CALL FOR PAPERS
The 14th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage
(PATCH 2023)
Held in conjunction with ACM UMAP 2023 - Limassol, Cyprus.
https://patch2023.di.unito.it/index.html
Important dates:
April 25, 2023: paper submission April 20, 2023: paper submission
May 8, 2023: notification to authors
May 18, 2023: camera-ready due
The workshop will be in person. However, in very exceptional circumstances
we might accept a remote participation, to be discussed with us at paper
submission time.
Abstract and Topics
Following the successful series of PATCH workshops, PATCH 2023 will again
be the meeting point between state-of-the-art cultural heritage (CH)
research and personalization research. Focused on those using different
types of technology, with emphasis on ubiquitous and adaptive scenarios,
used 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 mobile and personalized technology (onsite as well as
online) to enhance the CH visiting experience. The expected result of the
workshop is a multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future
research directions and, hopefully, forge some research collaborations.
Motivation
Cultural heritage (CH) has traditionally been a primary area for
personalization research. Visitors come to cultural heritage sites willing
to experience and learn new things, with expectations but possibly without
a clear idea of what they will find there. The Museum Experience Revisited,
by John Falk and Lynn Dierking (2013), argues that the visitor’s experience
is constructed by the intertwining of the personal, the social, and the
physical context. The experience begins before the visit, when one starts
to think about it, and lasts well after leaving the building. Indeed CH is
rich in objects and information and offers much more than the visitor can
absorb during their limited time in situ. Hence, visitors may benefit from
individualized support that takes into account contextual and personal
attributes.
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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Adaptive navigation and personalized browsing in digital and physical
cultural heritage collections and in CH sites
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Ambient Cultural Heritage
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Personalization for group of visitors to CH 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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Personalized mobile museum guides & personal museum assistants
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Personalization by Citizen Curation
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Recommendation strategies for CH
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Adaptation strategies for text and non-verbal content in CH
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NLG techniques and conversational agents for CH
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(User Interaction with) Integration of virtual and physical collections
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Analysis of behavior patterns to improve CH recommendation
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Personalization across the whole of a person's digital ecosystem
(including CH)
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Long-term personalization in CH
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IoT and Cultural Heritage
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Human-Robots adaptation in museums
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3D, Virtual and Augmented Reality for Cultural Heritage
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Context-aware information presentation in CH
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Interactive user interfaces for CH applications
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Use of personality for guiding Cultural Heritage Experiences
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Participatory CH including multiple viewpoints and perspectives
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Community mapping for CH information sharing
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Multiple viewpoints and perspectives for CH
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Remote access to CH
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Personalized support to the exploration of Cultural and Natural Heritage
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://patch2023.di.unito.it/submission.html .
All papers should be submitted in PDF format via the online submission
system by selecting the track "The 14th International Workshop on
Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2023)":
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap23 .
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(a)unito.it
Noemi Mauro, University of Torino, Italy, noemi.mauro(a)unito.it
Daniela Petrelli, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, d.petrelli(a)shu.ac.uk
George E. Raptis, Human Opsis, Greece, graptis(a)humanopsis.com
Alan J. Wecker, The University of Haifa, Israel, ajwecker(a)gmail.com