Deadlines (AoE)
- Tutorials Camera-Ready
- Proposal - Nov 25, 2020
- Reviews Sent - Dec 15, 2020
- Revised Proposal Submissions - Dec 30, 2020
- Final Decision to Authors - Jan 14, 2021
- Camera-Ready - Feb 15, 2021
- Tutorials Held - Apr 13, 2021
Accepted Tutorials
This year's conference will be completely virtual.
Tutorial on Conversational Recommendation Systems launch
Zuohui Fu
Rutgers University
Yikun Xian
Rutgers University
Yongfeng Zhang
Rutgers University
Yi Zhang
University of California Santa Cruz
Due to users' constant need to look for information to support both work and daily life, conversational recommendation system will be one of the key techniques towards an intelligent web. The tutorial focuses on the foundations and algorithms for conversational recommendation, as well as their applications in real-world systems such as search engine, e-commerce and social networks. The tutorial aims at introducing and communicating conversational recommendation methods to the community, as well as gathering researchers and practitioners interested in this research direction for discussions, idea communications, and research promotions.
VisRec: A Hands-on Tutorial on Deep Learning for Visual Recommender Systems launch
Denis Parra
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Antonio Ossa-Guerra
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Manuel Cartagena
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Patricio Cerda-Mardini
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
MindsDB
Felipe del Río
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
This tutorial serves as an introduction to deep learning approaches to build visual recommendation systems. Deep learning models can be used as feature extractors, and perform extremely well in visual recommender systems to create representations of visual items. This tutorial covers the foundations of convolutional neural networks and then how to use them to build state-of-the-art personalized recommendation systems. The tutorial is designed as a hands-on experience, focused on providing both theoretical knowledge as well as practical experience on the topics of the course.
ModelGenGUIs – High-level Interaction Design with Discourse Models for Automated GUI Generation
Hermann Kaindl
Technische Universität Wien
This tutorial shows how human-computer interaction can be based on discourse modeling, even without employing speech or natural language. Communicative acts as abstractions from speech acts can model basic building blocks (“atoms”) of communication, like a question or an answer. When, e.g., a question and an answer are glued together as a so-called adjacency pair, a simple “molecule” of a dialogue is modeled. Deliberately complex discourse structures can be modeled using relations from Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST). The content of a communicative act can refer to ontologies of the domain of discourse. Taking all this together, we created a new dis-course metamodel that specifies what discourse models may look like. Such discourse models can specify an interaction design. This tutorial also demonstrates how such an interaction design can be used for automated user-interface generation. This is based on model-transformation rules according to the model-driven architecture. Based on AI optimization techniques, the GUIs are automatically tailored to a de-vice such as a smartphone according to a given device specification. Since the usability of fully-automatically generated GUIs is still not satisfactory, unique customization techniques are employed as well.
Tutorials
We are pleased to invite proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goal of the tutorials is to provide a venue for presenting research on focused topics of interest and an informal forum to discuss research questions and challenges. Tutorials are designed to provide fundamental knowledge and experience on topics related to intelligent user interfaces, and the intersection between Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Note: We encourage you to contact the chairs with your ideas (emails above), and work together to prepare an exciting proposal.
We encourage proposals for a wide range of tutorials, including but not limited to:
- "Hands-on" or “project-centric” tutorials around a specific problem or topic.
- Tutorials on a specific topic relevant to IUI; for example, methods and approaches in HCI and/or AI, specific techniques or algorithms to develop intelligent user interfaces, etc.
Tutorials will be held on the first day of the conference. We invite submissions of proposals for half-day (3 hours) or full-day (6 hours) tutorials. Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the tutorial chairs. We require the tutorial to be conducted virtually this year.
The organizers of accepted tutorials are responsible for producing a call for participation and publicizing it, such as distributing the call to relevant newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from outside the IUI conference community. Tutorial organizers are also required to set up their own website with information about the tutorial and the IUI 2021 web site will refer to this website.
Proposal Format
Tutorial proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the formatting instructions at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Please either use the Word interim template with Libertine fonts downloaded and embedded, or the LaTex sigconf template.
Proposals should be organized as follows:
Name and Title
A one-word workshop acronym and a full title.
Description of Tutorial Topic
This description should discuss the relevance of the suggested topic to IUI and its interest for the IUI2021 audience. Include a brief discussion of why and for which audience the tutorial is of particular interest.
Organizers
Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the organizer(s). Provide a brief description of the background of the organiser(s). Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Also please provide a list of other tutorials organized by the organizers in the past.
Participants
A statement saying how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the tutorial. If possible, include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest to participate in the tutorial.
Tutorial Format
A brief description of the format regarding the mix of events or activities, such as teaching activities, hands-on practical exercises, and general discussion. Please also list here any material you will make available to tutorial participants, e.g. slides, access to hardware/software, handouts, etc.
Planned Outcomes of the Tutorial
What are you hoping to achieve by the end of the tutorial?
Length
Full-day or half-day.
Please submit your proposal via https://new.precisionconference.com/ selecting the IUI 2021 Tutorials track.