User modeling for accessibility symposium

Dear group,

Having yesterday's call cancelled we are sending you the agenda for the
user modeling symposium so that you can comment on it and give us your
feedback

In general we are ging to split the main discussion in two sessions. Each
one will discuss a number of topcs that you will see in the agenda. We have
also prepared a set of questions (which we will share in the public email
list) for each topic and selected authors to respond in each of them. We
are going to inform authors about a week prior to the event on which topics
they are expected to contribute so they are prepared but we will not reveal
the questions in specific to avoid prewritten answers read from paper.

So the agenda will be as follows:

Introduction to topic and symposium (10 minutes)

Session 1:  Technical aspects and the impact on accessible user interfaces
(65 minutes)
·         Impact on user interfaces
·         Gaps in user needs research
·         Other technical isues and privacy
·         Dynamic user models and methods for learning / updating user
models

Session 2: Approaches, methodologies and standards (45 minutes)
·         Approaches in modeling
·         Virtual User Models and other design practices
·         User Preferences and User Models
·         Ontologies/models alignment and standardization issues
(Communication API’s or unified ontology?)

Session 3:  Next steps and conclusions (30 minutes)
Open discussion with questions raised from participants during the
symposium.

We are aiming at having short answers of about 2 minutes each so that we
have coverage from many authors on a topic and also keep the pace up so
participants don't get bored.

Waiting for you feedback

Regards,
Christos and Yehya

PS. The registration is open so please do not forget ot register and inform
whoever you think will be interested


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Dr. Christos Kouroupetroglou
Web Accessibility Research & Engineering
Website: http://aetos.it.teithe.gr/~kourou/
Blog: http://a11y2020.wordpress.com/