Adaptivity and User Modeling in Interactive Systems Editors

The field of adaptive systems is rapidly andsurely becoming part of the mainstream. Eversince the advent of Amazon, intelligent person-alization is steadily becoming an integral part ofcommercial systems and services. At the sametime, progress in other aspects of computing ishaving a major impact on research efforts in thearea: web 2.0 technologies are redefining whathypermedia are for and about; social software,shared annotations and tagging are bringing forththe reality of distributed user models and theneed to consider users as social beings rather thanas individuals; the inescapable ubiquity of com-puting, all the way from intelligent built environ-ments to smart clothing, is enriching the inter-action context and offering a wealth of new de-terminants and constituents for adaptivity; secu-rity is taking on new meaning as we now have toprotect not only against attacks on our networksand systems, but also on the very algorithms atthe heart of personalization; and all this whilewe are still in the process of transforming tradi-tional measures of interaction quality to properlyaccount for systems that may never exhibit thesame self to two different users. This talk willexplore some of the challenges that define thechanging landscape of our field, and will hope-fully serve as the basis for interesting and fruit-ful exchanges during and beyond the ABIS work-shop.