[CEUR Workshop Proceedings] Vol-997
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UMAP 2013 Extended Proceedings


Late-Breaking Results, Project Papers and Workshop Proceedings of the 21st Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization.

Rome, Italy, June 10-14, 2013.


Edited by:

Shlomo Berkovsky *
Eelco Herder **
Pasquale Lops ***
Olga C. Santos ****

* Networks Research Group, NICTA, Australia
** L3S Research Center, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
*** Department of Computer Science, University of Bari, Italy
**** aDeNu Research Group, UNED, Spain




Contents at a Glance




Table of Contents

UMAP 2013 Late-Breaking Results and Project Papers

Late Breaking Results

  1. Encountering the Unexpected: Influencing User Experience through Surprise
    Alice Gross, Manfred Thüring
  2. Board Recommendation in Pinterest
    Krishna Kamath, Ana-Maria Popescu, James Caverlee
  3. Crowdsourced Evaluation of Semantic Patterns for Recommendation
    Valentina Maccatrozzo, Lora Aroyo, Willem Robert Van Hage
  4. Utilizing Social Networks for User Model Priming: User Attitudes
    Adam Moore, Gudrun Wesiak, Christina M. Steiner, Claudia Hauff, Declan Dagger, Gary Donohoe, Owen Conlan
  5. Mining Potential Domain Expertise in Pinterest
    Ana-Maria Popescu, Krishna Kamath, James Caverlee
  6. A Quantitative Approach for Modelling and Personalizing Player Experience in First-Person Shooter Games
    Noor Shaker, Mohammad Shaker, Ismaeel Abu-Abdallah, Mehdi Al-Zengi, Mohammad Hasan Sarhan
  7. Understanding the Temporal Dynamics of Recommendations across Different Rating Scales
    Paula Cristina Vaz, Ricardo Ribeiro, David Martins de Matos
  8. Term Extraction for User Profiling: Evaluation by the User
    Suzan Verberne, Maya Sappelli, Wessel Kraaij
  9. Semantic Technologies as Enabler for Distributed Adaptive Hyperlink Generation
    Ruben Verborgh, Mathias Verhoeven, Erik Mannens, Rik Van de Walle

Project Papers

  1. Unfolding Cultural, Educational and Scientific Long-Tail Content in the Web
    Michael Granitzer, Christin Seifert, Silvia Russegger, Klaus Tochtermann
  2. LinkedUp - Linking Web Data for Adaptive Education
    Eelco Herder, Stefan Dietze, Mathieu D'Aquin
  3. Information Retrieval and User-Centric Recommender System Evaluation
    Alan Said, Alejandro Bellogin, Arjen de Vries, Benjamin Kille
  4. techplay.mobi: A Technological Framework for Developing Affective Inclusive Personalized Mobile Serious Games to Enrich Learning Competences
    Olga C. Santos, Mar Saneiro, Emmanuelle Gutiérrez Y Restrepo, Jesus G. Boticario, Elena Del Campo, Raúl Cabestrero, Pilar Quirós, Sergio Salmeron-Majadas, Emmanuelle Raffenne, Emanuela Mazzone

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EMPIRE 2013: Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services

organized by Marko Tkalcic, Berardina De Carolis, Marco de Gemmis, Ante Odic, Andrej Košir

  1. Personality-Based Recommendation in E-Commerce
    Ciro Bologna, Anna Chiara De Rosa, Alfonso De Vivo, Matteo Gaeta, Giuseppe Sansonetti, Valeria Viserta
  2. Relating Personality Types with User Preferences in Multiple Entertainment Domains
    Iván Cantador, Ignacio Fernández-Tobías, Alejandro Bellogín
  3. Exploring Relations between Personality and User Rating Behaviors
    Rong Hu, Pearl Pu
  4. Design and Development of an Empirical Smiley-based Affective Instrument
    Adam Moore, Christina M. Steiner, Owen Conlan
  5. Personality and Social Context: Impact on Emotion Induction from Movies
    Ante Odic, Marko Tkalcic, Jurij Franc Tasic, Andrej Košir
  6. The Role of Social Signals in Telecommunication: Experimental Design
    Tomaž Vodlan, Marko Tkalcic, Andrej Košir

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GroupRS 2013: Group Recommender Systems: Concepts, Technology, Evaluation

organized by Tom Gross, Judith Masthoff, Christoph Beckmann

  1. Towards Increased Utility of and Satisfaction with Group Recommender Systems
    Christoph Beckmann, Tom Gross
  2. Sequential Music Recommendations for Groups by Balancing User Satisfaction
    Auste Piliponyte, Francesco Ricci, Julian Koschwitz
  3. Group Recommendation in an Hybrid Broadcast Broadband Television Context
    Oskar Van Deventer, Joost de Wit, Jeroen Vanattenhoven, Mark Guelbahar

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LLUM 2013: LifeLong User Modelling

organized by Frank Hopfgartner, Judy Kay, Bob Kummerfeld, Till Plumbaum

  1. A Decentralized Architecture for Sharing and Reusing Lifelogs
    Johnson Iyilade, Julita Vassileva
  2. Lifelong User Modeling and Meta-cognitive Scaffolding: Support Self Monitoring of Long Term Goals
    Lie Ming Tang, Judy Kay
  3. Efficient Representation of the Lifelong Web Browsing User Characteristics
    Márius Šajgalík , Michal Barla, Mária Bieliková

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PALE 2013: Personalization Approaches in Learning Environments

organized by Milos Kravcik, Olga C. Santos, Jesus G. Boticario, Diana Pérez-Marín

  1. Towards Enriching an ITS with Affective Support
    Miguel Arevalillo-Herráez, Salvador Moreno-Picot, David Arnau, Paloma Moreno-Clari, Jesus G. Boticario, Olga C. Santos, Raul Cabestrero, Pilar Quirós, Sergio Salmeron-Majadas, Angeles Manjarrés-Riesco, Mar Saneiro
  2. Conversational Evaluation of Personalized Solutions for Adaptive Educational Systems
    Martin Labaj, Mária Bieliková
  3. Exploiting Human Signals in Learning Environment as an Alternative to Evaluate Education Performance
    Fernando Koch, Marcia Ito, Annibal B. M. da Silva, Sergio Borger, Julio Nogima
  4. Open Issues in Educational Affective Recommendations for Distance Learning Scenarios
    Angeles Manjarrés-Riesco, Olga C. Santos, Jesus G. Boticario, Mar Saneiro

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PATCH 2013: Personal Access to Cultural Heritage

organized by Liliana Ardissono, Lora Aroyo, Luciana Bordoni, Judy Kay, Tsvi Kuflik

  1. Dynamic Personalisation for Digital Cultural Heritage Collections
    Cormac Hampson, Eoin Bailey, Gary Munnelly, Séamus Lawless, Owen Conlan
  2. Traditional Sports and Games: A New Opportunity for Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage
    Mariate Linaza, Kieran Moran, Noel E. O'Connor
  3. Personalized Cultural Heritage Experience outside the Museum - Connecting the Outside World to the Museum Experience
    Alan J. Wecker, Tsvika Kuflik, Oliviero Stock
  4. Curators in the Loop: a Quality Control Process for Personalization in Cultural Heritage
    Elena Not, Daniela Petrelli
  5. Wolfsoniana Smart Museum. A Pilot Plant Installation of the PALM-Cities Project
    Andrea Caridi, Mauro Coccoli, Valentina Volpi
  6. A Proposal for an Open Local Movie Recommender
    Federica Cena, Elisa Chiabrando, Andrea Crevola, Martina Deplano, Cristina Gena, Francesco Osborne
  7. Combining Composition Technologies and EUD to Enhance Visitors' Experience at Cultural Heritage Sites
    Carmelo Ardito, Maria F. Costabile, Giuseppe Desolda, Rosa Lanzilotti, Maristella Matera
  8. Chatting to Personalize and Plan Cultural Itineraries
    Antonio Sorgente, Nadia Brancati, Cristina Giannone, Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Francesco Mele, Roberto Basili
  9. Creating Personalized City Tours Using the CHIP Prototype
    Natalia Stash, Loes Veldpaus, Paul De Bra, Ana Pereira Rodeirs
  10. Interaction with Linked Digital Memories
    Ilaria Torre
  11. Testaccio, a Digital Cultural Biography App
    Maurice de Kleijn, Chris van Aart, Niels van Manen, Gert-Jan Burgers, Henk Scholten
  12. Emotional Responses to Artworks in Online Collections
    Federico Bertola, Viviana Patti
  13. Personalized Nichesourcing: Acquisition of Qualitative Annotations from Niche Communities
    Chris Dijkshoorn, Mieke Leyssen, Archana Nottamkandath, Jasper Oosterman, Myriam Traub, Lora Aroyo, Alessandro Bozzon, Wan Fokkink, Geert-Jan Houben, Henrike Hovelmann, Lizzy Jongma, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Guus Schreiber, Jan Wielemaker

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PEGOV 2013: Personalization in eGovernment Services and Applications

organized by Nikolaos Loutas, Fedelucio Narducci, Matteo Palmonari, Cécile Paris

  1. Selecting People for Involving Them in Participatory Decision-Making Processes
    Liliana Ardissono, Angioletta Voghera, Mauro Velluto
  2. SMART project: Industrial and Academic Collaboration for Service Design
    Alessandro Bianco, Paolo Campegiani, John Forrester, Leo Iaquinta, Maria Alessandra Torsello
  3. The Human Touch of Government Services
    Sanat Kumar Bista, Surya Nepal, Cécile Paris
  4. User Segmentation in e-Government Services
    Leo Iaquinta, M. Alessandra Torsello, Marco Comerio, Anna Maria Fanelli, Giovanni Semeraro

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TRUM 2013: Trust, Reputation and User Modeling

organized by Surya Nepal, Cécile Paris, Julita Vassileva, Jie Zhang

  1. A User-Centric Study Of Reputation Metrics in Online Communities
    Stephan Hammer, Rolf Kiefhaber, Matthias Redlin, Elisabeth Andre, Theo Ungerer
  2. Users' Motives Shape Trust in Personalized Applications: the Importance of be-goals for Perceived Trustworthiness and Risk
    Nina Baer, Jessica Göthel, Josef Krems
  3. Trust Evaluation on Facebook Using Multiple Contexts
    Tomáš Švec, Jan Samek
  4. Know Your Members' Trust
    Sanat Kumar Bista, Surya Nepal, Cécile Paris

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WUAV 2013: User-Adaptive Visualization

organized by Cristina Conati, Ben Steichen, Melanie Tory, Paolo Buono

  1. Towards Adapting Information Graphics to Individual Users to Support Recognizing Intended Messages
    Richard Burns, Stephanie Elzer Schwartz, Sandra Carberry
  2. User Task Adaptation in Multimedia Presentations
    Giuseppe Carenini, Cristina Conati, Enamul Hoque, Ben Steichen
  3. A Study of Emotion-triggered Adaptation Methods for Interactive Visualization
    Daniel Cernea, Achim Ebert, Andreas Kerren
  4. When to Adapt: Detecting User's Confusion During Visualization Processing
    Cristina Conati, Enamul Hoque, Dereck Toker, Ben Steichen
  5. Adaptive Visualization of Research Communities
    Martijn de Jongh, Patrick M. Dudas, Peter Brusilovsky
  6. Visual Variables in Adaptive Visualizations
    Kawa Nazemi, Jörn Kohlhammer
  7. Seeing how you're Looking - Using Real-Time Eye Gaze Data for User-Adaptive Visualization
    Ben Steichen, Oliver Schmid, Cristina Conati, Giuseppe Carenini
  8. Exploring the Potential of Neurophysiological Measures for User-adaptive Visualization
    Susanne Tak, Anne-Marie Brouwer, Alexander Toet, Jan van Erp
  9. Capturing and Reusing Empirical Visualization Knowledge
    Martin Voigt, Martin Franke, Klaus Meißner
  10. Adaptive Security Event Visualization for Continuous Monitoring
    Anatoly Yelizarov, Dennis Gamayunov

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05-Jun-2013: submitted by Eelco Herder
06-Jun-2013: published on CEUR-WS.org