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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 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:

• Adaptive navigation and personalized browsing in digital and physical cultural heritage collections and in CH sites

• Ambient Cultural Heritage

• Personalization for group of visitors to CH sites

• Personalization for collective CH information authoring and management

• Creativity and collaboration support in CH

• Personalized mobile museum guides & personal museum assistants

• Personalization by Citizen Curation

• Recommendation strategies for CH

• Adaptation strategies for text and non-verbal content in CH

• NLG techniques and conversational agents for CH

• (User Interaction with) Integration of virtual and physical collections

• Analysis of behavior patterns to improve CH recommendation

• Personalization across the whole of a person's digital ecosystem (including CH)

• Long-term personalization in CH

• IoT and Cultural Heritage

• Human-Robots adaptation in museums

• 3D, Virtual and Augmented Reality for Cultural Heritage

• Context-aware information presentation in CH

• Interactive user interfaces for CH applications

• Use of personality for guiding Cultural Heritage Experiences

• Participatory CH including multiple viewpoints and perspectives

• Community mapping for CH information sharing

• Multiple viewpoints and perspectives for CH

• Remote access to CH

• 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@unito.it

Noemi Mauro, University of Torino, Italy, noemi.mauro@unito.it

Daniela Petrelli, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, d.petrelli@shu.ac.uk

George E. Raptis, Human Opsis, Greece, graptis@humanopsis.com

Alan J. Wecker, The University of Haifa, Israel, ajwecker@gmail.com