[ecrea] Final call: The Future of Experiencing Cultural Heritage

Call for Proposals - PATCH’2014 –  The Future of Experiencing  Cultural 
Heritage, Haifa, Israel. February 24, 2014
Extended deadline: 26 December 2013

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: (joomen /at/ 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 of Technology)
Ivan Cantador (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Johan Oomen (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision)
Joris Pekel (Europeana Foundation)
Dick van Dijk  (Waag Society)
Liliana Ardissono (Università di Torino)
Lora Aroyo (VU University Amsterdam)
Otmar Moritsch (Technisches Museum Wien)
Raffaella Santucci (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”)
Susan Hazan (Israel Museum)
Tsvi Kuflik (University of Haifa)

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