UMAP 2014 Welcome

General Chairs: Peter Dolog and Geert-Jan HoubenProgram Chairs: Vania Dimitrova and Tsvi Kuflik

Thanks !!!Program co-chairsVania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel

Workshop co-chairsRosta Farzan , University of Pittsburg, USA Robert Jäschke , University of Hannover, Germany Tutorial co-chairsJudith Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, United KingdomRobin Burke, DePaul University, USA

Doctoral Symposium co-chairsFrancesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, ItalyDavid Chin, University of Hawaii, USA

Demo and Poster co-chairsMin Chi, North Carolina State University, USAIvan Cantador, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain

Project liaison co-chairsOliver Brdiczka, Palo Alto Research Center, USADhaval Thakker, University of Leeds, United KingdomChristoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria

Publicity co-chairsBen Steichen, University of British Columbia, CanadaNava Tintarev, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Local Organizing ChairHanne Kristiansen, VisitAalborg, Denmark

Conference secretaryLise Søndergaard Jensen, VisitAalborg, Denmark

Student Volunteers Chair and Web ChairMartin Leginus, Aalborg University, Denmark

Outline

• Participation• Social Program• Scientific Program

Participation by Country

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Participants

• 135 registered participants• 89 Senior Researchers and 46 Students• 77 in all five days, 43 in the main conference

days, 15 in workshops only

Welcome Reception/Utzon

Dinner with Best Paper Ceremony

UMAP in the Era of Pervasive Computing and Big Data

UMAP 2014 Program Overview

Submissions were invited in the following areas:

• UMAP in the social era [area chairs: Kalina Bontcheva & Werner Geyer]

• UMAP in the era of big data [area chairs: Bamshad Mobasher & Wolfgang Nejdl]

• UMAP in the era of pervasive computing [area chair: Keith Cheverst]

• Infrastructures, architectures, and methodologies

[area chairs: Bob Kummerfeld & Owen Conlan]

• Human factors and Models [area chairs: Elisabeth Andre & Cristina Conati]

• Personal and Societal issues [area chairs: Kaska Porayska-Pomsta & Alfred Kobsa]

Areas

• 146 Submissions (44 countries)– 125 research papers– 21 experience papers

• Accepted papers– 23 papers were accepted for long presentations– 19 papers were accepted for short presentations

• Overall acceptance rate 29%

Papers

• 102 PC members (20 countries)– 40 additional reviewers– Selected and assigned based on expertise and bidding

• Review process– 3 reviews for each paper– Discussions maintained by a lead reviewer– Area chairs consulted for border line cases

• Thanks to everybody who helped with the review process!

Review Process

Program at a Glance

• 3 Keynote speakers• 4 parallel tracks• 3 regular tracks• Posters and demos• Panel – UMAP in the era of big data, social data, and pervasive computing and beyond

Program at a Glance

We wish y’all a fruitful and enjoyable conference