• 09-12 June
  • Golden Bay Beach Hotel | Larnaca | Cyprus

Program




Workshops / Tutorials will be held only on June 9th.

Presentation times for full and short papers at the main conference:
• Long papers: 15 min presentation + 5 min questions
• Short papers: 10 min presentation + 5 min questions

June 09, 2019

Workshops & Tutorials

09:00 - 10:30 HAAPIE +ADAPPT
Room: Chloe
ExHUM
Room: Les Etoiles
FairUMAP
Room: Venus
PATCH
Pool Room
APPS
Room: Diana
Blockchain Tutorial
Room: Shakespeare
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 HAAPIE + ADAPPT
Room: Chloe
ExHUM
Room: Les Etoiles
FairUMAP
Room: Venus
PATCH
Pool Room
APPS
Room: Diana
Blockchain Tutorial
Room: Shakespeare
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:00 HAAPIE + ADAPPT
Room: Chloe
ExHUM
Room: Les Etoiles
FairUMAP
Room: Venus
PATCH
Pool Room
EvalUMAP
Room: Diana
Evaluation Tutorial
Room: Shakespeare
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00 HAAPIE + ADAPPT
Room: Chloe
ExHUM
Room: Les Etoiles
FairUMAP
Room: Venus
PATCH
Pool Room
EvalUMAP
Room: Diana
Evaluation Tutorial
Room: Shakespeare
19:00 Welcome Reception

June 10, 2019

09:00 - 09:30 Conference Opening
Room: Les Etoiles
09:30 - 10:25 Keynote: Mounia Lalmas
Engagement, metrics and personalization: the good, the bad and the ugly
Session Chair: Olga C. Santos
Room: Les Etoiles
10:25 - 10:30 Theory, Opinion & Reflection track
Room: Les Etoiles
Human - Agent Interaction for Human Space Exploration
Ariel Rosenfeld
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Making personalization transparent
Session Chair: Nava Tintarev
Room: Venus
Health Promotion and care
Session Chair: Julita Vassileva
Room: Minerva
149: Justifying Recommendations through Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis of Users’ Reviews
Cataldo Musto, Pasquale Lops, Marco De Gemmis and Giovanni Semeraro
119: Effect of Values and Technology Use on Exercise: Implications for Personalized Behavior Change Interventions
Yelena Mejova and Kyriaki Kalimeri
21: Towards Social Choice-based Explanations in Group Recommender Systems
Thi Ngoc Trang Tran, Muesluem Atas, Alexander Felfernig, Viet Man Le and Ralph Samer
182: Multi-criteria Quality Assessment of Recommendations for Stress Intervention
Helma Torkamaan and Jürgen Ziegler
204: Evaluating Visual Explanations for Similarity-Based Recommendations
Chun-Hua Tsai and Peter Brusilovsky
164: WalkWithMe: Personalized goal setting and coaching for walking in people with Multiple Sclerosis
Eva Geurts, Fanny Van Geel, Peter Feys and Karin Coninx
117: Visual Annotations for Hybrid Graph-based User Model
Vladimir Guchev, Federica Cena, Fabiana Vernero and Cristina Gena
40: Relationship between device performance, trust and user behaviour in a care-taking scenario
Andisheh Partovi, Ingrid Zukerman, Kai Zhan, Nora Hamacher and Jakob Hohwy
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30 Industry talk
Room: Les Etoiles
15:30 - 16:00 Poster madness
Room: Les Etoiles
16:00 - 18:30 "Poster Session: Demos, Late-Breaking-Results and Doctoral Consortium posters"
Demos
Room: Venus


-DEMO 11: "Co-Adapt: Continuously Tailored Software " Pooja Bovard, Harry Gao, Jason Goodman, Zahar Prasov
-DEMO 9: "Zero-Coding UMAP in Marketing: A Scalable Platform for Profiling and Predicting Customer Behavior by Just Clicking on the Screen" Takuya Kitazawa
-DEMO 50: "Tikkoun Sofrim: A WebApp for Personalization and Adaptation of Crowdsourcing Transcriptions" Alan Wecker, Uri Schor,Dror Elovits, Daniel Stoekl, Tsvi Kuflik, Moshe Lavee, Vered Raziel-Kretzmer, Avigail Ohali, Lily Stevenson

Doctoral Consortium

- "Exploring the Potential of the Resolving Sets Model for Introducing Serendipity to Recommender Systems" Noa Tuval, Tsvi Kuflik and Alain Hertz
- "Adaptive E-Learning: Motivating Learners Whilst Adapting Feedback to Cultural Background" Muhammad Adamu Sidi-Ali
- "Designing Culturally-appropriate Persuasive Technology to Promote Positive Work Attitudes among Workers in Public Workplaces" Makuochi Nkwo and Rita Orji
- "Towards an Exhaustive Framework for OSNs User Behaviour Modelling" Alessia Antelmi

Late-Breaking-Results
Room: Minerva


-LBR53: "RehaBot: Gamified Virtual Assistants Towards Adaptive TeleRehabilitation" Imad Afyouni,Anas Einea,Abdullah Murad
-LBR18: "Embedding Knowledge Graphs for Semantics-aware Recommendations based on DBpedia" Pierpaolo Basile, Giovanni Semeraro
-LBR10: "Exploring Online Music Listening Behaviors of Musically Sophisticated Users" Bruce Ferwerda, Marko Tkalcic
-LBR24: "YesElf: Personalized Onboarding for Web Applications" Michal Hucko, Ladisla Gažo, Matej Války, Peter Šimún, Róbert Móro , Jakub Šimko, Maria Bielikova
-LBR25: "Predicting advertising appeal from receiver’s psychological traits and ad design features" Yuichi Ishikawa, Akihiro Kobayashi, Atsunori Minamikawa
-LBR27: "Automatically adjusting computer screen" Rotem Kronenberg, Tsvi Kuflik
-LBR39: "Socially Responsive eCommerce Platforms: Design Implications for Online Marketplaces in Developing African Nations" Makuochi Nkwo, Rita Orji
-LBR36: "A comparison of word-embeddings in emotion detection from text using BiLSTM, CNN and Self-Attention" Marco Polignano
-LBR52: "Modeling Uncertainty in Group Recommendations" Dimitris Sacharidi
-LBR4: "The Effect of Smiling Pictures on Perceptions of Personas" Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, João M. Santos, Bernard Jansen
-LBR13: "Real-Time Personalization in Adaptive IDEs" Matthias Schmidmaier, Zhiwei Han, Thomas Weber, Yuanting Liu, Heinrich Hussmann
-LBR42: "Assessing Objective Indicators of Users' Cognitive Load during Proactive In-Car Dialogs" Maria Schmidt , David Helbig , Ojashree Bhandare, Daniela Stier, Wolfgang Minker, Steffen Werner
-LBR20: "User Interfaces for Counteracting Decision Manipulation in Group Recommender Systems" Thi Ngoc Trang Tran , Alexander Felfernig, Viet Man Le, Muesluem Atas, Martin Stettinger, Ralph Samer
-LBR48: "Exer-model: A User Model for Scrutinizing Long-term Models of Physical Activity Based on Virtual Reality Gameplay and Incidental Activity" Soojeong Yoo , Jisu Jung, Cecile Paris, Bob Kummerfeld


June 11, 2019

09:30 - 10:25 Keynote: Marios Avraamides, University of Cyprus
Modeling behavior and designing evidence - based technologies: what we can learn for empirical data
Session Chair: George Papadopoulos
Room: Les Etoiles
10:25 - 10:30 Theory, Opinion & Reflection track
Room: Les Etoiles
Personalizing with Human Cognitive Biases
Georgios Theocharous, Jennifer Healey, Sridhar Mahadevan, Michele Saad
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:05 Cognitive and Emotional modeling
Session Chair: Federica Cena
Room: Venus
Recommendation applications
Session Chair: Neil Hurley
Room: Minerva
128: Modeling Cognitive Status through Automatic Scoring of a Digital Version of the Clock Drawing Test
Alexander Prange and Daniel Sonntag
56: What Makes an Image Tagger Fair? Proprietary auto-tagging and interpretations on people images
Pinar Barlas, Kyriakos Kyriakou, Styliani Kleanthous and Jahna Otterbacher
59: "An Unscented Hound for Working Memory” and the Cognitive Adaptation of User Interfaces
Bruno Massoni Sguerra and Pierre Jouvelot
133: Beggars Can't Be Choosers: Augmenting Sparse Data for Embedding-Based Product Recommendations in Retail Stores
Matthias Wölbitsch, Simon Walk, Michael Goller and Denis Helic
70: Combining Trending Scan Paths with Arousal to Model Visual Behaviour on the Web: a Case Study with Neurotypical and Autistic Users
Oludamilare Matthews, Sukru Eraslan, Victoria Yaneva, Alan Davies, Yeliz Yesilada, Markel Vigo and Simon Harper
32: One size does not fit all: Badge Behavior in Q&A sites
Stav Yanovsky, Nicholas Hoernle, Omer Lev and Kobi Gal
12:15 - 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:30 Group recommendations
Session Chair: Marko Tkalcic
Room: Venus
Ranking and Evaluation of recommendations
Session Chair: Robin Burke
Room: Minerva
17: Socially-Aware Diagnosis for Constraint-Based Recommendation
Muesluem Atas, Ralph Samer, Alexander Felfernig, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran, Seda Polat Erdeniz and Martin Stettinger
41: Bayesian Personalized Ranking for Novelty Enhancement
Jacek Wasilewski and Neil Hurley
87: A User Study on Groups Interacting with Tourist Trip Recommender Systems in Public Spaces
Daniel Herzog and Wolfgang Wörndl
132: Estimating confidence of individual user predictions in item-based recommender systems
Cesare Bernardis, Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema and Paolo Cremonesi
214: Diversity and Novelty in Social-Based Collaborative Filtering
Dimitris Sacharidis
80: Are All Rejected Recommendations Equally Bad? Towards Analysing Rejected Recommendations
Shir Frumerman, Oren Sar Shalom, Guy Shani and Bracha Shapira
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:10 Novel Recommendation algorithms
Session Chair: Giovanni Semeraro
Room: Venus

16:00 - 16:35

Voice User Interfaces
Session Chair: Cristina Gena
Room: Minerva
118: Telemetry-Aware Add-on Recommendation for Web Browser Customization
Martin Lopatka, Victor Ng, Ben Paul Miroglio, David Zeber, Alessio Pierluigi Placitelli and Laura Thomson
55: Linguistic Design of In-Vehicle Prompts in Adaptive Dialog Systems: An Analysis of Potential Factors Involved in the Perception of Naturalness
Daniela Stier and Ellen Sigloch
85:Value Driven Representation for Human-in-the-Loop Reinforcement Learning
Ramtin Keramati and Emma Brunskill
178: Modeling Behavior Patterns with an Unfamiliar Voice User Interface
Chelsea Myers, Anushay Furqan, David Grethlein and Jichen Zhu
150: Extending a tag-based collaborative recommender with co-occurring information interests
Noemi Mauro and Liliana Ardissono

16:35 - 17:10

Novel Authentication mechanisms
Session Chair: Eelco Herder
Room: Minerva
151: On the Accuracy of Eye Gaze-driven Classifiers for Predicting Image Content Familiarity in Graphical Passwords
Argyris Constantinides, Marios Belk, Christos Fidas and Andreas Pitsillides
144: Personalized gait-based authentication using UWB wearable devices
Adriano Arra, Alessio Bianchini, Joana Chavez, Pietro Ciravolo, Fatjon Nebiu, Martina Olivelli, Gabriele Scoma, Simone Tavoletta, Matteo Zagaglia and Alessio Vecchio
18:00 - 22:00 Tour & Conference Dinner

June 12, 2019

09:30 - 10:25 Keynote: Judith Masthoff
Towards utter wellbeing: Personalization for guardian angels
Session Chair: Stephan Weibelzahl
Room: Les Etoiles
10:25 - 10:30 Theory, Opinion & Reflection track
Room: Les Etoiles
Technology - facilitated Societal Consensus
Timotheus Kampik, Amro Najjar
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Exploring user features
Session Chair: Peter Brusilovsky
Room: Les Etoiles
Task oriented support
Session Chair: Nigel Bosch
Room: Venus
DC Session A
Room: Minerva
34: Detecting Persuasive Arguments based on Author-Reader Personality Traits and their Interaction
Michal Shmueli-Scheuer, Tommy Sandbank, Jonathan Herzig and David Konopnicki
37: Chatterbox: Conversational Interfaces for Microtask Crowdsourcing
Panagiotis Mavridis, Owen Huang, Sihang Qiu, Ujwal Gadiraju, Alessandro Bozzon
42: Multi-faceted Trust-based Collaborative Filtering
Noemi Mauro, Liliana Ardissono and Zhongli Filippo Hu
174: Auto-Suggesting Browsing Actions for Personalized Web Screen Reading
Vikas Ashok, Syed Masum Billah, Yevgen Borodin and Iv Ramakrishnan
198: Power of the Few: Analyzing the Impact of Influential Users in Collaborative Recommender Systems
Farzad Eskandanian, Nasim Sonboli and Bamshad Mobasher
183: Adaptive Modelling of Attentiveness to Messaging: a Hybrid Approach
Pranut Jain, Rosta Farzan and Adam Lee
140: Who shares fake news in online social networks? An agent-based model of different personality models and behaviors in social networks
Laura Burbach, Patrick Halbach, Martina Ziefle and André Calero Valdez
199: Stuck? No Worries!: Task-aware Command Recommendation and Proactive Help for Analysts
Aadhavan M. Nambhi, Bhanu Prakash Reddy Guda, Aarsh Prakash Agarwal, Gaurav Verma, Harvineet Singh and Iftikhar Ahamath Burhanuddin
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
14:30 - 16:00

 

Music and Movies
Session Chair: Bamshad Mobasher
Room: Les Etoiles

 

Technology Enhanced Learning
Session Chair: Ilaria Torre
Room: Venus

14:30 - 15:30

DC Session B
Room: Minerva
136: Personalized Recommendations for Music Genre Exploration
Yu Liang and Martijn Willemsen
79: Impact of English Reading Comprehension Abilities on Processing Magazine Style Narrative Visualizations and Implications for Personalization
Dereck Toker, Róbert Móro, Jakub Šimko, Maria Bielikova and Cristina Conati
192: Beyond Explicit Reports: Comparing Data-Driven Approaches to Studying Underlying Dimensions of Music Preference
Jaehum Kim, Andrew M. Demetriou, Sandy Manolios, Cynthia C. S. Liem
60: Adapting Performance And Emotional Support Feedback To Cultural Differences
Muhammad Adamu Sidi-Ali, Judith Masthoff, Matt Dennis and Nigel Beacham
65: ContextPlay: User Control for Context-Aware Music Recommendation
Yucheng Jin, Nyi-Nyi Htun, Nava Tintarev and Katrien Verbert
193: Modeling Improvement for Underrepresented Minorities in Online STEM Education
Nigel Bosch, Eddie Huang, Lawrence Angrave and Michelle Perry
64: Exploring the Power of Visual Features for Recommendation of Movies
Mohammad Hossein Rimaz, Mehdi Elahi, Farshad Bakhshandegan Moghadam, Christoph Trattner, Reza Hosseini and Marko Tkalčič
201: Personalization of Persuasive Technology in Education
Fidelia Orji, Kiemute Oyibo, Rita Orji, Jim Greer and Julita Vassileva
16:00 - 16:30 Closing Session
Room: Les Etoiles
Best Paper Award
Best Student Paper Award