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		<title>Content Invocation protocols</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;This page describes the content invocation protocols supported by [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Why Content Invocation? ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A content invocation protocol allows two online learning systems to work together in supporting learners. With this protocol, a '''host system''', such as a learning portal, a learning management system, or a personalized learning interface) can activate an independent '''client system''' while also passing a range of important parameters to it, most importantly, information about the user and group who will work with the client system, and the user target. The target might indicate a specific activity that the client system will need to launch for the user, while the information about the user and group enables the client system to customize its interaction with the user. The information about the user and the target is also important to log the information about the user interaction with the tool.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
When [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] was originally developed in 2002, it implemented its own content invocation protocol, since no other protocols supported personalized invocation of external learning content at that time. As other protocols gradually evolved, an increasing volume of interactive learning objects that implemented these protocols was developed. To leverage this content, [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] components now support other content invocation protocols.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] protocol for user authentication and activity invocation ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] content invocation protocol is the &amp;quot;native&amp;quot; protocol of [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] infrastructure. &lt;br /&gt;
This protocol is adopted by all [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] tools developed by our teams and by many content servers developers by our collaborators. &lt;br /&gt;
It regulates how user and resource identities is transferred from application to application via the following HTTP parameters (see [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] [[CUMULATE protocol#Parameter Naming Conventions|Parameter Naming Conventions]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* '''usr''' - user identifier, usually login (mandatory)&lt;br /&gt;
* '''grp''' - group identifier (mandatory), just like a user identifier, but for a group of users (class, research team)&lt;br /&gt;
* '''sid''' - session identifier (optional), usually 5 character string each application makes a choice whether and how to come up with this parameter (e.g. truncate [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Tomcat | Apache Tomcat] session id to last 5 characters)&lt;br /&gt;
*  '''act''' - id of the resource (mandatory), each application maintains its own vocabulary of resource ids&lt;br /&gt;
* '''sub''' - if a resource is a collection of multiple resources/steps, then a sub-resource id is supplied to call a specific sub-resource or step (optional)&lt;br /&gt;
* '''svc''' – service parameter – any character string that can be used to store system state, should not contain ? (question mark), &amp;amp; (ampersand), : (colon), and / (backward slash); however all those symbols can be encoded using Java URLEncoder class that maps them to %XX; service parameter (optional)&lt;br /&gt;
* '''cid''' - course id that defines the course in which this content is being requested (optional). This parameter is different than grp because there could be multiple groups within a single course. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] content invocation protocol is &amp;quot;stackable&amp;quot;. It could be used by a learning portal to call a specific learning object for the user to work with, but can be also used to call a specific personalized service or shell to assist the user. By receiving information about the user, the service could call a specific learning content for this user, passing down the same parameters.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Example invocation requests ===&lt;br /&gt;
Below, there is an example invocation request to access a learning content using [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] content invocation protocol.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
'''Request URL Format''':&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
http|https://&amp;lt;content_url&amp;gt;?app=&amp;lt;application_id&amp;gt; &amp;amp;act=&amp;lt;learning_object&amp;gt; &amp;amp;sub=&amp;lt;learning_object_step&amp;gt; &amp;amp;usr=&amp;lt;user&amp;gt; &amp;amp;gpr=&amp;lt;group&amp;gt; &amp;amp;sid=&amp;lt;session_id&amp;gt; &amp;amp;svc=&amp;lt;service_parameters&amp;gt; &amp;amp; cid=&amp;lt;course_id&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Check above for more details about the URL parameters used in this request. The content URL defines where this content is being hosted and could contain content-specific parameters. [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] URL parameters should be appended if there are any content-specific URL parameters.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
For example, to invoke a PCRS coding activity using this protocol, the following URL can be used:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
https://PCRS_URL?act=PCRS&amp;amp;sub=rectangle_perimeter&amp;amp;svc=masterygrids&amp;amp;grp=groupid&amp;amp;usr=userid&amp;amp;sid=sessionid&amp;amp;cid=courseid&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Here, PCRS_URL should be replaced with an actual URL obtained from the content provider. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Other Standard authentication and content invocation protocols supported by [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== LTI protocol ===&lt;br /&gt;
More detailed information can be find here: [https://cssplice.org/lti/index.html SPLICE LTI Tutorials]&lt;br /&gt;
=== SPLICE protocol ===&lt;br /&gt;
More information about SPLICE Protocol can be found here: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X6Vx6Em67t8Vp4Vecnmc-7OblVewJJKDFIJUrvRAvdc/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.vxcmu24ix9zg SPLICE Protocol Description]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Cskamil</name></author>
		
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	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Content_Invocation_protocols&amp;diff=4860</id>
		<title>Content Invocation protocols</title>
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		<updated>2025-01-28T16:31:18Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;This page describes the content invocation protocols supported by [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Why Content Invocation? ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A content invocation protocol allows two online learning systems to work together in supporting learners. With this protocol, a '''host system''', such as a learning portal, a learning management system, or a personalized learning interface) can activate an independent '''client system''' while also passing a range of important parameters to it, most importantly, information about the user and group who will work with the client system, and the user target. The target might indicate a specific activity that the client system will need to launch for the user, while the information about the user and group enables the client system to customize its interaction with the user. The information about the user and the target is also important to log the information about the user interaction with the tool.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
When [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] was originally developed in 2002, it implemented its own content invocation protocol, since no other protocols supported personalized invocation of external learning content at that time. As other protocols gradually evolved, an increasing volume of interactive learning objects that implemented these protocols was developed. To leverage this content, [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] components now support other content invocation protocols.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] protocol for user authentication and activity invocation ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] content invocation protocol is the &amp;quot;native&amp;quot; protocol of [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] infrastructure. &lt;br /&gt;
This protocol is adopted by all [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] tools developed by our teams and by many content servers developers by our collaborators. &lt;br /&gt;
It regulates how user and resource identities is transferred from application to application via the following HTTP parameters (see [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] [[CUMULATE protocol#Parameter Naming Conventions|Parameter Naming Conventions]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* '''usr''' - user identifier, usually login (mandatory)&lt;br /&gt;
* '''grp''' - group identifier (mandatory), just like a user identifier, but for a group of users (class, research team)&lt;br /&gt;
* '''sid''' - session identifier (optional), usually 5 character string each application makes a choice whether and how to come up with this parameter (e.g. truncate [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Tomcat | Apache Tomcat] session id to last 5 characters)&lt;br /&gt;
*  '''act''' - id of the resource (mandatory), each application maintains its own vocabulary of resource ids&lt;br /&gt;
* '''sub''' - if a resource is a collection of multiple resources/steps, then a sub-resource id is supplied to call a specific sub-resource or step (optional)&lt;br /&gt;
* '''svc''' – service parameter – any character string that can be used to store system state, should not contain ? (question mark), &amp;amp; (ampersand), : (colon), and / (backward slash); however all those symbols can be encoded using Java URLEncoder class that maps them to %XX; service parameter (optional)&lt;br /&gt;
* '''cid''' - course id that defines the course in which this content is being requested (optional). This parameter is different than grp because there could be multiple groups within a single course. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] content invocation protocol is &amp;quot;stackable&amp;quot;. It could be used by a learning portal to call a specific learning object for the user to work with, but can be also used to call a specific personalized service or shell to assist the user. By receiving information about the user, the service could call a specific learning content for this user, passing down the same parameters.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Example invocation requests ===&lt;br /&gt;
Below, there is an example invocation request to access a learning content using [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] content invocation protocol.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
'''Request URL Format''':&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
http|https://&amp;lt;content_url&amp;gt;?app=&amp;lt;application_id&amp;gt; &amp;amp;act=&amp;lt;learning_object&amp;gt; &amp;amp;sub=&amp;lt;learning_object_step&amp;gt; &amp;amp;usr=&amp;lt;user&amp;gt; &amp;amp;gpr=&amp;lt;group&amp;gt; &amp;amp;sid=&amp;lt;session_id&amp;gt; &amp;amp;svc=&amp;lt;service_parameters&amp;gt; &amp;amp; cid=&amp;lt;course_id&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Check above for more details about the URL parameters used in this request. The content URL defines where this content is being hosted and could contain content-specific parameters. [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] URL parameters should be appended if there are any content-specific URL parameters.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
For example, to invoke a PCRS coding activity using this protocol, the following URL can be used:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
https://PCRS_URL?act=PCRS&amp;amp;sub=rectangle_perimeter&amp;amp;svc=masterygrids&amp;amp;grp=groupid&amp;amp;usr=userid&amp;amp;sid=sessionid&amp;amp;cid=courseid&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Here, PCRS_URL should be replaced with an actual URL obtained from the content provider. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Other Standard authentication and content invocation protocols supported by [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== LTI protocol ===&lt;br /&gt;
More detailed information can be find here: [https://cssplice.org/lti/index.html]&lt;br /&gt;
=== SPLICE protocol ===&lt;br /&gt;
More information about SPLICE Protocol can be found here: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X6Vx6Em67t8Vp4Vecnmc-7OblVewJJKDFIJUrvRAvdc/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.vxcmu24ix9zg]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Cskamil</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Content_Invocation_protocols&amp;diff=4859</id>
		<title>Content Invocation protocols</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Content_Invocation_protocols&amp;diff=4859"/>
		<updated>2025-01-28T16:25:59Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;This page describes the content invocation protocols supported by [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Why Content Invocation? ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A content invocation protocol allows two online learning systems to work together in supporting learners. With this protocol, a '''host system''', such as a learning portal, a learning management system, or a personalized learning interface) can activate an independent '''client system''' while also passing a range of important parameters to it, most importantly, information about the user and group who will work with the client system, and the user target. The target might indicate a specific activity that the client system will need to launch for the user, while the information about the user and group enables the client system to customize its interaction with the user. The information about the user and the target is also important to log the information about the user interaction with the tool.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
When [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] was originally developed in 2002, it implemented its own content invocation protocol, since no other protocols supported personalized invocation of external learning content at that time. As other protocols gradually evolved, an increasing volume of interactive learning objects that implemented these protocols was developed. To leverage this content, [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] components now support other content invocation protocols.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] protocol for user authentication and activity invocation ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] content invocation protocol is the &amp;quot;native&amp;quot; protocol of [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] infrastructure. &lt;br /&gt;
This protocol is adopted by all [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] tools developed by our teams and by many content servers developers by our collaborators. &lt;br /&gt;
It regulates how user and resource identities is transferred from application to application via the following HTTP parameters (see [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] [[CUMULATE protocol#Parameter Naming Conventions|Parameter Naming Conventions]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* '''usr''' - user identifier, usually login (mandatory)&lt;br /&gt;
* '''grp''' - group identifier (mandatory), just like a user identifier, but for a group of users (class, research team)&lt;br /&gt;
* '''sid''' - session identifier (optional), usually 5 character string each application makes a choice whether and how to come up with this parameter (e.g. truncate [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Tomcat | Apache Tomcat] session id to last 5 characters)&lt;br /&gt;
*  '''act''' - id of the resource (mandatory), each application maintains its own vocabulary of resource ids&lt;br /&gt;
* '''sub''' - if a resource is a collection of multiple resources/steps, then a sub-resource id is supplied to call a specific sub-resource or step (optional)&lt;br /&gt;
* '''svc''' – service parameter – any character string that can be used to store system state, should not contain ? (question mark), &amp;amp; (ampersand), : (colon), and / (backward slash); however all those symbols can be encoded using Java URLEncoder class that maps them to %XX; service parameter (optional)&lt;br /&gt;
* '''cid''' - course id that defines the course in which this content is being requested (optional). This parameter is different than grp because there could be multiple groups within a single course. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] content invocation protocol is &amp;quot;stackable&amp;quot;. It could be used by a learning portal to call a specific learning object for the user to work with, but can be also used to call a specific personalized service or shell to assist the user. By receiving information about the user, the service could call a specific learning content for this user, passing down the same parameters.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Example invocation requests ===&lt;br /&gt;
Below, there is an example invocation request to access a learning content using [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] content invocation protocol.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
'''Request URL Format''':&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
http|https://&amp;lt;content_url&amp;gt;?app=&amp;lt;application_id&amp;gt; &amp;amp;act=&amp;lt;learning_object&amp;gt; &amp;amp;sub=&amp;lt;learning_object_step&amp;gt; &amp;amp;usr=&amp;lt;user&amp;gt; &amp;amp;gpr=&amp;lt;group&amp;gt; &amp;amp;sid=&amp;lt;session_id&amp;gt; &amp;amp;svc=&amp;lt;service_parameters&amp;gt; &amp;amp; cid=&amp;lt;course_id&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Check above for more details about the URL parameters used in this request. The content URL defines where this content is being hosted and could contain content-specific parameters. [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] URL parameters should be appended if there are any content-specific URL parameters.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
For example, to invoke a PCRS coding activity using this protocol, the following URL can be used:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
https://PCRS_URL?act=PCRS&amp;amp;sub=rectangle_perimeter&amp;amp;svc=masterygrids&amp;amp;grp=groupid&amp;amp;usr=userid&amp;amp;sid=sessionid&amp;amp;cid=courseid&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Here, PCRS_URL should be replaced with an actual URL obtained from the content provider. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Other Standard authentication and content invocation protocols supported by [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== LTI protocol ===&lt;br /&gt;
=== SPLICE protocol ===&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Cskamil</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Content_Invocation_protocols&amp;diff=4858</id>
		<title>Content Invocation protocols</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Content_Invocation_protocols&amp;diff=4858"/>
		<updated>2025-01-28T16:17:09Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;This page describes the content invocation protocols supported by [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Why Content Invocation? ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
A content invocation protocol allows two online learning systems to work together in supporting learners. With this protocol, a '''host system''', such as a learning portal, a learning management system, or a personalized learning interface) can activate an independent '''client system''' while also passing a range of important parameters to it, most importantly, information about the user and group who will work with the client system, and the user target. The target might indicate a specific activity that the client system will need to launch for the user, while the information about the user and group enables the client system to customize its interaction with the user. The information about the user and the target is also important to log the information about the user interaction with the tool.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
When [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] was originally developed in 2002, it implemented its own content invocation protocol, since no other protocols supported personalized invocation of external learning content at that time. As other protocols gradually evolved, an increasing volume of interactive learning objects that implemented these protocols was developed. To leverage this content, [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] components now support other content invocation protocols.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] protocol for user authentication and activity invocation ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] content invocation protocol is the &amp;quot;native&amp;quot; protocol of [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] infrastructure. &lt;br /&gt;
This protocol is adopted by all [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] tools developed by our teams and by many content servers developers by our collaborators. &lt;br /&gt;
It regulates how user and resource identities is transferred from application to application via the following HTTP parameters (see [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] [[CUMULATE protocol#Parameter Naming Conventions|Parameter Naming Conventions]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* '''usr''' - user identifier, usually login (mandatory)&lt;br /&gt;
* '''grp''' - group identifier (mandatory), just like a user identifier, but for a group of users (class, research team)&lt;br /&gt;
* '''sid''' - session identifier (optional), usually 5 character string each application makes a choice whether and how to come up with this parameter (e.g. truncate [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Tomcat | Apache Tomcat] session id to last 5 characters)&lt;br /&gt;
*  '''act''' - id of the resource (mandatory), each application maintains its own vocabulary of resource ids&lt;br /&gt;
* '''sub''' - if a resource is a collection of multiple resources/steps, then a sub-resource id is supplied to call a specific sub-resource or step (optional)&lt;br /&gt;
* '''svc''' – service parameter – any character string that can be used to store system state, should not contain ? (question mark), &amp;amp; (ampersand), : (colon), and / (backward slash); however all those symbols can be encoded using Java URLEncoder class that maps them to %XX; service parameter (optional)&lt;br /&gt;
* '''cid''' - course id that defines the course in which this content is being requested (optional). This parameter is different than grp because there could be multiple groups within a single course. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] content invocation protocol is &amp;quot;stackable&amp;quot;. It could be used by a learning portal to call a specific learning object for the user to work with, but can be also used to call a specific personalized service or shell to assist the user. By receiving information about the user, the service could call a specific learning content for this user, passing down the same parameters.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== Example invocation requests ===&lt;br /&gt;
Below, there is an example invocation request to access a learning content using [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] content invocation protocol.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
'''Request URL Format''':&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
http(s)://&amp;lt;content_url&amp;gt;?app=&amp;lt;application_id&amp;gt; &amp;amp;act=&amp;lt;learning_object&amp;gt; &amp;amp;sub=&amp;lt;learning_object_step&amp;gt; &amp;amp;usr=&amp;lt;user&amp;gt; &amp;amp;gpr=&amp;lt;group&amp;gt; &amp;amp;sid=&amp;lt;session_id&amp;gt; &amp;amp;svc=&amp;lt;service_parameters&amp;gt; &amp;amp; cid=&amp;lt;course_id&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Check above for more details about the URL parameters used in this request. The content URL defines where this content is being hosted and could contain content-specific parameters. [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] URL parameters should be appended if there are any content-specific URL parameters.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
For example, to invoke a PCRS coding activity using this protocol, the following URL can be used:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
https://PCRS_URL?act=PCRS&amp;amp;sub=rectangle_perimeter&amp;amp;svc=masterygrids&amp;amp;grp=groupid&amp;amp;usr=userid&amp;amp;sid=sessionid&amp;amp;cid=courseid&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/pre&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Here, PCRS_URL should be replaced with an actual URL obtained from the content provider. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Other Standard authentication and content invocation protocols supported by [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] ==&lt;br /&gt;
* LTI protocol&lt;br /&gt;
* SPLICE protocol&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PCEX&amp;diff=3951</id>
		<title>PCEX</title>
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		<updated>2018-09-27T18:28:46Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: /* Example */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Program Construction Examples (PCEX) is an interactive learning tool which demonstrates program construction examples to help students to develop program construction skills. It supports exploring the program construction examples freely and provide challenges to the students to help them self-assess their learning of program construction knowledge. Each ''example'' provides a goal that specify the given example’s functionality. Each ''challenge'' is designed closely to the examples provided with faded lines. Students need to drag-drop provided sample lines to complete a program to accomplish the provided program goal. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== PCEX Interface ==&lt;br /&gt;
===Example===&lt;br /&gt;
The first screenshot is from an example in PCEX about celsius to fahrenheit conversion with interactive explanation of the selected line (highlighted in yellow) &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Pcex_ex.PNG|600px]]&lt;br /&gt;
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===Challenge===&lt;br /&gt;
The second screenshot is from an challenge in PCEX which is the ‘challenge’ of the previously shown example. Here the goal of the program is to complete the program which converts fahrenheit to celsius. In the current screenshot, the student made a mistake in one of the missing lines and got immediate feedback stating that the output of the current program is different from the expected one. Student may see the details of the error or request for a hint which basically describes the explanation of that missing line.  &lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Pcex_ch.PNG|600px]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Available Domains ==&lt;br /&gt;
PCEX smart content is available to be used with Java and Python programming languages.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PAWS&amp;diff=3941</id>
		<title>PAWS</title>
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		<updated>2018-08-20T20:01:00Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: /* Most Recent News */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;== About PAWS ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Edm_2018.jpg|right|700px|EDM 2018 - Buffalo, NY]]&lt;br /&gt;
Personalized Adaptive Web Systems Lab was established in 2004 with support from National Science Foundation and the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. The goal of the PAWS Lab is development and evaluation of innovative user- and group-adaptive Web-based technologies, systems, and architectures. The Lab currently explores a range of user modeling, adaptation and personalization technologies. The work of the Lab is supported by NSF and DARPA funding.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Most Recent News ==&lt;br /&gt;
* Two PAWS graduates' papers were short-listed for the best paper award at EC-TEL 2018.([[News#2018-08-13|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] awarded NSF grant under the program Cyberlearn And Future Learn Tech. ([[News#2018-07-31|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Roya Hosseini defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Program Construction Examples in Computer Science Education: From Static Text to Adaptive and Engaging Learning Technology'.([[News#2018-07-24|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Yun Huang defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Learner Modeling for Integration Skills in Programming' ([[News#2018-07-05|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* PAWS Lab scores thrice at IUI 2018  ([[News#2018-03-08|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Julio Guerra defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Open Learner Models for Self-Regulated Learning: Exploring the Effects of Social Comparison and Granularity'.([[News#2017-10-24|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Suleehs | Danielle Lee]] moves to Sangmyung University as an assistant professor  ([[News#2017-08-17|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Two PAWS papers were nominated and one received Best Paper Awards at UMAP 2017  ([[News#2017-07-11|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
*  [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring.  ([[News#2017-02-21|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
*  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor  ([[News#2016-11-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Maria Harrington moves to University of Central Florida as an Assistant Professor ([[News#2016-08-15 |details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: ''Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'', will start as an Assistant Professor in University of Albany  ([[News#2016-07-21|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board.  ([[News#2016-05-13|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] received Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship for the academic year 2016-2017. ([[News#2016-03-04|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]]   ([[News#2016-02-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: ''Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities''.  ([[News#2015-04-15|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ([[News#2014-11-11|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Tomek Loboda, [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] , and [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ([[News#2014-09-19|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User: Yuh43 | Yun Huang]] has been nominated for the best paper award at the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2014). ([[News#2014-07-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] finished her 2nd year postdoc in Columbia University and starts  as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall ([[News#2014-05-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
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Go to [[News | News Page]] for all news.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Try PAWS Tools at our Community Portal == &lt;br /&gt;
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Go to [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt Knowledge Tree] portal and [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt/register.html create trial account] to try our tools.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~cagent/ CourseAgent]: Share evaluations of IS graduate courses at Pitt and plan your career.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://pittsburgh.comettalks.com/ Comet]: Share, tag, recommend and schedule interesting talks in Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://eventur.us/ Eventur]: Share and schedule cultural events in Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://www.computingportal.org/ Ensemble]: This cross-university collaborative effort aims to bring together the global community of computing educators around a growing set of content collections with high-quality educational resources.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yournews/ YourNews]: This is a personalized RSS news access portal with several levels of user modeling and feed recommendation. Read your news in a personalized way!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If you are a researcher and would like to  quickly try our adaptation tools, create the trial account (link above) and proceed [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/cbum/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== PAWS Lab Contact Information ==&lt;br /&gt;
Information Sciences Building, Rm. 2A04&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
135 North Bellefield Avenue&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Tel: +1(412)624-9437&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=News&amp;diff=3940</id>
		<title>News</title>
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		<updated>2018-08-20T20:00:40Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;__NOTOC__&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-08-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-08-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Two PAWS graduates' papers were short-listed for the best paper award at EC-TEL 2018. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Paper titled Learning by Reviewing Paper-based Programming Assessments co-authored by [[User:Shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]]  and paper titled Detection of Student Modelling Anomalies by [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] short-listed for the best paper award at EC-TEL 2018 [http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php?id=805]. Congratulations to PAWS alumni Sharon and Sergey for having nominations for best paper award. Your contribution is inspiration for current PAWS students...&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-07-31&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-07-31&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] awarded NSF grant under the program Cyberlearn And Future Learn Tech.  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations Peter Brusilovsky for NSF Award for Project: Collaborative Research: CSEdPad: Investigating and Scaffolding Students' Mental Models during Computer Programming Tasks to Improve Learning, Engagement, and Retention. [https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1822752 Award Abstract].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-07-24&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-07-24&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Roya Hosseini defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Program Construction Examples in Computer Science Education: From Static Text to Adaptive and Engaging Learning Technology'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-07-05&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-07-05&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Huang]] defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang defended her Ph. D. Thesis titled 'Learner Modeling for Integration Skills in Programming'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-03-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-03-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  PAWS Lab scores thrice at IUI 2018 ====&lt;br /&gt;
PAWS Lab took almost the whole podium at [https://iui.acm.org/2018/ IUI 2018] award ceremony. Hyman Tsai receives an honorable mention for the best student paper award. [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]]  with now his own advisee Ivania Donoso also got an honorable mention. And finally, our recent visitor Cecilia di Sciascio did win the best student paper award for a paper &amp;quot;A Study on User-Controllable Social Exploratory Search&amp;quot; with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Eduardo Veas.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-10-24&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-10-24&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]] defended his Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Julio Guerra defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Open Learner Models for Self-Regulated Learning: Exploring the Effects of Social Comparison and Granularity'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-08-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-08-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]] moves to  Sangmyung University as an assistant professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]]  has joined [http://www.smuc.ac.kr/mbs/eng/index.jsp  Sangmyung University]  (Korea) as an assistant professor at the Department of Software on August 17, 2017. Previously, Danielle was an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Bothel.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-07-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-07-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Two PAWS papers were nominated and one received Best Paper Awards at   UMAP 2017 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Two papers - [https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079672 Stereotype Modeling for Problem-Solving Performance Predictions in MOOCs and Traditional Courses] and  [https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079682 Fine-Grained Open Learner Models: Complexity Versus Support] were nominated for the best paper award at [http://www.um.org/umap2017/ UMAP2017] – 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. The second paper lead by Julio Guerra and Jordan Barria-Pineda received [http://www.um.org/awards/james-chen-best-student-paper-awards James Chen Best Student Paper award]. Congratulations to Julio and Jordan who now joined former PAWS lab members Rosta Farzan, [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]], and [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] as recipients of this prestigious award. This is 6th James Chen award won by PAWS lab members! Rosta Farzan received this award twice as a student and once more as a senior co-author.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-02-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-02-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our mentor at PAWS, Dr. Peter Brusilovsky, on receiving the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring!  Read more on [http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=42853 University Times]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-11-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-11-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to  Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] has joined [http://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/department-of-information-and-computing-sciences the Department of Information and Computing Sciences] at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). The tenure-track position in computer science with the focus on educational technology started on November 1st, 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Maria Harrington moves to  University of Central Florida as an Assistant Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [http://svad.cah.ucf.edu/staff.php?id=1350 Maria Harrington]  has joined [https://www.ucf.edu/  University of Central Florida]  as an Assistant Professor at the [http://svad.cah.ucf.edu/ School of Visual Arts and Design]. This is a great place to continue her work on educational virtual reality. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-07-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-07-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'. More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/29220/ here]. She will join the University of Albany as an Assistant Professor in September 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-05-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-05-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board  ====&lt;br /&gt;
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Two SIS faculty members on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board. &lt;br /&gt;
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Peter Brusilovsky, professor and current chair of the Information Sciences program, and Rosta Farzan, assistant professor of Information Sciences &amp;amp; Technology, have been selected as associate editors of the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) new journal titled “Transactions on Social Computing.”&lt;br /&gt;
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This quarterly journal will publish works encompassing theoretical, empirical, systems, and design research on social computing. It will be part of the ACM Digital Library, which is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-03-04&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-03-04&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Congratulations to [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] for receiving Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang and Roya Hosseini received prestigious Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award for the academic year 2016-2017.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-02-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-02-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou gave a talk on the topic of &amp;quot;Personalized Crowdsourcing&amp;quot; ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Lykourentzou  illustrated the potential that personalization has for the improvement of crowdsourcing systems, through two example applications. The first application was about making personalized task recommendations to crowd workers, and the second application was about personalizing team building, i.e. a method that brings people to work together on a collaborating task taking into account their individual personalities. &lt;br /&gt;
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At the time, Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou was a researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology and was collaborating with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, as Visiting Researcher.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]  and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He (project lead and co-lead respectively) has been awarded a Nation Science Foundation Information and Intelligent Systems grant for their project titled “[[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]].” The project will focus on streamlining and expanding the reach of effective adaptive educational hypermedia, which allows students and independent learners without access to traditional classrooms to gain a personalized education.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-04-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-04-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities'. ====&lt;br /&gt;
More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/25836/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-11-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-11-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;, and presented his research on Recommender Systems. &lt;br /&gt;
Please find the slides [http://www.slideshare.net/denisparra/keynote-at-chilean-week-of-computer-science here].&lt;br /&gt;
The abstract of the talk is also available at the home page of the event, JCC 2014. [http://www.jcc2014.ucm.cl/en/ (more)].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-09-19&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-09-19&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: PAWS won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Tomek, [[User:Julio | Julio]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya]], and [[User:peterb| Peter]]! Their paper entitled &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266656951_Mastery_Grids_An_Open_Source_Social_Educational_Progress_Visualization Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization]&amp;quot; has won the best paper award of EC-TEL 2014 conference. More details on the paper can be accessed [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-11200-8_18 here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-05-06&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-05-06&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] is appointed as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall.====&lt;br /&gt;
On completing 2 years successful post-doctoral innovation fellow position in [http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu EdLab], Teachers College @ Columbia University, [[User: shoha99 | Sharon]] is moving onto a tenure-track position in [http://cidse.engineering.asu.edu School of Computing, Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering] (AKA: Engineering school) in [http://www.asu.edu Arizona State University], Phoenix, Arizona. She anticipates to continue working on the emerging topics of computational technologies in learning. Meanwhile, persistently dedicate to the course - [http://www.columbia.edu/~ih2240/dataviz/index.htm Data Visualization], which she established in [http://www.qmss.columbia.edu QMSS (Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences)], School of Arts &amp;amp; Sciences in [http://www.columbia.edu Columbia University]. For more details see [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-14-2014.php SIS news].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] to deliver a keynote at a WWW 2014 workshop. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter will deliver a keynote titled &amp;quot;Addictive Links: Engaging Students through Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Student Modeling&amp;quot; at [http://www2014.kr/program/webet-2014/ WebET 2014] - Workshop on Web-based Education Technologies at the Word Wide Web Conference in Seoul, Korea. The talk will present PAWS work on such systems as [[QuizGuide]], [[NavEx]], JavaGuide, [[Progressor]], and [[ProgressorPlus|Progressor+]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Jennifer | Yi-Ling(Jennifer) Lin]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan.====&lt;br /&gt;
Yi-Ling (Jennifer) joined the Information Management faculty at the National Sun Yat-Sen University [http://http://epage.mis.nsysu.edu.tw/files/11-1100-4988-1.php?Lang=en] where she is an Assistant Professor. She is teaching Java course and continues to cooperate with Paws Lab to explore the social comparison in cyberlearning.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-08-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-08-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] started a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.====&lt;br /&gt;
Denis joined the faculty at the School of Engineering in Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, [http://www.topuniversities.com/node/2261/ranking-details/latin-american-university-rankings/2013  ranked 2nd among Latinamerican Universities],  where he is an [http://www.ing.puc.cl/cuerpo-docente/parra-santander/ Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science]. At the undergraduate level, he is teaching a course that explores several topics for the major in Computer Science, and at the graduate level he teaches Data Mining in the [http://mpgi.ing.puc.cl/profesores.html  Master for Information Processing and Management]. He continues doing research on Recommender Systems, the topic he investigated while a student at the PAWS lab, and is also Analyzing Social Media, collaborating with PAWS lab student Xidao Wen, studying [http://www.christophtrattner.info/pubs/ht2014.pdf how Twitter is used in academic Conferences]. In addition, he is fostering collaboration between professor Brusilovsky and some areas of teaching such as Databases in the CS department at Catholic University.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-18&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-18&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[Systems#KnowledgeZoom | KnowledgeZoom]] paper receives ICALT 2013 Best full Paper Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to paws! &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256524709_KnowledgeZoom_for_Java_A_Concept-Based_Exam_Study_Tool_with_a_Zoomable_Open_Student_Model KnowledgeZoom for Java: A Concept Based Exam Study Tool with a Zoomable Open Student Model]&amp;quot; won the best full paper award of ICALT 2013 conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Falakmasir | Mohammad Falakmasir]] won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Mohammad! His paper with Zachary A. Pardos, Geoffrey J. Gordon, and Peter Brusilovsky entitled &amp;quot;A Spectral Learning Approach to Knowledge Tracing&amp;quot; won the best student paper award of EDM 2013 conference. In his paper, he proposed using Spectral Learning (SL) to learn the BKT parameters.  Results of his study showed that SL can improve knowledge tracing parameter fitting time significantly while maintaining the same prediction accuracy. For more details on his paper please refer to his article [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/presentation2.php?presentationID=5323&amp;amp;conferenceID=115]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair. ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]], has been selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair by the Fulbright Commission. With this Award Peter will spend 5 month in FInland collaborating with researchers from University of Helsinki, Aalto University, and Helsinki Institute of Information Technology. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky, Professor at the iSchool, has been awarded a contract by the United States Army Contracting Command to participate in the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. Brusilovsky’ s contract, for $623,005 over a three-year period, will support the project [[Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Learner Modeling for PAL]] that will focus on the architecture, algorithms, and interfaces for a Personal Assistant for Learning (PAL), one of the major endeavors undertaken by the ADL Initiative. Through a PAL, the Initiative will provide state of the art education and training -- using technology and innovative learning methodologies -- for workforce members in the Department of Defense and the federal government. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-04-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-04-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Sergey Sosnovsky profiled in International Innovation ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky, who earned his PhD in Information Science in 2012, was recently profiled in International Innovation Magazine about his work on eLearning systems research and tools. Sosnovsky is the Principal Researcher and Head of the Intelligent e-Learning Technology Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbruken, Germany. The article explored his work on the Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content project funded by the European Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service. The magazine article (published March 2013) discussed how Sosnovsky’s project will enhance adaptive e-Learning by making it possible to develop smart instructional material for a broader audience of content authors. The article can be viewed at [[http://www.research-europe.com/magazine/REGIONAL/EX8/index.html]] , beginning on page 71.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-01-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-01-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt  IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies]. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter is appointed the Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, a journal dedicated to advancing the state of the art in technology-enhanced learning. This quarterly publication covers leading edge research on topics such as educational software applications, online learning systems, and simulation systems for education and training. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/3-11-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-08-26&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Rosta! After 3 years as a postdoc at CMU, she is now back to Pitt as an Assistant Professor. During her first semester at SIS she is teaching IS2430 Social Computing course. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-02-2012.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] Thesis Defence: Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
A large number of educational resources is now made available on the Web to support both regular classroom learning and online learning. However, the abundance of available content produced at least two problems: how to help students to find the most appropriate resources and how to engage them into using these resources and benefit from them. Personalized and social learning have been suggested as potential ways to address these problems.&lt;br /&gt;
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This work attempts to combine the ideas of personalized and social learning by providing navigation support through an open social student modeling visualization. A series of classroom studies exploited the idea of the approach and revealed promising results, which demonstrated the personalized guidance and social visualization combined helped students to find the most relevant resources of parameterized self-assessment questions for Java programming. Thus, this dissertation extend the approach to a larger collection of learning objects for cross content navigation and verify its capability of supporting social visualization for personalized E-Learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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The study results confirm that working with the non-mandatory system, students enhanced the learning quality in increasing their motivation and engagement. They successfully achieved better learning results. Meanwhile, incorporating a mixed collection of content in the open social student modeling visualizations effectively led the students to work at the right level of questions. Both strong and weak student worked with the appropriate levels of questions for their readiness accordingly and yielded a consistent performance across all three levels of complexities. Additionally, providing a more realistic content collection on the navigation supported open social student modeling visualizations results in a uniform performance in the group. The classroom study revealed a clear pattern of social guidance, where the stronger students left the traces for weaker ones to follow. The subjective evaluation confirms the design of the interface in terms of the content organization. Students’ positive responses also compliment the objective system usage data.&lt;br /&gt;
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download it from [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/13439/ here]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-11-30&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-11-30&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Thesis Defence: Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Conventional closed-corpus adaptive information systems control limited sets of documents in fixed subject domains and cannot provide access to the content outside the system. Such restrictions contradict the requirements of today, when most of the information systems are implemented in the open document space of WWW and are expected to operate on the open-corpus content. In order to maintain personalized access to open-corpus documents, an adaptive system should be able to model the documents and the relations between the documents and the domain knowledge automatically and dynamically. This dissertation explores the problem of open-corpus personalization and semantic modeling of open-corpus content in the context of e-Learning. Information on WWW is not without structure. Many collections of online instructional material (tutorials, electronic books, digital libraries, etc.) have been provided with implicit knowledge models encoded in form of tables of content, indexes, headers of chapters, links between pages, and different styles of text fragments. The main dissertation approach tries to leverage this layer of hidden semantics by extracting and representing it as coarse-grained models of collections. A central domain ontology is used to maintain overlay modeling of studentsÕ knowledge and serves as a reference point for multiple collections of external instructional material. In order to establish the link between the ontology and the open-corpus content models a special ontology mapping algorithm has been developed.  The proposed approach has been applied in the Ontology-based Open-corpus Personalization Service (OOPS) that recommends and adaptively annotates online reading material. The domain of Java programming has been chosen for the proof-of-concept implementation. A controlled experiment has been organized to evaluate the developed adaptive system and the proposed approach overall. The results of the evaluation have demonstrated several significant learning effects of the implemented open-corpus personalization. The analysis of log-based data has also shown that the open-corpus version of the system is capable of providing personalization of similar quality to the close-corpus one. Such results indicate that the proposed approach supports fully-scale open-corpus personalization for e-Learning. Further research is required to verify if the approach remains effective in other subject domains and with other types of instructional content.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-07-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-07-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:DParra | Denis Parra]] earns a  James Chen Best Student paper award in UMAP 2011 ====&lt;br /&gt;
In the last conference of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011) Denis Parra won one of the 2 [http://www.umap2011.org/program/best-paper-awards James Chen Best Student paper awards] for his paper '''Walk The Talk: Analyzing the relation between implicit and explicit feedback for preference elicitation''' that he co-authored with Dr. Xavier Amatriain. In this paper, the authors present a study on the music domain with last.fm users, which results leads them to create a regression model that maps implicit information (such as playcounts and how recently a user listened to albums) with explicit information in the form of ratings. More details in the [http://www.springerlink.com/content/645721483544r815/  conference proceedings in Springer]. Denis is the third PAWS Lab member to receive this prestigious award. Prior to that, Rosta Farzan and Michael Yudelson won this award at earlier User Modeling conferences. Rosta also won another James Chen award at Adaptive Hypermedia conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] Promoted to Rank of Full Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our head of PAWS lab! [[http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/06-10-2011.php Read more ]]&lt;br /&gt;
==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon]] received 2011 Allen Kent Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Graduate Program in Information Science ==== &lt;br /&gt;
She has worked with [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gray/ Dr. Glenn Ray] several years in designing and teaching undergraduate courses. She's affiliated as teaching fellow and teaches in our school now.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-12-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-12-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] received Google grant to work on ''[[Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities]]'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
The grant will support our efforts to increase user participation in social systems designed for local communities. In the course of the project will explore two innovative ideas for increasing participation. The first idea is to provide access to information “beyond the desktop,” by adding a mobile location-based interface to access information. This will increase both the number of active users and the volume of their contributions. The second idea is to provide personalized access to information to increase the chance to gather relevant information. This work will be based on two existing social systems that were developed and maintained by PAWs lab: the [[Systems#CoMeT | CoMeT]] system for sharing information about research talks at Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh and [[Systems#Eventur | Eventur]], a social system for recommending cultural events in the Pittsburgh area.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] Thesis Defence: Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System ====&lt;br /&gt;
The dissertation proposes a novel way of speeding the development of new adaptive hypermedia systems. The gist of the approach is to extract the adaptation functionality out of the adaptive hypermedia system, encapsulate it into a standalone system, and offer adaptation as a service to the client applications. Such a standalone adaptation provider reduces the development of adaptation functionality to configuration and compliance and as a result creates new adaptive systems faster and helps serve larger user populations with adaptively accessible content. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=777 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
The electronic version of [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] dissertation has been approved by the School of Information Sciences. ETD is accessible worldwide from the online library catalog of the University of Pittsburgh ([http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-10132010-092137/ link]).&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This EAGER grant will allow us to investigate how to model and visualize latent communities – those groups of people who form communities based on their similar interests. This work will consider how to elicit latent communities from various kinds of data about individuals available in the modern social Web and deliver the results in a manner suitable for interactive exploration through interactive visualizations. This will be one of the first attempts to use a variety of social Web data and approaches to community modeling. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1059577 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] Thesis Defence: Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn's dissertation proposes to incorporate interactive visualization into personalized search in order to overcome the limitation. By combining the personalized search and the interactive visualization, we expect our approach will be able to help users to better explore the information space and locate relevant information more efficiently. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=764 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This one-year grant will support a project exploring personalization and social networking for short-term communities. Using academic research conferences as a test bed, our team will explore new methods to leverage information about user interests (available from multiple external resources) and develop techniques to facilitate use of existing social technologies. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1052768 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-08-15 :: SIGWeb Newsletter published an interview with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
The Summer 2010 issue of SIGWeb Newsletter (a magazine of ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web) published an [http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1796390.1796393 interview with Peter Brusilovsky]. The interview provides some personal view on research project performed at PAWS.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-07-01 :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook]] has received Computing Inovation Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn was chosen as a [http://cifellows.org  CIFellow] (Computing Innovation Fellow) supported by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the Computing Research Association (CRA), and the National Science Foundation.  Starting from the fall 2010, he is going to work with [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/ Dr. Ben Shneiderman] at the [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil Human Computer Interaction Lab], University of Maryland.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-05-01 :: Sergey has received EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky's proposal for EU [http://cordis.europa.eu/improving/fellowships/home.htm Marie Curie Fellowship] is approved by the EU Research Executive Agency. The funding starts in July, 2010 and will last until July 2012. The project &amp;quot;Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content&amp;quot; will focus on implementation of author-friendly technologies for learning content development, including collaborative authoring support, metadata authoring support, open-corpus content discovery, interactivity authoring, and gap detection.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-27 :: Rosta receives her second James Chen Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rosta Farzan received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 12th International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP2009, in Trento, Italy for the paper ''Social Navigation Support for Information Seeking: If You Build It, Will They Come?'' by Rosta Farzan and Peter Brusilovsky. This is her second James Chen Award, congratulations!&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-26 :: PAWS Caught on UMAP 2009 Video ====&lt;br /&gt;
* 0:27 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]]&lt;br /&gt;
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* 1:18 [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:51 [[User:Suleehs|Danielle]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 3:12 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]] and [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 4:01 [[User:Peterb|Peter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-05-28 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] awarded honorary doctorate by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava ====&lt;br /&gt;
At a ceremony in Bratislava today, Peter Brusilovsky was honored by the [http://www.stuba.sk/ Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava] with the degree of Doctor honoris causa. The university, founded in 1937 in Bratislava, is one of the most significant institutions of higher education in Slovakia. Peter was selected for this recognition for &amp;quot;his contributions to the fields of Informatics and Information Technologies&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2008-07-31 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] receives Best Paper Award at AH 2008 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky received Best Paper Award at the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2008, in Hannover, Germany  for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/6h410u3w4836v866/ ''Social Information Access for the Rest of Us: An Exploration of Social YouTube''] by Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Brusilovsky, and Barry Smyth&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2007-06-28 :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael]] receives James Chen Best Student Paper Award at UM 2007 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Michael Yudelson received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on User Modelling, UM07, in Corfu, Greece for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/c723060442701737/ ''A User Modeling Server for Contemporary Adaptive Hypermedia: an Evaluation of Push Approach  to Evidence Propagation''] by Michael Yudelson, Peter Brusilovsky, and Vladimir Zadorozhny&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-08-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-08-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Two PAWS graduates' papers were short-listed for the best paper award at EC-TEL 2018. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Paper titled Learning by Reviewing Paper-based Programming Assessments co-authored by [[User:Shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]]  and paper titled Detection of Student Modelling Anomalies by [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] short-listed for the best paper award at EC-TEL 2018 [http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php?id=805]. Congratulations to PAWS alumni Sharon and Sergey for having nominations for best paper award. Your contribution is inspiration for current PAWS students...&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-07-31&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-07-31&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] awarded NSF grant under the program Cyberlearn And Future Learn Tech.  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations Peter Brusilovsky for NSF Award for Project: Collaborative Research: CSEdPad: Investigating and Scaffolding Students' Mental Models during Computer Programming Tasks to Improve Learning, Engagement, and Retention. [https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1822752 Details].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-07-24&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-07-24&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Roya Hosseini defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Program Construction Examples in Computer Science Education: From Static Text to Adaptive and Engaging Learning Technology'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-07-05&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-07-05&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Huang]] defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang defended her Ph. D. Thesis titled 'Learner Modeling for Integration Skills in Programming'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-03-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-03-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  PAWS Lab scores thrice at IUI 2018 ====&lt;br /&gt;
PAWS Lab took almost the whole podium at [https://iui.acm.org/2018/ IUI 2018] award ceremony. Hyman Tsai receives an honorable mention for the best student paper award. [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]]  with now his own advisee Ivania Donoso also got an honorable mention. And finally, our recent visitor Cecilia di Sciascio did win the best student paper award for a paper &amp;quot;A Study on User-Controllable Social Exploratory Search&amp;quot; with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Eduardo Veas.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-10-24&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-10-24&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]] defended his Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Julio Guerra defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Open Learner Models for Self-Regulated Learning: Exploring the Effects of Social Comparison and Granularity'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-08-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-08-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]] moves to  Sangmyung University as an assistant professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]]  has joined [http://www.smuc.ac.kr/mbs/eng/index.jsp  Sangmyung University]  (Korea) as an assistant professor at the Department of Software on August 17, 2017. Previously, Danielle was an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Bothel.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-07-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-07-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Two PAWS papers were nominated and one received Best Paper Awards at   UMAP 2017 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Two papers - [https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079672 Stereotype Modeling for Problem-Solving Performance Predictions in MOOCs and Traditional Courses] and  [https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079682 Fine-Grained Open Learner Models: Complexity Versus Support] were nominated for the best paper award at [http://www.um.org/umap2017/ UMAP2017] – 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. The second paper lead by Julio Guerra and Jordan Barria-Pineda received [http://www.um.org/awards/james-chen-best-student-paper-awards James Chen Best Student Paper award]. Congratulations to Julio and Jordan who now joined former PAWS lab members Rosta Farzan, [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]], and [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] as recipients of this prestigious award. This is 6th James Chen award won by PAWS lab members! Rosta Farzan received this award twice as a student and once more as a senior co-author.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-02-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-02-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our mentor at PAWS, Dr. Peter Brusilovsky, on receiving the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring!  Read more on [http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=42853 University Times]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-11-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-11-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to  Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] has joined [http://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/department-of-information-and-computing-sciences the Department of Information and Computing Sciences] at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). The tenure-track position in computer science with the focus on educational technology started on November 1st, 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Maria Harrington moves to  University of Central Florida as an Assistant Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [http://svad.cah.ucf.edu/staff.php?id=1350 Maria Harrington]  has joined [https://www.ucf.edu/  University of Central Florida]  as an Assistant Professor at the [http://svad.cah.ucf.edu/ School of Visual Arts and Design]. This is a great place to continue her work on educational virtual reality. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-07-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-07-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'. More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/29220/ here]. She will join the University of Albany as an Assistant Professor in September 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-05-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-05-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board  ====&lt;br /&gt;
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Two SIS faculty members on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board. &lt;br /&gt;
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Peter Brusilovsky, professor and current chair of the Information Sciences program, and Rosta Farzan, assistant professor of Information Sciences &amp;amp; Technology, have been selected as associate editors of the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) new journal titled “Transactions on Social Computing.”&lt;br /&gt;
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This quarterly journal will publish works encompassing theoretical, empirical, systems, and design research on social computing. It will be part of the ACM Digital Library, which is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-03-04&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-03-04&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Congratulations to [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] for receiving Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang and Roya Hosseini received prestigious Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award for the academic year 2016-2017.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-02-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-02-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou gave a talk on the topic of &amp;quot;Personalized Crowdsourcing&amp;quot; ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Lykourentzou  illustrated the potential that personalization has for the improvement of crowdsourcing systems, through two example applications. The first application was about making personalized task recommendations to crowd workers, and the second application was about personalizing team building, i.e. a method that brings people to work together on a collaborating task taking into account their individual personalities. &lt;br /&gt;
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At the time, Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou was a researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology and was collaborating with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, as Visiting Researcher.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]  and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He (project lead and co-lead respectively) has been awarded a Nation Science Foundation Information and Intelligent Systems grant for their project titled “[[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]].” The project will focus on streamlining and expanding the reach of effective adaptive educational hypermedia, which allows students and independent learners without access to traditional classrooms to gain a personalized education.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-04-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-04-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities'. ====&lt;br /&gt;
More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/25836/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-11-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-11-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;, and presented his research on Recommender Systems. &lt;br /&gt;
Please find the slides [http://www.slideshare.net/denisparra/keynote-at-chilean-week-of-computer-science here].&lt;br /&gt;
The abstract of the talk is also available at the home page of the event, JCC 2014. [http://www.jcc2014.ucm.cl/en/ (more)].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-09-19&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-09-19&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: PAWS won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Tomek, [[User:Julio | Julio]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya]], and [[User:peterb| Peter]]! Their paper entitled &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266656951_Mastery_Grids_An_Open_Source_Social_Educational_Progress_Visualization Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization]&amp;quot; has won the best paper award of EC-TEL 2014 conference. More details on the paper can be accessed [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-11200-8_18 here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-05-06&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-05-06&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] is appointed as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall.====&lt;br /&gt;
On completing 2 years successful post-doctoral innovation fellow position in [http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu EdLab], Teachers College @ Columbia University, [[User: shoha99 | Sharon]] is moving onto a tenure-track position in [http://cidse.engineering.asu.edu School of Computing, Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering] (AKA: Engineering school) in [http://www.asu.edu Arizona State University], Phoenix, Arizona. She anticipates to continue working on the emerging topics of computational technologies in learning. Meanwhile, persistently dedicate to the course - [http://www.columbia.edu/~ih2240/dataviz/index.htm Data Visualization], which she established in [http://www.qmss.columbia.edu QMSS (Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences)], School of Arts &amp;amp; Sciences in [http://www.columbia.edu Columbia University]. For more details see [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-14-2014.php SIS news].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] to deliver a keynote at a WWW 2014 workshop. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter will deliver a keynote titled &amp;quot;Addictive Links: Engaging Students through Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Student Modeling&amp;quot; at [http://www2014.kr/program/webet-2014/ WebET 2014] - Workshop on Web-based Education Technologies at the Word Wide Web Conference in Seoul, Korea. The talk will present PAWS work on such systems as [[QuizGuide]], [[NavEx]], JavaGuide, [[Progressor]], and [[ProgressorPlus|Progressor+]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Jennifer | Yi-Ling(Jennifer) Lin]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan.====&lt;br /&gt;
Yi-Ling (Jennifer) joined the Information Management faculty at the National Sun Yat-Sen University [http://http://epage.mis.nsysu.edu.tw/files/11-1100-4988-1.php?Lang=en] where she is an Assistant Professor. She is teaching Java course and continues to cooperate with Paws Lab to explore the social comparison in cyberlearning.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-08-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-08-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] started a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.====&lt;br /&gt;
Denis joined the faculty at the School of Engineering in Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, [http://www.topuniversities.com/node/2261/ranking-details/latin-american-university-rankings/2013  ranked 2nd among Latinamerican Universities],  where he is an [http://www.ing.puc.cl/cuerpo-docente/parra-santander/ Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science]. At the undergraduate level, he is teaching a course that explores several topics for the major in Computer Science, and at the graduate level he teaches Data Mining in the [http://mpgi.ing.puc.cl/profesores.html  Master for Information Processing and Management]. He continues doing research on Recommender Systems, the topic he investigated while a student at the PAWS lab, and is also Analyzing Social Media, collaborating with PAWS lab student Xidao Wen, studying [http://www.christophtrattner.info/pubs/ht2014.pdf how Twitter is used in academic Conferences]. In addition, he is fostering collaboration between professor Brusilovsky and some areas of teaching such as Databases in the CS department at Catholic University.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-18&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-18&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[Systems#KnowledgeZoom | KnowledgeZoom]] paper receives ICALT 2013 Best full Paper Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to paws! &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256524709_KnowledgeZoom_for_Java_A_Concept-Based_Exam_Study_Tool_with_a_Zoomable_Open_Student_Model KnowledgeZoom for Java: A Concept Based Exam Study Tool with a Zoomable Open Student Model]&amp;quot; won the best full paper award of ICALT 2013 conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Falakmasir | Mohammad Falakmasir]] won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Mohammad! His paper with Zachary A. Pardos, Geoffrey J. Gordon, and Peter Brusilovsky entitled &amp;quot;A Spectral Learning Approach to Knowledge Tracing&amp;quot; won the best student paper award of EDM 2013 conference. In his paper, he proposed using Spectral Learning (SL) to learn the BKT parameters.  Results of his study showed that SL can improve knowledge tracing parameter fitting time significantly while maintaining the same prediction accuracy. For more details on his paper please refer to his article [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/presentation2.php?presentationID=5323&amp;amp;conferenceID=115]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair. ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]], has been selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair by the Fulbright Commission. With this Award Peter will spend 5 month in FInland collaborating with researchers from University of Helsinki, Aalto University, and Helsinki Institute of Information Technology. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky, Professor at the iSchool, has been awarded a contract by the United States Army Contracting Command to participate in the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. Brusilovsky’ s contract, for $623,005 over a three-year period, will support the project [[Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Learner Modeling for PAL]] that will focus on the architecture, algorithms, and interfaces for a Personal Assistant for Learning (PAL), one of the major endeavors undertaken by the ADL Initiative. Through a PAL, the Initiative will provide state of the art education and training -- using technology and innovative learning methodologies -- for workforce members in the Department of Defense and the federal government. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-04-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-04-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Sergey Sosnovsky profiled in International Innovation ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky, who earned his PhD in Information Science in 2012, was recently profiled in International Innovation Magazine about his work on eLearning systems research and tools. Sosnovsky is the Principal Researcher and Head of the Intelligent e-Learning Technology Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbruken, Germany. The article explored his work on the Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content project funded by the European Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service. The magazine article (published March 2013) discussed how Sosnovsky’s project will enhance adaptive e-Learning by making it possible to develop smart instructional material for a broader audience of content authors. The article can be viewed at [[http://www.research-europe.com/magazine/REGIONAL/EX8/index.html]] , beginning on page 71.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-01-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-01-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt  IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies]. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter is appointed the Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, a journal dedicated to advancing the state of the art in technology-enhanced learning. This quarterly publication covers leading edge research on topics such as educational software applications, online learning systems, and simulation systems for education and training. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/3-11-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-08-26&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Rosta! After 3 years as a postdoc at CMU, she is now back to Pitt as an Assistant Professor. During her first semester at SIS she is teaching IS2430 Social Computing course. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-02-2012.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] Thesis Defence: Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
A large number of educational resources is now made available on the Web to support both regular classroom learning and online learning. However, the abundance of available content produced at least two problems: how to help students to find the most appropriate resources and how to engage them into using these resources and benefit from them. Personalized and social learning have been suggested as potential ways to address these problems.&lt;br /&gt;
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This work attempts to combine the ideas of personalized and social learning by providing navigation support through an open social student modeling visualization. A series of classroom studies exploited the idea of the approach and revealed promising results, which demonstrated the personalized guidance and social visualization combined helped students to find the most relevant resources of parameterized self-assessment questions for Java programming. Thus, this dissertation extend the approach to a larger collection of learning objects for cross content navigation and verify its capability of supporting social visualization for personalized E-Learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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The study results confirm that working with the non-mandatory system, students enhanced the learning quality in increasing their motivation and engagement. They successfully achieved better learning results. Meanwhile, incorporating a mixed collection of content in the open social student modeling visualizations effectively led the students to work at the right level of questions. Both strong and weak student worked with the appropriate levels of questions for their readiness accordingly and yielded a consistent performance across all three levels of complexities. Additionally, providing a more realistic content collection on the navigation supported open social student modeling visualizations results in a uniform performance in the group. The classroom study revealed a clear pattern of social guidance, where the stronger students left the traces for weaker ones to follow. The subjective evaluation confirms the design of the interface in terms of the content organization. Students’ positive responses also compliment the objective system usage data.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-11-30&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-11-30&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Thesis Defence: Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Conventional closed-corpus adaptive information systems control limited sets of documents in fixed subject domains and cannot provide access to the content outside the system. Such restrictions contradict the requirements of today, when most of the information systems are implemented in the open document space of WWW and are expected to operate on the open-corpus content. In order to maintain personalized access to open-corpus documents, an adaptive system should be able to model the documents and the relations between the documents and the domain knowledge automatically and dynamically. This dissertation explores the problem of open-corpus personalization and semantic modeling of open-corpus content in the context of e-Learning. Information on WWW is not without structure. Many collections of online instructional material (tutorials, electronic books, digital libraries, etc.) have been provided with implicit knowledge models encoded in form of tables of content, indexes, headers of chapters, links between pages, and different styles of text fragments. The main dissertation approach tries to leverage this layer of hidden semantics by extracting and representing it as coarse-grained models of collections. A central domain ontology is used to maintain overlay modeling of studentsÕ knowledge and serves as a reference point for multiple collections of external instructional material. In order to establish the link between the ontology and the open-corpus content models a special ontology mapping algorithm has been developed.  The proposed approach has been applied in the Ontology-based Open-corpus Personalization Service (OOPS) that recommends and adaptively annotates online reading material. The domain of Java programming has been chosen for the proof-of-concept implementation. A controlled experiment has been organized to evaluate the developed adaptive system and the proposed approach overall. The results of the evaluation have demonstrated several significant learning effects of the implemented open-corpus personalization. The analysis of log-based data has also shown that the open-corpus version of the system is capable of providing personalization of similar quality to the close-corpus one. Such results indicate that the proposed approach supports fully-scale open-corpus personalization for e-Learning. Further research is required to verify if the approach remains effective in other subject domains and with other types of instructional content.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-07-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-07-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:DParra | Denis Parra]] earns a  James Chen Best Student paper award in UMAP 2011 ====&lt;br /&gt;
In the last conference of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011) Denis Parra won one of the 2 [http://www.umap2011.org/program/best-paper-awards James Chen Best Student paper awards] for his paper '''Walk The Talk: Analyzing the relation between implicit and explicit feedback for preference elicitation''' that he co-authored with Dr. Xavier Amatriain. In this paper, the authors present a study on the music domain with last.fm users, which results leads them to create a regression model that maps implicit information (such as playcounts and how recently a user listened to albums) with explicit information in the form of ratings. More details in the [http://www.springerlink.com/content/645721483544r815/  conference proceedings in Springer]. Denis is the third PAWS Lab member to receive this prestigious award. Prior to that, Rosta Farzan and Michael Yudelson won this award at earlier User Modeling conferences. Rosta also won another James Chen award at Adaptive Hypermedia conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] Promoted to Rank of Full Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our head of PAWS lab! [[http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/06-10-2011.php Read more ]]&lt;br /&gt;
==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon]] received 2011 Allen Kent Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Graduate Program in Information Science ==== &lt;br /&gt;
She has worked with [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gray/ Dr. Glenn Ray] several years in designing and teaching undergraduate courses. She's affiliated as teaching fellow and teaches in our school now.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-12-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-12-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] received Google grant to work on ''[[Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities]]'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
The grant will support our efforts to increase user participation in social systems designed for local communities. In the course of the project will explore two innovative ideas for increasing participation. The first idea is to provide access to information “beyond the desktop,” by adding a mobile location-based interface to access information. This will increase both the number of active users and the volume of their contributions. The second idea is to provide personalized access to information to increase the chance to gather relevant information. This work will be based on two existing social systems that were developed and maintained by PAWs lab: the [[Systems#CoMeT | CoMeT]] system for sharing information about research talks at Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh and [[Systems#Eventur | Eventur]], a social system for recommending cultural events in the Pittsburgh area.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] Thesis Defence: Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System ====&lt;br /&gt;
The dissertation proposes a novel way of speeding the development of new adaptive hypermedia systems. The gist of the approach is to extract the adaptation functionality out of the adaptive hypermedia system, encapsulate it into a standalone system, and offer adaptation as a service to the client applications. Such a standalone adaptation provider reduces the development of adaptation functionality to configuration and compliance and as a result creates new adaptive systems faster and helps serve larger user populations with adaptively accessible content. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=777 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
The electronic version of [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] dissertation has been approved by the School of Information Sciences. ETD is accessible worldwide from the online library catalog of the University of Pittsburgh ([http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-10132010-092137/ link]).&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This EAGER grant will allow us to investigate how to model and visualize latent communities – those groups of people who form communities based on their similar interests. This work will consider how to elicit latent communities from various kinds of data about individuals available in the modern social Web and deliver the results in a manner suitable for interactive exploration through interactive visualizations. This will be one of the first attempts to use a variety of social Web data and approaches to community modeling. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1059577 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] Thesis Defence: Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn's dissertation proposes to incorporate interactive visualization into personalized search in order to overcome the limitation. By combining the personalized search and the interactive visualization, we expect our approach will be able to help users to better explore the information space and locate relevant information more efficiently. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=764 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This one-year grant will support a project exploring personalization and social networking for short-term communities. Using academic research conferences as a test bed, our team will explore new methods to leverage information about user interests (available from multiple external resources) and develop techniques to facilitate use of existing social technologies. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1052768 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-08-15 :: SIGWeb Newsletter published an interview with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
The Summer 2010 issue of SIGWeb Newsletter (a magazine of ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web) published an [http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1796390.1796393 interview with Peter Brusilovsky]. The interview provides some personal view on research project performed at PAWS.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-07-01 :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook]] has received Computing Inovation Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn was chosen as a [http://cifellows.org  CIFellow] (Computing Innovation Fellow) supported by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the Computing Research Association (CRA), and the National Science Foundation.  Starting from the fall 2010, he is going to work with [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/ Dr. Ben Shneiderman] at the [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil Human Computer Interaction Lab], University of Maryland.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-05-01 :: Sergey has received EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky's proposal for EU [http://cordis.europa.eu/improving/fellowships/home.htm Marie Curie Fellowship] is approved by the EU Research Executive Agency. The funding starts in July, 2010 and will last until July 2012. The project &amp;quot;Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content&amp;quot; will focus on implementation of author-friendly technologies for learning content development, including collaborative authoring support, metadata authoring support, open-corpus content discovery, interactivity authoring, and gap detection.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-27 :: Rosta receives her second James Chen Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rosta Farzan received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 12th International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP2009, in Trento, Italy for the paper ''Social Navigation Support for Information Seeking: If You Build It, Will They Come?'' by Rosta Farzan and Peter Brusilovsky. This is her second James Chen Award, congratulations!&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-26 :: PAWS Caught on UMAP 2009 Video ====&lt;br /&gt;
* 0:27 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:09 [[User:Rostaf|Rosta]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:18 [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:51 [[User:Suleehs|Danielle]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 3:12 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]] and [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 4:01 [[User:Peterb|Peter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-05-28 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] awarded honorary doctorate by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava ====&lt;br /&gt;
At a ceremony in Bratislava today, Peter Brusilovsky was honored by the [http://www.stuba.sk/ Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava] with the degree of Doctor honoris causa. The university, founded in 1937 in Bratislava, is one of the most significant institutions of higher education in Slovakia. Peter was selected for this recognition for &amp;quot;his contributions to the fields of Informatics and Information Technologies&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2008-07-31 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] receives Best Paper Award at AH 2008 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky received Best Paper Award at the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2008, in Hannover, Germany  for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/6h410u3w4836v866/ ''Social Information Access for the Rest of Us: An Exploration of Social YouTube''] by Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Brusilovsky, and Barry Smyth&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2007-06-28 :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael]] receives James Chen Best Student Paper Award at UM 2007 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Michael Yudelson received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on User Modelling, UM07, in Corfu, Greece for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/c723060442701737/ ''A User Modeling Server for Contemporary Adaptive Hypermedia: an Evaluation of Push Approach  to Evidence Propagation''] by Michael Yudelson, Peter Brusilovsky, and Vladimir Zadorozhny&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-08-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-08-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Two PAWS graduates' papers were short-listed for the best paper award at EC-TEL 2018. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Paper titled Learning by Reviewing Paper-based Programming Assessments co-authored by [[User:Shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]]  and paper titled Detection of Student Modelling Anomalies by [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] short-listed for the best paper award at EC-TEL 2018 [http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php?id=805]. Congratulations to PAWS alumni Sharon and Sergey for having nominations for best paper award. Your contribution is inspiration for current PAWS students...&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-07-31&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-07-31&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] awarded NSF grant under the program Cyberlearn And Future Learn Tech.  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations Peter Brusilovsky for NSF Award for Project: Collaborative Research: CSEdPad: Investigating and Scaffolding Students' Mental Models during Computer Programming Tasks to Improve Learning, Engagement, and Retention https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1822752&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-07-24&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-07-24&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Roya Hosseini defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Program Construction Examples in Computer Science Education: From Static Text to Adaptive and Engaging Learning Technology'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-07-05&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-07-05&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Huang]] defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang defended her Ph. D. Thesis titled 'Learner Modeling for Integration Skills in Programming'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-03-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-03-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  PAWS Lab scores thrice at IUI 2018 ====&lt;br /&gt;
PAWS Lab took almost the whole podium at [https://iui.acm.org/2018/ IUI 2018] award ceremony. Hyman Tsai receives an honorable mention for the best student paper award. [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]]  with now his own advisee Ivania Donoso also got an honorable mention. And finally, our recent visitor Cecilia di Sciascio did win the best student paper award for a paper &amp;quot;A Study on User-Controllable Social Exploratory Search&amp;quot; with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Eduardo Veas.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-10-24&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-10-24&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]] defended his Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Julio Guerra defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Open Learner Models for Self-Regulated Learning: Exploring the Effects of Social Comparison and Granularity'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-08-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-08-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]] moves to  Sangmyung University as an assistant professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]]  has joined [http://www.smuc.ac.kr/mbs/eng/index.jsp  Sangmyung University]  (Korea) as an assistant professor at the Department of Software on August 17, 2017. Previously, Danielle was an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Bothel.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-07-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-07-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Two PAWS papers were nominated and one received Best Paper Awards at   UMAP 2017 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Two papers - [https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079672 Stereotype Modeling for Problem-Solving Performance Predictions in MOOCs and Traditional Courses] and  [https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079682 Fine-Grained Open Learner Models: Complexity Versus Support] were nominated for the best paper award at [http://www.um.org/umap2017/ UMAP2017] – 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. The second paper lead by Julio Guerra and Jordan Barria-Pineda received [http://www.um.org/awards/james-chen-best-student-paper-awards James Chen Best Student Paper award]. Congratulations to Julio and Jordan who now joined former PAWS lab members Rosta Farzan, [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]], and [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] as recipients of this prestigious award. This is 6th James Chen award won by PAWS lab members! Rosta Farzan received this award twice as a student and once more as a senior co-author.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-02-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-02-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our mentor at PAWS, Dr. Peter Brusilovsky, on receiving the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring!  Read more on [http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=42853 University Times]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-11-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-11-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to  Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] has joined [http://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/department-of-information-and-computing-sciences the Department of Information and Computing Sciences] at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). The tenure-track position in computer science with the focus on educational technology started on November 1st, 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Maria Harrington moves to  University of Central Florida as an Assistant Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [http://svad.cah.ucf.edu/staff.php?id=1350 Maria Harrington]  has joined [https://www.ucf.edu/  University of Central Florida]  as an Assistant Professor at the [http://svad.cah.ucf.edu/ School of Visual Arts and Design]. This is a great place to continue her work on educational virtual reality. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-07-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-07-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'. More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/29220/ here]. She will join the University of Albany as an Assistant Professor in September 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-05-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-05-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board  ====&lt;br /&gt;
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Two SIS faculty members on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board. &lt;br /&gt;
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Peter Brusilovsky, professor and current chair of the Information Sciences program, and Rosta Farzan, assistant professor of Information Sciences &amp;amp; Technology, have been selected as associate editors of the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) new journal titled “Transactions on Social Computing.”&lt;br /&gt;
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This quarterly journal will publish works encompassing theoretical, empirical, systems, and design research on social computing. It will be part of the ACM Digital Library, which is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-03-04&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-03-04&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Congratulations to [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] for receiving Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang and Roya Hosseini received prestigious Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award for the academic year 2016-2017.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-02-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-02-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou gave a talk on the topic of &amp;quot;Personalized Crowdsourcing&amp;quot; ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Lykourentzou  illustrated the potential that personalization has for the improvement of crowdsourcing systems, through two example applications. The first application was about making personalized task recommendations to crowd workers, and the second application was about personalizing team building, i.e. a method that brings people to work together on a collaborating task taking into account their individual personalities. &lt;br /&gt;
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At the time, Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou was a researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology and was collaborating with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, as Visiting Researcher.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]  and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He (project lead and co-lead respectively) has been awarded a Nation Science Foundation Information and Intelligent Systems grant for their project titled “[[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]].” The project will focus on streamlining and expanding the reach of effective adaptive educational hypermedia, which allows students and independent learners without access to traditional classrooms to gain a personalized education.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-04-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-04-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities'. ====&lt;br /&gt;
More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/25836/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-11-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-11-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;, and presented his research on Recommender Systems. &lt;br /&gt;
Please find the slides [http://www.slideshare.net/denisparra/keynote-at-chilean-week-of-computer-science here].&lt;br /&gt;
The abstract of the talk is also available at the home page of the event, JCC 2014. [http://www.jcc2014.ucm.cl/en/ (more)].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-09-19&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-09-19&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: PAWS won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Tomek, [[User:Julio | Julio]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya]], and [[User:peterb| Peter]]! Their paper entitled &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266656951_Mastery_Grids_An_Open_Source_Social_Educational_Progress_Visualization Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization]&amp;quot; has won the best paper award of EC-TEL 2014 conference. More details on the paper can be accessed [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-11200-8_18 here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-05-06&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-05-06&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] is appointed as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall.====&lt;br /&gt;
On completing 2 years successful post-doctoral innovation fellow position in [http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu EdLab], Teachers College @ Columbia University, [[User: shoha99 | Sharon]] is moving onto a tenure-track position in [http://cidse.engineering.asu.edu School of Computing, Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering] (AKA: Engineering school) in [http://www.asu.edu Arizona State University], Phoenix, Arizona. She anticipates to continue working on the emerging topics of computational technologies in learning. Meanwhile, persistently dedicate to the course - [http://www.columbia.edu/~ih2240/dataviz/index.htm Data Visualization], which she established in [http://www.qmss.columbia.edu QMSS (Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences)], School of Arts &amp;amp; Sciences in [http://www.columbia.edu Columbia University]. For more details see [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-14-2014.php SIS news].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] to deliver a keynote at a WWW 2014 workshop. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter will deliver a keynote titled &amp;quot;Addictive Links: Engaging Students through Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Student Modeling&amp;quot; at [http://www2014.kr/program/webet-2014/ WebET 2014] - Workshop on Web-based Education Technologies at the Word Wide Web Conference in Seoul, Korea. The talk will present PAWS work on such systems as [[QuizGuide]], [[NavEx]], JavaGuide, [[Progressor]], and [[ProgressorPlus|Progressor+]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Jennifer | Yi-Ling(Jennifer) Lin]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan.====&lt;br /&gt;
Yi-Ling (Jennifer) joined the Information Management faculty at the National Sun Yat-Sen University [http://http://epage.mis.nsysu.edu.tw/files/11-1100-4988-1.php?Lang=en] where she is an Assistant Professor. She is teaching Java course and continues to cooperate with Paws Lab to explore the social comparison in cyberlearning.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-08-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-08-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] started a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.====&lt;br /&gt;
Denis joined the faculty at the School of Engineering in Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, [http://www.topuniversities.com/node/2261/ranking-details/latin-american-university-rankings/2013  ranked 2nd among Latinamerican Universities],  where he is an [http://www.ing.puc.cl/cuerpo-docente/parra-santander/ Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science]. At the undergraduate level, he is teaching a course that explores several topics for the major in Computer Science, and at the graduate level he teaches Data Mining in the [http://mpgi.ing.puc.cl/profesores.html  Master for Information Processing and Management]. He continues doing research on Recommender Systems, the topic he investigated while a student at the PAWS lab, and is also Analyzing Social Media, collaborating with PAWS lab student Xidao Wen, studying [http://www.christophtrattner.info/pubs/ht2014.pdf how Twitter is used in academic Conferences]. In addition, he is fostering collaboration between professor Brusilovsky and some areas of teaching such as Databases in the CS department at Catholic University.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-18&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-18&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[Systems#KnowledgeZoom | KnowledgeZoom]] paper receives ICALT 2013 Best full Paper Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to paws! &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256524709_KnowledgeZoom_for_Java_A_Concept-Based_Exam_Study_Tool_with_a_Zoomable_Open_Student_Model KnowledgeZoom for Java: A Concept Based Exam Study Tool with a Zoomable Open Student Model]&amp;quot; won the best full paper award of ICALT 2013 conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Falakmasir | Mohammad Falakmasir]] won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Mohammad! His paper with Zachary A. Pardos, Geoffrey J. Gordon, and Peter Brusilovsky entitled &amp;quot;A Spectral Learning Approach to Knowledge Tracing&amp;quot; won the best student paper award of EDM 2013 conference. In his paper, he proposed using Spectral Learning (SL) to learn the BKT parameters.  Results of his study showed that SL can improve knowledge tracing parameter fitting time significantly while maintaining the same prediction accuracy. For more details on his paper please refer to his article [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/presentation2.php?presentationID=5323&amp;amp;conferenceID=115]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair. ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]], has been selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair by the Fulbright Commission. With this Award Peter will spend 5 month in FInland collaborating with researchers from University of Helsinki, Aalto University, and Helsinki Institute of Information Technology. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky, Professor at the iSchool, has been awarded a contract by the United States Army Contracting Command to participate in the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. Brusilovsky’ s contract, for $623,005 over a three-year period, will support the project [[Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Learner Modeling for PAL]] that will focus on the architecture, algorithms, and interfaces for a Personal Assistant for Learning (PAL), one of the major endeavors undertaken by the ADL Initiative. Through a PAL, the Initiative will provide state of the art education and training -- using technology and innovative learning methodologies -- for workforce members in the Department of Defense and the federal government. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-04-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-04-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Sergey Sosnovsky profiled in International Innovation ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky, who earned his PhD in Information Science in 2012, was recently profiled in International Innovation Magazine about his work on eLearning systems research and tools. Sosnovsky is the Principal Researcher and Head of the Intelligent e-Learning Technology Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbruken, Germany. The article explored his work on the Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content project funded by the European Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service. The magazine article (published March 2013) discussed how Sosnovsky’s project will enhance adaptive e-Learning by making it possible to develop smart instructional material for a broader audience of content authors. The article can be viewed at [[http://www.research-europe.com/magazine/REGIONAL/EX8/index.html]] , beginning on page 71.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-01-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-01-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt  IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies]. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter is appointed the Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, a journal dedicated to advancing the state of the art in technology-enhanced learning. This quarterly publication covers leading edge research on topics such as educational software applications, online learning systems, and simulation systems for education and training. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/3-11-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-08-26&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Rosta! After 3 years as a postdoc at CMU, she is now back to Pitt as an Assistant Professor. During her first semester at SIS she is teaching IS2430 Social Computing course. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-02-2012.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] Thesis Defence: Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
A large number of educational resources is now made available on the Web to support both regular classroom learning and online learning. However, the abundance of available content produced at least two problems: how to help students to find the most appropriate resources and how to engage them into using these resources and benefit from them. Personalized and social learning have been suggested as potential ways to address these problems.&lt;br /&gt;
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This work attempts to combine the ideas of personalized and social learning by providing navigation support through an open social student modeling visualization. A series of classroom studies exploited the idea of the approach and revealed promising results, which demonstrated the personalized guidance and social visualization combined helped students to find the most relevant resources of parameterized self-assessment questions for Java programming. Thus, this dissertation extend the approach to a larger collection of learning objects for cross content navigation and verify its capability of supporting social visualization for personalized E-Learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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The study results confirm that working with the non-mandatory system, students enhanced the learning quality in increasing their motivation and engagement. They successfully achieved better learning results. Meanwhile, incorporating a mixed collection of content in the open social student modeling visualizations effectively led the students to work at the right level of questions. Both strong and weak student worked with the appropriate levels of questions for their readiness accordingly and yielded a consistent performance across all three levels of complexities. Additionally, providing a more realistic content collection on the navigation supported open social student modeling visualizations results in a uniform performance in the group. The classroom study revealed a clear pattern of social guidance, where the stronger students left the traces for weaker ones to follow. The subjective evaluation confirms the design of the interface in terms of the content organization. Students’ positive responses also compliment the objective system usage data.&lt;br /&gt;
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download it from [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/13439/ here]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-11-30&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-11-30&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Thesis Defence: Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Conventional closed-corpus adaptive information systems control limited sets of documents in fixed subject domains and cannot provide access to the content outside the system. Such restrictions contradict the requirements of today, when most of the information systems are implemented in the open document space of WWW and are expected to operate on the open-corpus content. In order to maintain personalized access to open-corpus documents, an adaptive system should be able to model the documents and the relations between the documents and the domain knowledge automatically and dynamically. This dissertation explores the problem of open-corpus personalization and semantic modeling of open-corpus content in the context of e-Learning. Information on WWW is not without structure. Many collections of online instructional material (tutorials, electronic books, digital libraries, etc.) have been provided with implicit knowledge models encoded in form of tables of content, indexes, headers of chapters, links between pages, and different styles of text fragments. The main dissertation approach tries to leverage this layer of hidden semantics by extracting and representing it as coarse-grained models of collections. A central domain ontology is used to maintain overlay modeling of studentsÕ knowledge and serves as a reference point for multiple collections of external instructional material. In order to establish the link between the ontology and the open-corpus content models a special ontology mapping algorithm has been developed.  The proposed approach has been applied in the Ontology-based Open-corpus Personalization Service (OOPS) that recommends and adaptively annotates online reading material. The domain of Java programming has been chosen for the proof-of-concept implementation. A controlled experiment has been organized to evaluate the developed adaptive system and the proposed approach overall. The results of the evaluation have demonstrated several significant learning effects of the implemented open-corpus personalization. The analysis of log-based data has also shown that the open-corpus version of the system is capable of providing personalization of similar quality to the close-corpus one. Such results indicate that the proposed approach supports fully-scale open-corpus personalization for e-Learning. Further research is required to verify if the approach remains effective in other subject domains and with other types of instructional content.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-07-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-07-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:DParra | Denis Parra]] earns a  James Chen Best Student paper award in UMAP 2011 ====&lt;br /&gt;
In the last conference of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011) Denis Parra won one of the 2 [http://www.umap2011.org/program/best-paper-awards James Chen Best Student paper awards] for his paper '''Walk The Talk: Analyzing the relation between implicit and explicit feedback for preference elicitation''' that he co-authored with Dr. Xavier Amatriain. In this paper, the authors present a study on the music domain with last.fm users, which results leads them to create a regression model that maps implicit information (such as playcounts and how recently a user listened to albums) with explicit information in the form of ratings. More details in the [http://www.springerlink.com/content/645721483544r815/  conference proceedings in Springer]. Denis is the third PAWS Lab member to receive this prestigious award. Prior to that, Rosta Farzan and Michael Yudelson won this award at earlier User Modeling conferences. Rosta also won another James Chen award at Adaptive Hypermedia conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] Promoted to Rank of Full Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our head of PAWS lab! [[http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/06-10-2011.php Read more ]]&lt;br /&gt;
==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon]] received 2011 Allen Kent Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Graduate Program in Information Science ==== &lt;br /&gt;
She has worked with [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gray/ Dr. Glenn Ray] several years in designing and teaching undergraduate courses. She's affiliated as teaching fellow and teaches in our school now.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-12-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-12-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] received Google grant to work on ''[[Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities]]'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
The grant will support our efforts to increase user participation in social systems designed for local communities. In the course of the project will explore two innovative ideas for increasing participation. The first idea is to provide access to information “beyond the desktop,” by adding a mobile location-based interface to access information. This will increase both the number of active users and the volume of their contributions. The second idea is to provide personalized access to information to increase the chance to gather relevant information. This work will be based on two existing social systems that were developed and maintained by PAWs lab: the [[Systems#CoMeT | CoMeT]] system for sharing information about research talks at Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh and [[Systems#Eventur | Eventur]], a social system for recommending cultural events in the Pittsburgh area.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] Thesis Defence: Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System ====&lt;br /&gt;
The dissertation proposes a novel way of speeding the development of new adaptive hypermedia systems. The gist of the approach is to extract the adaptation functionality out of the adaptive hypermedia system, encapsulate it into a standalone system, and offer adaptation as a service to the client applications. Such a standalone adaptation provider reduces the development of adaptation functionality to configuration and compliance and as a result creates new adaptive systems faster and helps serve larger user populations with adaptively accessible content. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=777 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
The electronic version of [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] dissertation has been approved by the School of Information Sciences. ETD is accessible worldwide from the online library catalog of the University of Pittsburgh ([http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-10132010-092137/ link]).&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This EAGER grant will allow us to investigate how to model and visualize latent communities – those groups of people who form communities based on their similar interests. This work will consider how to elicit latent communities from various kinds of data about individuals available in the modern social Web and deliver the results in a manner suitable for interactive exploration through interactive visualizations. This will be one of the first attempts to use a variety of social Web data and approaches to community modeling. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1059577 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] Thesis Defence: Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn's dissertation proposes to incorporate interactive visualization into personalized search in order to overcome the limitation. By combining the personalized search and the interactive visualization, we expect our approach will be able to help users to better explore the information space and locate relevant information more efficiently. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=764 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This one-year grant will support a project exploring personalization and social networking for short-term communities. Using academic research conferences as a test bed, our team will explore new methods to leverage information about user interests (available from multiple external resources) and develop techniques to facilitate use of existing social technologies. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1052768 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-08-15 :: SIGWeb Newsletter published an interview with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
The Summer 2010 issue of SIGWeb Newsletter (a magazine of ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web) published an [http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1796390.1796393 interview with Peter Brusilovsky]. The interview provides some personal view on research project performed at PAWS.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-07-01 :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook]] has received Computing Inovation Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn was chosen as a [http://cifellows.org  CIFellow] (Computing Innovation Fellow) supported by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the Computing Research Association (CRA), and the National Science Foundation.  Starting from the fall 2010, he is going to work with [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/ Dr. Ben Shneiderman] at the [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil Human Computer Interaction Lab], University of Maryland.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-05-01 :: Sergey has received EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky's proposal for EU [http://cordis.europa.eu/improving/fellowships/home.htm Marie Curie Fellowship] is approved by the EU Research Executive Agency. The funding starts in July, 2010 and will last until July 2012. The project &amp;quot;Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content&amp;quot; will focus on implementation of author-friendly technologies for learning content development, including collaborative authoring support, metadata authoring support, open-corpus content discovery, interactivity authoring, and gap detection.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-27 :: Rosta receives her second James Chen Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rosta Farzan received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 12th International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP2009, in Trento, Italy for the paper ''Social Navigation Support for Information Seeking: If You Build It, Will They Come?'' by Rosta Farzan and Peter Brusilovsky. This is her second James Chen Award, congratulations!&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-26 :: PAWS Caught on UMAP 2009 Video ====&lt;br /&gt;
* 0:27 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:09 [[User:Rostaf|Rosta]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:18 [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:51 [[User:Suleehs|Danielle]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 3:12 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]] and [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 4:01 [[User:Peterb|Peter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-05-28 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] awarded honorary doctorate by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava ====&lt;br /&gt;
At a ceremony in Bratislava today, Peter Brusilovsky was honored by the [http://www.stuba.sk/ Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava] with the degree of Doctor honoris causa. The university, founded in 1937 in Bratislava, is one of the most significant institutions of higher education in Slovakia. Peter was selected for this recognition for &amp;quot;his contributions to the fields of Informatics and Information Technologies&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2008-07-31 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] receives Best Paper Award at AH 2008 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky received Best Paper Award at the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2008, in Hannover, Germany  for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/6h410u3w4836v866/ ''Social Information Access for the Rest of Us: An Exploration of Social YouTube''] by Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Brusilovsky, and Barry Smyth&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2007-06-28 :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael]] receives James Chen Best Student Paper Award at UM 2007 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Michael Yudelson received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on User Modelling, UM07, in Corfu, Greece for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/c723060442701737/ ''A User Modeling Server for Contemporary Adaptive Hypermedia: an Evaluation of Push Approach  to Evidence Propagation''] by Michael Yudelson, Peter Brusilovsky, and Vladimir Zadorozhny&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&lt;div&gt;== About PAWS ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Edm_2018.jpg|right|700px|EDM 2018 - Buffalo, NY]]&lt;br /&gt;
Personalized Adaptive Web Systems Lab was established in 2004 with support from National Science Foundation and the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. The goal of the PAWS Lab is development and evaluation of innovative user- and group-adaptive Web-based technologies, systems, and architectures. The Lab currently explores a range of user modeling, adaptation and personalization technologies. The work of the Lab is supported by NSF and DARPA funding.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Most Recent News ==&lt;br /&gt;
* Two PAWS graduates' papers were short-listed for the best paper award at EC-TEL 2018.([[News#2018-08-13|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] awarded NSF grant under the program Cyberlearn And Future Learn Tech. ([[News#2018-07-31|details]]&lt;br /&gt;
* Roya Hosseini defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Program Construction Examples in Computer Science Education: From Static Text to Adaptive and Engaging Learning Technology'.([[News#2018-07-24|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Yun Huang defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Learner Modeling for Integration Skills in Programming' ([[News#2018-07-05|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* PAWS Lab scores thrice at IUI 2018  ([[News#2018-03-08|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Julio Guerra defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Open Learner Models for Self-Regulated Learning: Exploring the Effects of Social Comparison and Granularity'.([[News#2017-10-24|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Suleehs | Danielle Lee]] moves to Sangmyung University as an assistant professor  ([[News#2017-08-17|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Two PAWS papers were nominated and one received Best Paper Awards at UMAP 2017  ([[News#2017-07-11|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
*  [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring.  ([[News#2017-02-21|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
*  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor  ([[News#2016-11-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Maria Harrington moves to University of Central Florida as an Assistant Professor ([[News#2016-08-15 |details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: ''Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'', will start as an Assistant Professor in University of Albany  ([[News#2016-07-21|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board.  ([[News#2016-05-13|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] received Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship for the academic year 2016-2017. ([[News#2016-03-04|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
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* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]]   ([[News#2016-02-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: ''Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities''.  ([[News#2015-04-15|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ([[News#2014-11-11|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Tomek Loboda, [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] , and [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ([[News#2014-09-19|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User: Yuh43 | Yun Huang]] has been nominated for the best paper award at the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2014). ([[News#2014-07-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] finished her 2nd year postdoc in Columbia University and starts  as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall ([[News#2014-05-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
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Go to [[News | News Page]] for all news.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Try PAWS Tools at our Community Portal == &lt;br /&gt;
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Go to [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt Knowledge Tree] portal and [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt/register.html create trial account] to try our tools.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~cagent/ CourseAgent]: Share evaluations of IS graduate courses at Pitt and plan your career.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://pittsburgh.comettalks.com/ Comet]: Share, tag, recommend and schedule interesting talks in Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://eventur.us/ Eventur]: Share and schedule cultural events in Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://www.computingportal.org/ Ensemble]: This cross-university collaborative effort aims to bring together the global community of computing educators around a growing set of content collections with high-quality educational resources.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yournews/ YourNews]: This is a personalized RSS news access portal with several levels of user modeling and feed recommendation. Read your news in a personalized way!&lt;br /&gt;
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If you are a researcher and would like to  quickly try our adaptation tools, create the trial account (link above) and proceed [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/cbum/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
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== PAWS Lab Contact Information ==&lt;br /&gt;
Information Sciences Building, Rm. 2A04&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-08-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-08-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Two PAWS graduates' papers were short-listed for the best paper award at EC-TEL 2018. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Paper titled Learning by Reviewing Paper-based Programming Assessments co-authored by [[User:Shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]]  and paper titled Detection of Student Modelling Anomalies by [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] short-listed for the best paper award at EC-TEL 2018 [http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php?id=805]. Congratulations to PAWS alumni Sharon and Sergey for having nominations for best paper award. Your contribution is inspiration for current PAWS students...&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-07-24&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-07-24&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Roya Hosseini defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Program Construction Examples in Computer Science Education: From Static Text to Adaptive and Engaging Learning Technology'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-07-05&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-07-05&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Huang]] defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang defended her Ph. D. Thesis titled 'Learner Modeling for Integration Skills in Programming'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-03-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-03-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  PAWS Lab scores thrice at IUI 2018 ====&lt;br /&gt;
PAWS Lab took almost the whole podium at [https://iui.acm.org/2018/ IUI 2018] award ceremony. Hyman Tsai receives an honorable mention for the best student paper award. [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]]  with now his own advisee Ivania Donoso also got an honorable mention. And finally, our recent visitor Cecilia di Sciascio did win the best student paper award for a paper &amp;quot;A Study on User-Controllable Social Exploratory Search&amp;quot; with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Eduardo Veas.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-10-24&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-10-24&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]] defended his Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Julio Guerra defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Open Learner Models for Self-Regulated Learning: Exploring the Effects of Social Comparison and Granularity'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-08-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-08-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]] moves to  Sangmyung University as an assistant professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]]  has joined [http://www.smuc.ac.kr/mbs/eng/index.jsp  Sangmyung University]  (Korea) as an assistant professor at the Department of Software on August 17, 2017. Previously, Danielle was an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Bothel.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-07-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-07-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Two PAWS papers were nominated and one received Best Paper Awards at   UMAP 2017 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Two papers - [https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079672 Stereotype Modeling for Problem-Solving Performance Predictions in MOOCs and Traditional Courses] and  [https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079682 Fine-Grained Open Learner Models: Complexity Versus Support] were nominated for the best paper award at [http://www.um.org/umap2017/ UMAP2017] – 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. The second paper lead by Julio Guerra and Jordan Barria-Pineda received [http://www.um.org/awards/james-chen-best-student-paper-awards James Chen Best Student Paper award]. Congratulations to Julio and Jordan who now joined former PAWS lab members Rosta Farzan, [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]], and [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] as recipients of this prestigious award. This is 6th James Chen award won by PAWS lab members! Rosta Farzan received this award twice as a student and once more as a senior co-author.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-02-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-02-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our mentor at PAWS, Dr. Peter Brusilovsky, on receiving the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring!  Read more on [http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=42853 University Times]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-11-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-11-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to  Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] has joined [http://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/department-of-information-and-computing-sciences the Department of Information and Computing Sciences] at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). The tenure-track position in computer science with the focus on educational technology started on November 1st, 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Maria Harrington moves to  University of Central Florida as an Assistant Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [http://svad.cah.ucf.edu/staff.php?id=1350 Maria Harrington]  has joined [https://www.ucf.edu/  University of Central Florida]  as an Assistant Professor at the [http://svad.cah.ucf.edu/ School of Visual Arts and Design]. This is a great place to continue her work on educational virtual reality. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-07-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-07-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'. More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/29220/ here]. She will join the University of Albany as an Assistant Professor in September 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-05-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-05-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board  ====&lt;br /&gt;
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Two SIS faculty members on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board. &lt;br /&gt;
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Peter Brusilovsky, professor and current chair of the Information Sciences program, and Rosta Farzan, assistant professor of Information Sciences &amp;amp; Technology, have been selected as associate editors of the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) new journal titled “Transactions on Social Computing.”&lt;br /&gt;
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This quarterly journal will publish works encompassing theoretical, empirical, systems, and design research on social computing. It will be part of the ACM Digital Library, which is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-03-04&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-03-04&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Congratulations to [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] for receiving Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang and Roya Hosseini received prestigious Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award for the academic year 2016-2017.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-02-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-02-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou gave a talk on the topic of &amp;quot;Personalized Crowdsourcing&amp;quot; ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Lykourentzou  illustrated the potential that personalization has for the improvement of crowdsourcing systems, through two example applications. The first application was about making personalized task recommendations to crowd workers, and the second application was about personalizing team building, i.e. a method that brings people to work together on a collaborating task taking into account their individual personalities. &lt;br /&gt;
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At the time, Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou was a researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology and was collaborating with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, as Visiting Researcher.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]  and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He (project lead and co-lead respectively) has been awarded a Nation Science Foundation Information and Intelligent Systems grant for their project titled “[[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]].” The project will focus on streamlining and expanding the reach of effective adaptive educational hypermedia, which allows students and independent learners without access to traditional classrooms to gain a personalized education.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-04-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-04-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities'. ====&lt;br /&gt;
More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/25836/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-11-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-11-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;, and presented his research on Recommender Systems. &lt;br /&gt;
Please find the slides [http://www.slideshare.net/denisparra/keynote-at-chilean-week-of-computer-science here].&lt;br /&gt;
The abstract of the talk is also available at the home page of the event, JCC 2014. [http://www.jcc2014.ucm.cl/en/ (more)].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-09-19&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-09-19&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: PAWS won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Tomek, [[User:Julio | Julio]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya]], and [[User:peterb| Peter]]! Their paper entitled &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266656951_Mastery_Grids_An_Open_Source_Social_Educational_Progress_Visualization Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization]&amp;quot; has won the best paper award of EC-TEL 2014 conference. More details on the paper can be accessed [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-11200-8_18 here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-05-06&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-05-06&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] is appointed as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall.====&lt;br /&gt;
On completing 2 years successful post-doctoral innovation fellow position in [http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu EdLab], Teachers College @ Columbia University, [[User: shoha99 | Sharon]] is moving onto a tenure-track position in [http://cidse.engineering.asu.edu School of Computing, Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering] (AKA: Engineering school) in [http://www.asu.edu Arizona State University], Phoenix, Arizona. She anticipates to continue working on the emerging topics of computational technologies in learning. Meanwhile, persistently dedicate to the course - [http://www.columbia.edu/~ih2240/dataviz/index.htm Data Visualization], which she established in [http://www.qmss.columbia.edu QMSS (Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences)], School of Arts &amp;amp; Sciences in [http://www.columbia.edu Columbia University]. For more details see [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-14-2014.php SIS news].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] to deliver a keynote at a WWW 2014 workshop. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter will deliver a keynote titled &amp;quot;Addictive Links: Engaging Students through Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Student Modeling&amp;quot; at [http://www2014.kr/program/webet-2014/ WebET 2014] - Workshop on Web-based Education Technologies at the Word Wide Web Conference in Seoul, Korea. The talk will present PAWS work on such systems as [[QuizGuide]], [[NavEx]], JavaGuide, [[Progressor]], and [[ProgressorPlus|Progressor+]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Jennifer | Yi-Ling(Jennifer) Lin]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan.====&lt;br /&gt;
Yi-Ling (Jennifer) joined the Information Management faculty at the National Sun Yat-Sen University [http://http://epage.mis.nsysu.edu.tw/files/11-1100-4988-1.php?Lang=en] where she is an Assistant Professor. She is teaching Java course and continues to cooperate with Paws Lab to explore the social comparison in cyberlearning.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-08-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-08-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] started a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.====&lt;br /&gt;
Denis joined the faculty at the School of Engineering in Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, [http://www.topuniversities.com/node/2261/ranking-details/latin-american-university-rankings/2013  ranked 2nd among Latinamerican Universities],  where he is an [http://www.ing.puc.cl/cuerpo-docente/parra-santander/ Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science]. At the undergraduate level, he is teaching a course that explores several topics for the major in Computer Science, and at the graduate level he teaches Data Mining in the [http://mpgi.ing.puc.cl/profesores.html  Master for Information Processing and Management]. He continues doing research on Recommender Systems, the topic he investigated while a student at the PAWS lab, and is also Analyzing Social Media, collaborating with PAWS lab student Xidao Wen, studying [http://www.christophtrattner.info/pubs/ht2014.pdf how Twitter is used in academic Conferences]. In addition, he is fostering collaboration between professor Brusilovsky and some areas of teaching such as Databases in the CS department at Catholic University.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-18&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-18&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[Systems#KnowledgeZoom | KnowledgeZoom]] paper receives ICALT 2013 Best full Paper Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to paws! &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256524709_KnowledgeZoom_for_Java_A_Concept-Based_Exam_Study_Tool_with_a_Zoomable_Open_Student_Model KnowledgeZoom for Java: A Concept Based Exam Study Tool with a Zoomable Open Student Model]&amp;quot; won the best full paper award of ICALT 2013 conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Falakmasir | Mohammad Falakmasir]] won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Mohammad! His paper with Zachary A. Pardos, Geoffrey J. Gordon, and Peter Brusilovsky entitled &amp;quot;A Spectral Learning Approach to Knowledge Tracing&amp;quot; won the best student paper award of EDM 2013 conference. In his paper, he proposed using Spectral Learning (SL) to learn the BKT parameters.  Results of his study showed that SL can improve knowledge tracing parameter fitting time significantly while maintaining the same prediction accuracy. For more details on his paper please refer to his article [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/presentation2.php?presentationID=5323&amp;amp;conferenceID=115]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair. ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]], has been selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair by the Fulbright Commission. With this Award Peter will spend 5 month in FInland collaborating with researchers from University of Helsinki, Aalto University, and Helsinki Institute of Information Technology. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky, Professor at the iSchool, has been awarded a contract by the United States Army Contracting Command to participate in the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. Brusilovsky’ s contract, for $623,005 over a three-year period, will support the project [[Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Learner Modeling for PAL]] that will focus on the architecture, algorithms, and interfaces for a Personal Assistant for Learning (PAL), one of the major endeavors undertaken by the ADL Initiative. Through a PAL, the Initiative will provide state of the art education and training -- using technology and innovative learning methodologies -- for workforce members in the Department of Defense and the federal government. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-04-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-04-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Sergey Sosnovsky profiled in International Innovation ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky, who earned his PhD in Information Science in 2012, was recently profiled in International Innovation Magazine about his work on eLearning systems research and tools. Sosnovsky is the Principal Researcher and Head of the Intelligent e-Learning Technology Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbruken, Germany. The article explored his work on the Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content project funded by the European Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service. The magazine article (published March 2013) discussed how Sosnovsky’s project will enhance adaptive e-Learning by making it possible to develop smart instructional material for a broader audience of content authors. The article can be viewed at [[http://www.research-europe.com/magazine/REGIONAL/EX8/index.html]] , beginning on page 71.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-01-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-01-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt  IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies]. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter is appointed the Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, a journal dedicated to advancing the state of the art in technology-enhanced learning. This quarterly publication covers leading edge research on topics such as educational software applications, online learning systems, and simulation systems for education and training. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/3-11-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-08-26&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Rosta! After 3 years as a postdoc at CMU, she is now back to Pitt as an Assistant Professor. During her first semester at SIS she is teaching IS2430 Social Computing course. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-02-2012.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] Thesis Defence: Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
A large number of educational resources is now made available on the Web to support both regular classroom learning and online learning. However, the abundance of available content produced at least two problems: how to help students to find the most appropriate resources and how to engage them into using these resources and benefit from them. Personalized and social learning have been suggested as potential ways to address these problems.&lt;br /&gt;
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This work attempts to combine the ideas of personalized and social learning by providing navigation support through an open social student modeling visualization. A series of classroom studies exploited the idea of the approach and revealed promising results, which demonstrated the personalized guidance and social visualization combined helped students to find the most relevant resources of parameterized self-assessment questions for Java programming. Thus, this dissertation extend the approach to a larger collection of learning objects for cross content navigation and verify its capability of supporting social visualization for personalized E-Learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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The study results confirm that working with the non-mandatory system, students enhanced the learning quality in increasing their motivation and engagement. They successfully achieved better learning results. Meanwhile, incorporating a mixed collection of content in the open social student modeling visualizations effectively led the students to work at the right level of questions. Both strong and weak student worked with the appropriate levels of questions for their readiness accordingly and yielded a consistent performance across all three levels of complexities. Additionally, providing a more realistic content collection on the navigation supported open social student modeling visualizations results in a uniform performance in the group. The classroom study revealed a clear pattern of social guidance, where the stronger students left the traces for weaker ones to follow. The subjective evaluation confirms the design of the interface in terms of the content organization. Students’ positive responses also compliment the objective system usage data.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-11-30&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-11-30&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Thesis Defence: Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Conventional closed-corpus adaptive information systems control limited sets of documents in fixed subject domains and cannot provide access to the content outside the system. Such restrictions contradict the requirements of today, when most of the information systems are implemented in the open document space of WWW and are expected to operate on the open-corpus content. In order to maintain personalized access to open-corpus documents, an adaptive system should be able to model the documents and the relations between the documents and the domain knowledge automatically and dynamically. This dissertation explores the problem of open-corpus personalization and semantic modeling of open-corpus content in the context of e-Learning. Information on WWW is not without structure. Many collections of online instructional material (tutorials, electronic books, digital libraries, etc.) have been provided with implicit knowledge models encoded in form of tables of content, indexes, headers of chapters, links between pages, and different styles of text fragments. The main dissertation approach tries to leverage this layer of hidden semantics by extracting and representing it as coarse-grained models of collections. A central domain ontology is used to maintain overlay modeling of studentsÕ knowledge and serves as a reference point for multiple collections of external instructional material. In order to establish the link between the ontology and the open-corpus content models a special ontology mapping algorithm has been developed.  The proposed approach has been applied in the Ontology-based Open-corpus Personalization Service (OOPS) that recommends and adaptively annotates online reading material. The domain of Java programming has been chosen for the proof-of-concept implementation. A controlled experiment has been organized to evaluate the developed adaptive system and the proposed approach overall. The results of the evaluation have demonstrated several significant learning effects of the implemented open-corpus personalization. The analysis of log-based data has also shown that the open-corpus version of the system is capable of providing personalization of similar quality to the close-corpus one. Such results indicate that the proposed approach supports fully-scale open-corpus personalization for e-Learning. Further research is required to verify if the approach remains effective in other subject domains and with other types of instructional content.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-07-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-07-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:DParra | Denis Parra]] earns a  James Chen Best Student paper award in UMAP 2011 ====&lt;br /&gt;
In the last conference of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011) Denis Parra won one of the 2 [http://www.umap2011.org/program/best-paper-awards James Chen Best Student paper awards] for his paper '''Walk The Talk: Analyzing the relation between implicit and explicit feedback for preference elicitation''' that he co-authored with Dr. Xavier Amatriain. In this paper, the authors present a study on the music domain with last.fm users, which results leads them to create a regression model that maps implicit information (such as playcounts and how recently a user listened to albums) with explicit information in the form of ratings. More details in the [http://www.springerlink.com/content/645721483544r815/  conference proceedings in Springer]. Denis is the third PAWS Lab member to receive this prestigious award. Prior to that, Rosta Farzan and Michael Yudelson won this award at earlier User Modeling conferences. Rosta also won another James Chen award at Adaptive Hypermedia conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] Promoted to Rank of Full Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our head of PAWS lab! [[http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/06-10-2011.php Read more ]]&lt;br /&gt;
==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon]] received 2011 Allen Kent Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Graduate Program in Information Science ==== &lt;br /&gt;
She has worked with [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gray/ Dr. Glenn Ray] several years in designing and teaching undergraduate courses. She's affiliated as teaching fellow and teaches in our school now.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-12-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-12-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] received Google grant to work on ''[[Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities]]'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
The grant will support our efforts to increase user participation in social systems designed for local communities. In the course of the project will explore two innovative ideas for increasing participation. The first idea is to provide access to information “beyond the desktop,” by adding a mobile location-based interface to access information. This will increase both the number of active users and the volume of their contributions. The second idea is to provide personalized access to information to increase the chance to gather relevant information. This work will be based on two existing social systems that were developed and maintained by PAWs lab: the [[Systems#CoMeT | CoMeT]] system for sharing information about research talks at Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh and [[Systems#Eventur | Eventur]], a social system for recommending cultural events in the Pittsburgh area.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] Thesis Defence: Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System ====&lt;br /&gt;
The dissertation proposes a novel way of speeding the development of new adaptive hypermedia systems. The gist of the approach is to extract the adaptation functionality out of the adaptive hypermedia system, encapsulate it into a standalone system, and offer adaptation as a service to the client applications. Such a standalone adaptation provider reduces the development of adaptation functionality to configuration and compliance and as a result creates new adaptive systems faster and helps serve larger user populations with adaptively accessible content. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=777 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
The electronic version of [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] dissertation has been approved by the School of Information Sciences. ETD is accessible worldwide from the online library catalog of the University of Pittsburgh ([http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-10132010-092137/ link]).&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This EAGER grant will allow us to investigate how to model and visualize latent communities – those groups of people who form communities based on their similar interests. This work will consider how to elicit latent communities from various kinds of data about individuals available in the modern social Web and deliver the results in a manner suitable for interactive exploration through interactive visualizations. This will be one of the first attempts to use a variety of social Web data and approaches to community modeling. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1059577 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] Thesis Defence: Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn's dissertation proposes to incorporate interactive visualization into personalized search in order to overcome the limitation. By combining the personalized search and the interactive visualization, we expect our approach will be able to help users to better explore the information space and locate relevant information more efficiently. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=764 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This one-year grant will support a project exploring personalization and social networking for short-term communities. Using academic research conferences as a test bed, our team will explore new methods to leverage information about user interests (available from multiple external resources) and develop techniques to facilitate use of existing social technologies. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1052768 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-08-15 :: SIGWeb Newsletter published an interview with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
The Summer 2010 issue of SIGWeb Newsletter (a magazine of ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web) published an [http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1796390.1796393 interview with Peter Brusilovsky]. The interview provides some personal view on research project performed at PAWS.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-07-01 :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook]] has received Computing Inovation Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn was chosen as a [http://cifellows.org  CIFellow] (Computing Innovation Fellow) supported by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the Computing Research Association (CRA), and the National Science Foundation.  Starting from the fall 2010, he is going to work with [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/ Dr. Ben Shneiderman] at the [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil Human Computer Interaction Lab], University of Maryland.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-05-01 :: Sergey has received EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky's proposal for EU [http://cordis.europa.eu/improving/fellowships/home.htm Marie Curie Fellowship] is approved by the EU Research Executive Agency. The funding starts in July, 2010 and will last until July 2012. The project &amp;quot;Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content&amp;quot; will focus on implementation of author-friendly technologies for learning content development, including collaborative authoring support, metadata authoring support, open-corpus content discovery, interactivity authoring, and gap detection.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-27 :: Rosta receives her second James Chen Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rosta Farzan received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 12th International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP2009, in Trento, Italy for the paper ''Social Navigation Support for Information Seeking: If You Build It, Will They Come?'' by Rosta Farzan and Peter Brusilovsky. This is her second James Chen Award, congratulations!&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-26 :: PAWS Caught on UMAP 2009 Video ====&lt;br /&gt;
* 0:27 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:09 [[User:Rostaf|Rosta]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:18 [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:51 [[User:Suleehs|Danielle]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 3:12 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]] and [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 4:01 [[User:Peterb|Peter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-05-28 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] awarded honorary doctorate by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava ====&lt;br /&gt;
At a ceremony in Bratislava today, Peter Brusilovsky was honored by the [http://www.stuba.sk/ Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava] with the degree of Doctor honoris causa. The university, founded in 1937 in Bratislava, is one of the most significant institutions of higher education in Slovakia. Peter was selected for this recognition for &amp;quot;his contributions to the fields of Informatics and Information Technologies&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2008-07-31 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] receives Best Paper Award at AH 2008 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky received Best Paper Award at the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2008, in Hannover, Germany  for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/6h410u3w4836v866/ ''Social Information Access for the Rest of Us: An Exploration of Social YouTube''] by Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Brusilovsky, and Barry Smyth&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2007-06-28 :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael]] receives James Chen Best Student Paper Award at UM 2007 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Michael Yudelson received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on User Modelling, UM07, in Corfu, Greece for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/c723060442701737/ ''A User Modeling Server for Contemporary Adaptive Hypermedia: an Evaluation of Push Approach  to Evidence Propagation''] by Michael Yudelson, Peter Brusilovsky, and Vladimir Zadorozhny&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-08-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-08-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Two PAWS graduates' papers were short-listed for the best paper award at EC-TEL 2018. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Paper titled Learning by Reviewing Paper-based Programming Assessments co-authored by Sharon Hsiao and paper titled Detection of Student Modelling Anomalies by Sergey Sosnovsky short-listed for the best paper award at EC-TEL 2018 [http://www.ec-tel.eu/index.php?id=805]. Congratulations to PAWS alumni Sharon and Sergey for having nominations for best paper award. Your contribution is inspiration for current PAWS students...&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-07-24&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-07-24&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Roya Hosseini defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Program Construction Examples in Computer Science Education: From Static Text to Adaptive and Engaging Learning Technology'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-07-05&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-07-05&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Huang]] defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang defended her Ph. D. Thesis titled 'Learner Modeling for Integration Skills in Programming'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-03-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-03-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  PAWS Lab scores thrice at IUI 2018 ====&lt;br /&gt;
PAWS Lab took almost the whole podium at [https://iui.acm.org/2018/ IUI 2018] award ceremony. Hyman Tsai receives an honorable mention for the best student paper award. [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]]  with now his own advisee Ivania Donoso also got an honorable mention. And finally, our recent visitor Cecilia di Sciascio did win the best student paper award for a paper &amp;quot;A Study on User-Controllable Social Exploratory Search&amp;quot; with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Eduardo Veas.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-10-24&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-10-24&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]] defended his Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Julio Guerra defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Open Learner Models for Self-Regulated Learning: Exploring the Effects of Social Comparison and Granularity'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-08-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-08-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]] moves to  Sangmyung University as an assistant professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]]  has joined [http://www.smuc.ac.kr/mbs/eng/index.jsp  Sangmyung University]  (Korea) as an assistant professor at the Department of Software on August 17, 2017. Previously, Danielle was an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Bothel.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-07-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-07-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Two PAWS papers were nominated and one received Best Paper Awards at   UMAP 2017 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Two papers - [https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079672 Stereotype Modeling for Problem-Solving Performance Predictions in MOOCs and Traditional Courses] and  [https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079682 Fine-Grained Open Learner Models: Complexity Versus Support] were nominated for the best paper award at [http://www.um.org/umap2017/ UMAP2017] – 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. The second paper lead by Julio Guerra and Jordan Barria-Pineda received [http://www.um.org/awards/james-chen-best-student-paper-awards James Chen Best Student Paper award]. Congratulations to Julio and Jordan who now joined former PAWS lab members Rosta Farzan, [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]], and [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] as recipients of this prestigious award. This is 6th James Chen award won by PAWS lab members! Rosta Farzan received this award twice as a student and once more as a senior co-author.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-02-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-02-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our mentor at PAWS, Dr. Peter Brusilovsky, on receiving the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring!  Read more on [http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=42853 University Times]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-11-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-11-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to  Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] has joined [http://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/department-of-information-and-computing-sciences the Department of Information and Computing Sciences] at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). The tenure-track position in computer science with the focus on educational technology started on November 1st, 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Maria Harrington moves to  University of Central Florida as an Assistant Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [http://svad.cah.ucf.edu/staff.php?id=1350 Maria Harrington]  has joined [https://www.ucf.edu/  University of Central Florida]  as an Assistant Professor at the [http://svad.cah.ucf.edu/ School of Visual Arts and Design]. This is a great place to continue her work on educational virtual reality. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-07-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-07-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'. More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/29220/ here]. She will join the University of Albany as an Assistant Professor in September 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-05-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-05-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board  ====&lt;br /&gt;
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Two SIS faculty members on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board. &lt;br /&gt;
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Peter Brusilovsky, professor and current chair of the Information Sciences program, and Rosta Farzan, assistant professor of Information Sciences &amp;amp; Technology, have been selected as associate editors of the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) new journal titled “Transactions on Social Computing.”&lt;br /&gt;
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This quarterly journal will publish works encompassing theoretical, empirical, systems, and design research on social computing. It will be part of the ACM Digital Library, which is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-03-04&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-03-04&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Congratulations to [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] for receiving Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang and Roya Hosseini received prestigious Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award for the academic year 2016-2017.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-02-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-02-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou gave a talk on the topic of &amp;quot;Personalized Crowdsourcing&amp;quot; ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Lykourentzou  illustrated the potential that personalization has for the improvement of crowdsourcing systems, through two example applications. The first application was about making personalized task recommendations to crowd workers, and the second application was about personalizing team building, i.e. a method that brings people to work together on a collaborating task taking into account their individual personalities. &lt;br /&gt;
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At the time, Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou was a researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology and was collaborating with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, as Visiting Researcher.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]  and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He (project lead and co-lead respectively) has been awarded a Nation Science Foundation Information and Intelligent Systems grant for their project titled “[[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]].” The project will focus on streamlining and expanding the reach of effective adaptive educational hypermedia, which allows students and independent learners without access to traditional classrooms to gain a personalized education.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-04-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-04-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities'. ====&lt;br /&gt;
More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/25836/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-11-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-11-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;, and presented his research on Recommender Systems. &lt;br /&gt;
Please find the slides [http://www.slideshare.net/denisparra/keynote-at-chilean-week-of-computer-science here].&lt;br /&gt;
The abstract of the talk is also available at the home page of the event, JCC 2014. [http://www.jcc2014.ucm.cl/en/ (more)].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-09-19&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-09-19&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: PAWS won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Tomek, [[User:Julio | Julio]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya]], and [[User:peterb| Peter]]! Their paper entitled &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266656951_Mastery_Grids_An_Open_Source_Social_Educational_Progress_Visualization Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization]&amp;quot; has won the best paper award of EC-TEL 2014 conference. More details on the paper can be accessed [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-11200-8_18 here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-05-06&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-05-06&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] is appointed as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall.====&lt;br /&gt;
On completing 2 years successful post-doctoral innovation fellow position in [http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu EdLab], Teachers College @ Columbia University, [[User: shoha99 | Sharon]] is moving onto a tenure-track position in [http://cidse.engineering.asu.edu School of Computing, Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering] (AKA: Engineering school) in [http://www.asu.edu Arizona State University], Phoenix, Arizona. She anticipates to continue working on the emerging topics of computational technologies in learning. Meanwhile, persistently dedicate to the course - [http://www.columbia.edu/~ih2240/dataviz/index.htm Data Visualization], which she established in [http://www.qmss.columbia.edu QMSS (Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences)], School of Arts &amp;amp; Sciences in [http://www.columbia.edu Columbia University]. For more details see [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-14-2014.php SIS news].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] to deliver a keynote at a WWW 2014 workshop. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter will deliver a keynote titled &amp;quot;Addictive Links: Engaging Students through Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Student Modeling&amp;quot; at [http://www2014.kr/program/webet-2014/ WebET 2014] - Workshop on Web-based Education Technologies at the Word Wide Web Conference in Seoul, Korea. The talk will present PAWS work on such systems as [[QuizGuide]], [[NavEx]], JavaGuide, [[Progressor]], and [[ProgressorPlus|Progressor+]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Jennifer | Yi-Ling(Jennifer) Lin]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan.====&lt;br /&gt;
Yi-Ling (Jennifer) joined the Information Management faculty at the National Sun Yat-Sen University [http://http://epage.mis.nsysu.edu.tw/files/11-1100-4988-1.php?Lang=en] where she is an Assistant Professor. She is teaching Java course and continues to cooperate with Paws Lab to explore the social comparison in cyberlearning.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-08-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-08-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] started a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.====&lt;br /&gt;
Denis joined the faculty at the School of Engineering in Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, [http://www.topuniversities.com/node/2261/ranking-details/latin-american-university-rankings/2013  ranked 2nd among Latinamerican Universities],  where he is an [http://www.ing.puc.cl/cuerpo-docente/parra-santander/ Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science]. At the undergraduate level, he is teaching a course that explores several topics for the major in Computer Science, and at the graduate level he teaches Data Mining in the [http://mpgi.ing.puc.cl/profesores.html  Master for Information Processing and Management]. He continues doing research on Recommender Systems, the topic he investigated while a student at the PAWS lab, and is also Analyzing Social Media, collaborating with PAWS lab student Xidao Wen, studying [http://www.christophtrattner.info/pubs/ht2014.pdf how Twitter is used in academic Conferences]. In addition, he is fostering collaboration between professor Brusilovsky and some areas of teaching such as Databases in the CS department at Catholic University.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-18&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-18&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[Systems#KnowledgeZoom | KnowledgeZoom]] paper receives ICALT 2013 Best full Paper Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to paws! &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256524709_KnowledgeZoom_for_Java_A_Concept-Based_Exam_Study_Tool_with_a_Zoomable_Open_Student_Model KnowledgeZoom for Java: A Concept Based Exam Study Tool with a Zoomable Open Student Model]&amp;quot; won the best full paper award of ICALT 2013 conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Falakmasir | Mohammad Falakmasir]] won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Mohammad! His paper with Zachary A. Pardos, Geoffrey J. Gordon, and Peter Brusilovsky entitled &amp;quot;A Spectral Learning Approach to Knowledge Tracing&amp;quot; won the best student paper award of EDM 2013 conference. In his paper, he proposed using Spectral Learning (SL) to learn the BKT parameters.  Results of his study showed that SL can improve knowledge tracing parameter fitting time significantly while maintaining the same prediction accuracy. For more details on his paper please refer to his article [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/presentation2.php?presentationID=5323&amp;amp;conferenceID=115]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair. ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]], has been selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair by the Fulbright Commission. With this Award Peter will spend 5 month in FInland collaborating with researchers from University of Helsinki, Aalto University, and Helsinki Institute of Information Technology. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky, Professor at the iSchool, has been awarded a contract by the United States Army Contracting Command to participate in the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. Brusilovsky’ s contract, for $623,005 over a three-year period, will support the project [[Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Learner Modeling for PAL]] that will focus on the architecture, algorithms, and interfaces for a Personal Assistant for Learning (PAL), one of the major endeavors undertaken by the ADL Initiative. Through a PAL, the Initiative will provide state of the art education and training -- using technology and innovative learning methodologies -- for workforce members in the Department of Defense and the federal government. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-04-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-04-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Sergey Sosnovsky profiled in International Innovation ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky, who earned his PhD in Information Science in 2012, was recently profiled in International Innovation Magazine about his work on eLearning systems research and tools. Sosnovsky is the Principal Researcher and Head of the Intelligent e-Learning Technology Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbruken, Germany. The article explored his work on the Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content project funded by the European Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service. The magazine article (published March 2013) discussed how Sosnovsky’s project will enhance adaptive e-Learning by making it possible to develop smart instructional material for a broader audience of content authors. The article can be viewed at [[http://www.research-europe.com/magazine/REGIONAL/EX8/index.html]] , beginning on page 71.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-01-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-01-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt  IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies]. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter is appointed the Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, a journal dedicated to advancing the state of the art in technology-enhanced learning. This quarterly publication covers leading edge research on topics such as educational software applications, online learning systems, and simulation systems for education and training. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/3-11-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-08-26&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Rosta! After 3 years as a postdoc at CMU, she is now back to Pitt as an Assistant Professor. During her first semester at SIS she is teaching IS2430 Social Computing course. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-02-2012.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] Thesis Defence: Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
A large number of educational resources is now made available on the Web to support both regular classroom learning and online learning. However, the abundance of available content produced at least two problems: how to help students to find the most appropriate resources and how to engage them into using these resources and benefit from them. Personalized and social learning have been suggested as potential ways to address these problems.&lt;br /&gt;
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This work attempts to combine the ideas of personalized and social learning by providing navigation support through an open social student modeling visualization. A series of classroom studies exploited the idea of the approach and revealed promising results, which demonstrated the personalized guidance and social visualization combined helped students to find the most relevant resources of parameterized self-assessment questions for Java programming. Thus, this dissertation extend the approach to a larger collection of learning objects for cross content navigation and verify its capability of supporting social visualization for personalized E-Learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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The study results confirm that working with the non-mandatory system, students enhanced the learning quality in increasing their motivation and engagement. They successfully achieved better learning results. Meanwhile, incorporating a mixed collection of content in the open social student modeling visualizations effectively led the students to work at the right level of questions. Both strong and weak student worked with the appropriate levels of questions for their readiness accordingly and yielded a consistent performance across all three levels of complexities. Additionally, providing a more realistic content collection on the navigation supported open social student modeling visualizations results in a uniform performance in the group. The classroom study revealed a clear pattern of social guidance, where the stronger students left the traces for weaker ones to follow. The subjective evaluation confirms the design of the interface in terms of the content organization. Students’ positive responses also compliment the objective system usage data.&lt;br /&gt;
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download it from [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/13439/ here]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-11-30&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-11-30&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Thesis Defence: Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Conventional closed-corpus adaptive information systems control limited sets of documents in fixed subject domains and cannot provide access to the content outside the system. Such restrictions contradict the requirements of today, when most of the information systems are implemented in the open document space of WWW and are expected to operate on the open-corpus content. In order to maintain personalized access to open-corpus documents, an adaptive system should be able to model the documents and the relations between the documents and the domain knowledge automatically and dynamically. This dissertation explores the problem of open-corpus personalization and semantic modeling of open-corpus content in the context of e-Learning. Information on WWW is not without structure. Many collections of online instructional material (tutorials, electronic books, digital libraries, etc.) have been provided with implicit knowledge models encoded in form of tables of content, indexes, headers of chapters, links between pages, and different styles of text fragments. The main dissertation approach tries to leverage this layer of hidden semantics by extracting and representing it as coarse-grained models of collections. A central domain ontology is used to maintain overlay modeling of studentsÕ knowledge and serves as a reference point for multiple collections of external instructional material. In order to establish the link between the ontology and the open-corpus content models a special ontology mapping algorithm has been developed.  The proposed approach has been applied in the Ontology-based Open-corpus Personalization Service (OOPS) that recommends and adaptively annotates online reading material. The domain of Java programming has been chosen for the proof-of-concept implementation. A controlled experiment has been organized to evaluate the developed adaptive system and the proposed approach overall. The results of the evaluation have demonstrated several significant learning effects of the implemented open-corpus personalization. The analysis of log-based data has also shown that the open-corpus version of the system is capable of providing personalization of similar quality to the close-corpus one. Such results indicate that the proposed approach supports fully-scale open-corpus personalization for e-Learning. Further research is required to verify if the approach remains effective in other subject domains and with other types of instructional content.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-07-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-07-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:DParra | Denis Parra]] earns a  James Chen Best Student paper award in UMAP 2011 ====&lt;br /&gt;
In the last conference of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011) Denis Parra won one of the 2 [http://www.umap2011.org/program/best-paper-awards James Chen Best Student paper awards] for his paper '''Walk The Talk: Analyzing the relation between implicit and explicit feedback for preference elicitation''' that he co-authored with Dr. Xavier Amatriain. In this paper, the authors present a study on the music domain with last.fm users, which results leads them to create a regression model that maps implicit information (such as playcounts and how recently a user listened to albums) with explicit information in the form of ratings. More details in the [http://www.springerlink.com/content/645721483544r815/  conference proceedings in Springer]. Denis is the third PAWS Lab member to receive this prestigious award. Prior to that, Rosta Farzan and Michael Yudelson won this award at earlier User Modeling conferences. Rosta also won another James Chen award at Adaptive Hypermedia conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] Promoted to Rank of Full Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our head of PAWS lab! [[http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/06-10-2011.php Read more ]]&lt;br /&gt;
==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon]] received 2011 Allen Kent Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Graduate Program in Information Science ==== &lt;br /&gt;
She has worked with [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gray/ Dr. Glenn Ray] several years in designing and teaching undergraduate courses. She's affiliated as teaching fellow and teaches in our school now.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-12-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-12-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] received Google grant to work on ''[[Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities]]'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
The grant will support our efforts to increase user participation in social systems designed for local communities. In the course of the project will explore two innovative ideas for increasing participation. The first idea is to provide access to information “beyond the desktop,” by adding a mobile location-based interface to access information. This will increase both the number of active users and the volume of their contributions. The second idea is to provide personalized access to information to increase the chance to gather relevant information. This work will be based on two existing social systems that were developed and maintained by PAWs lab: the [[Systems#CoMeT | CoMeT]] system for sharing information about research talks at Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh and [[Systems#Eventur | Eventur]], a social system for recommending cultural events in the Pittsburgh area.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] Thesis Defence: Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System ====&lt;br /&gt;
The dissertation proposes a novel way of speeding the development of new adaptive hypermedia systems. The gist of the approach is to extract the adaptation functionality out of the adaptive hypermedia system, encapsulate it into a standalone system, and offer adaptation as a service to the client applications. Such a standalone adaptation provider reduces the development of adaptation functionality to configuration and compliance and as a result creates new adaptive systems faster and helps serve larger user populations with adaptively accessible content. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=777 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
The electronic version of [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] dissertation has been approved by the School of Information Sciences. ETD is accessible worldwide from the online library catalog of the University of Pittsburgh ([http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-10132010-092137/ link]).&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This EAGER grant will allow us to investigate how to model and visualize latent communities – those groups of people who form communities based on their similar interests. This work will consider how to elicit latent communities from various kinds of data about individuals available in the modern social Web and deliver the results in a manner suitable for interactive exploration through interactive visualizations. This will be one of the first attempts to use a variety of social Web data and approaches to community modeling. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1059577 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] Thesis Defence: Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn's dissertation proposes to incorporate interactive visualization into personalized search in order to overcome the limitation. By combining the personalized search and the interactive visualization, we expect our approach will be able to help users to better explore the information space and locate relevant information more efficiently. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=764 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This one-year grant will support a project exploring personalization and social networking for short-term communities. Using academic research conferences as a test bed, our team will explore new methods to leverage information about user interests (available from multiple external resources) and develop techniques to facilitate use of existing social technologies. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1052768 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-08-15 :: SIGWeb Newsletter published an interview with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
The Summer 2010 issue of SIGWeb Newsletter (a magazine of ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web) published an [http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1796390.1796393 interview with Peter Brusilovsky]. The interview provides some personal view on research project performed at PAWS.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-07-01 :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook]] has received Computing Inovation Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn was chosen as a [http://cifellows.org  CIFellow] (Computing Innovation Fellow) supported by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the Computing Research Association (CRA), and the National Science Foundation.  Starting from the fall 2010, he is going to work with [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/ Dr. Ben Shneiderman] at the [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil Human Computer Interaction Lab], University of Maryland.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-05-01 :: Sergey has received EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky's proposal for EU [http://cordis.europa.eu/improving/fellowships/home.htm Marie Curie Fellowship] is approved by the EU Research Executive Agency. The funding starts in July, 2010 and will last until July 2012. The project &amp;quot;Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content&amp;quot; will focus on implementation of author-friendly technologies for learning content development, including collaborative authoring support, metadata authoring support, open-corpus content discovery, interactivity authoring, and gap detection.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-27 :: Rosta receives her second James Chen Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rosta Farzan received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 12th International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP2009, in Trento, Italy for the paper ''Social Navigation Support for Information Seeking: If You Build It, Will They Come?'' by Rosta Farzan and Peter Brusilovsky. This is her second James Chen Award, congratulations!&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-26 :: PAWS Caught on UMAP 2009 Video ====&lt;br /&gt;
* 0:27 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:09 [[User:Rostaf|Rosta]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:18 [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:51 [[User:Suleehs|Danielle]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 3:12 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]] and [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 4:01 [[User:Peterb|Peter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-05-28 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] awarded honorary doctorate by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava ====&lt;br /&gt;
At a ceremony in Bratislava today, Peter Brusilovsky was honored by the [http://www.stuba.sk/ Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava] with the degree of Doctor honoris causa. The university, founded in 1937 in Bratislava, is one of the most significant institutions of higher education in Slovakia. Peter was selected for this recognition for &amp;quot;his contributions to the fields of Informatics and Information Technologies&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2008-07-31 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] receives Best Paper Award at AH 2008 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky received Best Paper Award at the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2008, in Hannover, Germany  for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/6h410u3w4836v866/ ''Social Information Access for the Rest of Us: An Exploration of Social YouTube''] by Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Brusilovsky, and Barry Smyth&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2007-06-28 :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael]] receives James Chen Best Student Paper Award at UM 2007 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Michael Yudelson received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on User Modelling, UM07, in Corfu, Greece for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/c723060442701737/ ''A User Modeling Server for Contemporary Adaptive Hypermedia: an Evaluation of Push Approach  to Evidence Propagation''] by Michael Yudelson, Peter Brusilovsky, and Vladimir Zadorozhny&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-08-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-08-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Roya Hosseini defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Program Construction Examples in Computer Science Education: From Static Text to Adaptive and Engaging Learning Technology'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-07-24&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-07-24&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Roya Hosseini defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Program Construction Examples in Computer Science Education: From Static Text to Adaptive and Engaging Learning Technology'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-07-05&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-07-05&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Huang]] defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang defended her Ph. D. Thesis titled 'Learner Modeling for Integration Skills in Programming'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-03-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-03-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  PAWS Lab scores thrice at IUI 2018 ====&lt;br /&gt;
PAWS Lab took almost the whole podium at [https://iui.acm.org/2018/ IUI 2018] award ceremony. Hyman Tsai receives an honorable mention for the best student paper award. [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]]  with now his own advisee Ivania Donoso also got an honorable mention. And finally, our recent visitor Cecilia di Sciascio did win the best student paper award for a paper &amp;quot;A Study on User-Controllable Social Exploratory Search&amp;quot; with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Eduardo Veas.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-10-24&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-10-24&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]] defended his Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Julio Guerra defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Open Learner Models for Self-Regulated Learning: Exploring the Effects of Social Comparison and Granularity'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-08-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-08-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]] moves to  Sangmyung University as an assistant professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]]  has joined [http://www.smuc.ac.kr/mbs/eng/index.jsp  Sangmyung University]  (Korea) as an assistant professor at the Department of Software on August 17, 2017. Previously, Danielle was an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Bothel.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-07-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-07-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Two PAWS papers were nominated and one received Best Paper Awards at   UMAP 2017 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Two papers - [https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079672 Stereotype Modeling for Problem-Solving Performance Predictions in MOOCs and Traditional Courses] and  [https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079682 Fine-Grained Open Learner Models: Complexity Versus Support] were nominated for the best paper award at [http://www.um.org/umap2017/ UMAP2017] – 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. The second paper lead by Julio Guerra and Jordan Barria-Pineda received [http://www.um.org/awards/james-chen-best-student-paper-awards James Chen Best Student Paper award]. Congratulations to Julio and Jordan who now joined former PAWS lab members Rosta Farzan, [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]], and [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] as recipients of this prestigious award. This is 6th James Chen award won by PAWS lab members! Rosta Farzan received this award twice as a student and once more as a senior co-author.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-02-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-02-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our mentor at PAWS, Dr. Peter Brusilovsky, on receiving the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring!  Read more on [http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=42853 University Times]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-11-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-11-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to  Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] has joined [http://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/department-of-information-and-computing-sciences the Department of Information and Computing Sciences] at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). The tenure-track position in computer science with the focus on educational technology started on November 1st, 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Maria Harrington moves to  University of Central Florida as an Assistant Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [http://svad.cah.ucf.edu/staff.php?id=1350 Maria Harrington]  has joined [https://www.ucf.edu/  University of Central Florida]  as an Assistant Professor at the [http://svad.cah.ucf.edu/ School of Visual Arts and Design]. This is a great place to continue her work on educational virtual reality. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-07-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-07-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'. More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/29220/ here]. She will join the University of Albany as an Assistant Professor in September 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-05-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-05-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board  ====&lt;br /&gt;
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Two SIS faculty members on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board. &lt;br /&gt;
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Peter Brusilovsky, professor and current chair of the Information Sciences program, and Rosta Farzan, assistant professor of Information Sciences &amp;amp; Technology, have been selected as associate editors of the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) new journal titled “Transactions on Social Computing.”&lt;br /&gt;
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This quarterly journal will publish works encompassing theoretical, empirical, systems, and design research on social computing. It will be part of the ACM Digital Library, which is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-03-04&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-03-04&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Congratulations to [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] for receiving Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang and Roya Hosseini received prestigious Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award for the academic year 2016-2017.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-02-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-02-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou gave a talk on the topic of &amp;quot;Personalized Crowdsourcing&amp;quot; ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Lykourentzou  illustrated the potential that personalization has for the improvement of crowdsourcing systems, through two example applications. The first application was about making personalized task recommendations to crowd workers, and the second application was about personalizing team building, i.e. a method that brings people to work together on a collaborating task taking into account their individual personalities. &lt;br /&gt;
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At the time, Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou was a researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology and was collaborating with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, as Visiting Researcher.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]  and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He (project lead and co-lead respectively) has been awarded a Nation Science Foundation Information and Intelligent Systems grant for their project titled “[[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]].” The project will focus on streamlining and expanding the reach of effective adaptive educational hypermedia, which allows students and independent learners without access to traditional classrooms to gain a personalized education.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-04-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-04-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities'. ====&lt;br /&gt;
More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/25836/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-11-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-11-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;, and presented his research on Recommender Systems. &lt;br /&gt;
Please find the slides [http://www.slideshare.net/denisparra/keynote-at-chilean-week-of-computer-science here].&lt;br /&gt;
The abstract of the talk is also available at the home page of the event, JCC 2014. [http://www.jcc2014.ucm.cl/en/ (more)].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-09-19&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-09-19&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: PAWS won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Tomek, [[User:Julio | Julio]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya]], and [[User:peterb| Peter]]! Their paper entitled &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266656951_Mastery_Grids_An_Open_Source_Social_Educational_Progress_Visualization Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization]&amp;quot; has won the best paper award of EC-TEL 2014 conference. More details on the paper can be accessed [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-11200-8_18 here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-05-06&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-05-06&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] is appointed as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall.====&lt;br /&gt;
On completing 2 years successful post-doctoral innovation fellow position in [http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu EdLab], Teachers College @ Columbia University, [[User: shoha99 | Sharon]] is moving onto a tenure-track position in [http://cidse.engineering.asu.edu School of Computing, Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering] (AKA: Engineering school) in [http://www.asu.edu Arizona State University], Phoenix, Arizona. She anticipates to continue working on the emerging topics of computational technologies in learning. Meanwhile, persistently dedicate to the course - [http://www.columbia.edu/~ih2240/dataviz/index.htm Data Visualization], which she established in [http://www.qmss.columbia.edu QMSS (Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences)], School of Arts &amp;amp; Sciences in [http://www.columbia.edu Columbia University]. For more details see [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-14-2014.php SIS news].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] to deliver a keynote at a WWW 2014 workshop. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter will deliver a keynote titled &amp;quot;Addictive Links: Engaging Students through Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Student Modeling&amp;quot; at [http://www2014.kr/program/webet-2014/ WebET 2014] - Workshop on Web-based Education Technologies at the Word Wide Web Conference in Seoul, Korea. The talk will present PAWS work on such systems as [[QuizGuide]], [[NavEx]], JavaGuide, [[Progressor]], and [[ProgressorPlus|Progressor+]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Jennifer | Yi-Ling(Jennifer) Lin]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan.====&lt;br /&gt;
Yi-Ling (Jennifer) joined the Information Management faculty at the National Sun Yat-Sen University [http://http://epage.mis.nsysu.edu.tw/files/11-1100-4988-1.php?Lang=en] where she is an Assistant Professor. She is teaching Java course and continues to cooperate with Paws Lab to explore the social comparison in cyberlearning.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-08-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-08-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] started a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.====&lt;br /&gt;
Denis joined the faculty at the School of Engineering in Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, [http://www.topuniversities.com/node/2261/ranking-details/latin-american-university-rankings/2013  ranked 2nd among Latinamerican Universities],  where he is an [http://www.ing.puc.cl/cuerpo-docente/parra-santander/ Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science]. At the undergraduate level, he is teaching a course that explores several topics for the major in Computer Science, and at the graduate level he teaches Data Mining in the [http://mpgi.ing.puc.cl/profesores.html  Master for Information Processing and Management]. He continues doing research on Recommender Systems, the topic he investigated while a student at the PAWS lab, and is also Analyzing Social Media, collaborating with PAWS lab student Xidao Wen, studying [http://www.christophtrattner.info/pubs/ht2014.pdf how Twitter is used in academic Conferences]. In addition, he is fostering collaboration between professor Brusilovsky and some areas of teaching such as Databases in the CS department at Catholic University.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-18&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-18&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[Systems#KnowledgeZoom | KnowledgeZoom]] paper receives ICALT 2013 Best full Paper Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to paws! &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256524709_KnowledgeZoom_for_Java_A_Concept-Based_Exam_Study_Tool_with_a_Zoomable_Open_Student_Model KnowledgeZoom for Java: A Concept Based Exam Study Tool with a Zoomable Open Student Model]&amp;quot; won the best full paper award of ICALT 2013 conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Falakmasir | Mohammad Falakmasir]] won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Mohammad! His paper with Zachary A. Pardos, Geoffrey J. Gordon, and Peter Brusilovsky entitled &amp;quot;A Spectral Learning Approach to Knowledge Tracing&amp;quot; won the best student paper award of EDM 2013 conference. In his paper, he proposed using Spectral Learning (SL) to learn the BKT parameters.  Results of his study showed that SL can improve knowledge tracing parameter fitting time significantly while maintaining the same prediction accuracy. For more details on his paper please refer to his article [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/presentation2.php?presentationID=5323&amp;amp;conferenceID=115]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair. ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]], has been selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair by the Fulbright Commission. With this Award Peter will spend 5 month in FInland collaborating with researchers from University of Helsinki, Aalto University, and Helsinki Institute of Information Technology. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky, Professor at the iSchool, has been awarded a contract by the United States Army Contracting Command to participate in the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. Brusilovsky’ s contract, for $623,005 over a three-year period, will support the project [[Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Learner Modeling for PAL]] that will focus on the architecture, algorithms, and interfaces for a Personal Assistant for Learning (PAL), one of the major endeavors undertaken by the ADL Initiative. Through a PAL, the Initiative will provide state of the art education and training -- using technology and innovative learning methodologies -- for workforce members in the Department of Defense and the federal government. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-04-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-04-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Sergey Sosnovsky profiled in International Innovation ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky, who earned his PhD in Information Science in 2012, was recently profiled in International Innovation Magazine about his work on eLearning systems research and tools. Sosnovsky is the Principal Researcher and Head of the Intelligent e-Learning Technology Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbruken, Germany. The article explored his work on the Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content project funded by the European Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service. The magazine article (published March 2013) discussed how Sosnovsky’s project will enhance adaptive e-Learning by making it possible to develop smart instructional material for a broader audience of content authors. The article can be viewed at [[http://www.research-europe.com/magazine/REGIONAL/EX8/index.html]] , beginning on page 71.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-01-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-01-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt  IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies]. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter is appointed the Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, a journal dedicated to advancing the state of the art in technology-enhanced learning. This quarterly publication covers leading edge research on topics such as educational software applications, online learning systems, and simulation systems for education and training. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/3-11-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-08-26&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Rosta! After 3 years as a postdoc at CMU, she is now back to Pitt as an Assistant Professor. During her first semester at SIS she is teaching IS2430 Social Computing course. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-02-2012.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] Thesis Defence: Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
A large number of educational resources is now made available on the Web to support both regular classroom learning and online learning. However, the abundance of available content produced at least two problems: how to help students to find the most appropriate resources and how to engage them into using these resources and benefit from them. Personalized and social learning have been suggested as potential ways to address these problems.&lt;br /&gt;
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This work attempts to combine the ideas of personalized and social learning by providing navigation support through an open social student modeling visualization. A series of classroom studies exploited the idea of the approach and revealed promising results, which demonstrated the personalized guidance and social visualization combined helped students to find the most relevant resources of parameterized self-assessment questions for Java programming. Thus, this dissertation extend the approach to a larger collection of learning objects for cross content navigation and verify its capability of supporting social visualization for personalized E-Learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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The study results confirm that working with the non-mandatory system, students enhanced the learning quality in increasing their motivation and engagement. They successfully achieved better learning results. Meanwhile, incorporating a mixed collection of content in the open social student modeling visualizations effectively led the students to work at the right level of questions. Both strong and weak student worked with the appropriate levels of questions for their readiness accordingly and yielded a consistent performance across all three levels of complexities. Additionally, providing a more realistic content collection on the navigation supported open social student modeling visualizations results in a uniform performance in the group. The classroom study revealed a clear pattern of social guidance, where the stronger students left the traces for weaker ones to follow. The subjective evaluation confirms the design of the interface in terms of the content organization. Students’ positive responses also compliment the objective system usage data.&lt;br /&gt;
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download it from [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/13439/ here]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-11-30&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-11-30&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Thesis Defence: Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Conventional closed-corpus adaptive information systems control limited sets of documents in fixed subject domains and cannot provide access to the content outside the system. Such restrictions contradict the requirements of today, when most of the information systems are implemented in the open document space of WWW and are expected to operate on the open-corpus content. In order to maintain personalized access to open-corpus documents, an adaptive system should be able to model the documents and the relations between the documents and the domain knowledge automatically and dynamically. This dissertation explores the problem of open-corpus personalization and semantic modeling of open-corpus content in the context of e-Learning. Information on WWW is not without structure. Many collections of online instructional material (tutorials, electronic books, digital libraries, etc.) have been provided with implicit knowledge models encoded in form of tables of content, indexes, headers of chapters, links between pages, and different styles of text fragments. The main dissertation approach tries to leverage this layer of hidden semantics by extracting and representing it as coarse-grained models of collections. A central domain ontology is used to maintain overlay modeling of studentsÕ knowledge and serves as a reference point for multiple collections of external instructional material. In order to establish the link between the ontology and the open-corpus content models a special ontology mapping algorithm has been developed.  The proposed approach has been applied in the Ontology-based Open-corpus Personalization Service (OOPS) that recommends and adaptively annotates online reading material. The domain of Java programming has been chosen for the proof-of-concept implementation. A controlled experiment has been organized to evaluate the developed adaptive system and the proposed approach overall. The results of the evaluation have demonstrated several significant learning effects of the implemented open-corpus personalization. The analysis of log-based data has also shown that the open-corpus version of the system is capable of providing personalization of similar quality to the close-corpus one. Such results indicate that the proposed approach supports fully-scale open-corpus personalization for e-Learning. Further research is required to verify if the approach remains effective in other subject domains and with other types of instructional content.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-07-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-07-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:DParra | Denis Parra]] earns a  James Chen Best Student paper award in UMAP 2011 ====&lt;br /&gt;
In the last conference of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011) Denis Parra won one of the 2 [http://www.umap2011.org/program/best-paper-awards James Chen Best Student paper awards] for his paper '''Walk The Talk: Analyzing the relation between implicit and explicit feedback for preference elicitation''' that he co-authored with Dr. Xavier Amatriain. In this paper, the authors present a study on the music domain with last.fm users, which results leads them to create a regression model that maps implicit information (such as playcounts and how recently a user listened to albums) with explicit information in the form of ratings. More details in the [http://www.springerlink.com/content/645721483544r815/  conference proceedings in Springer]. Denis is the third PAWS Lab member to receive this prestigious award. Prior to that, Rosta Farzan and Michael Yudelson won this award at earlier User Modeling conferences. Rosta also won another James Chen award at Adaptive Hypermedia conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] Promoted to Rank of Full Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our head of PAWS lab! [[http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/06-10-2011.php Read more ]]&lt;br /&gt;
==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon]] received 2011 Allen Kent Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Graduate Program in Information Science ==== &lt;br /&gt;
She has worked with [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gray/ Dr. Glenn Ray] several years in designing and teaching undergraduate courses. She's affiliated as teaching fellow and teaches in our school now.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-12-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-12-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] received Google grant to work on ''[[Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities]]'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
The grant will support our efforts to increase user participation in social systems designed for local communities. In the course of the project will explore two innovative ideas for increasing participation. The first idea is to provide access to information “beyond the desktop,” by adding a mobile location-based interface to access information. This will increase both the number of active users and the volume of their contributions. The second idea is to provide personalized access to information to increase the chance to gather relevant information. This work will be based on two existing social systems that were developed and maintained by PAWs lab: the [[Systems#CoMeT | CoMeT]] system for sharing information about research talks at Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh and [[Systems#Eventur | Eventur]], a social system for recommending cultural events in the Pittsburgh area.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] Thesis Defence: Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System ====&lt;br /&gt;
The dissertation proposes a novel way of speeding the development of new adaptive hypermedia systems. The gist of the approach is to extract the adaptation functionality out of the adaptive hypermedia system, encapsulate it into a standalone system, and offer adaptation as a service to the client applications. Such a standalone adaptation provider reduces the development of adaptation functionality to configuration and compliance and as a result creates new adaptive systems faster and helps serve larger user populations with adaptively accessible content. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=777 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
The electronic version of [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] dissertation has been approved by the School of Information Sciences. ETD is accessible worldwide from the online library catalog of the University of Pittsburgh ([http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-10132010-092137/ link]).&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This EAGER grant will allow us to investigate how to model and visualize latent communities – those groups of people who form communities based on their similar interests. This work will consider how to elicit latent communities from various kinds of data about individuals available in the modern social Web and deliver the results in a manner suitable for interactive exploration through interactive visualizations. This will be one of the first attempts to use a variety of social Web data and approaches to community modeling. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1059577 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] Thesis Defence: Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn's dissertation proposes to incorporate interactive visualization into personalized search in order to overcome the limitation. By combining the personalized search and the interactive visualization, we expect our approach will be able to help users to better explore the information space and locate relevant information more efficiently. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=764 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This one-year grant will support a project exploring personalization and social networking for short-term communities. Using academic research conferences as a test bed, our team will explore new methods to leverage information about user interests (available from multiple external resources) and develop techniques to facilitate use of existing social technologies. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1052768 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-08-15 :: SIGWeb Newsletter published an interview with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
The Summer 2010 issue of SIGWeb Newsletter (a magazine of ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web) published an [http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1796390.1796393 interview with Peter Brusilovsky]. The interview provides some personal view on research project performed at PAWS.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-07-01 :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook]] has received Computing Inovation Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn was chosen as a [http://cifellows.org  CIFellow] (Computing Innovation Fellow) supported by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the Computing Research Association (CRA), and the National Science Foundation.  Starting from the fall 2010, he is going to work with [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/ Dr. Ben Shneiderman] at the [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil Human Computer Interaction Lab], University of Maryland.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-05-01 :: Sergey has received EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky's proposal for EU [http://cordis.europa.eu/improving/fellowships/home.htm Marie Curie Fellowship] is approved by the EU Research Executive Agency. The funding starts in July, 2010 and will last until July 2012. The project &amp;quot;Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content&amp;quot; will focus on implementation of author-friendly technologies for learning content development, including collaborative authoring support, metadata authoring support, open-corpus content discovery, interactivity authoring, and gap detection.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-27 :: Rosta receives her second James Chen Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rosta Farzan received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 12th International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP2009, in Trento, Italy for the paper ''Social Navigation Support for Information Seeking: If You Build It, Will They Come?'' by Rosta Farzan and Peter Brusilovsky. This is her second James Chen Award, congratulations!&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-26 :: PAWS Caught on UMAP 2009 Video ====&lt;br /&gt;
* 0:27 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:09 [[User:Rostaf|Rosta]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:18 [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:51 [[User:Suleehs|Danielle]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 3:12 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]] and [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 4:01 [[User:Peterb|Peter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-05-28 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] awarded honorary doctorate by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava ====&lt;br /&gt;
At a ceremony in Bratislava today, Peter Brusilovsky was honored by the [http://www.stuba.sk/ Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava] with the degree of Doctor honoris causa. The university, founded in 1937 in Bratislava, is one of the most significant institutions of higher education in Slovakia. Peter was selected for this recognition for &amp;quot;his contributions to the fields of Informatics and Information Technologies&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2008-07-31 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] receives Best Paper Award at AH 2008 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky received Best Paper Award at the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2008, in Hannover, Germany  for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/6h410u3w4836v866/ ''Social Information Access for the Rest of Us: An Exploration of Social YouTube''] by Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Brusilovsky, and Barry Smyth&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2007-06-28 :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael]] receives James Chen Best Student Paper Award at UM 2007 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Michael Yudelson received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on User Modelling, UM07, in Corfu, Greece for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/c723060442701737/ ''A User Modeling Server for Contemporary Adaptive Hypermedia: an Evaluation of Push Approach  to Evidence Propagation''] by Michael Yudelson, Peter Brusilovsky, and Vladimir Zadorozhny&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&lt;div&gt;== About PAWS ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Edm_2018.jpg|right|700px|EDM 2018 - Buffalo, NY]]&lt;br /&gt;
Personalized Adaptive Web Systems Lab was established in 2004 with support from National Science Foundation and the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. The goal of the PAWS Lab is development and evaluation of innovative user- and group-adaptive Web-based technologies, systems, and architectures. The Lab currently explores a range of user modeling, adaptation and personalization technologies. The work of the Lab is supported by NSF and DARPA funding.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Most Recent News ==&lt;br /&gt;
* Two PAWS graduates' papers were short-listed for the best paper award at EC-TEL 2018.([[News#2018-08-13|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Roya Hosseini defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Program Construction Examples in Computer Science Education: From Static Text to Adaptive and Engaging Learning Technology'.([[News#2018-07-24|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Yun Huang defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Learner Modeling for Integration Skills in Programming' ([[News#2018-07-05|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* PAWS Lab scores thrice at IUI 2018  ([[News#2018-03-08|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Julio Guerra defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Open Learner Models for Self-Regulated Learning: Exploring the Effects of Social Comparison and Granularity'.([[News#2017-10-24|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Suleehs | Danielle Lee]] moves to Sangmyung University as an assistant professor  ([[News#2017-08-17|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Two PAWS papers were nominated and one received Best Paper Awards at UMAP 2017  ([[News#2017-07-11|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
*  [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring.  ([[News#2017-02-21|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
*  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor  ([[News#2016-11-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Maria Harrington moves to University of Central Florida as an Assistant Professor ([[News#2016-08-15 |details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: ''Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'', will start as an Assistant Professor in University of Albany  ([[News#2016-07-21|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board.  ([[News#2016-05-13|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] received Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship for the academic year 2016-2017. ([[News#2016-03-04|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
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* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]]   ([[News#2016-02-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: ''Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities''.  ([[News#2015-04-15|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ([[News#2014-11-11|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Tomek Loboda, [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] , and [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ([[News#2014-09-19|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User: Yuh43 | Yun Huang]] has been nominated for the best paper award at the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2014). ([[News#2014-07-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] finished her 2nd year postdoc in Columbia University and starts  as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall ([[News#2014-05-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: /* &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-07-05&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-07-05&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Yun Huang defended her Ph. D. Thesis */&lt;/p&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-07-24&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-07-24&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Roya Hosseini defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Program Construction Examples in Computer Science Education: From Static Text to Adaptive and Engaging Learning Technology'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-07-05&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-07-05&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Huang]] defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang defended her Ph. D. Thesis titled 'Learner Modeling for Integration Skills in Programming'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-03-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-03-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  PAWS Lab scores thrice at IUI 2018 ====&lt;br /&gt;
PAWS Lab took almost the whole podium at [https://iui.acm.org/2018/ IUI 2018] award ceremony. Hyman Tsai receives an honorable mention for the best student paper award. [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]]  with now his own advisee Ivania Donoso also got an honorable mention. And finally, our recent visitor Cecilia di Sciascio did win the best student paper award for a paper &amp;quot;A Study on User-Controllable Social Exploratory Search&amp;quot; with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Eduardo Veas.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-10-24&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-10-24&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]] defended his Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Julio Guerra defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Open Learner Models for Self-Regulated Learning: Exploring the Effects of Social Comparison and Granularity'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-08-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-08-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]] moves to  Sangmyung University as an assistant professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]]  has joined [http://www.smuc.ac.kr/mbs/eng/index.jsp  Sangmyung University]  (Korea) as an assistant professor at the Department of Software on August 17, 2017. Previously, Danielle was an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Bothel.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-07-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-07-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Two PAWS papers were nominated and one received Best Paper Awards at   UMAP 2017 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Two papers - [https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079672 Stereotype Modeling for Problem-Solving Performance Predictions in MOOCs and Traditional Courses] and  [https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079682 Fine-Grained Open Learner Models: Complexity Versus Support] were nominated for the best paper award at [http://www.um.org/umap2017/ UMAP2017] – 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. The second paper lead by Julio Guerra and Jordan Barria-Pineda received [http://www.um.org/awards/james-chen-best-student-paper-awards James Chen Best Student Paper award]. Congratulations to Julio and Jordan who now joined former PAWS lab members Rosta Farzan, [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]], and [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] as recipients of this prestigious award. This is 6th James Chen award won by PAWS lab members! Rosta Farzan received this award twice as a student and once more as a senior co-author.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-02-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-02-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our mentor at PAWS, Dr. Peter Brusilovsky, on receiving the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring!  Read more on [http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=42853 University Times]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-11-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-11-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to  Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] has joined [http://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/department-of-information-and-computing-sciences the Department of Information and Computing Sciences] at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). The tenure-track position in computer science with the focus on educational technology started on November 1st, 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Maria Harrington moves to  University of Central Florida as an Assistant Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [http://svad.cah.ucf.edu/staff.php?id=1350 Maria Harrington]  has joined [https://www.ucf.edu/  University of Central Florida]  as an Assistant Professor at the [http://svad.cah.ucf.edu/ School of Visual Arts and Design]. This is a great place to continue her work on educational virtual reality. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-07-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-07-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'. More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/29220/ here]. She will join the University of Albany as an Assistant Professor in September 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-05-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-05-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board  ====&lt;br /&gt;
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Two SIS faculty members on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board. &lt;br /&gt;
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Peter Brusilovsky, professor and current chair of the Information Sciences program, and Rosta Farzan, assistant professor of Information Sciences &amp;amp; Technology, have been selected as associate editors of the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) new journal titled “Transactions on Social Computing.”&lt;br /&gt;
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This quarterly journal will publish works encompassing theoretical, empirical, systems, and design research on social computing. It will be part of the ACM Digital Library, which is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-03-04&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-03-04&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Congratulations to [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] for receiving Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang and Roya Hosseini received prestigious Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award for the academic year 2016-2017.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-02-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-02-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou gave a talk on the topic of &amp;quot;Personalized Crowdsourcing&amp;quot; ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Lykourentzou  illustrated the potential that personalization has for the improvement of crowdsourcing systems, through two example applications. The first application was about making personalized task recommendations to crowd workers, and the second application was about personalizing team building, i.e. a method that brings people to work together on a collaborating task taking into account their individual personalities. &lt;br /&gt;
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At the time, Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou was a researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology and was collaborating with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, as Visiting Researcher.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]  and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He (project lead and co-lead respectively) has been awarded a Nation Science Foundation Information and Intelligent Systems grant for their project titled “[[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]].” The project will focus on streamlining and expanding the reach of effective adaptive educational hypermedia, which allows students and independent learners without access to traditional classrooms to gain a personalized education.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-04-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-04-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities'. ====&lt;br /&gt;
More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/25836/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-11-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-11-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;, and presented his research on Recommender Systems. &lt;br /&gt;
Please find the slides [http://www.slideshare.net/denisparra/keynote-at-chilean-week-of-computer-science here].&lt;br /&gt;
The abstract of the talk is also available at the home page of the event, JCC 2014. [http://www.jcc2014.ucm.cl/en/ (more)].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-09-19&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-09-19&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: PAWS won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Tomek, [[User:Julio | Julio]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya]], and [[User:peterb| Peter]]! Their paper entitled &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266656951_Mastery_Grids_An_Open_Source_Social_Educational_Progress_Visualization Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization]&amp;quot; has won the best paper award of EC-TEL 2014 conference. More details on the paper can be accessed [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-11200-8_18 here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-05-06&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-05-06&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] is appointed as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall.====&lt;br /&gt;
On completing 2 years successful post-doctoral innovation fellow position in [http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu EdLab], Teachers College @ Columbia University, [[User: shoha99 | Sharon]] is moving onto a tenure-track position in [http://cidse.engineering.asu.edu School of Computing, Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering] (AKA: Engineering school) in [http://www.asu.edu Arizona State University], Phoenix, Arizona. She anticipates to continue working on the emerging topics of computational technologies in learning. Meanwhile, persistently dedicate to the course - [http://www.columbia.edu/~ih2240/dataviz/index.htm Data Visualization], which she established in [http://www.qmss.columbia.edu QMSS (Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences)], School of Arts &amp;amp; Sciences in [http://www.columbia.edu Columbia University]. For more details see [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-14-2014.php SIS news].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] to deliver a keynote at a WWW 2014 workshop. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter will deliver a keynote titled &amp;quot;Addictive Links: Engaging Students through Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Student Modeling&amp;quot; at [http://www2014.kr/program/webet-2014/ WebET 2014] - Workshop on Web-based Education Technologies at the Word Wide Web Conference in Seoul, Korea. The talk will present PAWS work on such systems as [[QuizGuide]], [[NavEx]], JavaGuide, [[Progressor]], and [[ProgressorPlus|Progressor+]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Jennifer | Yi-Ling(Jennifer) Lin]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan.====&lt;br /&gt;
Yi-Ling (Jennifer) joined the Information Management faculty at the National Sun Yat-Sen University [http://http://epage.mis.nsysu.edu.tw/files/11-1100-4988-1.php?Lang=en] where she is an Assistant Professor. She is teaching Java course and continues to cooperate with Paws Lab to explore the social comparison in cyberlearning.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-08-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-08-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] started a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.====&lt;br /&gt;
Denis joined the faculty at the School of Engineering in Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, [http://www.topuniversities.com/node/2261/ranking-details/latin-american-university-rankings/2013  ranked 2nd among Latinamerican Universities],  where he is an [http://www.ing.puc.cl/cuerpo-docente/parra-santander/ Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science]. At the undergraduate level, he is teaching a course that explores several topics for the major in Computer Science, and at the graduate level he teaches Data Mining in the [http://mpgi.ing.puc.cl/profesores.html  Master for Information Processing and Management]. He continues doing research on Recommender Systems, the topic he investigated while a student at the PAWS lab, and is also Analyzing Social Media, collaborating with PAWS lab student Xidao Wen, studying [http://www.christophtrattner.info/pubs/ht2014.pdf how Twitter is used in academic Conferences]. In addition, he is fostering collaboration between professor Brusilovsky and some areas of teaching such as Databases in the CS department at Catholic University.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-18&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-18&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[Systems#KnowledgeZoom | KnowledgeZoom]] paper receives ICALT 2013 Best full Paper Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to paws! &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256524709_KnowledgeZoom_for_Java_A_Concept-Based_Exam_Study_Tool_with_a_Zoomable_Open_Student_Model KnowledgeZoom for Java: A Concept Based Exam Study Tool with a Zoomable Open Student Model]&amp;quot; won the best full paper award of ICALT 2013 conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Falakmasir | Mohammad Falakmasir]] won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Mohammad! His paper with Zachary A. Pardos, Geoffrey J. Gordon, and Peter Brusilovsky entitled &amp;quot;A Spectral Learning Approach to Knowledge Tracing&amp;quot; won the best student paper award of EDM 2013 conference. In his paper, he proposed using Spectral Learning (SL) to learn the BKT parameters.  Results of his study showed that SL can improve knowledge tracing parameter fitting time significantly while maintaining the same prediction accuracy. For more details on his paper please refer to his article [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/presentation2.php?presentationID=5323&amp;amp;conferenceID=115]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair. ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]], has been selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair by the Fulbright Commission. With this Award Peter will spend 5 month in FInland collaborating with researchers from University of Helsinki, Aalto University, and Helsinki Institute of Information Technology. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky, Professor at the iSchool, has been awarded a contract by the United States Army Contracting Command to participate in the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. Brusilovsky’ s contract, for $623,005 over a three-year period, will support the project [[Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Learner Modeling for PAL]] that will focus on the architecture, algorithms, and interfaces for a Personal Assistant for Learning (PAL), one of the major endeavors undertaken by the ADL Initiative. Through a PAL, the Initiative will provide state of the art education and training -- using technology and innovative learning methodologies -- for workforce members in the Department of Defense and the federal government. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-04-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-04-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Sergey Sosnovsky profiled in International Innovation ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky, who earned his PhD in Information Science in 2012, was recently profiled in International Innovation Magazine about his work on eLearning systems research and tools. Sosnovsky is the Principal Researcher and Head of the Intelligent e-Learning Technology Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbruken, Germany. The article explored his work on the Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content project funded by the European Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service. The magazine article (published March 2013) discussed how Sosnovsky’s project will enhance adaptive e-Learning by making it possible to develop smart instructional material for a broader audience of content authors. The article can be viewed at [[http://www.research-europe.com/magazine/REGIONAL/EX8/index.html]] , beginning on page 71.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-01-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-01-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt  IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies]. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter is appointed the Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, a journal dedicated to advancing the state of the art in technology-enhanced learning. This quarterly publication covers leading edge research on topics such as educational software applications, online learning systems, and simulation systems for education and training. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/3-11-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-08-26&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Rosta! After 3 years as a postdoc at CMU, she is now back to Pitt as an Assistant Professor. During her first semester at SIS she is teaching IS2430 Social Computing course. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-02-2012.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] Thesis Defence: Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
A large number of educational resources is now made available on the Web to support both regular classroom learning and online learning. However, the abundance of available content produced at least two problems: how to help students to find the most appropriate resources and how to engage them into using these resources and benefit from them. Personalized and social learning have been suggested as potential ways to address these problems.&lt;br /&gt;
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This work attempts to combine the ideas of personalized and social learning by providing navigation support through an open social student modeling visualization. A series of classroom studies exploited the idea of the approach and revealed promising results, which demonstrated the personalized guidance and social visualization combined helped students to find the most relevant resources of parameterized self-assessment questions for Java programming. Thus, this dissertation extend the approach to a larger collection of learning objects for cross content navigation and verify its capability of supporting social visualization for personalized E-Learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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The study results confirm that working with the non-mandatory system, students enhanced the learning quality in increasing their motivation and engagement. They successfully achieved better learning results. Meanwhile, incorporating a mixed collection of content in the open social student modeling visualizations effectively led the students to work at the right level of questions. Both strong and weak student worked with the appropriate levels of questions for their readiness accordingly and yielded a consistent performance across all three levels of complexities. Additionally, providing a more realistic content collection on the navigation supported open social student modeling visualizations results in a uniform performance in the group. The classroom study revealed a clear pattern of social guidance, where the stronger students left the traces for weaker ones to follow. The subjective evaluation confirms the design of the interface in terms of the content organization. Students’ positive responses also compliment the objective system usage data.&lt;br /&gt;
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download it from [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/13439/ here]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-11-30&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-11-30&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Thesis Defence: Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Conventional closed-corpus adaptive information systems control limited sets of documents in fixed subject domains and cannot provide access to the content outside the system. Such restrictions contradict the requirements of today, when most of the information systems are implemented in the open document space of WWW and are expected to operate on the open-corpus content. In order to maintain personalized access to open-corpus documents, an adaptive system should be able to model the documents and the relations between the documents and the domain knowledge automatically and dynamically. This dissertation explores the problem of open-corpus personalization and semantic modeling of open-corpus content in the context of e-Learning. Information on WWW is not without structure. Many collections of online instructional material (tutorials, electronic books, digital libraries, etc.) have been provided with implicit knowledge models encoded in form of tables of content, indexes, headers of chapters, links between pages, and different styles of text fragments. The main dissertation approach tries to leverage this layer of hidden semantics by extracting and representing it as coarse-grained models of collections. A central domain ontology is used to maintain overlay modeling of studentsÕ knowledge and serves as a reference point for multiple collections of external instructional material. In order to establish the link between the ontology and the open-corpus content models a special ontology mapping algorithm has been developed.  The proposed approach has been applied in the Ontology-based Open-corpus Personalization Service (OOPS) that recommends and adaptively annotates online reading material. The domain of Java programming has been chosen for the proof-of-concept implementation. A controlled experiment has been organized to evaluate the developed adaptive system and the proposed approach overall. The results of the evaluation have demonstrated several significant learning effects of the implemented open-corpus personalization. The analysis of log-based data has also shown that the open-corpus version of the system is capable of providing personalization of similar quality to the close-corpus one. Such results indicate that the proposed approach supports fully-scale open-corpus personalization for e-Learning. Further research is required to verify if the approach remains effective in other subject domains and with other types of instructional content.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-07-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-07-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:DParra | Denis Parra]] earns a  James Chen Best Student paper award in UMAP 2011 ====&lt;br /&gt;
In the last conference of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011) Denis Parra won one of the 2 [http://www.umap2011.org/program/best-paper-awards James Chen Best Student paper awards] for his paper '''Walk The Talk: Analyzing the relation between implicit and explicit feedback for preference elicitation''' that he co-authored with Dr. Xavier Amatriain. In this paper, the authors present a study on the music domain with last.fm users, which results leads them to create a regression model that maps implicit information (such as playcounts and how recently a user listened to albums) with explicit information in the form of ratings. More details in the [http://www.springerlink.com/content/645721483544r815/  conference proceedings in Springer]. Denis is the third PAWS Lab member to receive this prestigious award. Prior to that, Rosta Farzan and Michael Yudelson won this award at earlier User Modeling conferences. Rosta also won another James Chen award at Adaptive Hypermedia conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] Promoted to Rank of Full Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our head of PAWS lab! [[http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/06-10-2011.php Read more ]]&lt;br /&gt;
==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon]] received 2011 Allen Kent Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Graduate Program in Information Science ==== &lt;br /&gt;
She has worked with [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gray/ Dr. Glenn Ray] several years in designing and teaching undergraduate courses. She's affiliated as teaching fellow and teaches in our school now.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-12-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-12-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] received Google grant to work on ''[[Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities]]'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
The grant will support our efforts to increase user participation in social systems designed for local communities. In the course of the project will explore two innovative ideas for increasing participation. The first idea is to provide access to information “beyond the desktop,” by adding a mobile location-based interface to access information. This will increase both the number of active users and the volume of their contributions. The second idea is to provide personalized access to information to increase the chance to gather relevant information. This work will be based on two existing social systems that were developed and maintained by PAWs lab: the [[Systems#CoMeT | CoMeT]] system for sharing information about research talks at Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh and [[Systems#Eventur | Eventur]], a social system for recommending cultural events in the Pittsburgh area.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] Thesis Defence: Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System ====&lt;br /&gt;
The dissertation proposes a novel way of speeding the development of new adaptive hypermedia systems. The gist of the approach is to extract the adaptation functionality out of the adaptive hypermedia system, encapsulate it into a standalone system, and offer adaptation as a service to the client applications. Such a standalone adaptation provider reduces the development of adaptation functionality to configuration and compliance and as a result creates new adaptive systems faster and helps serve larger user populations with adaptively accessible content. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=777 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
The electronic version of [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] dissertation has been approved by the School of Information Sciences. ETD is accessible worldwide from the online library catalog of the University of Pittsburgh ([http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-10132010-092137/ link]).&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This EAGER grant will allow us to investigate how to model and visualize latent communities – those groups of people who form communities based on their similar interests. This work will consider how to elicit latent communities from various kinds of data about individuals available in the modern social Web and deliver the results in a manner suitable for interactive exploration through interactive visualizations. This will be one of the first attempts to use a variety of social Web data and approaches to community modeling. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1059577 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] Thesis Defence: Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn's dissertation proposes to incorporate interactive visualization into personalized search in order to overcome the limitation. By combining the personalized search and the interactive visualization, we expect our approach will be able to help users to better explore the information space and locate relevant information more efficiently. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=764 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This one-year grant will support a project exploring personalization and social networking for short-term communities. Using academic research conferences as a test bed, our team will explore new methods to leverage information about user interests (available from multiple external resources) and develop techniques to facilitate use of existing social technologies. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1052768 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-08-15 :: SIGWeb Newsletter published an interview with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
The Summer 2010 issue of SIGWeb Newsletter (a magazine of ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web) published an [http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1796390.1796393 interview with Peter Brusilovsky]. The interview provides some personal view on research project performed at PAWS.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-07-01 :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook]] has received Computing Inovation Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn was chosen as a [http://cifellows.org  CIFellow] (Computing Innovation Fellow) supported by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the Computing Research Association (CRA), and the National Science Foundation.  Starting from the fall 2010, he is going to work with [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/ Dr. Ben Shneiderman] at the [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil Human Computer Interaction Lab], University of Maryland.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-05-01 :: Sergey has received EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky's proposal for EU [http://cordis.europa.eu/improving/fellowships/home.htm Marie Curie Fellowship] is approved by the EU Research Executive Agency. The funding starts in July, 2010 and will last until July 2012. The project &amp;quot;Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content&amp;quot; will focus on implementation of author-friendly technologies for learning content development, including collaborative authoring support, metadata authoring support, open-corpus content discovery, interactivity authoring, and gap detection.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-27 :: Rosta receives her second James Chen Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rosta Farzan received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 12th International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP2009, in Trento, Italy for the paper ''Social Navigation Support for Information Seeking: If You Build It, Will They Come?'' by Rosta Farzan and Peter Brusilovsky. This is her second James Chen Award, congratulations!&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-26 :: PAWS Caught on UMAP 2009 Video ====&lt;br /&gt;
* 0:27 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:09 [[User:Rostaf|Rosta]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:18 [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:51 [[User:Suleehs|Danielle]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 3:12 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]] and [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 4:01 [[User:Peterb|Peter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-05-28 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] awarded honorary doctorate by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava ====&lt;br /&gt;
At a ceremony in Bratislava today, Peter Brusilovsky was honored by the [http://www.stuba.sk/ Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava] with the degree of Doctor honoris causa. The university, founded in 1937 in Bratislava, is one of the most significant institutions of higher education in Slovakia. Peter was selected for this recognition for &amp;quot;his contributions to the fields of Informatics and Information Technologies&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2008-07-31 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] receives Best Paper Award at AH 2008 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky received Best Paper Award at the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2008, in Hannover, Germany  for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/6h410u3w4836v866/ ''Social Information Access for the Rest of Us: An Exploration of Social YouTube''] by Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Brusilovsky, and Barry Smyth&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2007-06-28 :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael]] receives James Chen Best Student Paper Award at UM 2007 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Michael Yudelson received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on User Modelling, UM07, in Corfu, Greece for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/c723060442701737/ ''A User Modeling Server for Contemporary Adaptive Hypermedia: an Evaluation of Push Approach  to Evidence Propagation''] by Michael Yudelson, Peter Brusilovsky, and Vladimir Zadorozhny&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PAWS&amp;diff=3931</id>
		<title>PAWS</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: /* Most Recent News */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;== About PAWS ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Edm_2018.jpg|right|700px|EDM 2018 - Buffalo, NY]]&lt;br /&gt;
Personalized Adaptive Web Systems Lab was established in 2004 with support from National Science Foundation and the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. The goal of the PAWS Lab is development and evaluation of innovative user- and group-adaptive Web-based technologies, systems, and architectures. The Lab currently explores a range of user modeling, adaptation and personalization technologies. The work of the Lab is supported by NSF and DARPA funding.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Most Recent News ==&lt;br /&gt;
* Roya Hosseini defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Program Construction Examples in Computer Science Education: From Static Text to Adaptive and Engaging Learning Technology'.([[News#2018-07-24|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Yun Huang defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Learner Modeling for Integration Skills in Programming' ([[News#2018-07-05|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* PAWS Lab scores thrice at IUI 2018  ([[News#2018-03-08|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Julio Guerra defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Open Learner Models for Self-Regulated Learning: Exploring the Effects of Social Comparison and Granularity'.([[News#2017-10-24|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Suleehs | Danielle Lee]] moves to Sangmyung University as an assistant professor  ([[News#2017-08-17|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Two PAWS papers were nominated and one received Best Paper Awards at UMAP 2017  ([[News#2017-07-11|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
*  [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring.  ([[News#2017-02-21|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
*  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor  ([[News#2016-11-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Maria Harrington moves to University of Central Florida as an Assistant Professor ([[News#2016-08-15 |details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: ''Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'', will start as an Assistant Professor in University of Albany  ([[News#2016-07-21|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board.  ([[News#2016-05-13|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] received Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship for the academic year 2016-2017. ([[News#2016-03-04|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
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* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]]   ([[News#2016-02-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: ''Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities''.  ([[News#2015-04-15|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ([[News#2014-11-11|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Tomek Loboda, [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] , and [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ([[News#2014-09-19|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User: Yuh43 | Yun Huang]] has been nominated for the best paper award at the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2014). ([[News#2014-07-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] finished her 2nd year postdoc in Columbia University and starts  as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall ([[News#2014-05-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
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Go to [[News | News Page]] for all news.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Try PAWS Tools at our Community Portal == &lt;br /&gt;
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Go to [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt Knowledge Tree] portal and [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt/register.html create trial account] to try our tools.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~cagent/ CourseAgent]: Share evaluations of IS graduate courses at Pitt and plan your career.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://pittsburgh.comettalks.com/ Comet]: Share, tag, recommend and schedule interesting talks in Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://eventur.us/ Eventur]: Share and schedule cultural events in Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://www.computingportal.org/ Ensemble]: This cross-university collaborative effort aims to bring together the global community of computing educators around a growing set of content collections with high-quality educational resources.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yournews/ YourNews]: This is a personalized RSS news access portal with several levels of user modeling and feed recommendation. Read your news in a personalized way!&lt;br /&gt;
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If you are a researcher and would like to  quickly try our adaptation tools, create the trial account (link above) and proceed [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/cbum/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
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== PAWS Lab Contact Information ==&lt;br /&gt;
Information Sciences Building, Rm. 2A04&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
135 North Bellefield Avenue&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Tel: +1(412)624-9437&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>People</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: /* Doctoral Students */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;== Faculty ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Peter.jpg|'''[[User:Peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]'''&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Director&lt;br /&gt;
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== Doctoral Students ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery perrow=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Roya.jpg|[[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:yunhuang.png|[http://columbus.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yunhuang/index.htm Yun Huang]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Tsai.jpg|[http://www.cht77.com/ Chun-Hua Tsai]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Avatar.jpg|[http://pitt.edu/~hkc6 Hung Chau]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Jordan.jpeg|[http://pitt.edu/~jab464 Jordan Barria-Pineda]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Kamil.jpg|[http://pitt.edu/~kaa108 Kamil Akhuseyinoglu]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Visiting Scholars ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery perrow=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Past Doctoral Students ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery perrow=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Julio.jpg|[[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:xidao.jpg|[[User:Xidao| Xidao Wen]]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Shaghayeghsahebi.jpg|[[User:Sherry | Shaghayegh Sahebi (Sherry)]] &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Clau.JPG|[[User:Clau | Claudia López]] &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor in the Departamento de Informática, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Kong.png|[[User:Chirayu | Chirayu Wongchokprasitti]] &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt; Currently at the Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh&lt;br /&gt;
Image:jennifer.jpg|[[User:Jennifer | Jennifer (Yiling) Lin]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor in the department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University.&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Denis_PAWS_blog.jpg|[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department, School of Engineering at PUC Chile.&lt;br /&gt;
Image:jaewook-1.jpg|[[User:Jahn | Jae-wook Ahn]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Projects: [[ADVISE]], [[Adaptive VIBE]], [[YourNews]], [[YourSports]], [[TaskSieve]], [[NameSieve]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Research Staff Member, Cognitive Sciences and Education,IBM Research&lt;br /&gt;
Image:RostaFarzan.jpg|[[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor at School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Michael_V_Yudelson.gif|'''[[User:Myudelson | Michael V. Yudelson]]'''&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Projects: [[Knowledge Tree]], [[CUMULATE]], [[PERSEUS]], [[NavEx]], [[CoPE]], [[WebEx]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Sergey.jpg|[[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Currently Assistant Professor at Utrecht University (the Netherlands)&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Hsiao.jpg|[[User:Shoha99 | Sharon (I-Han) Hsiao]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Projects: [[AnnotEx]], [[QuizJET]], [[Progressor]], [[ProgressorPlus]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor @ CIDSE, Arizona State University&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Danielle.gif|[[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Projects: [[Eventur]], [[Proactive]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Software, Sangmyung University, Korea&lt;br /&gt;
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== Past Visiting Faculty ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery perrow=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Susan_bull.png|[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Susan_Bull2 Susan Bull]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Jaakko peltonen 215x296.jpg|[http://users.ics.aalto.fi/jtpelto// Jaakko Peltonen]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:IMG_0611.JPG|[http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~acristea/ Alexandra I. Cristea]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Sibel.jpg|[http://sibelsomyurek.com/ Sibel Somyürek]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:KatrienVerbert.jpg|[http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~katrien.verbert/KatrienVerbert/Katrien_Verbert.html Katrien Verbert]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Roman bednarik.png|[http://cs.uef.fi/~rbednari/ Roman Bednarik]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:TanjaMitrovic.jpg|[http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/tanja.mitrovic/ Tanja Mitrovic]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Eva millan.gif|[http://www.lcc.uma.es/~eva/ Eva Millán Valldeperas]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Julita vasilleva.gif|[http://www.cs.usask.ca/faculty/julita/ Julita Vassileva]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:NicolaHenze.gif|[http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~henze/ Nicola Henze]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Past Master Students ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery perrow=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Vikrant Khenat.jpg|[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~vkhenat/ Vikrant Khenat]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Tibor Dumitriu.gif|[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dumitriu/ Tibor Dumitriu]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Projects: [http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/advise/ AdVisE]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Past Visiting Scholars == &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery perrow=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Image:huhtamaki-jukka-300.jpg|[http://www.linkedin.com/in/jukkahuhtamaki Jukka Huhtamäki]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Postdoc Researcher, DSc (Tech), University of Tampere&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Andrew.jpg|Shuchen Li (Andrew) &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;From  Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Rafael.png|[https://rafaelrda.wordpress.com Rafael Dias Araújo]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Liping_wang.jpg|Liping Wang&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;From JiLin University&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Ayca cebi.jpg|[https://ktu.academia.edu/aycacebi Ayça ÇEBİ] &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;From Karadeniz Technical University&lt;br /&gt;
Image:File crop1 1183908 y 384.jpg|[https://people.aalto.fi/index.html?profilepage=isfor#!teemu_sirkia Teemu Sirkiä]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Michelle_liang.JPG|[http://www.tcs.fudan.edu.cn/~michelle/index.html Michelle Liang]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Pkraker.jpg|[http://science20.wordpress.com Peter Kraker] &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Marshall Plan Scholar &lt;br /&gt;
Image:Kim.jpg|Jaekyung Kim&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Jbravo.gif|[http://www.eps.uam.es/esp/personal/ficha.php?empid=367 Javier Bravo Agapito]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:MarkusKetterl1.jpg|[http://studip.serv.uni-osnabrueck.de/extern.php?username=mketterl&amp;amp;page_url=http://www.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de/VirtUOS/TemplStudipMitarbDetails&amp;amp;global_id=4c8fb9ddd4dde83366119b2031d39ab3 Markus Ketterl]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Jillfreyne.jpg|[http://www.csi.ucd.ie/users/jill-freyne Jill Freyne]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Robert.jpg|Robert Mertens&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Roman bednarik.png|[http://www.cs.joensuu.fi/~rbednari/ Roman bednarik]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Ewald ramp.jpg|Ewald W. A. Ramp&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Jacopo.jpg|Jacopo Armani&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Yetunde.JPG|Yetunde Folajimi&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Chris_face.jpg|[http://www.austria-lexikon.at/af/User/Trattner%20Christoph Christof Trattner]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/gallery&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Cskamil</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=People&amp;diff=3929</id>
		<title>People</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=People&amp;diff=3929"/>
		<updated>2018-07-26T15:22:50Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: /* Doctoral Students */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;== Faculty ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Peter.jpg|'''[[User:Peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]'''&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Director&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Doctoral Students ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery perrow=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Roya.jpg|[[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:yunhuang.png|[http://columbus.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yunhuang/index.htm Yun Huang]]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Tsai.jpg|[http://www.cht77.com/ Chun-Hua Tsai]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Avatar.jpg|[http://pitt.edu/~hkc6 Hung Chau]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Jordan.jpeg|[http://pitt.edu/~jab464 Jordan Barria-Pineda]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Kamil.jpg|[http://pitt.edu/~kaa108 Kamil Akhuseyinoglu]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Visiting Scholars ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery perrow=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Past Doctoral Students ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery perrow=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Julio.jpg|[[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:xidao.jpg|[[User:Xidao| Xidao Wen]]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Shaghayeghsahebi.jpg|[[User:Sherry | Shaghayegh Sahebi (Sherry)]] &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Clau.JPG|[[User:Clau | Claudia López]] &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor in the Departamento de Informática, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Kong.png|[[User:Chirayu | Chirayu Wongchokprasitti]] &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt; Currently at the Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh&lt;br /&gt;
Image:jennifer.jpg|[[User:Jennifer | Jennifer (Yiling) Lin]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor in the department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University.&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Denis_PAWS_blog.jpg|[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department, School of Engineering at PUC Chile.&lt;br /&gt;
Image:jaewook-1.jpg|[[User:Jahn | Jae-wook Ahn]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Projects: [[ADVISE]], [[Adaptive VIBE]], [[YourNews]], [[YourSports]], [[TaskSieve]], [[NameSieve]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Research Staff Member, Cognitive Sciences and Education,IBM Research&lt;br /&gt;
Image:RostaFarzan.jpg|[[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor at School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Michael_V_Yudelson.gif|'''[[User:Myudelson | Michael V. Yudelson]]'''&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Projects: [[Knowledge Tree]], [[CUMULATE]], [[PERSEUS]], [[NavEx]], [[CoPE]], [[WebEx]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Sergey.jpg|[[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Currently Assistant Professor at Utrecht University (the Netherlands)&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Hsiao.jpg|[[User:Shoha99 | Sharon (I-Han) Hsiao]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Projects: [[AnnotEx]], [[QuizJET]], [[Progressor]], [[ProgressorPlus]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor @ CIDSE, Arizona State University&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Danielle.gif|[[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Projects: [[Eventur]], [[Proactive]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Software, Sangmyung University, Korea&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Past Visiting Faculty ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery perrow=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Susan_bull.png|[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Susan_Bull2 Susan Bull]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Jaakko peltonen 215x296.jpg|[http://users.ics.aalto.fi/jtpelto// Jaakko Peltonen]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:IMG_0611.JPG|[http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~acristea/ Alexandra I. Cristea]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Sibel.jpg|[http://sibelsomyurek.com/ Sibel Somyürek]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:KatrienVerbert.jpg|[http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~katrien.verbert/KatrienVerbert/Katrien_Verbert.html Katrien Verbert]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Roman bednarik.png|[http://cs.uef.fi/~rbednari/ Roman Bednarik]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:TanjaMitrovic.jpg|[http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/tanja.mitrovic/ Tanja Mitrovic]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Eva millan.gif|[http://www.lcc.uma.es/~eva/ Eva Millán Valldeperas]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Julita vasilleva.gif|[http://www.cs.usask.ca/faculty/julita/ Julita Vassileva]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:NicolaHenze.gif|[http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~henze/ Nicola Henze]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Past Master Students ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery perrow=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Vikrant Khenat.jpg|[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~vkhenat/ Vikrant Khenat]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Tibor Dumitriu.gif|[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dumitriu/ Tibor Dumitriu]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Projects: [http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/advise/ AdVisE]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Past Visiting Scholars == &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery perrow=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Image:huhtamaki-jukka-300.jpg|[http://www.linkedin.com/in/jukkahuhtamaki Jukka Huhtamäki]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Postdoc Researcher, DSc (Tech), University of Tampere&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Andrew.jpg|Shuchen Li (Andrew) &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;From  Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Rafael.png|[https://rafaelrda.wordpress.com Rafael Dias Araújo]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Liping_wang.jpg|Liping Wang&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;From JiLin University&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Ayca cebi.jpg|[https://ktu.academia.edu/aycacebi Ayça ÇEBİ] &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;From Karadeniz Technical University&lt;br /&gt;
Image:File crop1 1183908 y 384.jpg|[https://people.aalto.fi/index.html?profilepage=isfor#!teemu_sirkia Teemu Sirkiä]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Michelle_liang.JPG|[http://www.tcs.fudan.edu.cn/~michelle/index.html Michelle Liang]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Pkraker.jpg|[http://science20.wordpress.com Peter Kraker] &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Marshall Plan Scholar &lt;br /&gt;
Image:Kim.jpg|Jaekyung Kim&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Jbravo.gif|[http://www.eps.uam.es/esp/personal/ficha.php?empid=367 Javier Bravo Agapito]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:MarkusKetterl1.jpg|[http://studip.serv.uni-osnabrueck.de/extern.php?username=mketterl&amp;amp;page_url=http://www.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de/VirtUOS/TemplStudipMitarbDetails&amp;amp;global_id=4c8fb9ddd4dde83366119b2031d39ab3 Markus Ketterl]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Jillfreyne.jpg|[http://www.csi.ucd.ie/users/jill-freyne Jill Freyne]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Robert.jpg|Robert Mertens&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Roman bednarik.png|[http://www.cs.joensuu.fi/~rbednari/ Roman bednarik]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Ewald ramp.jpg|Ewald W. A. Ramp&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Jacopo.jpg|Jacopo Armani&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Yetunde.JPG|Yetunde Folajimi&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Chris_face.jpg|[http://www.austria-lexikon.at/af/User/Trattner%20Christoph Christof Trattner]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/gallery&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Cskamil</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PCEX&amp;diff=3928</id>
		<title>PCEX</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PCEX&amp;diff=3928"/>
		<updated>2018-07-26T15:21:26Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Program Construction Examples (PCEX) is an interactive learning tool which demonstrates program construction examples to help students to develop program construction skills. It supports exploring the program construction examples freely and provide challenges to the students to help them self-assess their learning of program construction knowledge. Each ''example'' provides a goal that specify the given example’s functionality. Each ''challenge'' is designed closely to the examples provided with faded lines. Students need to drag-drop provided sample lines to complete a program to accomplish the provided program goal. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== PCEX Interface ==&lt;br /&gt;
===Example===&lt;br /&gt;
The first screenshot is from an example in PCEX about celsius to fahrenheit conversion with interactive explanation of the selected line (highlighted in yellow) &lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Pcex_ex.PNG|600px]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Challenge===&lt;br /&gt;
The second screenshot is from an challenge in PCEX which is the ‘challenge’ of the previously shown example. Here the goal of the program is to complete the program which converts fahrenheit to celsius. In the current screenshot, the student made a mistake in one of the missing lines and got immediate feedback stating that the output of the current program is different from the expected one. Student may see the details of the error or request for a hint which basically describes the explanation of that missing line.  &lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Pcex_ch.PNG|600px]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Available Domains ==&lt;br /&gt;
PCEX smart content is available to be used with Java and Python programming languages.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Cskamil</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PCEX&amp;diff=3927</id>
		<title>PCEX</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PCEX&amp;diff=3927"/>
		<updated>2018-07-26T15:21:03Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Program Construction Examples (PCEX) is an interactive learning tool which demonstrates program construction examples to help students to develop program construction skills. It supports exploring the program construction examples freely and provide challenges to the students to help them self-assess their learning of program construction knowledge. Each ''example'' provides a goal that specify the given example’s functionality. Each ''challenge'' is designed closely to the examples provided with faded lines. Students need to drag-drop provided sample lines to complete a program to accomplish the provided program goal. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
=== PCEX Interface ===&lt;br /&gt;
The first screenshot is from an example in PCEX about celsius to fahrenheit conversion with interactive explanation of the selected line (highlighted in yellow) &lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Pcex_ex.PNG|600px]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The second screenshot is from an challenge in PCEX which is the ‘challenge’ of the previously shown example. Here the goal of the program is to complete the program which converts fahrenheit to celsius. In the current screenshot, the student made a mistake in one of the missing lines and got immediate feedback stating that the output of the current program is different from the expected one. Student may see the details of the error or request for a hint which basically describes the explanation of that missing line.  &lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Pcex_ch.PNG|600px]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Available Domains ==&lt;br /&gt;
PCEX smart content is available to be used with Java and Python programming languages.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Cskamil</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PCEX&amp;diff=3926</id>
		<title>PCEX</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PCEX&amp;diff=3926"/>
		<updated>2018-07-26T15:20:54Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Program Construction Examples (PCEX) is an interactive learning tool which demonstrates program construction examples to help students to develop program construction skills. It supports exploring the program construction examples freely and provide challenges to the students to help them self-assess their learning of program construction knowledge. Each ''example'' provides a goal that specify the given example’s functionality. Each ''challenge'' is designed closely to the examples provided with faded lines. Students need to drag-drop provided sample lines to complete a program to accomplish the provided program goal. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
= PCEX Interface =&lt;br /&gt;
The first screenshot is from an example in PCEX about celsius to fahrenheit conversion with interactive explanation of the selected line (highlighted in yellow) &lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Pcex_ex.PNG|600px]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The second screenshot is from an challenge in PCEX which is the ‘challenge’ of the previously shown example. Here the goal of the program is to complete the program which converts fahrenheit to celsius. In the current screenshot, the student made a mistake in one of the missing lines and got immediate feedback stating that the output of the current program is different from the expected one. Student may see the details of the error or request for a hint which basically describes the explanation of that missing line.  &lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Pcex_ch.PNG|600px]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Available Domains ==&lt;br /&gt;
PCEX smart content is available to be used with Java and Python programming languages.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Cskamil</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PCEX&amp;diff=3925</id>
		<title>PCEX</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PCEX&amp;diff=3925"/>
		<updated>2018-07-26T15:20:42Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Program Construction Examples (PCEX) is an interactive learning tool which demonstrates program construction examples to help students to develop program construction skills. It supports exploring the program construction examples freely and provide challenges to the students to help them self-assess their learning of program construction knowledge. Each ''example'' provides a goal that specify the given example’s functionality. Each ''challenge'' is designed closely to the examples provided with faded lines. Students need to drag-drop provided sample lines to complete a program to accomplish the provided program goal. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== PCEX Interface ==&lt;br /&gt;
The first screenshot is from an example in PCEX about celsius to fahrenheit conversion with interactive explanation of the selected line (highlighted in yellow) &lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Pcex_ex.PNG|600px]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The second screenshot is from an challenge in PCEX which is the ‘challenge’ of the previously shown example. Here the goal of the program is to complete the program which converts fahrenheit to celsius. In the current screenshot, the student made a mistake in one of the missing lines and got immediate feedback stating that the output of the current program is different from the expected one. Student may see the details of the error or request for a hint which basically describes the explanation of that missing line.  &lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Pcex_ch.PNG|600px]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Available Domains ==&lt;br /&gt;
PCEX smart content is available to be used with Java and Python programming languages.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Cskamil</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PCEX&amp;diff=3924</id>
		<title>PCEX</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PCEX&amp;diff=3924"/>
		<updated>2018-07-26T15:17:52Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Program Construction Examples (PCEX) is an interactive learning tool which demonstrates program construction examples to help students to develop program construction skills. It supports exploring the program construction examples freely and provide challenges to the students to help them self-assess their learning of program construction knowledge. Each ''example'' provides a goal that specify the given example’s functionality. Each ''challenge'' is designed closely to the examples provided with faded lines. Students need to drag-drop provided sample lines to complete a program to accomplish the provided program goal. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== PCEX Interface ==&lt;br /&gt;
The first screenshot is from an example in PCEX about celsius to fahrenheit conversion with interactive explanation of the selected line (highlighted in yellow) &lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Pcex_ex.PNG|600px]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The second screenshot is from an challenge in PCEX which is the ‘challenge’ of the previously shown example. Here the goal of the program is to complete the program which converts fahrenheit to celsius. The student made a mistake in one of the missing lines.&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Pcex_ch.PNG|600px]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Available Domains ==&lt;br /&gt;
PCEX smart content is available to be used with Java and Python programming languages.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Cskamil</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PCEX&amp;diff=3923</id>
		<title>PCEX</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PCEX&amp;diff=3923"/>
		<updated>2018-07-26T15:17:10Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Program Construction Examples (PCEX) is an interactive learning tool which demonstrates program construction examples to help students to develop program construction skills. It supports exploring the program construction examples freely and provide challenges to the students to help them self-assess their learning of program construction knowledge. Each ''example'' provides a goal that specify the given example’s functionality. Each ''challenge'' is designed closely to the examples provided with faded lines. Students need to drag-drop provided sample lines to complete a program to accomplish the provided program goal. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== PCEX Interface ==&lt;br /&gt;
The first screenshot is from an example in PCEX about celsius to fahrenheit conversion with interactive explanation of the selected line (highlighted in yellow) &lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Pcex_ex.PNG|600px]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The second screenshot is from an challenge in PCEX which is the ‘challenge’ of the previously shown example. Here the goal of the program is to complete the program which converts fahrenheit to celsius. The student made a mistake in one of the missing lines.&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Pcex_ch.PNG|600px]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Available Domains ==&lt;br /&gt;
PCEX smart content is available to be used with Java and Python programming languages.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Cskamil</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PCEX&amp;diff=3922</id>
		<title>PCEX</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PCEX&amp;diff=3922"/>
		<updated>2018-07-26T15:15:23Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Program Construction Examples (PCEX) is an interactive learning tool which demonstrates program construction examples to help students to develop program construction skills. It supports exploring the program construction examples freely and provide challenges to the students to help them self-assess their learning of program construction knowledge. Each ''example'' provides a goal that specify the given example’s functionality. Each ''challenge'' is designed closely to the examples provided with faded lines. Students need to drag-drop provided sample lines to complete a program to accomplish the provided program goal. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== PCEX Interface ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Pcex_ex.PNG|800px]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Pcex_ch.PNG|800px]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Available Domains ==&lt;br /&gt;
PCEX smart content is available to be used with Java and Python programming languages.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PCEX&amp;diff=3921</id>
		<title>PCEX</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Program Construction Examples (PCEX) is an interactive learning tool which demonstrates program construction examples to help students to develop program construction skills. It supports exploring the program construction examples freely and provide challenges to the students to help them self-assess their learning of program construction knowledge. Each ''example'' provides a goal that specify the given example’s functionality. Each ''challenge'' is designed closely to the examples provided with faded lines. Students need to drag-drop provided sample lines to complete a program to accomplish the provided program goal. &lt;br /&gt;
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== PCEX Interface ==&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Pcex_ex.PNG|800px]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Available Domains ==&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: Program Construction Examples interface for challenges&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Program Construction Examples interface for challenges&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PCEX&amp;diff=3919</id>
		<title>PCEX</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Program Construction Examples (PCEX) is an interactive learning tool which demonstrates program construction examples to help students to develop program construction skills. It supports exploring the program construction examples freely and provide challenges to the students to help them self-assess their learning of program construction knowledge. Each ''example'' provides a goal that specify the given example’s functionality. Each ''challenge'' is designed closely to the examples provided with faded lines. Students need to drag-drop provided sample lines to complete a program to accomplish the provided program goal. &lt;br /&gt;
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== PCEX Interface ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Pcex_ex.PNG|800px]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Available Domains ==&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PCEX&amp;diff=3918</id>
		<title>PCEX</title>
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&lt;div&gt;Program Construction Examples (PCEX) is an interactive learning tool which demonstrates program construction examples to help students to develop program construction skills. It supports exploring the program construction examples freely and provide challenges to the students to help them self-assess their learning of program construction knowledge. Each ''example'' provides a goal that specify the given example’s functionality. Each ''challenge'' is designed closely to the examples provided with faded lines. Students need to drag-drop provided sample lines to complete a program to accomplish the provided program goal. &lt;br /&gt;
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== PCEX Interface ==&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:Pcex_ex|800px]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Available Domains ==&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&lt;div&gt;Program Construction Examples (PCEX) is an interactive learning tool which demonstrates program construction examples to help students to develop program construction skills. It supports exploring the program construction examples freely and provide challenges to the students to help them self-assess their learning of program construction knowledge. Each ''example'' provides a goal that specify the given example’s functionality. Each ''challenge'' is designed closely to the examples provided with faded lines. Students need to drag-drop provided sample lines to complete a program to accomplish the provided program goal. &lt;br /&gt;
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== PCEX Interface ==&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:MG1.jpg|800px]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Available Domains ==&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Systems</title>
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&lt;div&gt;This page is a quick overview of the systems and frameworks developed at [[Main Page|PAWS]] lab.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:adapt2-arcitecture.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; Architecture]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; (read adapt-square) - Advanced Distributed Architecture for Personalized Teaching and Training - is a framework targeted at providing personalization and adaptation services for developers of content that lacks personalization. [[ADAPT2|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== AdVisE (Adaptive Document Visualization for Education)  ==&lt;br /&gt;
==== ADVISE 2D ====&lt;br /&gt;
Two dimensional document visualization based on inter-document similarities. The locations of the documents on the 2D space are determined by their similarities to another documents and users can visually see the relationships of the documents based on their contents.&lt;br /&gt;
==== ADVISE 3D ====&lt;br /&gt;
Three dimensional visualization of documents based on similarities. By adding one more dimension to 2D visualization, users are able to explore the document space more easily and access each document.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==== ADVISE VIBE ====&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Relevance-based visualization of educational documents based on re-implementation of VIBE, a document visualization method based on similarities between documents and POIs (Points Of Interests) developed by Molde College and School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
([http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/advise more on ADVISE])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Adaptive VIBE==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:AdaptiveVibe_part.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Adaptive VIBE]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Two dimensional visualization based on POIs(Point Of Interest, or concepts) and document similarities. The position of the documents are calculated by their relationships with each POI. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~codex/tasksieve System Link] (Adaptive VIBE integrated into TaskSieve)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Adaptive_VIBE | more on Adaptive VIBE]]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== AnnotatEd ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:ated.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|AnnotatEd]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | AnnotatEd is a system that enables learners to annotate online pages while keeping track of all activities of learners. AnnotatEd uses the learners' activity information to offer ''social navigation support'' for hyperlinks inside the AnnotatEd system. ([[AnnotatEd|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== AnnotEx ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:AnnotEx.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|AnnotEx]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | AnnotEx - Example Annotator- is a web-based community based authoring tool for annotating programming examples.([[AnnotEx|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== CoMeT ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:comet.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Comet]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | COMET is a social system for sharing informaion about research talks. It allows to collaboratively collect, publish, and tag interesting research talks in Pittsburgh. COMET allows its users to schedule the talks they want to attend. It also automatically reminds about bookmarked talks and recommends other talks that fits isers' interests. ([http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/comet/ visit COMET])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
== Conference Navigator 3==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Cn3.jpg|thumb|left|'''100'''|CN3]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Conference Navigator 3 (CN3) is a personal conference scheduling tool with social linking and recommendation features. Users can control access to their information in the CN3 system and link their account with third party academic and non-academic social networks such as linkedIn, Facebook, citeulike, or Mendeley. Our main goal is to enhance attendees' experience at the conferences, and also investigate the mechanisms that drives attendees to engage in their research community. ([http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/ visit Conference Navigator 3])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== CoPE (Collaborative Paper Exchange) ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:CoPE.1.overall.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|CoPE]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | CoPE - Collaborative Paper Exchange - is a system that provides community-based access to paper summaries via web. CoPE is currently an in-class tool for both teachers and students. ([[CoPE|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== CourseAgent ==&lt;br /&gt;
coming soon&lt;br /&gt;
([[CourseAgent|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== CUMULATE ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[CUMULATE]] is a centralized user modeling server built for the [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] architecture. It is mainly targeted at providing user modeling support for adaptive educational hypermedia (AEH) systems. [[CUMULATE]] maintains a set of overlay models of students' knowledge. It uses several techniques for computing student models, including thresholded averaging, asymptotic user knowledge assessment, time-spent-reading.&lt;br /&gt;
([[CUMULATE|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Eventur ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Pittcult.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|PittCult]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | This project is to recommend interesting information using the combined technology of collaborative filtering and trust-based human network. This system is to overcome the emerging problems regarding collaborative filtering recommendations and to investigate how the information propagation is affected by trust among people. ([[Eventur|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== JavaGuide ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:JavaGuide.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|JavaGuide]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | JavaGuide is a personalized front-end for QuizJET developed by PAWS Lab (Hsiao, 2010). Java Guide collects student performance data sent by QuizJET to the activity storage, determines student current level of knowledge for multiple topics and concepts of Java programming language, and use it to provide adaptive guidance to the questions  that are most appropriate for a specific student given the course goals and current state of knowledge.. ([[JavaGuide|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Knowledge Sea II ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:ks2.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Knowledge Sea II]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Knowledge Sea II is an extension of Knowledge Sea project that is designed to help users navigate from lectures to relevant online tutorials in a map-based horizontal navigation format. The most important feature of Knowledge Sea is facilitating the navigation through providing traffic and annotation based social navigation support. ([[Knowledge Sea II|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Knowledge Tree ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:KnowledgeTreeLogo.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Knowledge Tree]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Knowledge Tree is a link aggregating portal. It presents content structured according to the folder-document paradigm. Knowledge Tree provides authentication and authorization and implements a simplified form of access control. It supports collaborative authoring and social annotation. ([[Knowledge Tree|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
== KnowledgeZoom ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:KnowledgeZoom.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|KnowledgeZoom]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[KnowledgeZoom]] is an exam preparation system with zoomable open student model showing student level of knowledge for hierarchy of Java programming concepts. KnowledgeZoom allows students to find gaps in their knowledge and access learning content that helps to bridge these gaps.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[KnowledgeZoom|More about KnowledgeZoom]]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Mastery Grids ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Mastery Grids is our latest implementation of Open Social Learner Modeling (OSLM). It is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-adl/index.html?usr=adl01&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== MEMA ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:MEMA.jpg|thumb|left|'''100'''|MEMA]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | MEMA (Museum Exhibition MAnagement) ([[MEMA|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/mema/web/ Web System link]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/mema Mobile System link]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== NameSieve ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:NameSieve-NEpanel.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|NameSieve Named-entity Navigator]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | A name-entity based news exploration and filtering system.  Important named-entities extracted from the search results are provided in the &amp;quot;cloud&amp;quot; form and helps further exploration. ([[NameSieve|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/namesieve System Link 1]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~jahn/cma/index.php System Link 2] (Carnegie Museum of Art version)&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== NavEx - Navigation to Examples ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:NavEx.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|NavEx]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | NavEx provides adaptive guidance for accessing online interactive examples. Adaptation allows students to visualize both whether they are ready to explore certain examples and what is their progress with them. NavEx-SN (SN for social navigation) also allows students to relate their progress with the progress of the group. ([[NavEx|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== PERSEUS ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Perseus.gif|thumb|left|100px|PERSEUS]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[PERSEUS]] is a Personalization Service Engine. It provides adaptive support for non-personalized (educational) hypermedia systems by abstracting content presentation/aggregation from user modeling. [[PERSEUS]] protocols are based on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rdf RDF] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)#RSS_1.0 RSS 1.0]. Although, [[PERSEUS]] was initially developed for [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] framework, its data model permits seamless support of any other hypermedia application. Currently [[PERSEUS]] provides social navigation, topic-based navigation, concept-based navigation, and adaptive filtering techniques. ([[PERSEUS|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Proactive ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Proactive.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Proactive]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | The Proactive is content-based recommender system which is based on several knowledge engineering technology and personalized techniques. The system is proprietary to each user by collecting various user's usage patterns. I am particularly interested in how to efficiently make suggestions from multi-faceted point of view. ([[Proactive|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Program Construction Examples (PCEX)==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Pcex_ex.PNG|thumb|left|'''100'''|Program Construction Examples]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | PCEX is an interactive learning tool which demonstrates program construction examples to help students to develop program construction skills. It supports exploring the program construction examples freely and provide challenges to the students to help them self-assess their learning of program construction knowledge.. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[PCEX|More about PCEX]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Progressor ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Progressor.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Progressor]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | The Progressor is a system of personalized visual access to programming problems, which is based on open social user modeling technology and personalized techniques. ([[Progressor|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Progressor+ ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:progressorplus1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|ProgressorPlus]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Progressor+ extends the benefits from Progressor and addresses the problems in personalized and social learning of how to help students to find the most appropriate educational resources and engage them into using these resources. Progressor+ adopts the same idea of open student modeling visualization and uses generic table representation for accessing and visualizing assorted educational content ([[ProgressorPlus|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== ReadingCircle ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Readingcircle1.png|left|thumb|200px|Screenshot of the ReadingCircle interface.]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | ReadingCircle is a system that explores approaches to encourage student reading using a social progress visualization interface. Click on the link to [[ReadingCircle]] to see more details]].&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== QuizGuide ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Quizguide.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|QuizGuide]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | QuizGuide, is an adaptive system that helps students in selecting most relevant quizzes for self-assessment of C knowledge. Quizzes are assigned to topics and adaptively annotated, to show which topics are currently important and which require further work. ([[QuizGuide|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== QuizJET ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Quizjet.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|QuizJET]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | QuizJET is a system serves quizzes as a self-assessment Java Evaluation Tool. It's mainly used to assess students' knowledge in Java Programming Language. QuizJET randomly generates a question parameter, creates a presentation of the parameterized question in a Web-based quiz, compares student's input to the correct answer which QuizJET runs the parameterized code &amp;quot;behind the stage&amp;quot;, and records the results into a server-side database. ([[QuizJET|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== SetFusion ==&lt;br /&gt;
coming soon&lt;br /&gt;
([[SetFusion|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== TalkExplorer ==&lt;br /&gt;
coming soon&lt;br /&gt;
([[TalkExplorer|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== TaskSieve ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:TaskSieve-surrogates.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|TaskSieve -- mediates query and user model]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | An experimental personalized news search system based on task models and the interface to mediate between the query and the task model.  Users can select three options (1) query only, (2) task model only, and (3) both. ([[TaskSieve|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/tasksieve System link 1]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~codex/tasksieve System link 2] (newer version integrated with Adaptive VIBE)&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== WADEIn (cWADEIn/jWADEIn) ==&lt;br /&gt;
coming soon&lt;br /&gt;
([[WADEIn|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== YourNews ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:YourNews-openUM.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|YourNews Open User Model UI]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | YourNews is a news recommendation system based on the RSS feeds collected from various news sources. News articles are crawled every two hours, indexed, and then provided to users according to their specific needs.  Users also can view and control their user profile with '''Open User Profile'''  ([[YourNews|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yournews System Link]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Cskamil</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Systems&amp;diff=3915</id>
		<title>Systems</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Systems&amp;diff=3915"/>
		<updated>2018-07-26T14:43:52Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: /* Program Construction Examples (PCEX) */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;This page is a quick overview of the systems and frameworks developed at [[Main Page|PAWS]] lab.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:adapt2-arcitecture.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; Architecture]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; (read adapt-square) - Advanced Distributed Architecture for Personalized Teaching and Training - is a framework targeted at providing personalization and adaptation services for developers of content that lacks personalization. [[ADAPT2|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== AdVisE (Adaptive Document Visualization for Education)  ==&lt;br /&gt;
==== ADVISE 2D ====&lt;br /&gt;
Two dimensional document visualization based on inter-document similarities. The locations of the documents on the 2D space are determined by their similarities to another documents and users can visually see the relationships of the documents based on their contents.&lt;br /&gt;
==== ADVISE 3D ====&lt;br /&gt;
Three dimensional visualization of documents based on similarities. By adding one more dimension to 2D visualization, users are able to explore the document space more easily and access each document.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==== ADVISE VIBE ====&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Relevance-based visualization of educational documents based on re-implementation of VIBE, a document visualization method based on similarities between documents and POIs (Points Of Interests) developed by Molde College and School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
([http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/advise more on ADVISE])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Adaptive VIBE==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:AdaptiveVibe_part.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Adaptive VIBE]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Two dimensional visualization based on POIs(Point Of Interest, or concepts) and document similarities. The position of the documents are calculated by their relationships with each POI. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~codex/tasksieve System Link] (Adaptive VIBE integrated into TaskSieve)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Adaptive_VIBE | more on Adaptive VIBE]]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== AnnotatEd ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:ated.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|AnnotatEd]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | AnnotatEd is a system that enables learners to annotate online pages while keeping track of all activities of learners. AnnotatEd uses the learners' activity information to offer ''social navigation support'' for hyperlinks inside the AnnotatEd system. ([[AnnotatEd|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== AnnotEx ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:AnnotEx.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|AnnotEx]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | AnnotEx - Example Annotator- is a web-based community based authoring tool for annotating programming examples.([[AnnotEx|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== CoMeT ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:comet.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Comet]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | COMET is a social system for sharing informaion about research talks. It allows to collaboratively collect, publish, and tag interesting research talks in Pittsburgh. COMET allows its users to schedule the talks they want to attend. It also automatically reminds about bookmarked talks and recommends other talks that fits isers' interests. ([http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/comet/ visit COMET])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
== Conference Navigator 3==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Cn3.jpg|thumb|left|'''100'''|CN3]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Conference Navigator 3 (CN3) is a personal conference scheduling tool with social linking and recommendation features. Users can control access to their information in the CN3 system and link their account with third party academic and non-academic social networks such as linkedIn, Facebook, citeulike, or Mendeley. Our main goal is to enhance attendees' experience at the conferences, and also investigate the mechanisms that drives attendees to engage in their research community. ([http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/ visit Conference Navigator 3])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== CoPE (Collaborative Paper Exchange) ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:CoPE.1.overall.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|CoPE]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | CoPE - Collaborative Paper Exchange - is a system that provides community-based access to paper summaries via web. CoPE is currently an in-class tool for both teachers and students. ([[CoPE|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== CourseAgent ==&lt;br /&gt;
coming soon&lt;br /&gt;
([[CourseAgent|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== CUMULATE ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[CUMULATE]] is a centralized user modeling server built for the [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] architecture. It is mainly targeted at providing user modeling support for adaptive educational hypermedia (AEH) systems. [[CUMULATE]] maintains a set of overlay models of students' knowledge. It uses several techniques for computing student models, including thresholded averaging, asymptotic user knowledge assessment, time-spent-reading.&lt;br /&gt;
([[CUMULATE|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Eventur ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Pittcult.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|PittCult]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | This project is to recommend interesting information using the combined technology of collaborative filtering and trust-based human network. This system is to overcome the emerging problems regarding collaborative filtering recommendations and to investigate how the information propagation is affected by trust among people. ([[Eventur|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== JavaGuide ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:JavaGuide.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|JavaGuide]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | JavaGuide is a personalized front-end for QuizJET developed by PAWS Lab (Hsiao, 2010). Java Guide collects student performance data sent by QuizJET to the activity storage, determines student current level of knowledge for multiple topics and concepts of Java programming language, and use it to provide adaptive guidance to the questions  that are most appropriate for a specific student given the course goals and current state of knowledge.. ([[JavaGuide|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Knowledge Sea II ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:ks2.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Knowledge Sea II]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Knowledge Sea II is an extension of Knowledge Sea project that is designed to help users navigate from lectures to relevant online tutorials in a map-based horizontal navigation format. The most important feature of Knowledge Sea is facilitating the navigation through providing traffic and annotation based social navigation support. ([[Knowledge Sea II|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Knowledge Tree ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:KnowledgeTreeLogo.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Knowledge Tree]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Knowledge Tree is a link aggregating portal. It presents content structured according to the folder-document paradigm. Knowledge Tree provides authentication and authorization and implements a simplified form of access control. It supports collaborative authoring and social annotation. ([[Knowledge Tree|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
== KnowledgeZoom ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:KnowledgeZoom.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|KnowledgeZoom]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[KnowledgeZoom]] is an exam preparation system with zoomable open student model showing student level of knowledge for hierarchy of Java programming concepts. KnowledgeZoom allows students to find gaps in their knowledge and access learning content that helps to bridge these gaps.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[KnowledgeZoom|More about KnowledgeZoom]]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Mastery Grids ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Mastery Grids is our latest implementation of Open Social Learner Modeling (OSLM). It is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-adl/index.html?usr=adl01&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== MEMA ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:MEMA.jpg|thumb|left|'''100'''|MEMA]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | MEMA (Museum Exhibition MAnagement) ([[MEMA|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/mema/web/ Web System link]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/mema Mobile System link]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== NameSieve ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:NameSieve-NEpanel.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|NameSieve Named-entity Navigator]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | A name-entity based news exploration and filtering system.  Important named-entities extracted from the search results are provided in the &amp;quot;cloud&amp;quot; form and helps further exploration. ([[NameSieve|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/namesieve System Link 1]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~jahn/cma/index.php System Link 2] (Carnegie Museum of Art version)&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== NavEx - Navigation to Examples ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:NavEx.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|NavEx]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | NavEx provides adaptive guidance for accessing online interactive examples. Adaptation allows students to visualize both whether they are ready to explore certain examples and what is their progress with them. NavEx-SN (SN for social navigation) also allows students to relate their progress with the progress of the group. ([[NavEx|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== PERSEUS ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Perseus.gif|thumb|left|100px|PERSEUS]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[PERSEUS]] is a Personalization Service Engine. It provides adaptive support for non-personalized (educational) hypermedia systems by abstracting content presentation/aggregation from user modeling. [[PERSEUS]] protocols are based on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rdf RDF] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)#RSS_1.0 RSS 1.0]. Although, [[PERSEUS]] was initially developed for [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] framework, its data model permits seamless support of any other hypermedia application. Currently [[PERSEUS]] provides social navigation, topic-based navigation, concept-based navigation, and adaptive filtering techniques. ([[PERSEUS|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Proactive ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Proactive.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Proactive]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | The Proactive is content-based recommender system which is based on several knowledge engineering technology and personalized techniques. The system is proprietary to each user by collecting various user's usage patterns. I am particularly interested in how to efficiently make suggestions from multi-faceted point of view. ([[Proactive|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Program Construction Examples (PCEX)==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Pcex_ex.PNG|thumb|left|'''100'''|Program Construction Examples]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | PCEX is an interactive learning tool which demonstrates program construction examples to help students to develop program construction skills. It supports exploring the program construction examples freely and provide challenges to the students to help them self-assess their learning of program construction knowledge.. ([[PCEX|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Progressor ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Progressor.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Progressor]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | The Progressor is a system of personalized visual access to programming problems, which is based on open social user modeling technology and personalized techniques. ([[Progressor|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Progressor+ ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:progressorplus1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|ProgressorPlus]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Progressor+ extends the benefits from Progressor and addresses the problems in personalized and social learning of how to help students to find the most appropriate educational resources and engage them into using these resources. Progressor+ adopts the same idea of open student modeling visualization and uses generic table representation for accessing and visualizing assorted educational content ([[ProgressorPlus|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== ReadingCircle ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Readingcircle1.png|left|thumb|200px|Screenshot of the ReadingCircle interface.]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | ReadingCircle is a system that explores approaches to encourage student reading using a social progress visualization interface. Click on the link to [[ReadingCircle]] to see more details]].&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== QuizGuide ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Quizguide.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|QuizGuide]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | QuizGuide, is an adaptive system that helps students in selecting most relevant quizzes for self-assessment of C knowledge. Quizzes are assigned to topics and adaptively annotated, to show which topics are currently important and which require further work. ([[QuizGuide|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== QuizJET ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Quizjet.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|QuizJET]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | QuizJET is a system serves quizzes as a self-assessment Java Evaluation Tool. It's mainly used to assess students' knowledge in Java Programming Language. QuizJET randomly generates a question parameter, creates a presentation of the parameterized question in a Web-based quiz, compares student's input to the correct answer which QuizJET runs the parameterized code &amp;quot;behind the stage&amp;quot;, and records the results into a server-side database. ([[QuizJET|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== SetFusion ==&lt;br /&gt;
coming soon&lt;br /&gt;
([[SetFusion|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== TalkExplorer ==&lt;br /&gt;
coming soon&lt;br /&gt;
([[TalkExplorer|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== TaskSieve ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:TaskSieve-surrogates.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|TaskSieve -- mediates query and user model]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | An experimental personalized news search system based on task models and the interface to mediate between the query and the task model.  Users can select three options (1) query only, (2) task model only, and (3) both. ([[TaskSieve|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/tasksieve System link 1]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~codex/tasksieve System link 2] (newer version integrated with Adaptive VIBE)&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== WADEIn (cWADEIn/jWADEIn) ==&lt;br /&gt;
coming soon&lt;br /&gt;
([[WADEIn|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== YourNews ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:YourNews-openUM.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|YourNews Open User Model UI]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | YourNews is a news recommendation system based on the RSS feeds collected from various news sources. News articles are crawled every two hours, indexed, and then provided to users according to their specific needs.  Users also can view and control their user profile with '''Open User Profile'''  ([[YourNews|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yournews System Link]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Cskamil</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Systems&amp;diff=3914</id>
		<title>Systems</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Systems&amp;diff=3914"/>
		<updated>2018-07-26T14:39:17Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: /* Program Construction Examples (PCEX) */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;This page is a quick overview of the systems and frameworks developed at [[Main Page|PAWS]] lab.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:adapt2-arcitecture.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; Architecture]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; (read adapt-square) - Advanced Distributed Architecture for Personalized Teaching and Training - is a framework targeted at providing personalization and adaptation services for developers of content that lacks personalization. [[ADAPT2|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== AdVisE (Adaptive Document Visualization for Education)  ==&lt;br /&gt;
==== ADVISE 2D ====&lt;br /&gt;
Two dimensional document visualization based on inter-document similarities. The locations of the documents on the 2D space are determined by their similarities to another documents and users can visually see the relationships of the documents based on their contents.&lt;br /&gt;
==== ADVISE 3D ====&lt;br /&gt;
Three dimensional visualization of documents based on similarities. By adding one more dimension to 2D visualization, users are able to explore the document space more easily and access each document.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==== ADVISE VIBE ====&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Relevance-based visualization of educational documents based on re-implementation of VIBE, a document visualization method based on similarities between documents and POIs (Points Of Interests) developed by Molde College and School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
([http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/advise more on ADVISE])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Adaptive VIBE==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:AdaptiveVibe_part.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Adaptive VIBE]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Two dimensional visualization based on POIs(Point Of Interest, or concepts) and document similarities. The position of the documents are calculated by their relationships with each POI. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~codex/tasksieve System Link] (Adaptive VIBE integrated into TaskSieve)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Adaptive_VIBE | more on Adaptive VIBE]]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== AnnotatEd ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:ated.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|AnnotatEd]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | AnnotatEd is a system that enables learners to annotate online pages while keeping track of all activities of learners. AnnotatEd uses the learners' activity information to offer ''social navigation support'' for hyperlinks inside the AnnotatEd system. ([[AnnotatEd|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== AnnotEx ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:AnnotEx.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|AnnotEx]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | AnnotEx - Example Annotator- is a web-based community based authoring tool for annotating programming examples.([[AnnotEx|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== CoMeT ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:comet.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Comet]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | COMET is a social system for sharing informaion about research talks. It allows to collaboratively collect, publish, and tag interesting research talks in Pittsburgh. COMET allows its users to schedule the talks they want to attend. It also automatically reminds about bookmarked talks and recommends other talks that fits isers' interests. ([http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/comet/ visit COMET])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
== Conference Navigator 3==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Cn3.jpg|thumb|left|'''100'''|CN3]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Conference Navigator 3 (CN3) is a personal conference scheduling tool with social linking and recommendation features. Users can control access to their information in the CN3 system and link their account with third party academic and non-academic social networks such as linkedIn, Facebook, citeulike, or Mendeley. Our main goal is to enhance attendees' experience at the conferences, and also investigate the mechanisms that drives attendees to engage in their research community. ([http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/ visit Conference Navigator 3])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== CoPE (Collaborative Paper Exchange) ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:CoPE.1.overall.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|CoPE]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | CoPE - Collaborative Paper Exchange - is a system that provides community-based access to paper summaries via web. CoPE is currently an in-class tool for both teachers and students. ([[CoPE|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== CourseAgent ==&lt;br /&gt;
coming soon&lt;br /&gt;
([[CourseAgent|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== CUMULATE ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[CUMULATE]] is a centralized user modeling server built for the [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] architecture. It is mainly targeted at providing user modeling support for adaptive educational hypermedia (AEH) systems. [[CUMULATE]] maintains a set of overlay models of students' knowledge. It uses several techniques for computing student models, including thresholded averaging, asymptotic user knowledge assessment, time-spent-reading.&lt;br /&gt;
([[CUMULATE|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Eventur ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Pittcult.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|PittCult]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | This project is to recommend interesting information using the combined technology of collaborative filtering and trust-based human network. This system is to overcome the emerging problems regarding collaborative filtering recommendations and to investigate how the information propagation is affected by trust among people. ([[Eventur|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== JavaGuide ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:JavaGuide.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|JavaGuide]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | JavaGuide is a personalized front-end for QuizJET developed by PAWS Lab (Hsiao, 2010). Java Guide collects student performance data sent by QuizJET to the activity storage, determines student current level of knowledge for multiple topics and concepts of Java programming language, and use it to provide adaptive guidance to the questions  that are most appropriate for a specific student given the course goals and current state of knowledge.. ([[JavaGuide|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Knowledge Sea II ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:ks2.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Knowledge Sea II]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Knowledge Sea II is an extension of Knowledge Sea project that is designed to help users navigate from lectures to relevant online tutorials in a map-based horizontal navigation format. The most important feature of Knowledge Sea is facilitating the navigation through providing traffic and annotation based social navigation support. ([[Knowledge Sea II|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Knowledge Tree ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:KnowledgeTreeLogo.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Knowledge Tree]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Knowledge Tree is a link aggregating portal. It presents content structured according to the folder-document paradigm. Knowledge Tree provides authentication and authorization and implements a simplified form of access control. It supports collaborative authoring and social annotation. ([[Knowledge Tree|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
== KnowledgeZoom ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:KnowledgeZoom.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|KnowledgeZoom]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[KnowledgeZoom]] is an exam preparation system with zoomable open student model showing student level of knowledge for hierarchy of Java programming concepts. KnowledgeZoom allows students to find gaps in their knowledge and access learning content that helps to bridge these gaps.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[KnowledgeZoom|More about KnowledgeZoom]]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Mastery Grids ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Mastery Grids is our latest implementation of Open Social Learner Modeling (OSLM). It is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-adl/index.html?usr=adl01&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== MEMA ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:MEMA.jpg|thumb|left|'''100'''|MEMA]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | MEMA (Museum Exhibition MAnagement) ([[MEMA|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/mema/web/ Web System link]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/mema Mobile System link]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== NameSieve ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:NameSieve-NEpanel.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|NameSieve Named-entity Navigator]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | A name-entity based news exploration and filtering system.  Important named-entities extracted from the search results are provided in the &amp;quot;cloud&amp;quot; form and helps further exploration. ([[NameSieve|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/namesieve System Link 1]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~jahn/cma/index.php System Link 2] (Carnegie Museum of Art version)&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== NavEx - Navigation to Examples ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:NavEx.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|NavEx]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | NavEx provides adaptive guidance for accessing online interactive examples. Adaptation allows students to visualize both whether they are ready to explore certain examples and what is their progress with them. NavEx-SN (SN for social navigation) also allows students to relate their progress with the progress of the group. ([[NavEx|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== PERSEUS ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Perseus.gif|thumb|left|100px|PERSEUS]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[PERSEUS]] is a Personalization Service Engine. It provides adaptive support for non-personalized (educational) hypermedia systems by abstracting content presentation/aggregation from user modeling. [[PERSEUS]] protocols are based on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rdf RDF] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)#RSS_1.0 RSS 1.0]. Although, [[PERSEUS]] was initially developed for [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] framework, its data model permits seamless support of any other hypermedia application. Currently [[PERSEUS]] provides social navigation, topic-based navigation, concept-based navigation, and adaptive filtering techniques. ([[PERSEUS|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Proactive ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Proactive.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Proactive]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | The Proactive is content-based recommender system which is based on several knowledge engineering technology and personalized techniques. The system is proprietary to each user by collecting various user's usage patterns. I am particularly interested in how to efficiently make suggestions from multi-faceted point of view. ([[Proactive|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Program Construction Examples (PCEX)==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Pcex_ex.PNG|thumb|left|'''100'''|Program Construction Examples-Example]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | The Proactive is content-based recommender system which is based on several knowledge engineering technology and personalized techniques. The system is proprietary to each user by collecting various user's usage patterns. I am particularly interested in how to efficiently make suggestions from multi-faceted point of view. ([[Proactive|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Progressor ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Progressor.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Progressor]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | The Progressor is a system of personalized visual access to programming problems, which is based on open social user modeling technology and personalized techniques. ([[Progressor|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Progressor+ ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:progressorplus1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|ProgressorPlus]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Progressor+ extends the benefits from Progressor and addresses the problems in personalized and social learning of how to help students to find the most appropriate educational resources and engage them into using these resources. Progressor+ adopts the same idea of open student modeling visualization and uses generic table representation for accessing and visualizing assorted educational content ([[ProgressorPlus|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== ReadingCircle ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Readingcircle1.png|left|thumb|200px|Screenshot of the ReadingCircle interface.]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | ReadingCircle is a system that explores approaches to encourage student reading using a social progress visualization interface. Click on the link to [[ReadingCircle]] to see more details]].&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== QuizGuide ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Quizguide.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|QuizGuide]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | QuizGuide, is an adaptive system that helps students in selecting most relevant quizzes for self-assessment of C knowledge. Quizzes are assigned to topics and adaptively annotated, to show which topics are currently important and which require further work. ([[QuizGuide|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== QuizJET ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Quizjet.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|QuizJET]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | QuizJET is a system serves quizzes as a self-assessment Java Evaluation Tool. It's mainly used to assess students' knowledge in Java Programming Language. QuizJET randomly generates a question parameter, creates a presentation of the parameterized question in a Web-based quiz, compares student's input to the correct answer which QuizJET runs the parameterized code &amp;quot;behind the stage&amp;quot;, and records the results into a server-side database. ([[QuizJET|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== SetFusion ==&lt;br /&gt;
coming soon&lt;br /&gt;
([[SetFusion|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== TalkExplorer ==&lt;br /&gt;
coming soon&lt;br /&gt;
([[TalkExplorer|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== TaskSieve ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:TaskSieve-surrogates.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|TaskSieve -- mediates query and user model]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | An experimental personalized news search system based on task models and the interface to mediate between the query and the task model.  Users can select three options (1) query only, (2) task model only, and (3) both. ([[TaskSieve|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/tasksieve System link 1]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~codex/tasksieve System link 2] (newer version integrated with Adaptive VIBE)&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== WADEIn (cWADEIn/jWADEIn) ==&lt;br /&gt;
coming soon&lt;br /&gt;
([[WADEIn|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== YourNews ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:YourNews-openUM.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|YourNews Open User Model UI]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | YourNews is a news recommendation system based on the RSS feeds collected from various news sources. News articles are crawled every two hours, indexed, and then provided to users according to their specific needs.  Users also can view and control their user profile with '''Open User Profile'''  ([[YourNews|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yournews System Link]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&lt;div&gt;This page is a quick overview of the systems and frameworks developed at [[Main Page|PAWS]] lab.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:adapt2-arcitecture.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; Architecture]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; (read adapt-square) - Advanced Distributed Architecture for Personalized Teaching and Training - is a framework targeted at providing personalization and adaptation services for developers of content that lacks personalization. [[ADAPT2|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== AdVisE (Adaptive Document Visualization for Education)  ==&lt;br /&gt;
==== ADVISE 2D ====&lt;br /&gt;
Two dimensional document visualization based on inter-document similarities. The locations of the documents on the 2D space are determined by their similarities to another documents and users can visually see the relationships of the documents based on their contents.&lt;br /&gt;
==== ADVISE 3D ====&lt;br /&gt;
Three dimensional visualization of documents based on similarities. By adding one more dimension to 2D visualization, users are able to explore the document space more easily and access each document.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==== ADVISE VIBE ====&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Relevance-based visualization of educational documents based on re-implementation of VIBE, a document visualization method based on similarities between documents and POIs (Points Of Interests) developed by Molde College and School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
([http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/advise more on ADVISE])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Adaptive VIBE==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:AdaptiveVibe_part.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Adaptive VIBE]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Two dimensional visualization based on POIs(Point Of Interest, or concepts) and document similarities. The position of the documents are calculated by their relationships with each POI. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~codex/tasksieve System Link] (Adaptive VIBE integrated into TaskSieve)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Adaptive_VIBE | more on Adaptive VIBE]]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== AnnotatEd ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:ated.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|AnnotatEd]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | AnnotatEd is a system that enables learners to annotate online pages while keeping track of all activities of learners. AnnotatEd uses the learners' activity information to offer ''social navigation support'' for hyperlinks inside the AnnotatEd system. ([[AnnotatEd|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== AnnotEx ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:AnnotEx.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|AnnotEx]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | AnnotEx - Example Annotator- is a web-based community based authoring tool for annotating programming examples.([[AnnotEx|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== CoMeT ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:comet.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Comet]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | COMET is a social system for sharing informaion about research talks. It allows to collaboratively collect, publish, and tag interesting research talks in Pittsburgh. COMET allows its users to schedule the talks they want to attend. It also automatically reminds about bookmarked talks and recommends other talks that fits isers' interests. ([http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/comet/ visit COMET])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
== Conference Navigator 3==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Cn3.jpg|thumb|left|'''100'''|CN3]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Conference Navigator 3 (CN3) is a personal conference scheduling tool with social linking and recommendation features. Users can control access to their information in the CN3 system and link their account with third party academic and non-academic social networks such as linkedIn, Facebook, citeulike, or Mendeley. Our main goal is to enhance attendees' experience at the conferences, and also investigate the mechanisms that drives attendees to engage in their research community. ([http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/ visit Conference Navigator 3])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== CoPE (Collaborative Paper Exchange) ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:CoPE.1.overall.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|CoPE]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | CoPE - Collaborative Paper Exchange - is a system that provides community-based access to paper summaries via web. CoPE is currently an in-class tool for both teachers and students. ([[CoPE|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== CourseAgent ==&lt;br /&gt;
coming soon&lt;br /&gt;
([[CourseAgent|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== CUMULATE ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[CUMULATE]] is a centralized user modeling server built for the [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] architecture. It is mainly targeted at providing user modeling support for adaptive educational hypermedia (AEH) systems. [[CUMULATE]] maintains a set of overlay models of students' knowledge. It uses several techniques for computing student models, including thresholded averaging, asymptotic user knowledge assessment, time-spent-reading.&lt;br /&gt;
([[CUMULATE|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Eventur ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Pittcult.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|PittCult]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | This project is to recommend interesting information using the combined technology of collaborative filtering and trust-based human network. This system is to overcome the emerging problems regarding collaborative filtering recommendations and to investigate how the information propagation is affected by trust among people. ([[Eventur|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== JavaGuide ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:JavaGuide.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|JavaGuide]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | JavaGuide is a personalized front-end for QuizJET developed by PAWS Lab (Hsiao, 2010). Java Guide collects student performance data sent by QuizJET to the activity storage, determines student current level of knowledge for multiple topics and concepts of Java programming language, and use it to provide adaptive guidance to the questions  that are most appropriate for a specific student given the course goals and current state of knowledge.. ([[JavaGuide|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Knowledge Sea II ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:ks2.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Knowledge Sea II]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Knowledge Sea II is an extension of Knowledge Sea project that is designed to help users navigate from lectures to relevant online tutorials in a map-based horizontal navigation format. The most important feature of Knowledge Sea is facilitating the navigation through providing traffic and annotation based social navigation support. ([[Knowledge Sea II|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Knowledge Tree ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:KnowledgeTreeLogo.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Knowledge Tree]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Knowledge Tree is a link aggregating portal. It presents content structured according to the folder-document paradigm. Knowledge Tree provides authentication and authorization and implements a simplified form of access control. It supports collaborative authoring and social annotation. ([[Knowledge Tree|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
== KnowledgeZoom ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:KnowledgeZoom.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|KnowledgeZoom]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[KnowledgeZoom]] is an exam preparation system with zoomable open student model showing student level of knowledge for hierarchy of Java programming concepts. KnowledgeZoom allows students to find gaps in their knowledge and access learning content that helps to bridge these gaps.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[KnowledgeZoom|More about KnowledgeZoom]]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Mastery Grids ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Mastery Grids is our latest implementation of Open Social Learner Modeling (OSLM). It is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-adl/index.html?usr=adl01&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== MEMA ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:MEMA.jpg|thumb|left|'''100'''|MEMA]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | MEMA (Museum Exhibition MAnagement) ([[MEMA|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/mema/web/ Web System link]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/mema Mobile System link]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== NameSieve ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:NameSieve-NEpanel.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|NameSieve Named-entity Navigator]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | A name-entity based news exploration and filtering system.  Important named-entities extracted from the search results are provided in the &amp;quot;cloud&amp;quot; form and helps further exploration. ([[NameSieve|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/namesieve System Link 1]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~jahn/cma/index.php System Link 2] (Carnegie Museum of Art version)&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== NavEx - Navigation to Examples ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:NavEx.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|NavEx]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | NavEx provides adaptive guidance for accessing online interactive examples. Adaptation allows students to visualize both whether they are ready to explore certain examples and what is their progress with them. NavEx-SN (SN for social navigation) also allows students to relate their progress with the progress of the group. ([[NavEx|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== PERSEUS ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Perseus.gif|thumb|left|100px|PERSEUS]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[PERSEUS]] is a Personalization Service Engine. It provides adaptive support for non-personalized (educational) hypermedia systems by abstracting content presentation/aggregation from user modeling. [[PERSEUS]] protocols are based on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rdf RDF] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)#RSS_1.0 RSS 1.0]. Although, [[PERSEUS]] was initially developed for [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] framework, its data model permits seamless support of any other hypermedia application. Currently [[PERSEUS]] provides social navigation, topic-based navigation, concept-based navigation, and adaptive filtering techniques. ([[PERSEUS|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Proactive ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Proactive.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Proactive]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | The Proactive is content-based recommender system which is based on several knowledge engineering technology and personalized techniques. The system is proprietary to each user by collecting various user's usage patterns. I am particularly interested in how to efficiently make suggestions from multi-faceted point of view. ([[Proactive|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Program Construction Examples (PCEX)==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Proactive.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Proactive]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | The Proactive is content-based recommender system which is based on several knowledge engineering technology and personalized techniques. The system is proprietary to each user by collecting various user's usage patterns. I am particularly interested in how to efficiently make suggestions from multi-faceted point of view. ([[Proactive|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Progressor ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Progressor.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Progressor]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | The Progressor is a system of personalized visual access to programming problems, which is based on open social user modeling technology and personalized techniques. ([[Progressor|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Progressor+ ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:progressorplus1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|ProgressorPlus]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Progressor+ extends the benefits from Progressor and addresses the problems in personalized and social learning of how to help students to find the most appropriate educational resources and engage them into using these resources. Progressor+ adopts the same idea of open student modeling visualization and uses generic table representation for accessing and visualizing assorted educational content ([[ProgressorPlus|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== ReadingCircle ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Readingcircle1.png|left|thumb|200px|Screenshot of the ReadingCircle interface.]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | ReadingCircle is a system that explores approaches to encourage student reading using a social progress visualization interface. Click on the link to [[ReadingCircle]] to see more details]].&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== QuizGuide ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Quizguide.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|QuizGuide]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | QuizGuide, is an adaptive system that helps students in selecting most relevant quizzes for self-assessment of C knowledge. Quizzes are assigned to topics and adaptively annotated, to show which topics are currently important and which require further work. ([[QuizGuide|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== QuizJET ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Quizjet.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|QuizJET]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | QuizJET is a system serves quizzes as a self-assessment Java Evaluation Tool. It's mainly used to assess students' knowledge in Java Programming Language. QuizJET randomly generates a question parameter, creates a presentation of the parameterized question in a Web-based quiz, compares student's input to the correct answer which QuizJET runs the parameterized code &amp;quot;behind the stage&amp;quot;, and records the results into a server-side database. ([[QuizJET|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== SetFusion ==&lt;br /&gt;
coming soon&lt;br /&gt;
([[SetFusion|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== TalkExplorer ==&lt;br /&gt;
coming soon&lt;br /&gt;
([[TalkExplorer|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== TaskSieve ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:TaskSieve-surrogates.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|TaskSieve -- mediates query and user model]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | An experimental personalized news search system based on task models and the interface to mediate between the query and the task model.  Users can select three options (1) query only, (2) task model only, and (3) both. ([[TaskSieve|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/tasksieve System link 1]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~codex/tasksieve System link 2] (newer version integrated with Adaptive VIBE)&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== WADEIn (cWADEIn/jWADEIn) ==&lt;br /&gt;
coming soon&lt;br /&gt;
([[WADEIn|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== YourNews ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:YourNews-openUM.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|YourNews Open User Model UI]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | YourNews is a news recommendation system based on the RSS feeds collected from various news sources. News articles are crawled every two hours, indexed, and then provided to users according to their specific needs.  Users also can view and control their user profile with '''Open User Profile'''  ([[YourNews|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yournews System Link]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Cskamil</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PAWS&amp;diff=3911</id>
		<title>PAWS</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PAWS&amp;diff=3911"/>
		<updated>2018-07-25T17:47:25Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: /* About PAWS */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;== About PAWS ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Edm_2018.jpg|right|700px|EDM 2018 - Buffalo, NY]]&lt;br /&gt;
Personalized Adaptive Web Systems Lab was established in 2004 with support from National Science Foundation and the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. The goal of the PAWS Lab is development and evaluation of innovative user- and group-adaptive Web-based technologies, systems, and architectures. The Lab currently explores a range of user modeling, adaptation and personalization technologies. The work of the Lab is supported by NSF and DARPA funding.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Most Recent News ==&lt;br /&gt;
* Roya Hosseini defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Program Construction Examples in Computer Science Education: From Static Text to Adaptive and Engaging Learning Technology'.([[News#2018-07-24|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Yun Huang defended her Ph. D. Thesis. ([[News#2018-07-05|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* PAWS Lab scores thrice at IUI 2018  ([[News#2018-03-08|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Julio Guerra defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Open Learner Models for Self-Regulated Learning: Exploring the Effects of Social Comparison and Granularity'.([[News#2017-10-24|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Suleehs | Danielle Lee]] moves to Sangmyung University as an assistant professor  ([[News#2017-08-17|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Two PAWS papers were nominated and one received Best Paper Awards at UMAP 2017  ([[News#2017-07-11|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
*  [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring.  ([[News#2017-02-21|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
*  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor  ([[News#2016-11-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Maria Harrington moves to University of Central Florida as an Assistant Professor ([[News#2016-08-15 |details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: ''Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'', will start as an Assistant Professor in University of Albany  ([[News#2016-07-21|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board.  ([[News#2016-05-13|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] received Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship for the academic year 2016-2017. ([[News#2016-03-04|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]]   ([[News#2016-02-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: ''Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities''.  ([[News#2015-04-15|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ([[News#2014-11-11|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Tomek Loboda, [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] , and [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ([[News#2014-09-19|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User: Yuh43 | Yun Huang]] has been nominated for the best paper award at the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2014). ([[News#2014-07-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] finished her 2nd year postdoc in Columbia University and starts  as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall ([[News#2014-05-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Go to [[News | News Page]] for all news.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Try PAWS Tools at our Community Portal == &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Go to [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt Knowledge Tree] portal and [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt/register.html create trial account] to try our tools.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~cagent/ CourseAgent]: Share evaluations of IS graduate courses at Pitt and plan your career.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://pittsburgh.comettalks.com/ Comet]: Share, tag, recommend and schedule interesting talks in Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://eventur.us/ Eventur]: Share and schedule cultural events in Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://www.computingportal.org/ Ensemble]: This cross-university collaborative effort aims to bring together the global community of computing educators around a growing set of content collections with high-quality educational resources.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yournews/ YourNews]: This is a personalized RSS news access portal with several levels of user modeling and feed recommendation. Read your news in a personalized way!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If you are a researcher and would like to  quickly try our adaptation tools, create the trial account (link above) and proceed [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/cbum/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== PAWS Lab Contact Information ==&lt;br /&gt;
Information Sciences Building, Rm. 2A04&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
135 North Bellefield Avenue&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Tel: +1(412)624-9437&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Cskamil</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PAWS&amp;diff=3910</id>
		<title>PAWS</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PAWS&amp;diff=3910"/>
		<updated>2018-07-25T17:30:06Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: /* About PAWS */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;== About PAWS ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Edm_2018.jpg|700px|right|Claudia's farewell lunch at Schenley Park Café (Aug. 27, 2015)|EDM 2018 - Buffalo, NY]]&lt;br /&gt;
Personalized Adaptive Web Systems Lab was established in 2004 with support from National Science Foundation and the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. The goal of the PAWS Lab is development and evaluation of innovative user- and group-adaptive Web-based technologies, systems, and architectures. The Lab currently explores a range of user modeling, adaptation and personalization technologies. The work of the Lab is supported by NSF and DARPA funding.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Most Recent News ==&lt;br /&gt;
* Roya Hosseini defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Program Construction Examples in Computer Science Education: From Static Text to Adaptive and Engaging Learning Technology'.([[News#2018-07-24|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Yun Huang defended her Ph. D. Thesis. ([[News#2018-07-05|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* PAWS Lab scores thrice at IUI 2018  ([[News#2018-03-08|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Julio Guerra defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Open Learner Models for Self-Regulated Learning: Exploring the Effects of Social Comparison and Granularity'.([[News#2017-10-24|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Suleehs | Danielle Lee]] moves to Sangmyung University as an assistant professor  ([[News#2017-08-17|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Two PAWS papers were nominated and one received Best Paper Awards at UMAP 2017  ([[News#2017-07-11|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
*  [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring.  ([[News#2017-02-21|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
*  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor  ([[News#2016-11-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Maria Harrington moves to University of Central Florida as an Assistant Professor ([[News#2016-08-15 |details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: ''Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'', will start as an Assistant Professor in University of Albany  ([[News#2016-07-21|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board.  ([[News#2016-05-13|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] received Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship for the academic year 2016-2017. ([[News#2016-03-04|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]]   ([[News#2016-02-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: ''Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities''.  ([[News#2015-04-15|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ([[News#2014-11-11|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Tomek Loboda, [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] , and [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ([[News#2014-09-19|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User: Yuh43 | Yun Huang]] has been nominated for the best paper award at the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2014). ([[News#2014-07-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] finished her 2nd year postdoc in Columbia University and starts  as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall ([[News#2014-05-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Go to [[News | News Page]] for all news.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Try PAWS Tools at our Community Portal == &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Go to [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt Knowledge Tree] portal and [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt/register.html create trial account] to try our tools.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~cagent/ CourseAgent]: Share evaluations of IS graduate courses at Pitt and plan your career.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://pittsburgh.comettalks.com/ Comet]: Share, tag, recommend and schedule interesting talks in Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://eventur.us/ Eventur]: Share and schedule cultural events in Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://www.computingportal.org/ Ensemble]: This cross-university collaborative effort aims to bring together the global community of computing educators around a growing set of content collections with high-quality educational resources.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yournews/ YourNews]: This is a personalized RSS news access portal with several levels of user modeling and feed recommendation. Read your news in a personalized way!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If you are a researcher and would like to  quickly try our adaptation tools, create the trial account (link above) and proceed [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/cbum/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== PAWS Lab Contact Information ==&lt;br /&gt;
Information Sciences Building, Rm. 2A04&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
135 North Bellefield Avenue&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Tel: +1(412)624-9437&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Cskamil</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PAWS&amp;diff=3909</id>
		<title>PAWS</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PAWS&amp;diff=3909"/>
		<updated>2018-07-25T17:26:41Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: /* About PAWS */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;== About PAWS ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Edm2018.jpg|Caption=''|frame|right|EDM 2018 - Buffalo, NY]]&lt;br /&gt;
Personalized Adaptive Web Systems Lab was established in 2004 with support from National Science Foundation and the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. The goal of the PAWS Lab is development and evaluation of innovative user- and group-adaptive Web-based technologies, systems, and architectures. The Lab currently explores a range of user modeling, adaptation and personalization technologies. The work of the Lab is supported by NSF and DARPA funding.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Most Recent News ==&lt;br /&gt;
* Roya Hosseini defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Program Construction Examples in Computer Science Education: From Static Text to Adaptive and Engaging Learning Technology'.([[News#2018-07-24|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Yun Huang defended her Ph. D. Thesis. ([[News#2018-07-05|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* PAWS Lab scores thrice at IUI 2018  ([[News#2018-03-08|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Julio Guerra defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Open Learner Models for Self-Regulated Learning: Exploring the Effects of Social Comparison and Granularity'.([[News#2017-10-24|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Suleehs | Danielle Lee]] moves to Sangmyung University as an assistant professor  ([[News#2017-08-17|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Two PAWS papers were nominated and one received Best Paper Awards at UMAP 2017  ([[News#2017-07-11|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
*  [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring.  ([[News#2017-02-21|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
*  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor  ([[News#2016-11-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Maria Harrington moves to University of Central Florida as an Assistant Professor ([[News#2016-08-15 |details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: ''Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'', will start as an Assistant Professor in University of Albany  ([[News#2016-07-21|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board.  ([[News#2016-05-13|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] received Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship for the academic year 2016-2017. ([[News#2016-03-04|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]]   ([[News#2016-02-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: ''Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities''.  ([[News#2015-04-15|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ([[News#2014-11-11|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Tomek Loboda, [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] , and [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ([[News#2014-09-19|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User: Yuh43 | Yun Huang]] has been nominated for the best paper award at the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2014). ([[News#2014-07-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] finished her 2nd year postdoc in Columbia University and starts  as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall ([[News#2014-05-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Go to [[News | News Page]] for all news.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Try PAWS Tools at our Community Portal == &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Go to [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt Knowledge Tree] portal and [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt/register.html create trial account] to try our tools.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~cagent/ CourseAgent]: Share evaluations of IS graduate courses at Pitt and plan your career.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://pittsburgh.comettalks.com/ Comet]: Share, tag, recommend and schedule interesting talks in Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://eventur.us/ Eventur]: Share and schedule cultural events in Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://www.computingportal.org/ Ensemble]: This cross-university collaborative effort aims to bring together the global community of computing educators around a growing set of content collections with high-quality educational resources.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yournews/ YourNews]: This is a personalized RSS news access portal with several levels of user modeling and feed recommendation. Read your news in a personalized way!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If you are a researcher and would like to  quickly try our adaptation tools, create the trial account (link above) and proceed [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/cbum/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== PAWS Lab Contact Information ==&lt;br /&gt;
Information Sciences Building, Rm. 2A04&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
135 North Bellefield Avenue&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Tel: +1(412)624-9437&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Cskamil</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PAWS&amp;diff=3908</id>
		<title>PAWS</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PAWS&amp;diff=3908"/>
		<updated>2018-07-25T17:26:30Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: /* About PAWS */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;== About PAWS ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Edm_2018.jpg|Caption=''|frame|right|EDM 2018 - Buffalo, NY]]&lt;br /&gt;
Personalized Adaptive Web Systems Lab was established in 2004 with support from National Science Foundation and the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. The goal of the PAWS Lab is development and evaluation of innovative user- and group-adaptive Web-based technologies, systems, and architectures. The Lab currently explores a range of user modeling, adaptation and personalization technologies. The work of the Lab is supported by NSF and DARPA funding.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Most Recent News ==&lt;br /&gt;
* Roya Hosseini defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Program Construction Examples in Computer Science Education: From Static Text to Adaptive and Engaging Learning Technology'.([[News#2018-07-24|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Yun Huang defended her Ph. D. Thesis. ([[News#2018-07-05|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* PAWS Lab scores thrice at IUI 2018  ([[News#2018-03-08|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Julio Guerra defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Open Learner Models for Self-Regulated Learning: Exploring the Effects of Social Comparison and Granularity'.([[News#2017-10-24|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Suleehs | Danielle Lee]] moves to Sangmyung University as an assistant professor  ([[News#2017-08-17|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Two PAWS papers were nominated and one received Best Paper Awards at UMAP 2017  ([[News#2017-07-11|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
*  [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring.  ([[News#2017-02-21|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
*  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor  ([[News#2016-11-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Maria Harrington moves to University of Central Florida as an Assistant Professor ([[News#2016-08-15 |details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: ''Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'', will start as an Assistant Professor in University of Albany  ([[News#2016-07-21|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board.  ([[News#2016-05-13|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] received Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship for the academic year 2016-2017. ([[News#2016-03-04|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]]   ([[News#2016-02-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: ''Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities''.  ([[News#2015-04-15|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ([[News#2014-11-11|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Tomek Loboda, [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] , and [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ([[News#2014-09-19|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User: Yuh43 | Yun Huang]] has been nominated for the best paper award at the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2014). ([[News#2014-07-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] finished her 2nd year postdoc in Columbia University and starts  as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall ([[News#2014-05-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Go to [[News | News Page]] for all news.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Try PAWS Tools at our Community Portal == &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Go to [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt Knowledge Tree] portal and [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt/register.html create trial account] to try our tools.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~cagent/ CourseAgent]: Share evaluations of IS graduate courses at Pitt and plan your career.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://pittsburgh.comettalks.com/ Comet]: Share, tag, recommend and schedule interesting talks in Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://eventur.us/ Eventur]: Share and schedule cultural events in Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://www.computingportal.org/ Ensemble]: This cross-university collaborative effort aims to bring together the global community of computing educators around a growing set of content collections with high-quality educational resources.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yournews/ YourNews]: This is a personalized RSS news access portal with several levels of user modeling and feed recommendation. Read your news in a personalized way!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If you are a researcher and would like to  quickly try our adaptation tools, create the trial account (link above) and proceed [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/cbum/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== PAWS Lab Contact Information ==&lt;br /&gt;
Information Sciences Building, Rm. 2A04&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
135 North Bellefield Avenue&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Tel: +1(412)624-9437&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Cskamil</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PAWS&amp;diff=3907</id>
		<title>PAWS</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PAWS&amp;diff=3907"/>
		<updated>2018-07-25T17:24:48Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: /* About PAWS */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;== About PAWS ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:Edm_2018|Caption=''|frame|right|EDM 2018 - Buffalo, NY]]&lt;br /&gt;
Personalized Adaptive Web Systems Lab was established in 2004 with support from National Science Foundation and the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. The goal of the PAWS Lab is development and evaluation of innovative user- and group-adaptive Web-based technologies, systems, and architectures. The Lab currently explores a range of user modeling, adaptation and personalization technologies. The work of the Lab is supported by NSF and DARPA funding.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Most Recent News ==&lt;br /&gt;
* Roya Hosseini defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Program Construction Examples in Computer Science Education: From Static Text to Adaptive and Engaging Learning Technology'.([[News#2018-07-24|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Yun Huang defended her Ph. D. Thesis. ([[News#2018-07-05|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* PAWS Lab scores thrice at IUI 2018  ([[News#2018-03-08|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Julio Guerra defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Open Learner Models for Self-Regulated Learning: Exploring the Effects of Social Comparison and Granularity'.([[News#2017-10-24|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Suleehs | Danielle Lee]] moves to Sangmyung University as an assistant professor  ([[News#2017-08-17|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Two PAWS papers were nominated and one received Best Paper Awards at UMAP 2017  ([[News#2017-07-11|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
*  [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring.  ([[News#2017-02-21|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
*  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor  ([[News#2016-11-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Maria Harrington moves to University of Central Florida as an Assistant Professor ([[News#2016-08-15 |details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: ''Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'', will start as an Assistant Professor in University of Albany  ([[News#2016-07-21|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board.  ([[News#2016-05-13|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] received Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship for the academic year 2016-2017. ([[News#2016-03-04|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]]   ([[News#2016-02-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: ''Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities''.  ([[News#2015-04-15|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ([[News#2014-11-11|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Tomek Loboda, [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] , and [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ([[News#2014-09-19|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User: Yuh43 | Yun Huang]] has been nominated for the best paper award at the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2014). ([[News#2014-07-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] finished her 2nd year postdoc in Columbia University and starts  as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall ([[News#2014-05-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Go to [[News | News Page]] for all news.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Try PAWS Tools at our Community Portal == &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Go to [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt Knowledge Tree] portal and [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt/register.html create trial account] to try our tools.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~cagent/ CourseAgent]: Share evaluations of IS graduate courses at Pitt and plan your career.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://pittsburgh.comettalks.com/ Comet]: Share, tag, recommend and schedule interesting talks in Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://eventur.us/ Eventur]: Share and schedule cultural events in Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://www.computingportal.org/ Ensemble]: This cross-university collaborative effort aims to bring together the global community of computing educators around a growing set of content collections with high-quality educational resources.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yournews/ YourNews]: This is a personalized RSS news access portal with several levels of user modeling and feed recommendation. Read your news in a personalized way!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If you are a researcher and would like to  quickly try our adaptation tools, create the trial account (link above) and proceed [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/cbum/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== PAWS Lab Contact Information ==&lt;br /&gt;
Information Sciences Building, Rm. 2A04&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
135 North Bellefield Avenue&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Tel: +1(412)624-9437&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Cskamil</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=File:Edm_2018.jpg&amp;diff=3906</id>
		<title>File:Edm 2018.jpg</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=File:Edm_2018.jpg&amp;diff=3906"/>
		<updated>2018-07-25T17:23:02Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: PAWS at Education Data Mining 2018, Buffalo, NY&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;PAWS at Education Data Mining 2018, Buffalo, NY&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Cskamil</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PAWS&amp;diff=3905</id>
		<title>PAWS</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PAWS&amp;diff=3905"/>
		<updated>2018-07-25T17:15:10Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: /* Most Recent News */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;== About PAWS ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:IMG_5103.jpg|Caption=''|frame|right|UMAP 2011 - Girona, Spain]]&lt;br /&gt;
Personalized Adaptive Web Systems Lab was established in 2004 with support from National Science Foundation and the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. The goal of the PAWS Lab is development and evaluation of innovative user- and group-adaptive Web-based technologies, systems, and architectures. The Lab currently explores a range of user modeling, adaptation and personalization technologies. The work of the Lab is supported by NSF and DARPA funding.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Most Recent News ==&lt;br /&gt;
* Roya Hosseini defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Program Construction Examples in Computer Science Education: From Static Text to Adaptive and Engaging Learning Technology'.([[News#2018-07-24|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Yun Huang defended her Ph. D. Thesis. ([[News#2018-07-05|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* PAWS Lab scores thrice at IUI 2018  ([[News#2018-03-08|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Julio Guerra defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Open Learner Models for Self-Regulated Learning: Exploring the Effects of Social Comparison and Granularity'.([[News#2017-10-24|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Suleehs | Danielle Lee]] moves to Sangmyung University as an assistant professor  ([[News#2017-08-17|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Two PAWS papers were nominated and one received Best Paper Awards at UMAP 2017  ([[News#2017-07-11|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
*  [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring.  ([[News#2017-02-21|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
*  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor  ([[News#2016-11-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Maria Harrington moves to University of Central Florida as an Assistant Professor ([[News#2016-08-15 |details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: ''Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'', will start as an Assistant Professor in University of Albany  ([[News#2016-07-21|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board.  ([[News#2016-05-13|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] received Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship for the academic year 2016-2017. ([[News#2016-03-04|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]]   ([[News#2016-02-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: ''Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities''.  ([[News#2015-04-15|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ([[News#2014-11-11|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Tomek Loboda, [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] , and [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ([[News#2014-09-19|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User: Yuh43 | Yun Huang]] has been nominated for the best paper award at the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2014). ([[News#2014-07-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] finished her 2nd year postdoc in Columbia University and starts  as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall ([[News#2014-05-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Go to [[News | News Page]] for all news.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Try PAWS Tools at our Community Portal == &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Go to [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt Knowledge Tree] portal and [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt/register.html create trial account] to try our tools.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~cagent/ CourseAgent]: Share evaluations of IS graduate courses at Pitt and plan your career.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://pittsburgh.comettalks.com/ Comet]: Share, tag, recommend and schedule interesting talks in Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://eventur.us/ Eventur]: Share and schedule cultural events in Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://www.computingportal.org/ Ensemble]: This cross-university collaborative effort aims to bring together the global community of computing educators around a growing set of content collections with high-quality educational resources.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yournews/ YourNews]: This is a personalized RSS news access portal with several levels of user modeling and feed recommendation. Read your news in a personalized way!&lt;br /&gt;
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If you are a researcher and would like to  quickly try our adaptation tools, create the trial account (link above) and proceed [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/cbum/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
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== PAWS Lab Contact Information ==&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-07-24&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-07-24&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Roya Hosseini defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Program Construction Examples in Computer Science Education: From Static Text to Adaptive and Engaging Learning Technology'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-07-05&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-07-05&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Huang]] defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang defended her Ph. D. Thesis.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-03-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-03-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  PAWS Lab scores thrice at IUI 2018 ====&lt;br /&gt;
PAWS Lab took almost the whole podium at [https://iui.acm.org/2018/ IUI 2018] award ceremony. Hyman Tsai receives an honorable mention for the best student paper award. [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]]  with now his own advisee Ivania Donoso also got an honorable mention. And finally, our recent visitor Cecilia di Sciascio did win the best student paper award for a paper &amp;quot;A Study on User-Controllable Social Exploratory Search&amp;quot; with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Eduardo Veas.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-10-24&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-10-24&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]] defended his Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Julio Guerra defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Open Learner Models for Self-Regulated Learning: Exploring the Effects of Social Comparison and Granularity'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-08-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-08-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]] moves to  Sangmyung University as an assistant professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]]  has joined [http://www.smuc.ac.kr/mbs/eng/index.jsp  Sangmyung University]  (Korea) as an assistant professor at the Department of Software on August 17, 2017. Previously, Danielle was an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Bothel.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-07-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-07-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Two PAWS papers were nominated and one received Best Paper Awards at   UMAP 2017 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Two papers - [https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079672 Stereotype Modeling for Problem-Solving Performance Predictions in MOOCs and Traditional Courses] and  [https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079682 Fine-Grained Open Learner Models: Complexity Versus Support] were nominated for the best paper award at [http://www.um.org/umap2017/ UMAP2017] – 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. The second paper lead by Julio Guerra and Jordan Barria-Pineda received [http://www.um.org/awards/james-chen-best-student-paper-awards James Chen Best Student Paper award]. Congratulations to Julio and Jordan who now joined former PAWS lab members Rosta Farzan, [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]], and [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] as recipients of this prestigious award. This is 6th James Chen award won by PAWS lab members! Rosta Farzan received this award twice as a student and once more as a senior co-author.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-02-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-02-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our mentor at PAWS, Dr. Peter Brusilovsky, on receiving the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring!  Read more on [http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=42853 University Times]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-11-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-11-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to  Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] has joined [http://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/department-of-information-and-computing-sciences the Department of Information and Computing Sciences] at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). The tenure-track position in computer science with the focus on educational technology started on November 1st, 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Maria Harrington moves to  University of Central Florida as an Assistant Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [http://svad.cah.ucf.edu/staff.php?id=1350 Maria Harrington]  has joined [https://www.ucf.edu/  University of Central Florida]  as an Assistant Professor at the [http://svad.cah.ucf.edu/ School of Visual Arts and Design]. This is a great place to continue her work on educational virtual reality. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-07-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-07-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'. More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/29220/ here]. She will join the University of Albany as an Assistant Professor in September 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-05-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-05-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board  ====&lt;br /&gt;
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Two SIS faculty members on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board. &lt;br /&gt;
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Peter Brusilovsky, professor and current chair of the Information Sciences program, and Rosta Farzan, assistant professor of Information Sciences &amp;amp; Technology, have been selected as associate editors of the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) new journal titled “Transactions on Social Computing.”&lt;br /&gt;
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This quarterly journal will publish works encompassing theoretical, empirical, systems, and design research on social computing. It will be part of the ACM Digital Library, which is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-03-04&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-03-04&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Congratulations to [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] for receiving Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang and Roya Hosseini received prestigious Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award for the academic year 2016-2017.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-02-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-02-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou gave a talk on the topic of &amp;quot;Personalized Crowdsourcing&amp;quot; ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Lykourentzou  illustrated the potential that personalization has for the improvement of crowdsourcing systems, through two example applications. The first application was about making personalized task recommendations to crowd workers, and the second application was about personalizing team building, i.e. a method that brings people to work together on a collaborating task taking into account their individual personalities. &lt;br /&gt;
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At the time, Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou was a researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology and was collaborating with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, as Visiting Researcher.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]  and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He (project lead and co-lead respectively) has been awarded a Nation Science Foundation Information and Intelligent Systems grant for their project titled “[[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]].” The project will focus on streamlining and expanding the reach of effective adaptive educational hypermedia, which allows students and independent learners without access to traditional classrooms to gain a personalized education.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-04-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-04-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities'. ====&lt;br /&gt;
More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/25836/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-11-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-11-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;, and presented his research on Recommender Systems. &lt;br /&gt;
Please find the slides [http://www.slideshare.net/denisparra/keynote-at-chilean-week-of-computer-science here].&lt;br /&gt;
The abstract of the talk is also available at the home page of the event, JCC 2014. [http://www.jcc2014.ucm.cl/en/ (more)].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-09-19&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-09-19&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: PAWS won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Tomek, [[User:Julio | Julio]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya]], and [[User:peterb| Peter]]! Their paper entitled &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266656951_Mastery_Grids_An_Open_Source_Social_Educational_Progress_Visualization Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization]&amp;quot; has won the best paper award of EC-TEL 2014 conference. More details on the paper can be accessed [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-11200-8_18 here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-05-06&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-05-06&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] is appointed as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall.====&lt;br /&gt;
On completing 2 years successful post-doctoral innovation fellow position in [http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu EdLab], Teachers College @ Columbia University, [[User: shoha99 | Sharon]] is moving onto a tenure-track position in [http://cidse.engineering.asu.edu School of Computing, Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering] (AKA: Engineering school) in [http://www.asu.edu Arizona State University], Phoenix, Arizona. She anticipates to continue working on the emerging topics of computational technologies in learning. Meanwhile, persistently dedicate to the course - [http://www.columbia.edu/~ih2240/dataviz/index.htm Data Visualization], which she established in [http://www.qmss.columbia.edu QMSS (Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences)], School of Arts &amp;amp; Sciences in [http://www.columbia.edu Columbia University]. For more details see [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-14-2014.php SIS news].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] to deliver a keynote at a WWW 2014 workshop. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter will deliver a keynote titled &amp;quot;Addictive Links: Engaging Students through Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Student Modeling&amp;quot; at [http://www2014.kr/program/webet-2014/ WebET 2014] - Workshop on Web-based Education Technologies at the Word Wide Web Conference in Seoul, Korea. The talk will present PAWS work on such systems as [[QuizGuide]], [[NavEx]], JavaGuide, [[Progressor]], and [[ProgressorPlus|Progressor+]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Jennifer | Yi-Ling(Jennifer) Lin]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan.====&lt;br /&gt;
Yi-Ling (Jennifer) joined the Information Management faculty at the National Sun Yat-Sen University [http://http://epage.mis.nsysu.edu.tw/files/11-1100-4988-1.php?Lang=en] where she is an Assistant Professor. She is teaching Java course and continues to cooperate with Paws Lab to explore the social comparison in cyberlearning.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-08-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-08-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] started a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.====&lt;br /&gt;
Denis joined the faculty at the School of Engineering in Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, [http://www.topuniversities.com/node/2261/ranking-details/latin-american-university-rankings/2013  ranked 2nd among Latinamerican Universities],  where he is an [http://www.ing.puc.cl/cuerpo-docente/parra-santander/ Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science]. At the undergraduate level, he is teaching a course that explores several topics for the major in Computer Science, and at the graduate level he teaches Data Mining in the [http://mpgi.ing.puc.cl/profesores.html  Master for Information Processing and Management]. He continues doing research on Recommender Systems, the topic he investigated while a student at the PAWS lab, and is also Analyzing Social Media, collaborating with PAWS lab student Xidao Wen, studying [http://www.christophtrattner.info/pubs/ht2014.pdf how Twitter is used in academic Conferences]. In addition, he is fostering collaboration between professor Brusilovsky and some areas of teaching such as Databases in the CS department at Catholic University.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-18&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-18&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[Systems#KnowledgeZoom | KnowledgeZoom]] paper receives ICALT 2013 Best full Paper Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to paws! &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256524709_KnowledgeZoom_for_Java_A_Concept-Based_Exam_Study_Tool_with_a_Zoomable_Open_Student_Model KnowledgeZoom for Java: A Concept Based Exam Study Tool with a Zoomable Open Student Model]&amp;quot; won the best full paper award of ICALT 2013 conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Falakmasir | Mohammad Falakmasir]] won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Mohammad! His paper with Zachary A. Pardos, Geoffrey J. Gordon, and Peter Brusilovsky entitled &amp;quot;A Spectral Learning Approach to Knowledge Tracing&amp;quot; won the best student paper award of EDM 2013 conference. In his paper, he proposed using Spectral Learning (SL) to learn the BKT parameters.  Results of his study showed that SL can improve knowledge tracing parameter fitting time significantly while maintaining the same prediction accuracy. For more details on his paper please refer to his article [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/presentation2.php?presentationID=5323&amp;amp;conferenceID=115]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair. ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]], has been selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair by the Fulbright Commission. With this Award Peter will spend 5 month in FInland collaborating with researchers from University of Helsinki, Aalto University, and Helsinki Institute of Information Technology. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky, Professor at the iSchool, has been awarded a contract by the United States Army Contracting Command to participate in the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. Brusilovsky’ s contract, for $623,005 over a three-year period, will support the project [[Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Learner Modeling for PAL]] that will focus on the architecture, algorithms, and interfaces for a Personal Assistant for Learning (PAL), one of the major endeavors undertaken by the ADL Initiative. Through a PAL, the Initiative will provide state of the art education and training -- using technology and innovative learning methodologies -- for workforce members in the Department of Defense and the federal government. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-04-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-04-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Sergey Sosnovsky profiled in International Innovation ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky, who earned his PhD in Information Science in 2012, was recently profiled in International Innovation Magazine about his work on eLearning systems research and tools. Sosnovsky is the Principal Researcher and Head of the Intelligent e-Learning Technology Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbruken, Germany. The article explored his work on the Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content project funded by the European Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service. The magazine article (published March 2013) discussed how Sosnovsky’s project will enhance adaptive e-Learning by making it possible to develop smart instructional material for a broader audience of content authors. The article can be viewed at [[http://www.research-europe.com/magazine/REGIONAL/EX8/index.html]] , beginning on page 71.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-01-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-01-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt  IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies]. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter is appointed the Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, a journal dedicated to advancing the state of the art in technology-enhanced learning. This quarterly publication covers leading edge research on topics such as educational software applications, online learning systems, and simulation systems for education and training. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/3-11-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-08-26&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Rosta! After 3 years as a postdoc at CMU, she is now back to Pitt as an Assistant Professor. During her first semester at SIS she is teaching IS2430 Social Computing course. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-02-2012.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] Thesis Defence: Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
A large number of educational resources is now made available on the Web to support both regular classroom learning and online learning. However, the abundance of available content produced at least two problems: how to help students to find the most appropriate resources and how to engage them into using these resources and benefit from them. Personalized and social learning have been suggested as potential ways to address these problems.&lt;br /&gt;
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This work attempts to combine the ideas of personalized and social learning by providing navigation support through an open social student modeling visualization. A series of classroom studies exploited the idea of the approach and revealed promising results, which demonstrated the personalized guidance and social visualization combined helped students to find the most relevant resources of parameterized self-assessment questions for Java programming. Thus, this dissertation extend the approach to a larger collection of learning objects for cross content navigation and verify its capability of supporting social visualization for personalized E-Learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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The study results confirm that working with the non-mandatory system, students enhanced the learning quality in increasing their motivation and engagement. They successfully achieved better learning results. Meanwhile, incorporating a mixed collection of content in the open social student modeling visualizations effectively led the students to work at the right level of questions. Both strong and weak student worked with the appropriate levels of questions for their readiness accordingly and yielded a consistent performance across all three levels of complexities. Additionally, providing a more realistic content collection on the navigation supported open social student modeling visualizations results in a uniform performance in the group. The classroom study revealed a clear pattern of social guidance, where the stronger students left the traces for weaker ones to follow. The subjective evaluation confirms the design of the interface in terms of the content organization. Students’ positive responses also compliment the objective system usage data.&lt;br /&gt;
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download it from [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/13439/ here]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-11-30&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-11-30&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Thesis Defence: Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Conventional closed-corpus adaptive information systems control limited sets of documents in fixed subject domains and cannot provide access to the content outside the system. Such restrictions contradict the requirements of today, when most of the information systems are implemented in the open document space of WWW and are expected to operate on the open-corpus content. In order to maintain personalized access to open-corpus documents, an adaptive system should be able to model the documents and the relations between the documents and the domain knowledge automatically and dynamically. This dissertation explores the problem of open-corpus personalization and semantic modeling of open-corpus content in the context of e-Learning. Information on WWW is not without structure. Many collections of online instructional material (tutorials, electronic books, digital libraries, etc.) have been provided with implicit knowledge models encoded in form of tables of content, indexes, headers of chapters, links between pages, and different styles of text fragments. The main dissertation approach tries to leverage this layer of hidden semantics by extracting and representing it as coarse-grained models of collections. A central domain ontology is used to maintain overlay modeling of studentsÕ knowledge and serves as a reference point for multiple collections of external instructional material. In order to establish the link between the ontology and the open-corpus content models a special ontology mapping algorithm has been developed.  The proposed approach has been applied in the Ontology-based Open-corpus Personalization Service (OOPS) that recommends and adaptively annotates online reading material. The domain of Java programming has been chosen for the proof-of-concept implementation. A controlled experiment has been organized to evaluate the developed adaptive system and the proposed approach overall. The results of the evaluation have demonstrated several significant learning effects of the implemented open-corpus personalization. The analysis of log-based data has also shown that the open-corpus version of the system is capable of providing personalization of similar quality to the close-corpus one. Such results indicate that the proposed approach supports fully-scale open-corpus personalization for e-Learning. Further research is required to verify if the approach remains effective in other subject domains and with other types of instructional content.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-07-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-07-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:DParra | Denis Parra]] earns a  James Chen Best Student paper award in UMAP 2011 ====&lt;br /&gt;
In the last conference of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011) Denis Parra won one of the 2 [http://www.umap2011.org/program/best-paper-awards James Chen Best Student paper awards] for his paper '''Walk The Talk: Analyzing the relation between implicit and explicit feedback for preference elicitation''' that he co-authored with Dr. Xavier Amatriain. In this paper, the authors present a study on the music domain with last.fm users, which results leads them to create a regression model that maps implicit information (such as playcounts and how recently a user listened to albums) with explicit information in the form of ratings. More details in the [http://www.springerlink.com/content/645721483544r815/  conference proceedings in Springer]. Denis is the third PAWS Lab member to receive this prestigious award. Prior to that, Rosta Farzan and Michael Yudelson won this award at earlier User Modeling conferences. Rosta also won another James Chen award at Adaptive Hypermedia conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] Promoted to Rank of Full Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our head of PAWS lab! [[http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/06-10-2011.php Read more ]]&lt;br /&gt;
==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon]] received 2011 Allen Kent Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Graduate Program in Information Science ==== &lt;br /&gt;
She has worked with [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gray/ Dr. Glenn Ray] several years in designing and teaching undergraduate courses. She's affiliated as teaching fellow and teaches in our school now.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-12-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-12-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] received Google grant to work on ''[[Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities]]'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
The grant will support our efforts to increase user participation in social systems designed for local communities. In the course of the project will explore two innovative ideas for increasing participation. The first idea is to provide access to information “beyond the desktop,” by adding a mobile location-based interface to access information. This will increase both the number of active users and the volume of their contributions. The second idea is to provide personalized access to information to increase the chance to gather relevant information. This work will be based on two existing social systems that were developed and maintained by PAWs lab: the [[Systems#CoMeT | CoMeT]] system for sharing information about research talks at Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh and [[Systems#Eventur | Eventur]], a social system for recommending cultural events in the Pittsburgh area.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] Thesis Defence: Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System ====&lt;br /&gt;
The dissertation proposes a novel way of speeding the development of new adaptive hypermedia systems. The gist of the approach is to extract the adaptation functionality out of the adaptive hypermedia system, encapsulate it into a standalone system, and offer adaptation as a service to the client applications. Such a standalone adaptation provider reduces the development of adaptation functionality to configuration and compliance and as a result creates new adaptive systems faster and helps serve larger user populations with adaptively accessible content. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=777 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
The electronic version of [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] dissertation has been approved by the School of Information Sciences. ETD is accessible worldwide from the online library catalog of the University of Pittsburgh ([http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-10132010-092137/ link]).&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This EAGER grant will allow us to investigate how to model and visualize latent communities – those groups of people who form communities based on their similar interests. This work will consider how to elicit latent communities from various kinds of data about individuals available in the modern social Web and deliver the results in a manner suitable for interactive exploration through interactive visualizations. This will be one of the first attempts to use a variety of social Web data and approaches to community modeling. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1059577 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] Thesis Defence: Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn's dissertation proposes to incorporate interactive visualization into personalized search in order to overcome the limitation. By combining the personalized search and the interactive visualization, we expect our approach will be able to help users to better explore the information space and locate relevant information more efficiently. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=764 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This one-year grant will support a project exploring personalization and social networking for short-term communities. Using academic research conferences as a test bed, our team will explore new methods to leverage information about user interests (available from multiple external resources) and develop techniques to facilitate use of existing social technologies. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1052768 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-08-15 :: SIGWeb Newsletter published an interview with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
The Summer 2010 issue of SIGWeb Newsletter (a magazine of ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web) published an [http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1796390.1796393 interview with Peter Brusilovsky]. The interview provides some personal view on research project performed at PAWS.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-07-01 :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook]] has received Computing Inovation Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn was chosen as a [http://cifellows.org  CIFellow] (Computing Innovation Fellow) supported by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the Computing Research Association (CRA), and the National Science Foundation.  Starting from the fall 2010, he is going to work with [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/ Dr. Ben Shneiderman] at the [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil Human Computer Interaction Lab], University of Maryland.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-05-01 :: Sergey has received EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky's proposal for EU [http://cordis.europa.eu/improving/fellowships/home.htm Marie Curie Fellowship] is approved by the EU Research Executive Agency. The funding starts in July, 2010 and will last until July 2012. The project &amp;quot;Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content&amp;quot; will focus on implementation of author-friendly technologies for learning content development, including collaborative authoring support, metadata authoring support, open-corpus content discovery, interactivity authoring, and gap detection.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-27 :: Rosta receives her second James Chen Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rosta Farzan received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 12th International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP2009, in Trento, Italy for the paper ''Social Navigation Support for Information Seeking: If You Build It, Will They Come?'' by Rosta Farzan and Peter Brusilovsky. This is her second James Chen Award, congratulations!&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-26 :: PAWS Caught on UMAP 2009 Video ====&lt;br /&gt;
* 0:27 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:09 [[User:Rostaf|Rosta]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:18 [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:51 [[User:Suleehs|Danielle]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 3:12 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]] and [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 4:01 [[User:Peterb|Peter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-05-28 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] awarded honorary doctorate by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava ====&lt;br /&gt;
At a ceremony in Bratislava today, Peter Brusilovsky was honored by the [http://www.stuba.sk/ Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava] with the degree of Doctor honoris causa. The university, founded in 1937 in Bratislava, is one of the most significant institutions of higher education in Slovakia. Peter was selected for this recognition for &amp;quot;his contributions to the fields of Informatics and Information Technologies&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2008-07-31 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] receives Best Paper Award at AH 2008 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky received Best Paper Award at the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2008, in Hannover, Germany  for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/6h410u3w4836v866/ ''Social Information Access for the Rest of Us: An Exploration of Social YouTube''] by Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Brusilovsky, and Barry Smyth&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2007-06-28 :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael]] receives James Chen Best Student Paper Award at UM 2007 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Michael Yudelson received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on User Modelling, UM07, in Corfu, Greece for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/c723060442701737/ ''A User Modeling Server for Contemporary Adaptive Hypermedia: an Evaluation of Push Approach  to Evidence Propagation''] by Michael Yudelson, Peter Brusilovsky, and Vladimir Zadorozhny&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-07-24&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-07-24&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Roya Hosseini defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Program Construction Examples in Computer Science Education: From Static Text to Adaptive and Engaging Learning Technology'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-07-05&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-07-05&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Huang]] defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang defended her Ph. D. Thesis.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-03-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-03-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  PAWS Lab scores thrice at IUI 2018 ====&lt;br /&gt;
PAWS Lab took almost the whole podium at [https://iui.acm.org/2018/ IUI 2018] award ceremony. Hyman Tsai receives an honorable mention for the best student paper award. [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]]  with now his own advisee Ivania Donoso also got an honorable mention. And finally, our recent visitor Cecilia di Sciascio did win the best student paper award for a paper &amp;quot;A Study on User-Controllable Social Exploratory Search&amp;quot; with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Eduardo Veas.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-08-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-08-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]] moves to  Sangmyung University as an assistant professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]]  has joined [http://www.smuc.ac.kr/mbs/eng/index.jsp  Sangmyung University]  (Korea) as an assistant professor at the Department of Software on August 17, 2017. Previously, Danielle was an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Bothel.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-10-24&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-10-24&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]] defended his Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Julio Guerra defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Open Learner Models for Self-Regulated Learning: Exploring the Effects of Social Comparison and Granularity'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-07-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-07-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Two PAWS papers were nominated and one received Best Paper Awards at   UMAP 2017 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Two papers - [https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079672 Stereotype Modeling for Problem-Solving Performance Predictions in MOOCs and Traditional Courses] and  [https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079682 Fine-Grained Open Learner Models: Complexity Versus Support] were nominated for the best paper award at [http://www.um.org/umap2017/ UMAP2017] – 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. The second paper lead by Julio Guerra and Jordan Barria-Pineda received [http://www.um.org/awards/james-chen-best-student-paper-awards James Chen Best Student Paper award]. Congratulations to Julio and Jordan who now joined former PAWS lab members Rosta Farzan, [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]], and [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] as recipients of this prestigious award. This is 6th James Chen award won by PAWS lab members! Rosta Farzan received this award twice as a student and once more as a senior co-author.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-02-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-02-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our mentor at PAWS, Dr. Peter Brusilovsky, on receiving the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring!  Read more on [http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=42853 University Times]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-11-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-11-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to  Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] has joined [http://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/department-of-information-and-computing-sciences the Department of Information and Computing Sciences] at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). The tenure-track position in computer science with the focus on educational technology started on November 1st, 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Maria Harrington moves to  University of Central Florida as an Assistant Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [http://svad.cah.ucf.edu/staff.php?id=1350 Maria Harrington]  has joined [https://www.ucf.edu/  University of Central Florida]  as an Assistant Professor at the [http://svad.cah.ucf.edu/ School of Visual Arts and Design]. This is a great place to continue her work on educational virtual reality. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-07-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-07-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'. More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/29220/ here]. She will join the University of Albany as an Assistant Professor in September 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-05-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-05-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board  ====&lt;br /&gt;
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Two SIS faculty members on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board. &lt;br /&gt;
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Peter Brusilovsky, professor and current chair of the Information Sciences program, and Rosta Farzan, assistant professor of Information Sciences &amp;amp; Technology, have been selected as associate editors of the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) new journal titled “Transactions on Social Computing.”&lt;br /&gt;
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This quarterly journal will publish works encompassing theoretical, empirical, systems, and design research on social computing. It will be part of the ACM Digital Library, which is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-03-04&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-03-04&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Congratulations to [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] for receiving Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang and Roya Hosseini received prestigious Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award for the academic year 2016-2017.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-02-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-02-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou gave a talk on the topic of &amp;quot;Personalized Crowdsourcing&amp;quot; ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Lykourentzou  illustrated the potential that personalization has for the improvement of crowdsourcing systems, through two example applications. The first application was about making personalized task recommendations to crowd workers, and the second application was about personalizing team building, i.e. a method that brings people to work together on a collaborating task taking into account their individual personalities. &lt;br /&gt;
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At the time, Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou was a researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology and was collaborating with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, as Visiting Researcher.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]  and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He (project lead and co-lead respectively) has been awarded a Nation Science Foundation Information and Intelligent Systems grant for their project titled “[[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]].” The project will focus on streamlining and expanding the reach of effective adaptive educational hypermedia, which allows students and independent learners without access to traditional classrooms to gain a personalized education.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-04-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-04-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities'. ====&lt;br /&gt;
More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/25836/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-11-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-11-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;, and presented his research on Recommender Systems. &lt;br /&gt;
Please find the slides [http://www.slideshare.net/denisparra/keynote-at-chilean-week-of-computer-science here].&lt;br /&gt;
The abstract of the talk is also available at the home page of the event, JCC 2014. [http://www.jcc2014.ucm.cl/en/ (more)].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-09-19&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-09-19&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: PAWS won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Tomek, [[User:Julio | Julio]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya]], and [[User:peterb| Peter]]! Their paper entitled &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266656951_Mastery_Grids_An_Open_Source_Social_Educational_Progress_Visualization Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization]&amp;quot; has won the best paper award of EC-TEL 2014 conference. More details on the paper can be accessed [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-11200-8_18 here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-05-06&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-05-06&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] is appointed as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall.====&lt;br /&gt;
On completing 2 years successful post-doctoral innovation fellow position in [http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu EdLab], Teachers College @ Columbia University, [[User: shoha99 | Sharon]] is moving onto a tenure-track position in [http://cidse.engineering.asu.edu School of Computing, Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering] (AKA: Engineering school) in [http://www.asu.edu Arizona State University], Phoenix, Arizona. She anticipates to continue working on the emerging topics of computational technologies in learning. Meanwhile, persistently dedicate to the course - [http://www.columbia.edu/~ih2240/dataviz/index.htm Data Visualization], which she established in [http://www.qmss.columbia.edu QMSS (Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences)], School of Arts &amp;amp; Sciences in [http://www.columbia.edu Columbia University]. For more details see [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-14-2014.php SIS news].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] to deliver a keynote at a WWW 2014 workshop. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter will deliver a keynote titled &amp;quot;Addictive Links: Engaging Students through Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Student Modeling&amp;quot; at [http://www2014.kr/program/webet-2014/ WebET 2014] - Workshop on Web-based Education Technologies at the Word Wide Web Conference in Seoul, Korea. The talk will present PAWS work on such systems as [[QuizGuide]], [[NavEx]], JavaGuide, [[Progressor]], and [[ProgressorPlus|Progressor+]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Jennifer | Yi-Ling(Jennifer) Lin]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan.====&lt;br /&gt;
Yi-Ling (Jennifer) joined the Information Management faculty at the National Sun Yat-Sen University [http://http://epage.mis.nsysu.edu.tw/files/11-1100-4988-1.php?Lang=en] where she is an Assistant Professor. She is teaching Java course and continues to cooperate with Paws Lab to explore the social comparison in cyberlearning.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-08-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-08-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] started a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.====&lt;br /&gt;
Denis joined the faculty at the School of Engineering in Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, [http://www.topuniversities.com/node/2261/ranking-details/latin-american-university-rankings/2013  ranked 2nd among Latinamerican Universities],  where he is an [http://www.ing.puc.cl/cuerpo-docente/parra-santander/ Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science]. At the undergraduate level, he is teaching a course that explores several topics for the major in Computer Science, and at the graduate level he teaches Data Mining in the [http://mpgi.ing.puc.cl/profesores.html  Master for Information Processing and Management]. He continues doing research on Recommender Systems, the topic he investigated while a student at the PAWS lab, and is also Analyzing Social Media, collaborating with PAWS lab student Xidao Wen, studying [http://www.christophtrattner.info/pubs/ht2014.pdf how Twitter is used in academic Conferences]. In addition, he is fostering collaboration between professor Brusilovsky and some areas of teaching such as Databases in the CS department at Catholic University.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-18&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-18&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[Systems#KnowledgeZoom | KnowledgeZoom]] paper receives ICALT 2013 Best full Paper Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to paws! &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256524709_KnowledgeZoom_for_Java_A_Concept-Based_Exam_Study_Tool_with_a_Zoomable_Open_Student_Model KnowledgeZoom for Java: A Concept Based Exam Study Tool with a Zoomable Open Student Model]&amp;quot; won the best full paper award of ICALT 2013 conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Falakmasir | Mohammad Falakmasir]] won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Mohammad! His paper with Zachary A. Pardos, Geoffrey J. Gordon, and Peter Brusilovsky entitled &amp;quot;A Spectral Learning Approach to Knowledge Tracing&amp;quot; won the best student paper award of EDM 2013 conference. In his paper, he proposed using Spectral Learning (SL) to learn the BKT parameters.  Results of his study showed that SL can improve knowledge tracing parameter fitting time significantly while maintaining the same prediction accuracy. For more details on his paper please refer to his article [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/presentation2.php?presentationID=5323&amp;amp;conferenceID=115]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair. ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]], has been selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair by the Fulbright Commission. With this Award Peter will spend 5 month in FInland collaborating with researchers from University of Helsinki, Aalto University, and Helsinki Institute of Information Technology. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky, Professor at the iSchool, has been awarded a contract by the United States Army Contracting Command to participate in the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. Brusilovsky’ s contract, for $623,005 over a three-year period, will support the project [[Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Learner Modeling for PAL]] that will focus on the architecture, algorithms, and interfaces for a Personal Assistant for Learning (PAL), one of the major endeavors undertaken by the ADL Initiative. Through a PAL, the Initiative will provide state of the art education and training -- using technology and innovative learning methodologies -- for workforce members in the Department of Defense and the federal government. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-04-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-04-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Sergey Sosnovsky profiled in International Innovation ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky, who earned his PhD in Information Science in 2012, was recently profiled in International Innovation Magazine about his work on eLearning systems research and tools. Sosnovsky is the Principal Researcher and Head of the Intelligent e-Learning Technology Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbruken, Germany. The article explored his work on the Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content project funded by the European Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service. The magazine article (published March 2013) discussed how Sosnovsky’s project will enhance adaptive e-Learning by making it possible to develop smart instructional material for a broader audience of content authors. The article can be viewed at [[http://www.research-europe.com/magazine/REGIONAL/EX8/index.html]] , beginning on page 71.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-01-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-01-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt  IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies]. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter is appointed the Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, a journal dedicated to advancing the state of the art in technology-enhanced learning. This quarterly publication covers leading edge research on topics such as educational software applications, online learning systems, and simulation systems for education and training. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/3-11-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-08-26&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Rosta! After 3 years as a postdoc at CMU, she is now back to Pitt as an Assistant Professor. During her first semester at SIS she is teaching IS2430 Social Computing course. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-02-2012.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] Thesis Defence: Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
A large number of educational resources is now made available on the Web to support both regular classroom learning and online learning. However, the abundance of available content produced at least two problems: how to help students to find the most appropriate resources and how to engage them into using these resources and benefit from them. Personalized and social learning have been suggested as potential ways to address these problems.&lt;br /&gt;
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This work attempts to combine the ideas of personalized and social learning by providing navigation support through an open social student modeling visualization. A series of classroom studies exploited the idea of the approach and revealed promising results, which demonstrated the personalized guidance and social visualization combined helped students to find the most relevant resources of parameterized self-assessment questions for Java programming. Thus, this dissertation extend the approach to a larger collection of learning objects for cross content navigation and verify its capability of supporting social visualization for personalized E-Learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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The study results confirm that working with the non-mandatory system, students enhanced the learning quality in increasing their motivation and engagement. They successfully achieved better learning results. Meanwhile, incorporating a mixed collection of content in the open social student modeling visualizations effectively led the students to work at the right level of questions. Both strong and weak student worked with the appropriate levels of questions for their readiness accordingly and yielded a consistent performance across all three levels of complexities. Additionally, providing a more realistic content collection on the navigation supported open social student modeling visualizations results in a uniform performance in the group. The classroom study revealed a clear pattern of social guidance, where the stronger students left the traces for weaker ones to follow. The subjective evaluation confirms the design of the interface in terms of the content organization. Students’ positive responses also compliment the objective system usage data.&lt;br /&gt;
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download it from [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/13439/ here]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-11-30&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-11-30&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Thesis Defence: Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Conventional closed-corpus adaptive information systems control limited sets of documents in fixed subject domains and cannot provide access to the content outside the system. Such restrictions contradict the requirements of today, when most of the information systems are implemented in the open document space of WWW and are expected to operate on the open-corpus content. In order to maintain personalized access to open-corpus documents, an adaptive system should be able to model the documents and the relations between the documents and the domain knowledge automatically and dynamically. This dissertation explores the problem of open-corpus personalization and semantic modeling of open-corpus content in the context of e-Learning. Information on WWW is not without structure. Many collections of online instructional material (tutorials, electronic books, digital libraries, etc.) have been provided with implicit knowledge models encoded in form of tables of content, indexes, headers of chapters, links between pages, and different styles of text fragments. The main dissertation approach tries to leverage this layer of hidden semantics by extracting and representing it as coarse-grained models of collections. A central domain ontology is used to maintain overlay modeling of studentsÕ knowledge and serves as a reference point for multiple collections of external instructional material. In order to establish the link between the ontology and the open-corpus content models a special ontology mapping algorithm has been developed.  The proposed approach has been applied in the Ontology-based Open-corpus Personalization Service (OOPS) that recommends and adaptively annotates online reading material. The domain of Java programming has been chosen for the proof-of-concept implementation. A controlled experiment has been organized to evaluate the developed adaptive system and the proposed approach overall. The results of the evaluation have demonstrated several significant learning effects of the implemented open-corpus personalization. The analysis of log-based data has also shown that the open-corpus version of the system is capable of providing personalization of similar quality to the close-corpus one. Such results indicate that the proposed approach supports fully-scale open-corpus personalization for e-Learning. Further research is required to verify if the approach remains effective in other subject domains and with other types of instructional content.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-07-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-07-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:DParra | Denis Parra]] earns a  James Chen Best Student paper award in UMAP 2011 ====&lt;br /&gt;
In the last conference of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011) Denis Parra won one of the 2 [http://www.umap2011.org/program/best-paper-awards James Chen Best Student paper awards] for his paper '''Walk The Talk: Analyzing the relation between implicit and explicit feedback for preference elicitation''' that he co-authored with Dr. Xavier Amatriain. In this paper, the authors present a study on the music domain with last.fm users, which results leads them to create a regression model that maps implicit information (such as playcounts and how recently a user listened to albums) with explicit information in the form of ratings. More details in the [http://www.springerlink.com/content/645721483544r815/  conference proceedings in Springer]. Denis is the third PAWS Lab member to receive this prestigious award. Prior to that, Rosta Farzan and Michael Yudelson won this award at earlier User Modeling conferences. Rosta also won another James Chen award at Adaptive Hypermedia conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] Promoted to Rank of Full Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our head of PAWS lab! [[http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/06-10-2011.php Read more ]]&lt;br /&gt;
==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon]] received 2011 Allen Kent Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Graduate Program in Information Science ==== &lt;br /&gt;
She has worked with [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gray/ Dr. Glenn Ray] several years in designing and teaching undergraduate courses. She's affiliated as teaching fellow and teaches in our school now.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-12-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-12-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] received Google grant to work on ''[[Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities]]'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
The grant will support our efforts to increase user participation in social systems designed for local communities. In the course of the project will explore two innovative ideas for increasing participation. The first idea is to provide access to information “beyond the desktop,” by adding a mobile location-based interface to access information. This will increase both the number of active users and the volume of their contributions. The second idea is to provide personalized access to information to increase the chance to gather relevant information. This work will be based on two existing social systems that were developed and maintained by PAWs lab: the [[Systems#CoMeT | CoMeT]] system for sharing information about research talks at Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh and [[Systems#Eventur | Eventur]], a social system for recommending cultural events in the Pittsburgh area.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] Thesis Defence: Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System ====&lt;br /&gt;
The dissertation proposes a novel way of speeding the development of new adaptive hypermedia systems. The gist of the approach is to extract the adaptation functionality out of the adaptive hypermedia system, encapsulate it into a standalone system, and offer adaptation as a service to the client applications. Such a standalone adaptation provider reduces the development of adaptation functionality to configuration and compliance and as a result creates new adaptive systems faster and helps serve larger user populations with adaptively accessible content. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=777 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
The electronic version of [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] dissertation has been approved by the School of Information Sciences. ETD is accessible worldwide from the online library catalog of the University of Pittsburgh ([http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-10132010-092137/ link]).&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This EAGER grant will allow us to investigate how to model and visualize latent communities – those groups of people who form communities based on their similar interests. This work will consider how to elicit latent communities from various kinds of data about individuals available in the modern social Web and deliver the results in a manner suitable for interactive exploration through interactive visualizations. This will be one of the first attempts to use a variety of social Web data and approaches to community modeling. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1059577 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] Thesis Defence: Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn's dissertation proposes to incorporate interactive visualization into personalized search in order to overcome the limitation. By combining the personalized search and the interactive visualization, we expect our approach will be able to help users to better explore the information space and locate relevant information more efficiently. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=764 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This one-year grant will support a project exploring personalization and social networking for short-term communities. Using academic research conferences as a test bed, our team will explore new methods to leverage information about user interests (available from multiple external resources) and develop techniques to facilitate use of existing social technologies. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1052768 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-08-15 :: SIGWeb Newsletter published an interview with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
The Summer 2010 issue of SIGWeb Newsletter (a magazine of ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web) published an [http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1796390.1796393 interview with Peter Brusilovsky]. The interview provides some personal view on research project performed at PAWS.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-07-01 :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook]] has received Computing Inovation Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn was chosen as a [http://cifellows.org  CIFellow] (Computing Innovation Fellow) supported by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the Computing Research Association (CRA), and the National Science Foundation.  Starting from the fall 2010, he is going to work with [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/ Dr. Ben Shneiderman] at the [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil Human Computer Interaction Lab], University of Maryland.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-05-01 :: Sergey has received EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky's proposal for EU [http://cordis.europa.eu/improving/fellowships/home.htm Marie Curie Fellowship] is approved by the EU Research Executive Agency. The funding starts in July, 2010 and will last until July 2012. The project &amp;quot;Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content&amp;quot; will focus on implementation of author-friendly technologies for learning content development, including collaborative authoring support, metadata authoring support, open-corpus content discovery, interactivity authoring, and gap detection.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-27 :: Rosta receives her second James Chen Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rosta Farzan received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 12th International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP2009, in Trento, Italy for the paper ''Social Navigation Support for Information Seeking: If You Build It, Will They Come?'' by Rosta Farzan and Peter Brusilovsky. This is her second James Chen Award, congratulations!&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-26 :: PAWS Caught on UMAP 2009 Video ====&lt;br /&gt;
* 0:27 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:09 [[User:Rostaf|Rosta]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:18 [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:51 [[User:Suleehs|Danielle]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 3:12 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]] and [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 4:01 [[User:Peterb|Peter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-05-28 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] awarded honorary doctorate by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava ====&lt;br /&gt;
At a ceremony in Bratislava today, Peter Brusilovsky was honored by the [http://www.stuba.sk/ Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava] with the degree of Doctor honoris causa. The university, founded in 1937 in Bratislava, is one of the most significant institutions of higher education in Slovakia. Peter was selected for this recognition for &amp;quot;his contributions to the fields of Informatics and Information Technologies&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2008-07-31 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] receives Best Paper Award at AH 2008 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky received Best Paper Award at the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2008, in Hannover, Germany  for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/6h410u3w4836v866/ ''Social Information Access for the Rest of Us: An Exploration of Social YouTube''] by Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Brusilovsky, and Barry Smyth&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2007-06-28 :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael]] receives James Chen Best Student Paper Award at UM 2007 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Michael Yudelson received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on User Modelling, UM07, in Corfu, Greece for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/c723060442701737/ ''A User Modeling Server for Contemporary Adaptive Hypermedia: an Evaluation of Push Approach  to Evidence Propagation''] by Michael Yudelson, Peter Brusilovsky, and Vladimir Zadorozhny&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-03-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-03-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  PAWS Lab scores thrice at IUI 2018 ====&lt;br /&gt;
PAWS Lab took almost the whole podium at [https://iui.acm.org/2018/ IUI 2018] award ceremony. Hyman Tsai receives an honorable mention for the best student paper award. [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]]  with now his own advisee Ivania Donoso also got an honorable mention. And finally, our recent visitor Cecilia di Sciascio did win the best student paper award for a paper &amp;quot;A Study on User-Controllable Social Exploratory Search&amp;quot; with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Eduardo Veas.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-08-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-08-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]] moves to  Sangmyung University as an assistant professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]]  has joined [http://www.smuc.ac.kr/mbs/eng/index.jsp  Sangmyung University]  (Korea) as an assistant professor at the Department of Software on August 17, 2017. Previously, Danielle was an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Bothel.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-10-24&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-10-24&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]] defended his Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Julio Guerra defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Open Learner Models for Self-Regulated Learning: Exploring the Effects of Social Comparison and Granularity'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-07-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-07-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Two PAWS papers were nominated and one received Best Paper Awards at   UMAP 2017 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Two papers - [https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079672 Stereotype Modeling for Problem-Solving Performance Predictions in MOOCs and Traditional Courses] and  [https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079682 Fine-Grained Open Learner Models: Complexity Versus Support] were nominated for the best paper award at [http://www.um.org/umap2017/ UMAP2017] – 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. The second paper lead by Julio Guerra and Jordan Barria-Pineda received [http://www.um.org/awards/james-chen-best-student-paper-awards James Chen Best Student Paper award]. Congratulations to Julio and Jordan who now joined former PAWS lab members Rosta Farzan, [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]], and [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] as recipients of this prestigious award. This is 6th James Chen award won by PAWS lab members! Rosta Farzan received this award twice as a student and once more as a senior co-author.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-02-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-02-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our mentor at PAWS, Dr. Peter Brusilovsky, on receiving the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring!  Read more on [http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=42853 University Times]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-11-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-11-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to  Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] has joined [http://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/department-of-information-and-computing-sciences the Department of Information and Computing Sciences] at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). The tenure-track position in computer science with the focus on educational technology started on November 1st, 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Maria Harrington moves to  University of Central Florida as an Assistant Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [http://svad.cah.ucf.edu/staff.php?id=1350 Maria Harrington]  has joined [https://www.ucf.edu/  University of Central Florida]  as an Assistant Professor at the [http://svad.cah.ucf.edu/ School of Visual Arts and Design]. This is a great place to continue her work on educational virtual reality. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-07-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-07-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'. More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/29220/ here]. She will join the University of Albany as an Assistant Professor in September 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-05-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-05-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board  ====&lt;br /&gt;
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Two SIS faculty members on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board. &lt;br /&gt;
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Peter Brusilovsky, professor and current chair of the Information Sciences program, and Rosta Farzan, assistant professor of Information Sciences &amp;amp; Technology, have been selected as associate editors of the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) new journal titled “Transactions on Social Computing.”&lt;br /&gt;
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This quarterly journal will publish works encompassing theoretical, empirical, systems, and design research on social computing. It will be part of the ACM Digital Library, which is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-03-04&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-03-04&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Congratulations to [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] for receiving Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang and Roya Hosseini received prestigious Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award for the academic year 2016-2017.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-02-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-02-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou gave a talk on the topic of &amp;quot;Personalized Crowdsourcing&amp;quot; ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Lykourentzou  illustrated the potential that personalization has for the improvement of crowdsourcing systems, through two example applications. The first application was about making personalized task recommendations to crowd workers, and the second application was about personalizing team building, i.e. a method that brings people to work together on a collaborating task taking into account their individual personalities. &lt;br /&gt;
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At the time, Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou was a researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology and was collaborating with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, as Visiting Researcher.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]  and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He (project lead and co-lead respectively) has been awarded a Nation Science Foundation Information and Intelligent Systems grant for their project titled “[[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]].” The project will focus on streamlining and expanding the reach of effective adaptive educational hypermedia, which allows students and independent learners without access to traditional classrooms to gain a personalized education.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-04-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-04-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities'. ====&lt;br /&gt;
More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/25836/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-11-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-11-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;, and presented his research on Recommender Systems. &lt;br /&gt;
Please find the slides [http://www.slideshare.net/denisparra/keynote-at-chilean-week-of-computer-science here].&lt;br /&gt;
The abstract of the talk is also available at the home page of the event, JCC 2014. [http://www.jcc2014.ucm.cl/en/ (more)].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-09-19&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-09-19&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: PAWS won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Tomek, [[User:Julio | Julio]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya]], and [[User:peterb| Peter]]! Their paper entitled &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266656951_Mastery_Grids_An_Open_Source_Social_Educational_Progress_Visualization Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization]&amp;quot; has won the best paper award of EC-TEL 2014 conference. More details on the paper can be accessed [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-11200-8_18 here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-05-06&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-05-06&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] is appointed as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall.====&lt;br /&gt;
On completing 2 years successful post-doctoral innovation fellow position in [http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu EdLab], Teachers College @ Columbia University, [[User: shoha99 | Sharon]] is moving onto a tenure-track position in [http://cidse.engineering.asu.edu School of Computing, Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering] (AKA: Engineering school) in [http://www.asu.edu Arizona State University], Phoenix, Arizona. She anticipates to continue working on the emerging topics of computational technologies in learning. Meanwhile, persistently dedicate to the course - [http://www.columbia.edu/~ih2240/dataviz/index.htm Data Visualization], which she established in [http://www.qmss.columbia.edu QMSS (Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences)], School of Arts &amp;amp; Sciences in [http://www.columbia.edu Columbia University]. For more details see [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-14-2014.php SIS news].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] to deliver a keynote at a WWW 2014 workshop. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter will deliver a keynote titled &amp;quot;Addictive Links: Engaging Students through Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Student Modeling&amp;quot; at [http://www2014.kr/program/webet-2014/ WebET 2014] - Workshop on Web-based Education Technologies at the Word Wide Web Conference in Seoul, Korea. The talk will present PAWS work on such systems as [[QuizGuide]], [[NavEx]], JavaGuide, [[Progressor]], and [[ProgressorPlus|Progressor+]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Jennifer | Yi-Ling(Jennifer) Lin]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan.====&lt;br /&gt;
Yi-Ling (Jennifer) joined the Information Management faculty at the National Sun Yat-Sen University [http://http://epage.mis.nsysu.edu.tw/files/11-1100-4988-1.php?Lang=en] where she is an Assistant Professor. She is teaching Java course and continues to cooperate with Paws Lab to explore the social comparison in cyberlearning.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-08-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-08-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] started a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.====&lt;br /&gt;
Denis joined the faculty at the School of Engineering in Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, [http://www.topuniversities.com/node/2261/ranking-details/latin-american-university-rankings/2013  ranked 2nd among Latinamerican Universities],  where he is an [http://www.ing.puc.cl/cuerpo-docente/parra-santander/ Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science]. At the undergraduate level, he is teaching a course that explores several topics for the major in Computer Science, and at the graduate level he teaches Data Mining in the [http://mpgi.ing.puc.cl/profesores.html  Master for Information Processing and Management]. He continues doing research on Recommender Systems, the topic he investigated while a student at the PAWS lab, and is also Analyzing Social Media, collaborating with PAWS lab student Xidao Wen, studying [http://www.christophtrattner.info/pubs/ht2014.pdf how Twitter is used in academic Conferences]. In addition, he is fostering collaboration between professor Brusilovsky and some areas of teaching such as Databases in the CS department at Catholic University.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-18&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-18&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[Systems#KnowledgeZoom | KnowledgeZoom]] paper receives ICALT 2013 Best full Paper Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to paws! &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256524709_KnowledgeZoom_for_Java_A_Concept-Based_Exam_Study_Tool_with_a_Zoomable_Open_Student_Model KnowledgeZoom for Java: A Concept Based Exam Study Tool with a Zoomable Open Student Model]&amp;quot; won the best full paper award of ICALT 2013 conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Falakmasir | Mohammad Falakmasir]] won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Mohammad! His paper with Zachary A. Pardos, Geoffrey J. Gordon, and Peter Brusilovsky entitled &amp;quot;A Spectral Learning Approach to Knowledge Tracing&amp;quot; won the best student paper award of EDM 2013 conference. In his paper, he proposed using Spectral Learning (SL) to learn the BKT parameters.  Results of his study showed that SL can improve knowledge tracing parameter fitting time significantly while maintaining the same prediction accuracy. For more details on his paper please refer to his article [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/presentation2.php?presentationID=5323&amp;amp;conferenceID=115]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair. ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]], has been selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair by the Fulbright Commission. With this Award Peter will spend 5 month in FInland collaborating with researchers from University of Helsinki, Aalto University, and Helsinki Institute of Information Technology. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky, Professor at the iSchool, has been awarded a contract by the United States Army Contracting Command to participate in the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. Brusilovsky’ s contract, for $623,005 over a three-year period, will support the project [[Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Learner Modeling for PAL]] that will focus on the architecture, algorithms, and interfaces for a Personal Assistant for Learning (PAL), one of the major endeavors undertaken by the ADL Initiative. Through a PAL, the Initiative will provide state of the art education and training -- using technology and innovative learning methodologies -- for workforce members in the Department of Defense and the federal government. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-04-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-04-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Sergey Sosnovsky profiled in International Innovation ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky, who earned his PhD in Information Science in 2012, was recently profiled in International Innovation Magazine about his work on eLearning systems research and tools. Sosnovsky is the Principal Researcher and Head of the Intelligent e-Learning Technology Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbruken, Germany. The article explored his work on the Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content project funded by the European Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service. The magazine article (published March 2013) discussed how Sosnovsky’s project will enhance adaptive e-Learning by making it possible to develop smart instructional material for a broader audience of content authors. The article can be viewed at [[http://www.research-europe.com/magazine/REGIONAL/EX8/index.html]] , beginning on page 71.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-01-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-01-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt  IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies]. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter is appointed the Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, a journal dedicated to advancing the state of the art in technology-enhanced learning. This quarterly publication covers leading edge research on topics such as educational software applications, online learning systems, and simulation systems for education and training. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/3-11-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-08-26&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Rosta! After 3 years as a postdoc at CMU, she is now back to Pitt as an Assistant Professor. During her first semester at SIS she is teaching IS2430 Social Computing course. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-02-2012.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] Thesis Defence: Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
A large number of educational resources is now made available on the Web to support both regular classroom learning and online learning. However, the abundance of available content produced at least two problems: how to help students to find the most appropriate resources and how to engage them into using these resources and benefit from them. Personalized and social learning have been suggested as potential ways to address these problems.&lt;br /&gt;
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This work attempts to combine the ideas of personalized and social learning by providing navigation support through an open social student modeling visualization. A series of classroom studies exploited the idea of the approach and revealed promising results, which demonstrated the personalized guidance and social visualization combined helped students to find the most relevant resources of parameterized self-assessment questions for Java programming. Thus, this dissertation extend the approach to a larger collection of learning objects for cross content navigation and verify its capability of supporting social visualization for personalized E-Learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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The study results confirm that working with the non-mandatory system, students enhanced the learning quality in increasing their motivation and engagement. They successfully achieved better learning results. Meanwhile, incorporating a mixed collection of content in the open social student modeling visualizations effectively led the students to work at the right level of questions. Both strong and weak student worked with the appropriate levels of questions for their readiness accordingly and yielded a consistent performance across all three levels of complexities. Additionally, providing a more realistic content collection on the navigation supported open social student modeling visualizations results in a uniform performance in the group. The classroom study revealed a clear pattern of social guidance, where the stronger students left the traces for weaker ones to follow. The subjective evaluation confirms the design of the interface in terms of the content organization. Students’ positive responses also compliment the objective system usage data.&lt;br /&gt;
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download it from [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/13439/ here]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-11-30&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-11-30&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Thesis Defence: Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Conventional closed-corpus adaptive information systems control limited sets of documents in fixed subject domains and cannot provide access to the content outside the system. Such restrictions contradict the requirements of today, when most of the information systems are implemented in the open document space of WWW and are expected to operate on the open-corpus content. In order to maintain personalized access to open-corpus documents, an adaptive system should be able to model the documents and the relations between the documents and the domain knowledge automatically and dynamically. This dissertation explores the problem of open-corpus personalization and semantic modeling of open-corpus content in the context of e-Learning. Information on WWW is not without structure. Many collections of online instructional material (tutorials, electronic books, digital libraries, etc.) have been provided with implicit knowledge models encoded in form of tables of content, indexes, headers of chapters, links between pages, and different styles of text fragments. The main dissertation approach tries to leverage this layer of hidden semantics by extracting and representing it as coarse-grained models of collections. A central domain ontology is used to maintain overlay modeling of studentsÕ knowledge and serves as a reference point for multiple collections of external instructional material. In order to establish the link between the ontology and the open-corpus content models a special ontology mapping algorithm has been developed.  The proposed approach has been applied in the Ontology-based Open-corpus Personalization Service (OOPS) that recommends and adaptively annotates online reading material. The domain of Java programming has been chosen for the proof-of-concept implementation. A controlled experiment has been organized to evaluate the developed adaptive system and the proposed approach overall. The results of the evaluation have demonstrated several significant learning effects of the implemented open-corpus personalization. The analysis of log-based data has also shown that the open-corpus version of the system is capable of providing personalization of similar quality to the close-corpus one. Such results indicate that the proposed approach supports fully-scale open-corpus personalization for e-Learning. Further research is required to verify if the approach remains effective in other subject domains and with other types of instructional content.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-07-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-07-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:DParra | Denis Parra]] earns a  James Chen Best Student paper award in UMAP 2011 ====&lt;br /&gt;
In the last conference of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011) Denis Parra won one of the 2 [http://www.umap2011.org/program/best-paper-awards James Chen Best Student paper awards] for his paper '''Walk The Talk: Analyzing the relation between implicit and explicit feedback for preference elicitation''' that he co-authored with Dr. Xavier Amatriain. In this paper, the authors present a study on the music domain with last.fm users, which results leads them to create a regression model that maps implicit information (such as playcounts and how recently a user listened to albums) with explicit information in the form of ratings. More details in the [http://www.springerlink.com/content/645721483544r815/  conference proceedings in Springer]. Denis is the third PAWS Lab member to receive this prestigious award. Prior to that, Rosta Farzan and Michael Yudelson won this award at earlier User Modeling conferences. Rosta also won another James Chen award at Adaptive Hypermedia conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] Promoted to Rank of Full Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our head of PAWS lab! [[http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/06-10-2011.php Read more ]]&lt;br /&gt;
==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon]] received 2011 Allen Kent Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Graduate Program in Information Science ==== &lt;br /&gt;
She has worked with [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gray/ Dr. Glenn Ray] several years in designing and teaching undergraduate courses. She's affiliated as teaching fellow and teaches in our school now.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-12-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-12-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] received Google grant to work on ''[[Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities]]'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
The grant will support our efforts to increase user participation in social systems designed for local communities. In the course of the project will explore two innovative ideas for increasing participation. The first idea is to provide access to information “beyond the desktop,” by adding a mobile location-based interface to access information. This will increase both the number of active users and the volume of their contributions. The second idea is to provide personalized access to information to increase the chance to gather relevant information. This work will be based on two existing social systems that were developed and maintained by PAWs lab: the [[Systems#CoMeT | CoMeT]] system for sharing information about research talks at Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh and [[Systems#Eventur | Eventur]], a social system for recommending cultural events in the Pittsburgh area.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] Thesis Defence: Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System ====&lt;br /&gt;
The dissertation proposes a novel way of speeding the development of new adaptive hypermedia systems. The gist of the approach is to extract the adaptation functionality out of the adaptive hypermedia system, encapsulate it into a standalone system, and offer adaptation as a service to the client applications. Such a standalone adaptation provider reduces the development of adaptation functionality to configuration and compliance and as a result creates new adaptive systems faster and helps serve larger user populations with adaptively accessible content. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=777 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
The electronic version of [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] dissertation has been approved by the School of Information Sciences. ETD is accessible worldwide from the online library catalog of the University of Pittsburgh ([http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-10132010-092137/ link]).&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This EAGER grant will allow us to investigate how to model and visualize latent communities – those groups of people who form communities based on their similar interests. This work will consider how to elicit latent communities from various kinds of data about individuals available in the modern social Web and deliver the results in a manner suitable for interactive exploration through interactive visualizations. This will be one of the first attempts to use a variety of social Web data and approaches to community modeling. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1059577 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] Thesis Defence: Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn's dissertation proposes to incorporate interactive visualization into personalized search in order to overcome the limitation. By combining the personalized search and the interactive visualization, we expect our approach will be able to help users to better explore the information space and locate relevant information more efficiently. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=764 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This one-year grant will support a project exploring personalization and social networking for short-term communities. Using academic research conferences as a test bed, our team will explore new methods to leverage information about user interests (available from multiple external resources) and develop techniques to facilitate use of existing social technologies. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1052768 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-08-15 :: SIGWeb Newsletter published an interview with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
The Summer 2010 issue of SIGWeb Newsletter (a magazine of ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web) published an [http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1796390.1796393 interview with Peter Brusilovsky]. The interview provides some personal view on research project performed at PAWS.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-07-01 :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook]] has received Computing Inovation Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn was chosen as a [http://cifellows.org  CIFellow] (Computing Innovation Fellow) supported by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the Computing Research Association (CRA), and the National Science Foundation.  Starting from the fall 2010, he is going to work with [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/ Dr. Ben Shneiderman] at the [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil Human Computer Interaction Lab], University of Maryland.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-05-01 :: Sergey has received EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky's proposal for EU [http://cordis.europa.eu/improving/fellowships/home.htm Marie Curie Fellowship] is approved by the EU Research Executive Agency. The funding starts in July, 2010 and will last until July 2012. The project &amp;quot;Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content&amp;quot; will focus on implementation of author-friendly technologies for learning content development, including collaborative authoring support, metadata authoring support, open-corpus content discovery, interactivity authoring, and gap detection.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-27 :: Rosta receives her second James Chen Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rosta Farzan received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 12th International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP2009, in Trento, Italy for the paper ''Social Navigation Support for Information Seeking: If You Build It, Will They Come?'' by Rosta Farzan and Peter Brusilovsky. This is her second James Chen Award, congratulations!&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-26 :: PAWS Caught on UMAP 2009 Video ====&lt;br /&gt;
* 0:27 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:09 [[User:Rostaf|Rosta]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:18 [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:51 [[User:Suleehs|Danielle]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 3:12 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]] and [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 4:01 [[User:Peterb|Peter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-05-28 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] awarded honorary doctorate by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava ====&lt;br /&gt;
At a ceremony in Bratislava today, Peter Brusilovsky was honored by the [http://www.stuba.sk/ Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava] with the degree of Doctor honoris causa. The university, founded in 1937 in Bratislava, is one of the most significant institutions of higher education in Slovakia. Peter was selected for this recognition for &amp;quot;his contributions to the fields of Informatics and Information Technologies&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2008-07-31 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] receives Best Paper Award at AH 2008 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky received Best Paper Award at the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2008, in Hannover, Germany  for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/6h410u3w4836v866/ ''Social Information Access for the Rest of Us: An Exploration of Social YouTube''] by Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Brusilovsky, and Barry Smyth&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2007-06-28 :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael]] receives James Chen Best Student Paper Award at UM 2007 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Michael Yudelson received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on User Modelling, UM07, in Corfu, Greece for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/c723060442701737/ ''A User Modeling Server for Contemporary Adaptive Hypermedia: an Evaluation of Push Approach  to Evidence Propagation''] by Michael Yudelson, Peter Brusilovsky, and Vladimir Zadorozhny&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2018-03-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2018-03-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  PAWS Lab scores thrice at IUI 2018 ====&lt;br /&gt;
PAWS Lab took almost the whole podium at [https://iui.acm.org/2018/ IUI 2018] award ceremony. Hyman Tsai receives an honorable mention for the best student paper award. [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]]  with now his own advisee Ivania Donoso also got an honorable mention. And finally, our recent visitor Cecilia di Sciascio did win the best student paper award for a paper &amp;quot;A Study on User-Controllable Social Exploratory Search&amp;quot; with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Eduardo Veas.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-08-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-08-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]] moves to  Sangmyung University as an assistant professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]]  has joined [http://www.smuc.ac.kr/mbs/eng/index.jsp  Sangmyung University]  (Korea) as an assistant professor at the Department of Software on August 17, 2017. Previously, Danielle was an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Bothel.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-10-24&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-10-24&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Julio Guerra defended his Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Julio Guerra defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Open Learner Models for Self-Regulated Learning: Exploring the Effects of Social Comparison and Granularity'.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-07-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-07-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Two PAWS papers were nominated and one received Best Paper Awards at   UMAP 2017 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Two papers - [https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079672 Stereotype Modeling for Problem-Solving Performance Predictions in MOOCs and Traditional Courses] and  [https://doi.org/10.1145/3079628.3079682 Fine-Grained Open Learner Models: Complexity Versus Support] were nominated for the best paper award at [http://www.um.org/umap2017/ UMAP2017] – 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. The second paper lead by Julio Guerra and Jordan Barria-Pineda received [http://www.um.org/awards/james-chen-best-student-paper-awards James Chen Best Student Paper award]. Congratulations to Julio and Jordan who now joined former PAWS lab members Rosta Farzan, [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]], and [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] as recipients of this prestigious award. This is 6th James Chen award won by PAWS lab members! Rosta Farzan received this award twice as a student and once more as a senior co-author.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-02-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-02-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our mentor at PAWS, Dr. Peter Brusilovsky, on receiving the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring!  Read more on [http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=42853 University Times]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-11-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-11-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to  Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] has joined [http://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/department-of-information-and-computing-sciences the Department of Information and Computing Sciences] at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). The tenure-track position in computer science with the focus on educational technology started on November 1st, 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Maria Harrington moves to  University of Central Florida as an Assistant Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [http://svad.cah.ucf.edu/staff.php?id=1350 Maria Harrington]  has joined [https://www.ucf.edu/  University of Central Florida]  as an Assistant Professor at the [http://svad.cah.ucf.edu/ School of Visual Arts and Design]. This is a great place to continue her work on educational virtual reality. &lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-07-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-07-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'. More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/29220/ here]. She will join the University of Albany as an Assistant Professor in September 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-05-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-05-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board  ====&lt;br /&gt;
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Two SIS faculty members on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board. &lt;br /&gt;
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Peter Brusilovsky, professor and current chair of the Information Sciences program, and Rosta Farzan, assistant professor of Information Sciences &amp;amp; Technology, have been selected as associate editors of the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) new journal titled “Transactions on Social Computing.”&lt;br /&gt;
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This quarterly journal will publish works encompassing theoretical, empirical, systems, and design research on social computing. It will be part of the ACM Digital Library, which is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-03-04&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-03-04&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Congratulations to [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] for receiving Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang and Roya Hosseini received prestigious Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award for the academic year 2016-2017.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-02-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-02-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou gave a talk on the topic of &amp;quot;Personalized Crowdsourcing&amp;quot; ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Lykourentzou  illustrated the potential that personalization has for the improvement of crowdsourcing systems, through two example applications. The first application was about making personalized task recommendations to crowd workers, and the second application was about personalizing team building, i.e. a method that brings people to work together on a collaborating task taking into account their individual personalities. &lt;br /&gt;
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At the time, Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou was a researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology and was collaborating with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, as Visiting Researcher.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]  and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He (project lead and co-lead respectively) has been awarded a Nation Science Foundation Information and Intelligent Systems grant for their project titled “[[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]].” The project will focus on streamlining and expanding the reach of effective adaptive educational hypermedia, which allows students and independent learners without access to traditional classrooms to gain a personalized education.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-04-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-04-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities'. ====&lt;br /&gt;
More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/25836/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-11-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-11-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;, and presented his research on Recommender Systems. &lt;br /&gt;
Please find the slides [http://www.slideshare.net/denisparra/keynote-at-chilean-week-of-computer-science here].&lt;br /&gt;
The abstract of the talk is also available at the home page of the event, JCC 2014. [http://www.jcc2014.ucm.cl/en/ (more)].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-09-19&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-09-19&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: PAWS won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Tomek, [[User:Julio | Julio]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya]], and [[User:peterb| Peter]]! Their paper entitled &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266656951_Mastery_Grids_An_Open_Source_Social_Educational_Progress_Visualization Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization]&amp;quot; has won the best paper award of EC-TEL 2014 conference. More details on the paper can be accessed [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-11200-8_18 here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-05-06&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-05-06&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] is appointed as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall.====&lt;br /&gt;
On completing 2 years successful post-doctoral innovation fellow position in [http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu EdLab], Teachers College @ Columbia University, [[User: shoha99 | Sharon]] is moving onto a tenure-track position in [http://cidse.engineering.asu.edu School of Computing, Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering] (AKA: Engineering school) in [http://www.asu.edu Arizona State University], Phoenix, Arizona. She anticipates to continue working on the emerging topics of computational technologies in learning. Meanwhile, persistently dedicate to the course - [http://www.columbia.edu/~ih2240/dataviz/index.htm Data Visualization], which she established in [http://www.qmss.columbia.edu QMSS (Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences)], School of Arts &amp;amp; Sciences in [http://www.columbia.edu Columbia University]. For more details see [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-14-2014.php SIS news].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] to deliver a keynote at a WWW 2014 workshop. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter will deliver a keynote titled &amp;quot;Addictive Links: Engaging Students through Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Student Modeling&amp;quot; at [http://www2014.kr/program/webet-2014/ WebET 2014] - Workshop on Web-based Education Technologies at the Word Wide Web Conference in Seoul, Korea. The talk will present PAWS work on such systems as [[QuizGuide]], [[NavEx]], JavaGuide, [[Progressor]], and [[ProgressorPlus|Progressor+]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Jennifer | Yi-Ling(Jennifer) Lin]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan.====&lt;br /&gt;
Yi-Ling (Jennifer) joined the Information Management faculty at the National Sun Yat-Sen University [http://http://epage.mis.nsysu.edu.tw/files/11-1100-4988-1.php?Lang=en] where she is an Assistant Professor. She is teaching Java course and continues to cooperate with Paws Lab to explore the social comparison in cyberlearning.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-08-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-08-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] started a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.====&lt;br /&gt;
Denis joined the faculty at the School of Engineering in Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, [http://www.topuniversities.com/node/2261/ranking-details/latin-american-university-rankings/2013  ranked 2nd among Latinamerican Universities],  where he is an [http://www.ing.puc.cl/cuerpo-docente/parra-santander/ Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science]. At the undergraduate level, he is teaching a course that explores several topics for the major in Computer Science, and at the graduate level he teaches Data Mining in the [http://mpgi.ing.puc.cl/profesores.html  Master for Information Processing and Management]. He continues doing research on Recommender Systems, the topic he investigated while a student at the PAWS lab, and is also Analyzing Social Media, collaborating with PAWS lab student Xidao Wen, studying [http://www.christophtrattner.info/pubs/ht2014.pdf how Twitter is used in academic Conferences]. In addition, he is fostering collaboration between professor Brusilovsky and some areas of teaching such as Databases in the CS department at Catholic University.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-18&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-18&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[Systems#KnowledgeZoom | KnowledgeZoom]] paper receives ICALT 2013 Best full Paper Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to paws! &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256524709_KnowledgeZoom_for_Java_A_Concept-Based_Exam_Study_Tool_with_a_Zoomable_Open_Student_Model KnowledgeZoom for Java: A Concept Based Exam Study Tool with a Zoomable Open Student Model]&amp;quot; won the best full paper award of ICALT 2013 conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Falakmasir | Mohammad Falakmasir]] won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Mohammad! His paper with Zachary A. Pardos, Geoffrey J. Gordon, and Peter Brusilovsky entitled &amp;quot;A Spectral Learning Approach to Knowledge Tracing&amp;quot; won the best student paper award of EDM 2013 conference. In his paper, he proposed using Spectral Learning (SL) to learn the BKT parameters.  Results of his study showed that SL can improve knowledge tracing parameter fitting time significantly while maintaining the same prediction accuracy. For more details on his paper please refer to his article [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/presentation2.php?presentationID=5323&amp;amp;conferenceID=115]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair. ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]], has been selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair by the Fulbright Commission. With this Award Peter will spend 5 month in FInland collaborating with researchers from University of Helsinki, Aalto University, and Helsinki Institute of Information Technology. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky, Professor at the iSchool, has been awarded a contract by the United States Army Contracting Command to participate in the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. Brusilovsky’ s contract, for $623,005 over a three-year period, will support the project [[Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Learner Modeling for PAL]] that will focus on the architecture, algorithms, and interfaces for a Personal Assistant for Learning (PAL), one of the major endeavors undertaken by the ADL Initiative. Through a PAL, the Initiative will provide state of the art education and training -- using technology and innovative learning methodologies -- for workforce members in the Department of Defense and the federal government. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-04-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-04-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Sergey Sosnovsky profiled in International Innovation ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky, who earned his PhD in Information Science in 2012, was recently profiled in International Innovation Magazine about his work on eLearning systems research and tools. Sosnovsky is the Principal Researcher and Head of the Intelligent e-Learning Technology Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbruken, Germany. The article explored his work on the Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content project funded by the European Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service. The magazine article (published March 2013) discussed how Sosnovsky’s project will enhance adaptive e-Learning by making it possible to develop smart instructional material for a broader audience of content authors. The article can be viewed at [[http://www.research-europe.com/magazine/REGIONAL/EX8/index.html]] , beginning on page 71.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-01-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-01-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt  IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies]. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter is appointed the Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, a journal dedicated to advancing the state of the art in technology-enhanced learning. This quarterly publication covers leading edge research on topics such as educational software applications, online learning systems, and simulation systems for education and training. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/3-11-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-08-26&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Rosta! After 3 years as a postdoc at CMU, she is now back to Pitt as an Assistant Professor. During her first semester at SIS she is teaching IS2430 Social Computing course. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-02-2012.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] Thesis Defence: Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
A large number of educational resources is now made available on the Web to support both regular classroom learning and online learning. However, the abundance of available content produced at least two problems: how to help students to find the most appropriate resources and how to engage them into using these resources and benefit from them. Personalized and social learning have been suggested as potential ways to address these problems.&lt;br /&gt;
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This work attempts to combine the ideas of personalized and social learning by providing navigation support through an open social student modeling visualization. A series of classroom studies exploited the idea of the approach and revealed promising results, which demonstrated the personalized guidance and social visualization combined helped students to find the most relevant resources of parameterized self-assessment questions for Java programming. Thus, this dissertation extend the approach to a larger collection of learning objects for cross content navigation and verify its capability of supporting social visualization for personalized E-Learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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The study results confirm that working with the non-mandatory system, students enhanced the learning quality in increasing their motivation and engagement. They successfully achieved better learning results. Meanwhile, incorporating a mixed collection of content in the open social student modeling visualizations effectively led the students to work at the right level of questions. Both strong and weak student worked with the appropriate levels of questions for their readiness accordingly and yielded a consistent performance across all three levels of complexities. Additionally, providing a more realistic content collection on the navigation supported open social student modeling visualizations results in a uniform performance in the group. The classroom study revealed a clear pattern of social guidance, where the stronger students left the traces for weaker ones to follow. The subjective evaluation confirms the design of the interface in terms of the content organization. Students’ positive responses also compliment the objective system usage data.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-11-30&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-11-30&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Thesis Defence: Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Conventional closed-corpus adaptive information systems control limited sets of documents in fixed subject domains and cannot provide access to the content outside the system. Such restrictions contradict the requirements of today, when most of the information systems are implemented in the open document space of WWW and are expected to operate on the open-corpus content. In order to maintain personalized access to open-corpus documents, an adaptive system should be able to model the documents and the relations between the documents and the domain knowledge automatically and dynamically. This dissertation explores the problem of open-corpus personalization and semantic modeling of open-corpus content in the context of e-Learning. Information on WWW is not without structure. Many collections of online instructional material (tutorials, electronic books, digital libraries, etc.) have been provided with implicit knowledge models encoded in form of tables of content, indexes, headers of chapters, links between pages, and different styles of text fragments. The main dissertation approach tries to leverage this layer of hidden semantics by extracting and representing it as coarse-grained models of collections. A central domain ontology is used to maintain overlay modeling of studentsÕ knowledge and serves as a reference point for multiple collections of external instructional material. In order to establish the link between the ontology and the open-corpus content models a special ontology mapping algorithm has been developed.  The proposed approach has been applied in the Ontology-based Open-corpus Personalization Service (OOPS) that recommends and adaptively annotates online reading material. The domain of Java programming has been chosen for the proof-of-concept implementation. A controlled experiment has been organized to evaluate the developed adaptive system and the proposed approach overall. The results of the evaluation have demonstrated several significant learning effects of the implemented open-corpus personalization. The analysis of log-based data has also shown that the open-corpus version of the system is capable of providing personalization of similar quality to the close-corpus one. Such results indicate that the proposed approach supports fully-scale open-corpus personalization for e-Learning. Further research is required to verify if the approach remains effective in other subject domains and with other types of instructional content.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-07-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-07-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:DParra | Denis Parra]] earns a  James Chen Best Student paper award in UMAP 2011 ====&lt;br /&gt;
In the last conference of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011) Denis Parra won one of the 2 [http://www.umap2011.org/program/best-paper-awards James Chen Best Student paper awards] for his paper '''Walk The Talk: Analyzing the relation between implicit and explicit feedback for preference elicitation''' that he co-authored with Dr. Xavier Amatriain. In this paper, the authors present a study on the music domain with last.fm users, which results leads them to create a regression model that maps implicit information (such as playcounts and how recently a user listened to albums) with explicit information in the form of ratings. More details in the [http://www.springerlink.com/content/645721483544r815/  conference proceedings in Springer]. Denis is the third PAWS Lab member to receive this prestigious award. Prior to that, Rosta Farzan and Michael Yudelson won this award at earlier User Modeling conferences. Rosta also won another James Chen award at Adaptive Hypermedia conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] Promoted to Rank of Full Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our head of PAWS lab! [[http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/06-10-2011.php Read more ]]&lt;br /&gt;
==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon]] received 2011 Allen Kent Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Graduate Program in Information Science ==== &lt;br /&gt;
She has worked with [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gray/ Dr. Glenn Ray] several years in designing and teaching undergraduate courses. She's affiliated as teaching fellow and teaches in our school now.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-12-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-12-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] received Google grant to work on ''[[Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities]]'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
The grant will support our efforts to increase user participation in social systems designed for local communities. In the course of the project will explore two innovative ideas for increasing participation. The first idea is to provide access to information “beyond the desktop,” by adding a mobile location-based interface to access information. This will increase both the number of active users and the volume of their contributions. The second idea is to provide personalized access to information to increase the chance to gather relevant information. This work will be based on two existing social systems that were developed and maintained by PAWs lab: the [[Systems#CoMeT | CoMeT]] system for sharing information about research talks at Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh and [[Systems#Eventur | Eventur]], a social system for recommending cultural events in the Pittsburgh area.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] Thesis Defence: Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System ====&lt;br /&gt;
The dissertation proposes a novel way of speeding the development of new adaptive hypermedia systems. The gist of the approach is to extract the adaptation functionality out of the adaptive hypermedia system, encapsulate it into a standalone system, and offer adaptation as a service to the client applications. Such a standalone adaptation provider reduces the development of adaptation functionality to configuration and compliance and as a result creates new adaptive systems faster and helps serve larger user populations with adaptively accessible content. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=777 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
The electronic version of [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] dissertation has been approved by the School of Information Sciences. ETD is accessible worldwide from the online library catalog of the University of Pittsburgh ([http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-10132010-092137/ link]).&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This EAGER grant will allow us to investigate how to model and visualize latent communities – those groups of people who form communities based on their similar interests. This work will consider how to elicit latent communities from various kinds of data about individuals available in the modern social Web and deliver the results in a manner suitable for interactive exploration through interactive visualizations. This will be one of the first attempts to use a variety of social Web data and approaches to community modeling. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1059577 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] Thesis Defence: Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn's dissertation proposes to incorporate interactive visualization into personalized search in order to overcome the limitation. By combining the personalized search and the interactive visualization, we expect our approach will be able to help users to better explore the information space and locate relevant information more efficiently. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=764 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This one-year grant will support a project exploring personalization and social networking for short-term communities. Using academic research conferences as a test bed, our team will explore new methods to leverage information about user interests (available from multiple external resources) and develop techniques to facilitate use of existing social technologies. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1052768 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-08-15 :: SIGWeb Newsletter published an interview with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
The Summer 2010 issue of SIGWeb Newsletter (a magazine of ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web) published an [http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1796390.1796393 interview with Peter Brusilovsky]. The interview provides some personal view on research project performed at PAWS.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-07-01 :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook]] has received Computing Inovation Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn was chosen as a [http://cifellows.org  CIFellow] (Computing Innovation Fellow) supported by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the Computing Research Association (CRA), and the National Science Foundation.  Starting from the fall 2010, he is going to work with [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/ Dr. Ben Shneiderman] at the [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil Human Computer Interaction Lab], University of Maryland.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-05-01 :: Sergey has received EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky's proposal for EU [http://cordis.europa.eu/improving/fellowships/home.htm Marie Curie Fellowship] is approved by the EU Research Executive Agency. The funding starts in July, 2010 and will last until July 2012. The project &amp;quot;Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content&amp;quot; will focus on implementation of author-friendly technologies for learning content development, including collaborative authoring support, metadata authoring support, open-corpus content discovery, interactivity authoring, and gap detection.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-27 :: Rosta receives her second James Chen Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rosta Farzan received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 12th International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP2009, in Trento, Italy for the paper ''Social Navigation Support for Information Seeking: If You Build It, Will They Come?'' by Rosta Farzan and Peter Brusilovsky. This is her second James Chen Award, congratulations!&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-26 :: PAWS Caught on UMAP 2009 Video ====&lt;br /&gt;
* 0:27 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:09 [[User:Rostaf|Rosta]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:18 [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:51 [[User:Suleehs|Danielle]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 3:12 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]] and [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 4:01 [[User:Peterb|Peter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-05-28 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] awarded honorary doctorate by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava ====&lt;br /&gt;
At a ceremony in Bratislava today, Peter Brusilovsky was honored by the [http://www.stuba.sk/ Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava] with the degree of Doctor honoris causa. The university, founded in 1937 in Bratislava, is one of the most significant institutions of higher education in Slovakia. Peter was selected for this recognition for &amp;quot;his contributions to the fields of Informatics and Information Technologies&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2008-07-31 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] receives Best Paper Award at AH 2008 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky received Best Paper Award at the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2008, in Hannover, Germany  for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/6h410u3w4836v866/ ''Social Information Access for the Rest of Us: An Exploration of Social YouTube''] by Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Brusilovsky, and Barry Smyth&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2007-06-28 :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael]] receives James Chen Best Student Paper Award at UM 2007 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Michael Yudelson received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on User Modelling, UM07, in Corfu, Greece for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/c723060442701737/ ''A User Modeling Server for Contemporary Adaptive Hypermedia: an Evaluation of Push Approach  to Evidence Propagation''] by Michael Yudelson, Peter Brusilovsky, and Vladimir Zadorozhny&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Mastery Grids Interface</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: /* Publications */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Mastery Grids is an [[open social learner modeling]] interface written in Javascript. The interface shows the student's progress or knowledge in topics or content types comparing with other learners, and provides navigation support to access suitable educational content. &amp;lt;!--  [[Image:mg_1.png]] --&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== Open Social Learner Model ==&lt;br /&gt;
Mastery Grids is our latest implementation of open learner modeling built based on our past successful systems (e.g., [[InterBook]], [[QuizGuide]], [[NavEx]], [[QuizMap]], [[Progressor]]). Combining open learner model with social comparison, i.e., open social learner model, Mastery Grids not only enables a student to be aware of the strength and weakness among his/her own knowledge modules, but also stimulates students to work harder. Our open social learner model encourages students to catch up with other students (observing average class progress or advanced students’ progress) and follow the potential good learning path of the peers.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Knowledge and Progress Visualization ==&lt;br /&gt;
Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level (mastery) by colored grids from four perspectives as shown in the following figure. The four perspectives show the current student’s progress (“Me” or my progress), a comparison of performance of current student versus other student in the group (“Me vs group” or comparison grid), performance of the students in the group (“Group” or group grid), and performance of all of the students in the class. &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:MG1.jpg|800px]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Social Comparison ==&lt;br /&gt;
Social comparison is implemented in two ways: 1) Me vs group, which compares an individual learner’s progress or knowledge level with the entire group of students, and 2) Me vs other students, which compares an an individual learner’s progress or knowledge level with each of other students.  Such comparisons can be further conducted by resource types (learning materials) as shown in following figure. &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:MG2.jpg|800px]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Adaptive Navigation Support ==&lt;br /&gt;
Mastery Grids also provides adaptive navigation support for learning materials (as shown in following figure with stars indicating the recommendations). It tracks user activities and updates student knowledge level in a centralized user modeling server, and thus can report in both progress level (based on activities) and knowledge level (based on estimated user knowledge). It provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, each content type) and different content types (e.g. problem, animated example) and tracks user feedbacks on recommendations dynamically. Details of user modeling can be found [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/wiki/Adaptive_Navigation_Support_and_Open_Social_Learner_Modeling_for_PAL#Learner_Model here]. Details of the personalization (recommendation) can be found [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/wiki/Adaptive_Navigation_Support_and_Open_Social_Learner_Modeling_for_PAL#Personalization here]. &lt;br /&gt;
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[[Image:MGAdaptiveNavigationSupport.jpg|700x1000px]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Videos ==&lt;br /&gt;
* Watch a video about Mastery Grids interface [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YLR2VY2QE here].&lt;br /&gt;
* Watch a video about Mastery Grids with adaptive content sequencing [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kak8F2y5GkU here].&lt;br /&gt;
* Watch a video about Mastery Grids content types in Java domain [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI9Fxo_FeRw here].&lt;br /&gt;
* Watch a video about Mastery Grids content types in Python domain [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roCkp7QVfB8 here].&lt;br /&gt;
* Watch a video about Mastery Grids content types in SQL domain [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbiq7T7rx-k here].&lt;br /&gt;
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== Resources ==&lt;br /&gt;
* Try an interactive demo of Mastery Grids [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-adl/index.html?usr=adl01&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 here].&lt;br /&gt;
* Read a slide presentation about Mastery Grids [http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/ectel2014-mg here].&lt;br /&gt;
* Download the source code [https://github.com/PAWSLabUniversityOfPittsburgh/mastery-grids here].&lt;br /&gt;
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== Publications ==&lt;br /&gt;
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* Loboda, T., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization. In: S. de Freitas, C. Rensing, P. J. Muñoz Merino and T. Ley (eds.) Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014), Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014 (Best paper award). ([http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-11200-8_18#page-1 paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/ectel2014-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Zadorozhny, V. (2015) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. In: F. Ricci, K. Bontcheva, O. Conlan and S. Lawless (eds.) Proceedings of 23nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, , June 29 - July 3, 2015, Springer Verlag, pp. 44-55 ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26046/ paper] [http://www.slideshare.net/huangyun/2015-edm-leopard-for-adaptive-tutoring-evaluation presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Somyurek, S., &amp;amp; Brusilovsky, P. (2016, March). An intelligent interface for learning content: Combining an open learner model and social comparison to support self-regulated learning and engagement. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (pp. 152-163). ACM. ([https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2856784 paper])&lt;br /&gt;
* Barria-Pineda, J., Guerra, J., Huang, Y., &amp;amp; Brusilovsky, P. (2017, March). Concept-level knowledge visualization for supporting self-regulated learning. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Companion (pp. 141-144). ACM. ([https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3038262 paper])&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Learner Modeling for PAL</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: /* Open Social Learner Model Interface: Mastery Grids */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;== Overview ==&lt;br /&gt;
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The goal of this project is to leverage the power of [[open social learner modeling]] and [[adaptive navigation support]] in the context of the envisioned Personalized Assistant for Learning (PAL). The project is supported by the [http://adlnet.gov  Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative] contract W911QY13C0032. This is a joint project with [http://cs.aalto.fi/en/research/ Learning + Technology] research group at Aalto University. The LeTech group at Aalto University focuses on developing several kinds of [http://acos.cs.hut.fi/ smart learning content for Java and Python programming] that are compatible with the project architecture [[Aggregate]].&lt;br /&gt;
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The project focuses on both exploration and implementation of adaptive navigation support and open social learner modeling and pursues three directions of work:&lt;br /&gt;
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* Exploring open social learner modeling interface for diverse learning content&lt;br /&gt;
* Enhancing algorithms for personalized guidance using knowledge-based and social approaches &lt;br /&gt;
* Developing architectural solutions and authoring tools to support open social learner modeling&lt;br /&gt;
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We have prepared fliers for quickly getting to know our systems:&lt;br /&gt;
* For researchers or system developers (designers), please check [[Media:MGFlier.pdf|here]].&lt;br /&gt;
* For teachers or educators, please check the flier for your interested domain: [[Media:MasteryGridsFlierJava.pdf|Java]], [[Media:MasteryGridsFlierPythonNew.pdf|Python]], or [[Media:MasteryGridsFlierSQL.pdf|SQL]].&lt;br /&gt;
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== Open Social Learner Model Interface: Mastery Grids ==&lt;br /&gt;
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{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Mastery Grids is a flexible portal to access multiple types of learning content through a personalized interface based on Open Social Learner Modeling (OSLM) [[Mastery Grids Interface]]. It offers a multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to help students  access multiple kinds of smart learning content. With Mastery Grids, instructors could re-use one of the existing installations (see below) or create their own installations by organizing their courses info a sequence of topics and selecting most relevant smart content items of multiple types for each topic. There is a drag-and-drop authoring system to support instructors in creating their own courses.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mastery Grids is based on communication-based personalization infrastructure ADAPT2 (formerly Knowledge Tree) and supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. ADAPT2 supports smart content invocation with single sign-on, extensive data collection, and student modeling. Aggregate adds several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example)&lt;br /&gt;
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* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YLR2VY2QE YouTube demo of  Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-adl/index.html?usr=adl01&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Architecture: Aggregate==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:arch_v2.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Aggregate Architecture]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | We developed an adaptive social learning architecture [[Aggregate]] to support Mastery Grids interface. [[Aggregate]] is an extension of our original [[ADAPT2]] architecture. On the top of  [[ADAPT2]] , [[Aggregate]] architecture supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, content brokering, and recommendation services. The architecture fulfills a major objective, portability, which is the ability to be integrated to other systems with little set up and modification. The architecture is modular and includes different software components. &lt;br /&gt;
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* [[ADAPT2| More about ADAPT2]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Aggregate| More about Aggregate]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Learner Modeling ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:CUMULATE.evidence propagation.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|CUMULATE]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;center&amp;quot; | We have developed [[CUMULATE]], a centralized user modeling server built for the [[ADAPT2]] architecture, to provide user modeling support for adaptive educational hypermedia (AEH) systems. CUMULATE allows flexible learner models to infer learner knowledge. Mastery Grids's architecture is supported by CUMULATE and thus it also supports flexible learner models. The explanation of the communication between the interface and learner model can be found in [[Aggregate]]. We have proposed and implemented different learner models over past years, including [[CUMULATE asymptotic knowledge assessment|asymptotic assessment of user knowledge]] which is the main one currently deployed in our systems, and [[Feature-Aware Student knowledge Tracing (FAST)|Feature-Aware Student knowledge Tracing (FAST)]] which is our new learner model proposed in 2014 with state-of-the-art predictive performance. We have also explored different aspects to improve learner modeling, including reducing the content model, better evaluation for practitioners and applying network (graph) analysis.&lt;br /&gt;
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* [[Learner Modeling|More about Learner Modeling]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[CUMULATE|More about CUMULATE]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[CUMULATE asymptotic knowledge assessment|More about asymptotic assessment of user knowledge]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Feature-Aware Student knowledge Tracing (FAST)|More about Feature-Aware Student knowledge Tracing (FAST)]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Recommendation ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:starRecommendation.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Personalization]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | There are multiple personalization approaches, that are developed and researched in our system. In the form of recommendations, we have various methods in different levels for recommending learning material to students. Two major approached for recommending resources are reactive and proactive recommendations. In the reactive approach, the recommender system activates in reaction to the student's activity, e.g. if the student fails in solving a quiz, the reactive recommender system recommends related examples to this student to help her understand the skills required to solve that quiz. The pro-active recommender system, proactively suggests learning materials to the students. [[Learning Recommendation|==&amp;gt; more]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Educational Data Mining ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:TensorFactorization.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Educational Data Mining]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | In this part of the project, we aim to make sense of data from Mastery Grids system, including logs of student attempts. The goal in this part includes understanding students' learning patterns and its relationship with students' behavioral traits, predicting students' performance, modeling student knowledge, and discovering the content model. These tasks eventually help us in providing a better service to both instructors and students.  [[Educational Data Mining|==&amp;gt; more]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Smart Content ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:AnimatedExamples.jpg|thumb|left|'''100'''|Smart Content (Animated Examples)]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Mastery Grids supports and provides multiple types of learning materials. It has been applied in three domains (Java, SQL, and Python) as a supplementary E-learning system for undergraduate and graduate level programming and database classes since 2013. We have developed different content applications (e.g., [[QuizJET]], [[QuizPET]], [[WebEx]]) and authoring tools (e.g., [[Content Authoring Tools]], [[Course Authoring Tool]], [[Group Authoring Tool]]) for accessing and authoring such contents. In each learning domain, courses are organized by topics and different types of learning contents are arranged under each topic. Learning contents contain problems (quizzes), parson problems, annotated examples, and animated examples collected from experienced course teachers, textbooks or domain experts. [[Smart Content|==&amp;gt; more]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Authoring Tools ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:ExampleAuthoringModify.jpg|thumb|left|'''100'''|Annotated Example Content Authoring]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | We have developed four major types of authoring tools for the project: 1) Content Authoring Tools for creating different kinds of smart learning content, 2) Course Authoring Tool for creating adaptive courses that use the content, 3) Group Authoring Tool for managing users and groups, as well as 4) the portal to access different authoring tools. &lt;br /&gt;
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* [[Authoring Tools|More about Authoring Tools]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Content Authoring Tools|More about Content Authoring Tools]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Course Authoring Tool|More about Course Authoring Tool]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Group Authoring Tool|More about Group Authoring Tool]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Authoring Tool Portal|More about Authoring Tool Portal]]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Open Source  == &lt;br /&gt;
Software sources and documentations are in GitHub [https://github.com/PAWSLabUniversityOfPittsburgh PAWSLabUniversityOfPittsburgh organization], and [https://github.com/acos-server/ acos-server organization].&lt;br /&gt;
* The Mastery Grids Interface, back-end Aggregate and documentation can be found [https://github.com/PAWSLabUniversityOfPittsburgh/mastery-grids here]. &lt;br /&gt;
* User model services can be found in [https://github.com/PAWSLabUniversityOfPittsburgh/AggregateUMServices here].&lt;br /&gt;
* QuizJET Interface, Authoring Tool, Content Brokering and documentations can be found [https://github.com/PAWSLabUniversityOfPittsburgh/quizjet here].&lt;br /&gt;
* QuizPET Interface, Authoring Tool, Content Brokering and documentations can be found [https://github.com/PAWSLabUniversityOfPittsburgh/quizpet here].&lt;br /&gt;
* Parson Problem Authoring Tool can be found [https://github.com/acos-server/acos-jsparsons-generator here].&lt;br /&gt;
* Annotated Examples Interface, Authoring Tool, Content Brokering and documentations can be found [https://github.com/PAWSLabUniversityOfPittsburgh/annotated-examples here].&lt;br /&gt;
* Animated Examples Authoring Tool can be found [https://github.com/acos-server/acos-jsvee-transpiler-python here].&lt;br /&gt;
* Videos User Interface, Authoring Tool, Content Brokering and documentations can be found [https://github.com/PAWSLabUniversityOfPittsburgh/educvideos here]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Publications ==&lt;br /&gt;
* Gonzalez-Brenes, J. P., Huang, Y., and Brusilovsky, P. (2013) FAST: Feature-Aware Student Knowledge Tracing. In:  Proceedings of NIPS 2013 Workshop on Data Driven Education, Lake Tahoe, NV, December 10, 2013, ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/20353/ paper])&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R. and Brusilovsky, P. (2013) JavaParser: A Fine-Grain Concept Indexing Tool for Java Problems. In:  Proceedings of The First Workshop on AI-supported Education for Computer Science (AIEDCS) at the 16th Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2013, Memphis, TN, USA, July 13, 2013, pp. 60-63. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/26270/1/AIED2013-workshop-camera_ready_version.pdf paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/java-parser-a-fine-grained-indexing-tool-and-its-application presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Brusilovsky, P., and Guerra, J. (2013) Knowledge Maximizer: Concept-based Adaptive Problem Sequencing for Exam Preparation. In:  Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2013), Memphis, USA, pp. 848-851.  ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/26271/4/AIED2013-camera-ready-Knowledge_maximizer_.pdf paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/aied-2013 poster])&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Baishya, D., Hosseini, R., Guerra, J., and Liang, M. (2013) KnowledgeZoom for Java: A Concept-Based Exam Study Tool  with a Zoomable Open Student Model. In:  Proceedings of 2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Beijing, China, July 15-18, 2013, pp. 275-279. ([http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2013.86 paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/kowledge-zoom-michelle-48735584 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Addictive Links: Engaging Students through Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Student Modeling (Keynote talk). In:  Proceedings of WWW 2014 Workshop on Web-based Education Technologies, Seoul, Korea, April 8, 2014. ([http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/addictive-links-keynote-talk-at-www-2014-workshop presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
* Huang, Y., Xu, Y., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Doing More with Less: Student Modeling and Performance Prediction with Reduced Content Models. In: V. Dimitrova, et al. (eds.) Proceedings of 22nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2014), Aalborg, Denmark, July 7-11, 2014, Springer Verlag, pp. 338-349. ([http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/umap-v1 presentation][http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-08786-3_30 paper])&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R. and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Example-Based Problem Solving Support Using concept Analysis of Programming Content. In: S. Trausan-Matu, K. Boyer, M. Crosby and K. Panourgia (eds.) Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2014), Honolulu, HI, USA, June 5-9, 2014, Springer International Publishing, pp. 683-685. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/26268/1/CameraReady_ITS2014_paper.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/presentation-48735557 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Vihavainen, A., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Exploring Problem Solving Paths in a Java Programming Course. In:  Proceedings of Psychology of Programming Interest Group Annual Conference, PPIG 2014, Brighton, UK, June 25-27, 2014, pp. 65-76. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/26272/1/PPIG_2014_camera_ready.pdf paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/ppig2014-problem-solvingpaths presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
* Huang, Y., González-Brenes, J. P., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) General Features in Knowledge Tracing to Model Multiple Subskills, Temporal Item Response Theory, and Expert Knowledge. In: J. Stamper, Z. Pardos, M. Mavrikis and B. M. McLaren (eds.) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2014), London, UK, July 4-7,  2014, pp. 84-91. (First two authors contributed equally. Nominated for Best Paper Award) ([http://www.slideshare.net/huangyun/fast-presentation-48711687 presentation][http://educationaldatamining.org/EDM2014/uploads/procs2014/long%20papers/84_EDM-2014-Full.pdf paper][http://www.slideshare.net/huangyun/2015edm-featureaware-student-knowledge-tracing-tutorial tutorial] [http://ml-smores.github.io/fast/ code])&lt;br /&gt;
* Khajah, M. M., Huang, Y., González-Brenes, J. P., Mozer, M. C., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Integrating Knowledge Tracing and Item Response Theory: A Tale of Two Frameworks. In: I. Cantador, M. Chi, R. Farzan and R. Jäschke (eds.) Proceedings of Workshop on Personalization Approaches in Learning Environments (PALE 2014) at the 22th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization, UMAP 2014, Aalborg, Denmark, July 11, 2014, CEUR, pp. 7-12. (First three authors contributed equally) ([http://www.slideshare.net/huangyun/pale-public-slideshare presentation][http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1181/pale2014_paper_01.pdf paper]).&lt;br /&gt;
* Yudelson, M., Hosseini, R., Vihavainen, A., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Investigating Automated Student Modeling in a Java MOOC. In: J. Stamper, Z. Pardos, M. Mavrikis and B. M. McLaren (eds.) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2014), London, UK, July 4-7,  2014, pp. 261-264. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/26273/1/EDM2014YudelsonHVB_camready.pdf paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/edm2014-investigating-automated-student-modeling-in-a-java-mooc presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
* Sahebi, S., Huang, Y., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Parameterized Exercises in Java Programming: Using Knowledge Structure for Performance Prediction. In:  Proceedings of The second Workshop on AI-supported Education for Computer Science (AIEDCS) at 12th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems ITS 2014, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 6 2014. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/21915/ paper])([http://www.slideshare.net/chagh/parameterized-exercises-in-java-programming-using-knowledge-structure-for-performance-prediction presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
* Sahebi, S., Huang, Y., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Predicting Student Performance in Solving Parameterized Exercises. In: S. Trausan-Matu, K. Boyer, M. Crosby and K. Panourgia (eds.) Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2014), Honolulu, HI, USA, June 5-9, 2014, Springer International Publishing, pp. 496-503, ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/21916/ paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/chagh/its14-pitttemplate presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Sahebi, S., Lin, Y.-R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) The Problem Solving Genome: Analyzing Sequential Patterns of Student Work with Parameterized Exercises. In: J. Stamper, Z. Pardos, M. Mavrikis and B. M. McLaren (eds.) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2014), London, UK, July 4-7,  2014, pp. 153-160 ([http://www.slideshare.net/huangyun/guerra-the-problemsolvinggenome presentation][http://educationaldatamining.org/EDM2014/uploads/procs2014/long%20papers/153_EDM-2014-Full.pdf paper]) &lt;br /&gt;
* Loboda, T., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization. In: S. de Freitas, C. Rensing, P. J. Muñoz Merino and T. Ley (eds.) Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014), Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014 (Best paper award). ([http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-11200-8_18#page-1 paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/ectel2014-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Edwards, S., Kumar, A., Malmi, L., Benotti, L., Buck, D., Ihantola, P., Prince, R., Sirkiä, T., Sosnovsky, S., Urquiza, J., Vihavainen, A., and Wollowski, M. (2014) Increasing Adoption of Smart Learning Content for Computer Science Education. In:  Proceedings of Proceedings of the Working Group Reports of the 2014 on Innovation &amp;amp;amp; Technology in Computer Science Education Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, ACM, pp. 31-57. ([http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2713609.2713611 paper])&lt;br /&gt;
* Gonzalez-Brenes, J. P., Huang, Y. (2014) The White Method: Towards Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Adaptive Tutoring Systems. In:  Proceedings of NIPS 2014 Workshop on Human Propelled Machine Learning, Montreal, Canada, December 13, 2014 ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26061/ paper])&lt;br /&gt;
* Huang, Y., González-Brenes, J. P., and Brusilovsky, P. (2015) The FAST toolkit for Unsupervised Learning of HMMs with Features. In: The Machine Learning Open Source Software workshop at the 32nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-MLOSS 2015), Lille, France July 10, 2015. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26043/ paper][http://mloss.org/software/view/609/ code])&lt;br /&gt;
* Huang, Y., González-Brenes, J. P., Kumar, R., Brusilovsky, P. (2015) A Framework for Multifaceted Evaluation of Student Models. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2015), Madrid, Spain, pp. 203-210. ([http://www.educationaldatamining.org/EDM2015/uploads/papers/paper_164.pdf paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/huangyun/2015edm-a-framework-for-multifaceted-evaluation-of-student-models-polygon presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
* Huang, Y., González-Brenes, J. P., Brusilovsky, P. (2015) Challenges of Using Observational Data to Determine the Importance of Example Usage. In: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2015), Madrid, Spain, pp. 633-637. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26056/ paper])&lt;br /&gt;
* Gonzalez-Brenes, J. P., Huang, Y. (2015) Your model is predictive— but is it useful? Theoretical and Empirical Considerations of a New Paradigm for Adaptive Tutoring Evaluation. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2015), Madrid, Spain, pp. 187-194. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26046/ paper] [http://www.slideshare.net/huangyun/2015-edm-leopard-for-adaptive-tutoring-evaluation presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
* Gonzalez-Brenes, J. P., Huang, Y. The Leopard Framework: Towards understanding educational technology interventions with a Pareto Efficiency Perspective. In: The ICML 2015 Workshop on Machine Learning for Education (ICML 2015), Lille, France, 2015. ([https://dsp.rice.edu/sites/dsp.rice.edu/files/leopard_evaluation(1).pdf paper])&lt;br /&gt;
* Gonzalez-Brenes, J. P., Huang, Y. Using Data from Real and Simulated Learners to Evaluate Adaptive Tutoring Systems. In: 2nd AIED Workshop on Simulated Learners at the 17th Intl. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2015), Madrid, Spain, 2015. ([http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1432/sl_pap4.pdf paper])&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Zadorozhny, V. (2015) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. In: F. Ricci, K. Bontcheva, O. Conlan and S. Lawless (eds.) Proceedings of 23nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, , June 29 - July 3, 2015, Springer Verlag, pp. 44-55 ([https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280805929_The_Value_of_Social_Comparing_Open_Student_Modeling_and_Open_Social_Student_Modeling paper] [http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/umap2015-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Huang, Y., Hosseini, R., &amp;amp; Brusilovsky, P. (2015, June). Graph Analysis of Student Model Networks. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Graph-Based Educational Data Mining (GEDM 2015). CEUR-WS. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/25933/1/graph_analysis.pdf paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/mallium/graph-analysis-of-student-model-networks presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Huang, Y., Hosseini, R., &amp;amp; Brusilovsky, P. Exploring the Effects of Open Social Student Model Beyond Social Comparison. In ISLG 2015 Fourth Workshop on Intelligent Support for Learning in Groups (p. 19). ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/25931/1/islg_pap4.pdf paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/mallium/exploring-the-effects-of-open-social-student-model-beyond-social-comparison poster])&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Hsiao, I.-H., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P. (2015) Off the Beaten Path: The Impact of Adaptive Content Sequencing on Student Navigation in an Open Social Student Modeling Interface. In: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2015), Madrid, Spain, pp. 624-628. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/25938/1/paper_183.pdf paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/aied-2015-poster-off-the-beaten-path-the-impact-of-adaptive-content-sequencing-on-student-navigation-in-an-open-social-student-modeling-interface poster])&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Hsiao, I.-H., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P. (2015) What Should I Do Next? Adaptive Sequencing in the Context of Open Social Student Modeling. Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2015), Toledo, Spain, September 15-18, 2015, pp. 155-168. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26266/1/camera_ready.pdf paper])([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/ectel-2015 presentation]).&lt;br /&gt;
* Somyürek, S. &amp;amp; Brusilovsky, P. (2015). Impact of Open Social Student Modeling on Self-Assessment of Performance. Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (E-Learn 2015). Kona, Hawaii, United States, October 19-22, 2015&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Sirkiä, T., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P., Malmi, L. (2016) Animated Examples as Practice Content in a Java Programming Course. Proceedings of the 47th ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Memphis, Tennessee, March 2-5, 2016. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/28928/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Somyurek, S., and Brusilovsky, P. (2016) An Intelligent Interface for Learning Content: Combining an Open Learner Model and Social Comparison to Support Self-Regulated Learning and Engagement. In: Proceedings of Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '16), Sonoma, California, USA, ACM, pp. 152-163. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/27083/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Zadorozhny, V., and Durlach, P. (2016) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 4 (3), 450-461. ([https://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/ec/2016/03/07359179.pdf paper])&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=People&amp;diff=3898</id>
		<title>People</title>
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		<updated>2018-07-10T19:34:24Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: /* Past Visiting Scholars */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;== Faculty ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Peter.jpg|'''[[User:Peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]'''&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Director&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Doctoral Students ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery perrow=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Roya.jpg|[[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:yunhuang.png|[[User:Yuh43| Yun Huang]]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Tsai.jpg|[http://www.cht77.com/ Chun-Hua Tsai]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Avatar.jpg|[http://pitt.edu/~hkc6 Hung Chau]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Jordan.jpeg|[http://pitt.edu/~jab464 Jordan Barria-Pineda]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Kamil.jpg|[http://pitt.edu/~kaa108 Kamil Akhuseyinoglu]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Visiting Scholars ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery perrow=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
== Past Doctoral Students ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery perrow=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Julio.jpg|[[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:xidao.jpg|[[User:Xidao| Xidao Wen]]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Shaghayeghsahebi.jpg|[[User:Sherry | Shaghayegh Sahebi (Sherry)]] &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Clau.JPG|[[User:Clau | Claudia López]] &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor in the Departamento de Informática, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Kong.png|[[User:Chirayu | Chirayu Wongchokprasitti]] &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt; Currently at the Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh&lt;br /&gt;
Image:jennifer.jpg|[[User:Jennifer | Jennifer (Yiling) Lin]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor in the department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University.&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Denis_PAWS_blog.jpg|[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department, School of Engineering at PUC Chile.&lt;br /&gt;
Image:jaewook-1.jpg|[[User:Jahn | Jae-wook Ahn]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Projects: [[ADVISE]], [[Adaptive VIBE]], [[YourNews]], [[YourSports]], [[TaskSieve]], [[NameSieve]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Research Staff Member, Cognitive Sciences and Education,IBM Research&lt;br /&gt;
Image:RostaFarzan.jpg|[[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor at School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Michael_V_Yudelson.gif|'''[[User:Myudelson | Michael V. Yudelson]]'''&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Projects: [[Knowledge Tree]], [[CUMULATE]], [[PERSEUS]], [[NavEx]], [[CoPE]], [[WebEx]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Sergey.jpg|[[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Currently Assistant Professor at Utrecht University (the Netherlands)&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Hsiao.jpg|[[User:Shoha99 | Sharon (I-Han) Hsiao]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Projects: [[AnnotEx]], [[QuizJET]], [[Progressor]], [[ProgressorPlus]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor @ CIDSE, Arizona State University&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Danielle.gif|[[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Projects: [[Eventur]], [[Proactive]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Software, Sangmyung University, Korea&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Past Visiting Faculty ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery perrow=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Susan_bull.png|[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Susan_Bull2 Susan Bull]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Jaakko peltonen 215x296.jpg|[http://users.ics.aalto.fi/jtpelto// Jaakko Peltonen]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:IMG_0611.JPG|[http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~acristea/ Alexandra I. Cristea]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Sibel.jpg|[http://sibelsomyurek.com/ Sibel Somyürek]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:KatrienVerbert.jpg|[http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~katrien.verbert/KatrienVerbert/Katrien_Verbert.html Katrien Verbert]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Roman bednarik.png|[http://cs.uef.fi/~rbednari/ Roman Bednarik]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:TanjaMitrovic.jpg|[http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/tanja.mitrovic/ Tanja Mitrovic]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Eva millan.gif|[http://www.lcc.uma.es/~eva/ Eva Millán Valldeperas]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Julita vasilleva.gif|[http://www.cs.usask.ca/faculty/julita/ Julita Vassileva]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:NicolaHenze.gif|[http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~henze/ Nicola Henze]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Past Master Students ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery perrow=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Vikrant Khenat.jpg|[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~vkhenat/ Vikrant Khenat]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Tibor Dumitriu.gif|[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dumitriu/ Tibor Dumitriu]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Projects: [http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/advise/ AdVisE]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Past Visiting Scholars == &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery perrow=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Image:huhtamaki-jukka-300.jpg|[http://www.linkedin.com/in/jukkahuhtamaki Jukka Huhtamäki]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Postdoc Researcher, DSc (Tech), University of Tampere&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Andrew.jpg|Shuchen Li (Andrew) &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;From  Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Rafael.png|[https://rafaelrda.wordpress.com Rafael Dias Araújo]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Liping_wang.jpg|Liping Wang&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;From JiLin University&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Ayca cebi.jpg|[https://ktu.academia.edu/aycacebi Ayça ÇEBİ] &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;From Karadeniz Technical University&lt;br /&gt;
Image:File crop1 1183908 y 384.jpg|[https://people.aalto.fi/index.html?profilepage=isfor#!teemu_sirkia Teemu Sirkiä]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Michelle_liang.JPG|[http://www.tcs.fudan.edu.cn/~michelle/index.html Michelle Liang]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Pkraker.jpg|[http://science20.wordpress.com Peter Kraker] &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Marshall Plan Scholar &lt;br /&gt;
Image:Kim.jpg|Jaekyung Kim&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Jbravo.gif|[http://www.eps.uam.es/esp/personal/ficha.php?empid=367 Javier Bravo Agapito]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:MarkusKetterl1.jpg|[http://studip.serv.uni-osnabrueck.de/extern.php?username=mketterl&amp;amp;page_url=http://www.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de/VirtUOS/TemplStudipMitarbDetails&amp;amp;global_id=4c8fb9ddd4dde83366119b2031d39ab3 Markus Ketterl]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Jillfreyne.jpg|[http://www.csi.ucd.ie/users/jill-freyne Jill Freyne]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Robert.jpg|Robert Mertens&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Roman bednarik.png|[http://www.cs.joensuu.fi/~rbednari/ Roman bednarik]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Ewald ramp.jpg|Ewald W. A. Ramp&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Jacopo.jpg|Jacopo Armani&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Yetunde.JPG|Yetunde Folajimi&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Chris_face.jpg|[http://www.austria-lexikon.at/af/User/Trattner%20Christoph Christof Trattner]&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/gallery&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=People&amp;diff=3897</id>
		<title>People</title>
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		<updated>2018-07-10T19:31:11Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Cskamil: /* Past Visiting Scholars */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;== Faculty ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Peter.jpg|'''[[User:Peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]'''&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Director&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;/gallery&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Doctoral Students ==&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;lt;gallery perrow=&amp;quot;4&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Roya.jpg|[[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:yunhuang.png|[[User:Yuh43| Yun Huang]]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Tsai.jpg|[http://www.cht77.com/ Chun-Hua Tsai]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Avatar.jpg|[http://pitt.edu/~hkc6 Hung Chau]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Jordan.jpeg|[http://pitt.edu/~jab464 Jordan Barria-Pineda]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Kamil.jpg|[http://pitt.edu/~kaa108 Kamil Akhuseyinoglu]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Visiting Scholars ==&lt;br /&gt;
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== Past Doctoral Students ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Image:Julio.jpg|[[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:xidao.jpg|[[User:Xidao| Xidao Wen]]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Shaghayeghsahebi.jpg|[[User:Sherry | Shaghayegh Sahebi (Sherry)]] &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Clau.JPG|[[User:Clau | Claudia López]] &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor in the Departamento de Informática, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Kong.png|[[User:Chirayu | Chirayu Wongchokprasitti]] &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt; Currently at the Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh&lt;br /&gt;
Image:jennifer.jpg|[[User:Jennifer | Jennifer (Yiling) Lin]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor in the department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University.&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Denis_PAWS_blog.jpg|[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department, School of Engineering at PUC Chile.&lt;br /&gt;
Image:jaewook-1.jpg|[[User:Jahn | Jae-wook Ahn]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Projects: [[ADVISE]], [[Adaptive VIBE]], [[YourNews]], [[YourSports]], [[TaskSieve]], [[NameSieve]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Research Staff Member, Cognitive Sciences and Education,IBM Research&lt;br /&gt;
Image:RostaFarzan.jpg|[[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor at School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Michael_V_Yudelson.gif|'''[[User:Myudelson | Michael V. Yudelson]]'''&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Projects: [[Knowledge Tree]], [[CUMULATE]], [[PERSEUS]], [[NavEx]], [[CoPE]], [[WebEx]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Sergey.jpg|[[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]]&amp;lt;br&amp;gt; Currently Assistant Professor at Utrecht University (the Netherlands)&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Hsiao.jpg|[[User:Shoha99 | Sharon (I-Han) Hsiao]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Projects: [[AnnotEx]], [[QuizJET]], [[Progressor]], [[ProgressorPlus]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor @ CIDSE, Arizona State University&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Danielle.gif|[[User:Suleehs | Danielle H. Lee]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Projects: [[Eventur]], [[Proactive]]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Software, Sangmyung University, Korea&lt;br /&gt;
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== Past Visiting Faculty ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Image:Susan_bull.png|[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Susan_Bull2 Susan Bull]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Jaakko peltonen 215x296.jpg|[http://users.ics.aalto.fi/jtpelto// Jaakko Peltonen]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:IMG_0611.JPG|[http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~acristea/ Alexandra I. Cristea]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Sibel.jpg|[http://sibelsomyurek.com/ Sibel Somyürek]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:KatrienVerbert.jpg|[http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~katrien.verbert/KatrienVerbert/Katrien_Verbert.html Katrien Verbert]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Roman bednarik.png|[http://cs.uef.fi/~rbednari/ Roman Bednarik]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:TanjaMitrovic.jpg|[http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/tanja.mitrovic/ Tanja Mitrovic]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Eva millan.gif|[http://www.lcc.uma.es/~eva/ Eva Millán Valldeperas]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Julita vasilleva.gif|[http://www.cs.usask.ca/faculty/julita/ Julita Vassileva]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:NicolaHenze.gif|[http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~henze/ Nicola Henze]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Past Master Students ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Image:Vikrant Khenat.jpg|[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~vkhenat/ Vikrant Khenat]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Tibor Dumitriu.gif|[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dumitriu/ Tibor Dumitriu]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Projects: [http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/advise/ AdVisE]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Past Visiting Scholars == &lt;br /&gt;
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Image:huhtamaki-jukka-300.jpg|Jukka Huhtamäki[http://www.linkedin.com/in/jukkahuhtamaki]&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Postdoc Researcher, DSc (Tech), University of Tampere&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Andrew.jpg|Shuchen Li (Andrew) &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;From  Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Rafael.png|[https://rafaelrda.wordpress.com Rafael Dias Araújo]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Liping_wang.jpg|Liping Wang&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;From JiLin University&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Ayca cebi.jpg|[https://ktu.academia.edu/aycacebi Ayça ÇEBİ] &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;From Karadeniz Technical University&lt;br /&gt;
Image:File crop1 1183908 y 384.jpg|[https://people.aalto.fi/index.html?profilepage=isfor#!teemu_sirkia Teemu Sirkiä]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Michelle_liang.JPG|[http://www.tcs.fudan.edu.cn/~michelle/index.html Michelle Liang]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Pkraker.jpg|[http://science20.wordpress.com Peter Kraker] &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;Marshall Plan Scholar &lt;br /&gt;
Image:Kim.jpg|Jaekyung Kim&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Jbravo.gif|[http://www.eps.uam.es/esp/personal/ficha.php?empid=367 Javier Bravo Agapito]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:MarkusKetterl1.jpg|[http://studip.serv.uni-osnabrueck.de/extern.php?username=mketterl&amp;amp;page_url=http://www.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de/VirtUOS/TemplStudipMitarbDetails&amp;amp;global_id=4c8fb9ddd4dde83366119b2031d39ab3 Markus Ketterl]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Jillfreyne.jpg|[http://www.csi.ucd.ie/users/jill-freyne Jill Freyne]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Robert.jpg|Robert Mertens&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Roman bednarik.png|[http://www.cs.joensuu.fi/~rbednari/ Roman bednarik]&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Ewald ramp.jpg|Ewald W. A. Ramp&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Jacopo.jpg|Jacopo Armani&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Yetunde.JPG|Yetunde Folajimi&lt;br /&gt;
Image:Chris_face.jpg|[http://www.austria-lexikon.at/af/User/Trattner%20Christoph Christof Trattner]&lt;br /&gt;
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