⏰ [UMAP2026] Industry Paper submissions deadline is in March 6, 2026 (AoE).
🎯 Present your real-world innovations
🎯 Discuss practical deployment challenges
🎯 Share impactful solutions with the community.
📍 Gothenburg, Sweden, June 8–11, 2026.
👉 Check out the call: www.um.org/umap2026/cal...
💡Had a bold, yet unexplored idea?
💻 Developed an awesome platform for research on user modelling?
Submit to LBR and Demos at UMAP 2026 !
Deadline is March 30th.
Call: www.um.org/umap2026/cal...
@alansaid.com @toinebogers.bsky.social @alainstarke.bsky.social
Many thanks to Cristina Gena and @ludovicoboratto.bsky.social for making this happen!
Just in time for the paper deadline, we received notification that @umapconf.bsky.social has been upgraded to A in the ICore rankings! Check out the CFP www.um.org/umap2026/cal... and the ICore ranking info below!
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@toinebogers.bsky.social @abellogin.bsky.social
Looking forward to getting the January issues of #CACM and #Interactions in the mail. #UMAP2026 @umapconf.bsky.social @toinebogers.bsky.social @abellogin.bsky.social @acm.org @acm-sigchi.bsky.social @acmsigweb.bsky.social
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I've received phone calls and voice mails that all seemed to be intended for someone else. The topics were always on something related to translations, often from Russian. I never could figure out what this was about. Until now.
There's a Swedish interpreter, Alan Asaid. alanasaid.com
Occasionally, over the last 15 years or so, I've received invitations to literary events, notifications of awards for literary works, inquiries about my work in relation to the Swedish Author's Fund (Sveriges författarfond), invitations to contribute translations to collections of poems, etc., etc.
2025 had good, sometimes uncomfortable conversations. Heading into 2026 with fewer assumptions and better questions.
Across talks and public conversations, the same questions kept coming back: #sustainability, #accountability, and the longer-term consequences of recommender systems (#recsys).
Seeing this work travel outside academia was a good reminder of how careful we need to be with nuance.
Wrapping up 2025 and realizing it was mostly a year of transitions.
Stepping away from Head of Education role after 6+ years gave me some distance, and a lot to think about in terms of what actually makes change stick. Less about structures, more about continuity, trust, and people.
Are you a PhD student in topics related to User Modelling and Personalization? Check out the #UMAP2026 call for Doctoral Consortium papers!
Submission: March 6, 2026
Notification: March 20, 2026
DC Day: June 8th, 2026
Call: www.um.org/umap2026/cal...
I see @acm.org has added an additional page at the beginning of all papers in the ACM Digital Library. Assuming this is part of the move to #ACMOpen. I wonder if any estimates of how many additional printed pages that will be wasted as an effect of this have been made? Doesn't seem very sustainable.
REPLIK. Om Sverige vill vara i framkant räcker det inte att ingenjörerna är redo. Vi måste se till att samhället är det, skriver Alan Said.
New episode out now. We talk with @benbendc.bsky.social about the future of #HCAI, why user self-efficacy still matters, and how design, responsibility, and safety must guide the next wave of AI systems. A deep, wide-ranging conversation with one of the true pioneers of #HCI. hcai.se/podcast/25-1...
Reminder!!!
The UMAP2026 call for full and short papers is out!
Important Dates (AoE)
Abstract submission: January 22, 2026
Paper submission: January 29, 2026
Rebuttal phase: March 2-9, 2026
Notification: March 25, 2026
CfP: www.um.org/umap2026/cal...
For questions: umap2026-papers@um.org
Yeahhhhh 🥳🥳
The UMAP 2026 call for workshops and tutorials is out!!
Proposal Submission: January 22, 2026
For more information 👇
Workshop Website: www.um.org/umap2026/cal...
Tutorial Website: www.um.org/umap2026/cal...
For questions: umap2026-workshop-tutorial@um.org
Lukas Wegmeth, Tobias Vente, Alan Said, Joeran Beel
Green Recommender Systems: Understanding and Minimizing the Carbon Footprint of AI-Powered Personalization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13001
Hur skiljer sig lyssnandet på musik åt mellan unga och äldre? Det har forskare från Göteborgs universitet, Jönköping University och University of Primorska tittat på när de analyserat 15 år av data från en musiktjänst.
#Datavetenskap #GöteborgsUniversitet #Forskning #Musik
Hi. The data is anonymized. Does not include user names.
REPLIK. Bland de allra mest meriterade ai-forskarna finns skilda uppfattningar om riskerna med ai. Att inte redovisa det blir selektivt, skriver Alan Said och Mattias Rost i ett debattsvar.
#SIGIR2025 had 1071 full submissions across all tracks. Considering that a large number of those are on search and IR, this track may very well be the largest outlet for #recsys research. (although, given recent numbers at @neuripsconf.bsky.social and @aaai.org, this may be very well be contested).
This is about twice the number of full paper abstracts submitted to #recsys2025. @recsys.bsky.social
We (@md.ekstrandom.net and @ssahebi.bsky.social) received 706 abstracts in the User Modeling, Personalization, and Recommendation track at #TheWebConference2026. #usermodeling #personalization #recsys
And @drchole.bsky.social's presentation of our (with md.ekstrandom.net) call for a revised research agenda for #recsys
Particularly happy about Alex Tuzhilin's keynote on exploitation VS exploration in #recsys
#beyond2025 at @recsys.bsky.social is wrapping up. We've had a great program on the interdisciplinary roots of #RecSys.
Back in the days when people still understood their models 😶🌫️
#recsys2025
Very happy for this paper, and Bruno's great presentation of it at #recsys2025. This is the result of the work that Rodrygo Santos started during a research visit at the University of Gothenburg last year. @recsys.bsky.social dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Recommending in the age of AI @xamat.bsky.social giving his keynote at #recsys2025 @recsys.bsky.social ("A very personal review of #RecSys")
A preliminary call for papers for #umap2026 is now available on the conference's website. Check it out, mark your calendars, and get to work on those papers. www.um.org/umap2026/cal...
@umapconf.bsky.social (#recsys2025)
