[Announcements] PATCH 2020 @ UMAP 2020 - 2nd CFP

[George E. Raptis]

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS - PATCH 2020
The 11th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural
Heritage (PATCH 2020) on July 17th, 2020, co-located with ACM UMAP 2020
in Genova, Italy.

https://patch2020.di.unito.it/

Covid-19 Important update
PATCH 2020 is scheduled to be held as planned (July 17), but we will
continue to monitor the evolving situation related to the coronavirus
disease outbreak and potential impact on global travel. UMAP 2020
follows the guidelines provided by the World Health Organisation, local
public health authorities,  individual governments, and the Italian
Government. Decisions will be based on that. We wish to reassure that
should a physical conference be unsafe or should people have travel
limitations from Governments, the remote presentations/recordings will
be possible. The accepted papers of PATCH 2020 will be published as part
of the UMAP 2020 Adjunct Proceedings and will be available as planned in
the ACM Digital Library.

Abstract and Topics
Following the successful series of PATCH workshops, PATCH 2020 will be
again the meeting point between state of the art cultural heritage (CH)
research and personalization research. For those using any kind of
technology, while focusing on ubiquitous and adaptive scenarios, to
enhance the personal experience in CH sites. The workshop is aimed at
bringing together researchers and practitioners who are working on
various aspects of CH and are interested in exploring the potential of
state of the art of mobile and personalized 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.
Topics (of interest) include, but are not limited to:
- Adaptive navigation and personalized browsing in digital and physical
cultural heritage collections and in CH sites
- Ambient Cultural Heritage
- Personalization for group of visitors to CH sites
- Personalization for collective CH information authoring and management
- Creativity and collaboration support in CH
- Personalized mobile museum guides & personal museum assistants
- Recommendation strategies for CH
- Adaptation strategies for text and non-verbal content in CH
- NLG techniques and conversational agents for CH
- Integration of virtual and physical collections
- Analysis of behavior patterns to improve CH recommendation
- Personalization across the whole of a person's digital ecosystem
- Long term personalization.
- IoT and Cultural Heritage
- Robots in museums
- 3D, Virtual and Augmented Reality for Cultural Heritage
- Context-aware information presentation in CH
- Interactive user interfaces for CH applications
- Gestural interfaces for Cultural Heritage applications
- Use of personality for guiding Cultural Heritage Experiences
- Participatory CH including multiple viewpoints and perspectives
- Community mapping for CH information sharing

Motivation
Cultural heritage (CH) has traditionally been a privileged area for
personalization research, as highlighted by the many H2020 calls on this
topic. 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 in objects and information; much more than the
visitor can absorb during the limited time of a visit. As discussed by
Falk (2009), visitors to CH sites differ and their visit experience
involves a combination of the physical, the personal, and the
socio-cultural context and identity-related aspects. Hence, they may
benefit from individualized support that takes into account contextual
and personal attributes. However, personalization brings two main
challenges:
- Firstly, can we support CH exploration for first-time and anonymous
visitors, taking into account that many people access cultural sites
only once, or they interact with digital services anonymously?
- Secondly, when it is possible to track users along time, can we
provide an engaging experience for the 'digital', 'mobile' and
'traditional' CH 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 whether
this kind of support can be a basis for maintaining a lifelong chain of
personalized CH experiences. This is true, not only in "traditional" CH
sites, but also in urban environments, which reflect the varied history
of mankind and offer places and objects representing shared values for
the population, to be preserved and valued.

Submissions
Page limits: Long papers 6 pages excluding references; Short papers 4
pages excluding references; Position papers and Demo papers 2 pages
excluding references.
Papers that exceed the page limits or formatting guidelines will be
returned without review.
Submissions should be single blinded, i.e. authors names should be
included in the submissions.
Papers must be formatted using the ACM SIG Standard (SIGCONF)
proceedings template:
https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template [1].

All papers should be submitted in PDF format via the online submission
system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=patch2020 [2].

An international panel of experts will review all submissions.
Demos need to provide links to the systems to be presented. Work that
has already been published should not be submitted unless it introduces
a significant addition to the previously published work.

Important dates:
April 9, 2020: Submission deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time)
April 30, 2020: Notification deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time)
May 6, 2020: Camera-Ready deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time)

Workshop organizers
Liliana Ardissono (liliana.ardissono at unito.it)
Noemi Mauro (noemi.mauro at unito.it)
George E. Raptis (raptisg at upnet.gr)
Alan J. Wecker (ajwecker at gmail.com)

Program Committee
Angeliki Antoniou - University of Peloponnese, Greece
George Caridakis - University of the Aegean, Greece
Keith Cheverst -  The University of Lancaster, UK
Rossana Damiano - University of Turin, Italy
Susan Hazan - Israel Museum, Israel
Marinos Ioannides Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Christina Katsini - University of Patras, Greece
Moayad Mokarten, The University of Haifa, Israel
Joel Lanir -  The University of Haifa, Israel
Vincenzo Lombardo - University of Turin, Italy
Pasquale Lops- University of Bari, Italy
Elena Not -  FBK-irst, Italy
Patrick Olivier - Monash University, Australia
Giuseppe Sansonetti - University of Roma, Italy
Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari, Italy
Julia Sheidin - The University of Haifa, Israel
Christos Sintoris - University of Patras, Greece
Oliviero Stock -  FBK-irst, Italy
Maria Vayanou - University of Athens, Greece
Massimo Zancanaro - FBK-irst, Italy
Manolis Wallace - University of Peloponnese, Greece 

Links:
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[1] https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
[2] https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=patch2020
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