The 16th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2025) Held in conjunction with ACM UMAP 2025 - New York City, New York, USA https://patch2025.di.unito.it/ Important dates: April 9, 2025 - Paper Submission April 28, 2025 - Notification May 5, 2025 - Papers Camera-ready Submission (TAPS system) The workshop will be in person or hybrid. Abstract and Topics Following the successful series of PATCH workshops, PATCH 2025 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. 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 * Large Language Models for CH/NH * Shaping Personalization and FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) in Human-Centered Generative AI Also papers connected to the UMAP 2025 main theme: “Shaping Personalization and FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) in Human-Centered Generative AI” and Cultural Heritage are of interest. 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://patch2025.di.unito.it/submission.html. All papers should be submitted in PDF format via the online submission system by selecting the track "UMAP 25 Workshop PATCH": https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=umap2025. 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 <mailto:liliana.ardissono@unito.it> Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel, tsvikak(a)is.haifa.ac.il <mailto:tsvikak@is.haifa.ac.il> Noemi Mauro, University of Torino, Italy, noemi.mauro(a)unito.it <mailto:noemi.mauro@unito.it> Alan J. Wecker, The University of Haifa, Israel, ajwecker(a)gmail.com <mailto:ajwecker@gmail.com> Tsvika Tsvi Kuflik, PhD. Professor of Information Systems, Information Systems department, The University of Haifa Email: <mailto:tsvikak@is.haifa.ac.il> tsvikak(a)is.haifa.ac.il Home page: <https://tsvikak.hevra.haifa.ac.il> https://tsvikak.hevra.haifa.ac.il Tel: +972 4 8288511 Fax: +972 4 8288283 🎗️