[Infovis] 2006 UMUAI James Chen Award Recipients

[Alfred Kobsa]

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of  
Personalization Research (UMUAI) is pleased to announce that the paper

      A Model of Perceptual Task Effort for Bar Charts and its Role  
in Recognizing Intention
      Stephanie Elzer, Nancy Green, Sandra Carberry and James Hoffman
      Volume 16, Number 1 / March, 2006
      http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11257-006-9002-9

has been elected as the winner of the 2006 James Chen Annual Award  
for Best Journal Article. It was selected based on nominations from  
journal reviewers, editorial board members, and a subsequent  
comparative review by an award committee chaired by Judy Kay from the  
University of Sydney, Australia.

The UMUAI annual best paper award has been donated by the Chen family  
in commemoration of James R. Chen, a creative researcher in the area  
of user modeling and information retrieval, and twice a UMUAI author.  
It carries a cash prize of U.S. $1,000.

UMUAI provides an interdisciplinary forum for the dissemination of  
new research results on interactive computer systems that can be  
adapted or adapt themselves to their current users, and on the role  
of user models in the adaptation process. More information is  
available from http://www.umuai.org or the publisher's website at  
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1573-1391/

Alfred Kobsa, Editor
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction:
The Journal of Personalization Research