PAWS Lab - User contributions [en]

Engaging Students in Online Reading Through Social Progress Visualization

2015-03-22T20:21:01Z

Dparra: /* Contacts */

== Project Summary ==

[[Image:Readingcircle1.png|left|thumb|450px|Screenshot of Reading circle, with reading material on the right side and the sunburst visualization on the left.]]
Almost every college course expects students to complete weekly readings from course textbooks or other kinds of course materials. Knowledge to be acquired during weekly reading assignment is critical for students’ course success. Yet, it is not easy for an instructor to assure that the student completed the assigned readings. Reading assignments produce no artifacts to grade. As a result, the students frequently have insufficient motivation to complete the reading assignments. This project explores an alternative approach to encourage student reading using a social progress visualization interface.
* student online reading process is tracked on the level of individual sections
* student reading progress is visualized on several levels – from chapters to sections to subsections – and presented to the student
* students are offered an interface to compare their reading progress with both, the progress of the class as a whole and the progress of individual peers

== Demo ==
You can demo the first two versions of Reading Circle, from [http://columbus.exp.sis.pitt.edu/development/readingcircle_film/index.php?usr=dguerra&grp=testeraeder01&sid=XXXXX&bookid=tdo&docno=tdo-2000&page=1&course=tdo version 1] and from [http://columbus.exp.sis.pitt.edu/development/readingcircle/index.php?usr=rctester&grp=testeraeder01&sid=XXXXX&bookid=tdo&docno=tdo-2000&page=1&course=tdo version 2].

== Funding ==
[[Image:Readingcircle2.png|left|thumb|400px|Comparison mode, allows a user to compare side-by-side with other user or class average.]]
The project is funded by University of Pittsburgh [http://www.pitt.edu/~facaffs/acie/|Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence] in 2012.

== Keywords ==

[[ReadingCircle]], Social Comparison, [[Open Social Student Modeling]], OSSM, [[Social Navigation]], Online Reading, Electronic Textbook

== Systems ==

* [[ReadingCircle]]

== More information ==

* Watch [[http://www.pitt.edu/~facaffs/acie/brusilovsky.html|project video]
* Read [http://www.teachingkb.cidde.pitt.edu/teaching-times/school-of-information-sciences-encourages-online-reading-through-social-progress-visualization/|Teaching Times article]

== Contacts ==
[[User:julio | Julio Guerra]]

[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra (past developer)]]

== Publications ==

Guerra, J., Parra, D., and Brusilovsky, P. (2013) Encouraging Online Student Reading with Visualization. In: Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Support for Learning in Groups at the 16th Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2013, Memphis, TN, USA [http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1009/0308.pdf]

Engaging Students in Online Reading Through Social Progress Visualization

2015-03-22T20:20:44Z

Dparra: /* Contacts */

== Project Summary ==

[[Image:Readingcircle1.png|left|thumb|450px|Screenshot of Reading circle, with reading material on the right side and the sunburst visualization on the left.]]
Almost every college course expects students to complete weekly readings from course textbooks or other kinds of course materials. Knowledge to be acquired during weekly reading assignment is critical for students’ course success. Yet, it is not easy for an instructor to assure that the student completed the assigned readings. Reading assignments produce no artifacts to grade. As a result, the students frequently have insufficient motivation to complete the reading assignments. This project explores an alternative approach to encourage student reading using a social progress visualization interface.
* student online reading process is tracked on the level of individual sections
* student reading progress is visualized on several levels – from chapters to sections to subsections – and presented to the student
* students are offered an interface to compare their reading progress with both, the progress of the class as a whole and the progress of individual peers

== Demo ==
You can demo the first two versions of Reading Circle, from [http://columbus.exp.sis.pitt.edu/development/readingcircle_film/index.php?usr=dguerra&grp=testeraeder01&sid=XXXXX&bookid=tdo&docno=tdo-2000&page=1&course=tdo version 1] and from [http://columbus.exp.sis.pitt.edu/development/readingcircle/index.php?usr=rctester&grp=testeraeder01&sid=XXXXX&bookid=tdo&docno=tdo-2000&page=1&course=tdo version 2].

== Funding ==
[[Image:Readingcircle2.png|left|thumb|400px|Comparison mode, allows a user to compare side-by-side with other user or class average.]]
The project is funded by University of Pittsburgh [http://www.pitt.edu/~facaffs/acie/|Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence] in 2012.

== Keywords ==

[[ReadingCircle]], Social Comparison, [[Open Social Student Modeling]], OSSM, [[Social Navigation]], Online Reading, Electronic Textbook

== Systems ==

* [[ReadingCircle]]

== More information ==

* Watch [[http://www.pitt.edu/~facaffs/acie/brusilovsky.html|project video]
* Read [http://www.teachingkb.cidde.pitt.edu/teaching-times/school-of-information-sciences-encourages-online-reading-through-social-progress-visualization/|Teaching Times article]

== Contacts ==
[[User:julio | Julio Guerra]]
[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra (past developer)]]

== Publications ==

Guerra, J., Parra, D., and Brusilovsky, P. (2013) Encouraging Online Student Reading with Visualization. In: Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Support for Learning in Groups at the 16th Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2013, Memphis, TN, USA [http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1009/0308.pdf]

Systems

2015-03-22T20:12:58Z

Dparra: /* ReadingCircle */

This page is a quick overview of the systems and frameworks developed at [[Main Page|PAWS]] lab.

== ADAPT2 ==

{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:adapt2-arcitecture.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|ADAPT2 Architecture]]
| valign="top" | ADAPT2 (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]])
|}

== AdVisE (Adaptive Document Visualization for Education) ==
==== ADVISE 2D ====
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.
==== ADVISE 3D ====
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.

==== ADVISE VIBE ====

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.

([http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/advise more on ADVISE])

==Adaptive VIBE==

{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:AdaptiveVibe_part.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Adaptive VIBE]]
| valign="top" | 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.

* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~codex/tasksieve System Link] (Adaptive VIBE integrated into TaskSieve)
* [[Adaptive_VIBE | more on Adaptive VIBE]]
|}

== AnnotatEd ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:ated.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|AnnotatEd]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== AnnotEx ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:AnnotEx.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|AnnotEx]]
| valign="top" | AnnotEx - Example Annotator- is a web-based community based authoring tool for annotating programming examples.([[AnnotEx|more]])
|}

== CoMeT ==

{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:comet.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Comet]]
| valign="top" | 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])
|}
== Conference Navigator 3==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Cn3.jpg|thumb|left|'''100'''|CN3]]
| valign="top" | 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])
|}

== CoPE (Collaborative Paper Exchange) ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:CoPE.1.overall.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|CoPE]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== CourseAgent ==
coming soon
([[CourseAgent|more]])

== CUMULATE ==
[[CUMULATE]] is a centralized user modeling server built for the [[ADAPT2|ADAPT2]] 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.
([[CUMULATE|more]])

== Eventur ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Pittcult.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|PittCult]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== JavaGuide ==

{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Quizguide.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|JavaGuide]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== Knowledge Sea II ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:ks2.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Knowledge Sea II]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== Knowledge Tree ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:KnowledgeTreeLogo.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Knowledge Tree]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}
== KnowledgeZoom ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:KnowledgeZoom.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|KnowledgeZoom]]
| valign="top" | 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. ([[KnowledgeZoom|more]])
|}

== MEMA ==
{|
|valign="top" | [[Image:MEMA.jpg|thumb|left|'''100'''|MEMA]]
|valign="top" | MEMA (Museum Exhibition MAnagement) ([[MEMA|more]])
* [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/mema/web/ Web System link]
* [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/mema Mobile System link]
|}

== NameSieve ==

{|
|valign="top" | [[Image:NameSieve-NEpanel.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|NameSieve Named-entity Navigator]]
|valign="top" | A name-entity based news exploration and filtering system. Important named-entities extracted from the search results are provided in the "cloud" form and helps further exploration. ([[NameSieve|more]])

* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/namesieve System Link 1]
* [http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~jahn/cma/index.php System Link 2] (Carnegie Museum of Art version)
|}

== NavEx - Navigation to Examples ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:NavEx.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|NavEx]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== PERSEUS ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Perseus.gif|thumb|left|100px|PERSEUS]]
| valign="top" | [[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|ADAPT2]] 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]])
|}

== Proactive ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Proactive.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|PittCult]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== Progressor ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Progressor.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Progressor]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== Progressor+ ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:progressorplus1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|ProgressorPlus]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== ReadingCircle ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Readingcircle1.png|left|thumb|200px|Screenshot of the Readingcircle interface.]]
| valign="top" | ReadingCircle is a system that explores approaches to encourage student reading using a social progress visualization interface.. Click on the following link to [[http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/wiki/Engaging_Students_in_Online_Reading_Through_Social_Progress_Visualization#Project_Summary see more details]].
|}

== QuizGuide ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Quizguide.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|QuizGuide]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== QuizJET ==
{|
|valign="top" | [[Image:Quizjet.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|QuizJET]]
|valign="top" | 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 "behind the stage", and records the results into a server-side database. ([[QuizJET|more]])
|}

== SetFusion ==
coming soon
([[SetFusion|more]])

== TalkExplorer ==
coming soon
([[TalkExplorer|more]])

== TaskSieve ==

{|
|valign="top" | [[Image:TaskSieve-surrogates.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|TaskSieve -- mediates query and user model]]
|valign="top" | 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]])
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/tasksieve System link 1]
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~codex/tasksieve System link 2] (newer version integrated with Adaptive VIBE)
|}

== WADEIn (cWADEIn/jWADEIn) ==
coming soon
([[WADEIn|more]])

== YourNews ==

{|
|valign="top" | [[Image:YourNews-openUM.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|YourNews Open User Model UI]]
|valign="top" | 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]])

* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yournews System Link]
|}

Systems

2015-03-22T20:12:31Z

Dparra: /* ReadingCircle */

This page is a quick overview of the systems and frameworks developed at [[Main Page|PAWS]] lab.

== ADAPT2 ==

{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:adapt2-arcitecture.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|ADAPT2 Architecture]]
| valign="top" | ADAPT2 (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]])
|}

== AdVisE (Adaptive Document Visualization for Education) ==
==== ADVISE 2D ====
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.
==== ADVISE 3D ====
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.

==== ADVISE VIBE ====

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.

([http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/advise more on ADVISE])

==Adaptive VIBE==

{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:AdaptiveVibe_part.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Adaptive VIBE]]
| valign="top" | 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.

* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~codex/tasksieve System Link] (Adaptive VIBE integrated into TaskSieve)
* [[Adaptive_VIBE | more on Adaptive VIBE]]
|}

== AnnotatEd ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:ated.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|AnnotatEd]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== AnnotEx ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:AnnotEx.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|AnnotEx]]
| valign="top" | AnnotEx - Example Annotator- is a web-based community based authoring tool for annotating programming examples.([[AnnotEx|more]])
|}

== CoMeT ==

{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:comet.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Comet]]
| valign="top" | 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])
|}
== Conference Navigator 3==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Cn3.jpg|thumb|left|'''100'''|CN3]]
| valign="top" | 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])
|}

== CoPE (Collaborative Paper Exchange) ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:CoPE.1.overall.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|CoPE]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== CourseAgent ==
coming soon
([[CourseAgent|more]])

== CUMULATE ==
[[CUMULATE]] is a centralized user modeling server built for the [[ADAPT2|ADAPT2]] 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.
([[CUMULATE|more]])

== Eventur ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Pittcult.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|PittCult]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== JavaGuide ==

{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Quizguide.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|JavaGuide]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== Knowledge Sea II ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:ks2.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Knowledge Sea II]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== Knowledge Tree ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:KnowledgeTreeLogo.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Knowledge Tree]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}
== KnowledgeZoom ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:KnowledgeZoom.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|KnowledgeZoom]]
| valign="top" | 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. ([[KnowledgeZoom|more]])
|}

== MEMA ==
{|
|valign="top" | [[Image:MEMA.jpg|thumb|left|'''100'''|MEMA]]
|valign="top" | MEMA (Museum Exhibition MAnagement) ([[MEMA|more]])
* [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/mema/web/ Web System link]
* [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/mema Mobile System link]
|}

== NameSieve ==

{|
|valign="top" | [[Image:NameSieve-NEpanel.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|NameSieve Named-entity Navigator]]
|valign="top" | A name-entity based news exploration and filtering system. Important named-entities extracted from the search results are provided in the "cloud" form and helps further exploration. ([[NameSieve|more]])

* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/namesieve System Link 1]
* [http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~jahn/cma/index.php System Link 2] (Carnegie Museum of Art version)
|}

== NavEx - Navigation to Examples ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:NavEx.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|NavEx]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== PERSEUS ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Perseus.gif|thumb|left|100px|PERSEUS]]
| valign="top" | [[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|ADAPT2]] 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]])
|}

== Proactive ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Proactive.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|PittCult]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== Progressor ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Progressor.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Progressor]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== Progressor+ ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:progressorplus1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|ProgressorPlus]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== ReadingCircle ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Readingcircle1.png|left|thumb|300px|Screenshot of the Readingcircle interface.]]
| valign="top" | ReadingCircle is a system that explores approaches to encourage student reading using a social progress visualization interface.. Click on the following link to [[http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/wiki/Engaging_Students_in_Online_Reading_Through_Social_Progress_Visualization#Project_Summary see more details]].
|}

== QuizGuide ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Quizguide.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|QuizGuide]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== QuizJET ==
{|
|valign="top" | [[Image:Quizjet.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|QuizJET]]
|valign="top" | 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 "behind the stage", and records the results into a server-side database. ([[QuizJET|more]])
|}

== SetFusion ==
coming soon
([[SetFusion|more]])

== TalkExplorer ==
coming soon
([[TalkExplorer|more]])

== TaskSieve ==

{|
|valign="top" | [[Image:TaskSieve-surrogates.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|TaskSieve -- mediates query and user model]]
|valign="top" | 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]])
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/tasksieve System link 1]
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~codex/tasksieve System link 2] (newer version integrated with Adaptive VIBE)
|}

== WADEIn (cWADEIn/jWADEIn) ==
coming soon
([[WADEIn|more]])

== YourNews ==

{|
|valign="top" | [[Image:YourNews-openUM.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|YourNews Open User Model UI]]
|valign="top" | 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]])

* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yournews System Link]
|}

Systems

2015-03-22T20:11:46Z

Dparra: /* ReadingCircle */

This page is a quick overview of the systems and frameworks developed at [[Main Page|PAWS]] lab.

== ADAPT2 ==

{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:adapt2-arcitecture.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|ADAPT2 Architecture]]
| valign="top" | ADAPT2 (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]])
|}

== AdVisE (Adaptive Document Visualization for Education) ==
==== ADVISE 2D ====
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.
==== ADVISE 3D ====
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.

==== ADVISE VIBE ====

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.

([http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/advise more on ADVISE])

==Adaptive VIBE==

{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:AdaptiveVibe_part.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Adaptive VIBE]]
| valign="top" | 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.

* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~codex/tasksieve System Link] (Adaptive VIBE integrated into TaskSieve)
* [[Adaptive_VIBE | more on Adaptive VIBE]]
|}

== AnnotatEd ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:ated.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|AnnotatEd]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== AnnotEx ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:AnnotEx.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|AnnotEx]]
| valign="top" | AnnotEx - Example Annotator- is a web-based community based authoring tool for annotating programming examples.([[AnnotEx|more]])
|}

== CoMeT ==

{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:comet.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Comet]]
| valign="top" | 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])
|}
== Conference Navigator 3==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Cn3.jpg|thumb|left|'''100'''|CN3]]
| valign="top" | 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])
|}

== CoPE (Collaborative Paper Exchange) ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:CoPE.1.overall.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|CoPE]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== CourseAgent ==
coming soon
([[CourseAgent|more]])

== CUMULATE ==
[[CUMULATE]] is a centralized user modeling server built for the [[ADAPT2|ADAPT2]] 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.
([[CUMULATE|more]])

== Eventur ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Pittcult.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|PittCult]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== JavaGuide ==

{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Quizguide.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|JavaGuide]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== Knowledge Sea II ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:ks2.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Knowledge Sea II]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== Knowledge Tree ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:KnowledgeTreeLogo.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Knowledge Tree]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}
== KnowledgeZoom ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:KnowledgeZoom.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|KnowledgeZoom]]
| valign="top" | 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. ([[KnowledgeZoom|more]])
|}

== MEMA ==
{|
|valign="top" | [[Image:MEMA.jpg|thumb|left|'''100'''|MEMA]]
|valign="top" | MEMA (Museum Exhibition MAnagement) ([[MEMA|more]])
* [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/mema/web/ Web System link]
* [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/mema Mobile System link]
|}

== NameSieve ==

{|
|valign="top" | [[Image:NameSieve-NEpanel.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|NameSieve Named-entity Navigator]]
|valign="top" | A name-entity based news exploration and filtering system. Important named-entities extracted from the search results are provided in the "cloud" form and helps further exploration. ([[NameSieve|more]])

* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/namesieve System Link 1]
* [http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~jahn/cma/index.php System Link 2] (Carnegie Museum of Art version)
|}

== NavEx - Navigation to Examples ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:NavEx.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|NavEx]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== PERSEUS ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Perseus.gif|thumb|left|100px|PERSEUS]]
| valign="top" | [[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|ADAPT2]] 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]])
|}

== Proactive ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Proactive.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|PittCult]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== Progressor ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Progressor.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Progressor]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== Progressor+ ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:progressorplus1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|ProgressorPlus]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== ReadingCircle ==
{|
[[Image:Readingcircle1.png|left|thumb|300px|Screenshot of the Readingcircle interface.]]
ReadingCircle is a system that explores approaches to encourage student reading using a social progress visualization interface.. Click on the following link to [[http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/wiki/Engaging_Students_in_Online_Reading_Through_Social_Progress_Visualization#Project_Summary see more details]].
|}

== QuizGuide ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Quizguide.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|QuizGuide]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== QuizJET ==
{|
|valign="top" | [[Image:Quizjet.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|QuizJET]]
|valign="top" | 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 "behind the stage", and records the results into a server-side database. ([[QuizJET|more]])
|}

== SetFusion ==
coming soon
([[SetFusion|more]])

== TalkExplorer ==
coming soon
([[TalkExplorer|more]])

== TaskSieve ==

{|
|valign="top" | [[Image:TaskSieve-surrogates.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|TaskSieve -- mediates query and user model]]
|valign="top" | 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]])
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/tasksieve System link 1]
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~codex/tasksieve System link 2] (newer version integrated with Adaptive VIBE)
|}

== WADEIn (cWADEIn/jWADEIn) ==
coming soon
([[WADEIn|more]])

== YourNews ==

{|
|valign="top" | [[Image:YourNews-openUM.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|YourNews Open User Model UI]]
|valign="top" | 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]])

* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yournews System Link]
|}

Systems

2015-03-22T20:10:04Z

Dparra: /* ReadingCircle */

This page is a quick overview of the systems and frameworks developed at [[Main Page|PAWS]] lab.

== ADAPT2 ==

{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:adapt2-arcitecture.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|ADAPT2 Architecture]]
| valign="top" | ADAPT2 (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]])
|}

== AdVisE (Adaptive Document Visualization for Education) ==
==== ADVISE 2D ====
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.
==== ADVISE 3D ====
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.

==== ADVISE VIBE ====

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.

([http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/advise more on ADVISE])

==Adaptive VIBE==

{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:AdaptiveVibe_part.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Adaptive VIBE]]
| valign="top" | 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.

* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~codex/tasksieve System Link] (Adaptive VIBE integrated into TaskSieve)
* [[Adaptive_VIBE | more on Adaptive VIBE]]
|}

== AnnotatEd ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:ated.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|AnnotatEd]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== AnnotEx ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:AnnotEx.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|AnnotEx]]
| valign="top" | AnnotEx - Example Annotator- is a web-based community based authoring tool for annotating programming examples.([[AnnotEx|more]])
|}

== CoMeT ==

{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:comet.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Comet]]
| valign="top" | 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])
|}
== Conference Navigator 3==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Cn3.jpg|thumb|left|'''100'''|CN3]]
| valign="top" | 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])
|}

== CoPE (Collaborative Paper Exchange) ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:CoPE.1.overall.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|CoPE]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== CourseAgent ==
coming soon
([[CourseAgent|more]])

== CUMULATE ==
[[CUMULATE]] is a centralized user modeling server built for the [[ADAPT2|ADAPT2]] 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.
([[CUMULATE|more]])

== Eventur ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Pittcult.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|PittCult]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== JavaGuide ==

{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Quizguide.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|JavaGuide]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== Knowledge Sea II ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:ks2.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Knowledge Sea II]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== Knowledge Tree ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:KnowledgeTreeLogo.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Knowledge Tree]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}
== KnowledgeZoom ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:KnowledgeZoom.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|KnowledgeZoom]]
| valign="top" | 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. ([[KnowledgeZoom|more]])
|}

== MEMA ==
{|
|valign="top" | [[Image:MEMA.jpg|thumb|left|'''100'''|MEMA]]
|valign="top" | MEMA (Museum Exhibition MAnagement) ([[MEMA|more]])
* [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/mema/web/ Web System link]
* [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/mema Mobile System link]
|}

== NameSieve ==

{|
|valign="top" | [[Image:NameSieve-NEpanel.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|NameSieve Named-entity Navigator]]
|valign="top" | A name-entity based news exploration and filtering system. Important named-entities extracted from the search results are provided in the "cloud" form and helps further exploration. ([[NameSieve|more]])

* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/namesieve System Link 1]
* [http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~jahn/cma/index.php System Link 2] (Carnegie Museum of Art version)
|}

== NavEx - Navigation to Examples ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:NavEx.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|NavEx]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== PERSEUS ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Perseus.gif|thumb|left|100px|PERSEUS]]
| valign="top" | [[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|ADAPT2]] 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]])
|}

== Proactive ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Proactive.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|PittCult]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== Progressor ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Progressor.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Progressor]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== Progressor+ ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:progressorplus1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|ProgressorPlus]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== ReadingCircle ==

[[Image:Readingcircle1.png|left|thumb|300px|Screenshot of the Readingcircle interface.]]
ReadingCircle is a system that explores approaches to encourage student reading using a social progress visualization interface.. Click on the following link to [[http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/wiki/Engaging_Students_in_Online_Reading_Through_Social_Progress_Visualization#Project_Summary see more details]].

== QuizGuide ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Quizguide.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|QuizGuide]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== QuizJET ==
{|
|valign="top" | [[Image:Quizjet.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|QuizJET]]
|valign="top" | 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 "behind the stage", and records the results into a server-side database. ([[QuizJET|more]])
|}

== SetFusion ==
coming soon
([[SetFusion|more]])

== TalkExplorer ==
coming soon
([[TalkExplorer|more]])

== TaskSieve ==

{|
|valign="top" | [[Image:TaskSieve-surrogates.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|TaskSieve -- mediates query and user model]]
|valign="top" | 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]])
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/tasksieve System link 1]
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~codex/tasksieve System link 2] (newer version integrated with Adaptive VIBE)
|}

== WADEIn (cWADEIn/jWADEIn) ==
coming soon
([[WADEIn|more]])

== YourNews ==

{|
|valign="top" | [[Image:YourNews-openUM.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|YourNews Open User Model UI]]
|valign="top" | 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]])

* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yournews System Link]
|}

Engaging Students in Online Reading Through Social Progress Visualization

2015-03-22T20:06:04Z

Dparra: /* Project Summary */

== Project Summary ==

[[Image:Readingcircle1.png|left|thumb|450px|Screenshot of Reading circle, with reading material on the right side and the sunburst visualization on the left.]]
Almost every college course expects students to complete weekly readings from course textbooks or other kinds of course materials. Knowledge to be acquired during weekly reading assignment is critical for students’ course success. Yet, it is not easy for an instructor to assure that the student completed the assigned readings. Reading assignments produce no artifacts to grade. As a result, the students frequently have insufficient motivation to complete the reading assignments. This project explores an alternative approach to encourage student reading using a social progress visualization interface.
* student online reading process is tracked on the level of individual sections
* student reading progress is visualized on several levels – from chapters to sections to subsections – and presented to the student
* students are offered an interface to compare their reading progress with both, the progress of the class as a whole and the progress of individual peers

== Demo ==
You can demo the first two versions of Reading Circle, from [http://columbus.exp.sis.pitt.edu/development/readingcircle_film/index.php?usr=dguerra&grp=testeraeder01&sid=XXXXX&bookid=tdo&docno=tdo-2000&page=1&course=tdo version 1] and from [http://columbus.exp.sis.pitt.edu/development/readingcircle/index.php?usr=rctester&grp=testeraeder01&sid=XXXXX&bookid=tdo&docno=tdo-2000&page=1&course=tdo version 2].

== Funding ==
[[Image:Readingcircle2.png|left|thumb|400px|Comparison mode, allows a user to compare side-by-side with other user or class average.]]
The project is funded by University of Pittsburgh [http://www.pitt.edu/~facaffs/acie/|Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence] in 2012.

== Keywords ==

[[ReadingCircle]], Social Comparison, [[Open Social Student Modeling]], OSSM, [[Social Navigation]], Online Reading, Electronic Textbook

== Systems ==

* [[ReadingCircle]]

== More information ==

* Watch [[http://www.pitt.edu/~facaffs/acie/brusilovsky.html|project video]
* Read [http://www.teachingkb.cidde.pitt.edu/teaching-times/school-of-information-sciences-encourages-online-reading-through-social-progress-visualization/|Teaching Times article]

== Contacts ==
[[User:julio | Julio Guerra]]

== Publications ==

Guerra, J., Parra, D., and Brusilovsky, P. (2013) Encouraging Online Student Reading with Visualization. In: Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Support for Learning in Groups at the 16th Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2013, Memphis, TN, USA [http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1009/0308.pdf]

Engaging Students in Online Reading Through Social Progress Visualization

2015-03-22T19:45:28Z

Dparra: /* Publications */

== Project Summary ==

[[Image:Readingcircle1.png|left|thumb|450px|Screenshot of Reading circle, with reading material on the right side and the sunburst visualization on the left.]]
Almost every college course expects students to complete weekly readings from course textbooks or other kinds of course materials. Knowledge to be acquired during weekly reading assignment is critical for students’ course success. Yet, it is not easy for an instructor to assure that the student completed the assigned readings. Reading assignments produce no artifacts to grade. As a result, the students frequently have insufficient motivation to complete the reading assignments. This project explores an alternative approach to encourage student reading using a social progress visualization interface.
* student online reading process is tracked on the level of individual sections
* student reading progress is visualized on several levels – from chapters to sections to subsections – and presented to the student
* students are offered an interface to compare their reading progress with both, the progress of the class as a whole and the progress of individual peers

== Funding ==
[[Image:Readingcircle2.png|left|thumb|400px|Comparison mode, allows a user to compare side-by-side with other user or class average.]]
The project is funded by University of Pittsburgh [http://www.pitt.edu/~facaffs/acie/|Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence] in 2012.

== Keywords ==

[[ReadingCircle]], Social Comparison, [[Open Social Student Modeling]], OSSM, [[Social Navigation]], Online Reading, Electronic Textbook

== Systems ==

* [[ReadingCircle]]

== More information ==

* Watch [[http://www.pitt.edu/~facaffs/acie/brusilovsky.html|project video]
* Read [http://www.teachingkb.cidde.pitt.edu/teaching-times/school-of-information-sciences-encourages-online-reading-through-social-progress-visualization/|Teaching Times article]

== Contacts ==
[[User:julio | Julio Guerra]]

== Publications ==

Guerra, J., Parra, D., and Brusilovsky, P. (2013) Encouraging Online Student Reading with Visualization. In: Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Support for Learning in Groups at the 16th Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2013, Memphis, TN, USA [http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1009/0308.pdf]

Engaging Students in Online Reading Through Social Progress Visualization

2015-03-22T19:44:43Z

Dparra: /* Project Summary */

== Project Summary ==

[[Image:Readingcircle1.png|left|thumb|450px|Screenshot of Reading circle, with reading material on the right side and the sunburst visualization on the left.]]
Almost every college course expects students to complete weekly readings from course textbooks or other kinds of course materials. Knowledge to be acquired during weekly reading assignment is critical for students’ course success. Yet, it is not easy for an instructor to assure that the student completed the assigned readings. Reading assignments produce no artifacts to grade. As a result, the students frequently have insufficient motivation to complete the reading assignments. This project explores an alternative approach to encourage student reading using a social progress visualization interface.
* student online reading process is tracked on the level of individual sections
* student reading progress is visualized on several levels – from chapters to sections to subsections – and presented to the student
* students are offered an interface to compare their reading progress with both, the progress of the class as a whole and the progress of individual peers

== Funding ==
[[Image:Readingcircle2.png|left|thumb|400px|Comparison mode, allows a user to compare side-by-side with other user or class average.]]
The project is funded by University of Pittsburgh [http://www.pitt.edu/~facaffs/acie/|Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence] in 2012.

== Keywords ==

[[ReadingCircle]], Social Comparison, [[Open Social Student Modeling]], OSSM, [[Social Navigation]], Online Reading, Electronic Textbook

== Systems ==

* [[ReadingCircle]]

== More information ==

* Watch [[http://www.pitt.edu/~facaffs/acie/brusilovsky.html|project video]
* Read [http://www.teachingkb.cidde.pitt.edu/teaching-times/school-of-information-sciences-encourages-online-reading-through-social-progress-visualization/|Teaching Times article]

== Contacts ==
[[User:julio | Julio Guerra]]

== Publications ==

Guerra, J., Parra, D., and Brusilovsky, P. (2013) Encouraging Online Student Reading with Visualization. In: Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Support for Learning in Groups at the 16th Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2013, Memphis, TN, USA [http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1009/0308.pdf|PDF]

Engaging Students in Online Reading Through Social Progress Visualization

2015-03-22T19:43:33Z

Dparra: /* Funding */

== Project Summary ==

[[Image:Readingcircle1.png|left|thumb|500px]]
Almost every college course expects students to complete weekly readings from course textbooks or other kinds of course materials. Knowledge to be acquired during weekly reading assignment is critical for students’ course success. Yet, it is not easy for an instructor to assure that the student completed the assigned readings. Reading assignments produce no artifacts to grade. As a result, the students frequently have insufficient motivation to complete the reading assignments. This project explores an alternative approach to encourage student reading using a social progress visualization interface.
* student online reading process is tracked on the level of individual sections
* student reading progress is visualized on several levels – from chapters to sections to subsections – and presented to the student
* students are offered an interface to compare their reading progress with both, the progress of the class as a whole and the progress of individual peers

== Funding ==
[[Image:Readingcircle2.png|left|thumb|400px|Comparison mode, allows a user to compare side-by-side with other user or class average.]]
The project is funded by University of Pittsburgh [http://www.pitt.edu/~facaffs/acie/|Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence] in 2012.

== Keywords ==

[[ReadingCircle]], Social Comparison, [[Open Social Student Modeling]], OSSM, [[Social Navigation]], Online Reading, Electronic Textbook

== Systems ==

* [[ReadingCircle]]

== More information ==

* Watch [[http://www.pitt.edu/~facaffs/acie/brusilovsky.html|project video]
* Read [http://www.teachingkb.cidde.pitt.edu/teaching-times/school-of-information-sciences-encourages-online-reading-through-social-progress-visualization/|Teaching Times article]

== Contacts ==
[[User:julio | Julio Guerra]]

== Publications ==

Guerra, J., Parra, D., and Brusilovsky, P. (2013) Encouraging Online Student Reading with Visualization. In: Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Support for Learning in Groups at the 16th Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2013, Memphis, TN, USA [http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1009/0308.pdf|PDF]

Engaging Students in Online Reading Through Social Progress Visualization

2015-03-22T19:41:07Z

Dparra: /* Project Summary */

== Project Summary ==

[[Image:Readingcircle1.png|left|thumb|500px]]
Almost every college course expects students to complete weekly readings from course textbooks or other kinds of course materials. Knowledge to be acquired during weekly reading assignment is critical for students’ course success. Yet, it is not easy for an instructor to assure that the student completed the assigned readings. Reading assignments produce no artifacts to grade. As a result, the students frequently have insufficient motivation to complete the reading assignments. This project explores an alternative approach to encourage student reading using a social progress visualization interface.
* student online reading process is tracked on the level of individual sections
* student reading progress is visualized on several levels – from chapters to sections to subsections – and presented to the student
* students are offered an interface to compare their reading progress with both, the progress of the class as a whole and the progress of individual peers

== Funding ==

The project is funded by University of Pittsburgh [http://www.pitt.edu/~facaffs/acie/|Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence] in 2012.

== Keywords ==

[[ReadingCircle]], Social Comparison, [[Open Social Student Modeling]], OSSM, [[Social Navigation]], Online Reading, Electronic Textbook

== Systems ==

* [[ReadingCircle]]

== More information ==

* Watch [[http://www.pitt.edu/~facaffs/acie/brusilovsky.html|project video]
* Read [http://www.teachingkb.cidde.pitt.edu/teaching-times/school-of-information-sciences-encourages-online-reading-through-social-progress-visualization/|Teaching Times article]

== Contacts ==
[[User:julio | Julio Guerra]]

== Publications ==

Guerra, J., Parra, D., and Brusilovsky, P. (2013) Encouraging Online Student Reading with Visualization. In: Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Support for Learning in Groups at the 16th Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2013, Memphis, TN, USA [http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1009/0308.pdf|PDF]

File:Readingcircle2.png

2015-03-22T19:37:13Z

Dparra: Close up of comparing interface of reading circle.

Close up of comparing interface of reading circle.

File:Readingcircle1.png

2015-03-22T19:36:09Z

Dparra: Screenshot of reading circle interface.

Screenshot of reading circle interface.

User:Dparra

2014-09-06T23:13:32Z

Dparra: /* Denis Parra Santander */

= Denis Parra Santander =

[[Image:Denisht2014.jpg|left|'''300'''|Denis]]

Denis was a PhD student at the PAWS Lab between 2008 and 2013, working on Recommender Systems. He did 2 internships (Trinity College Dublin in 2009, and Telefonica i+d, Barcelona, 2011), obtained a best student paper award in UMAP 2011 with the paper "Walk the Talk" (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2021855.2021878) and currently works as a professor of Computer Science at PUC Chile.

Find latest details about Denis at

Web: http://web.ing.puc.cl/~dparra/

File:Denisht2014.jpg

2014-09-06T23:06:56Z

Dparra: Denis at Hypertext 2014

Denis at Hypertext 2014

News

2014-05-14T12:12:57Z

Dparra: /* 2013-08-13 :: Denis started a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. */

__NOTOC__
==== 2014-05-06 :: [[User: shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] is appointed as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall.====
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 & Sciences in [http://www.columbia.edu Columbia University]. For more details see [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-14-2014.php SIS news].

==== 2014-03-01 :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] to deliver a keynote at a WWW 2014 workshop. ====
Peter will deliver a keynote titled "Addictive Links: Engaging Students through Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Student Modeling" 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+]].

==== 2014-03-13 :: [[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.====
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.

==== 2013-08-13 :: [[User: DParra | Denis]] started a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.====
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.

==== 2013-07-28 :: KnowledgeZoom got ICALT 2013 Best full Paper Award ====
Congratulations to paws! "KnowledgeZoom for Java: A Concept Based Exam Study Tool with a Zoomable Open Student Model" won the best full paper award of ICALT 2013 conference.

==== 2013-07-28 :: [[User: Falakmasir | Mohammad Falakmasir]] won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper ====
Congratulations to Mohammad! His paper entitled as "A Spectral Learning Approach to Knowledge Tracing" 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&conferenceID=115]

==== 2013-06-12 :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair. ====
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]

==== 2013-05-01 :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture. ====
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 his work 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]

==== 2013-04-01 :: Sergey Sosnovsky profiled in International Innovation ====
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.

==== 2013-01-01 :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies]. ====
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]

==== 2012-08-26 :: [[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences. ====
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]

==== 2012-07-09 :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] Thesis Defence: Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning ====
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.

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.

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.

download it from [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/13439/ here]

==== 2011-11-30 :: [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Thesis Defence: Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning ====
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.

==== 2011-07-15 :: [[User:DParra | Denis Parra]] earns a paper award in UMAP 2011 ====
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]

==== 2011-06-12 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] Promoted to Rank of Full Professor ====
Congratulations to our head of PAWS lab! [[http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/06-10-2011.php Read more ]]
==== 2011-05-01 :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon]] received 2011 Allen Kent Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Graduate Program in Information Science ====
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.

==== 2010-12-15 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] received Google grant to work on ''Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities'' ====
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 Eventur, a social system for recommending cultural events in the Pittsburgh area.

==== 2010-09-17 :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] Thesis Defence: Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System ====
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]]
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]).

==== 2010-09-15 :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ====
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]]

==== 2010-09-08 :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] Thesis Defence: Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval ====
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]]

==== 2010-09-01 :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ====
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]]

==== 2010-08-15 :: SIGWeb Newsletter published an interview with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] ====
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.

==== 2010-07-01 :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook]] has received Computing Inovation Fellowship ====
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.

==== 2010-05-01 :: Sergey has received EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship ====
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 "Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content" 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.

==== 2009-06-27 :: Rosta receives her second James Chen Award ====
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!

==== 2009-06-26 :: PAWS Caught on UMAP 2009 Video ====
* 0:27 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]]
* 1:09 [[User:Rostaf|Rosta]]
* 1:18 [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]
* 1:51 [[User:Suleehs|Danielle]]
* 3:12 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]] and [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]
* 4:01 [[User:Peterb|Peter]]
<youtube>v_amf_zcLtQ</youtube>

==== 2009-05-28 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] awarded honorary doctorate by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava ====
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 "his contributions to the fields of Informatics and Information Technologies".

==== 2008-07-31 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] receives Best Paper Award at AH 2008 ====
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

==== 2007-06-28 :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael]] receives James Chen Best Student Paper Award at UM 2007 ====
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

PAWS

2014-05-14T12:10:37Z

Dparra: /* Most Recent News */

== About PAWS ==
[[Image:PIC01.jpg|left]]
[[Image:IMG_5103.jpg | left]] 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.

== Most Recent News ==
* [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] is finishing her 2nd year postdoc in Columbia University enroute to CIDSE@ASU as Assistant Professor ([[News#2014-05-06|details]])
* [[User:Jennifer | Jennifer Lin]] Defended her Ph. D. Thesis: ''Enhancing Image Findability through a Dual-Perspective Navigation Framework'' and joins the Department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan.
* [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] Defended his Ph. D. Thesis: ''User Controllability in a Hybrid Recommender System'' and joins the Department of Computer Sciences at PUC Chile. ([[News#2013-08-13|details]])
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture ([[News#2013-05-01|details]])
* [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] profiled in International Innovation ([[News#2013-04-01|details]])
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies] ([[News#2013-01-01|details]])
* [[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] joined School of Information Sciences as an Assistant Professor ([[News#2012-08-26|details]])
* [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] defended her Ph. D.Thesis: ''Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning'' ([[News#2012-07-09|details]])
* [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] defended his Ph. D.Thesis: ''Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning'' ([[News#2011-11-30|details]])
* [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] earns the James Chen student paper award at UMAP 2011 ([[News#2011-07-15|details]])
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== Try PAWS Tools at our Community Portal ==

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.

[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~cagent/ CourseAgent]: Share evaluations of IS graduate courses at Pitt and plan your career.

[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/ Comet]: Share, tag, recommend and schedule interesting talks in Pittsburgh.

[http://eventur.us/ Eventur]: Share and schedule cultural events in Pittsburgh.

[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.

[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!

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].

== PAWS Lab Contact Information ==
Information Sciences Building, Rm. 2A04 
135 North Bellefield Avenue 
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA 
Tel: +1(412)624-9437

News

2014-05-14T12:06:43Z

Dparra: /* 2014-03-13 :: 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. */

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==== 2014-05-06 :: [[User: shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] is appointed as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall.====
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 & Sciences in [http://www.columbia.edu Columbia University]. For more details see [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-14-2014.php SIS news].

==== 2014-03-01 :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] to deliver a keynote at a WWW 2014 workshop. ====
Peter will deliver a keynote titled "Addictive Links: Engaging Students through Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Student Modeling" 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+]].

==== 2014-03-13 :: [[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.====
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.

==== 2013-08-13 :: [[User: DParra | Denis]] started a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.====
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 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.

==== 2013-07-28 :: KnowledgeZoom got ICALT 2013 Best full Paper Award ====
Congratulations to paws! "KnowledgeZoom for Java: A Concept Based Exam Study Tool with a Zoomable Open Student Model" won the best full paper award of ICALT 2013 conference.

==== 2013-07-28 :: [[User: Falakmasir | Mohammad Falakmasir]] won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper ====
Congratulations to Mohammad! His paper entitled as "A Spectral Learning Approach to Knowledge Tracing" 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&conferenceID=115]

==== 2013-06-12 :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair. ====
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]

==== 2013-05-01 :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture. ====
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 his work 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]

==== 2013-04-01 :: Sergey Sosnovsky profiled in International Innovation ====
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.

==== 2013-01-01 :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies]. ====
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]

==== 2012-08-26 :: [[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences. ====
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]

==== 2012-07-09 :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] Thesis Defence: Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning ====
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.

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.

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.

download it from [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/13439/ here]

==== 2011-11-30 :: [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Thesis Defence: Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning ====
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.

==== 2011-07-15 :: [[User:DParra | Denis Parra]] earns a paper award in UMAP 2011 ====
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]

==== 2011-06-12 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] Promoted to Rank of Full Professor ====
Congratulations to our head of PAWS lab! [[http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/06-10-2011.php Read more ]]
==== 2011-05-01 :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon]] received 2011 Allen Kent Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Graduate Program in Information Science ====
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.

==== 2010-12-15 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] received Google grant to work on ''Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities'' ====
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 Eventur, a social system for recommending cultural events in the Pittsburgh area.

==== 2010-09-17 :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] Thesis Defence: Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System ====
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]]
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]).

==== 2010-09-15 :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ====
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]]

==== 2010-09-08 :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] Thesis Defence: Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval ====
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]]

==== 2010-09-01 :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ====
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]]

==== 2010-08-15 :: SIGWeb Newsletter published an interview with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] ====
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.

==== 2010-07-01 :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook]] has received Computing Inovation Fellowship ====
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.

==== 2010-05-01 :: Sergey has received EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship ====
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 "Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content" 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.

==== 2009-06-27 :: Rosta receives her second James Chen Award ====
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!

==== 2009-06-26 :: PAWS Caught on UMAP 2009 Video ====
* 0:27 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]]
* 1:09 [[User:Rostaf|Rosta]]
* 1:18 [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]
* 1:51 [[User:Suleehs|Danielle]]
* 3:12 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]] and [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]
* 4:01 [[User:Peterb|Peter]]
<youtube>v_amf_zcLtQ</youtube>

==== 2009-05-28 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] awarded honorary doctorate by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava ====
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 "his contributions to the fields of Informatics and Information Technologies".

==== 2008-07-31 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] receives Best Paper Award at AH 2008 ====
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

==== 2007-06-28 :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael]] receives James Chen Best Student Paper Award at UM 2007 ====
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

PAWS

2013-08-29T22:27:53Z

Dparra: /* Most Recent News */

== About PAWS ==
[[Image:IMG_5103.jpg | left]] 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.

== Most Recent News ==

* [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] Defended his Ph. D. Thesis: ''User Controllability in a Hybrid Recommender System'' and joins the Department of Computer Sciences at PUC Chile.
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture ([[News#2013-05-01|details]])
* [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] profiled in International Innovation ([[News#2013-04-01|details]])
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies] ([[News#2013-01-01|details]])
* [[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] joined School of Information Sciences as an Assistant Professor ([[News#2012-08-26|details]])
* [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] defended his Ph. D.Thesis: ''Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning'' ([[News#2012-07-09|details]])
* [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] defended his Ph. D.Thesis: ''Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning'' ([[News#2011-11-30|details]])
* [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] earns the James Chen student paper award at UMAP 2011 ([[News#2011-07-15|details]])
Go to [[News | News Page]]

== Try PAWS Tools at our Community Portal ==

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.

[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~cagent/ CourseAgent]: Share evaluations of IS graduate courses at Pitt and plan your career.

[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/ Comet]: Share, tag, recommend and schedule interesting talks in Pittsburgh.

[http://eventur.us/ Eventur]: Share and schedule cultural events in Pittsburgh.

[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.

[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!

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].

== PAWS Lab Contact Information ==
Information Sciences Building, Rm. 2A04 
135 North Bellefield Avenue 
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA 
Tel: +1(412)624-9437

PAWS

2013-08-29T22:27:18Z

Dparra: /* Most Recent News */

== About PAWS ==
[[Image:IMG_5103.jpg | left]] 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.

== Most Recent News ==

* [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] Defended his Ph. D. Thesis: ''User Controllability in a Hybrid Recommender System'' and starts working as Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Sciences at PUC Chile.
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture ([[News#2013-05-01|details]])
* [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] profiled in International Innovation ([[News#2013-04-01|details]])
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies] ([[News#2013-01-01|details]])
* [[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] joined School of Information Sciences as an Assistant Professor ([[News#2012-08-26|details]])
* [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] defended his Ph. D.Thesis: ''Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning'' ([[News#2012-07-09|details]])
* [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] defended his Ph. D.Thesis: ''Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning'' ([[News#2011-11-30|details]])
* [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] earns the James Chen student paper award at UMAP 2011 ([[News#2011-07-15|details]])
Go to [[News | News Page]]

== Try PAWS Tools at our Community Portal ==

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.

[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~cagent/ CourseAgent]: Share evaluations of IS graduate courses at Pitt and plan your career.

[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/ Comet]: Share, tag, recommend and schedule interesting talks in Pittsburgh.

[http://eventur.us/ Eventur]: Share and schedule cultural events in Pittsburgh.

[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.

[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!

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].

== PAWS Lab Contact Information ==
Information Sciences Building, Rm. 2A04 
135 North Bellefield Avenue 
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA 
Tel: +1(412)624-9437

PAWS

2012-02-28T03:41:14Z

Dparra: /* About PAWS */

== About PAWS ==
[[Image:IMG_5103.jpg | left]] 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.

== Most Recent News ==
* [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] defended his Ph. D.Thesis: ''Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning'' ([[News#2011-11-30|details]])
* [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] earns a student paper award at UMAP 2011 ([[News#2011-07-15|details]])
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] is promoted to the rank of Full Professor ([[News#2011-06-11|details]])
* [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] received 2011 Allen Kent Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Graduate Program in Information Science ([[News#2011-05-01|details]])
* [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] defended his Ph. D.Thesis: ''Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System'' ([[News#2010-09-17|details]])
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ([[News#2010-09-15|details]])
* [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] defended his Ph. D.Thesis: ''Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval'' ([[News#2010-09-08|details]])
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ([[News#2010-09-01|details]])
Go to [[News | News Page]]

== Try PAWS Tools at our Community Portal ==

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.

[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~cagent/ CourseAgent]: Share evaluations of IS graduate courses at Pitt and plan your career.

[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/ Comet]: Share, tag, recommend and schedule interesting talks in Pittsburgh.

[http://eventur.us/ Eventur]: Share and schedule cultural events in Pittsburgh.

[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.

[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!

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].

== PAWS Lab Contact Information ==
Information Sciences Building, Rm. 2A04 
135 North Bellefield Avenue 
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA 
Tel: +1(412)624-9437

File:IMG 5103.jpg

2012-02-28T03:39:18Z

Dparra: at UMAP 2011 in Girona, Spain.

at UMAP 2011 in Girona, Spain.

User:Dparra

2012-02-15T04:15:25Z

Dparra: /* Denis Parra Santander */

= Denis Parra Santander =

[[Image:Denis_wiki_profile.jpg|thumb|left|'''100'''|Denis]]

My current research interests are Recommender Systems, Collaborative Filtering and Spreading Activation Methods for Recommender Systems.

I am also giving technical support and doing development in our Conference System [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/ Conference Navigator 3].

See more details about me, my publications and my research interests in my web page at iSchool at Pitt [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dparra/ here]

School of Information Sciences 
University of Pittsburgh 
135 N. Bellefield Ave. Rm. 2A04 
Pittsburgh, PA, 15213 USA 
Tel: +1-412-624-9437 
Web: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dparra/

File:Denis wiki profile.jpg

2012-02-15T04:10:00Z

Dparra:

User:Dparra

2012-02-15T04:08:52Z

Dparra: /* Denis Parra Santander */

== Denis Parra Santander ==

My current research interests are Recommender Systems, Collaborative Filtering and Spreading Activation Methods for Recommender Systems.

I am also giving technical support and doing development in our Conference System [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/ Conference Navigator 3].

See more details about me and my research interests in my web page at iSchool at Pitt [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dparra/ here]

School of Information Sciences 
University of Pittsburgh 
135 N. Bellefield Ave. Rm. 2A04 
Pittsburgh, PA, 15213 USA 
Tel: +1-412-624-9437 
Web: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dparra/

People

2012-02-15T04:04:32Z

Dparra: /* Doctoral Students */

== Faculty ==
<gallery>
Image:Brusilovsky.jpg|'''[[User:Peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]''' Director
</gallery>

== Doctoral Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Sharon Hsiao.jpg|[[User:Shoha99 | Sharon (I-Han) Hsiao]] Projects: [[AnnotEx]], [[QuizJET]]
Image:Danielle.gif|[[User:Suleehs | Danielle (Hyunsook) Lee]] Projects: [[PittCult]], [[Proactive]]
Image:jennifer.jpg|[[User:Jennifer | Jennifer (Yiling) Lin]]
Image:Clau.JPG|[[User:Clau | Claudia López]]
Image:Denis_PAWS_blog.jpg|[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]]
Image:Shaghayeghsahebi.jpg|[[User:Sherry | Shaghayegh Sahebi (Sherry)]]
Image:Kong.png|[[User:Chirayu | Chirayu Wongchokprasitti]]
Image:Julio.jpg|[[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]]
</gallery>

== Master Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">
</gallery>

== Visiting Scholars ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Michelle_liang.JPG|Michelle Liang
</gallery>

== Past Visiting Faculty ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Roman bednarik.png|[http://cs.uef.fi/~rbednari/ Roman Bednarik]
Image:TanjaMitrovic.jpg|[http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/tanja.mitrovic/ Tanja Mitrovic]
Image:Eva millan.gif|[http://www.lcc.uma.es/~eva/ Eva Millán Valldeperas]
Image:Julita vasilleva.gif|[http://www.cs.usask.ca/faculty/julita/ Julita Vassileva]
Image:NicolaHenze.gif|[http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~henze/ Nicola Henze]
</gallery>

== Past Doctoral Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:jaewook-1.jpg|[[User:Jahn | Jae-wook Ahn]] Projects: [[ADVISE]], [[Adaptive VIBE]], [[YourNews]], [[YourSports]], [[TaskSieve]], [[NameSieve]] Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Maryland
Image:RostaFarzan.jpg|[[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University
Image:Michael_V_Yudelson.gif|'''[[User:Myudelson | Michael V. Yudelson]]''' Projects: [[Knowledge Tree]], [[CUMULATE]], [[PERSEUS]], [[NavEx]], [[CoPE]], [[WebEx]] Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University
Image:Sergey.jpg|[[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Currently Principal Researcher, Head of the Intelligent e-Learning Technology Lab, CeLTech, DFKI
</gallery>

== Past Master Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Vikrant Khenat.jpg|[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~vkhenat/ Vikrant Khenat]
Image:Tibor Dumitriu.gif|[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dumitriu/ Tibor Dumitriu] Projects: [http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/advise/ AdVisE]
</gallery>

== Past Visiting Scholars ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Kim.jpg|Jaekyung Kim
Image:Jbravo.gif|[http://www.eps.uam.es/esp/personal/ficha.php?empid=367 Javier Bravo Agapito]
Image:MarkusKetterl1.jpg|[http://studip.serv.uni-osnabrueck.de/extern.php?username=mketterl&page_url=http://www.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de/VirtUOS/TemplStudipMitarbDetails&global_id=4c8fb9ddd4dde83366119b2031d39ab3 Markus Ketterl]
Image:Jillfreyne.jpg|[http://www.csi.ucd.ie/users/jill-freyne Jill Freyne]
Image:Robert.jpg|Robert Mertens
Image:Roman bednarik.png|[http://www.cs.joensuu.fi/~rbednari/ Roman bednarik]
Image:Ewald ramp.jpg|Ewald W. A. Ramp
Image:Jacopo.jpg|Jacopo Armani
Image:Yetunde.JPG|Yetunde Folajimi
Image:Chris_face.jpg|[http://www.austria-lexikon.at/af/User/Trattner%20Christoph Christof Trattner]
</gallery>

== Group Photos ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Paws 2010 march 30.jpg|Meeting on 2010/03/30

</gallery>

PAWS

2012-02-15T04:04:05Z

Dparra: /* Most Recent News */

== About PAWS ==
Personalized Adaptive Web Systems Lab was established in 2004 with support from National Science Foundation and School of Information Sciences. 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.

== Most Recent News ==
* [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] defended his Ph. D.Thesis: ''Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning'' ([[News#2011-11-30|details]])
* [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] earns a student paper award at UMAP 2011 ([[News#2011-07-15|details]])
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] is promoted to the rank of Full Professor ([[News#2011-06-11|details]])
* [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] received 2011 Allen Kent Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Graduate Program in Information Science ([[News#2011-05-01|details]])
* [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] defended his Ph. D.Thesis: ''Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System'' ([[News#2010-09-17|details]])
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ([[News#2010-09-15|details]])
* [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] defended his Ph. D.Thesis: ''Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval'' ([[News#2010-09-08|details]])
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ([[News#2010-09-01|details]])
Go to [[News | News Page]]

== Try PAWS Tools at our Community Portal ==

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.

[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~cagent/ CourseAgent]: Share evaluations of IS graduate courses at Pitt and plan your career.

[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/ Comet]: Share, tag, recommend and schedule interesting talks in Pittsburgh.

[http://eventur.us/ Eventur]: Share and schedule cultural events in Pittsburgh.

[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.

[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!

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].

== PAWS Lab Contact Information ==
Information Sciences Building, Rm. 2A04 
135 North Bellefield Avenue 
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA 
Tel: +1(412)624-9437

Systems

2012-02-15T03:42:55Z

Dparra: /* Conference Navigator */

This page is a quick overview of the systems developed at [[Main Page|PAWS]] lab.
== Adaptive Document Visualization - ADVISE ==
==== ADVISE 2D ====
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.
==== ADVISE 3D ====
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.

==== ADVISE VIBE (or Adaptive VIBE) ====

{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:AdaptiveVibe_part.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Adaptive VIBE]]
| valign="top" | 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.

* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~codex/tasksieve System Link] (Adaptive VIBE integrated into TaskSieve)
* [[Adaptive_VIBE | more on Adaptive VIBE]]
|}
([http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/advise more on ADVISE])

== AnnotatEd ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:ated.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|AnnotatEd]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== AnnotEx ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:AnnotEx.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|AnnotEx]]
| valign="top" | AnnotEx - Example Annotator- is a web-based community based authoring tool for annotating programming examples.([[AnnotEx|more]])
|}

== CoMeT ==

{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:comet.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Comet]]
| valign="top" | 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])
|}
== Conference Navigator 3==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Cn3.jpg|thumb|left|'''100'''|CN3]]
| valign="top" | 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])
|}

== CoPE (Collaborative Paper Exchange) ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:CoPE.1.overall.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|CoPE]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== CourseAgent ==
coming soon
([[CourseAgent|more]])

== CUMULATE ==
[[CUMULATE]] is a centralized user modeling server built for the [[ADAPT2|ADAPT2]] architecture. It is mainly targeted at providing user modeling support for adaptive educational hypermedia (AEH) systems. [[CUMULATE]] maintains as set of overlay models of stidents' knowledge. It uses several techniques for computing student models, including: thresholded averaging, asymptotic user knowledge assessment, time-spent-reading.
([[CUMULATE|more]])

== Eventur ==
coming soon
([[Eventur|more]])

== Interbook@AHA! ==
coming soon
([[Interbook@AHA!|more]])

== Knowledge Sea II ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:ks2.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Knowledge Sea II]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== Knowledge Tree ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:KnowledgeTreeLogo.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Knowledge Tree]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}
== MEMA ==
{|
|valign="top" | [[Image:MEMA.jpg|thumb|left|'''100'''|MEMA]]
|valign="top" | MEMA (Museum Exhibition MAnagement) ([[MEMA|more]])
* [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/mema/web/ Web System link]
* [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/mema Mobile System link]
|}

== News Personalization & Exploration Systems ==

=== TaskSieve ===

{|
|valign="top" | [[Image:TaskSieve-surrogates.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|TaskSieve -- mediates query and user model]]
|valign="top" | 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]])
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/tasksieve System link 1]
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~codex/tasksieve System link 2] (newer version integrated with Adaptive VIBE)
|}

=== NameSieve ===

{|
|valign="top" | [[Image:NameSieve-NEpanel.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|NameSieve Named-entity Navigator]]
|valign="top" | A name-entity based news exploration and filtering system. Important named-entities extracted from the search results are provided in the "cloud" form and helps further exploration. ([[NameSieve|more]])

* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/namesieve System Link 1]
* [http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~jahn/cma/index.php System Link 2] (Carnegie Museum of Art version)
|}

=== YourNews ===

{|
|valign="top" | [[Image:YourNews-openUM.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|YourNews Open User Model UI]]
|valign="top" | 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]])

* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yournews System Link]
|}

=== YourSports ===
coming soon
([[YourSports|more]])

== NavEx - Navigation to Examples ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:NavEx.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|NavEx]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== PERSEUS ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Perseus.gif|thumb|left|100px|PERSEUS]]
| valign="top" | [[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|ADAPT2]] 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]])
|}

== PittCult ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Pittcult.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|PittCult]]
| valign="top" | 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. ([[PittCult|more]])
|}

== Proactive ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Proactive.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|PittCult]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== Social Visualization & Personalized E-learning Systems ==

=== Progressor ===
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Progressor.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Progressor]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

=== Progressor+ ===
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:progressorplus1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|ProgressorPlus]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== QuizGuide ==
{|
| valign="top" | [[Image:Quizguide.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|QuizGuide]]
| valign="top" | 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]])
|}

== QuizJET ==
{|
|valign="top" | [[Image:Quizjet.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|QuizJET]]
|valign="top" | 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 "behind the stage", and records the results into a server-side database. ([[QuizJET|more]])
|}

== WADEIn (cWADEIn/jWADEIn) ==
coming soon
([[WADEIn|more]])

File:Cn3.jpg

2012-02-15T03:40:45Z

Dparra: Conference Navigator 3 screenshot

Conference Navigator 3 screenshot

News

2011-12-05T23:10:47Z

Dparra: /* 2012-06-12 :: Peter Promoted to Rank of Full Professor */

__NOTOC__
==== 2011-11-30 :: [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Thesis Defence: Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning ====
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.

==== 2011-07-15 :: [[User:DParra | Denis Parra]] earns a paper award in UMAP 2011 ====
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]

==== 2012-06-12 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] Promoted to Rank of Full Professor ====
Congradutaions to our head of PAWS lab! [[http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/06-10-2011.php Read more ]]

==== 2010-12-15 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] received Google grant to work on ''Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities'' ====
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 Eventur, a social system for recommending cultural events in the Pittsburgh area.

==== 2010-09-17 :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] Thesis Defence: Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System ====
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]]
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]).

==== 2010-09-15 :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ====
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]]

==== 2010-09-08 :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] Thesis Defence: Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval ====
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]]

==== 2010-09-01 :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ====
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]]

==== 2010-08-15 :: SIGWeb Newsletter published an interview with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] ====
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.

==== 2010-07-01 :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook]] has received Computing Inovation Fellowship ====
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.

==== 2010-05-01 :: Sergey has received EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship ====
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 "Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content" 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.

==== 2009-06-27 :: Rosta receives her second James Chen Award ====
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!

==== 2009-06-26 :: PAWS Caught on UMAP 2009 Video ====
* 0:27 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]]
* 1:09 [[User:Rostaf|Rosta]]
* 1:18 [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]
* 1:51 [[User:Suleehs|Danielle]]
* 3:12 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]] and [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]
* 4:01 [[User:Peterb|Peter]]
<youtube>v_amf_zcLtQ</youtube>

==== 2009-05-28 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] awarded honorary doctorate by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava ====
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 "his contributions to the fields of Informatics and Information Technologies".

==== 2008-07-31 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] receives Best Paper Award at AH 2008 ====
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

==== 2007-06-28 :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael]] receives James Chen Best Student Paper Award at UM 2007 ====
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

News

2011-12-05T23:10:34Z

Dparra: /* 2010-12-15 :: Peter received Google grant to work on ''Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities'' */

PAWS

2011-12-05T23:04:21Z

Dparra: /* Most Recent News */

== About PAWS ==
Personalized Adaptive Web Systems Lab was established in 2004 with support from National Science Foundation and School of Information Sciences. 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.

== Most Recent News ==
* [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] defended his Ph. D.Thesis: ''Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning'' ([[News#2011-11-30|details]])
* [[User:DParra | Denis Parra]] earns a student paper award at UMAP 2011 ([[News#2011-07-15|details]])
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] is promoted to the rank of Full Professor ([[News#2011-06-11|details]])
* [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] defended his Ph. D.Thesis: ''Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System'' ([[News#2010-09-17|details]])
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ([[News#2010-09-15|details]])
* [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] defended his Ph. D.Thesis: ''Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval'' ([[News#2010-09-08|details]])
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ([[News#2010-09-01|details]])
Go to [[News | News Page]]

== Try PAWS Tools at our Community Portal ==

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.

[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~cagent/ CourseAgent]: Share evaluations of IS graduate courses at Pitt and plan your career.

[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/ Comet]: Share, tag, recommend and schedule interesting talks in Pittsburgh.

[http://eventur.us/ Eventur]: Share and schedule cultural events in Pittsburgh.

[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.

[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!

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].

== PAWS Lab Contact Information ==
Information Sciences Building, Rm. 2A04 
135 North Bellefield Avenue 
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA 
Tel: +1(412)624-9437

Meetings

2011-11-15T18:58:57Z

Dparra: /* 2011-11-15 */

= 2011 Fall =
'''Meeting Time:''' Tuesday 12:45pm-2:15pm
 '''Location:''' IS502 

==September==

=== 2011-09-06 ===
* Our new PhD student Mohammed Hassan Falakmasir introduced himself and his research on Educational Data Mining.

* [[User:Clau| Claudia ]] presented a summary of the Workshops and Conferences that she assisted this Summer. You can check her presentation here: [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1383745/PAWS/PresentationSept2011.pptx PPT]

=== 2011-09-13 ===
* [[User:Shoha99| Sharon ]] will present a summary of her internship in the [[http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu EdLab]] at Columbia University this Summer 2011. [http://prezi.com/zwk4uemn6upz/2011-summer-in-columbia-univ/ presentation]

* [[User:Jennifer| Jennifer ]]

{| style="border: 1px solid #666; background-color: #eee;"
|-
| Jennifer will give a short demo of the new system called MEMA, Museum Exhibition MAnagement. You can check on [[http://jade.exp.sis.pitt.edu/mema/ MEMA]]

This is the project cooperated with the Carnegie Museum of Art. They will host an exhibition, "Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story". Our system provide mobile application to allow visitors to input their short messages by different social media. When they go back home, they could modify those short messages as their narratives of the exhibition by our personal web services and also share those narratives with other community members.
|-
|}

=== 2011-09-20 ===
* No talk this week

=== 2011-09-27 ===
* [[User:DParra| Denis ]]
{| style="border: 1px solid #666; background-color: #eee;"
|-
| Denis presents his research on Implicit-to-Explicit mapping of preferences in music. He will present in the CARS workshop in RecSys 2011. He also presents an apology to his close future melancholy for the PAWS lab. [[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1383745/PAWS/WALHFMF_v2.pptx ppt link]]
|-
|}

* [[User:Sherry| Sherry ]]

{| style="border: 1px solid #666; background-color: #eee;"
|-
| Sherry, presents the research about cross-domain recommendation using community identification with the IMHONET DB. She will present in a Workshop in RecSys 2011.
|-
|}

==October==

=== 2011-10-04 ===
* [[User:Julio| Julio ]]
{| style="border: 1px solid #666; background-color: #eee;"
|-
| Julio introduces himself to the group and discusses his research interests in extending our past work in peer-review, peer rating, peer assessment. Toss ideas in identifying expertise from the out-going links(proactive interactions) instead of incoming ones(ratings).
|-
|}

=== 2011-10-11 ===
*[[User:shoha99| Sharon ]]
{| style="border: 1px solid #666; background-color: #eee;"
|-
| [[User:shoha99| Sharon ]] presents [ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/burnett/vlhcc11-WYSIWYT-ML-minicrowd.pdf Mini-Crowdsourcing End-User Assessment of Intelligent Assistants: A Cost-Benefit Study] from [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~vlhcc2011/ VH/LCC] and [http://www.springerlink.com/content/u688x9112070232w/ Discovery of Complementary Learning Resources] from [http://www.ec-tel.eu/ ECTEL] conferences. [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~ihsiao/pub/post-conf_vlhcc_ectel.pptx PPT]
|-
|}

==November==

=== 2011-11-8 ===
*[[User:DParra | Denis ]]
{| style="border: 1px solid #666; background-color: #eee;"
|-
| [[User:DParra | Denis ]] presents [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1383745/PAWS/PAWS_meeting_recsys2011.pdf a summary of interesting papers from Recsys 2011] that may be relevant to the research of PAWS lab members. As usual, Denis delivers a fascinating presentation with surrealistic touches.
|-
|}

=== 2011-11-15 ===
*[[User:Chirayu | Chirayu ]]
{| style="border: 1px solid #666; background-color: #eee;"
|-
| [[User:Chirayu | Chirayu ]] presents [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/comet new version of CoMeT]. great stuff. check it out. explore and leave feedback.

an important fact of Chirayu: he likes Hayao Miyazaki movies and candies :)
+1 @denisparra
|-
|}

==December==

TBA

== Archives ==
* [[Meeting Archives 2011 Spring| 2011 Spring]]
* [[Meeting Archives 2010 Spring| 2010 Spring]]
* [[Meeting Archives 2009 Fall| 2009 Fall]]
* [[Meeting Archives 2009 Spring| 2009 Spring]]

People

2011-10-19T13:02:07Z

Dparra: /* Past Visiting Faculty */

== Faculty ==
<gallery>
Image:Brusilovsky.jpg|'''[[User:Peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]''' Director
</gallery>

== Doctoral Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Sharon Hsiao.jpg|[[User:Shoha99 | Sharon (I-Han) Hsiao]] Projects: [[AnnotEx]], [[QuizJET]]
Image:Danielle.gif|[[User:Suleehs | Danielle (Hyunsook) Lee]] Projects: [[PittCult]], [[Proactive]]
Image:jennifer.jpg|[[User:Jennifer | Jennifer (Yiling) Lin]]
Image:Clau.JPG|[[User:Clau | Claudia López]]
Image:Denis_PAWS_blog.jpg|[[User:DParra | Denis Parra]]
Image:Camerashy.jpg|[[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]]
Image:Shaghayeghsahebi.jpg|[[User:Sherry | Shaghayegh Sahebi (Sherry)]]
Image:Kong.png|[[User:Chirayu | Chirayu Wongchokprasitti]]
Image:Julio.jpg|[[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]]
</gallery>

== Master Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">
</gallery>

== Visiting Scholars ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Chris_face.jpg|[http://www.austria-lexikon.at/af/User/Trattner%20Christoph Christof Trattner]
</gallery>

== Past Visiting Faculty ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Roman bednarik.png|[http://cs.uef.fi/~rbednari/ Roman Bednarik]
Image:TanjaMitrovic.jpg|[http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/tanja.mitrovic/ Tanja Mitrovic]
Image:Eva millan.gif|[http://www.lcc.uma.es/~eva/ Eva Millán Valldeperas]
Image:Julita vasilleva.gif|[http://www.cs.usask.ca/faculty/julita/ Julita Vassileva]
Image:NicolaHenze.gif|[http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~henze/ Nicola Henze]
</gallery>

== Past Doctoral Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:jaewook-1.jpg|[[User:Jahn | Jae-wook Ahn]] Projects: [[ADVISE]], [[Adaptive VIBE]], [[YourNews]], [[YourSports]], [[TaskSieve]], [[NameSieve]] Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Maryland
Image:RostaFarzan.jpg|[[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University
Image:Michael_V_Yudelson.gif|'''[[User:Myudelson | Michael V. Yudelson]]''' Projects: [[Knowledge Tree]], [[CUMULATE]], [[PERSEUS]], [[NavEx]], [[CoPE]], [[WebEx]] Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University
</gallery>

== Past Master Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Vikrant Khenat.jpg|[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~vkhenat/ Vikrant Khenat]
Image:Tibor Dumitriu.gif|[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dumitriu/ Tibor Dumitriu] Projects: [http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/advise/ AdVisE]
</gallery>

== Past Visiting Scholars ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Kim.jpg|Jaekyung Kim
Image:Jbravo.gif|[http://www.eps.uam.es/esp/personal/ficha.php?empid=367 Javier Bravo Agapito]
Image:MarkusKetterl1.jpg|[http://studip.serv.uni-osnabrueck.de/extern.php?username=mketterl&page_url=http://www.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de/VirtUOS/TemplStudipMitarbDetails&global_id=4c8fb9ddd4dde83366119b2031d39ab3 Markus Ketterl]
Image:Jillfreyne.jpg|[http://www.csi.ucd.ie/users/jill-freyne Jill Freyne]
Image:Robert.jpg|Robert Mertens
Image:Roman bednarik.png|[http://www.cs.joensuu.fi/~rbednari/ Roman bednarik]
Image:Ewald ramp.jpg|Ewald W. A. Ramp
Image:Jacopo.jpg|Jacopo Armani
Image:Yetunde.JPG|Yetunde Folajimi

</gallery>

== Group Photos ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Paws 2010 march 30.jpg|Meeting on 2010/03/30

</gallery>

People

2011-10-19T13:01:51Z

Dparra: /* Visiting Scholars */

== Faculty ==
<gallery>
Image:Brusilovsky.jpg|'''[[User:Peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]''' Director
</gallery>

== Doctoral Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Sharon Hsiao.jpg|[[User:Shoha99 | Sharon (I-Han) Hsiao]] Projects: [[AnnotEx]], [[QuizJET]]
Image:Danielle.gif|[[User:Suleehs | Danielle (Hyunsook) Lee]] Projects: [[PittCult]], [[Proactive]]
Image:jennifer.jpg|[[User:Jennifer | Jennifer (Yiling) Lin]]
Image:Clau.JPG|[[User:Clau | Claudia López]]
Image:Denis_PAWS_blog.jpg|[[User:DParra | Denis Parra]]
Image:Camerashy.jpg|[[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]]
Image:Shaghayeghsahebi.jpg|[[User:Sherry | Shaghayegh Sahebi (Sherry)]]
Image:Kong.png|[[User:Chirayu | Chirayu Wongchokprasitti]]
Image:Julio.jpg|[[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]]
</gallery>

== Master Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">
</gallery>

== Visiting Scholars ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Chris_face.jpg|[http://www.austria-lexikon.at/af/User/Trattner%20Christoph Christof Trattner]
</gallery>

== Past Visiting Faculty ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:TanjaMitrovic.jpg|[http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/tanja.mitrovic/ Tanja Mitrovic]
Image:Eva millan.gif|[http://www.lcc.uma.es/~eva/ Eva Millán Valldeperas]
Image:Julita vasilleva.gif|[http://www.cs.usask.ca/faculty/julita/ Julita Vassileva]
Image:NicolaHenze.gif|[http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~henze/ Nicola Henze]
</gallery>

== Past Doctoral Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:jaewook-1.jpg|[[User:Jahn | Jae-wook Ahn]] Projects: [[ADVISE]], [[Adaptive VIBE]], [[YourNews]], [[YourSports]], [[TaskSieve]], [[NameSieve]] Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Maryland
Image:RostaFarzan.jpg|[[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University
Image:Michael_V_Yudelson.gif|'''[[User:Myudelson | Michael V. Yudelson]]''' Projects: [[Knowledge Tree]], [[CUMULATE]], [[PERSEUS]], [[NavEx]], [[CoPE]], [[WebEx]] Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University
</gallery>

== Past Master Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Vikrant Khenat.jpg|[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~vkhenat/ Vikrant Khenat]
Image:Tibor Dumitriu.gif|[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dumitriu/ Tibor Dumitriu] Projects: [http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/advise/ AdVisE]
</gallery>

== Past Visiting Scholars ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Kim.jpg|Jaekyung Kim
Image:Jbravo.gif|[http://www.eps.uam.es/esp/personal/ficha.php?empid=367 Javier Bravo Agapito]
Image:MarkusKetterl1.jpg|[http://studip.serv.uni-osnabrueck.de/extern.php?username=mketterl&page_url=http://www.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de/VirtUOS/TemplStudipMitarbDetails&global_id=4c8fb9ddd4dde83366119b2031d39ab3 Markus Ketterl]
Image:Jillfreyne.jpg|[http://www.csi.ucd.ie/users/jill-freyne Jill Freyne]
Image:Robert.jpg|Robert Mertens
Image:Roman bednarik.png|[http://www.cs.joensuu.fi/~rbednari/ Roman bednarik]
Image:Ewald ramp.jpg|Ewald W. A. Ramp
Image:Jacopo.jpg|Jacopo Armani
Image:Yetunde.JPG|Yetunde Folajimi

</gallery>

== Group Photos ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Paws 2010 march 30.jpg|Meeting on 2010/03/30

</gallery>

People

2011-10-19T13:01:09Z

Dparra: /* Visiting Scholars */

== Faculty ==
<gallery>
Image:Brusilovsky.jpg|'''[[User:Peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]''' Director
</gallery>

== Doctoral Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Sharon Hsiao.jpg|[[User:Shoha99 | Sharon (I-Han) Hsiao]] Projects: [[AnnotEx]], [[QuizJET]]
Image:Danielle.gif|[[User:Suleehs | Danielle (Hyunsook) Lee]] Projects: [[PittCult]], [[Proactive]]
Image:jennifer.jpg|[[User:Jennifer | Jennifer (Yiling) Lin]]
Image:Clau.JPG|[[User:Clau | Claudia López]]
Image:Denis_PAWS_blog.jpg|[[User:DParra | Denis Parra]]
Image:Camerashy.jpg|[[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]]
Image:Shaghayeghsahebi.jpg|[[User:Sherry | Shaghayegh Sahebi (Sherry)]]
Image:Kong.png|[[User:Chirayu | Chirayu Wongchokprasitti]]
Image:Julio.jpg|[[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]]
</gallery>

== Master Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">
</gallery>

== Visiting Scholars ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Roman bednarik.png|[http://cs.uef.fi/~rbednari/ Roman Bednarik]
Image:Chris_face.jpg|[http://www.austria-lexikon.at/af/User/Trattner%20Christoph Christof Trattner]
</gallery>

== Past Visiting Faculty ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:TanjaMitrovic.jpg|[http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/tanja.mitrovic/ Tanja Mitrovic]
Image:Eva millan.gif|[http://www.lcc.uma.es/~eva/ Eva Millán Valldeperas]
Image:Julita vasilleva.gif|[http://www.cs.usask.ca/faculty/julita/ Julita Vassileva]
Image:NicolaHenze.gif|[http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~henze/ Nicola Henze]
</gallery>

== Past Doctoral Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:jaewook-1.jpg|[[User:Jahn | Jae-wook Ahn]] Projects: [[ADVISE]], [[Adaptive VIBE]], [[YourNews]], [[YourSports]], [[TaskSieve]], [[NameSieve]] Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Maryland
Image:RostaFarzan.jpg|[[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University
Image:Michael_V_Yudelson.gif|'''[[User:Myudelson | Michael V. Yudelson]]''' Projects: [[Knowledge Tree]], [[CUMULATE]], [[PERSEUS]], [[NavEx]], [[CoPE]], [[WebEx]] Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University
</gallery>

== Past Master Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Vikrant Khenat.jpg|[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~vkhenat/ Vikrant Khenat]
Image:Tibor Dumitriu.gif|[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dumitriu/ Tibor Dumitriu] Projects: [http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/advise/ AdVisE]
</gallery>

== Past Visiting Scholars ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Kim.jpg|Jaekyung Kim
Image:Jbravo.gif|[http://www.eps.uam.es/esp/personal/ficha.php?empid=367 Javier Bravo Agapito]
Image:MarkusKetterl1.jpg|[http://studip.serv.uni-osnabrueck.de/extern.php?username=mketterl&page_url=http://www.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de/VirtUOS/TemplStudipMitarbDetails&global_id=4c8fb9ddd4dde83366119b2031d39ab3 Markus Ketterl]
Image:Jillfreyne.jpg|[http://www.csi.ucd.ie/users/jill-freyne Jill Freyne]
Image:Robert.jpg|Robert Mertens
Image:Roman bednarik.png|[http://www.cs.joensuu.fi/~rbednari/ Roman bednarik]
Image:Ewald ramp.jpg|Ewald W. A. Ramp
Image:Jacopo.jpg|Jacopo Armani
Image:Yetunde.JPG|Yetunde Folajimi

</gallery>

== Group Photos ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Paws 2010 march 30.jpg|Meeting on 2010/03/30

</gallery>

People

2011-10-19T13:00:24Z

Dparra: /* Visiting Scholars */

== Faculty ==
<gallery>
Image:Brusilovsky.jpg|'''[[User:Peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]''' Director
</gallery>

== Doctoral Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Sharon Hsiao.jpg|[[User:Shoha99 | Sharon (I-Han) Hsiao]] Projects: [[AnnotEx]], [[QuizJET]]
Image:Danielle.gif|[[User:Suleehs | Danielle (Hyunsook) Lee]] Projects: [[PittCult]], [[Proactive]]
Image:jennifer.jpg|[[User:Jennifer | Jennifer (Yiling) Lin]]
Image:Clau.JPG|[[User:Clau | Claudia López]]
Image:Denis_PAWS_blog.jpg|[[User:DParra | Denis Parra]]
Image:Camerashy.jpg|[[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]]
Image:Shaghayeghsahebi.jpg|[[User:Sherry | Shaghayegh Sahebi (Sherry)]]
Image:Kong.png|[[User:Chirayu | Chirayu Wongchokprasitti]]
Image:Julio.jpg|[[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]]
</gallery>

== Master Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">
</gallery>

== Visiting Scholars ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Roman Bednarik.jpg|[http://cs.uef.fi/~rbednari/ Roman Bednarik]
Image:Chris_face.jpg|[http://www.austria-lexikon.at/af/User/Trattner%20Christoph Christof Trattner]
</gallery>

== Past Visiting Faculty ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:TanjaMitrovic.jpg|[http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/tanja.mitrovic/ Tanja Mitrovic]
Image:Eva millan.gif|[http://www.lcc.uma.es/~eva/ Eva Millán Valldeperas]
Image:Julita vasilleva.gif|[http://www.cs.usask.ca/faculty/julita/ Julita Vassileva]
Image:NicolaHenze.gif|[http://www.kbs.uni-hannover.de/~henze/ Nicola Henze]
</gallery>

== Past Doctoral Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:jaewook-1.jpg|[[User:Jahn | Jae-wook Ahn]] Projects: [[ADVISE]], [[Adaptive VIBE]], [[YourNews]], [[YourSports]], [[TaskSieve]], [[NameSieve]] Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Maryland
Image:RostaFarzan.jpg|[[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University
Image:Michael_V_Yudelson.gif|'''[[User:Myudelson | Michael V. Yudelson]]''' Projects: [[Knowledge Tree]], [[CUMULATE]], [[PERSEUS]], [[NavEx]], [[CoPE]], [[WebEx]] Currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University
</gallery>

== Past Master Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Vikrant Khenat.jpg|[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~vkhenat/ Vikrant Khenat]
Image:Tibor Dumitriu.gif|[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dumitriu/ Tibor Dumitriu] Projects: [http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/advise/ AdVisE]
</gallery>

== Past Visiting Scholars ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:Kim.jpg|Jaekyung Kim
Image:Jbravo.gif|[http://www.eps.uam.es/esp/personal/ficha.php?empid=367 Javier Bravo Agapito]
Image:MarkusKetterl1.jpg|[http://studip.serv.uni-osnabrueck.de/extern.php?username=mketterl&page_url=http://www.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de/VirtUOS/TemplStudipMitarbDetails&global_id=4c8fb9ddd4dde83366119b2031d39ab3 Markus Ketterl]
Image:Jillfreyne.jpg|[http://www.csi.ucd.ie/users/jill-freyne Jill Freyne]
Image:Robert.jpg|Robert Mertens
Image:Roman bednarik.png|[http://www.cs.joensuu.fi/~rbednari/ Roman bednarik]
Image:Ewald ramp.jpg|Ewald W. A. Ramp
Image:Jacopo.jpg|Jacopo Armani
Image:Yetunde.JPG|Yetunde Folajimi

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Image:Paws 2010 march 30.jpg|Meeting on 2010/03/30

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The face of our visitor scholar from Graz

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= 2011 Fall =
'''Meeting Time:''' Tuesday 12:45pm-2:15pm
 '''Location:''' IS502 

==September==

=== 2011-09-05 ===
* Our new PhD student Mohammed Hassan Falakmasir introduced himself and his research on Educational Data Mining.

* [[User:Clau| Claudia ]] presented a summary of the Workshops and Conferences that she assisted this Summer. You can check her presentation here: [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1383745/PAWS/PresentationSept2011.pptx PPT] (

=== 2011-09-12 ===
* [[User:Shoha99| Sharon ]] will present a summary of her internship in the [[http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu EdLab]] at Columbia University this Summer 2011.

* [[User:Jennifer| Jennifer ]]

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| Jennifer will give a short demo of the new system called MEMA, Museum Exhibition MAnagement. You can check on [[ http://jade.exp.sis.pitt.edu/mema/ MEMA ]]

This is the project cooperated with the Carnegie Museum of Art. They will host an exhibition, "Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story". Our system provide mobile application to allow visitors to input their short messages by different social media. When they go back home, they could modify those short messages as their narratives of the exhibition by our personal web services and also share those narratives with other community members.
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=== 2011-09-19 ===
* TBA

=== 2011-09-26 ===
* TBA

==October==

TBA

==November==

TBA

==December==

TBA

== Archives ==
* [[Meeting Archives 2011 Spring| 2011 Spring]]
* [[Meeting Archives 2010 Spring| 2010 Spring]]
* [[Meeting Archives 2009 Fall| 2009 Fall]]
* [[Meeting Archives 2009 Spring| 2009 Spring]]

Meeting Archives 2011 Spring

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= 2011 Spring =
'''Meeting Time:''' Tuesday 3pm-4:30pm
 '''Location:''' IS502 

==January==

=== 2011-01-18 ===
We had a guest lecture by Roman Bednarik, who was a visiting scholar in our Lab some years ago and know has come back has a visiting researcher. He introduced his research in the areas of Eye-tracking methodology, Eye-movement biometrics, and Program Visualization.

=== 2011-01-25 ===
We had 2 guest lectures of fellow PhD students rehearsing for their prelimiary examination:
* Jin Lei:

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|Online social networks (OSNs) are becoming increasingly popular and Identity Clone Attacks (ICAs) that aim at creating fake identities for malicious purposes on OSNs are becoming a significantly growing concern. Such attacks severely affect the trust relationships a victim has built with other users if no active protection is applied. In this paper, we first analyze and characterize the behaviors of ICAs. Then we propose a detection framework that is focused on discovering suspicious identities and then validating them. Towards detecting suspicious identities, we propose two approaches based on attribute similarity and similarity of friend networks. The first approach addresses a simpler scenario where mutual friends in friend networks are considered; and the second one captures the scenario where similar friend identities are involved. We also present experimental results to demonstrate flexibility and effectiveness of the proposed approaches. Finally, we discuss some feasible solutions to validate suspicious identities.
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* Patrick Dudas

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|Social Navigation is an intuitive ideology that provides an intelligent self-motivating mechanism that guides researchers to unknown yet important pieces or places of new information. Combining this and the developed visualization lends itself to a novel platform of discovery. Provided is a description of the application of social navigation and its adaption to 2D and 3D genomic interactive, cooperative visualizations. This is then tested with a front-end analysis and usability study to find synergy between the two designs and validate a visualization that is collaborative, interactive and instinctual to navigate these 2D and 3D genomic visualizations based on user’s annotations.
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==February==

=== 2011-02-1 ===
* [[User:Chirayu| Chirayu ]]

=== 2011-02-8 ===
* No meeting

=== 2011-02-15 ===
* No meeting

=== 2011-02-22 ===
* Denis
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|'''Implicit Feedback for recommender Systems''':
# Yifan Hu, Yehuda Koren, Chris Volinsky, "Collaborative Filtering for Implicit Feedback Datasets," icdm, pp.263-272, 2008 Eighth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, 2008
# Paper submited by Denis and Xavier Amatriain to UMAP 2011: "Walk the Talk", a study to map explicit and implicit feedback for last.fm users.
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==March==

=== 2011-03-01 ===
* Claudia
* Rosta

=== 2011-03-08 ===
* No meeting

=== 2011-03-15 ===
* No meeting

=== 2011-03-22 ===
* Jiepu Jiang
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|'''Scientometrics and Web 2.0''':
In this presentation, we introduce our preliminary studies on using online social community based data for scholarly communication studies. First, we compare academic information in CiteULike with a traditional citation analysis dataset (using Web of Knowledge academic articles) from perspectives of articles, scholars (authors&users), and publications (journals/conferences). Second, we present preliminary results of using CiteULike scholarly communication data on two major scientometrics applications: evaluation of scholarly impacts, and clustering of academic resources.
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* Sherry
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| presents the paper "Sequential influence models in social networks" by Cosley, D.; Huttenlocher, D.; Kleinberg, J.; Lan, X.; Suri, S. presented at ICWSM 2010 , International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (2010)
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=== 2011-03-29 ===
* Michael Yudelson: Fitting regression models

==April==

=== 2011-04-05 ===
* No meeting

=== 2011-04-12 ===
* Jennifer

=== 2011-04-19 ===
* Danielle

=== 2011-04-26 ===
* Chirayu

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== About PAWS ==
Personalized Adaptive Web Systems Lab was established in 2004 with support from National Science Foundation and School of Information Sciences. 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.

== Most Recent News ==
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received Google grant to work on ''Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities'' ([[News#2010-12-15|details]])
* [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] defended his Ph. D.Thesis: ''Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System'' ([[News#2010-09-17|details]])
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ([[News#2010-09-15|details]])
* [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] defended his Ph. D.Thesis: ''Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval'' ([[News#2010-09-08|details]])
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ([[News#2010-09-01|details]])
Go to [[News | News Page]]

== Try PAWS Tools at our Community Portal ==

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.

[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~cagent/ CourseAgent]: Share evaluations of IS graduate courses at Pitt and plan your career.

[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/ Comet]: Share, tag, recommend and schedule interesting talks in Pittsburgh.

[http://eventur.us/ Eventur]: Share and schedule cultural events in Pittsburgh.

[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.

[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!

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].

== PAWS Lab Contact Information ==
Information Sciences Building, Rm. 2A04 
135 North Bellefield Avenue 
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA 
Tel: +1(412)624-9437

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