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PAWS

2014-05-04T04:53:13Z

Jennifer: /* About PAWS */

== 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: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.
* [[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

File:PIC01.jpg

2014-05-04T04:40:45Z

Jennifer: in Jenn's wedding

in Jenn's wedding

PAWS

2014-05-04T04:38:28Z

Jennifer: /* 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: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.
* [[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

News

2014-03-21T02:43:30Z

Jennifer: /* 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. */

__NOTOC__
==== 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.

==== 2013-07-28 :: 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]

==== 2013-05-01 :: [[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

News

2014-03-13T07:53:39Z

Jennifer:

__NOTOC__
==== 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 Peter to explore the social comparison in cyberlearning.

==== 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]

==== 2013-05-01 :: [[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

News

2014-03-13T07:51:13Z

Jennifer:

__NOTOC__
==== 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.

==== 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]

==== 2013-05-01 :: [[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

MEMA

2012-02-14T23:15:03Z

Jennifer: New page: The system is built upon a collection with approximately 80,000 photographs by Charles "Teenie" Harris, a photographer for an influential local newspaper, the Pittsburgh Courier. This ...

The system is built upon a collection with approximately 80,000
photographs by Charles "Teenie" Harris, a photographer for an
influential local newspaper, the Pittsburgh Courier. This
collection illustrates a 40-year period of Pittsburgh history
through the eyes of an African-American photo-journalist and
amateur historian. MEMA stands for Museum Exhibition
MAnagement. It is a system with mobile and Web features. To
be completely compatible for all mobile devices, we designed a
mobile website with flexible views for various mobile phone
screens. Users with handheld devices could post their ideas and
feelings at any time in the exhibition, with a Wi-Fi connection
provided by the museum. This mobile site is custom built for the
exhibition “Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story” at
the Carnegie Museum of Art. It provides a friendly and intuitive
navigation structure to assist users to visit the exhibition (see
Figure 1). Visitors can navigate the mobile system by four
categories including “HOT!”,”Theme”, “Date”, and “Ex. No”.
The “HOT!” category could lead visitors to the most popular
items that are getting the most feedback in the gallery. In
addition, visitors can search for a specific item by entering the
exhibition number displayed under each of the photographs on
view. Four types of interactive feedback are provided: “like”,
“comment”, “tag”, and feedbacks on Twitter and Facebook. This
functionality is available for every item displayed in the gallery.

== Publications ==

Systems

2012-02-14T23:11:27Z

Jennifer: /* MEMA */

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 ==
coming soon (more)

== 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]])

Systems

2012-02-14T23:11:00Z

Jennifer: /* MEMA */

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 ==
coming soon (more)

== 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) ([[TaskSieve|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:MEMA.jpg

2012-02-14T23:07:10Z

Jennifer: The poster of MEMA

The poster of MEMA

User:Jennifer

2012-02-13T16:34:32Z

Jennifer:

[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~yllin/ homepage]

[[Image:jennifer.jpg]]

 
 School of Information Sciences
 University of Pittsburgh
 135 North Bellefield Ave. #2A04,
 Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
 Tel: 1(412)624-9437
 Personal Website: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~yllin/

 Research Interests: Information Retrieval, Social Web, Human Computer Interaction.

User:Jennifer

2012-02-13T16:33:34Z

Jennifer:

[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~yllin/ homepage]

[[Image:jennifer.jpg]]

 
 School of Information Sciences
 University of Pittsburgh
 135 North Bellefield Ave. #2A04,
 Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
 Tel: 1(412)624-9437
 Personal Website: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~ylln/

 Research Interests: Information Retrieval, Social Web, Human Computer Interaction.

Meetings

2010-11-01T17:07:21Z

Jennifer: /* 2010-10-19 */

= 2010 Fall =
'''Meeting Time:''' Tuesday 1.30pm-3pm
 '''Location:''' IS522 

==September==

=== 2010-09-7th ===
* Our visitor, Daniel Guerra from the Southern university of Chile [http://www.uach.cl], introduced himself and presented his work on the project Kelluwen [http://www.kelluwen.cl], a collaborative approach to help students in improving their reading comprehension skills.

=== 2010-09-14 ===
*[[User:Clau| Claudia Lopez]] (Blogger [[User:Dparra|Denis Parra]])
Claudia is a new PAWS lab member, starting the IST PhD program at the iSchool. Despite she has been with us for quite a few time, she introduced herself officially and presented her experience in previous projects.

=== 2010-09-21 ===
No meeting, Peter out of town.

=== 2010-09-28 ===
No meeting, Peter out of town.

==October==

=== 2010-10-5 ===
Dr. Jingtao Wang (Blogger: Denis)
Dr. Jingtao is a Professor at the CS department at the University of Pittsburgh. In this talk, he presents part of his research interest but in particular he talks about EventMaps, a system to help people manage conferences. Eventmaps has a purpose similar to our Conference Navigator, so we discussed about the possibility to work in conjunction with Dr. Wang.

=== 2010-10-12 ===
Sharon (Blogger: Jennifer)
Michael and Sharon enrich Knowledge Tree with recommendation and bookmarking. According to a user's behavior of bookmarking, the system could recommend diverse examples to the user. The bookmarking service functions independently and could be re-used across several system. A lot of recommendation algorithms could be tried on it. Besides, expanding collections of annotated examples is also what they can improve in the future.

=== 2010-10-19 ===
Sherry 
Jennifer 
(Blogger: Jennifer) 
Jennifer rehearsed the paper which she is going to present in ASIS&T conference. Group members gave her some suggestions. 
Sherry presented "Resource Recommendation for Social Tagging: A Multi-Channel Hybrid Approach" from RecSys'10 workshop. Although the hybrid solution suggested by the authors didn't really preform well in their three scenarios, we still could learn from them about their design methods and concerns. Multiple information channels are definitely worthy to exploit. While we are trying to engage some social resources into our systems, the nature of the resources, the nature of the users , the type of task that the system is intended to support and so on are required to be identified before implementating.

=== 2010-10-26 ===
No meeting, Peter out of town.

==November==

=== 2010-11-2 ===
- Cladia: 
- Jennifer: 
(Blogger: Danielle)

=== 2010-11-9 ===
Danielle (Blogger: Chirayu)

=== 2010-11-16 ===
Chirayu (Blogger: Denis)

=== 2010-11-23 ===
Denis (Blogger: Sherry)

=== 2010-11-30 ===
Sherry (Blogger: Claudia)

==December==

=== 2010-12-07 ===
Danielle (Blogger: Sharon)

=== 2010-12-14 ===
Sharon(Blogger: Chirayu)

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

Meetings

2010-11-01T17:06:57Z

Jennifer: /* 2010-10-19 */

= 2010 Fall =
'''Meeting Time:''' Tuesday 1.30pm-3pm
 '''Location:''' IS522 

==September==

=== 2010-09-7th ===
* Our visitor, Daniel Guerra from the Southern university of Chile [http://www.uach.cl], introduced himself and presented his work on the project Kelluwen [http://www.kelluwen.cl], a collaborative approach to help students in improving their reading comprehension skills.

=== 2010-09-14 ===
*[[User:Clau| Claudia Lopez]] (Blogger [[User:Dparra|Denis Parra]])
Claudia is a new PAWS lab member, starting the IST PhD program at the iSchool. Despite she has been with us for quite a few time, she introduced herself officially and presented her experience in previous projects.

=== 2010-09-21 ===
No meeting, Peter out of town.

=== 2010-09-28 ===
No meeting, Peter out of town.

==October==

=== 2010-10-5 ===
Dr. Jingtao Wang (Blogger: Denis)
Dr. Jingtao is a Professor at the CS department at the University of Pittsburgh. In this talk, he presents part of his research interest but in particular he talks about EventMaps, a system to help people manage conferences. Eventmaps has a purpose similar to our Conference Navigator, so we discussed about the possibility to work in conjunction with Dr. Wang.

=== 2010-10-12 ===
Sharon (Blogger: Jennifer)
Michael and Sharon enrich Knowledge Tree with recommendation and bookmarking. According to a user's behavior of bookmarking, the system could recommend diverse examples to the user. The bookmarking service functions independently and could be re-used across several system. A lot of recommendation algorithms could be tried on it. Besides, expanding collections of annotated examples is also what they can improve in the future.

=== 2010-10-19 ===
Sherry 
Jennifer 
(Blogger: Jennifer)
Jennifer rehearsed the paper which she is going to present in ASIS&T conference. Group members gave her some suggestions.
Sherry presented "Resource Recommendation for Social Tagging: A Multi-Channel Hybrid Approach" from RecSys'10 workshop. Although the hybrid solution suggested by the authors didn't really preform well in their three scenarios, we still could learn from them about their design methods and concerns. Multiple information channels are definitely worthy to exploit. While we are trying to engage some social resources into our systems, the nature of the resources, the nature of the users , the type of task that the system is intended to support and so on are required to be identified before implementating.

=== 2010-10-26 ===
No meeting, Peter out of town.

==November==

=== 2010-11-2 ===
- Cladia: 
- Jennifer: 
(Blogger: Danielle)

=== 2010-11-9 ===
Danielle (Blogger: Chirayu)

=== 2010-11-16 ===
Chirayu (Blogger: Denis)

=== 2010-11-23 ===
Denis (Blogger: Sherry)

=== 2010-11-30 ===
Sherry (Blogger: Claudia)

==December==

=== 2010-12-07 ===
Danielle (Blogger: Sharon)

=== 2010-12-14 ===
Sharon(Blogger: Chirayu)

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

Meetings

2010-10-18T17:11:15Z

Jennifer: /* 2010-12-14 */

= 2010 Fall =
'''Meeting Time:''' Tuesday 1.30pm-3pm
 '''Location:''' IS522 

==September==

=== 2010-09-7th ===
* Our visitor, Daniel Guerra from the Southern university of Chile [http://www.uach.cl], introduced himself and presented his work on the project Kelluwen [http://www.kelluwen.cl], a collaborative approach to help students in improving their reading comprehension skills.

=== 2010-09-14 ===
*[[User:Clau| Claudia Lopez]] (Blogger [[User:Dparra|Denis Parra]])
Claudia is a new PAWS lab member, starting the IST PhD program at the iSchool. Despite she has been with us for quite a few time, she introduced herself officially and presented her experience in previous projects.

=== 2010-09-21 ===
No meeting, Peter out of town.

=== 2010-09-28 ===
No meeting, Peter out of town.

==October==

=== 2010-10-5 ===
Dr. Jingtao Wang (Blogger: Denis)
Dr. Jingtao is a Professor at the CS department at the University of Pittsburgh. In this talk, he presents part of his research interest but in particular he talks about EventMaps, a system to help people manage conferences. Eventmaps has a purpose similar to our Conference Navigator, so we discussed about the possibility to work in conjunction with Dr. Wang.

=== 2010-10-12 ===
Sharon (Blogger: Jennifer)
Michael and Sharon enrich Knowledge Tree with recommendation and bookmarking. According to a user's behavior of bookmarking, the system could recommend diverse examples to the user. The bookmarking service functions independently and could be re-used across several system. A lot of recommendation algorithms could be tried on it. Besides, expanding collections of annotated examples is also what they can improve in the future.

=== 2010-10-19 ===
Sherry 
Claudia 
(Blogger: Jennifer)

=== 2010-10-26 ===
No meeting, Peter out of town.

==November==

=== 2010-11-2 ===
Jennifer(Blogger: Danielle)

=== 2010-11-9 ===
Danielle (Blogger: Chirayu)

=== 2010-11-16 ===
Chirayu (Blogger: Denis)

=== 2010-11-23 ===
Denis (Blogger: Sherry)

=== 2010-11-30 ===
Sherry (Blogger: Claudia)

==December==

=== 2010-12-07 ===
Danielle (Blogger: Sharon)

=== 2010-12-14 ===
Sharon(Blogger: Chirayu)

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

Meetings

2010-10-18T17:10:30Z

Jennifer: /* 2010-11-2 */

= 2010 Fall =
'''Meeting Time:''' Tuesday 1.30pm-3pm
 '''Location:''' IS522 

==September==

=== 2010-09-7th ===
* Our visitor, Daniel Guerra from the Southern university of Chile [http://www.uach.cl], introduced himself and presented his work on the project Kelluwen [http://www.kelluwen.cl], a collaborative approach to help students in improving their reading comprehension skills.

=== 2010-09-14 ===
*[[User:Clau| Claudia Lopez]] (Blogger [[User:Dparra|Denis Parra]])
Claudia is a new PAWS lab member, starting the IST PhD program at the iSchool. Despite she has been with us for quite a few time, she introduced herself officially and presented her experience in previous projects.

=== 2010-09-21 ===
No meeting, Peter out of town.

=== 2010-09-28 ===
No meeting, Peter out of town.

==October==

=== 2010-10-5 ===
Dr. Jingtao Wang (Blogger: Denis)
Dr. Jingtao is a Professor at the CS department at the University of Pittsburgh. In this talk, he presents part of his research interest but in particular he talks about EventMaps, a system to help people manage conferences. Eventmaps has a purpose similar to our Conference Navigator, so we discussed about the possibility to work in conjunction with Dr. Wang.

=== 2010-10-12 ===
Sharon (Blogger: Jennifer)
Michael and Sharon enrich Knowledge Tree with recommendation and bookmarking. According to a user's behavior of bookmarking, the system could recommend diverse examples to the user. The bookmarking service functions independently and could be re-used across several system. A lot of recommendation algorithms could be tried on it. Besides, expanding collections of annotated examples is also what they can improve in the future.

=== 2010-10-19 ===
Sherry 
Claudia 
(Blogger: Jennifer)

=== 2010-10-26 ===
No meeting, Peter out of town.

==November==

=== 2010-11-2 ===
Jennifer(Blogger: Danielle)

=== 2010-11-9 ===
Danielle (Blogger: Chirayu)

=== 2010-11-16 ===
Chirayu (Blogger: Denis)

=== 2010-11-23 ===
Denis (Blogger: Sherry)

=== 2010-11-30 ===
Sherry (Blogger: Claudia)

==December==

=== 2010-12-07 ===
Danielle (Blogger: Sharon)

=== 2010-12-14 ===
Jennifer (Blogger: Chirayu)

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

Meetings

2010-10-18T17:10:13Z

Jennifer: /* 2010-10-12 */

= 2010 Fall =
'''Meeting Time:''' Tuesday 1.30pm-3pm
 '''Location:''' IS522 

==September==

=== 2010-09-7th ===
* Our visitor, Daniel Guerra from the Southern university of Chile [http://www.uach.cl], introduced himself and presented his work on the project Kelluwen [http://www.kelluwen.cl], a collaborative approach to help students in improving their reading comprehension skills.

=== 2010-09-14 ===
*[[User:Clau| Claudia Lopez]] (Blogger [[User:Dparra|Denis Parra]])
Claudia is a new PAWS lab member, starting the IST PhD program at the iSchool. Despite she has been with us for quite a few time, she introduced herself officially and presented her experience in previous projects.

=== 2010-09-21 ===
No meeting, Peter out of town.

=== 2010-09-28 ===
No meeting, Peter out of town.

==October==

=== 2010-10-5 ===
Dr. Jingtao Wang (Blogger: Denis)
Dr. Jingtao is a Professor at the CS department at the University of Pittsburgh. In this talk, he presents part of his research interest but in particular he talks about EventMaps, a system to help people manage conferences. Eventmaps has a purpose similar to our Conference Navigator, so we discussed about the possibility to work in conjunction with Dr. Wang.

=== 2010-10-12 ===
Sharon (Blogger: Jennifer)
Michael and Sharon enrich Knowledge Tree with recommendation and bookmarking. According to a user's behavior of bookmarking, the system could recommend diverse examples to the user. The bookmarking service functions independently and could be re-used across several system. A lot of recommendation algorithms could be tried on it. Besides, expanding collections of annotated examples is also what they can improve in the future.

=== 2010-10-19 ===
Sherry 
Claudia 
(Blogger: Jennifer)

=== 2010-10-26 ===
No meeting, Peter out of town.

==November==

=== 2010-11-2 ===
Sharon (Blogger: Danielle)

=== 2010-11-9 ===
Danielle (Blogger: Chirayu)

=== 2010-11-16 ===
Chirayu (Blogger: Denis)

=== 2010-11-23 ===
Denis (Blogger: Sherry)

=== 2010-11-30 ===
Sherry (Blogger: Claudia)

==December==

=== 2010-12-07 ===
Danielle (Blogger: Sharon)

=== 2010-12-14 ===
Jennifer (Blogger: Chirayu)

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

NameSieve

2010-09-14T20:50:20Z

Jennifer: /* Publications */

NameSieve news filtering series supports filtering by named entities. Even though the personalization is not supported yet, users are provided with the interface with which they can select important names extracted from the ad-hoc retrieval lists. By selecting some relevant names, they can post-filter the original retrieval lists and get the ones that only contain those names.
[[Image:NameSieve.png|frame|center|NameSieve system]]

== Publications ==
<onlyinclude>
* Lin, Y., Ahn, J., Brusilovsky, P., He, D., and Real, W. (2010) '''Exploratory Search of Museum Archives with Named Entity-Based Faceted Browsing.''' Accepted by ASIS&T 2010 Annual Meeting (in press).
* Ahn, J., Brusilovsky, P., Grady, J., and He, D. '''Semantic Annotation Based Exploratory Search for Information Analysts'''. Submitted to Information Processing and Management, Special Issue on Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval.
</onlyinclude>

NameSieve

2010-09-14T20:49:57Z

Jennifer: /* Publications */

NameSieve news filtering series supports filtering by named entities. Even though the personalization is not supported yet, users are provided with the interface with which they can select important names extracted from the ad-hoc retrieval lists. By selecting some relevant names, they can post-filter the original retrieval lists and get the ones that only contain those names.
[[Image:NameSieve.png|frame|center|NameSieve system]]

== Publications ==
<onlyinclude>
* Lin, Y., Ahn, J., Brusilovsky, P., He, D., and Real, W. (2010) Exploratory Search of Museum Archives with Named Entity-Based Faceted Browsing. Accepted by ASIS&T 2010 Annual Meeting (in press).
* Ahn, J., Brusilovsky, P., Grady, J., and He, D. '''Semantic Annotation Based Exploratory Search for Information Analysts'''. Submitted to Information Processing and Management, Special Issue on Semantic Annotations in Information Retrieval.
</onlyinclude>

Publications

2010-09-14T20:47:55Z

Jennifer: /* Knowledge Sea II and AnnotatEd */

===ADVISE===
{{:Adaptive_VIBE}}

===[[AnnotEx]]===
* Hsiao, I. and Brusilvsky, P. T'''he Role of Community Feedback in the Student Example Authoring Process: an Evaluation of AnnotEx''', British Journal of Educational Technology (in press) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2009.01030.x DOI]
* Hsiao, I. & Brusilovsky. P. (2008). '''Modeling Peer Review in Example Annotation'''. ICCE, The 16th International Conference on Computers in Education, Taipei, Taiwan, October 27- 31, 2008, ICCE [http://apsce.net/icce2008/contents/proceeding_0357.pdf URL] [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~ihsiao/pub/5page_camera%20ready_ICCE_Modeling_Peer_Review_in_Example_Annotation.pdf PDF]
* Brusilovsky, P., Hsiao, I. & Yuldelson, M. (2008) '''Annotated Program Examples as First Class Objects in an Educational Digital Library''', JCDL 2008 [http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1378889.1378946 DOI]
* Hsiao, I. & Brusilovsky, P. (2007) '''Collaborative Example Authoring System: The Value of Re-annotation based on Community Feedback''',In: J. Nall and R. Robson (eds.) Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning, E-Learn 2007,Quebec City, Canada, October 15-19, 2007, AACE [http://www.editlib.org/p/26914 URL] [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~ihsiao/pub/2007ELearn_Collaborative_Example_Authoring_System_final.pdf PDF]

===ASSIST===
* Freyne, J., Farzan, R., and Coyle, M. (2007). Toward the exploitation of social access patterns for recommendation. RecSys 2007.
* Farzan, R., Coyle, M., Freyne, J., Brusilovsky, P., and Smyth, P. (2007). ASSIST: Adaptive Social Support for Information Space Traversal. Hypertext 2007.
* Freyne J., Farzan R., Brusilovsky P., Smyth B., and Coyle M. (2007). Collecting Community Wisdom: Integrating Social Search & Social Navigation. In Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

===Conference Navigator===
* Farzan R., and Brusilovsky P. Where did the Researchers Go? Supporting Social Navigation at a Large Academic Conference. Hypertext 2008.

===[[CourseAgent]]===
*Farzan R. & Brusilovsky P. (2006). Social Navigation Support in a Course Recommendation System. In proceedings of 4th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems.

===[[CUMULATE]]===
{{:CUMULATE}}

===[[Knowledge Sea II]] and [[AnnotatEd]]===
* Lin, Y., Brusilovsky, P.,& He, D. (2010) Improving Self-Organizing Information Maps as Navigational Tools: A Semantic Approach. Online Information Review (The international journal of digital information research and use) (in press).
* Farzan, R. and Brusilovsky P. (2008). AnnotatEd: A Social Navigation and Annotation Service for Web-based Educational Resources. Journal of the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (NRHM)
* Ahn, J., Farzan, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2006) Social Search in the Context of Social Navigation. Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management 23(2):147-165.
* Bateman S., Farzan R., Brusilovsky P., and McCalla G. (2006) OATS: The Open Annotation and Tagging System. In Proceedings 3rd annual e-learning conference on Intelligent Interactive Learning Object Repositories
* Farzan R. & Brusilovsky P. (2006). AnnotatEd: A Social Navigation and Annotation Service for Web-based Educational Resources. In Proceedings of E-Learn 2006--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education.Winner of outstanding paper award.
* Mertens R., Farzan R.,and Brusilovsky P. (2006) Social Navigation in Web Lectures. In proceedings of Seventeenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia(short paper).
* Farzan, R. & Brusilovsky P. (2005). Social Navigation Support through Annotation-Based Group Modeling. In proceedings of 10th International Conference on User Modeling.
* Brusilovsky P., Farzan R. & Ahn J. (2005). Comprehensive Personalized Information Access in an Educational Digital Library. In proceedings of Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.
* Brusilovsky, P., Chavan, G., Farzan, R. (2004). Social Adaptive Navigation Support for Open Corpus Electronic Textbooks - In: P.De Bra (ed.) Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH'2004), Eindhoven, the Netherlands

===[[NameSieve]]===
{{:NameSieve}}

===[[PERSEUS]]===
{{:PERSEUS}}

===[[PittCult]]===
* Lee, D. H. (2008) PITTCULT: Trust-based Cultural Event Recommender, Proceedings of Doctoral Symposium on the 2nd ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 23 ~ 25, 2008
* Lee, D. H. (2008) PITTCULT: Recommender System using Trusted Human Network, Student Research Competition in Hypertext 2008, Pittsburgh PA., USA, June 19 ~ 21, 2008, Third Prize Winner of ACM Student Research Competition in Hypertext 2008 & Finalist for the Grand Prize of ACM SRC sponsored by Microsoft Research [http://pittcult.sis.pitt.edu/help.jsp Presentation], [http://www.sigweb.org/ht08/srcposters/lee.pdf pdf]

===[[Proactive]]===
* Lee, D. H. & Brusilovsky, P. (2007) Fighting Information Overflow with Personalized Comprehensive Information Access: A Proactive Job Recommender, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS '07), Athens, Greece, June 19 ~ 25, 2007
* Lee, D. H. & Brusilovsky, P. (In progress) Proactive: Comprehensive Access of Job Information

===[[QuizJET]]===
* Hsiao, I., Brusilovsky, P. & Sosnovsky, S. (2008). '''Web-based Parameterized Questions for Object-Oriented Programming'''. Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning, E-Learn 2008,Las Vegas, USA, November 17-21, 2008, p. 3728-3735.
* Hsiao, I., Sosnovsky, S and Brusilovsky, P. (2009). '''Extending Parameterized Problem-Tracing Questions for Java with Personalized Guidance'''. Proceedings of 14th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE'2009, Paris, France, July 3-8, 2009, ACM Press, pp.392-392 [http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1595496.1563034 DOI]
* Hsiao, I., Sosnovsky, S and Brusilovsky, P. (2009). '''Adaptive Navigation Support for Parameterized Questions in Object-Oriented Programming'''. In: Proceedings of 4th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Education (ECTEL), ECTEL 2009, Nice, France, September 29th - October 2nd, 2009, Springer-Verlag, pp.88-98 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04636-0_10 DOI]
* Hsiao, I., Sosnovsky,S. and Brusilvsky, P. (2010) Guiding Students to the Right Questions: Adaptive Navigation Support in an E-learning System for Java Programming, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Volume 26 Issue 4, Pages 270 - 283 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2729.2010.00365.x DOI]

===[[TaskSieve]]===
{{:TaskSieve}}

===[[YourNews]]===
{{:YourNews}}

Publications

2010-09-14T20:46:58Z

Jennifer: /* Knowledge Sea II and AnnotatEd */

===ADVISE===
{{:Adaptive_VIBE}}

===[[AnnotEx]]===
* Hsiao, I. and Brusilvsky, P. T'''he Role of Community Feedback in the Student Example Authoring Process: an Evaluation of AnnotEx''', British Journal of Educational Technology (in press) [http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2009.01030.x DOI]
* Hsiao, I. & Brusilovsky. P. (2008). '''Modeling Peer Review in Example Annotation'''. ICCE, The 16th International Conference on Computers in Education, Taipei, Taiwan, October 27- 31, 2008, ICCE [http://apsce.net/icce2008/contents/proceeding_0357.pdf URL] [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~ihsiao/pub/5page_camera%20ready_ICCE_Modeling_Peer_Review_in_Example_Annotation.pdf PDF]
* Brusilovsky, P., Hsiao, I. & Yuldelson, M. (2008) '''Annotated Program Examples as First Class Objects in an Educational Digital Library''', JCDL 2008 [http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1378889.1378946 DOI]
* Hsiao, I. & Brusilovsky, P. (2007) '''Collaborative Example Authoring System: The Value of Re-annotation based on Community Feedback''',In: J. Nall and R. Robson (eds.) Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning, E-Learn 2007,Quebec City, Canada, October 15-19, 2007, AACE [http://www.editlib.org/p/26914 URL] [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~ihsiao/pub/2007ELearn_Collaborative_Example_Authoring_System_final.pdf PDF]

===ASSIST===
* Freyne, J., Farzan, R., and Coyle, M. (2007). Toward the exploitation of social access patterns for recommendation. RecSys 2007.
* Farzan, R., Coyle, M., Freyne, J., Brusilovsky, P., and Smyth, P. (2007). ASSIST: Adaptive Social Support for Information Space Traversal. Hypertext 2007.
* Freyne J., Farzan R., Brusilovsky P., Smyth B., and Coyle M. (2007). Collecting Community Wisdom: Integrating Social Search & Social Navigation. In Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

===Conference Navigator===
* Farzan R., and Brusilovsky P. Where did the Researchers Go? Supporting Social Navigation at a Large Academic Conference. Hypertext 2008.

===[[CourseAgent]]===
*Farzan R. & Brusilovsky P. (2006). Social Navigation Support in a Course Recommendation System. In proceedings of 4th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems.

===[[CUMULATE]]===
{{:CUMULATE}}

===[[Knowledge Sea II]] and [[AnnotatEd]]===
* Lin, Y., Brusilovsky, P.,& He, D. (2010) Improving Self-Organizing Information Maps as Navigational Tools: A Semantic Approach. Online Information Review (The international journal of digital information research and use) (in Press).
* Farzan, R. and Brusilovsky P. (2008). AnnotatEd: A Social Navigation and Annotation Service for Web-based Educational Resources. Journal of the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (NRHM)
* Ahn, J., Farzan, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2006) Social Search in the Context of Social Navigation. Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management 23(2):147-165.
* Bateman S., Farzan R., Brusilovsky P., and McCalla G. (2006) OATS: The Open Annotation and Tagging System. In Proceedings 3rd annual e-learning conference on Intelligent Interactive Learning Object Repositories
* Farzan R. & Brusilovsky P. (2006). AnnotatEd: A Social Navigation and Annotation Service for Web-based Educational Resources. In Proceedings of E-Learn 2006--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education.Winner of outstanding paper award.
* Mertens R., Farzan R.,and Brusilovsky P. (2006) Social Navigation in Web Lectures. In proceedings of Seventeenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia(short paper).
* Farzan, R. & Brusilovsky P. (2005). Social Navigation Support through Annotation-Based Group Modeling. In proceedings of 10th International Conference on User Modeling.
* Brusilovsky P., Farzan R. & Ahn J. (2005). Comprehensive Personalized Information Access in an Educational Digital Library. In proceedings of Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.
* Brusilovsky, P., Chavan, G., Farzan, R. (2004). Social Adaptive Navigation Support for Open Corpus Electronic Textbooks - In: P.De Bra (ed.) Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems (AH'2004), Eindhoven, the Netherlands

===[[NameSieve]]===
{{:NameSieve}}

===[[PERSEUS]]===
{{:PERSEUS}}

===[[PittCult]]===
* Lee, D. H. (2008) PITTCULT: Trust-based Cultural Event Recommender, Proceedings of Doctoral Symposium on the 2nd ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 23 ~ 25, 2008
* Lee, D. H. (2008) PITTCULT: Recommender System using Trusted Human Network, Student Research Competition in Hypertext 2008, Pittsburgh PA., USA, June 19 ~ 21, 2008, Third Prize Winner of ACM Student Research Competition in Hypertext 2008 & Finalist for the Grand Prize of ACM SRC sponsored by Microsoft Research [http://pittcult.sis.pitt.edu/help.jsp Presentation], [http://www.sigweb.org/ht08/srcposters/lee.pdf pdf]

===[[Proactive]]===
* Lee, D. H. & Brusilovsky, P. (2007) Fighting Information Overflow with Personalized Comprehensive Information Access: A Proactive Job Recommender, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS '07), Athens, Greece, June 19 ~ 25, 2007
* Lee, D. H. & Brusilovsky, P. (In progress) Proactive: Comprehensive Access of Job Information

===[[QuizJET]]===
* Hsiao, I., Brusilovsky, P. & Sosnovsky, S. (2008). '''Web-based Parameterized Questions for Object-Oriented Programming'''. Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning, E-Learn 2008,Las Vegas, USA, November 17-21, 2008, p. 3728-3735.
* Hsiao, I., Sosnovsky, S and Brusilovsky, P. (2009). '''Extending Parameterized Problem-Tracing Questions for Java with Personalized Guidance'''. Proceedings of 14th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE'2009, Paris, France, July 3-8, 2009, ACM Press, pp.392-392 [http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1595496.1563034 DOI]
* Hsiao, I., Sosnovsky, S and Brusilovsky, P. (2009). '''Adaptive Navigation Support for Parameterized Questions in Object-Oriented Programming'''. In: Proceedings of 4th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Education (ECTEL), ECTEL 2009, Nice, France, September 29th - October 2nd, 2009, Springer-Verlag, pp.88-98 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04636-0_10 DOI]
* Hsiao, I., Sosnovsky,S. and Brusilvsky, P. (2010) Guiding Students to the Right Questions: Adaptive Navigation Support in an E-learning System for Java Programming, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Volume 26 Issue 4, Pages 270 - 283 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2729.2010.00365.x DOI]

===[[TaskSieve]]===
{{:TaskSieve}}

===[[YourNews]]===
{{:YourNews}}

Meetings

2009-12-08T04:51:18Z

Jennifer:

== 2009 Fall ==
 '''Meeting Time:''' Tuesday 2.00pm-4pm
 '''Location:''' IS522 
{| border="1"
!Date
!Presenter
!Title
!Blogger
|-
|2009.09.08
|[[User:Myudelson|Michael Yudelson]]
|UMAP 2009, Selected Papers [[Media:2010-1 PAWS Meetings 2009-09-08 UMAP selected papers.pdf.zip|slides]] [http://pawsgroup.blogspot.com/2009/09/paws-meeting-sep-8-2009.html summary]
|[http://pawsgroup.blogspot.com/2009/09/paws-meeting-sep-8-2009.html MY]
|-
|2009.09.15
|[[User:Dparra|Denis Parra]]
|Summer 2009 research: Spreading Activation for recommender algorithms
|DP
|-
|2009.09.22
|Zhen Yue
|CiteEval for Evaluating Personalized Social Web Search
|ZY
|-
|2009.09.29
|
|No Meeting
|
|-
|2009.10.06
|[[User:Shoha99|Sharon Hsiao]]
|EC-TEL 2009, Selected Papers
|
|-
|2009.10.13
|No meeting (Monday schedule for holiday)
|
|
|-
|2009.10.20
|[[User:Jahn|Jae-wook Ahn]], Denis Parra (pre-RecSys)
|Summer project at Telefonica: Expert-based recommendation system
|
|-
|2009.10.27
|[[User:Jennifer|Yiling Lin]]
|References of metadata recommender
|
|-
|2009.11.03
|Zhen Yue
|
|
|-
|2009.11.10
|[[User:Rostaf|Rosta Farzan]]
|Encouraging Participation in Online Communities
|
|-
|2009.11.17
|[[User:suleehs|Danielle H. Lee]]
|Similarity and Social Networks
|
|-
|2009.11.24
|Shaghayegh Sahebi
|Utilizing Web Content in Web Recommender Systems
|
|-
|2009.12.01
|Michael Yudelson
|
|
|-
|2009.12.08
|Chirayu Wongchokprasitti
|
|
|-
|2009.12.15
|Sharon Hsiao
|
|
|-
|}

== Archives ==
[[Meeting Archives 2009 Spring| 2009 Spring]]

People

2009-12-08T04:46:21Z

Jennifer:

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

== Doctoral Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:jaewook-1.jpg|[[User:Jahn | Jae-wook Ahn]] Projects: [[ADVISE]], [[Adaptive VIBE]], [[YourNews]], [[YourSports]], [[TaskSieve]], [[NameSieve]]
Image:RostaFarzan.jpg|[[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]]
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:Camerashy.jpg|[[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]]
Image:Michael_V_Yudelson.gif|'''[[User:Myudelson | Michael V. Yudelson]]''' Projects: [[Knowledge Tree]], [[CUMULATE]], [[PERSEUS]], [[NavEx]], [[CoPE]], [[WebEx]]
Image:Denis_PAWS_blog.jpg|[[User:DParra | Denis Parra]]
</gallery>

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

== Visiting Scholars ==
<gallery perrow="4">
</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 Students ==
<gallery perrow="3">
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

</gallery>

People

2009-12-08T04:45:54Z

Jennifer:

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

== Doctoral Students ==
<gallery perrow="4">
Image:jaewook-1.jpg|[[User:Jahn | Jae-wook Ahn]] Projects: [[ADVISE]], [[Adaptive VIBE]], [[YourNews]], [[YourSports]], [[TaskSieve]], [[NameSieve]]
Image:RostaFarzan.jpg|[[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]]
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:Camerashy.jpg|[[User:Jennifer | Jennifer (Yiling) Lin]]
Image:jennifer.jpg|[[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]]
Image:Michael_V_Yudelson.gif|'''[[User:Myudelson | Michael V. Yudelson]]''' Projects: [[Knowledge Tree]], [[CUMULATE]], [[PERSEUS]], [[NavEx]], [[CoPE]], [[WebEx]]
Image:Denis_PAWS_blog.jpg|[[User:DParra | Denis Parra]]
</gallery>

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

== Visiting Scholars ==
<gallery perrow="4">
</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 Students ==
<gallery perrow="3">
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

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Jennifer: