[edm-announce] CFP: 4th Workshop on Personalization Approaches in Learning Environments (PALE 2014 @ UMAP)
- From: Stephen Fancsali <sfancsali@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: edm-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 17:13:29 -0400
[on behalf of Olga Santos]
with apologies for multiple cross-postings
4th International Workshop on Personalization Approaches in Learning
Environments (PALE 2014)
http://adenu.ia.uned.es/workshops/pale2014/
July 7 or 11, 2014, Aalborg (Denmark)
in conjunction with UMAP Conference (http://www.um.org/umap2014/)
Submission deadline: April 10th, 2014
The PALE 2014 workshop is a follow-up of the three previous editions of
PALE. The focus of this workshop series is put on the different and
complementary perspectives in which personalization can be addressed in
learning environments. From the past experience we have identified new
areas of interest in this research scope to complement the previous ones.
In this workshop we would like to share and discuss the current research on
how user modeling and associated artificial intelligent techniques provide
the personalization support in a wide range of learning environments, which
are increasingly more sensitive to the learners and their context, such as:
intelligent tutoring systems, learning management systems, personal
learning environments, serious games, agent-based learning environments,
and others. We are especially interested in the enhanced sensitivity
towards learners interactions (e.g., sensor detection of affect in
context) and technological deployment (including web, mobiles, tablets,
tabletops), and how can this wide range of situations and features impact
on modeling the learner interaction and context. Furthermore, we aim to
cover the every time more demanding need of personalized learning in
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Workshop Format
PALE format moves away from the classic 'mini-conferences' approach and
will follow the Learning Cafe methodology to promote discussions on some of
the open issues regarding personalization in learning environments. Two
Learning Cafes will be set up. Each one consists in brief presentations of
the key questions posed and small group discussions with participants
randomly grouped in tables. Each table will be moderated by one expert in
the topic under discussion and participants will change tables during the
discussion with the aim to share ideas among the groups.
Workshop Topics
The higher-level research question to be addressed in the workshop is:
Which approaches can be followed to personalize learning environments? It will
be considered in various contexts: interactive, personal, and
inclusive learning environments. This workshop includes (but is not limited
to) the following topics related to personalization of learning
environments:
- Affective computing
- Ambient intelligence
- Personalization of MOOCs
- Learner and context awareness
- Social and educational issues to be addressed
- Open-corpus educational systems
- Adaptive mobile learning
- Successful methods and techniques
- Reusability, interoperability, scalability
- Evaluation of adaptive learning environments
Submissions
Research papers must be prepared in 4-6 page LNCS format and submitted
through EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Dpale2014) in
PDF format. All papers will be reviewed by at least three independent
reviewers with expertise in the area from the Program Committee. Accepted
papers will be included in a centralized CEUR-WS (ISSN 1613-0073) volume of
workshop papers and conference posters from UMAP, which will also be
available on-line at the workshop webpage. Extended versions of selected
papers will be considered for a special issue in a relevant journal
(details to be announced).
Important dates
April 10, 2014: Submission of papers
May 1, 2014: Notification of acceptance
May 15, 2014: Camera-ready paper
July 7/11, 2014: PALE workshop (to be decided by UMAP
organisers)
Workshop Organizing Committee
Milos Kravcik, RWTH Aachen University (Germany)
Olga C. Santos, aDeNu Research Group. Artificial Intelligence Dept. UNED
(Spain)
Jesus G. Boticario, aDeNu Research Group. Artificial Intelligence Dept.
UNED (Spain)
Workshop Program Committee
Miguel Arevalillo - University of Valencia, Spain
Maria Bielikova - Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia
Rafael Calvo - University of Sydney, Australia
Rosa Carro - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Cristina Conati - University of British Columbia, Canada
David Cooper - Ursinus College, USA
Dragan Gasevic - Athabasca University, Canada
Sabine Graf - Athabasca University, Canada
Tom=C3=A1=C5=A1 Horv=C3=A1th - Pavol Jozef =C5=A0af=C3=A1rik University, Sl=
ovakia
Kinshuk - Athabasca University, Canada
Iolanda Leite - Yale University, USA
Noboru Matsuda - Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Alexander Nussbaumer - Graz University of Technology, Austria
Alexandros Paramythis - Contexity AG, Switzerland
Diana Perez Mar=C3=ADn - Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Elvira Popescu - University of Craiova Romania
Carsten Ullrich - DFKI, Germany
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