UMAP 2017 HAAPIE (Human Aspects in Adaptive and Personalized Interactive Environments) Workshop Chairs' Preface & Organization

Abstract

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2nd International workshop on Human Aspects in Adaptive and Personalized Interactive Environments (HAAPIE 2017). HAAPIE 2017 (http://haapie.cs.ucy.ac.cy) is a full-day workshop held on 09 July 2017 in conjunction with the 25th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2017), 09-12 July 2017 in Bratislava, Slovakia. Nowadays, the profound digital transformation has upgraded the role of the computational system into an intelligent multidimensional communication medium that creates new opportunities, competencies, models and processes. HAAPIE embraces the essence of the human-machine co-existence and aims to bring more inclusively the "human-in-the-loop", adequately supporting the rising multi-purpose goals, needs, requirements, activities and interactions of users through new human-centered adaptive and personalized interactive environments, algorithms and systems. It brings together experts, researchers, students and practitioners from different disciplines for sharing ideas and experiences, lessons learned, approaches and results that could substantially contribute to the broader UMAP community. This year we received 14 submissions from all around the world covering a broad range of topics on the workshop's research themes areas. Each paper has been reviewed by up to 3 members of the IPC with expertise in the respective area to ensure the necessary relevance, quality and novelty.