The Future of Experiencing Cultural Heritage (PATCH’2014) at IUI 2014

Call for Papers 

PATCH’2014 

The Future of Experiencing Cultural Heritage

Haifa, Israel. February 24, 2014

The 7th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2014) will be this year co-located with the Intelligent User Interfaces Conference (http://www.iuiconf.org/). IUI is the annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. It takes place in Haifa, Israel on 24 February 2014. Next to the full research papers, we also encourage submissions of position papers, short papers and demonstrations to enable active discussion of the open challenges and issues in this area of research. For more details check PATCH2014 webpage: http://patch2014.wordpress.com/.

The PATCH workshop series (http://patchworkshopseries.wordpress.com/) is the meeting point between state of the art cultural heritage and personalization research – using technology to enhance the personal experience in cultural heritage applications. We aim at building a research agenda for personalization in cultural heritage in order to make the individual cultural heritage experience a link in a chain of a lifelong cultural heritage 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, developers and students of information and communication technologies (ICT), cultural heritage domains, e.g. museums, archives, libraries, and more, and personalization.

                                                          

Topics

Multimedia information systems, such as interactive tours, visualizations and search engines, are now positioned centrally in a shared information space consisting of (1) digitized artifacts (2) the social web (3) and links between them. Personalization in multimedia information systems can improve the experience of visitors by assisting them in finding appropriate starting points, and in discovering new relevant information. Critically, these systems must become smart, so that they are able to adaptively act, react, respond and learn intelligently from user interactions. This workshop investigates three timely and interrelated issues relevant to the domains of both intelligent user interaction and cultural heritage:

• Mobile, personalized and context-aware cultural heritage information delivery – using mobile devices, large displays, projectors embedded in the environment and new technologies including Google Glass.

• Grow existing knowledge with new knowledge – Explore methods and tools to capture knowledge resulting from interactions between users (collective intelligence), professionals and collection artifacts, and interaction between users and different (intelligent systems) collecting information about them

• Extend contexts of use – Appropriation of digitized artifacts from memory organizations outside the traditional museum and research context for both visitors and professionals

Call for papers

Besides the full research papers, we also 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.

An extended abstract of the workshop will be included in the ACM Digital Library for IUI 2014.

Submissions

Paper submissions should follow the general ACM Multimedia submission guidelines and must comply with the formatting instructions:

• Full papers: max. 10 pages

• Position papers: max. 4 pages

• Short papers: max. 4 pages

• Demo papers: max. 4 pages

All papers should be submitted in PDF format via the online submission system. (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=patch2014iui2014).

An international panel of experts will review all submissions.

Demos need to provide links to the systems presented. Work that has already been published should not be submitted unless it

introduces a significant addition to the previously published work.

Important dates

• Paper Submission: Dec 14, 2013

• Author Notification: Jan 17, 2014

• Camera-ready Version: Feb 10, 2014

• Workshop: Feb 24, 2014

Organizers

• Cristina Gena - Università di Torino, Italy

• Alan J. Wecker - University of Haifa, Israel

• Johan Oomen - Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Netherlands

• Lora Aroyo - VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands

Contact

• Contact chairs at: joomen@beeldengeluid.nl

• Website: http://patch2014.wordpress.com/

• Twitter: @PATCH_Workshop, #patch2014

Programme committee

Alan J. Wecker (University of Haifa)

Cristina Gena (Università di Torino)

Eero Hyvönen (Helsinki University of Technology)

Ivan Cantador (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Johan Oomen (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision)

Joris Pekel (Europeana Foundation)

Dick van Dijk  (Waag Society)

Liliana Ardissono (Università di Torino)

Lora Aroyo (VU University Amsterdam)

Otmar Moritsch (Technisches Museum Wien)

Raffaella Santucci (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”)

Susan Hazan (Israel Museum)

Tsvi Kuflik (University of Haifa)

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Personal Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2012) @ UMAP 2012

Call for Papers

4th International Workshop on Personal Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2012)

http://patch2012.wordpress.com/

Co-located with the 20th conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2012)

Montreal, Canada, July 16-20, 2012

Background:

Cultural heritage (CH) has traditionally been a privileged area for personalization research. Visitors come to cultural heritage sites willing to experience and learn new things, usually without a clear idea of what to expect. CH sites are typically rich with objects and information, much more than the visitor can absorb during a limited time of a visit. The challenge is: can we provide an engaging experience for the ‘digital’, ‘mobile’ and ‘traditional’ museum visitors before, during and after a visit by exploiting information from previous interactions on CH sites and elsewhere on the ubiquitous Web. Further, an interesting problem to explore is can this kind of support be a basis for maintaining a lifelong chain of personalized CH experiences.

Personalization could improve the interaction and experience of visitors both 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. In this process, the museum systems consider visitors' personal characteristics, such as age, education, previous knowledge and experience (when available), together with the visitors’ behavior, in order to improve access to the collection and learning experiences, e.g. automatically adapting content presentation using user preferences and interest profiles collecting explicit user data from questionnaires or implicit data from monitoring visitors’ activities.

While currently various museum initiatives already invite people to engage with their collections online (e.g., Tate Modern, Powerhouse Museum), or reach out via Social Web platforms, e.g., Flickr the

Commons, Brooklyn Museum on Facebook, augmented reality browser of Netherlands Architecture Institute with Layar, personalization strategies for CH reside mainly in research projects and experiments, e.g., PEACH, INTRIGUE, Kubadji, PIL, CHIP,  and PrestoPrime, and focus mainly on ad-hoc, within-session or -visit personalization.

The workshop will aim at building a research agenda for personalization in CH where the abstract goal is to make the individual CH experience a link in a chain of a lifelong CH experience, where it is built on past experience, linked to daily life experience and provides the foundation for future experiences.

Topics of interest:

Personalized services and personalized information access and presentation for Cultural Heritage, navigation and browsing in digital and physical cultural heritage collections

·         Navigation and browsing in digital and physical cultural heritagecollections

·         Recommendation strategies

·         Adaptation strategies for text and non-verbal content

·         NLG techniques for mobile user modeling

·         Integration of virtual and physical collections

·         Ambient Cultural Heritage

·         Mobile museum guides & personal museum assistants

·         Context-aware information presentation

·         Adaptive navigation and browsing

·         Personalized museum guides

·         Interactive user interfaces

·         Personalization for group of visitors

Important Dates

            May 13, 2012              Submission deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time)

            June 04, 2012              Notification of acceptance

            June 18, 2012              Camera ready

            July  16/17, 2012         Workshop

Paper Submissions

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 (up to 6 pages) and full (up to 12 pages) research papers will be reviewed by at least two independent referees.

·         Demo papers (system demonstrations) and position statements should not exceed 3 pages.

All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted according to the information for LNCS authors: Information for LNCS

Authors (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0).

Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format to EasyChair

(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=patch2012)

Workshop Organizers:

·         Lora Aroyo - VU University Amsterdam

·         Anthony Collins  -  the University of Sydney

·         Eyal Dim - the University of Haifa

·         Judy Kay - the University of Sydney

·         Tsvi Kuflik - the University of Haifa.

·         Bob Kummerfeld - the University of Sydney.

Program Committee:

·         Liliana Ardissono - University of Turin, IT

·         Lora Aroyo - VU University Amsterdam, NL

·         Keith Cheverst - The University of Lancaster, UK

·         Anthony Collins  -  the University of Sydney, AU

·         Eyal Dim - the University of Haifa, IL

·         Cristina Gena - University of Turin, IT

·         Susan Hazan - Israel Museum, IL

·         Judy Kay - the University of Sydney, AU

·         Tsvi Kuflik - the University of Haifa, IL

·         Bob Kummerfeld - the University of Sydney, AU

·         Paul Mulholland – The Open University, UK

·         Ingrid Zukerman Monash University, AU

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Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment (ECLAP 2012)

 "Masks" courtesy of my wife Michaela

ECLAP 2012 

Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts,

Media Access and Entertainment

07-09 May 2012, 

Florence, Italy

Conference web page: http://www.eclap.eu/conference

We would like to invite you to the ECLAP Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment Information Technologies have made possible many important changes in the field of cultural heritage and continue to provide dynamic and exciting media platforms through which new possibilities perpetually emerge. This wave of change has had particularly significant consequences in the field of the Performing Arts, where a vast array of possibilities for digital content fruition continues to
reveal itself, constantly opening the doors to new and as-yet-unexplored synergies. Many technological developments concerning digital libraries, media entertainment and education are now fully developed and ready to be exported, applied, utilised and cultivated by the public.
The ECLAP 2012 conference is open to researchers, professionals, industries, institutions, technicians, practitioners in the area of performing arts and information technologies, media entertainment, technology enhanced learning, intelligent media systems, acoustic systems, cultural heritage, and many others.
The ECLAP conference aims to function as a forum in which progress-oriented individuals and institutions within the aforementioned fields can find a place to collaborate and present results. The ECLAP 2012 conference has confirmed a keynote-speaker lineup consisting of some of the most salient voices in the
field. Demo and poster sessions will be organized. The event will include plenty of opportunities for networking, discussion, sharing ideas and best practices.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
-- MARCO MARSELLA, Deputy Head of Unit, eContent and Safer Internet, E European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General
-- SARAH WHATLEY, Director of the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University, UK
-- HEATHER NATHANS, Professor of Theatre Studies, School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies, University of Maryland, USA
-- NIKKI TIMMERMANS, Advisor Media Plusregeling at Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie, The Netherlands

GENERAL TRACK: PERFORMING ARTS, MEDIA ACCESS AND ENTERTAINMENT

WORKSHOPS
--EDUCATIONAL SERVICES FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
--NEW BUSINESS MODELS IN THE CULTURAL HERITAGE DOMAIN
--AUTHORITATIVE METADATA VS USER-GENERATED CONTENT
--PERFORMING ARTS & ICT
--OPEN ACCESS 2002-2012
--NATURAL EUROPE LEARNING PATHWAYS

--TUTORIAL AND TRAINING ON ECLAP: open to all interested people on ECLAP mechanism and activity, content providers, archives, library, institutions, museums.

SOCIAL EVENT
May 8, 2012 - Florence, Stazione Leopolda, Viale
Fratelli Rosselli - Porta al Prato
Please make a reservation: http://www.eclap.eu/drupal/?q=node/71625

Organized by: University of Florence, Italy; University of Leeds; National
Technical University of Athens, Greece; Institute
of Sound and Vision, Netherlands;
University of Cambridge, UK; Universidad de
Castilla La Mancha, Spain; University
of Glasgow, UK; University of Rome La Sapienza,
Italy; University of Amsterdam,
Netherlands; Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, Italy; Dario Fo & Franca Rame
Archive, Italy; Escola Superior de Música, Artes
e Espectáculo do Porto, Portugal;
AXMEDIATECH, Italy; Festival International de
Films de Femmes de Créteil, France;
The Institute of Polish Culture University of
Warsaw, Poland; Museu de les Arts
Escèniques Institut del Teatre de Barcelona,
Spain; La Bellone, House of Performing
Arts, Belgium; Muzeum, Ljubljana, Slovenia;
Hungarian Theatre Institute, Hungary;
Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

GENERAL CHAIR
Paolo Nesi, University of Florence, Italy

PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS
-Emanuele Bellini, Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, Italy
-Peter Eversmann, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-Kia Ng, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
-Johan Oomen, Institute for Sound and Vision, The Netherlands
-Pierfrancesco Bellini, University of Florence, Italy (ECLAP Tutorial)

NETWORKING & WORKSHOP COORDINATOR
-Raffaella Santucci, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy

DATE & VENUE
7 - 9 May 2012
Convitto della Calza - Piazza Della Calza, 6, 50125, Firenze - Italy
Tel. +39 055.222287 - Fax +39 055.223912 -
calza@calza.it - http://www.calza.it

INFO & PARTICIPATION
Registration form: http://www.eclap.eu/eclap2012registration

FURTHER INFORMATION
Morning and afternoon coffee breaks as well as lunches will be provided.
The language of the event is English. If you have any further inquiries or
require additional information about this event,
please contact: info@eclap.eu

SECRETARY: Simonetta Ceglia, ceglia@dsi.unifi.it, tel: +39-055-4796567, 425

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