The 12th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2021) co-located with ACM UMAP 2021 - Online

https://patch2021.di.unito.it/

Abstract and Topics

Following the successful series of PATCH workshops, PATCH 2021 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

• (User Interaction with) Integration of virtual and physical collections

• Analysis of behavior patterns to improve CH recommendation

• Personalization across the whole of a person's digital ecosystem (including CH)

• Long term personalization in CH

• IoT and Cultural Heritage

• Human-Robots adaptation 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

• Multiple viewpoints and perspectives for CH

• Remote access to CH

• Personalized support to the exploration of Cultural and Natural Heritage

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
Regular papers: up to 10 pages excluding references;

Position paper/Demo papers: up to 4 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://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow.

All papers should be submitted in PDF format via the online submission system by selecting the track "Workshop-PATCH": https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021.

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.

Important dates:

April 2, 2021: Submission deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time)

March 26, 2021: Submission deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time)

April 19, 2021: Notification deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time)

May 7, 2021: Camera-Ready deadline (23:59 PM Hawaiian time)

Workshop organizers

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

Cristina Gena, University of Torino, Italy, cristina.gena@unito.it

Tsvi (Tsvika) 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, raptisg@upnet.gr

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

Program Committee 

Angeliki Antoniou - University of Peloponnese, Greece

Liliana Ardissono - University of Torino, Italy

Carmelo Ardito - Politecnico of Bari, Italy

George Caridakis - University of the Aegean, Greece

Keith Cheverst - The University of Lancaster, UK

Rossana Damiano - University of Torino, Italy

Berardina Nadja De Carolis - University of Bari, Italy

Cristina Gena - University of Torino, Italy

Susan Hazan - Israel Museum, Israel

Christina Katsini - University of Patras, Greece

Tsvika Kuflik - The University of Haifa, Israel

Moayad Mokarten - The University of Haifa, Israel

Joel Lanir - The University of Haifa, Israel

Vincenzo Lombardo - University of Torino, Italy

Pasquale Lops - University of Bari, Italy

Noemi Mauro - University of Torino, Italy

Elena Not - FBK-irst, Italy

George E. Raptis - Human Opsis, Greece

Giuseppe Sansonetti - University of Roma, Italy

Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari, Italy

Oliviero Stock - FBK-irst, Italy

Maria Vayanou - University of Athens, Greece

Manolis Wallace - University of Peloponnese, Greece

Alan Wecker - The University of Haifa, Israel

Massimo Zancanaro - University of Trento, Italy