Call for Proposals - PATCH’2014 – The Future of Experiencing Cultural
Heritage, Haifa, Israel. February 24, 2014
The 7th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage
(PATCH 2014) will be this year co-located with the Intelligent User Interfaces
Conference (http://www.iuiconf.org/). IUI is the annual meeting of the
intelligent interfaces community and serves as the principal international
forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user
interfaces. It takes place in Haifa, Israel on 24 February 2014. Next to the
full research papers, we also encourage submissions of position papers, short
papers and demonstrations to enable active discussion of the open challenges
and issues in this area of research. For more details check PATCH2014 webpage:
http://patch2014.wordpress.com/.
The PATCH workshop series (http://patchworkshopseries.wordpress.com/) is the
meeting point between state of the art cultural heritage and personalization
research – using technology to enhance the personal experience in cultural
heritage applications. We aim at building a research agenda for personalization
in cultural heritage in order to make the individual cultural heritage
experience a link in a chain of a lifelong cultural heritage experience which
builds on past experience, is linked to daily life and provides the foundation
for future experiences. The workshop aims to be multi-disciplinary. It is
intended for researchers, practitioners, developers and students of information
and communication technologies (ICT), cultural heritage domains, e.g. museums,
archives, libraries, and more, and personalization.
Topics
Multimedia information systems, such as interactive tours, visualizations and
search engines, are now positioned centrally in a shared information space
consisting of (1) digitized artifacts (2) the social web (3) and links between
them. Personalization in multimedia information systems can improve the
experience of visitors by assisting them in finding appropriate starting
points, and in discovering new relevant information. Critically, these systems
must become smart, so that they are able to adaptively act, react, respond and
learn intelligently from user interactions. This workshop investigates three
timely and interrelated issues relevant to the domains of both intelligent user
interaction and cultural heritage:
Mobile, personalized and context-aware cultural heritage information delivery –
using mobile devices, large displays, projectors embedded in the environment
and new technologies including Google Glass.
Grow existing knowledge with new knowledge – Explore methods and tools to
capture knowledge resulting from interactions between users (collective
intelligence), professionals and collection artifacts, and interaction between
users and different (intelligent systems) collecting information about them
Extend contexts of use – Appropriation of digitized artifacts from memory
organizations outside the traditional museum and research context for both
visitors and professionals
Call for papers
Besides the full research papers, we also encourage submissions of position
papers, short papers and demonstrations to enable active discussion of the open
challenges and issues in this area of research. We invite submissions of work
at all stages of development that address any aspects of personalization in the
cultural heritage domain, e.g., papers which describe work in progress,
empirical results, position statements, and demonstrations of existing systems.
An extended abstract of the workshop will be included in the ACM Digital
Library for IUI 2014.
Submissions
Paper submissions should follow the general ACM Multimedia submission
guidelines and must comply with the formatting instructions:
Full papers: max. 10 pages
Position papers: max. 4 pages
Short papers: max. 4 pages
Demo papers: max. 4 pages
All papers should be submitted in PDF format via the online submission system.
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=patch2014iui2014).
An international panel of experts will review all submissions.
Demos need to provide links to the systems presented. Work that has already
been published should not be submitted unless it
introduces a significant addition to the previously published work.
Important dates
Paper Submission: Dec 14, 2013
Author Notification: Jan 17, 2014
Camera-ready Version: Feb 10, 2014
Workshop: Feb 24, 2014
Organizers
Cristina Gena - Università di Torino, Italy
Alan J. Wecker - University of Haifa, Israel
Johan Oomen - Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Netherlands
Lora Aroyo - VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Contact
Contact chairs at: joo...@beeldengeluid.nl
Website: http://patch2014.wordpress.com/
Twitter: @PATCH_Workshop, #patch2014
Programme committee
Alan J. Wecker (University of Haifa)
Cristina Gena (Università di Torino)
Eero Hyvönen (Helsinki University
