About the Conference

3rd International Workshop on Personalized Access To Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2011)

in conjunction with IUI 2011

February 13, 2011, Palo Alto, CA, USA

http://www.cs.vu.nl/~laroyo/PATCH2011.html

The rapid development of information technologies and the Internet has enabled cultural heritage organizations to provide access to their collections not only through physical displays but also online, and attract even wider audiences than those that visit the physical museums. Additionally, various trends on Web 2.0 allow for users not only to be passive consumers but also active participants. Personalization capitalizes on a user-centered intelligent interactive information exchange between museum websites or museum guide systems and visitors, and enables a new communication strategy based on a continuous process of interaction, collaboration, learning and adaptation between a museum and its visitors. Personalization has the potential to improve the interaction and experience of visitors on museum websites and with museum guide systems by supporting visitors’ navigation and assisting them in quickly finding an appropriate starting point, and in discovering new relevant information.

This workshop will focus on the specific challenges for personalization in the cultural heritage setting from the point of view of user interaction and visitor experience. It will investigate how the user interface – the contact point of visitors and systems – can become more intelligent by means of personalization.

The primary goal of this workshop is to gather researchers and practitioners from different fields, e.g., user interaction, arts and heritage curation, interface design, user modeling, mobile, ubiquitous and ambient technologies, artificial intelligence and web information systems, and explore various practical use cases of applications of these technologies. During the workshop we aim to identify the typical user groups, tasks and roles in order to achieve an adequate personalization for cultural heritage applications. Important aspects to discuss evolve around:

• In-door localization, navigation and browsing patterns
• Interaction concepts with personal (mobile or desktop) and group (on-site public or desktop) displays
• Collaboration, communication and sharing aspects in the process of cultural heritage consumption
• Information needs and access (incl. visualization) and search patterns
• Exploiting data from various sources
• Digital storytelling, narratives, smart summaries and recommendation explanations

Finally, we aim at identifying a set of requirements for personalized interaction and interfaces in the cultural heritage domain, and provide practical guidelines for deploying such personalization techniques in this domain.

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