2nd CFP for International Workshop on Personalization Enhanced Access to Cultural Heritage

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CFP for International Workshop on Personalization Enhanced Access to
Cultural Heritage

 

http://www.cs.vu.nl/~laroyo/PATCH.html

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in conjunction with UM'2007

http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/um2007/

 

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Cultural Heritage gains lately a lot of attention. On the one hand, the
scientific field explores the possibilities to provide appropriate
technologies for digital and integrated access to cultural heritage
collections. On the other hand, the cultural heritage institutions are more
and more eager to collaborate among each other and to provide personalized
views, navigation and access to their virtual and physical collections.

 

Personalization could improve the museum websites and museum guide systems
usability by supporting users' navigation and assisting them in quickly
finding an appropriate starting point and to discover new relevant
information. In this process, the museum systems consider users' personal
characteristics, such as age, education, previous knowledge (when
available), together with visitor's behavior, in order to support a better
comprehension of the collection. Studies show that understanding is
stimulated when the systems use concepts familiar to the users (considering
their interests and knowledge level). Thus, museums can automatically adapt
the content presentation using user data stored in a user profile. Users can
explicitly fill in online forms to provide such data. Additionally, the
system can monitor their activities to infer and record their preferences.

 

The workshop will focus on the specific challenges of personalization in
cultural setting and exploring novel ideas for coping with these challenges.

 

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Goals of the Wokrshop

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The prime goal of this workshop is to gather researchers from different
fields, e.g. user modeling, mobile, ubiquitous and ambient technologies,
artificial intelligence and web information systems and explore various
practical use cases of application of those technologies. During the
workshop we would like to identify the typical user groups, tasks and roles
in order to achieve adequate personalization for Cultural Heritage
applications. Important aspects to discuss are related to:

 

    * Localization

    * Interaction Concepts

    * Navigation and browsing patterns

    * Collaboration, communication and sharing aspects in the process of
cultural heritage consumption

    * Information access and search patterns and needs

 

Based on this, we would like to identify a set of requirements for user and
context modeling for this domain, and realize practical guidelines for
deploying personalization techniques in the cultural heritage domain.

 

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Topics of interest

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User and context modeling in digital Cultural Heritage context

 

    * Ontology-based user profiles

    * Contextualized user profiles

    * Cross-context user modeling

    * Ambient user models

    * Interactive user modeling

    * Interactive user feedback collection

 

Personalized services and personalized information access for Cultural
Heritage

 

    * Museums

    * Digital archives

    * Digital libraries

    * Creative industries

    * Municipality public services

    * Tourist services

 

Personalized information presentation, navigation and browsing in digital
and physical cultural heritage collections

 

    * Integration of virtual and physical collections

    * Ambient Cultural Heritage

    * Mobile museum guides & personal museum assistants

    * Contex-aware information presentation

    * Adaptive navigation and browsing

    * Personalized museum guides

    * Interactive user interfaces

 

Cultural Heritage virtual and physical collection use of:

 

    * Semantic Web technologies (e.g. domain ontologies, user and context
ontologies, common vocabularies, reasoning on the SW for personalization)

    * Recommendation strategies

    * Adaptation strategies for text and non-verbal content

    * NLG techniques for mobile user modeling

 

Evaluations and real life use cases of personalization in Cultural Heritage
(e.g. web-based, mobile and other interactive applications)

 

 

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Important Dates:

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Paper submission: February 7, 2007

 

Paper notification: March 12, 2007

 

Early registration: March 19, 2007

 

Camera-ready papers: April 1, 2007

 

 

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Submission

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The workshop will accept papers in the following categories:

- Full papers - 10 pages

- Short papers - 5 pages

- Demonstrations - 2 pages

- Posters - 2 pages

 

All submissions should be formated according to Springer-Verlag in LNCS
format described in the "For Authors" instructions webpage
(http://www.springer.com/west/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=4-164-7-72376-0).

 

If you have a demonstration or poster, please provide a URL (or detailed
screen shots for not online available prototypes) of your prototype.

 

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Workshop Organization

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Lora Aroyo, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

Tsvi Kuflik, Haifa University, Israel

 

Oliviero Stock, ITC-IRST, Italy

 

Massimo Zancanaro, ITC-IRST, Italy

 

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Contact

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For more information please contact us at:

 

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