[agents] Call for participant and further updates IUI'14 conference

[Tintarev, N]

A friendly reminder that early registration closes on the 20th of January:
http://www.iuiconf.org/Attendees/Registration
Please note also that IUI 2014 hotel reservations at Dan Carmel should be done by January 23rd (NOTE, EXTENDED ONE WEEK), as IUI 2014 reserved a bulk of rooms for conference attendees.
After this date, the possibility to reserve a room will depend upon the availability of rooms (the conference rate will remain in effect).


The full conference schedule including demos and posters is now also online:
http://www.iuiconf.org/Program/Schedule



----------------------- Call for Participation ------------------------

            IUI 2014

            19th International Conference
            on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'2014)

            Haifa, Israel February 24-27, 2014

            http://www.iuiconf.org/

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SCOPE AND TOPICS OF INTEREST
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IUI 2014 is the 19th annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and
serves as the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research
and development on intelligent user interfaces.

IUI is where the community of people interested in Human-Computer Interaction
(HCI) meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community. We are very interested
in contributions that bridge these two fields and also related fields, such as
psychology, cognitive science, computer graphics, the arts, etc. IUI researchers
are interested in improving the symbiosis between humans and computers, so that
interface design and interactive experiences yield higher performance outcomes.
This may involve designing interfaces that incorporate intelligent automated
capabilities, if the net impact is a human-computer interaction that improves
performance or usability in critical ways. It may also involve designing an
interface that effectively leverages human skills and capabilities, so that
human performance with an application excels. In other cases, such as
educational interface design, it may involve exercising judgment in when not to
automate a function so that humans are encouraged to exert themselves as they
acquire new skills or domain knowledge.

We call for original submissions that describe novel technologies and
applications to intelligent user interfaces.


IUI topics of interest including, but not limited to:

* User input
    - Processing of multi-modal input
    - Natural language and speech processing
    - Gestures, eye gaze, face recognition

* Generation of system output
    - Intelligent visualization tools
    - Intelligent generation of user-consumable content

* Ubiquitous computing
    - Intelligent interfaces for ubiquitous computing
    - Smart environments and tangible computing

* Help and Persuasive Technologies
    - Intelligent assistants for complex tasks
    - Support for collaboration in multiuser environments
    - Intelligent information and knowledge management
    - Persuasive technologies in IUI

* Personalization
    - User-adaptivity in interactive systems
    - Recommender systems
    - Modeling and prediction of user behavior

* AI Techniques in IUI
    - Planning and plan recognition
    - Reasoning in interfaces
    - Knowledge-based systems

* Social Computing
    - Affective, social and aesthetic interfaces
    - Social networks and collaboration

* IUI Design
    - Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation
    - Proactive and agent-based paradigms for user interaction
    - Example-and demonstration-based interfaces


* User studies
    - User studies concerning intelligent interfaces
    - Evaluations of implemented intelligent user interfaces

* Semantic Web
    - Query interfaces and novel interfaces for Linked Data
    - Consuming Linked Data
    - Interfaces for creating and using large ontologies

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ORGANIZATION
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* General Co-Chairs:
  - Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa
  - Oliviero Stock, FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler

* Program Co-Chairs:
    - Joyce Chai, Michigan State University
    - Antonio Kruger, Saarland University and DFKI GmbH

* Treasurer
    - Melinda Gervasio, SRI International

* Industry Chair:
    - Claudia Goldman, General Motors - Advanced Technical Center - Israel

* Student Consortium Co-Chairs:
    - Shlomo Berkovsky, NICTA
    - Helmut Prendinger, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo

* Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs:
    - Ido Guy, IBM Research - Haifa
    - Tracy Hammond, Texas A&M University

* Demo Co-Chairs:
    - Doron Friedman, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya
    - Massimo Zancanaro, FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler

* Local Arrangements Co-Chairs:
    - Joel Lanir, The University of Haifa
    - Eran Toch, Tel Aviv University

* Registration chair
    - Amit Tiroshi, The University of Haifa

* Social media Chair
    - Angel Puerta, RedWhale Software

* Publicity Chair:
    - Nava Tintarev, University of Aberdeen


Best wishes,
-Nava
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