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 28, 2024: paper submission (strict)
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:
Navigation and personalized browsing in digital and physical cultural heritage collections
Recommendation strategies for natural and cultural heritage
Adaptation strategies for text and non-verbal content in CH/NH
NLG techniques for mobile user modeling in natural and cultural heritage sites
Integration of virtual and physical collections
Immersive cultural and natural heritage
Mobile museum guides and personal museum assistants
Context-aware information presentation in natural and cultural heritage
Adaptive navigation and browsing in CH/NH sites
Intelligent user interfaces for natural and cultural heritage applications
Personalization for group of visitors to natural and cultural heritage sites
Personalization for collective CH information authoring and management
Creativity and collaboration support in CH
Personalization across the whole of a person's digital ecosystem
Long-term personalization
IoT and Cultural Heritage
Living lab in museum
Robots in museums
3D, Augmented, and Virtual Reality for cultural and natural heritage
Gestural interfaces for Cultural Heritage applications
Analysis of behavior patterns to improve CH/NH recommendation
Conversational agents for cultural and natural heritage
The use of personality for guiding CH/NH experiences
Multiple viewpoints and perspectives for CH
Remote access to CH/NH
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@unito.it
Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel, tsvikak@is.haifa.ac.il
Noemi Mauro, University of Torino, Italy, noemi.mauro@unito.it
George E. Raptis, Human Opsis, Greece, graptis@humanopsis.com
Alan J. Wecker, The University of Haifa, Israel, ajwecker@gmail.com