UMAP4Good - First International Workshop on User Modeling, Personalization, and Adaptive Systems for Sustainability and Social Good
June 2026
Gothenburg, Sweden
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.
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.
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.
Topics of Interest
We welcome submissions focused on sustainability perspectives, including but not limited to:
User Modeling and Adaptation for Sustainability
·Modeling users' sustainable preferences and behavior change patterns.
·Personalized nudging and persuasive systems designed for sustainability.
·Context-aware sustainability recommendations.
·Energy-efficient modeling and "Green AI" for personalization.
Responsible and Sustainable Adaptive Systems
·Multi-stakeholder adaptive systems.
·Fairness, inclusion, and long-term impact modeling.
·Explainability and trustworthy personalized systems.
·Privacy, safety, and ethical considerations.
Evaluation and Methodology
·Metrics beyond accuracy, specifically focusing on long-term, societal, and environmental impact.
·Simulation-based evaluation for behavior change.
·Reproducible pipelines and sustainability-aware benchmarks.
Application Domains
·Education and digital well-being.
·Health and lifestyle.
·Media, misinformation, and social platforms.
·Smart environments, mobility, and tourism.
·Agriculture, energy, and resource management.
Submission Guidelines
We welcome works at various stages of development, including applied systems, empirical results, or theoretically grounded positions. All submissions must be written in English and follow the CEUR template and LNCS guidelines. The review process is single-blind.
Submission Categories: We welcome full research and reproducibility papers, short papers, and extended abstracts.
Paper Types
1.Regular papers (Research and Reproducibility): 10 or more standard pages, including references.
2.Short papers: 5–9 standard pages, including references.
3.Poster papers: less than 5 standard pages, including references. (Poster papers must be handled as abstracts.)
CEUR Templates and Formatting
All papers must use the CEUR-WS template in one-column format (LaTeX is strongly preferred).
The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.
Declaration of Generative AI
Each paper must include a mandatory Declaration of Generative AI, in accordance with the CEUR-WS Generative AI Policy.
Accepted papers (full 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.
Important Dates
Workshop Timeline
All deadlines are 11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth (AoE = UTC−12) unless otherwise noted.
Mar 2
2026
1st Call for Workshop Papers
Attempt of the first call.
Mar 16
2026
2nd Call for Workshop Papers
Attempt of the second call.
Apr 9 Apr 14 (ext.)
Upcoming
2026
Workshop Paper Submission
Suggested submission deadline.
Apr 28
2026
Notification
Author notification date attempt.
May 7
2026
Camera-Ready for Authors
Suggested camera-ready deadline.
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.
Program Coming Soon
The schedule, invited speakers, and list of accepted papers will appear here after notifications are sent.
