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).