<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; ">Call for Proposals - PATCH’2014 – The Future of Experiencing Cultural Heritage, Haifa, Israel. <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">February 24, 2014</a></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; "><br></div>Extended deadline: <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">26 December 2013</a><br><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "></span><br><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "></span><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">The 7th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2014) will be this year co-located with the </span><a href="http://www.iuiconf.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; ">Intelligent User Interfaces Conference</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "> (</span><a href="http://www.iuiconf.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; ">http://www.iuiconf.org/</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">). 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 <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://2" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">on 24 February 2014</a>. 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: </span><a href="http://patch2014.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; ">http://patch2014.wordpress.<wbr>com/</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">.</span></div><br><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "></span><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">The PATCH workshop series (</span><a href="http://patchworkshopseries.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; ">http://patchworkshopseries.<wbr>wordpress.com/</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">) 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.</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "> </span></p><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; ">Topics</span></div><br><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">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:</span></div><br><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "></span><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; "><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; ">Mobile, personalized and context-aware cultural heritage information delivery</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "> – using mobile devices, large displays, projectors embedded in the environment and new technologies including Google Glass.</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; "><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; ">Grow existing knowledge with new knowledge</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "> – 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</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; "><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; ">Extend contexts of use</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "> – Appropriation of digitized artifacts from memory organizations outside the traditional museum and research context for both visitors and professionals</span></div></li></ul><br><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "></span><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; ">Call for papers</span></div><br><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "></span><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">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.</span></div><br><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "></span><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">An extended abstract of the workshop will be included in the ACM Digital Library for IUI 2014.</span></div><br><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "></span><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; ">Submissions</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Paper submissions should follow the general</span><a href="http://www.acmmm12.org/paper-submission-instruction" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "> </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; ">ACM Multimedia submission guidelines</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "> and must comply with the formatting instructions:</span></div><br><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "></span><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; "><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Full papers: max. 10 pages</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; "><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Position papers: max. 4 pages</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; "><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Short papers: max. 4 pages</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; "><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Demo papers: max. 4 pages</span></div></li></ul><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">All papers should be submitted in PDF format via the </span><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=patch2014iui2014" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; ">online submission system</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">. (</span><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=patch2014iui2014" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; ">https://www.easychair.org/<wbr>conferences/?conf=<wbr>patch2014iui2014</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">).</span></div><br><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "></span><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">An</span><a href="http://patch2014.wordpress.com/program-committee/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "> </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; ">international panel of experts</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "> will review all submissions.</span></div><br><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "></span><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Demos need to provide links to the systems presented. Work that has already been published should not be submitted unless it</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">introduces a significant addition to the previously published work.</span></div><br><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; ">Important dates</span></div><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; "><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Paper Submission: Dec 14, 2013</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; "><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Author Notification: <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://7" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7">Jan 17, 2014</a></span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; "><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Camera-ready Version: <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://8" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-result="8">Feb 10, 2014</a></span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; "><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Workshop: <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://9" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-result="9">Feb 24, 2014</a></span></div></li></ul><br><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; "></span><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; ">Organizers</span></div><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; "><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Cristina Gena - Università di Torino, Italy</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; "><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Alan J. Wecker - University of Haifa, Israel</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; "><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Johan Oomen - Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Netherlands</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; "><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Lora Aroyo - VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands</span></div></li></ul><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; ">Contact</span></div><ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; "><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Contact chairs at: <a href="mailto:joomen@beeldengeluid.nl" target="_blank">joomen@beeldengeluid.nl</a></span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; "><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Website:</span><a href="http://patch2014.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "> </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; ">http://patch2014.wordpress.<wbr>com/</span></a></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; "><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Twitter: @PATCH_Workshop, #patch2014</span></div></li></ul><br><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "></span><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; ">Programme committee</span></div><br><span style="vertical-align: baseline; "></span><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Alan J. Wecker (University of Haifa)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Cristina Gena (Università di Torino)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Eero Hyvönen (Helsinki University of Technology)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Ivan Cantador (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Johan Oomen (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Joris Pekel (Europeana Foundation)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Dick van Dijk (Waag Society)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Liliana Ardissono (Università di Torino)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Lora Aroyo (VU University Amsterdam)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Otmar Moritsch (Technisches Museum Wien)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Raffaella Santucci (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Susan Hazan (Israel Museum)</span></div><span style="vertical-align: baseline; ">Tsvi Kuflik (University of Haifa)</span></body></html>