UMAP

ACM UMAP - User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization ? is the premier international conference for researchers and practitioners working on systems that adapt to individual users or to groups of users, and that collect, represent, and model user information. ACM UMAP is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGWEB, and organized with User Modeling Inc. UMAP is the successor of the biennial User Modeling (UM) and Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH) conferences that were merged in 2009.

For the first time in the history of the conference, ACM UMAP 2022 ran in hybrid mode, with the opportunity for speakers and attendees to participate onsite or online, hosted at the University Pompeu Fabra, Spain. The conference runs over 4 days, with the classic tracks that characterize it, spanning from papers, workshops, tutorials, late breaking results, and a Doctoral Consortium. With the help of our Local chairs (Cristian Consonni and Mihnea Tufis,) and Streaming & Broadcasting chairs (Walter Anelli, Lesly Miculicich, Lorena Recalde, and Mete Sertkan) this new format was developed in a manageable way to offer a rich attendance to both online and onsite participants.

In addition, this year we are celebrating the 30th anniversary of UMAP. Since no celebration can be done alone, ACM UMAP 2022 is co-located with ACM WebSci 2022 and ACM Hypertext 2022, both happening in Barcelona a few days before the conference.

To celebrate this anniversary, new topics enriched our main track: "virtual assistants and human-robot interaction" and "research methods and reproducibility." New this year was the fact that the personalized recommender systems track was cross-listed with the ACM Hypertext conference, and the track chairs did an excellent job of coordinating the review processes across the two conferences. Moreover, to mark the 30th anniversary of the UMAP conference, we organized the Theory, Opinion and Reflection track to reflect on qualitative and quantitative analyses while welcoming blue-sky and innovative ideas, with two accepted papers being presented in the conference.

ACM UMAP covers a wide variety of research areas where personalization and adaptation may be applied. This includes a number of domains in which researchers are engendering significant innovations based on advances in the areas of user modeling and adaptation, recommender systems, adaptive educational systems, intelligent user interfaces, e-commerce, advertising, digital humanities, social networks, personalized health, entertainment, and many more.