REMINDER!! UMAP 2026 Call for workshops and tutorials

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Avital Shulner Tal

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Dec 30, 2025, 2:44:32 PM (13 days ago) 12/30/25
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Dear Community,

This is a reminder!!!

The Call for workshops and tutorials of the 34th ACM Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP’26) is out. 

ACM UMAP brings together research in AI and HCI to support effective human-AI collaboration via interactive systems that can model, adapt and personalize to their users.


Important Dates

·       January 22, 2026 – Tutorial/ Workshop Proposal Submission

·       February 6, 2026 – Notification

·       February 26, 2026 – Tutorial/ Workshop Description & Website URL Submission

·       April 30, 2026 – Tutorial/ Workshop Summary Camera-ready Submission (TAPS system)

·       June TBD, 2026 – Tutorial/ Workshop Date

The conference will take place on June 8-11, 2026 in Gotheborg, Sweden.


Topics of Interest include but are not limited to

  • Generative AI and personalization: Opportunities and challenges of using large language models or multimodal models for personalized systems.
  • Generative AI and adaptation: Leveraging generative models to build adaptive, context-aware systems.
  • Domain-specific challenges of user modeling: Building and evaluating user profiles in domains such as e-commerce, news, education, and streaming media.
  • Evaluation of personalized/adaptive technologies: Methods and best practices for evaluating personalized and adaptive technologies. 
  • Knowledge representation and reasoning for modeling user preferences, goals, and contexts.
  • Practical tools and frameworks: Hands-on introduction to open-source libraries or platforms for personalization, adaptation, or user modeling. 
  • Conversational agents and interactive personalization: Design and evaluation of dialogue-based and conversational agents.
  • Responsible personalization in practice: Implementing fairness, accountability, transparency, and privacy-preserving approaches in deployed systems.
  • User control and agency: Designing methods or prototypes that allow users to shape interactive systems. 
  • Cross-domain and multi-stakeholder personalization: Balancing the needs of different stakeholders (e.g., users, providers, platforms) in real-world applications.
  • Human-AI collaboration: Personalization and adaptation strategies to support productivity, creativity, or decision-making alongside AI systems.

 

Submission Guidelines

For workshops:

Please note that we can only accommodate half-day workshops.

All submissions and notifications will be handled electronically. The maximum length is 3 pages (excluding references) in the double-column format. Workshop proposals must be submitted through EasyChair. More information and links can be found on the website.

Workshop Website: https://www.um.org/umap2026/call-for-workshop-proposals/

For tutorials:

All tutorial proposals must be written in English. The maximum length is 3 pages (excluding references) in the ACM SIG Proceedings double-column format. More information and links to the ACM SIG Proceedings template can be found on the website.

Tutorial Website: https://www.um.org/umap2026/call-for-tutorial-proposals/

 


We look forward to receiving your submissions!

The UMAP 2026 organizing committee

 



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