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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19th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'2014)

Call for Papers

IUI 2014

19th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'2014)

Haifa, Israel February 24-27, 2014

http://www.iuiconf.org/

SCOPE AND TOPICS OF INTEREST

IUI 2014 is the 19th annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces.
IUI is where the community of people interested in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) meets the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community. We are very interested in contributions that bridge these two fields and also related fields, such as psychology, cognitive science, computer graphics, the arts, etc. IUI researchers are interested in improving the symbiosis between humans and computers, so that interface design and interactive experiences yield higher performance outcomes.
This may involve designing interfaces that incorporate intelligent automated capabilities, if the net impact is a human-computer interaction that improves performance or usability in critical ways. It may also involve designing an interface that effectively leverages human skills and capabilities, so that human performance with an application excels. In other cases, such as educational interface design, it may involve exercising judgment in when not to automate a function so that humans are encouraged to exert themselves as they acquire new skills or domain knowledge.

We call for original submissions that describe novel technologies and applications to intelligent user interfaces.
IUI topics of interest including, but not limited to:

* User input
- Processing of multi-modal input
- Natural language and speech processing
- Gestures, eye gaze, face recognition
* Generation of system output
- Intelligent visualization tools
- Intelligent generation of user-consumable content
* Ubiquitous computing
- Intelligent interfaces for ubiquitous computing
- Smart environments and tangible computing
* Help and Persuasive Technologies
- Intelligent assistants for complex tasks
- Support for collaboration in multiuser environments
- Intelligent information and knowledge management
- Persuasive technologies in IUI
* Personalization
- User-adaptivity in interactive systems
- Recommender systems
- Modeling and prediction of user behavior
* AI Techniques in IUI
- Planning and plan recognition
- Reasoning in interfaces
- Knowledge-based systems
* Social Computing
- Affective, social and aesthetic interfaces
- Social networks and collaboration
* IUI Design
- Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation
- Proactive and agent-based paradigms for user interaction
- Example-and demonstration-based interfaces
* User studies
- User studies concerning intelligent interfaces
- Evaluations of implemented intelligent user interfaces
* Semantic Web
- Query interfaces and novel interfaces for Linked Data
- Consuming Linked Data
- Interfaces for creating and using large ontologies

SUBMISSION VENUES

* Full and Short Papers
We invite original paper submissions that describe novel user interfaces, applications, interactive and intelligent technologies, empirical studies, or design techniques. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library.
IUI 2014 especially encourages submissions on innovative and visionary new concepts or directions for interface design. We do not require evaluations with users, but we do expect papers to include an appropriate evaluation for their stated contribution. Full papers should make substantial, novel and relevant
contributions to the field. Short papers can either contain smaller contributions, novel ground-breaking ideas, or work in progress. Accepted full papers will be invited for oral presentation and short paper either as oral or poster presentation.

Astracts Due: October 4, 2013
Full and Short Papers Due: October 9, 2013

* Demonstrations
The demonstrations track complements the overall program of the conference.
Demonstrations show implementations of novel, interesting, and important intelligent user interface concepts or systems. We invite submissions relevant to intelligent user interfaces and which address, but are not limited to, the topics of the conference. All submissions are intended to convey a scientific result or work in progress and should not be advertisements for commercial software packages.

Submissions Due: December 12, 2013

* Industrial Track

The industrial track represents an opportunity for the companies in the field to present their late work (as presentations, posters or interactive demos) and receive valuable feedback from the research community. It also provides an opportunity for recruitment and for networking. The industry track will not be peer-reviewed but the relevance of proposals for the field will be judged by a jury. Please contact industry track chairs at indtrackchair2014@iuiconf.org

Submissions Due: TBA

* Student Consortium

The IUI 2014 Student Consortium provides an opportunity for Masters and Doctoral students to present and receive feedback about their research in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of mentors, selected from senior people in the field. We invite students who feel they would benefit from this kind of feedback on their research to apply for this unique opportunity to share their work with students in a similar situation as well as senior researchers in the field. The strongest candidates will be those who have
a clear topic and research approach, and have made some progress, but who are not so far along their research that they can no longer make changes.

Submissions Due: November 1, 2013

* Workshops

Workshops will be held on the first day of the conference. We invite submissions of full-day (6 hours) and half-day (3 hours) workshop proposals on any of the conference topics.

Workshop Proposals due: September 16, 2013

ORGANIZATION
* General Co-Chairs:
- Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa
- Oliviero Stock, FBK-irst

* Program Co-Chairs:
- Joyce Chai, Michigan State University
- Antonio Kruger, Saarland University and DFKI GmbH

* Treasurer
- Melinda Gervasio, SRI International

* Industry Chair:
- Claudia Goldman, General Motors - Advanced Technical Center - Israel
- Doron Friedman, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya
- Massimo Zancanaro, FBK-irst

* Student Consortium Co-Chairs:
- Shlomo Berkovsky, NICTA
- Helmut Prendinger, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo

* Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs:
- Ido Guy, IBM Research - Haifa
- Tracy Hammond, Texas A&M University

* Demo Co-Chairs:
- Doron Friedman, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya
- Massimo Zancanaro, FBK – Fondazione Bruno Kessler

* Local Arrangements Co-Chairs:
- Joel Lanir, The University of Haifa
- Eran Toch, Tel Aviv University

* Registration Chair
- Amit Tiroshi, The University of Haifa

* Social media Chair
- Angel Puerta, RedWhale Software

* Publicity Chair:
- Nava Tintarev, University of Aberdeen

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