[agents] 2014 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 paper

	Rita Orji, Julita Vassileva, and Regan L. Mandryk
	Modeling the Efficacy of Persuasive Strategies for Different Gamer Types in Serious Games for Health
	Vol. 24, issue 5, pp. 453–98, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11257-014-9149-8

has been chosen as the recipient of the 2014 James Chen Annual Award for Best Journal Article. It was selected based on nominations from journal reviewers, special issue editors and editorial board members, and a subsequent comparative review by an award committee.

UMUAI is a highly-ranked <http://www.umuai.org/journal_rankings.html> 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 <http://www.umuai.org/> . A free special issue that celebrates the first 25 years of user modeling research is available at http://link.springer.com/journal/11257/22/1/page/1 <http://link.springer.com/journal/11257/22/1/page/1>

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 <http://www.umuai.org/james-chen-award.html> .

Alfred Kobsa <http://www.ics.uci.edu/~kobsa>, Editor
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction:
The Journal of Personalization Research