[AISWorld] CFP: PATCH 2013 - 6th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage

[Tsvika Kuflik]

 [apologies for multiple postings]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

6th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2013)

http://patch2013.wordpress.com

co-located with UMAP 2013, 21st conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization Rome, Italy June 10-14, 2013 ===================================================================================

Apr 01, 2013: Submission deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time)

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PATCH workshop series are the meeting point between state of the art cultural heritage research and personalization – using technology to enhance the personal experience in cultural heritage sites. We aim at building a research agenda for personalization in CH in order to make the individual CH experience a link in a chain of a lifelong CH experience which builds on past experience, is linked to daily life and provides the foundation for future experiences. The workshop aims to be multi-disciplinary. It is intended for researchers, practitioners, and students of information and communication technologies (ICT), cultural heritage domains (museums, archives, libraries, and more), and personalization.

This full-day workshop is aimed at bringing together researchers & practitioners who are working on various aspects of cultural heritage and are interested in exploring the potential of state of the art technology (onsite as well as online) to enhance the CH visit experience. The expected result of the workshop is a multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future research directions and hopefully, forge some research collaborations.

Motivation
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Cultural heritage (CH) is a privileged area for personalization research because CH sites are rich in objects and information, far more than the visitor can absorb during the limited time of a single visit. Moreover, the convergence between CH and the Internet has made huge amounts of information about CH readily available in electronic format. Two important challenges to be addressed are thus:

- how to provide an engaging experience for the ‘digital’, ‘mobile’ and ‘traditional’ CH visitor before, during and after a visit, by exploiting information from previous interactions on CH sites and elsewhere on the ubiquitous Web?
- can this kind of support can be a basis for maintaining a lifelong chain of personalized CH experiences, linked to broader lifelong learning?

Not only “traditional” CH sites, but also cities are excellent test-beds for personalization research: modern urban planning shows an avalanche of diverse initiatives focused on creative urban development. 
Consequently, it has become fashionable to regard the many forms of cultural expression, like art, festivals, exhibitions, media, design, digital expression and research as signposts for urban individuality and identity and departures for a new urban cultural industry.

Personalization  also has a role to play in supporting  collaboration that enables groups of people to take part in the preservation, enrichment and access to cultural heritage. This is because it can be an 
enabler for   people to be both information consumers and producers, and 
actively involve them in the management of cultural heritage information. Methodologies and technological utilities for online communities can help them to become actively engaged in the publishing process, contribute their knowledge, and partake in a dynamic creation and conceptualization of the cultural resources will be thus central to the workshop themes.

Topics
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- Personalized services & personalized information access to CH
- Adaptive navigation and browsing in digital and physical CH collections
- Recommendation strategies for CH
- Adaptation strategies for text and non-verbal content in CH
- NLG techniques for mobile user modeling in CH sites
- Integration of virtual and physical collections
- Ambient Cultural Heritage
- Mobile museum guides & personal museum assistants
- Context-aware information presentation in CH
- Personalized museum guides
- Interactive user interfaces for CH applications
- Personalization for group of visitors to CH sites
- Personalization for collective CH information authoring and management
- Creativity and collaboration support in CH
- Social interaction and collaboration among CH stakeholders
- Personalization across the whole of an person’s digital ecosystem
- Long term personalization

Important dates
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Apr 01, 2013: Deadline to submit Papers to PATCH 2013
May 01, 2013: Notification to authors

Submission
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All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not 
currently under review. Papers will be evaluated according to their 
significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and 
relevance to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper is 
expected to attend the workshop. We welcome the following types of 
contributions:

- Short research papers (up to 4-6 pages)
- Full research papers (up to 8-12 pages)
- Demo (system demonstrations) papers (up to 4 pages)
- Position statements (up to 2-4 pages)

All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted 
according to the information for LNCS Authors. Please submit your 
contributions electronically in PDF format to EasyChair 
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=patch2013).

Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings published 
on-line by CEUR Workshop Proceedings and at the workshop web page. 
Selected papers might be published in a special issue of a relevant 
journal of the field (details to be announced).

Program Committee
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Liliana Ardissono – University of Turin, Italy
Lora Aroyo – VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Charles Callaway – Trento Rise, Italy
Keith Cheverst – The University of Lancaster, UK
Eyal Dim – the University of Haifa, Israel
Cristina Gena – University of Turin, Italy
Susan Hazan – Israel Museum, Israel
Judy Kay – the University of Sydney, Australia
Tsvi Kuflik – the University of Haifa, Israel
Bob Kummerfeld – the University of Sydney, Australia
Leo Iaquinta – the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Patrick Olivier – Newcastle university, UK
Álvaro de Oliveira- Alfamicro, PT
Fabio Paterno – ISTI-C.N.R. Pisa, Italy
Daniela Petrelli – Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Aaron Quigley – St Andrews, Scotland
Alan Wecker – the University of Haifa, Israel

Organizers
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Liliana Ardissono - University of Torino
Lora Aroyo – VU University Amsterdam
Luciana Bordoni - ENEA/UTICT, Rome
Judy Kay - University of Sydney
Tsvi Kuflik - University of Haifa

For more information:
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Visit workshop website: http://patch2013.wordpress.com
Contact the organizers at: patch.umap.2013 at gmail.com
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