[Announcements] CFP: Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage - PATCH at UMAP 2024

[Noemi Mauro]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The 15th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage
(PATCH 2024)

Held in conjunction with ACM UMAP 2024 - Cagliari, Italy.

https://patch2024.di.unito.it/

Important dates:

April 24, 2024: paper submission

May 8, 2024: notification to authors

May 16, 2024: camera-ready due

The workshop will be in person or hybrid.

Abstract and Topics

Following the successful series of PATCH workshops, PATCH 2024 will be
again the meeting point between state-of-the-art cultural heritage research
and personalization – using any kind of technology, while focusing on
ubiquitous and adaptive scenarios, to enhance the personal experience in
cultural heritage sites. The workshop is aimed at bringing together,
physically and/or virtually, researchers and practitioners who are working
on various aspects of cultural heritage and are interested in exploring the
potential of state of the art mobile technology (onsite as well as online)
to enhance the CH visit experience. The expected result of the workshop is
a sharing and discussing novel ideas and creating a multidisciplinary
research agenda that will inform future research directions and hopefully,
forge some research collaborations.

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. Cultural Heritage
exploration and fruition are central aspects to value the richness of the
territory and the history of our countries. The research on this topic is
very active and continuously expanding towards new topics, such as the
integration of cultural and natural heritage exploration, the extension to
novel interaction means (e.g., haptic user interfaces and IoT), ambient
intelligence, etc.

We invite cultural heritage professionals and researchers to join us to
discuss findings and trends on personalisation of cultural heritage in the
broadest sense, from online and remote cultural access to onsite visit,
from individuals to groups, from tangible to virtual and robotic mediation.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

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   Navigation and personalized browsing in digital and physical cultural
   heritage collections
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   Recommendation strategies for natural and cultural heritage
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   Adaptation strategies for text and non-verbal content in CH/NH
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   NLG techniques for mobile user modeling in natural and cultural heritage
   sites
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   Integration of virtual and physical collections
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   Immersive cultural and natural heritage
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   Mobile museum guides and personal museum assistants
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   Context-aware information presentation in natural and cultural heritage
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   Adaptive navigation and browsing in CH/NH sites
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   Intelligent user interfaces for natural and cultural heritage
   applications
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   Personalization for group of visitors to natural and cultural heritage
   sites
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   Personalization for collective CH information authoring and management
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   Creativity and collaboration support in CH
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   Personalization across the whole of a person's digital ecosystem
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   Long-term personalization
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   IoT and Cultural Heritage
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   Living lab in museum
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   Robots in museums
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   3D, Augmented, and Virtual Reality for cultural and natural heritage
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   Gestural interfaces for Cultural Heritage applications
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   Analysis of behavior patterns to improve CH/NH recommendation
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   Conversational agents for cultural and natural heritage
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   The use of personality for guiding CH/NH experiences
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   Multiple viewpoints and perspectives for CH
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   Remote access to CH/NH
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   Intelligent agents to interact with CH/NH


Submissions
Full papers: up to 14 pages excluding references.

Short papers/Position papers/Demo papers: up to 7 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 according to the new workflow for ACM
publications. The templates and instructions are available here:
https://patch2024.di.unito.it/submission.html.

All papers should be submitted in PDF format via the online submission
system by selecting the track "UMAP 24 Workshop PATCH":
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=umap24.

An international panel of experts will review all submissions.

Work that has already been published should not be submitted unless it
introduces a significant addition to the previously published work.

There will be a conference adjunct proceedings published by ACM where all
the workshop papers will be published.

Workshop organizers

Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy, liliana.ardissono at unito.it

Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel, tsvikak at is.haifa.ac.il

Noemi Mauro, University of Torino, Italy, noemi.mauro at unito.it

George E. Raptis, Human Opsis, Greece, graptis at humanopsis.com

Alan J. Wecker, The University of Haifa, Israel, ajwecker at gmail.com
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