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3rd International Workshop on

Personalized Access To Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2011)

 

in conjunction with IUI 2011

 

February 13, 2011

Palo Alto, CA, USA

 

http://www.cs.vu.nl/~laroyo/PATCH2011.html

 

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Submission deadline EXTENDED: November 19, 2010

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BACKGROUND

 

The rapid development of information technologies and the Internet has enabled cultural heritage organizations to provide access to their collections not only through physical displays but also online, and attract even wider audiences than those that visit the physical museums.

Additionally, various trends on Web 2.0 allow for users not only to be passive consumers but also active participants. Personalization capitalizes on a user-centered intelligent interactive information exchange between museum websites or museum guide systems and visitors, and enables a new communication strategy based on a continuous process of interaction, collaboration, learning and adaptation between a museum and its visitors. Personalization has the potential to improve the interaction and experience of visitors on museum websites and with museum guide systems by supporting visitors' navigation and assisting them in quickly finding an appropriate starting point, and in discovering new relevant information.

 

 

OBJECTIVES

 

This workshop will focus on the specific challenges for personalization in the cultural heritage setting from the point of view of user interaction and visitor experience. It will investigate how the user interface -- the contact point of visitors and systems -- can become more intelligent by means of personalization.

 

The primary goal of this workshop is to gather researchers and practitioners from different fields, e.g., user interaction, arts and heritage curation, interface design, user modeling, mobile, ubiquitous and ambient technologies, artificial intelligence and web information systems, and explore various practical use cases of applications of these technologies. During the workshop we aim to identify the typical user groups, tasks and roles in order to achieve an adequate personalization for cultural heritage applications. Important aspects to discuss evolve around:

 

- In-door localization, navigation and browsing patterns

- Interaction concepts with personal (mobile or desktop) and group (on-site public or desktop) displays

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

- Information needs and access (incl. visualization) and search patterns

- Exploiting data from various sources

- Digital storytelling, narratives, smart summaries and recommendation explanations

 

Finally, we aim at identifying a set of requirements for personalized interaction and interfaces in the cultural heritage domain, and provide practical guidelines for deploying such personalization techniques in this domain.

 

 

TOPICS

 

1. User interaction and interface concepts for personalized access of digital and on-site cultural heritage, e.g.:

     - Museum collections

     - Digital multimedia archives

     - Integrated tourist information services 2. Personalized interfaces for single users and (small) groups of users,

e.g.:

     - Group user profile presentation

     - Interactive user profiles

     - Contextualized user profiles

     - Cross-context user data presentation

     - Use of avatars

3. Contextualized and context-aware navigation/browsing interfaces, e.g.:

     - For interactive museum guides

     - For public displays of visitors in a museum 4. Presentation of and interaction with personalized narratives in digital collections, e.g.:

     - Historical timelines

     - Collection perspectives

5. Intelligent interfaces for semantically enriched collections, e.g.:

     - Interaction with large conceptual knowledge

     - Interaction with structured knowledge 6. Personalized explanations and feedback of recommendation systems 7. Various interaction devices and interfaces in museums and cultural heritage institutions, e.g.:

     - Mobile personal devices (such as smart phones and tables)

     - Tabletops

     - Multi-touch interfaces

     - Information booths

     - Public and shared displays

8. Evaluation or real life use cases of cultural heritage applications,

e.g.:

     - Web-based

     - Mobile

     - Other interactive applications

 

 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

 

We encourage submissions of position papers, short papers and demonstrations to enable active discussion of the open challenges and issues in this area of research. We invite submissions of work at all stages of development that address any aspects of personalization in the cultural heritage domain, e.g., papers which describe work in progress, empirical results, position statements, and demonstrations of existing systems.

 

Paper submissions should follow the general IUI 2010 submission guidelines and must comply with the formatting instructions:

 

- Full papers: max. 10 pages

- Short papers: max. 4 pages

- Demo papers: max. 4 pages

- Position papers: max. 4 pages

 

All papers should be submitted in PDF format to patch.iui2011@gmail.com.

All categories of papers will be included in the printed and in the online proceedings. Demos need to provide links to the systems presented.

 

 

IMPORTANT DATES

 

November 19, 2010: paper submission deadline December 12, 2010: notification to authors December 19, 2010: submission of camera-ready papers

 

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

 

All queries relating to this workshop should be directed to the workshop organizers at patch.iui2011@gmail.com.

 

 

ORGANIZERS

 

- Lora Aroyo, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

- Fabian Bohnert, Monash University, Australia

- Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel

- Johan Oomen, Sound and Vision, The Netherlands

 

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

 

- Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy

- David Bearman, Archives&   Museum Informatics, Canada

- Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia

- Eyal Dim, The University of Haifa, Israel

- Susan Hazan, Israel Museum Jerusalem, Israel

- Frank Kresin, Waag Society, The Netherlands

- Raffaella Santucci, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy

- Natalia Stash, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

- Marco Streefkerk, Digital Erfgoed Nederland (DEN), The Netherlands

- Richard Wright, BBC Research&   Development, UK

- Massimo Zancanaro, FBK, Italy

- Ingrid Zukerman, Monash University, Australia

 

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Tsvika

 

Tsvi Kuflik, PhD.

  Senior Lecturer

  Information Systems department

  The University of Haifa

  Email: tsvikak@is.haifa.ac.il

  Home page: http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/~tsvikak/Home.htm

  Tel: +972 4 8288511

  Fax: +972 4 8288283