[Air-L] CFP: UMUAI - Special Issue on Recommender Systems for Health and Wellbeing

[Hanna Schäfer]

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                 CALL FOR PAPERS
 User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
                  (UMUAI - IF: 3.400)
                     SPECIAL ISSUE
Recommender Systems for Health and Wellbeing
   Website: https://healthrecsys.github.io/umuai/
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** Motivation and Scope **
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Information systems developed with the purpose of keeping us healthy and
increasing our general wellbeing have grown in popularity and adoption in
the last years. Recommender Systems have an integral part in these systems
attempting to improve our awareness, understanding and behavior regarding
our own health and general wellbeing. Popular as they are, these
application areas bring new challenges into the recommender systems
community, e.g. recommendations that influence the health status of a
patient may have legal consequences and as such, often need to involve a
human in the loop to make sure the recommendations provided are sound.
Aspects focusing on liability, user trust, as well as privacy, are key
factors in these systems as well.

** Topics **
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This special issue focuses on topics around recommendation and
personalization in the health and wellbeing domain, from the perspectives
of users, vendors, as well as society at large. Topics include, but are not
limited to:
- Algorithms and Recommendation Strategies
- Pervasive Systems
- Domain Knowledge Representation
- Personalization
- Regulations and Standards
- Behavioral Interventions
- Medical Evaluation Techniques
- Persuasion/Nudging/Behavioral Change
- User Profiling
- Fairness
- Gamification and Serious Games
- Adherence
- Trust
- Empowerment
- Explanations
- Patient needs and satisfaction
- User interaction design
- Human/Expert-in-the-loop
- Privacy
- Ethics

** Submission **
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Authors must submit an extended abstract via EasyChair by the deadline
indicated below. It must be at most 3 pages long, not counting references,
and formatted according to the journal template. The guest editors of the
special issue will then screen all submitted extended abstracts and will
invite authors of submissions that pass this screening to submit a full
manuscript to be submitted via the journal’s submission system.

UMUAI formatting guidelines are available here:
http://www.umuai.org/submission.shtml#instructions
The abstract submission needs to be done through EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umuaihealth2019
After abstracts have been accepted, the final full submission needs to be
done through the UMUAI journal submission system:
http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/11257

** Schedule **
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- Abstract Submission: November 15th, 2019
- Abstract Notification: December 15th, 2019
- Full Paper Submission: March 15th, 2020			
- Author Notification: April 15th, 2020
- Revised Version: July 15th, 2020
- Final Notification: August 15th, 2020
- Camera Ready Version: September 15th, 2020

** Guest Editors **
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Alan Said (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Hanna Schäfer (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Christoph Trattner (University of Bergen, Norway)