CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-96)
Workshop: MACHINE LEARNING MEETS HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION
"HCI meets ML"
DESCRIPTION
Machine Learning, ML, represents one of the fastest growing
technologies today with an abundance of prototype and fielded
industrial applications. Robotics, computer vision, manufacturing,
medicine, knowledge acquisition, execution and control, design,
planning and scheduling, among others, are areas that have uncovered
the potential of the technology. Work over new media and networks
has also identified a niche for ML in navigation and retrieval of
information. However, the interaction between ML, other systems and
the user is neither trivial nor an issue usually addressed by ML
researchers.
Human computer interaction, or HCI in short, is concerned with the
role of humans in complex systems, the design of equipment and facilities
for human use, and the development of environments for comfort and safety.
Human factors is as old as the machine and the environment, and it aims at
adapting system with the environment. The field of human factors has
developed and broadened considerably since its formal inception more
than forty years ago and has generated a body of knowledge along
several lines of specialization. Areas of specialization stretch out
to functions, performance modeling, job and organizational design,
training systems, human factors in the design and use of computing
systems and application factors in computer systems, etc.
Nonetheless development of a ML system embodies, or should embody, attention
to human factors and human computer interaction (HCI). ML engineers
target the systems they produce to users and this fact prompts for HCI
watchfulness. The rendezvous between HCI and ML awakens several interesting
bearings and one unique characteristic. The characteristic draws from the
history of both fields; one has lived longer than the other. Bearing on
the meeting itself one may wonder about the role of the other upon itself;
what can, or should, HCI offer to ML, or conversely, what can,
or should ML offer to HCI?
OBJECTIVES OF THE WORKSHOP
The primary objective of the workshop is to bring together
researchers and practitioners from ML and HCI interested in the
synergetic effects of this combination. We hope that the workshop
will prove conducive to bringing the two fields together and to broaden
scope in both. The workshop strives to germinate interdisciplinary
research across the fields of HCI and ML. It will provide a forum for
reporting current work, sprouting future development and unveiling risk
and opportunity.
We are looking into diverse issues ranging from pedagogy in using ML,
to visualization, adaptive user interfacing, adaptation, etc. Scrutinizing
into the alliance between ML and HCI we will be steering effort to
identifying correlative methods and enabling common applications.
We contemplate HCI meets ML as a kickoff for ensuing work and integration
between the two fields. Toward this end the topics that the workshop will
cover include, but not limited to, the following:
1. Learning apprentice systems and integration of learning into intelligent
assistant systems
2. Pedagogy for using ML by non ML expert users
3. Cooperation of user and learning system during knowledge base construction
(balanced cooperative modeling)
4. User modeling and ML
5. Use of ML in adaptive user interfaces and interfacing of complex information
systems (networks, multimedia, hypermedia, CAD, etc.)
6. Empirical studies about HCI aspects in existing ML systems
7. Using machine learning in computer supported cooperative work, etc.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Paper submissions are limited to 3000 words. Please send 5 copies to:
Vassilis S. Moustakis
Associate Professor
Institute of Computer Science, FORTH
Science and Technology Park of Crete
PO Box 1385, Heraklion 71110 Greece
Tel: +30 81 391696 391600 FAX: +30 81 391601
E-mail: moustaki@ics.forth.gr
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop notes and will
also be made available on the World Wide Web.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline:
April 30, 1996
Notification of acceptance:
May 21, 1996
Camera-ready paper
June 4, 1996
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Juergen Herrmann
University of Dortmund, Germany
(herrmann@jupiter.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)
Vassilis Moustakis
Institute of Computer Science,
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH),
and Technical University of Crete, Greece
(moustaki@ics.forth.gr)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
The PC forms an interdisciplinary group of researchers both from
HCI and ML.
George Drastal
Diana Gordon
Marc Linster
Carl Gustaf Jansson
Kazuo Hiraki
Yves Kodratoff
Katharina Morik
Hiroshi Motoda
Claire Nedellec
George Potamias
Yoram Reich
Pat Riddle
Yasubumi Sakakibara
Gavriel Salvendy
Giovanni Semeraro
Maarten van Someren
Gheorghe Tecuci
ORGANIZATION OF THE WORKSHOP
The Workshop will take place on Jule 3, 1996 and will last the whole day,
e.g., from 09:00 to 18:00. Each accepted paper will be given thirty minutes
for presentation and discussion. To foster discussion and debate accepted papers
will be given to a critic beforehand; by these means critics will be prepared to
debate presentations. We envisage 8-10 paper presentations followed by a round
table discussion lasting for at least an hour.
WORKSHOP VENUE
"HCI meets ML" will take place at Bari, Italy. Additional information about
the worksop address or ICML-96 may be obtained either by emailing to the
local organizer (at icml96@di.unito.it) or via the World Wide Web (at
http://www.di.unito.it/pub/WWW/ICML96/home.html).
FURTHER INFORMATION
For more information about the "HCI meets ML" workshop please contact
either of the organizers, J. Herrmann (herrmann@jupiter.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)
or V. Moustakis (moustaki@ics.forth.gr).