Call for papers:
Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems
IntRS’14: http://recex.ist.tugraz.at/intrs2014/


Held in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2014)
6-10th October 2014, Silicon Valley, California.

Submission deadline: 21st of July, 2014
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NEWS: Invited talk, Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan, Canada,
http://recex.ist.tugraz.at/intrs2014/?page_id=65


As an interactive intelligent system, recommender systems are developed to 
suggest items that match users’ preferences. Since the emergence of recommender 
systems, a large majority of research has focused on objective accuracy 
criteria and less attention has been paid to how users interact with the system 
and the efficacy of interface designs from users’ perspectives. The field has 
reached a point where it ready to look beyond algorithms, into users’ 
interactions, decision making processes and overall experience.


This workshop focuses on integrating different theories of human decision 
making into the construction of recommender systems. This year it will focus 
particularly on the impact of interfaces on decision support and overall 
satisfaction.


The aim is to bring together researchers and practitioners around the topics of
designing and evaluating novel intelligent interfaces for recommender systems 
in order to: (1) share research and techniques, including new design 
technologies and evaluation methodologies (2) identify next key challenges in 
the area, and (3) identify emerging topics. This workshop aims at creating an 
interdisciplinary community with a focus on the interface design issues for 
recommender systems and promoting collaboration opportunities between 
researchers and practitioners. We particularly encourage demos and mock-ups of 
systems to be used as a basis of a lively and interactive discussion in the 
workshop.


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Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:
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User Interfaces


* Visual interfaces for recommender systems
* Explanation interfaces for recommender systems.
* Collaborative multi-user interfaces (e.g., group decision making in e-tourism)
* Spoken and natural language interfaces
* Trust-aware interfaces
* Social interfaces
* Context-aware interfaces
* Ubiquitous and mobile interfaces
* Conversational interfaces
* Example- and demonstration-based interfaces
* New approaches to designing interfaces for recommender systems
* User interfaces for decision making (e.g., decision strategies and user 
ratings)


Interaction, user modeling and decision-making
* Cognitive Modeling for recommender systems
* Human-recommender interaction
* Controllability, transparency and scrutability
* Decision theories in recommender systems (e.g., priming, framing, and decoy 
effects)
* Preference detection (e.g., eye tracking for automated preference detection)
* The role of emotions in recommender systems (e.g., emotion-aware 
recommendation)
* Trust inspiring recommendation (e.g., explanation-aware recommendation)
* Argumentation and Persuasive recommendation (e.g., argumentation-aware 
recommendation)
* Cultural differences (e.g., culture-aware recommendation)
* Mechanisms for effective group decision making (e.g., group recommendation 
heuristics)
* Decision theories for effective group decision making (e.g., hidden profile 
management)
* Detection and avoidance of decision biases (e.g., in item presentations)


Evaluation
* Case studies
* Empirical studies and evaluations of new interfaces
* Empirical studies and evaluations of new interaction designs
* Evaluation methods and metrics (e.g., evaluation questionnaire design)


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Submissions
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We invite two kinds of submissions which address novel interface issues in 
recommender systems:
• Short papers. The maximum length is 4 pages in the standard ACM SIG 
proceedings.
• Long papers. The maximum length is 8 pages in the standard ACM SIG 
proceedings format.


Submitted papers will be evaluated according to their originality, technical 
content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. Additional weight will 
be given to papers that include alternative modes of presentation such as 
demos, playing out of scenarios, mockups, and alternate media such as video. 
The workshop will include an interactive demo session, where we look forward to 
seeing and discussing innovative interface designs.


Each paper will be reviewed by at least 3 independent referees. Accepted papers 
will published in workshop proceedings on the CEUR-WS.org site. Further, we 
will approach several journals such as ACM TiiS and TIST to organize a special 
issue on this topic, selecting the most qualified papers for journal 
publications. Note that at least one author of each accepted paper needs to 
register and attend the workshop.


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Program committee
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Robin Burke, DePaul University, USA
Shlomo Berkovsky, NICTA, Australia
Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University
Jaegul Choo, Georgia Tech, USA
Jill Freyne, CSIRO, Australia
Gerhard Friedrich, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt
Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Marco de Gemmis, Dipartimento di Informatica, University of Bari
Cleotilde Gonzalez, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Sergiu Gordea, AIT, Austria
Tobias Hollerer, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Dietmar Jannach, TU Dortmund, Germany
Henry Lieberman, MIT Media Lab, USA
Bart Knijnenburg, University of California, Irvine, USA
Joseph Konstan, University of Minnesota, USA
Gerald Ninaus, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Denis Parra, PUC, Chile
Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Olga Santos, aDeNu, Spain
Christin Seifert, Universitet Passau, Germany
Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan
Jesse Vig, Palo Alto Research Center
Markus Zanker, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt

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Organizers
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Nava Tintarev - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Dept. of Computer Science, University Of Aberdeen, UK


John O’Donovan - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Dept. of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara


Peter Brusilovsky - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh


Alexander Felfernig - 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Institute for Software Technology, Graz University of Technology, Austria


Giovanni Semeraro - 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy


Pasquale Lops - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy



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