of user modeling and information retrieval, and twice a UMUAI author. Each award carries a cash prize of U.S. $1,000. Previous award winners are listed at http://www.umuai.org/james-chen-award.html .

UMUAI is a highly-ranked interdisciplinary journal for the dissemination of new research results on interactive computer systems that can be adapted or adapt themselves to their current users, and on the role of user models in the adaptation process. More information on the journal is available from http://www.umuai.org . A freely available special issue that celebrates the first 25 years of user modeling research just appeared online at http://www.springerlink.com/content/0924-1868/22/1-2/. Its contributions provide an overview of research issues in user modeling that are the likely shape of the next decade of research, as well as a historical perspective of how these issues have evolved since the inception of the field.

Alfred Kobsa, Editor
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction:
The Journal of Personalization Research