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	  Workshop on Behavior-based User Interface Customization 	
	     Jan 13, 2004 at IUI/CADUI 2004, Maderia, Portugal
		 http://www.research.ibm.com/iui-workshop/
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Background and Motivation
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End users of today's applications have limited ability to customize their
user interface to fit specific user preferences and tasks. Although users
come in all shapes and sizes, they must make do with "one size fits all"
applications.  Furthermore, particular tasks may require that the user hop
between several applications, each with its own interface characteristics,
often not designed to work well together.  User interface customization
allows interfaces to be adapted to particular user preferences, and
specialized to the specific tasks that users need to perform. It may take a
variety of forms, including: changing the layout to hide irrelevant menus
and buttons and highlight frequently-used options; changing font and icon
sizes; designing new views not originally supported by the application
designer; and providing macro operators that automate common procedures
within and across applications.

An emerging area of research focuses on automatically customizing
applications based on observations of user behavior, employing techniques
from machine learning, plan recognition, and the broader AI community. For
example, systems that observe a user's actions may be able to infer users'
tasks and, through this understanding, be able to adapt user interfaces
that will facilitate performance of tedious tasks or provide assistance
with complex procedures.  Further examples of automatic customization
include:

* adaptive web sites based on web usage logs
* inferring a user's skill level and adapting the interface appropriately
* intelligent macros constructed through programming by demonstration
* dynamic interface layout based on common usage patterns

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers with
experience in the field of behavior-based customization, in order to
consolidate our knowledge of current techniques and identify key research
challenges for the future.  The workshop will be organized around a small
number of focus questions.  We expect the outcome of the workshop to:

* Identify the required characteristics for a common platform (e.g., at the 
  operating system level) for research into behavior-based customization,
* Define the limits of customization, both practical and theoretical,
* Determine the "sweet spots, where behavior-based UI customization is mostly 
  likely to be successful, and where existing AI techniques best apply, and
* Define the open research questions and agenda that need to be addressed to 
  move the area of behavior-based UI customization forward.

Workshop format
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Each participant will be given the opportunity to give a brief presentation
on their work or views on this area. Much of the workshop will be focused
discussions on several topics related to this research area. The number of
participants will be limited to 15. All submissions will appear as paper
contributions in the workshop proceedings.

Specifically, the morning will consist of short (10 minute) presentations
by workshop participants. Each presentation will describe the participant's
work in the area of behavior-based UI customization, with a focus on
techniques and applications that address the topic. The afternoon will be
devoted to a set of three or four discussion topics. A leader for each
topic will be selected by the program committee; the leader will give a
very brief introduction to the topic, followed by an open discussion.
Topics will be selected from common themes in the workshop submissions, as
well as the goal statement for the workshop.


Call for Participation
======================

Prospective participants are asked to submit a 4-page paper describing
methods or applications relating to the workshop topic. All submissions
should  follow the ACM standard paper format
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigchi/chipubform/) and be submitted
electronically in PDF format at www.conferencereview.com.

In addition, a brief biography describing each researcher's experience and
interests relevant to the workshop topic should be included. The program
committee will select participants based on the relevancy of the submitted
material to the theme of the workshop.

The deadline for submissions is November 3, 2003. Note that all workshop
participants will be required to register for the main IUI/CADUI
conference.

For questions, please contact iuiwksp@us.ibm.com

Important Dates
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Submission of workshop papers: 	    November 3, 2003
Notification of acceptance: 	    November 24, 2003
Workshop at IUI/CADUI conference:   January 13, 2003


Workshop organizers
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    * Lawrence Bergman, IBM TJ Watson Research
    * Tessa Lau, IBM TJ Watson Research

Program committee
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    * Mathias Bauer, DFKI
    * Lawrence Bergman, IBM TJ Watson Research
    * Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University
    * Brian D. Davison, Lehigh University
    * Tessa Lau, IBM TJ Watson Research
    * Henry Lieberman, MIT Media Lab
    * Rob Miller, MIT
    * Daniel Oblinger, IBM TJ Watson Research
    * Jean-David Ruvini, Bouygues e-lab