List of Contributions

Program Committee

Cristoph Bartneck
Philips Research Labs
The Netherlands

Sandra Carberry
University of Delaware
USA 

Cristina Conati
University of British Columbia
Canada 

Eva Hudlicka
Psychometrix Associates
USA 

Floriana Grasso
University of Liverpool
UK 

Christine Lisetti
University of South Florida
USA 

Daniel Moldt
University of Hamburg
Germany 

Sylvie Mozziconacci
Leiden University
The Netherlands 

Ana Paiva
INESC and IST
Portugal

WS Coordinator:

Fiorella de Rosis
Intelligent Interfaces
University of Bari, Italy

Questions concerning the Workshop
and manifestations of interest to attend to it should be addressed to Fiorella de Rosis

Motivation

Different schools of thought, such as psychology, cognitive science, sociology and philosophy, developed theories about personality and emotions. The goal of this Workshop is to promote these theories in the UM community, to investigate how they influence adaptation in HCI, which solutions have been proposed and implemented, which problems are still open and what are the major challenges. The Workshop will be effective if it succeeds in integrating ideas and results from different approaches and traditions of research, through a lively discussion among people with different backgrounds, while keeping the 'User Modeling and Adaptation' topic in focus.

In particular, we would like to:
(i) discuss the meaning of attitude, personality and emotion and how they can be formalized in a working model for HCI; discuss the difference between (stable) personality traits and (short-lived) affective and mood states, the way they influence each other and evolve during interaction, how they interact with the user's cognitive processes and representations; discuss how social and cultural factors affect the perception and interpretation of emotional stimuli and subsequent behavior;
(ii) examine existing interfaces and interface agents, to assess which personalities, emotions and attitudes are (implicitly or explicitly) embedded in them and to what extent they adapt to the user characteristics, 
(iii) discuss whether and how methods, techniques and programming concepts, which have been employed successfully in recognizing and modeling 'cognitive' aspects of the user's mental state (stereotypes, neural networks, belief networks, fuzzy logic and others) might be employed in modeling their 'affective state'; discuss the strengths and drawbacks of these methods;
(iv) investigate whether methods and techniques that have been employed successfully in adapting the interface appearance and behaviour in conversational and multimodal environments should be enhanced, to include affective and personality factors;
(v) discuss how these new interfaces can be evaluated;
(vi) examine specific application domains (such as tutoring, health care, flight control, military, arts) in which the reasoning and communication processes are particularly influenced by the emotional state of the User; discuss which application domain would benefit from an affect expression interface;
(vii) discuss ethical issues involved in monitoring increasingly 'personal' user traits and states.

Workshop format