EvalUMAP 2019 Chairs' Welcome & Organization

Research in the areas of User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization faces a number of significant scientific challenges. One of the most significant of these challenges is the issue of comparative evaluation. It has always been difficult to rigorously compare different approaches to personalization, as the function of the resulting systems is, by their nature, heavily influenced by the behavior of the users involved in trialing the systems. Developing comparative evaluations in this space would be a huge advancement as it would enable shared comparison across research. This workshop aims to develop initial shared task(s) that will be published ahead of UMAP 2020, providing opportunity for participants to test and tune their systems and complete the task in order for comparative results and associated publications to be prepared for and presented at UMAP 2020.