UMAP

And yes, we finally have a location for next year’s edition 🚀

🥰 Can't wait for #UMAP2026 in #Gothenburg, #Sweden 🇸🇪 with @alansaid.com and @toinebogers.bsky.social as general co-chairs.

A huge thanks again to all organizers from this year ❤️

Yours sincerely,
#UMAP2025 Publicity Chairs

🥱 Good morning NYC, for the last time! 🥺

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but, #UMAP2025 is not done yet! 🤩

Today we discuss interaction and adaptive UI, applications in learning and education, along with more workshops and tutorials

Now, tell us your guesses for #UMAP2026's location 🤩

👏 Thank you to all organizing committee members, (senior) program committee members, authors, and volunteers who make UMAP 2025 a success! 😍

🎩 Special ‘Tilley Hat’ Award
Awarded to Peter Brusilovsky for his continued service and impact in the UMAP community.
(As publicity chairs, we would also like to award Peter with 'honorary publicity chair' 🏆 for his buzzmaking on social media 😘 🙌)

⏳ Test-of-Time Award
Modeling Individualization in a Bayesian Networks Implementation of Knowledge Tracing
by Zach Pardos and Neil T. Heffernan (originally published at UMAP 2010)

🔍 Best Reviewers Award
Gianmaria Biancofiore, Bereket A. YILMA, Lien Michiels, Marta Moscati, Giuseppe Spillo, and Vojtěch Vančura

📰 Best LBR Paper Award
Simulating Human Opinions with Large Language Models – Opportunities and Challenges for Personalized Survey Data Modeling
by Carolin Kaiser et al.

🎓 Best Student Paper Award
Legal but Unfair: Auditing the Impact of Data Minimization on Fairness and Accuracy Trade-off in Recommender Systems
by Salvatore Bufi et al.

🏅 Best Short Paper
"Strangers in a new culture see only what they know": Evaluating Effectiveness of GPT-4 Omni for Detecting Cross-Cultural Communication Norm Violations
by Tzu-Yu Weng et al.

🏆 Best Full Paper
“Synthetic Voices: Evaluating the Fidelity of LLM-Generated Personas in Representing People’s Financial Wellbeing”
by Arshnoor Kaur et al.

Traditionally, at the conference dinner, we celebrate the UMAP community in an award ceremony 🏆 ✨

For those of you who missed it 😢, here is a quick recap of this year's winners…

New day, same **amazing** #UMAP2025 program 😍

After the keynote speech by Alexander Tuzhilin, we'll feature the poster madness, then sessions on recommender systems, human factors in personalization, and user modeling 👩‍🏫

Sweet ending with the social dinner 🧑‍🍳

Some photographs from yesterday's happy hour at #OWO 🌆 and today's morning sessions 📸

Keep posting with the hashtag #UMAP2025 😀 We're super happy to see you're enjoying the conference!!

Good morning #UMAP2025 👋

First full conference day starting with a keynote by Francesca Rossi from #IBM, then more on fairness, transparency, explainability, and the industry track with a keynote by Chen Zheng from #Roblox 🚀

Last but not least, the conference reception 😍

Some photos from the morning sessions today at #UMAP2025 📸

If you're taking some photographs of the conference, please share them with us and tag us in your posts 😍 We want to experience the event through your perspective 😎

#usermodeling #personalization #nyc

Wakey-wakey #UMAP2025 attenders ⏰⏰

Time to start off the conference with an already-amazing day #1 😍🗽

The program will be dedicated to some of the #workshops and #tutorials, along with #DC presentations!!

Are you are going to present/attend?? We want to hear from you 🤗

I'll be presenting our work (Simulating the Algorithm Store) today at #UMAP during the #FairUMAP workshop. Come say hi if you're around!

doi.org/10.1145/3708...

And last, but not least, our **incredible** list of accepted papers, involving #full, #short, #industry papers, #LBR, and #DC: um.org/umap2025/acc...

We'd like to thank everyone who submitted to the conference ❤️ None of all this would have been possible without you!!

(5/5)

So many #workshops and #tutorials spanning several topics and domains in #usermodeling #personalization #recsys 😎🚀

Workshops: um.org/umap2025/wor...

Tutorials: um.org/umap2025/tut...

(4/5)

Then, our **amazing** industry panel um.org/umap2025/ind...

⭐️Moderator: Jacopo Tagliabue (NYU)

Starring:

⭐️Tullie Murrel (Shaped)
⭐️Maria Belousova (Daydream)
⭐️Klinton Bucknell (Duolinguo)

(3/5)

Keynote talk: "AI ethics, safety, and governance in human-AI collaboration"

Keynote talk: "The Window to the Soul (and Mind): Providing Recommendations Based on Monitoring Visual, Vital and Neurological Signals of Users"

Keynote talk: "Lessons from the Trenches: Industry Perspectives on User Studies and Modeling at Scale"

Let's say hello to our **wonderful** lineup of keynote speakers 🤩👋 um.org/umap2025/key...

⭐️ Francesca Rossi
⭐️ Alexander Tuzhilin
⭐️ Chen Zheng

(2/5)

#UMAP2025 is just around the corner 😍🗽

Get ready with us and take a look at our conference program 📅 um.org/umap2025/pro... (more in the thread 👇)

And you, have you reached #NYC?? The organizing chairs are ready to welcome you in the wonderful conference venue 🤗

(1/5)

The draft program for #UMAP2025 is out and ready for you to be explored 🤠

Take a look at the **AMAZING** lists of keynote speakers (Francesca Rossi and Alexander Tuzhilin), workshops, tutorials, and accepted papers (still to be completed 🫠)

#nyc #usermodeling #personalization

📢 Registrations are open!

🗓️ Do not miss the early-bird deadline of April, 30!

More at 👉 www.um.org/umap2025/reg...

📢 #UMAP2025 Paper Notifications Are Out! 📢

Congrats to all authors with accepted papers 🚀

To those whose papers weren’t accepted, we see you! You might still consider the fast-track to LBR or UMAP workshops 😉💪

Join us in NYC, June 16–19, 2025

🌐https://um.org/umap2025

A few updates (please, take note 🎵):

🔹 The deadlines for the **Industry track** have been shifted by 1 week (Submission: March 2, 2025 -> March 9, 2025, Notification: April 2, 2025 -> April 9, 2025). See: um.org/umap2025/cal...

🔹DC papers are due soon (March 7, 2025) 🫡

#UMAP2025

👩‍🎓 If you're a student willing to attend #UMAP2025, take a look at the grants and support opportunities: um.org/umap2025/gra...

👩‍🏫 Plus, don't forget about the deadline for LBR & Demos track (April 9, 2025 😎)

How's everything going with your weekend? 😀

Well, we guess you're busy if you're about to submit to the Industry track (deadline: March 2, 23:59 AoE -- In a few hours!!😱) and DC track (deadline: March 7 23:59 AoE -- Still some days to go🫠)

Hurry up 💪

#UMAP2025 #usermodeling #personalization

So, where were we? 🤔

With the deadlines for #full and #short papers left behind, #UMAP2025 has still amazing calls to offer:

👩‍🏭 Industry (March 2)
👩‍🎓 DC* (March 7)
👩‍🏫 LBR & Demos (April 9)

*Hey, students, have you seen the grants and support opportunities? Take a look at: www.um.org/umap2025/gra...

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A few hours before the submission of #full and #short papers at #UMAP2025 😎

We kindly remind you that submissions are due ⏰TOMORROW ⏰

We bet #EasyChair is the most visited website in the #recsys #personalization community right now 😄

👉 www.um.org/umap2025/cal...