UMAP 2014 Welcome General Chairs: Peter Dolog and Geert-Jan Houben Program Chairs: Vania Dimitrova and Tsvi Kuflik

Thanks !!! Program co-chairs Vania Dimitrova, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel Workshop co-chairs Rosta Farzan, University of Pittsburg, USA Robert Jäschke, University of Hannover, Germany Tutorial co-chairs Judith Masthoff, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom Robin Burke, DePaul University, USA Doctoral Symposium co-chairs Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy David Chin, University of Hawaii, USA Demo and Poster co-chairs Min Chi, North Carolina State University, USA Ivan Cantador, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain Project liaison co-chairs Oliver Brdiczka, Palo Alto Research Center, USA Dhaval Thakker, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Christoph Trattner, Know-Center, Austria Publicity co-chairs Ben Steichen, University of British Columbia, Canada Nava Tintarev, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom Local Organizing Chair Hanne Kristiansen, VisitAalborg, Denmark Conference secretary Lise Søndergaard Jensen, VisitAalborg, Denmark Student Volunteers Chair and Web Chair Martin Leginus, Aalborg University, Denmark

Outline Participation Social Program Scientific Program

Participation by Country

Participants 135 registered participants 89 Senior Researchers and 46 Students 77 in all five days, 43 in the main conference days, 15 in workshops only

Welcome Reception/Utzon

Dinner with Best Paper Ceremony

UMAP in the Era of Pervasive Computing and Big Data UMAP 2014 Program Overview

Submissions were invited in the following areas: UMAP in the social era [area chairs: Kalina Bontcheva & Werner Geyer] UMAP in the era of big data [area chairs: Bamshad Mobasher & Wolfgang Nejdl] UMAP in the era of pervasive computing [area chair: Keith Cheverst] Infrastructures, architectures, and methodologies [area chairs: Bob Kummerfeld & Owen Conlan] Human factors and Models [area chairs: Elisabeth Andre & Cristina Conati] Personal and Societal issues [area chairs: Kaska Porayska-Pomsta & Alfred Kobsa] Areas

146 Submissions (44 countries) – 125 research papers – 21 experience papers Accepted papers – 23 papers were accepted for long presentations – 19 papers were accepted for short presentations Overall acceptance rate 29% Papers

102 PC members (20 countries) – 40 additional reviewers – Selected and assigned based on expertise and bidding Review process – 3 reviews for each paper – Discussions maintained by a lead reviewer – Area chairs consulted for border line cases Thanks to everybody who helped with the review process! Review Process

Program at a Glance 3 Keynote speakers 4 parallel tracks 3 regular tracks Posters and demos Panel – UMAP in the era of big data, social data, and pervasive computing and beyond

Program at a Glance We wish y’all a fruitful and enjoyable conference