UMAP4Good - First International Workshop on User Modeling, Personalization, and Adaptive Systems for Sustainability and Social Good

In an era where personalization technologies increasingly shape human decision-making, integrating sustainability and social good into user-adaptive systems has become an essential challenge. Building on recent advances in User Modeling, Personalization, and Adaptive Systems, this workshop aims to consolidate a research agenda focused on how personalization can support sustainable behaviors, ethical decision-making, inclusion, and positive societal impact. Personalized and adaptive systems influence users’ choices across many contexts—health, mobility, education, media consumption, and more. Their role in shaping long-term behavioral change positions them as key technologies for supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals and broader sustainability initiatives. This workshop provides an interdisciplinary venue for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to explore theoretical, methodological, and practical advances at the intersection of sustainability, personalization, and adaptive systems. Through presentations, discussions, and interactive sessions, the workshop aims to stimulate knowledge exchange, collaboration, and define emerging challenges for developing sustainable, inclusive, and socially responsible personalized systems.

Call for Papers

UMAP4Good 2026

First International Workshop on User Modeling, Personalization, and Adaptive Systems for Sustainability and Social Good

We invite submissions to the First International Workshop on User Modeling, Personalization, and Adaptive Systems for Sustainability and Social Good (UMAP4Good 2026), held in conjunction with the ACM UMAP 2026 conference.

UMAP4Good 2026 is an in-person event.

Details & submission guidelines can be found here: http://umap4good.github.io/umap4good26/

Important Dates:

• ·April 9, 2026: Paper submission.
• ·April 28, 2026: Notification.
• ·May 7, 2026: Camera-ready submission.

In an era where personalization technologies increasingly shape human decision-making, integrating sustainability and social good into user-adaptive systems has become an essential challenge. Adaptive systems influence choices across many contexts, including health, mobility, education, and media consumption, positioning them as key technologies for supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals. UMAP4Good 2026 provides an interdisciplinary venue to explore how personalization can support sustainable behaviors, ethical decision-making, and positive societal impact.

We welcome works at various stages of development, including applied systems, empirical results, or theoretically grounded positions. We invite submissions in the form of full papers, reproducibility papers, short papers, and extended abstracts. Note: Accepted papers (full, reproducibility, and short) will be published in the proceedings (CEUR). Extended abstracts are editorially reviewed for workshop presentation only and will not be included in the proceedings.

CEUR Template can be found as an Overleaf project or can be downloaded at this link.

Topics of Interest

We welcome submissions focused on sustainability perspectives, including but not limited to:

Important Dates

Workshop Timeline

All deadlines are 11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth (AoE = UTC−12) unless otherwise noted.

Program

Schedule & Speakers

The full workshop program will be announced after the review process is complete. Check back for invited speakers, spotlight talks, and panel discussions.

Organizers

Meet the Team