Last Update: Dec. 20, 2023 10:02 PM
Alfred Kobsa:
Curriculum Vitae
Current Research Areas: personalization, privacy,
human-computer interaction, personal healthcare support,
information visualization.
Academic Education
1982-85 | University of Vienna, Austria | Ph.D. in Computer Science (with distinction) |
1980-81 | University of Salzburg, Austria | Non-degree studies in psychology, linguistics, philosophy and formal logic |
1975-80 | University of Linz, Austria | Master of Computer Science (with
distinction) Master of Business Administration (with distinction) |
Since 2018 |
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2003-2018 | Professor, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, Univ. of California, Irvine, U.S.A. | |
2012, 2013 |
Visiting Researcher, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA | |
2013 |
Visiting Research Professor, National University of Singapore | |
2013 |
Visiting Researcher,
Telekom Innovation Labs at Ben Gurion University and
University of Haifa, Israel |
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2005-2006 | Visiting Scientist, Institute for Information Systems, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany | |
2000-2003 | Associate Professor, School of Information and Computer Sciences, Univ. of California, Irvine, U.S.A. | |
1995-2005 |
Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Essen, Germany |
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1995-2000 | Director, GMD FIT, German Nat'l Research Center for Information Technology, St. Augustin | |
1991-95 | Associate Professor, Dept. of Information Science, Univ. of Konstanz, Germany | |
1993 | Visiting Researcher, Dept. of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York | |
1985-91 | Senior Researcher and Project Director, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Saarbrücken | |
1989 | Substitute Full Professor in Computational Linguistics / Linguistic Informatics, Univ. of Duisburg | |
1988 | Visiting Scientist, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA | |
1985 | Research Associate, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna, Austria | |
1982-84 | Research Associate, Dept. of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Univ. of Vienna | |
1980-81 | Researcher, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Linz, Austria |
1997-1999 | Co-Director, humanIT Human Information Technologies GmbH, St. Augustin, Germany |
Societies | User Modeling, Inc.
(Founding President, 1994-1999; Director-at-large,
1999-2003; Advisory Board Member 2003-2012) Orange County ACM SIGCHI chapter (co-founder, Program Chair; 2002-04) European Coordinating Committee on Artificial Intelligence (Delegate, 1984-85) ÖGAI Working Group on Cognitive Science (Chairman, 1982-85) ACM, SIGCHI, AAAI, German Informatics Society, FIFF, AACE APC (member) |
Editorial |
User
Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
(Editor-in-Chief, 1991-2016) |
Conference/Workshop Chair or Co-Chair |
ACM IUI 2019 Workshop
on Intelligent User Interfaces for Internet of Things,
Los Angeles, CA 2014 ACM Recommender Systems Conference (RecSys'14), Foster City, Silicon Valley, CA AAAI-2012 Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Persoanlization and Recommender Systems, Toronto, Canada IJCAI-2011 Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization and Recommender Systems, Barcelona, Spain 18th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalizaton (UMAP 2010), Big Island, HI. 2009 ACM RecSys Workshop on Recommender Systems and the Social Web (New York) IJCAI-09 Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization and Recommender Systems, Pasadena, CA UMAP-09 Workshop on Personalization in Mobile and Pervasive Computing, Trento, Italy AAAI-08 Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization and Recommender Systems, Chicago, IL AAAI-07 Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization, Vancouver, Canada PEP06, CHI-2006 Workshop on Privacy-Enhanced Personalization, Montreal, Canada EU-IST / NSF ITR Collaboration Workshop, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2005 PEP05, UM05 Workshop on Privacy-Enhanced Personalization, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005 e-Accessibility, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, 2003 Third Workshop on Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia, at ACM Hypertext'01, Århus, Denmark, and UM-01, Sonthofen, Germany Fifth ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All, Dagstuhl, Germany, 1999 Second Workshop on Adaptive Systems and User Modeling on the World Wide Web at WWW-8, Toronto, Canada, and UM99, Banff, Canada, 1999 UM94 and UM96 Workshops on the Standardardization of User Modeling Shells, Hyannis, MA, 1994 and Kailua-Kona, HI, 1996 Fourth International Conference on User Modeling, Hyannis, MA, Aug.1994 First German Workshop on Adaptivity and User Modeling in Interactive Software Systems, Berlin, Germany, 1993 Workshops on Knowledge Representation and Inference in User Modeling, Saarbrücken, 1990 and Konstanz, 1992 German KL-ONE Workshop, Saarbrücken, Germany, 1987 First International Workshop on User Modeling, Maria Laach, Germany, 1986 |
Conference Program Committees |
UMAP 2020 (Genua, Italy), UMAP 2019 (Cyprus), UMAP 2018
(Singapore), UMAP 2017 (Bratislava, Slovakia), UMAP 2016
(Halifax, Canada), RecSys 2015 (Vienna, Austria; Senior
Member), UMAP-15 (Dublin, Ireland), AAAI ICWSM-14 (Ann
Arbor, MI; Senior Member), UMAP-14 (Aalborg, Denmark;
Area Chair), AAAI ICWSM-13 (Cambridge, MA; Senior
Member), UMAP-13 (Rome, Italy), 2012 ACM RecSys (Dublin,
Ireland; Senior Member); EC-Web 2012 (Vienna, Austria),
ISMIS'12 (Macau, China), UMAP 2012 (Montréal, Canada),
EC-Web 2011 (Toulouse, France), UMAP 2011 (Girona,
Spain), EC-Web 2010 (Bilbao, Spain), FLAIRS-22 (Sanibel
Island, FL), UMAP-2009 (Trento, Italy), AAAI-2008
(Chicago, IL), AH-2008 (Hanover, Germany), ARES-08
(Barcelona, Spain), ECIS-08 (Galway, Ireland), AAAI 2007
(Vancouver, BC), IEEE InfoVis 2007 (Sacramento, CA),
IFIP IDMAN’07 (Rotterdam, Netherlands), IUI 2007 (Oahu,
HI), Recommender 07 (Minneapolis, MN), UM07 (Corfu,
Greece), AAAI-06 (Boston, MA), AH 2006 (Dublin,
Ireland), IEEE InfoVis 2006 (Baltimore, MD), WWW-2006
(Edinburgh, Scotland), IEEE InfoVis 2005 (Minneapolis,
MN), I-KNOW 05 (Graz, Austria), ISWC-05 (Galway,
Ireland), IUI-2005 (San Diego, CA), UAHCI-2005 (Las
Vegas, NE), UM05 (Edinburgh, Scotland), WWW-05 (Chiba,
Japan), AH-2004 (Eindhoven, Netherlands), e-Society 2004
(Madrid, Spain), PRICAI-04 (Auckland, New Zealand),
WWW-2004 (New York, NY), IEEE InfoVis 2003 (Seattle,
WA), ACM Hypertext'03 (Nottingham, UK), INTERACT-2003
(Zürich, Switzerland), UAHCI-03 (Heraklion, Greece),
UM03 (Johnstown, PA), WWW2003 (Budapest, Hungary),
AAAI-2002 (Edmonton, Calgary; Senior PC member), IEEE
ICALT-2002 (Kazan, Tatarstan), IEEE InfoVis-2002
(Boston, MA), PRICAI-2002 (Tokyo, Japan), AH-2002
(Malaga, Spain), UAHCI-01 (New Orleans, Louisiana), UM01
(Sonthofen, Germany), IEEE ICALT-2001 (Madison, WI),
WebNet 2001(Orlando, Florida), PRICAI2000 (Melbourne,
Australia), ACM CUU 2000 (Washington, D.C.), AIMSA-2000
(St. Constantine, Bulgaria), IWIPS-2000 (Baltimore, MD),
COOP-2000 (Sophia Antipolis, France), ECCE-00
(Linköping, Sweden), ISI-00 (Graz, Austria), WebNet 2000
(San Antonio, TX), WebNet 99 (Honolulu, HI), UM99
(Banff, Canada), ECCE-98 (Limerick, Ireland), CoopIS'98
(New York, NY), COOP-98 (Antibes-Juan-les-Pins, France),
IBERAMIA'98 (Lisbon, Portugal), ISI-98 (Prague,
Czechia), UM97 (Chia Laguna, Italy), ECCE-96 (Madrid,
Spain), EuroAIED-96 (Lisbon, Portugal), UM-96
(Kailua-Kona, HI), COOP-96 (Antibes-Juan-les-Pins,
France), ICC-95 (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), HIM-95
(Konstanz, Germany), ISI-94 (Graz, Austria), ECAI-94
(Amsterdam, Netherlands), ECCE-94 (St. Augustin,
Germany), ISI-90 (Konstanz, Germany), UM-90 (Honolulu,
HI), KONNAI-90 (Salzburg, Austria), GLDV-89 (Darmstadt,
Germany), ÖGAI-87 (Vienna, Austria), GWAI/ÖGAI-86
(Ottenstein, Austria) |
Workshop Program Committees |
CHI-2018 Workshop "Bridging a Bridge: Bringing Two HCI
Communities Together" (Montréal, Canada), ACM ASIACCS 2017
International Workshop on IoT Privacy, Trust, and Security
(Abu Dhabi, United Emirates), UMAP 2017 Workshop on
Temporal Aspects in User Modelling (Bratislava, Slovakia),
ACM ASIACCS 2016 Workshop on Internet-of-Things Privacy,
Trust, and Security (Xi'an, China), ACM ASIACCS 2015
Workshop on Internet-of-Things Privacy, Trust, and
Security (Singapore), UMAP-13 Workshop on User Modeling
for Enabling Technology for All (Rome, Italy), WWW 2013
Workshop on Social Recommender Systems (Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil), ACM WSDM 2013 Workshop on Context-aware Retrieval
and Recommendation (Rome, Italy), ACM CSCW 2012 Workshop
on Measuring Networked Social Privacy (San Antonio, TX),
ACM RecSys 2012 Workshop on Human Decision Making in
Recommender Systems, UMAP 2012 Workshop on Augmented User
Modeling (Montreal, Canada), UMAP 2012 Workshop on
Personalized Knowledge Modeling with Big (Usage &
Context) Data (Montreal, Canada), ACM KDD 2012 Workshop on
Context Discovery and Data Mining (Beijing, China), IUI
2012 Workshop on Ubiquitous Personalization (Lisbon,
Portugal), IUI 2012 Workshop on Context-awareness in
Retrieval and Recommendation (Lisbon, Portugal), ACM
RecSys 2011 Workshop on Human Decision Making in
Recommender Systems (Chicago, IL), IJCAI 2011 Workshop on
Intelligent Techniques for Web Personalization &
Recommendation (Barcelona, Spain), UMAP 2011 Workshop on
Personalization Approaches in Learning Environments, UMAP
2011 Workshop on Augmenting User Models with Real World
Experiences to Enhance Personalization and Adaptation
(Girona, Spain), RecSys 2010 Workshop on User-Centric
Evaluation of Recommender Systems and Their Interfaces
(Barcelona, Spain), RecSys 2010 International Workshop on
Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender
Systems (Barcelona, Spain), HCI India 2010 Workshop on
Modelling for Accessibility Personalization in HCI
(Bombay, India), IUI 2010 Workshop on Social Recommender
Systems (Hong Kong, China), IJCAI 2009 Workshop on
Intelligence and Interaction (Pasadena, CA), IIMSS-09
Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction in Knowledge-based
Environments (Mogliano Veneto, Italy), UM07 Workshop on
Ubiquitous and Decentralized User Modeling (Corfu,
Greece), UM07 Workshop Towards User Modelling and Adaptive
Systems for All (Corfu, Greece), PERVASIVE-06 Workshop on
Real-World Experiences with RFID and Sensor Networks
(Dublin, Ireland), UM05 Workshop on Decentralized,
Agent-Based and Social Approaches to User Modeling
(Edinburgh, Scotland), AAAI-04 Workshop on Semantic Web
Personalization (San Jose, CA), AH'04 Workshop on
Personalization in Future TV (Eindhoven, Netherlands),
UM03 Workshop on User Modeling for Ubiquitous Computing
(Johnstown, PA), i3 2000 Workshop on Interactive Learning
Environments for Children (Athens, Greece), UI4ALL-00
(Florence, Italy), HT98 Workshop on Adaptive Hypertext and
Hypermedia (Pittsburgh, PA), ABIS-98 (Saarbrücken,
Germany), UI4ALL-98 (Stockholm, Sweden), AAAI-99 Symposium
on Modal and Temporal Logic based Planning for Open
Networked Multimedia Systems (North Falmouth, MA), ABIS-97
(Dortmund, Germany), UI4ALL-97 (Obernai, France),
UI4ALL-96 (Prague, Czech Republic), UI4ALL-95 (Heraklion,
Greece), Italian Workshop on User-Adapted Interaction 1994
(Bari, Italy), ABIS-94 (St. Augustin, Germany), IJCAI-91
Workshop on User Models and Natural-Language Dialog
(Sydney, Australia), AAAI-91 Workshop on Intelligent
Multimedia Interfaces (Stanford, CA). |
Journal Reviewer |
ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Transactions on [Office]
Information Systems, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human
Interaction, ACM/Springer Journal on Multimedia Systems,
AI & Society, Angewandte Informatik, Applied
Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Review,
Behaviour and Information Technology, The Computer
Journal, Communications of the ACM, Cybernetics &
Systems Journal, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Human
Computer Interaction, IEEE Privacy & Security, IEEE
Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics,
Information and Management, Information Technology &
Decision Making, Interacting with Computers,
International Journal of Electronic Commerce,
International Journal of Information Technology and
Decision Making, International Journal of Man-Machine
Studies, Journal for Digital Information, KI, Knowledge
Engineering Review, New Review of Hypermedia and
Multimedia, Swiss Journal of Psychology, Universal
Access in the Information Society, World Wide Web |
Conference Reviewer |
CHI-16 (San Jose. CA), CHI-13 (Paris, France), UbiComp-12 (Pittsburgh, PA), InfoViz-09 (Atlantic City, NJ), ECIS09 (Verona, Italy), UbiComp07 (Innsbruck, Austria), VAST-06 (Baltimore, MD), CHI-2004 (Vienna, Austria), CHI-2002 (Minneapolis, MN), ECAI-2002 (Lyon, France), UIST-2002 (Paris, France), UIST-2001 (Orlando, FL),COOP-95 (Antibes-Juan-Les-Pins, France), CHI-94 (Boston, MA), INTERCHI'93 (Amsterdam, Netherlands), ISI-92 (Saarbrücken, Germany), CHI-92 (Monterey, CA), ECAI-92 (Vienna, Austria), CAIA-91 (Miami, FL), GWAI-91 (Bonn, Germany), ECAI-90 (Stockholm, Sweden), GWAI-90 (Eringerfeld, Germany), IJCAI-89 (Detroit, MI), ÖGAI-89 (Innsbruck, Austria), ECAI-88 (Munich, Germany), IJCAI-87 (Milan, Italy), GWAI-87 (Geseke, Germany, EMCSR-84&86 (Vienna, Austria) |
Reviewing for Publishers | Addison-Wesley, Springer Verlag, Kluwer
Academic Publishers, German Information Science
Association Press, Wiley |
Reviewing for Funding Agencies |
Australian Research Council, Austrian Ministry of
Science and Research, Austrian Science Fund, Commission of
the European Union (ESPRIT, Information Society
Technologies, Disabled & Elderly, Telematics, Language
Engineering, Design for All), Danish National Research
Foundation, German Science Foundation, Natural Sciences
and Engineering Research Council of Canada, U.S. National
Science Foundation (Cyber-Enabled Discovery and
Innovation, Cybertrust, Digital Libraries, Digital Society
and Technology, Human-Centered Computing, Information
Technology Research, Research Infrastructure, Secure and
Trustworthy Cyberspace, Social-Computational Systems),
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Science
Foundation Ireland, German Volkswagen Foundation |
Advisory Boards | Scientific Advisory Board of the German
National Social Science Information Center (IZ
Sozialwissenschaften, 1997-2002), User Modeling
Association (2003-2012), Adaptive Hypermedia and WWW
Conference series (2002-2009). |
Executive Boards | Institute for Software
Research, University of California, Irvine (since
2000) |
Steering
Committees |
ACM Conference Series on
Recommender Systems (2014-2016) |
2016-19 |
Process Tracing to Improve
Household IoT Users' Privacy Decisions |
NSF and Dutch NWO (w/ PIs Knijnenburg; Willemsen, NL) | $882.000 |
2015-20 |
Privacy Cognizant IoT
Environment |
DARPA Brandeis (w/ PI
Mehrotra, co-PI Venkasubramanian) |
$4,972,000 |
2015-18 |
Effects of Auditory Stimuli
on Security Tasks |
National Science Foundation
(w/ co-PIs Tsudik and Berg) |
$240,000 |
2015 |
Online Job Clubs: A
Smartphone Pilot Project |
UCI Multi-Investigator
Research Grant (w/ PI Sugie, co-PI Ward) |
$18,621 |
2015 |
Justice Propulsion Lab
& Racial Violence Archive |
UC Center for New Racial
Studies (w/ PI Ward, co-PI Sugie) |
$27,500 |
2014-18 |
User-Tailored Approach to Privacy Decision Support |
National Science Foundation (single PI) |
$666,000 |
2014-16 | Self-Discovery Tool for Latina Breast Cancer Survivors | National Cancer Institute (7 PIs from UCI and CSUF) | $100,000 |
2008-14 |
Industry gifts (mostly
related to research on privacy) |
Samsung, Intel, Google,
Disney, Magellan, Ericsson, TCL, Qualcomm (all single PI) |
$375,000 |
2012-13 |
User Errors in
Security-Related Behavior |
National Science
Foundation, SaTC (w/ G. Tsudik) |
$50,000 |
2011 |
Various Seed Grants |
UCI, Bren School of ICS (5
PIs) |
$43,000 |
2009-2012 | Usable Location Privacy in Geo-Social Networks | National Science Foundation (3 PIs) | $300,000 |
2008-2012 | Decentralized Virtual Activities & Technologies | National Science Foundation (6 PIs) | $3,000,000 |
2008-2013 |
User-Aided Secure Association of Wireless Devices |
National Science Foundation (3 PIs) | $460,000 |
2005-2006 | Instant Messaging and Privacy | CRITO (single PI) | $15,000 |
2004-2006 | European IST collaboration (privacy area) | National Science Foundation (single PI) | $91,000 |
2004-2006 | Privacy Protection in E-Commerce | Alexander v. Humboldt Foundation (w/ O. Günther) | $45,000 |
2003-2007 | Privacy in Personalized Systems | National Science Foundation (Single PI) | $360,000 |
2002-2006 | Distributed Software Development | National Science Foundation (8 PIs) |
$1,800,000
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2002-2003 | Information Visualization | CRITO (w/ J. Kim) |
$ 15,000
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2001-2003 | International Privacy | CRITO (Single PI) |
$ 40,000
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1999-00 | Industrial Projects | German Industries |
$ 45,000
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1997-00 | LaboUR (Machine Learning) | German Science Foundation (w/ W. Pohl) |
$ 400,000
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1998 | BGP-MS (User Modeling Shell) | SERI, Korea |
$ 25,000
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1996-98 | COBRA (Business Intelligence) | European Commission (ACTS, 6 institutions) |
$ 1,600,000
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1995-98 | AVANTI (Universal Access) | European Commission (ACTS, 8 institutions) |
$ 3,500,000
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1992-96 | BGP-MS (User Modeling Shell) | German Science Foundation |
$ 600,000
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1992-95 | Research and Instrumentation | University of Konstanz |
$ 60,000
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1985-95 | Conference travel | German Science Foundation |
$ 15,000
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Awards and Honors
2021 |
Lifetime
Achievement Award from the UMUAI Journal and User
Modeling Inc. |
2018 |
Dean's
Award for Research |
2015 |
Mercator
Fellow of the German Science Foundation |
2007, 2014 |
Google Research Award |
2006 | Humboldt
Research
Award for Lifetime Achievement |
2003 | Best Evaluation Paper Award at the Ninth International Conference on User Modeling |
2001 | UCI Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research |
1998-2020 |
Listings in Marquis Who is Who; Who is Who in
the World; America; Science and Engineering; American Men
and Women of Science; Encyclopedia of Bohemian and
Czech-American Biography |
1985 | Heinz Zemanek Award of the Austrian Computer Society |
1985 | Austrian Presidential Theodor Körner Award |
1984 | Scientific Award of the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna, Austria |
1982 | Merit
Scholarship of the Faculty of Technical and Natural
Science, Technical University of Vienna, Austria |
1981 | Merit Scholarship of the Faculty of Natural Science, University of Salzburg, Austria |
1978-83 | PRO SCIENTIA fellowship |
1977-80 | Merit Scholarships of the Schools of Natural Science and Engineering, and Social and Economic Sciences, University of Linz, Austria |
Scientific publications
List of all publications (including many online copies) available
at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~kobsa/kobsa-publi.htm
Rankings
Scientific presentations
Conference keynotes | ISMIS'12/WIC'12 (Macau, China), IHM-2010 (Luxembourg), INREDIS-2009 (Madrid, Spain), OCG-2009 (Vienna, Austria), FLAIRS-2008 (Miami, FL), KES-IIMSS-2008 (Piraeus, Greece), DEXA-2007 (Regensburg, Germany), UM2001 (Sonthofen, Germany), AH 2000 (Trento, Italy), WebNet'99 (Honolulu, HI), KI-93 (Berlin, Germany), LAUD-93 (Duisburg, Germany) |
Conference Panels | NPRS-2015 Panel on Privacy Perspective: Individual/Consumer, CPDP-2014 Panel on User-Centered Data Ecosystems (Brussels, Belgium), UMAP-2012 UMUAI panel (Montreal, Canada), UMAP-2010 University-Industry Panel (Big Island, HI), ACM WiSEC08 Panel on RFID Security and Privacy (Alexandria, VA), TrustBus-07 Panel on Identity Management (Regensburg, Germany), E-Challenges 2005 Panel on "Collaboration between NSF/ITR and FP6/IST" (Ljubljana, Slovenia), AAAS-05 Panel "Privacy and Security" (Washington, D.C.), IUI-05 Workshop Panel "Beyond Personalization" (San Diego, CA), IEEE VIS'03 Panel on Usability vs. Utility (Seattle, WA), I-KNOW-2003 Panel on Information and Knowledge Visualization (Graz, Austria), EXPO-2000 Panel on Access to Knowledge (Hanover, Germany), AH-2000 Panel on Adaptive Hypermedia Evaluation (Trento, Italy), AAAI-2000 Panel on Adaptive User Interfaces for the Real World (Stanford, CA), WebNet-99 Panel on Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia (Honolulu, Hawaii), UM-99 National Projects Panel (Banff, Canada), HT99 Panel on Adaptive Hypertext and Hypermedia (Darmstadt, Germany), CAIA-91 Panel on Multimedia in AI (Miami, FL) |
About 300 scientific presentations given in the North
America, Europe, Asia and Australia |