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		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3819</id>
		<title>Looking For Collaborators</title>
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		<updated>2017-12-14T02:06:23Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;We are looking for collaborators who are interested in using PCLab in introductory Java/Python programming classes. PCLab is designed to help students to construct programs. It consists of programming examples and coding exercises for different topics in the introductory programming course.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Videos == &lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:pclab.jpg|left|thumb|'''100'''|PCLab]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | The following videos introduce PCLab for Java/Python programming. &lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-java PCLab (Java)]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-python PCLab (Python)]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Mastery Grids Interface ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | PCLab presents examples and problems using Mastery Grids interface. Mastery Grids is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement, and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YLR2VY2QE YouTube demo of  Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-dev2/index.html?usr=adl05&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Selected Publications ==&lt;br /&gt;
The following papers present sample of studies that we conducted using Mastery Grids in different programming classes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Loboda, T., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization. In: S. de Freitas, C. Rensing, P. J. Muñoz Merino and T. Ley (eds.) Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014), Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014 (Best paper award). ([http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-11200-8_18#page-1 paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/ectel2014-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Zadorozhny, V. (2015) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. In: F. Ricci, K. Bontcheva, O. Conlan and S. Lawless (eds.) Proceedings of 23nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, , June 29 - July 3, 2015, Springer Verlag, pp. 44-55 ([https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280805929_The_Value_of_Social_Comparing_Open_Student_Modeling_and_Open_Social_Student_Modeling paper] [http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/umap2015-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Hsiao, I.-H., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P. (2015) What Should I Do Next? Adaptive Sequencing in the Context of Open Social Student Modeling. Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2015), Toledo, Spain, September 15-18, 2015, pp. 155-168. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26266/1/camera_ready.pdf paper])([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/ectel-2015 presentation]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Sirkiä, T., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P., Malmi, L. (2016) Animated Examples as Practice Content in a Java Programming Course. Proceedings of the 47th ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Memphis, Tennessee, March 2-5, 2016. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/28928/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Somyurek, S., and Brusilovsky, P. (2016) An Intelligent Interface for Learning Content: Combining an Open Learner Model and Social Comparison to Support Self-Regulated Learning and Engagement. In: Proceedings of Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '16), Sonoma, California, USA, ACM, pp. 152-163. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/27083/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Zadorozhny, V., and Durlach, P. (2016) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 4 (3), 450-461. ([https://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/ec/2016/03/07359179.pdf paper])&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3818</id>
		<title>Looking For Collaborators</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3818"/>
		<updated>2017-12-14T02:05:38Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: /* Sample Publications */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;We are looking for collaborators who are interested in using PCLab in introductory Java/Python programming classes. PCLab is designed to help students to construct program, it consists of programming examples and coding exercises for different topics in the introductory programming course.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Videos == &lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:pclab.jpg|left|thumb|'''100'''|PCLab]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | The following videos introduce PCLab for Java/Python programming. &lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-java PCLab (Java)]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-python PCLab (Python)]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Mastery Grids Interface ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | PCLab presents examples and problems using Mastery Grids interface. Mastery Grids is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement, and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YLR2VY2QE YouTube demo of  Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-dev2/index.html?usr=adl05&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Selected Publications ==&lt;br /&gt;
The following papers present sample of studies that we conducted using Mastery Grids in different programming classes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Loboda, T., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization. In: S. de Freitas, C. Rensing, P. J. Muñoz Merino and T. Ley (eds.) Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014), Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014 (Best paper award). ([http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-11200-8_18#page-1 paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/ectel2014-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Zadorozhny, V. (2015) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. In: F. Ricci, K. Bontcheva, O. Conlan and S. Lawless (eds.) Proceedings of 23nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, , June 29 - July 3, 2015, Springer Verlag, pp. 44-55 ([https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280805929_The_Value_of_Social_Comparing_Open_Student_Modeling_and_Open_Social_Student_Modeling paper] [http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/umap2015-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Hsiao, I.-H., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P. (2015) What Should I Do Next? Adaptive Sequencing in the Context of Open Social Student Modeling. Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2015), Toledo, Spain, September 15-18, 2015, pp. 155-168. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26266/1/camera_ready.pdf paper])([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/ectel-2015 presentation]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Sirkiä, T., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P., Malmi, L. (2016) Animated Examples as Practice Content in a Java Programming Course. Proceedings of the 47th ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Memphis, Tennessee, March 2-5, 2016. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/28928/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Somyurek, S., and Brusilovsky, P. (2016) An Intelligent Interface for Learning Content: Combining an Open Learner Model and Social Comparison to Support Self-Regulated Learning and Engagement. In: Proceedings of Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '16), Sonoma, California, USA, ACM, pp. 152-163. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/27083/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Zadorozhny, V., and Durlach, P. (2016) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 4 (3), 450-461. ([https://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/ec/2016/03/07359179.pdf paper])&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3817</id>
		<title>Looking For Collaborators</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3817"/>
		<updated>2017-12-14T02:02:50Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: /* Publications */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;We are looking for collaborators who are interested in using PCLab in introductory Java/Python programming classes. PCLab is designed to help students to construct program, it consists of programming examples and coding exercises for different topics in the introductory programming course.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Videos == &lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:pclab.jpg|left|thumb|'''100'''|PCLab]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | The following videos introduce PCLab for Java/Python programming. &lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-java PCLab (Java)]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-python PCLab (Python)]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Mastery Grids Interface ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | PCLab presents examples and problems using Mastery Grids interface. Mastery Grids is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement, and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YLR2VY2QE YouTube demo of  Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-dev2/index.html?usr=adl05&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Sample Publications ==&lt;br /&gt;
* Loboda, T., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization. In: S. de Freitas, C. Rensing, P. J. Muñoz Merino and T. Ley (eds.) Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014), Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014 (Best paper award). ([http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-11200-8_18#page-1 paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/ectel2014-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Zadorozhny, V. (2015) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. In: F. Ricci, K. Bontcheva, O. Conlan and S. Lawless (eds.) Proceedings of 23nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, , June 29 - July 3, 2015, Springer Verlag, pp. 44-55 ([https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280805929_The_Value_of_Social_Comparing_Open_Student_Modeling_and_Open_Social_Student_Modeling paper] [http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/umap2015-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Hsiao, I.-H., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P. (2015) What Should I Do Next? Adaptive Sequencing in the Context of Open Social Student Modeling. Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2015), Toledo, Spain, September 15-18, 2015, pp. 155-168. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26266/1/camera_ready.pdf paper])([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/ectel-2015 presentation]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Sirkiä, T., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P., Malmi, L. (2016) Animated Examples as Practice Content in a Java Programming Course. Proceedings of the 47th ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Memphis, Tennessee, March 2-5, 2016. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/28928/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Somyurek, S., and Brusilovsky, P. (2016) An Intelligent Interface for Learning Content: Combining an Open Learner Model and Social Comparison to Support Self-Regulated Learning and Engagement. In: Proceedings of Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '16), Sonoma, California, USA, ACM, pp. 152-163. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/27083/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Zadorozhny, V., and Durlach, P. (2016) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 4 (3), 450-461. ([https://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/ec/2016/03/07359179.pdf paper])&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3816</id>
		<title>Looking For Collaborators</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3816"/>
		<updated>2017-12-14T02:02:15Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: /* More about Open Social Learner Model Interface: Mastery Grids */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;We are looking for collaborators who are interested in using PCLab in introductory Java/Python programming classes. PCLab is designed to help students to construct program, it consists of programming examples and coding exercises for different topics in the introductory programming course.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Videos == &lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:pclab.jpg|left|thumb|'''100'''|PCLab]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | The following videos introduce PCLab for Java/Python programming. &lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-java PCLab (Java)]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-python PCLab (Python)]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Mastery Grids Interface ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | PCLab presents examples and problems using Mastery Grids interface. Mastery Grids is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement, and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YLR2VY2QE YouTube demo of  Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-dev2/index.html?usr=adl05&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Publications==&lt;br /&gt;
* Loboda, T., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization. In: S. de Freitas, C. Rensing, P. J. Muñoz Merino and T. Ley (eds.) Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014), Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014 (Best paper award). ([http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-11200-8_18#page-1 paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/ectel2014-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Zadorozhny, V. (2015) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. In: F. Ricci, K. Bontcheva, O. Conlan and S. Lawless (eds.) Proceedings of 23nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, , June 29 - July 3, 2015, Springer Verlag, pp. 44-55 ([https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280805929_The_Value_of_Social_Comparing_Open_Student_Modeling_and_Open_Social_Student_Modeling paper] [http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/umap2015-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Hsiao, I.-H., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P. (2015) What Should I Do Next? Adaptive Sequencing in the Context of Open Social Student Modeling. Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2015), Toledo, Spain, September 15-18, 2015, pp. 155-168. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26266/1/camera_ready.pdf paper])([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/ectel-2015 presentation]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Sirkiä, T., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P., Malmi, L. (2016) Animated Examples as Practice Content in a Java Programming Course. Proceedings of the 47th ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Memphis, Tennessee, March 2-5, 2016. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/28928/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Somyurek, S., and Brusilovsky, P. (2016) An Intelligent Interface for Learning Content: Combining an Open Learner Model and Social Comparison to Support Self-Regulated Learning and Engagement. In: Proceedings of Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '16), Sonoma, California, USA, ACM, pp. 152-163. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/27083/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Zadorozhny, V., and Durlach, P. (2016) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 4 (3), 450-461. ([https://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/ec/2016/03/07359179.pdf paper])&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3815</id>
		<title>Looking For Collaborators</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3815"/>
		<updated>2017-12-14T02:01:48Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: /* More about Open Social Learner Model Interface: Mastery Grids */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;We are looking for collaborators who are interested in using PCLab in introductory Java/Python programming classes. PCLab is designed to help students to construct program, it consists of programming examples and coding exercises for different topics in the introductory programming course.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Videos == &lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:pclab.jpg|left|thumb|'''100'''|PCLab]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | The following videos introduce PCLab for Java/Python programming. &lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-java PCLab (Java)]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-python PCLab (Python)]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== More about Open Social Learner Model Interface: Mastery Grids ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | PCLab presents examples and problems using Mastery Grids interface. Mastery Grids is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement, and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YLR2VY2QE YouTube demo of  Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-dev2/index.html?usr=adl05&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Publications==&lt;br /&gt;
* Loboda, T., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization. In: S. de Freitas, C. Rensing, P. J. Muñoz Merino and T. Ley (eds.) Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014), Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014 (Best paper award). ([http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-11200-8_18#page-1 paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/ectel2014-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Zadorozhny, V. (2015) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. In: F. Ricci, K. Bontcheva, O. Conlan and S. Lawless (eds.) Proceedings of 23nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, , June 29 - July 3, 2015, Springer Verlag, pp. 44-55 ([https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280805929_The_Value_of_Social_Comparing_Open_Student_Modeling_and_Open_Social_Student_Modeling paper] [http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/umap2015-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Hsiao, I.-H., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P. (2015) What Should I Do Next? Adaptive Sequencing in the Context of Open Social Student Modeling. Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2015), Toledo, Spain, September 15-18, 2015, pp. 155-168. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26266/1/camera_ready.pdf paper])([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/ectel-2015 presentation]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Sirkiä, T., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P., Malmi, L. (2016) Animated Examples as Practice Content in a Java Programming Course. Proceedings of the 47th ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Memphis, Tennessee, March 2-5, 2016. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/28928/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Somyurek, S., and Brusilovsky, P. (2016) An Intelligent Interface for Learning Content: Combining an Open Learner Model and Social Comparison to Support Self-Regulated Learning and Engagement. In: Proceedings of Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '16), Sonoma, California, USA, ACM, pp. 152-163. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/27083/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Zadorozhny, V., and Durlach, P. (2016) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 4 (3), 450-461. ([https://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/ec/2016/03/07359179.pdf paper])&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3814</id>
		<title>Looking For Collaborators</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3814"/>
		<updated>2017-12-14T02:01:00Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: /* More about Open Social Learner Model Interface: Mastery Grids */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;We are looking for collaborators who are interested in using PCLab in introductory Java/Python programming classes. PCLab is designed to help students to construct program, it consists of programming examples and coding exercises for different topics in the introductory programming course.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Videos == &lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:pclab.jpg|left|thumb|'''100'''|PCLab]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | The following videos introduce PCLab for Java/Python programming. &lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-java PCLab (Java)]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-python PCLab (Python)]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== More about Open Social Learner Model Interface: Mastery Grids ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | PCLab presents examples and problems using Mastery Grids interface. Mastery Grids is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YLR2VY2QE YouTube demo of  Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-dev2/index.html?usr=adl05&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Publications==&lt;br /&gt;
* Loboda, T., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization. In: S. de Freitas, C. Rensing, P. J. Muñoz Merino and T. Ley (eds.) Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014), Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014 (Best paper award). ([http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-11200-8_18#page-1 paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/ectel2014-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Zadorozhny, V. (2015) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. In: F. Ricci, K. Bontcheva, O. Conlan and S. Lawless (eds.) Proceedings of 23nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, , June 29 - July 3, 2015, Springer Verlag, pp. 44-55 ([https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280805929_The_Value_of_Social_Comparing_Open_Student_Modeling_and_Open_Social_Student_Modeling paper] [http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/umap2015-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Hsiao, I.-H., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P. (2015) What Should I Do Next? Adaptive Sequencing in the Context of Open Social Student Modeling. Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2015), Toledo, Spain, September 15-18, 2015, pp. 155-168. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26266/1/camera_ready.pdf paper])([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/ectel-2015 presentation]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Sirkiä, T., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P., Malmi, L. (2016) Animated Examples as Practice Content in a Java Programming Course. Proceedings of the 47th ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Memphis, Tennessee, March 2-5, 2016. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/28928/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Somyurek, S., and Brusilovsky, P. (2016) An Intelligent Interface for Learning Content: Combining an Open Learner Model and Social Comparison to Support Self-Regulated Learning and Engagement. In: Proceedings of Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '16), Sonoma, California, USA, ACM, pp. 152-163. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/27083/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Zadorozhny, V., and Durlach, P. (2016) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 4 (3), 450-461. ([https://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/ec/2016/03/07359179.pdf paper])&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3813</id>
		<title>Looking For Collaborators</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3813"/>
		<updated>2017-12-14T01:59:37Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: /* Videos */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;We are looking for collaborators who are interested in using PCLab in introductory Java/Python programming classes. PCLab is designed to help students to construct program, it consists of programming examples and coding exercises for different topics in the introductory programming course.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Videos == &lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:pclab.jpg|left|thumb|'''100'''|PCLab]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | The following videos introduce PCLab for Java/Python programming. &lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-java PCLab (Java)]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-python PCLab (Python)]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== More about Open Social Learner Model Interface: Mastery Grids ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | PCLab presents examples and problems using Mastery Grids interface. To read more about Mastery Grids. Mastery Grids is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YLR2VY2QE YouTube demo of  Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-dev2/index.html?usr=adl05&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Publications==&lt;br /&gt;
* Loboda, T., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization. In: S. de Freitas, C. Rensing, P. J. Muñoz Merino and T. Ley (eds.) Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014), Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014 (Best paper award). ([http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-11200-8_18#page-1 paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/ectel2014-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Zadorozhny, V. (2015) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. In: F. Ricci, K. Bontcheva, O. Conlan and S. Lawless (eds.) Proceedings of 23nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, , June 29 - July 3, 2015, Springer Verlag, pp. 44-55 ([https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280805929_The_Value_of_Social_Comparing_Open_Student_Modeling_and_Open_Social_Student_Modeling paper] [http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/umap2015-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Hsiao, I.-H., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P. (2015) What Should I Do Next? Adaptive Sequencing in the Context of Open Social Student Modeling. Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2015), Toledo, Spain, September 15-18, 2015, pp. 155-168. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26266/1/camera_ready.pdf paper])([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/ectel-2015 presentation]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Sirkiä, T., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P., Malmi, L. (2016) Animated Examples as Practice Content in a Java Programming Course. Proceedings of the 47th ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Memphis, Tennessee, March 2-5, 2016. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/28928/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Somyurek, S., and Brusilovsky, P. (2016) An Intelligent Interface for Learning Content: Combining an Open Learner Model and Social Comparison to Support Self-Regulated Learning and Engagement. In: Proceedings of Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '16), Sonoma, California, USA, ACM, pp. 152-163. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/27083/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Zadorozhny, V., and Durlach, P. (2016) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 4 (3), 450-461. ([https://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/ec/2016/03/07359179.pdf paper])&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=File:Pclab.jpg&amp;diff=3812</id>
		<title>File:Pclab.jpg</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=File:Pclab.jpg&amp;diff=3812"/>
		<updated>2017-12-14T01:59:11Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3811</id>
		<title>Looking For Collaborators</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3811"/>
		<updated>2017-12-14T01:38:54Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: /* Videos */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;We are looking for collaborators who are interested in using PCLab in introductory Java/Python programming classes. PCLab is designed to help students to construct program, it consists of programming examples and coding exercises for different topics in the introductory programming course.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Videos == &lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Pclab_challenge.jpg|left|thumb|'''100'''|PCLab]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | The following videos introduce PCLab for Java/Python programming. &lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-java PCLab (Java)]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-python PCLab (Python)]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== More about Open Social Learner Model Interface: Mastery Grids ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | PCLab presents examples and problems using Mastery Grids interface. To read more about Mastery Grids. Mastery Grids is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YLR2VY2QE YouTube demo of  Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-dev2/index.html?usr=adl05&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Publications==&lt;br /&gt;
* Loboda, T., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization. In: S. de Freitas, C. Rensing, P. J. Muñoz Merino and T. Ley (eds.) Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014), Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014 (Best paper award). ([http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-11200-8_18#page-1 paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/ectel2014-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Zadorozhny, V. (2015) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. In: F. Ricci, K. Bontcheva, O. Conlan and S. Lawless (eds.) Proceedings of 23nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, , June 29 - July 3, 2015, Springer Verlag, pp. 44-55 ([https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280805929_The_Value_of_Social_Comparing_Open_Student_Modeling_and_Open_Social_Student_Modeling paper] [http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/umap2015-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Hsiao, I.-H., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P. (2015) What Should I Do Next? Adaptive Sequencing in the Context of Open Social Student Modeling. Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2015), Toledo, Spain, September 15-18, 2015, pp. 155-168. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26266/1/camera_ready.pdf paper])([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/ectel-2015 presentation]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Sirkiä, T., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P., Malmi, L. (2016) Animated Examples as Practice Content in a Java Programming Course. Proceedings of the 47th ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Memphis, Tennessee, March 2-5, 2016. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/28928/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Somyurek, S., and Brusilovsky, P. (2016) An Intelligent Interface for Learning Content: Combining an Open Learner Model and Social Comparison to Support Self-Regulated Learning and Engagement. In: Proceedings of Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '16), Sonoma, California, USA, ACM, pp. 152-163. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/27083/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Zadorozhny, V., and Durlach, P. (2016) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 4 (3), 450-461. ([https://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/ec/2016/03/07359179.pdf paper])&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3810</id>
		<title>Looking For Collaborators</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3810"/>
		<updated>2017-12-14T01:38:35Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: /* Videos */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;We are looking for collaborators who are interested in using PCLab in introductory Java/Python programming classes. PCLab is designed to help students to construct program, it consists of programming examples and coding exercises for different topics in the introductory programming course.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Videos == &lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | The following videos introduce PCLab for Java/Python programming. &lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Pclab_challenge.jpg|left|thumb|'''100'''|PCLab]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-java PCLab (Java)]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-python PCLab (Python)]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== More about Open Social Learner Model Interface: Mastery Grids ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | PCLab presents examples and problems using Mastery Grids interface. To read more about Mastery Grids. Mastery Grids is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YLR2VY2QE YouTube demo of  Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-dev2/index.html?usr=adl05&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Publications==&lt;br /&gt;
* Loboda, T., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization. In: S. de Freitas, C. Rensing, P. J. Muñoz Merino and T. Ley (eds.) Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014), Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014 (Best paper award). ([http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-11200-8_18#page-1 paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/ectel2014-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Zadorozhny, V. (2015) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. In: F. Ricci, K. Bontcheva, O. Conlan and S. Lawless (eds.) Proceedings of 23nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, , June 29 - July 3, 2015, Springer Verlag, pp. 44-55 ([https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280805929_The_Value_of_Social_Comparing_Open_Student_Modeling_and_Open_Social_Student_Modeling paper] [http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/umap2015-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Hsiao, I.-H., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P. (2015) What Should I Do Next? Adaptive Sequencing in the Context of Open Social Student Modeling. Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2015), Toledo, Spain, September 15-18, 2015, pp. 155-168. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26266/1/camera_ready.pdf paper])([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/ectel-2015 presentation]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Sirkiä, T., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P., Malmi, L. (2016) Animated Examples as Practice Content in a Java Programming Course. Proceedings of the 47th ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Memphis, Tennessee, March 2-5, 2016. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/28928/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Somyurek, S., and Brusilovsky, P. (2016) An Intelligent Interface for Learning Content: Combining an Open Learner Model and Social Comparison to Support Self-Regulated Learning and Engagement. In: Proceedings of Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '16), Sonoma, California, USA, ACM, pp. 152-163. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/27083/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Zadorozhny, V., and Durlach, P. (2016) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 4 (3), 450-461. ([https://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/ec/2016/03/07359179.pdf paper])&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3809</id>
		<title>Looking For Collaborators</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3809"/>
		<updated>2017-12-14T01:37:19Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;We are looking for collaborators who are interested in using PCLab in introductory Java/Python programming classes. PCLab is designed to help students to construct program, it consists of programming examples and coding exercises for different topics in the introductory programming course.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Videos == &lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | The following videos introduce PCLab for Java/Python programming. &lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Pclab_challenge.jpg|left|thumb|'''100'''|PCLab]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-java PCLab (Java)].&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-python PCLab (Python)].&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== More about Open Social Learner Model Interface: Mastery Grids ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | PCLab presents examples and problems using Mastery Grids interface. To read more about Mastery Grids. Mastery Grids is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YLR2VY2QE YouTube demo of  Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-dev2/index.html?usr=adl05&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Publications==&lt;br /&gt;
* Loboda, T., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization. In: S. de Freitas, C. Rensing, P. J. Muñoz Merino and T. Ley (eds.) Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014), Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014 (Best paper award). ([http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-11200-8_18#page-1 paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/ectel2014-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Zadorozhny, V. (2015) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. In: F. Ricci, K. Bontcheva, O. Conlan and S. Lawless (eds.) Proceedings of 23nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, , June 29 - July 3, 2015, Springer Verlag, pp. 44-55 ([https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280805929_The_Value_of_Social_Comparing_Open_Student_Modeling_and_Open_Social_Student_Modeling paper] [http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/umap2015-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Hsiao, I.-H., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P. (2015) What Should I Do Next? Adaptive Sequencing in the Context of Open Social Student Modeling. Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2015), Toledo, Spain, September 15-18, 2015, pp. 155-168. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26266/1/camera_ready.pdf paper])([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/ectel-2015 presentation]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Sirkiä, T., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P., Malmi, L. (2016) Animated Examples as Practice Content in a Java Programming Course. Proceedings of the 47th ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Memphis, Tennessee, March 2-5, 2016. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/28928/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Somyurek, S., and Brusilovsky, P. (2016) An Intelligent Interface for Learning Content: Combining an Open Learner Model and Social Comparison to Support Self-Regulated Learning and Engagement. In: Proceedings of Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '16), Sonoma, California, USA, ACM, pp. 152-163. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/27083/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Zadorozhny, V., and Durlach, P. (2016) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 4 (3), 450-461. ([https://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/ec/2016/03/07359179.pdf paper])&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3808</id>
		<title>Looking For Collaborators</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3808"/>
		<updated>2017-12-14T01:36:00Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: /* Videos */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;We are looking for collaborators who are interested in using PCLab in introductory Java/Python programming classes. PCLab is designed to help students to construct program, it consists of programming examples and coding exercises for different topics in the introductory programming course.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Videos == &lt;br /&gt;
The following videos introduce PCLab for Java/Python programming. &lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Pclab_challenge.jpg|left|thumb|'''100'''|PCLab]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-java PCLab (Java)].&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-python PCLab (Python)].&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== More about Open Social Learner Model Interface: Mastery Grids ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | PCLab presents examples and problems using Mastery Grids interface. To read more about Mastery Grids. Mastery Grids is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YLR2VY2QE YouTube demo of  Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-dev2/index.html?usr=adl05&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Publications==&lt;br /&gt;
* Loboda, T., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization. In: S. de Freitas, C. Rensing, P. J. Muñoz Merino and T. Ley (eds.) Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014), Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014 (Best paper award). ([http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-11200-8_18#page-1 paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/ectel2014-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Zadorozhny, V. (2015) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. In: F. Ricci, K. Bontcheva, O. Conlan and S. Lawless (eds.) Proceedings of 23nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, , June 29 - July 3, 2015, Springer Verlag, pp. 44-55 ([https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280805929_The_Value_of_Social_Comparing_Open_Student_Modeling_and_Open_Social_Student_Modeling paper] [http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/umap2015-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Hsiao, I.-H., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P. (2015) What Should I Do Next? Adaptive Sequencing in the Context of Open Social Student Modeling. Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2015), Toledo, Spain, September 15-18, 2015, pp. 155-168. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26266/1/camera_ready.pdf paper])([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/ectel-2015 presentation]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Sirkiä, T., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P., Malmi, L. (2016) Animated Examples as Practice Content in a Java Programming Course. Proceedings of the 47th ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Memphis, Tennessee, March 2-5, 2016. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/28928/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Somyurek, S., and Brusilovsky, P. (2016) An Intelligent Interface for Learning Content: Combining an Open Learner Model and Social Comparison to Support Self-Regulated Learning and Engagement. In: Proceedings of Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '16), Sonoma, California, USA, ACM, pp. 152-163. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/27083/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Zadorozhny, V., and Durlach, P. (2016) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 4 (3), 450-461. ([https://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/ec/2016/03/07359179.pdf paper])&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3807</id>
		<title>Looking For Collaborators</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3807"/>
		<updated>2017-12-14T01:35:17Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;We are looking for collaborators who are interested in using PCLab in introductory Java/Python programming classes. PCLab is designed to help students to construct program, it consists of programming examples and coding exercises for different topics in the introductory programming course.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Videos == &lt;br /&gt;
The following videos introduce PCLab for Java/Python programming. &lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Pclab_challenge.jpg|left|thumb|'''100'''|PCLab]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | * [http://bit.ly/pclab-java PCLab (Java)].&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-python PCLab (Python)].&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== More about Open Social Learner Model Interface: Mastery Grids ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | PCLab presents examples and problems using Mastery Grids interface. To read more about Mastery Grids. Mastery Grids is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YLR2VY2QE YouTube demo of  Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-dev2/index.html?usr=adl05&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Publications==&lt;br /&gt;
* Loboda, T., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization. In: S. de Freitas, C. Rensing, P. J. Muñoz Merino and T. Ley (eds.) Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014), Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014 (Best paper award). ([http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-11200-8_18#page-1 paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/ectel2014-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Zadorozhny, V. (2015) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. In: F. Ricci, K. Bontcheva, O. Conlan and S. Lawless (eds.) Proceedings of 23nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, , June 29 - July 3, 2015, Springer Verlag, pp. 44-55 ([https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280805929_The_Value_of_Social_Comparing_Open_Student_Modeling_and_Open_Social_Student_Modeling paper] [http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/umap2015-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Hsiao, I.-H., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P. (2015) What Should I Do Next? Adaptive Sequencing in the Context of Open Social Student Modeling. Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2015), Toledo, Spain, September 15-18, 2015, pp. 155-168. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26266/1/camera_ready.pdf paper])([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/ectel-2015 presentation]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Sirkiä, T., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P., Malmi, L. (2016) Animated Examples as Practice Content in a Java Programming Course. Proceedings of the 47th ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Memphis, Tennessee, March 2-5, 2016. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/28928/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Somyurek, S., and Brusilovsky, P. (2016) An Intelligent Interface for Learning Content: Combining an Open Learner Model and Social Comparison to Support Self-Regulated Learning and Engagement. In: Proceedings of Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '16), Sonoma, California, USA, ACM, pp. 152-163. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/27083/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Zadorozhny, V., and Durlach, P. (2016) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 4 (3), 450-461. ([https://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/ec/2016/03/07359179.pdf paper])&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3806</id>
		<title>Looking For Collaborators</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3806"/>
		<updated>2017-12-14T01:34:11Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: /* Videos */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;We are looking for collaborators who are interested in using PCLab in introductory Java/Python programming classes. PCLab is designed to help students to construct program, it consists of programming examples and coding exercises for different topics in the introductory programming course.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Videos == &lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Pclab_challenge.jpg|left|thumb|'''100'''|PCLab]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | * [http://bit.ly/pclab-java PCLab (Java)].&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-python PCLab (Python)].&lt;br /&gt;
The following videos introduce PCLab for Java/Python programming. &lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== More about Open Social Learner Model Interface: Mastery Grids ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | PCLab presents examples and problems using Mastery Grids interface. To read more about Mastery Grids. Mastery Grids is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YLR2VY2QE YouTube demo of  Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-dev2/index.html?usr=adl05&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Publications==&lt;br /&gt;
* Loboda, T., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization. In: S. de Freitas, C. Rensing, P. J. Muñoz Merino and T. Ley (eds.) Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014), Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014 (Best paper award). ([http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-11200-8_18#page-1 paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/ectel2014-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Zadorozhny, V. (2015) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. In: F. Ricci, K. Bontcheva, O. Conlan and S. Lawless (eds.) Proceedings of 23nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, , June 29 - July 3, 2015, Springer Verlag, pp. 44-55 ([https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280805929_The_Value_of_Social_Comparing_Open_Student_Modeling_and_Open_Social_Student_Modeling paper] [http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/umap2015-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Hsiao, I.-H., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P. (2015) What Should I Do Next? Adaptive Sequencing in the Context of Open Social Student Modeling. Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2015), Toledo, Spain, September 15-18, 2015, pp. 155-168. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26266/1/camera_ready.pdf paper])([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/ectel-2015 presentation]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Sirkiä, T., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P., Malmi, L. (2016) Animated Examples as Practice Content in a Java Programming Course. Proceedings of the 47th ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Memphis, Tennessee, March 2-5, 2016. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/28928/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Somyurek, S., and Brusilovsky, P. (2016) An Intelligent Interface for Learning Content: Combining an Open Learner Model and Social Comparison to Support Self-Regulated Learning and Engagement. In: Proceedings of Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '16), Sonoma, California, USA, ACM, pp. 152-163. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/27083/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Zadorozhny, V., and Durlach, P. (2016) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 4 (3), 450-461. ([https://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/ec/2016/03/07359179.pdf paper])&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3805</id>
		<title>Looking For Collaborators</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3805"/>
		<updated>2017-12-14T01:33:32Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;We are looking for collaborators who are interested in using PCLab in introductory Java/Python programming classes. PCLab is designed to help students to construct program, it consists of programming examples and coding exercises for different topics in the introductory programming course.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Videos == &lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Pclab_challenge.jpg|left|'''100'''|PCLab]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | * [http://bit.ly/pclab-java PCLab (Java)].&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-python PCLab (Python)].&lt;br /&gt;
The following videos introduce PCLab for Java/Python programming. &lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== More about Open Social Learner Model Interface: Mastery Grids ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | PCLab presents examples and problems using Mastery Grids interface. To read more about Mastery Grids. Mastery Grids is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YLR2VY2QE YouTube demo of  Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-dev2/index.html?usr=adl05&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Publications==&lt;br /&gt;
* Loboda, T., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization. In: S. de Freitas, C. Rensing, P. J. Muñoz Merino and T. Ley (eds.) Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014), Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014 (Best paper award). ([http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-11200-8_18#page-1 paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/ectel2014-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Zadorozhny, V. (2015) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. In: F. Ricci, K. Bontcheva, O. Conlan and S. Lawless (eds.) Proceedings of 23nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, , June 29 - July 3, 2015, Springer Verlag, pp. 44-55 ([https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280805929_The_Value_of_Social_Comparing_Open_Student_Modeling_and_Open_Social_Student_Modeling paper] [http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/umap2015-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Hsiao, I.-H., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P. (2015) What Should I Do Next? Adaptive Sequencing in the Context of Open Social Student Modeling. Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2015), Toledo, Spain, September 15-18, 2015, pp. 155-168. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26266/1/camera_ready.pdf paper])([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/ectel-2015 presentation]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Sirkiä, T., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P., Malmi, L. (2016) Animated Examples as Practice Content in a Java Programming Course. Proceedings of the 47th ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Memphis, Tennessee, March 2-5, 2016. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/28928/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Somyurek, S., and Brusilovsky, P. (2016) An Intelligent Interface for Learning Content: Combining an Open Learner Model and Social Comparison to Support Self-Regulated Learning and Engagement. In: Proceedings of Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '16), Sonoma, California, USA, ACM, pp. 152-163. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/27083/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Zadorozhny, V., and Durlach, P. (2016) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 4 (3), 450-461. ([https://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/ec/2016/03/07359179.pdf paper])&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3804</id>
		<title>Looking For Collaborators</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3804"/>
		<updated>2017-12-14T01:33:22Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;We are looking for collaborators who are interested in using PCLab in introductory Java/Python programming classes. PCLab is designed to help students to construct program, it consists of programming examples and coding exercises for different topics in the introductory programming course.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Videos == &lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Pclab_challenge.jpg|thumbtime|left|'''100'''|PCLab]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | * [http://bit.ly/pclab-java PCLab (Java)].&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-python PCLab (Python)].&lt;br /&gt;
The following videos introduce PCLab for Java/Python programming. &lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== More about Open Social Learner Model Interface: Mastery Grids ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | PCLab presents examples and problems using Mastery Grids interface. To read more about Mastery Grids. Mastery Grids is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YLR2VY2QE YouTube demo of  Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-dev2/index.html?usr=adl05&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Publications==&lt;br /&gt;
* Loboda, T., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization. In: S. de Freitas, C. Rensing, P. J. Muñoz Merino and T. Ley (eds.) Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014), Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014 (Best paper award). ([http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-11200-8_18#page-1 paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/ectel2014-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Zadorozhny, V. (2015) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. In: F. Ricci, K. Bontcheva, O. Conlan and S. Lawless (eds.) Proceedings of 23nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, , June 29 - July 3, 2015, Springer Verlag, pp. 44-55 ([https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280805929_The_Value_of_Social_Comparing_Open_Student_Modeling_and_Open_Social_Student_Modeling paper] [http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/umap2015-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Hsiao, I.-H., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P. (2015) What Should I Do Next? Adaptive Sequencing in the Context of Open Social Student Modeling. Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2015), Toledo, Spain, September 15-18, 2015, pp. 155-168. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26266/1/camera_ready.pdf paper])([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/ectel-2015 presentation]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Sirkiä, T., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P., Malmi, L. (2016) Animated Examples as Practice Content in a Java Programming Course. Proceedings of the 47th ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Memphis, Tennessee, March 2-5, 2016. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/28928/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Somyurek, S., and Brusilovsky, P. (2016) An Intelligent Interface for Learning Content: Combining an Open Learner Model and Social Comparison to Support Self-Regulated Learning and Engagement. In: Proceedings of Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '16), Sonoma, California, USA, ACM, pp. 152-163. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/27083/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Zadorozhny, V., and Durlach, P. (2016) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 4 (3), 450-461. ([https://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/ec/2016/03/07359179.pdf paper])&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3803</id>
		<title>Looking For Collaborators</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3803"/>
		<updated>2017-12-14T01:33:04Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;We are looking for collaborators who are interested in using PCLab in introductory Java/Python programming classes. PCLab is designed to help students to construct program, it consists of programming examples and coding exercises for different topics in the introductory programming course.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Videos == &lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Pclab_challenge.jpg|thumbtime=Time|left|'''100'''|PCLab]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | * [http://bit.ly/pclab-java PCLab (Java)].&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-python PCLab (Python)].&lt;br /&gt;
The following videos introduce PCLab for Java/Python programming. &lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== More about Open Social Learner Model Interface: Mastery Grids ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | PCLab presents examples and problems using Mastery Grids interface. To read more about Mastery Grids. Mastery Grids is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YLR2VY2QE YouTube demo of  Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-dev2/index.html?usr=adl05&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Publications==&lt;br /&gt;
* Loboda, T., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization. In: S. de Freitas, C. Rensing, P. J. Muñoz Merino and T. Ley (eds.) Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014), Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014 (Best paper award). ([http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-11200-8_18#page-1 paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/ectel2014-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Zadorozhny, V. (2015) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. In: F. Ricci, K. Bontcheva, O. Conlan and S. Lawless (eds.) Proceedings of 23nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, , June 29 - July 3, 2015, Springer Verlag, pp. 44-55 ([https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280805929_The_Value_of_Social_Comparing_Open_Student_Modeling_and_Open_Social_Student_Modeling paper] [http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/umap2015-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Hsiao, I.-H., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P. (2015) What Should I Do Next? Adaptive Sequencing in the Context of Open Social Student Modeling. Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2015), Toledo, Spain, September 15-18, 2015, pp. 155-168. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26266/1/camera_ready.pdf paper])([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/ectel-2015 presentation]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Sirkiä, T., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P., Malmi, L. (2016) Animated Examples as Practice Content in a Java Programming Course. Proceedings of the 47th ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Memphis, Tennessee, March 2-5, 2016. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/28928/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Somyurek, S., and Brusilovsky, P. (2016) An Intelligent Interface for Learning Content: Combining an Open Learner Model and Social Comparison to Support Self-Regulated Learning and Engagement. In: Proceedings of Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '16), Sonoma, California, USA, ACM, pp. 152-163. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/27083/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Zadorozhny, V., and Durlach, P. (2016) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 4 (3), 450-461. ([https://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/ec/2016/03/07359179.pdf paper])&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3802</id>
		<title>Looking For Collaborators</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3802"/>
		<updated>2017-12-14T01:21:30Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: /* Videos */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;We are looking for collaborators who are interested in using PCLab in introductory Java/Python programming classes. PCLab is designed to help students to construct program, it consists of programming examples and coding exercises for different topics in the introductory programming course.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Videos == &lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Pclab_challenge.jpg|thumb|left|'''100'''|PCLab]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | * [http://bit.ly/pclab-java PCLab (Java)].&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-python PCLab (Python)].&lt;br /&gt;
The following videos introduce PCLab for Java/Python programming. &lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== More about Open Social Learner Model Interface: Mastery Grids ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | PCLab presents examples and problems using Mastery Grids interface. To read more about Mastery Grids. Mastery Grids is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YLR2VY2QE YouTube demo of  Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-dev2/index.html?usr=adl05&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Publications==&lt;br /&gt;
* Loboda, T., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization. In: S. de Freitas, C. Rensing, P. J. Muñoz Merino and T. Ley (eds.) Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014), Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014 (Best paper award). ([http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-11200-8_18#page-1 paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/ectel2014-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Zadorozhny, V. (2015) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. In: F. Ricci, K. Bontcheva, O. Conlan and S. Lawless (eds.) Proceedings of 23nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, , June 29 - July 3, 2015, Springer Verlag, pp. 44-55 ([https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280805929_The_Value_of_Social_Comparing_Open_Student_Modeling_and_Open_Social_Student_Modeling paper] [http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/umap2015-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Hsiao, I.-H., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P. (2015) What Should I Do Next? Adaptive Sequencing in the Context of Open Social Student Modeling. Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2015), Toledo, Spain, September 15-18, 2015, pp. 155-168. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26266/1/camera_ready.pdf paper])([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/ectel-2015 presentation]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Sirkiä, T., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P., Malmi, L. (2016) Animated Examples as Practice Content in a Java Programming Course. Proceedings of the 47th ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Memphis, Tennessee, March 2-5, 2016. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/28928/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Somyurek, S., and Brusilovsky, P. (2016) An Intelligent Interface for Learning Content: Combining an Open Learner Model and Social Comparison to Support Self-Regulated Learning and Engagement. In: Proceedings of Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '16), Sonoma, California, USA, ACM, pp. 152-163. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/27083/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Zadorozhny, V., and Durlach, P. (2016) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 4 (3), 450-461. ([https://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/ec/2016/03/07359179.pdf paper])&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=File:Pclab_challenge.jpg&amp;diff=3801</id>
		<title>File:Pclab challenge.jpg</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=File:Pclab_challenge.jpg&amp;diff=3801"/>
		<updated>2017-12-14T01:20:48Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=File:Pclab_example.jpg&amp;diff=3800</id>
		<title>File:Pclab example.jpg</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=File:Pclab_example.jpg&amp;diff=3800"/>
		<updated>2017-12-14T01:20:20Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=File:Pclab_pcrs.jpg&amp;diff=3799</id>
		<title>File:Pclab pcrs.jpg</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=File:Pclab_pcrs.jpg&amp;diff=3799"/>
		<updated>2017-12-14T01:20:03Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3798</id>
		<title>Looking For Collaborators</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3798"/>
		<updated>2017-12-14T01:07:59Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;We are looking for collaborators who are interested in using PCLab in introductory Java/Python programming classes. PCLab is designed to help students to construct program, it consists of programming examples and coding exercises for different topics in the introductory programming course.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Videos == &lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:pclab.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|PCLab]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | * [http://bit.ly/pclab-java PCLab (Java)].&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-python PCLab (Python)].&lt;br /&gt;
The following videos introduce PCLab for Java/Python programming. &lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== More about Open Social Learner Model Interface: Mastery Grids ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | PCLab presents examples and problems using Mastery Grids interface. To read more about Mastery Grids. Mastery Grids is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YLR2VY2QE YouTube demo of  Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-dev2/index.html?usr=adl05&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Publications==&lt;br /&gt;
* Loboda, T., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization. In: S. de Freitas, C. Rensing, P. J. Muñoz Merino and T. Ley (eds.) Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014), Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014 (Best paper award). ([http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-11200-8_18#page-1 paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/ectel2014-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Zadorozhny, V. (2015) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. In: F. Ricci, K. Bontcheva, O. Conlan and S. Lawless (eds.) Proceedings of 23nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, , June 29 - July 3, 2015, Springer Verlag, pp. 44-55 ([https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280805929_The_Value_of_Social_Comparing_Open_Student_Modeling_and_Open_Social_Student_Modeling paper] [http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/umap2015-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Hsiao, I.-H., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P. (2015) What Should I Do Next? Adaptive Sequencing in the Context of Open Social Student Modeling. Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2015), Toledo, Spain, September 15-18, 2015, pp. 155-168. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26266/1/camera_ready.pdf paper])([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/ectel-2015 presentation]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Sirkiä, T., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P., Malmi, L. (2016) Animated Examples as Practice Content in a Java Programming Course. Proceedings of the 47th ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Memphis, Tennessee, March 2-5, 2016. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/28928/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Somyurek, S., and Brusilovsky, P. (2016) An Intelligent Interface for Learning Content: Combining an Open Learner Model and Social Comparison to Support Self-Regulated Learning and Engagement. In: Proceedings of Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '16), Sonoma, California, USA, ACM, pp. 152-163. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/27083/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Zadorozhny, V., and Durlach, P. (2016) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 4 (3), 450-461. ([https://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/ec/2016/03/07359179.pdf paper])&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sidebar&amp;diff=3797</id>
		<title>MediaWiki:Sidebar</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sidebar&amp;diff=3797"/>
		<updated>2017-12-13T19:29:51Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: &lt;/p&gt;
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		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
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		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sidebar&amp;diff=3796</id>
		<title>MediaWiki:Sidebar</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sidebar&amp;diff=3796"/>
		<updated>2017-12-13T19:29:12Z</updated>

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		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
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		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sidebar&amp;diff=3795</id>
		<title>MediaWiki:Sidebar</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sidebar&amp;diff=3795"/>
		<updated>2017-12-13T19:28:11Z</updated>

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	</entry>
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		<title>MediaWiki:Sidebar</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sidebar&amp;diff=3794"/>
		<updated>2017-12-13T19:27:45Z</updated>

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* TOOLBOX&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sidebar&amp;diff=3793</id>
		<title>MediaWiki:Sidebar</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sidebar&amp;diff=3793"/>
		<updated>2017-12-13T19:27:30Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;* navigation&lt;br /&gt;
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** Publications|Publications&lt;br /&gt;
** People|People&lt;br /&gt;
** Meetings|Meetings&lt;br /&gt;
** News|News&lt;br /&gt;
** Looking for Collaborators|Looking for Collaborators&lt;br /&gt;
** Photos|Photos&lt;br /&gt;
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* SEARCH&lt;br /&gt;
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** randompage-url|randompage&lt;br /&gt;
** http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Contents|help&lt;br /&gt;
** Special:Statistics|Statistics&lt;br /&gt;
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* TOOLBOX&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3792</id>
		<title>Looking For Collaborators</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3792"/>
		<updated>2017-12-13T19:21:48Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;== Videos == &lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-java PCLab (Java)].&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-python PCLab (Python)].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== More about Open Social Learner Model Interface: Mastery Grids ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Our latest implementation of Open Social Learner Modeling (OSLM) is [[Mastery Grids Interface]]. Mastery Grids is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YLR2VY2QE YouTube demo of  Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-dev2/index.html?usr=adl05&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Publications==&lt;br /&gt;
* Loboda, T., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization. In: S. de Freitas, C. Rensing, P. J. Muñoz Merino and T. Ley (eds.) Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014), Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014 (Best paper award). ([http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-11200-8_18#page-1 paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/ectel2014-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Zadorozhny, V. (2015) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. In: F. Ricci, K. Bontcheva, O. Conlan and S. Lawless (eds.) Proceedings of 23nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, , June 29 - July 3, 2015, Springer Verlag, pp. 44-55 ([https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280805929_The_Value_of_Social_Comparing_Open_Student_Modeling_and_Open_Social_Student_Modeling paper] [http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/umap2015-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Hsiao, I.-H., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P. (2015) What Should I Do Next? Adaptive Sequencing in the Context of Open Social Student Modeling. Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2015), Toledo, Spain, September 15-18, 2015, pp. 155-168. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26266/1/camera_ready.pdf paper])([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/ectel-2015 presentation]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Sirkiä, T., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P., Malmi, L. (2016) Animated Examples as Practice Content in a Java Programming Course. Proceedings of the 47th ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Memphis, Tennessee, March 2-5, 2016. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/28928/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Somyurek, S., and Brusilovsky, P. (2016) An Intelligent Interface for Learning Content: Combining an Open Learner Model and Social Comparison to Support Self-Regulated Learning and Engagement. In: Proceedings of Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '16), Sonoma, California, USA, ACM, pp. 152-163. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/27083/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Zadorozhny, V., and Durlach, P. (2016) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 4 (3), 450-461. ([https://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/ec/2016/03/07359179.pdf paper])&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3791</id>
		<title>Looking For Collaborators</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3791"/>
		<updated>2017-12-13T19:21:13Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;== Open Social Learner Model Interface: Mastery Grids ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Our latest implementation of Open Social Learner Modeling (OSLM) is [[Mastery Grids Interface]]. Mastery Grids is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YLR2VY2QE YouTube demo of  Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-dev2/index.html?usr=adl05&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Videos == &lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-java PCLab (Java)].&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-python PCLab (Python)].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
==Publications==&lt;br /&gt;
* Loboda, T., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization. In: S. de Freitas, C. Rensing, P. J. Muñoz Merino and T. Ley (eds.) Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014), Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014 (Best paper award). ([http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-11200-8_18#page-1 paper]) ([http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/ectel2014-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., and Zadorozhny, V. (2015) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. In: F. Ricci, K. Bontcheva, O. Conlan and S. Lawless (eds.) Proceedings of 23nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2015), Dublin, Ireland, , June 29 - July 3, 2015, Springer Verlag, pp. 44-55 ([https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280805929_The_Value_of_Social_Comparing_Open_Student_Modeling_and_Open_Social_Student_Modeling paper] [http://www.slideshare.net/pbrusilovsky/umap2015-mg presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Hsiao, I.-H., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P. (2015) What Should I Do Next? Adaptive Sequencing in the Context of Open Social Student Modeling. Proceedings of 10th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2015), Toledo, Spain, September 15-18, 2015, pp. 155-168. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/26266/1/camera_ready.pdf paper])([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/ectel-2015 presentation]).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Hosseini, R., Sirkiä, T., Guerra, J., Brusilovsky, P., Malmi, L. (2016) Animated Examples as Practice Content in a Java Programming Course. Proceedings of the 47th ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), Memphis, Tennessee, March 2-5, 2016. ([http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/28928/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Somyurek, S., and Brusilovsky, P. (2016) An Intelligent Interface for Learning Content: Combining an Open Learner Model and Social Comparison to Support Self-Regulated Learning and Engagement. In: Proceedings of Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '16), Sonoma, California, USA, ACM, pp. 152-163. ([https://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/secure/27083/1/sigcse2016.pdf paper])  ([http://www.slideshare.net/RoyaHosseini1/sigcse-2016 presentation])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Somyurek, S., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Zadorozhny, V., and Durlach, P. (2016) The Value of Social: Comparing Open Student Modeling and Open Social Student Modeling. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing 4 (3), 450-461. ([https://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/ec/2016/03/07359179.pdf paper])&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3790</id>
		<title>Looking For Collaborators</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3790"/>
		<updated>2017-12-13T19:17:05Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;== Open Social Learner Model Interface: Mastery Grids ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Our latest implementation of Open Social Learner Modeling (OSLM) is [[Mastery Grids Interface]]. Mastery Grids is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YLR2VY2QE YouTube demo of  Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-dev2/index.html?usr=adl05&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Videos == &lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-java PCLab (Java)].&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-python PCLab (Python)].&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3789</id>
		<title>Looking For Collaborators</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3789"/>
		<updated>2017-12-13T19:14:36Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;== Open Social Learner Model Interface: Mastery Grids ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Our latest implementation of Open Social Learner Modeling (OSLM) is [[Mastery Grids Interface]]. Mastery Grids is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YLR2VY2QE YouTube demo of  Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-dev2/index.html?usr=adl04&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Videos == &lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-java PCLab (Java)].&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-python PCLab (Python)].&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3788</id>
		<title>Looking For Collaborators</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3788"/>
		<updated>2017-12-13T19:14:13Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;== Open Social Learner Model Interface: Mastery Grids ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Our latest implementation of Open Social Learner Modeling (OSLM) is [[Mastery Grids Interface]]. Mastery Grids is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YLR2VY2QE YouTube demo of  Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-dev2/index.html?usr=adl01&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Videos == &lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-java PCLab (Java)].&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-python PCLab (Python)].&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3787</id>
		<title>Looking For Collaborators</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Looking_For_Collaborators&amp;diff=3787"/>
		<updated>2017-12-13T19:13:27Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: /* Videos */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;== Open Social Learner Model Interface: Mastery Grids ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Our latest implementation of Open Social Learner Modeling (OSLM) is [[Mastery Grids Interface]]. Mastery Grids is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YLR2VY2QE YouTube demo of  Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-adl/index.html?usr=adl01&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Videos == &lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-java PCLab (Java)].&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-python PCLab (Python)].&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: New page: == Videos ==  * [http://bit.ly/pclab-python PCLab (Python)].  * [http://bit.ly/pclab-java PCLab (Java)].&lt;/p&gt;
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* [http://bit.ly/pclab-python PCLab (Python)]. &lt;br /&gt;
* [http://bit.ly/pclab-java PCLab (Java)].&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: /* &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-02-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-02-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Peter Brusilovsky received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring */&lt;/p&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-02-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-02-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our mentor at PAWS, Dr. Peter Brusilovsky, on receiving the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring!  Read more on [http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=42853 University Times]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-11-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-11-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to  Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]]has joined [http://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/department-of-information-and-computing-sciences the Department of Information and Computing Sciences] at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). The tenure-track position in computer science with the focus on educational technology started on November 1st, 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-07-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-07-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'. More details on the thesis can be accessed [here]. She will now join the University of Albany as an Assistant Professor in September 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-05-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-05-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board  ====&lt;br /&gt;
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Two SIS faculty members on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board. &lt;br /&gt;
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Peter Brusilovsky, professor and current chair of the Information Sciences program, and Rosta Farzan, assistant professor of Information Sciences &amp;amp; Technology, have been selected as associate editors of the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) new journal titled “Transactions on Social Computing.”&lt;br /&gt;
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This quarterly journal will publish works encompassing theoretical, empirical, systems, and design research on social computing. It will be part of the ACM Digital Library, which is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-03-04&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-03-04&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Congratulations to [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] for receiving Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang and Roya Hosseini received prestigious Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award for the academic year 2016-2017.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-02-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-02-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou gave a talk on the topic of &amp;quot;Personalized Crowdsourcing&amp;quot; ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Lykourentzou  illustrated the potential that personalization has for the improvement of crowdsourcing systems, through two example applications. The first application was about making personalized task recommendations to crowd workers, and the second application was about personalizing team building, i.e. a method that brings people to work together on a collaborating task taking into account their individual personalities. &lt;br /&gt;
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At the time, Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou was a researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology and was collaborating with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, as Visiting Researcher.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]  and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He (project lead and co-lead respectively) has been awarded a Nation Science Foundation Information and Intelligent Systems grant for their project titled “[[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]].” The project will focus on streamlining and expanding the reach of effective adaptive educational hypermedia, which allows students and independent learners without access to traditional classrooms to gain a personalized education.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-04-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-04-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities'. ====&lt;br /&gt;
More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/25836/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-11-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-11-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;, and presented his research on Recommender Systems. &lt;br /&gt;
Please find the slides [http://www.slideshare.net/denisparra/keynote-at-chilean-week-of-computer-science here].&lt;br /&gt;
The abstract of the talk is also available at the home page of the event, JCC 2014. [http://www.jcc2014.ucm.cl/en/ (more)].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-09-19&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-09-19&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: PAWS won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Tomek, [[User:Julio | Julio]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya]], and [[User:peterb| Peter]]! Their paper entitled &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266656951_Mastery_Grids_An_Open_Source_Social_Educational_Progress_Visualization Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization]&amp;quot; has won the best paper award of EC-TEL 2014 conference. More details on the paper can be accessed [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-11200-8_18 here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-05-06&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-05-06&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] is appointed as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall.====&lt;br /&gt;
On completing 2 years successful post-doctoral innovation fellow position in [http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu EdLab], Teachers College @ Columbia University, [[User: shoha99 | Sharon]] is moving onto a tenure-track position in [http://cidse.engineering.asu.edu School of Computing, Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering] (AKA: Engineering school) in [http://www.asu.edu Arizona State University], Phoenix, Arizona. She anticipates to continue working on the emerging topics of computational technologies in learning. Meanwhile, persistently dedicate to the course - [http://www.columbia.edu/~ih2240/dataviz/index.htm Data Visualization], which she established in [http://www.qmss.columbia.edu QMSS (Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences)], School of Arts &amp;amp; Sciences in [http://www.columbia.edu Columbia University]. For more details see [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-14-2014.php SIS news].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] to deliver a keynote at a WWW 2014 workshop. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter will deliver a keynote titled &amp;quot;Addictive Links: Engaging Students through Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Student Modeling&amp;quot; at [http://www2014.kr/program/webet-2014/ WebET 2014] - Workshop on Web-based Education Technologies at the Word Wide Web Conference in Seoul, Korea. The talk will present PAWS work on such systems as [[QuizGuide]], [[NavEx]], JavaGuide, [[Progressor]], and [[ProgressorPlus|Progressor+]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Jennifer | Yi-Ling(Jennifer) Lin]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan.====&lt;br /&gt;
Yi-Ling (Jennifer) joined the Information Management faculty at the National Sun Yat-Sen University [http://http://epage.mis.nsysu.edu.tw/files/11-1100-4988-1.php?Lang=en] where she is an Assistant Professor. She is teaching Java course and continues to cooperate with Paws Lab to explore the social comparison in cyberlearning.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-08-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-08-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] started a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.====&lt;br /&gt;
Denis joined the faculty at the School of Engineering in Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, [http://www.topuniversities.com/node/2261/ranking-details/latin-american-university-rankings/2013  ranked 2nd among Latinamerican Universities],  where he is an [http://www.ing.puc.cl/cuerpo-docente/parra-santander/ Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science]. At the undergraduate level, he is teaching a course that explores several topics for the major in Computer Science, and at the graduate level he teaches Data Mining in the [http://mpgi.ing.puc.cl/profesores.html  Master for Information Processing and Management]. He continues doing research on Recommender Systems, the topic he investigated while a student at the PAWS lab, and is also Analyzing Social Media, collaborating with PAWS lab student Xidao Wen, studying [http://www.christophtrattner.info/pubs/ht2014.pdf how Twitter is used in academic Conferences]. In addition, he is fostering collaboration between professor Brusilovsky and some areas of teaching such as Databases in the CS department at Catholic University.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-18&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-18&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[Systems#KnowledgeZoom | KnowledgeZoom]] paper receives ICALT 2013 Best full Paper Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to paws! &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256524709_KnowledgeZoom_for_Java_A_Concept-Based_Exam_Study_Tool_with_a_Zoomable_Open_Student_Model KnowledgeZoom for Java: A Concept Based Exam Study Tool with a Zoomable Open Student Model]&amp;quot; won the best full paper award of ICALT 2013 conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Falakmasir | Mohammad Falakmasir]] won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Mohammad! His paper with Zachary A. Pardos, Geoffrey J. Gordon, and Peter Brusilovsky entitled &amp;quot;A Spectral Learning Approach to Knowledge Tracing&amp;quot; won the best student paper award of EDM 2013 conference. In his paper, he proposed using Spectral Learning (SL) to learn the BKT parameters.  Results of his study showed that SL can improve knowledge tracing parameter fitting time significantly while maintaining the same prediction accuracy. For more details on his paper please refer to his article [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/presentation2.php?presentationID=5323&amp;amp;conferenceID=115]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair. ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]], has been selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair by the Fulbright Commission. With this Award Peter will spend 5 month in FInland collaborating with researchers from University of Helsinki, Aalto University, and Helsinki Institute of Information Technology. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky, Professor at the iSchool, has been awarded a contract by the United States Army Contracting Command to participate in the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. Brusilovsky’ s contract, for $623,005 over a three-year period, will support the project [[Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Learner Modeling for PAL]] that will focus on the architecture, algorithms, and interfaces for a Personal Assistant for Learning (PAL), one of the major endeavors undertaken by the ADL Initiative. Through a PAL, the Initiative will provide state of the art education and training -- using technology and innovative learning methodologies -- for workforce members in the Department of Defense and the federal government. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-04-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-04-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Sergey Sosnovsky profiled in International Innovation ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky, who earned his PhD in Information Science in 2012, was recently profiled in International Innovation Magazine about his work on eLearning systems research and tools. Sosnovsky is the Principal Researcher and Head of the Intelligent e-Learning Technology Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbruken, Germany. The article explored his work on the Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content project funded by the European Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service. The magazine article (published March 2013) discussed how Sosnovsky’s project will enhance adaptive e-Learning by making it possible to develop smart instructional material for a broader audience of content authors. The article can be viewed at [[http://www.research-europe.com/magazine/REGIONAL/EX8/index.html]] , beginning on page 71.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-01-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-01-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt  IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies]. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter is appointed the Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, a journal dedicated to advancing the state of the art in technology-enhanced learning. This quarterly publication covers leading edge research on topics such as educational software applications, online learning systems, and simulation systems for education and training. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/3-11-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-08-26&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Rosta! After 3 years as a postdoc at CMU, she is now back to Pitt as an Assistant Professor. During her first semester at SIS she is teaching IS2430 Social Computing course. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-02-2012.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] Thesis Defence: Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
A large number of educational resources is now made available on the Web to support both regular classroom learning and online learning. However, the abundance of available content produced at least two problems: how to help students to find the most appropriate resources and how to engage them into using these resources and benefit from them. Personalized and social learning have been suggested as potential ways to address these problems.&lt;br /&gt;
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This work attempts to combine the ideas of personalized and social learning by providing navigation support through an open social student modeling visualization. A series of classroom studies exploited the idea of the approach and revealed promising results, which demonstrated the personalized guidance and social visualization combined helped students to find the most relevant resources of parameterized self-assessment questions for Java programming. Thus, this dissertation extend the approach to a larger collection of learning objects for cross content navigation and verify its capability of supporting social visualization for personalized E-Learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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The study results confirm that working with the non-mandatory system, students enhanced the learning quality in increasing their motivation and engagement. They successfully achieved better learning results. Meanwhile, incorporating a mixed collection of content in the open social student modeling visualizations effectively led the students to work at the right level of questions. Both strong and weak student worked with the appropriate levels of questions for their readiness accordingly and yielded a consistent performance across all three levels of complexities. Additionally, providing a more realistic content collection on the navigation supported open social student modeling visualizations results in a uniform performance in the group. The classroom study revealed a clear pattern of social guidance, where the stronger students left the traces for weaker ones to follow. The subjective evaluation confirms the design of the interface in terms of the content organization. Students’ positive responses also compliment the objective system usage data.&lt;br /&gt;
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download it from [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/13439/ here]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-11-30&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-11-30&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Thesis Defence: Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Conventional closed-corpus adaptive information systems control limited sets of documents in fixed subject domains and cannot provide access to the content outside the system. Such restrictions contradict the requirements of today, when most of the information systems are implemented in the open document space of WWW and are expected to operate on the open-corpus content. In order to maintain personalized access to open-corpus documents, an adaptive system should be able to model the documents and the relations between the documents and the domain knowledge automatically and dynamically. This dissertation explores the problem of open-corpus personalization and semantic modeling of open-corpus content in the context of e-Learning. Information on WWW is not without structure. Many collections of online instructional material (tutorials, electronic books, digital libraries, etc.) have been provided with implicit knowledge models encoded in form of tables of content, indexes, headers of chapters, links between pages, and different styles of text fragments. The main dissertation approach tries to leverage this layer of hidden semantics by extracting and representing it as coarse-grained models of collections. A central domain ontology is used to maintain overlay modeling of studentsÕ knowledge and serves as a reference point for multiple collections of external instructional material. In order to establish the link between the ontology and the open-corpus content models a special ontology mapping algorithm has been developed.  The proposed approach has been applied in the Ontology-based Open-corpus Personalization Service (OOPS) that recommends and adaptively annotates online reading material. The domain of Java programming has been chosen for the proof-of-concept implementation. A controlled experiment has been organized to evaluate the developed adaptive system and the proposed approach overall. The results of the evaluation have demonstrated several significant learning effects of the implemented open-corpus personalization. The analysis of log-based data has also shown that the open-corpus version of the system is capable of providing personalization of similar quality to the close-corpus one. Such results indicate that the proposed approach supports fully-scale open-corpus personalization for e-Learning. Further research is required to verify if the approach remains effective in other subject domains and with other types of instructional content.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-07-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-07-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:DParra | Denis Parra]] earns a  James Chen Best Student paper award in UMAP 2011 ====&lt;br /&gt;
In the last conference of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011) Denis Parra won one of the 2 [http://www.umap2011.org/program/best-paper-awards James Chen Best Student paper awards] for his paper '''Walk The Talk: Analyzing the relation between implicit and explicit feedback for preference elicitation''' that he co-authored with Dr. Xavier Amatriain. In this paper, the authors present a study on the music domain with last.fm users, which results leads them to create a regression model that maps implicit information (such as playcounts and how recently a user listened to albums) with explicit information in the form of ratings. More details in the [http://www.springerlink.com/content/645721483544r815/  conference proceedings in Springer]. Denis is the third PAWS Lab member to receive this prestigious award. Prior to that, Rosta Farzan and Michael Yudelson won this award at earlier User Modeling conferences. Rosta also won another James Chen award at Adaptive Hypermedia conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] Promoted to Rank of Full Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our head of PAWS lab! [[http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/06-10-2011.php Read more ]]&lt;br /&gt;
==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon]] received 2011 Allen Kent Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Graduate Program in Information Science ==== &lt;br /&gt;
She has worked with [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gray/ Dr. Glenn Ray] several years in designing and teaching undergraduate courses. She's affiliated as teaching fellow and teaches in our school now.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-12-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-12-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] received Google grant to work on ''[[Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities]]'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
The grant will support our efforts to increase user participation in social systems designed for local communities. In the course of the project will explore two innovative ideas for increasing participation. The first idea is to provide access to information “beyond the desktop,” by adding a mobile location-based interface to access information. This will increase both the number of active users and the volume of their contributions. The second idea is to provide personalized access to information to increase the chance to gather relevant information. This work will be based on two existing social systems that were developed and maintained by PAWs lab: the [[Systems#CoMeT | CoMeT]] system for sharing information about research talks at Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh and [[Systems#Eventur | Eventur]], a social system for recommending cultural events in the Pittsburgh area.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] Thesis Defence: Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System ====&lt;br /&gt;
The dissertation proposes a novel way of speeding the development of new adaptive hypermedia systems. The gist of the approach is to extract the adaptation functionality out of the adaptive hypermedia system, encapsulate it into a standalone system, and offer adaptation as a service to the client applications. Such a standalone adaptation provider reduces the development of adaptation functionality to configuration and compliance and as a result creates new adaptive systems faster and helps serve larger user populations with adaptively accessible content. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=777 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
The electronic version of [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] dissertation has been approved by the School of Information Sciences. ETD is accessible worldwide from the online library catalog of the University of Pittsburgh ([http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-10132010-092137/ link]).&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This EAGER grant will allow us to investigate how to model and visualize latent communities – those groups of people who form communities based on their similar interests. This work will consider how to elicit latent communities from various kinds of data about individuals available in the modern social Web and deliver the results in a manner suitable for interactive exploration through interactive visualizations. This will be one of the first attempts to use a variety of social Web data and approaches to community modeling. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1059577 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] Thesis Defence: Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn's dissertation proposes to incorporate interactive visualization into personalized search in order to overcome the limitation. By combining the personalized search and the interactive visualization, we expect our approach will be able to help users to better explore the information space and locate relevant information more efficiently. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=764 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This one-year grant will support a project exploring personalization and social networking for short-term communities. Using academic research conferences as a test bed, our team will explore new methods to leverage information about user interests (available from multiple external resources) and develop techniques to facilitate use of existing social technologies. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1052768 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-08-15 :: SIGWeb Newsletter published an interview with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
The Summer 2010 issue of SIGWeb Newsletter (a magazine of ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web) published an [http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1796390.1796393 interview with Peter Brusilovsky]. The interview provides some personal view on research project performed at PAWS.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-07-01 :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook]] has received Computing Inovation Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn was chosen as a [http://cifellows.org  CIFellow] (Computing Innovation Fellow) supported by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the Computing Research Association (CRA), and the National Science Foundation.  Starting from the fall 2010, he is going to work with [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/ Dr. Ben Shneiderman] at the [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil Human Computer Interaction Lab], University of Maryland.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-05-01 :: Sergey has received EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky's proposal for EU [http://cordis.europa.eu/improving/fellowships/home.htm Marie Curie Fellowship] is approved by the EU Research Executive Agency. The funding starts in July, 2010 and will last until July 2012. The project &amp;quot;Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content&amp;quot; will focus on implementation of author-friendly technologies for learning content development, including collaborative authoring support, metadata authoring support, open-corpus content discovery, interactivity authoring, and gap detection.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-27 :: Rosta receives her second James Chen Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rosta Farzan received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 12th International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP2009, in Trento, Italy for the paper ''Social Navigation Support for Information Seeking: If You Build It, Will They Come?'' by Rosta Farzan and Peter Brusilovsky. This is her second James Chen Award, congratulations!&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-26 :: PAWS Caught on UMAP 2009 Video ====&lt;br /&gt;
* 0:27 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:09 [[User:Rostaf|Rosta]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:18 [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:51 [[User:Suleehs|Danielle]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 3:12 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]] and [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 4:01 [[User:Peterb|Peter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-05-28 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] awarded honorary doctorate by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava ====&lt;br /&gt;
At a ceremony in Bratislava today, Peter Brusilovsky was honored by the [http://www.stuba.sk/ Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava] with the degree of Doctor honoris causa. The university, founded in 1937 in Bratislava, is one of the most significant institutions of higher education in Slovakia. Peter was selected for this recognition for &amp;quot;his contributions to the fields of Informatics and Information Technologies&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2008-07-31 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] receives Best Paper Award at AH 2008 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky received Best Paper Award at the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2008, in Hannover, Germany  for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/6h410u3w4836v866/ ''Social Information Access for the Rest of Us: An Exploration of Social YouTube''] by Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Brusilovsky, and Barry Smyth&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2007-06-28 :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael]] receives James Chen Best Student Paper Award at UM 2007 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Michael Yudelson received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on User Modelling, UM07, in Corfu, Greece for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/c723060442701737/ ''A User Modeling Server for Contemporary Adaptive Hypermedia: an Evaluation of Push Approach  to Evidence Propagation''] by Michael Yudelson, Peter Brusilovsky, and Vladimir Zadorozhny&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-02-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-02-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our mentor at PAWS, Dr. Peter Brusilovsky, on receiving the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring!  Read more on [[http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=42853|University Times]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-11-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-11-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to  Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]]has joined [http://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/department-of-information-and-computing-sciences the Department of Information and Computing Sciences] at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). The tenure-track position in computer science with the focus on educational technology started on November 1st, 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-07-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-07-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'. More details on the thesis can be accessed [here]. She will now join the University of Albany as an Assistant Professor in September 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-05-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-05-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board  ====&lt;br /&gt;
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Two SIS faculty members on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board. &lt;br /&gt;
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Peter Brusilovsky, professor and current chair of the Information Sciences program, and Rosta Farzan, assistant professor of Information Sciences &amp;amp; Technology, have been selected as associate editors of the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) new journal titled “Transactions on Social Computing.”&lt;br /&gt;
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This quarterly journal will publish works encompassing theoretical, empirical, systems, and design research on social computing. It will be part of the ACM Digital Library, which is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-03-04&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-03-04&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Congratulations to [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] for receiving Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang and Roya Hosseini received prestigious Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award for the academic year 2016-2017.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-02-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-02-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou gave a talk on the topic of &amp;quot;Personalized Crowdsourcing&amp;quot; ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Lykourentzou  illustrated the potential that personalization has for the improvement of crowdsourcing systems, through two example applications. The first application was about making personalized task recommendations to crowd workers, and the second application was about personalizing team building, i.e. a method that brings people to work together on a collaborating task taking into account their individual personalities. &lt;br /&gt;
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At the time, Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou was a researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology and was collaborating with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, as Visiting Researcher.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]  and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He (project lead and co-lead respectively) has been awarded a Nation Science Foundation Information and Intelligent Systems grant for their project titled “[[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]].” The project will focus on streamlining and expanding the reach of effective adaptive educational hypermedia, which allows students and independent learners without access to traditional classrooms to gain a personalized education.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-04-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-04-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities'. ====&lt;br /&gt;
More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/25836/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-11-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-11-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;, and presented his research on Recommender Systems. &lt;br /&gt;
Please find the slides [http://www.slideshare.net/denisparra/keynote-at-chilean-week-of-computer-science here].&lt;br /&gt;
The abstract of the talk is also available at the home page of the event, JCC 2014. [http://www.jcc2014.ucm.cl/en/ (more)].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-09-19&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-09-19&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: PAWS won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Tomek, [[User:Julio | Julio]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya]], and [[User:peterb| Peter]]! Their paper entitled &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266656951_Mastery_Grids_An_Open_Source_Social_Educational_Progress_Visualization Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization]&amp;quot; has won the best paper award of EC-TEL 2014 conference. More details on the paper can be accessed [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-11200-8_18 here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-05-06&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-05-06&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] is appointed as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall.====&lt;br /&gt;
On completing 2 years successful post-doctoral innovation fellow position in [http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu EdLab], Teachers College @ Columbia University, [[User: shoha99 | Sharon]] is moving onto a tenure-track position in [http://cidse.engineering.asu.edu School of Computing, Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering] (AKA: Engineering school) in [http://www.asu.edu Arizona State University], Phoenix, Arizona. She anticipates to continue working on the emerging topics of computational technologies in learning. Meanwhile, persistently dedicate to the course - [http://www.columbia.edu/~ih2240/dataviz/index.htm Data Visualization], which she established in [http://www.qmss.columbia.edu QMSS (Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences)], School of Arts &amp;amp; Sciences in [http://www.columbia.edu Columbia University]. For more details see [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-14-2014.php SIS news].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] to deliver a keynote at a WWW 2014 workshop. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter will deliver a keynote titled &amp;quot;Addictive Links: Engaging Students through Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Student Modeling&amp;quot; at [http://www2014.kr/program/webet-2014/ WebET 2014] - Workshop on Web-based Education Technologies at the Word Wide Web Conference in Seoul, Korea. The talk will present PAWS work on such systems as [[QuizGuide]], [[NavEx]], JavaGuide, [[Progressor]], and [[ProgressorPlus|Progressor+]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Jennifer | Yi-Ling(Jennifer) Lin]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan.====&lt;br /&gt;
Yi-Ling (Jennifer) joined the Information Management faculty at the National Sun Yat-Sen University [http://http://epage.mis.nsysu.edu.tw/files/11-1100-4988-1.php?Lang=en] where she is an Assistant Professor. She is teaching Java course and continues to cooperate with Paws Lab to explore the social comparison in cyberlearning.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-08-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-08-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] started a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.====&lt;br /&gt;
Denis joined the faculty at the School of Engineering in Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, [http://www.topuniversities.com/node/2261/ranking-details/latin-american-university-rankings/2013  ranked 2nd among Latinamerican Universities],  where he is an [http://www.ing.puc.cl/cuerpo-docente/parra-santander/ Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science]. At the undergraduate level, he is teaching a course that explores several topics for the major in Computer Science, and at the graduate level he teaches Data Mining in the [http://mpgi.ing.puc.cl/profesores.html  Master for Information Processing and Management]. He continues doing research on Recommender Systems, the topic he investigated while a student at the PAWS lab, and is also Analyzing Social Media, collaborating with PAWS lab student Xidao Wen, studying [http://www.christophtrattner.info/pubs/ht2014.pdf how Twitter is used in academic Conferences]. In addition, he is fostering collaboration between professor Brusilovsky and some areas of teaching such as Databases in the CS department at Catholic University.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-18&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-18&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[Systems#KnowledgeZoom | KnowledgeZoom]] paper receives ICALT 2013 Best full Paper Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to paws! &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256524709_KnowledgeZoom_for_Java_A_Concept-Based_Exam_Study_Tool_with_a_Zoomable_Open_Student_Model KnowledgeZoom for Java: A Concept Based Exam Study Tool with a Zoomable Open Student Model]&amp;quot; won the best full paper award of ICALT 2013 conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Falakmasir | Mohammad Falakmasir]] won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Mohammad! His paper with Zachary A. Pardos, Geoffrey J. Gordon, and Peter Brusilovsky entitled &amp;quot;A Spectral Learning Approach to Knowledge Tracing&amp;quot; won the best student paper award of EDM 2013 conference. In his paper, he proposed using Spectral Learning (SL) to learn the BKT parameters.  Results of his study showed that SL can improve knowledge tracing parameter fitting time significantly while maintaining the same prediction accuracy. For more details on his paper please refer to his article [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/presentation2.php?presentationID=5323&amp;amp;conferenceID=115]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair. ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]], has been selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair by the Fulbright Commission. With this Award Peter will spend 5 month in FInland collaborating with researchers from University of Helsinki, Aalto University, and Helsinki Institute of Information Technology. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky, Professor at the iSchool, has been awarded a contract by the United States Army Contracting Command to participate in the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. Brusilovsky’ s contract, for $623,005 over a three-year period, will support the project [[Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Learner Modeling for PAL]] that will focus on the architecture, algorithms, and interfaces for a Personal Assistant for Learning (PAL), one of the major endeavors undertaken by the ADL Initiative. Through a PAL, the Initiative will provide state of the art education and training -- using technology and innovative learning methodologies -- for workforce members in the Department of Defense and the federal government. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-04-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-04-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Sergey Sosnovsky profiled in International Innovation ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky, who earned his PhD in Information Science in 2012, was recently profiled in International Innovation Magazine about his work on eLearning systems research and tools. Sosnovsky is the Principal Researcher and Head of the Intelligent e-Learning Technology Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbruken, Germany. The article explored his work on the Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content project funded by the European Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service. The magazine article (published March 2013) discussed how Sosnovsky’s project will enhance adaptive e-Learning by making it possible to develop smart instructional material for a broader audience of content authors. The article can be viewed at [[http://www.research-europe.com/magazine/REGIONAL/EX8/index.html]] , beginning on page 71.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-01-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-01-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt  IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies]. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter is appointed the Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, a journal dedicated to advancing the state of the art in technology-enhanced learning. This quarterly publication covers leading edge research on topics such as educational software applications, online learning systems, and simulation systems for education and training. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/3-11-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-08-26&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Rosta! After 3 years as a postdoc at CMU, she is now back to Pitt as an Assistant Professor. During her first semester at SIS she is teaching IS2430 Social Computing course. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-02-2012.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] Thesis Defence: Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
A large number of educational resources is now made available on the Web to support both regular classroom learning and online learning. However, the abundance of available content produced at least two problems: how to help students to find the most appropriate resources and how to engage them into using these resources and benefit from them. Personalized and social learning have been suggested as potential ways to address these problems.&lt;br /&gt;
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This work attempts to combine the ideas of personalized and social learning by providing navigation support through an open social student modeling visualization. A series of classroom studies exploited the idea of the approach and revealed promising results, which demonstrated the personalized guidance and social visualization combined helped students to find the most relevant resources of parameterized self-assessment questions for Java programming. Thus, this dissertation extend the approach to a larger collection of learning objects for cross content navigation and verify its capability of supporting social visualization for personalized E-Learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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The study results confirm that working with the non-mandatory system, students enhanced the learning quality in increasing their motivation and engagement. They successfully achieved better learning results. Meanwhile, incorporating a mixed collection of content in the open social student modeling visualizations effectively led the students to work at the right level of questions. Both strong and weak student worked with the appropriate levels of questions for their readiness accordingly and yielded a consistent performance across all three levels of complexities. Additionally, providing a more realistic content collection on the navigation supported open social student modeling visualizations results in a uniform performance in the group. The classroom study revealed a clear pattern of social guidance, where the stronger students left the traces for weaker ones to follow. The subjective evaluation confirms the design of the interface in terms of the content organization. Students’ positive responses also compliment the objective system usage data.&lt;br /&gt;
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download it from [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/13439/ here]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-11-30&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-11-30&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Thesis Defence: Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Conventional closed-corpus adaptive information systems control limited sets of documents in fixed subject domains and cannot provide access to the content outside the system. Such restrictions contradict the requirements of today, when most of the information systems are implemented in the open document space of WWW and are expected to operate on the open-corpus content. In order to maintain personalized access to open-corpus documents, an adaptive system should be able to model the documents and the relations between the documents and the domain knowledge automatically and dynamically. This dissertation explores the problem of open-corpus personalization and semantic modeling of open-corpus content in the context of e-Learning. Information on WWW is not without structure. Many collections of online instructional material (tutorials, electronic books, digital libraries, etc.) have been provided with implicit knowledge models encoded in form of tables of content, indexes, headers of chapters, links between pages, and different styles of text fragments. The main dissertation approach tries to leverage this layer of hidden semantics by extracting and representing it as coarse-grained models of collections. A central domain ontology is used to maintain overlay modeling of studentsÕ knowledge and serves as a reference point for multiple collections of external instructional material. In order to establish the link between the ontology and the open-corpus content models a special ontology mapping algorithm has been developed.  The proposed approach has been applied in the Ontology-based Open-corpus Personalization Service (OOPS) that recommends and adaptively annotates online reading material. The domain of Java programming has been chosen for the proof-of-concept implementation. A controlled experiment has been organized to evaluate the developed adaptive system and the proposed approach overall. The results of the evaluation have demonstrated several significant learning effects of the implemented open-corpus personalization. The analysis of log-based data has also shown that the open-corpus version of the system is capable of providing personalization of similar quality to the close-corpus one. Such results indicate that the proposed approach supports fully-scale open-corpus personalization for e-Learning. Further research is required to verify if the approach remains effective in other subject domains and with other types of instructional content.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-07-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-07-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:DParra | Denis Parra]] earns a  James Chen Best Student paper award in UMAP 2011 ====&lt;br /&gt;
In the last conference of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011) Denis Parra won one of the 2 [http://www.umap2011.org/program/best-paper-awards James Chen Best Student paper awards] for his paper '''Walk The Talk: Analyzing the relation between implicit and explicit feedback for preference elicitation''' that he co-authored with Dr. Xavier Amatriain. In this paper, the authors present a study on the music domain with last.fm users, which results leads them to create a regression model that maps implicit information (such as playcounts and how recently a user listened to albums) with explicit information in the form of ratings. More details in the [http://www.springerlink.com/content/645721483544r815/  conference proceedings in Springer]. Denis is the third PAWS Lab member to receive this prestigious award. Prior to that, Rosta Farzan and Michael Yudelson won this award at earlier User Modeling conferences. Rosta also won another James Chen award at Adaptive Hypermedia conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] Promoted to Rank of Full Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our head of PAWS lab! [[http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/06-10-2011.php Read more ]]&lt;br /&gt;
==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon]] received 2011 Allen Kent Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Graduate Program in Information Science ==== &lt;br /&gt;
She has worked with [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gray/ Dr. Glenn Ray] several years in designing and teaching undergraduate courses. She's affiliated as teaching fellow and teaches in our school now.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-12-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-12-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] received Google grant to work on ''[[Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities]]'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
The grant will support our efforts to increase user participation in social systems designed for local communities. In the course of the project will explore two innovative ideas for increasing participation. The first idea is to provide access to information “beyond the desktop,” by adding a mobile location-based interface to access information. This will increase both the number of active users and the volume of their contributions. The second idea is to provide personalized access to information to increase the chance to gather relevant information. This work will be based on two existing social systems that were developed and maintained by PAWs lab: the [[Systems#CoMeT | CoMeT]] system for sharing information about research talks at Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh and [[Systems#Eventur | Eventur]], a social system for recommending cultural events in the Pittsburgh area.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] Thesis Defence: Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System ====&lt;br /&gt;
The dissertation proposes a novel way of speeding the development of new adaptive hypermedia systems. The gist of the approach is to extract the adaptation functionality out of the adaptive hypermedia system, encapsulate it into a standalone system, and offer adaptation as a service to the client applications. Such a standalone adaptation provider reduces the development of adaptation functionality to configuration and compliance and as a result creates new adaptive systems faster and helps serve larger user populations with adaptively accessible content. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=777 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
The electronic version of [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] dissertation has been approved by the School of Information Sciences. ETD is accessible worldwide from the online library catalog of the University of Pittsburgh ([http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-10132010-092137/ link]).&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This EAGER grant will allow us to investigate how to model and visualize latent communities – those groups of people who form communities based on their similar interests. This work will consider how to elicit latent communities from various kinds of data about individuals available in the modern social Web and deliver the results in a manner suitable for interactive exploration through interactive visualizations. This will be one of the first attempts to use a variety of social Web data and approaches to community modeling. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1059577 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] Thesis Defence: Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn's dissertation proposes to incorporate interactive visualization into personalized search in order to overcome the limitation. By combining the personalized search and the interactive visualization, we expect our approach will be able to help users to better explore the information space and locate relevant information more efficiently. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=764 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This one-year grant will support a project exploring personalization and social networking for short-term communities. Using academic research conferences as a test bed, our team will explore new methods to leverage information about user interests (available from multiple external resources) and develop techniques to facilitate use of existing social technologies. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1052768 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-08-15 :: SIGWeb Newsletter published an interview with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
The Summer 2010 issue of SIGWeb Newsletter (a magazine of ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web) published an [http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1796390.1796393 interview with Peter Brusilovsky]. The interview provides some personal view on research project performed at PAWS.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-07-01 :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook]] has received Computing Inovation Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn was chosen as a [http://cifellows.org  CIFellow] (Computing Innovation Fellow) supported by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the Computing Research Association (CRA), and the National Science Foundation.  Starting from the fall 2010, he is going to work with [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/ Dr. Ben Shneiderman] at the [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil Human Computer Interaction Lab], University of Maryland.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-05-01 :: Sergey has received EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky's proposal for EU [http://cordis.europa.eu/improving/fellowships/home.htm Marie Curie Fellowship] is approved by the EU Research Executive Agency. The funding starts in July, 2010 and will last until July 2012. The project &amp;quot;Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content&amp;quot; will focus on implementation of author-friendly technologies for learning content development, including collaborative authoring support, metadata authoring support, open-corpus content discovery, interactivity authoring, and gap detection.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-27 :: Rosta receives her second James Chen Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rosta Farzan received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 12th International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP2009, in Trento, Italy for the paper ''Social Navigation Support for Information Seeking: If You Build It, Will They Come?'' by Rosta Farzan and Peter Brusilovsky. This is her second James Chen Award, congratulations!&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-26 :: PAWS Caught on UMAP 2009 Video ====&lt;br /&gt;
* 0:27 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:09 [[User:Rostaf|Rosta]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:18 [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:51 [[User:Suleehs|Danielle]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 3:12 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]] and [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 4:01 [[User:Peterb|Peter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-05-28 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] awarded honorary doctorate by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava ====&lt;br /&gt;
At a ceremony in Bratislava today, Peter Brusilovsky was honored by the [http://www.stuba.sk/ Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava] with the degree of Doctor honoris causa. The university, founded in 1937 in Bratislava, is one of the most significant institutions of higher education in Slovakia. Peter was selected for this recognition for &amp;quot;his contributions to the fields of Informatics and Information Technologies&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2008-07-31 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] receives Best Paper Award at AH 2008 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky received Best Paper Award at the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2008, in Hannover, Germany  for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/6h410u3w4836v866/ ''Social Information Access for the Rest of Us: An Exploration of Social YouTube''] by Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Brusilovsky, and Barry Smyth&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2007-06-28 :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael]] receives James Chen Best Student Paper Award at UM 2007 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Michael Yudelson received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on User Modelling, UM07, in Corfu, Greece for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/c723060442701737/ ''A User Modeling Server for Contemporary Adaptive Hypermedia: an Evaluation of Push Approach  to Evidence Propagation''] by Michael Yudelson, Peter Brusilovsky, and Vladimir Zadorozhny&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-02-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-02-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our mentor at PAWS, Dr. Peter Brusilovsky, on receiving the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring! &lt;br /&gt;
Read more on [[http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=42853|University Times]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-11-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-11-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to  Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]]has joined [http://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/department-of-information-and-computing-sciences the Department of Information and Computing Sciences] at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). The tenure-track position in computer science with the focus on educational technology started on November 1st, 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-07-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-07-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'. More details on the thesis can be accessed [here]. She will now join the University of Albany as an Assistant Professor in September 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-05-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-05-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board  ====&lt;br /&gt;
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Two SIS faculty members on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board. &lt;br /&gt;
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Peter Brusilovsky, professor and current chair of the Information Sciences program, and Rosta Farzan, assistant professor of Information Sciences &amp;amp; Technology, have been selected as associate editors of the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) new journal titled “Transactions on Social Computing.”&lt;br /&gt;
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This quarterly journal will publish works encompassing theoretical, empirical, systems, and design research on social computing. It will be part of the ACM Digital Library, which is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-03-04&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-03-04&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Congratulations to [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] for receiving Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang and Roya Hosseini received prestigious Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award for the academic year 2016-2017.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-02-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-02-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou gave a talk on the topic of &amp;quot;Personalized Crowdsourcing&amp;quot; ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Lykourentzou  illustrated the potential that personalization has for the improvement of crowdsourcing systems, through two example applications. The first application was about making personalized task recommendations to crowd workers, and the second application was about personalizing team building, i.e. a method that brings people to work together on a collaborating task taking into account their individual personalities. &lt;br /&gt;
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At the time, Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou was a researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology and was collaborating with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, as Visiting Researcher.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]  and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He (project lead and co-lead respectively) has been awarded a Nation Science Foundation Information and Intelligent Systems grant for their project titled “[[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]].” The project will focus on streamlining and expanding the reach of effective adaptive educational hypermedia, which allows students and independent learners without access to traditional classrooms to gain a personalized education.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-04-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-04-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities'. ====&lt;br /&gt;
More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/25836/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-11-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-11-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;, and presented his research on Recommender Systems. &lt;br /&gt;
Please find the slides [http://www.slideshare.net/denisparra/keynote-at-chilean-week-of-computer-science here].&lt;br /&gt;
The abstract of the talk is also available at the home page of the event, JCC 2014. [http://www.jcc2014.ucm.cl/en/ (more)].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-09-19&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-09-19&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: PAWS won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Tomek, [[User:Julio | Julio]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya]], and [[User:peterb| Peter]]! Their paper entitled &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266656951_Mastery_Grids_An_Open_Source_Social_Educational_Progress_Visualization Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization]&amp;quot; has won the best paper award of EC-TEL 2014 conference. More details on the paper can be accessed [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-11200-8_18 here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-05-06&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-05-06&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] is appointed as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall.====&lt;br /&gt;
On completing 2 years successful post-doctoral innovation fellow position in [http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu EdLab], Teachers College @ Columbia University, [[User: shoha99 | Sharon]] is moving onto a tenure-track position in [http://cidse.engineering.asu.edu School of Computing, Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering] (AKA: Engineering school) in [http://www.asu.edu Arizona State University], Phoenix, Arizona. She anticipates to continue working on the emerging topics of computational technologies in learning. Meanwhile, persistently dedicate to the course - [http://www.columbia.edu/~ih2240/dataviz/index.htm Data Visualization], which she established in [http://www.qmss.columbia.edu QMSS (Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences)], School of Arts &amp;amp; Sciences in [http://www.columbia.edu Columbia University]. For more details see [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-14-2014.php SIS news].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] to deliver a keynote at a WWW 2014 workshop. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter will deliver a keynote titled &amp;quot;Addictive Links: Engaging Students through Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Student Modeling&amp;quot; at [http://www2014.kr/program/webet-2014/ WebET 2014] - Workshop on Web-based Education Technologies at the Word Wide Web Conference in Seoul, Korea. The talk will present PAWS work on such systems as [[QuizGuide]], [[NavEx]], JavaGuide, [[Progressor]], and [[ProgressorPlus|Progressor+]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Jennifer | Yi-Ling(Jennifer) Lin]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan.====&lt;br /&gt;
Yi-Ling (Jennifer) joined the Information Management faculty at the National Sun Yat-Sen University [http://http://epage.mis.nsysu.edu.tw/files/11-1100-4988-1.php?Lang=en] where she is an Assistant Professor. She is teaching Java course and continues to cooperate with Paws Lab to explore the social comparison in cyberlearning.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-08-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-08-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] started a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.====&lt;br /&gt;
Denis joined the faculty at the School of Engineering in Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, [http://www.topuniversities.com/node/2261/ranking-details/latin-american-university-rankings/2013  ranked 2nd among Latinamerican Universities],  where he is an [http://www.ing.puc.cl/cuerpo-docente/parra-santander/ Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science]. At the undergraduate level, he is teaching a course that explores several topics for the major in Computer Science, and at the graduate level he teaches Data Mining in the [http://mpgi.ing.puc.cl/profesores.html  Master for Information Processing and Management]. He continues doing research on Recommender Systems, the topic he investigated while a student at the PAWS lab, and is also Analyzing Social Media, collaborating with PAWS lab student Xidao Wen, studying [http://www.christophtrattner.info/pubs/ht2014.pdf how Twitter is used in academic Conferences]. In addition, he is fostering collaboration between professor Brusilovsky and some areas of teaching such as Databases in the CS department at Catholic University.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-18&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-18&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[Systems#KnowledgeZoom | KnowledgeZoom]] paper receives ICALT 2013 Best full Paper Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to paws! &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256524709_KnowledgeZoom_for_Java_A_Concept-Based_Exam_Study_Tool_with_a_Zoomable_Open_Student_Model KnowledgeZoom for Java: A Concept Based Exam Study Tool with a Zoomable Open Student Model]&amp;quot; won the best full paper award of ICALT 2013 conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Falakmasir | Mohammad Falakmasir]] won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Mohammad! His paper with Zachary A. Pardos, Geoffrey J. Gordon, and Peter Brusilovsky entitled &amp;quot;A Spectral Learning Approach to Knowledge Tracing&amp;quot; won the best student paper award of EDM 2013 conference. In his paper, he proposed using Spectral Learning (SL) to learn the BKT parameters.  Results of his study showed that SL can improve knowledge tracing parameter fitting time significantly while maintaining the same prediction accuracy. For more details on his paper please refer to his article [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/presentation2.php?presentationID=5323&amp;amp;conferenceID=115]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair. ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]], has been selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair by the Fulbright Commission. With this Award Peter will spend 5 month in FInland collaborating with researchers from University of Helsinki, Aalto University, and Helsinki Institute of Information Technology. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky, Professor at the iSchool, has been awarded a contract by the United States Army Contracting Command to participate in the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. Brusilovsky’ s contract, for $623,005 over a three-year period, will support the project [[Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Learner Modeling for PAL]] that will focus on the architecture, algorithms, and interfaces for a Personal Assistant for Learning (PAL), one of the major endeavors undertaken by the ADL Initiative. Through a PAL, the Initiative will provide state of the art education and training -- using technology and innovative learning methodologies -- for workforce members in the Department of Defense and the federal government. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-04-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-04-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Sergey Sosnovsky profiled in International Innovation ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky, who earned his PhD in Information Science in 2012, was recently profiled in International Innovation Magazine about his work on eLearning systems research and tools. Sosnovsky is the Principal Researcher and Head of the Intelligent e-Learning Technology Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbruken, Germany. The article explored his work on the Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content project funded by the European Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service. The magazine article (published March 2013) discussed how Sosnovsky’s project will enhance adaptive e-Learning by making it possible to develop smart instructional material for a broader audience of content authors. The article can be viewed at [[http://www.research-europe.com/magazine/REGIONAL/EX8/index.html]] , beginning on page 71.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-01-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-01-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt  IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies]. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter is appointed the Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, a journal dedicated to advancing the state of the art in technology-enhanced learning. This quarterly publication covers leading edge research on topics such as educational software applications, online learning systems, and simulation systems for education and training. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/3-11-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-08-26&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Rosta! After 3 years as a postdoc at CMU, she is now back to Pitt as an Assistant Professor. During her first semester at SIS she is teaching IS2430 Social Computing course. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-02-2012.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] Thesis Defence: Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
A large number of educational resources is now made available on the Web to support both regular classroom learning and online learning. However, the abundance of available content produced at least two problems: how to help students to find the most appropriate resources and how to engage them into using these resources and benefit from them. Personalized and social learning have been suggested as potential ways to address these problems.&lt;br /&gt;
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This work attempts to combine the ideas of personalized and social learning by providing navigation support through an open social student modeling visualization. A series of classroom studies exploited the idea of the approach and revealed promising results, which demonstrated the personalized guidance and social visualization combined helped students to find the most relevant resources of parameterized self-assessment questions for Java programming. Thus, this dissertation extend the approach to a larger collection of learning objects for cross content navigation and verify its capability of supporting social visualization for personalized E-Learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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The study results confirm that working with the non-mandatory system, students enhanced the learning quality in increasing their motivation and engagement. They successfully achieved better learning results. Meanwhile, incorporating a mixed collection of content in the open social student modeling visualizations effectively led the students to work at the right level of questions. Both strong and weak student worked with the appropriate levels of questions for their readiness accordingly and yielded a consistent performance across all three levels of complexities. Additionally, providing a more realistic content collection on the navigation supported open social student modeling visualizations results in a uniform performance in the group. The classroom study revealed a clear pattern of social guidance, where the stronger students left the traces for weaker ones to follow. The subjective evaluation confirms the design of the interface in terms of the content organization. Students’ positive responses also compliment the objective system usage data.&lt;br /&gt;
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download it from [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/13439/ here]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-11-30&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-11-30&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Thesis Defence: Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Conventional closed-corpus adaptive information systems control limited sets of documents in fixed subject domains and cannot provide access to the content outside the system. Such restrictions contradict the requirements of today, when most of the information systems are implemented in the open document space of WWW and are expected to operate on the open-corpus content. In order to maintain personalized access to open-corpus documents, an adaptive system should be able to model the documents and the relations between the documents and the domain knowledge automatically and dynamically. This dissertation explores the problem of open-corpus personalization and semantic modeling of open-corpus content in the context of e-Learning. Information on WWW is not without structure. Many collections of online instructional material (tutorials, electronic books, digital libraries, etc.) have been provided with implicit knowledge models encoded in form of tables of content, indexes, headers of chapters, links between pages, and different styles of text fragments. The main dissertation approach tries to leverage this layer of hidden semantics by extracting and representing it as coarse-grained models of collections. A central domain ontology is used to maintain overlay modeling of studentsÕ knowledge and serves as a reference point for multiple collections of external instructional material. In order to establish the link between the ontology and the open-corpus content models a special ontology mapping algorithm has been developed.  The proposed approach has been applied in the Ontology-based Open-corpus Personalization Service (OOPS) that recommends and adaptively annotates online reading material. The domain of Java programming has been chosen for the proof-of-concept implementation. A controlled experiment has been organized to evaluate the developed adaptive system and the proposed approach overall. The results of the evaluation have demonstrated several significant learning effects of the implemented open-corpus personalization. The analysis of log-based data has also shown that the open-corpus version of the system is capable of providing personalization of similar quality to the close-corpus one. Such results indicate that the proposed approach supports fully-scale open-corpus personalization for e-Learning. Further research is required to verify if the approach remains effective in other subject domains and with other types of instructional content.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-07-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-07-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:DParra | Denis Parra]] earns a  James Chen Best Student paper award in UMAP 2011 ====&lt;br /&gt;
In the last conference of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011) Denis Parra won one of the 2 [http://www.umap2011.org/program/best-paper-awards James Chen Best Student paper awards] for his paper '''Walk The Talk: Analyzing the relation between implicit and explicit feedback for preference elicitation''' that he co-authored with Dr. Xavier Amatriain. In this paper, the authors present a study on the music domain with last.fm users, which results leads them to create a regression model that maps implicit information (such as playcounts and how recently a user listened to albums) with explicit information in the form of ratings. More details in the [http://www.springerlink.com/content/645721483544r815/  conference proceedings in Springer]. Denis is the third PAWS Lab member to receive this prestigious award. Prior to that, Rosta Farzan and Michael Yudelson won this award at earlier User Modeling conferences. Rosta also won another James Chen award at Adaptive Hypermedia conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] Promoted to Rank of Full Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our head of PAWS lab! [[http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/06-10-2011.php Read more ]]&lt;br /&gt;
==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon]] received 2011 Allen Kent Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Graduate Program in Information Science ==== &lt;br /&gt;
She has worked with [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gray/ Dr. Glenn Ray] several years in designing and teaching undergraduate courses. She's affiliated as teaching fellow and teaches in our school now.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-12-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-12-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] received Google grant to work on ''[[Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities]]'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
The grant will support our efforts to increase user participation in social systems designed for local communities. In the course of the project will explore two innovative ideas for increasing participation. The first idea is to provide access to information “beyond the desktop,” by adding a mobile location-based interface to access information. This will increase both the number of active users and the volume of their contributions. The second idea is to provide personalized access to information to increase the chance to gather relevant information. This work will be based on two existing social systems that were developed and maintained by PAWs lab: the [[Systems#CoMeT | CoMeT]] system for sharing information about research talks at Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh and [[Systems#Eventur | Eventur]], a social system for recommending cultural events in the Pittsburgh area.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] Thesis Defence: Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System ====&lt;br /&gt;
The dissertation proposes a novel way of speeding the development of new adaptive hypermedia systems. The gist of the approach is to extract the adaptation functionality out of the adaptive hypermedia system, encapsulate it into a standalone system, and offer adaptation as a service to the client applications. Such a standalone adaptation provider reduces the development of adaptation functionality to configuration and compliance and as a result creates new adaptive systems faster and helps serve larger user populations with adaptively accessible content. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=777 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
The electronic version of [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] dissertation has been approved by the School of Information Sciences. ETD is accessible worldwide from the online library catalog of the University of Pittsburgh ([http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-10132010-092137/ link]).&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This EAGER grant will allow us to investigate how to model and visualize latent communities – those groups of people who form communities based on their similar interests. This work will consider how to elicit latent communities from various kinds of data about individuals available in the modern social Web and deliver the results in a manner suitable for interactive exploration through interactive visualizations. This will be one of the first attempts to use a variety of social Web data and approaches to community modeling. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1059577 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] Thesis Defence: Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn's dissertation proposes to incorporate interactive visualization into personalized search in order to overcome the limitation. By combining the personalized search and the interactive visualization, we expect our approach will be able to help users to better explore the information space and locate relevant information more efficiently. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=764 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This one-year grant will support a project exploring personalization and social networking for short-term communities. Using academic research conferences as a test bed, our team will explore new methods to leverage information about user interests (available from multiple external resources) and develop techniques to facilitate use of existing social technologies. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1052768 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-08-15 :: SIGWeb Newsletter published an interview with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
The Summer 2010 issue of SIGWeb Newsletter (a magazine of ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web) published an [http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1796390.1796393 interview with Peter Brusilovsky]. The interview provides some personal view on research project performed at PAWS.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-07-01 :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook]] has received Computing Inovation Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn was chosen as a [http://cifellows.org  CIFellow] (Computing Innovation Fellow) supported by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the Computing Research Association (CRA), and the National Science Foundation.  Starting from the fall 2010, he is going to work with [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/ Dr. Ben Shneiderman] at the [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil Human Computer Interaction Lab], University of Maryland.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-05-01 :: Sergey has received EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky's proposal for EU [http://cordis.europa.eu/improving/fellowships/home.htm Marie Curie Fellowship] is approved by the EU Research Executive Agency. The funding starts in July, 2010 and will last until July 2012. The project &amp;quot;Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content&amp;quot; will focus on implementation of author-friendly technologies for learning content development, including collaborative authoring support, metadata authoring support, open-corpus content discovery, interactivity authoring, and gap detection.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-27 :: Rosta receives her second James Chen Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rosta Farzan received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 12th International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP2009, in Trento, Italy for the paper ''Social Navigation Support for Information Seeking: If You Build It, Will They Come?'' by Rosta Farzan and Peter Brusilovsky. This is her second James Chen Award, congratulations!&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-26 :: PAWS Caught on UMAP 2009 Video ====&lt;br /&gt;
* 0:27 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:09 [[User:Rostaf|Rosta]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:18 [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:51 [[User:Suleehs|Danielle]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 3:12 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]] and [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 4:01 [[User:Peterb|Peter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-05-28 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] awarded honorary doctorate by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava ====&lt;br /&gt;
At a ceremony in Bratislava today, Peter Brusilovsky was honored by the [http://www.stuba.sk/ Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava] with the degree of Doctor honoris causa. The university, founded in 1937 in Bratislava, is one of the most significant institutions of higher education in Slovakia. Peter was selected for this recognition for &amp;quot;his contributions to the fields of Informatics and Information Technologies&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2008-07-31 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] receives Best Paper Award at AH 2008 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky received Best Paper Award at the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2008, in Hannover, Germany  for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/6h410u3w4836v866/ ''Social Information Access for the Rest of Us: An Exploration of Social YouTube''] by Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Brusilovsky, and Barry Smyth&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2007-06-28 :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael]] receives James Chen Best Student Paper Award at UM 2007 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Michael Yudelson received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on User Modelling, UM07, in Corfu, Greece for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/c723060442701737/ ''A User Modeling Server for Contemporary Adaptive Hypermedia: an Evaluation of Push Approach  to Evidence Propagation''] by Michael Yudelson, Peter Brusilovsky, and Vladimir Zadorozhny&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-02-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-02-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our mentor at PAWS, Dr. Peter Brusilovsky, on receiving the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring!&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-11-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-11-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to  Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]]has joined [http://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/department-of-information-and-computing-sciences the Department of Information and Computing Sciences] at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). The tenure-track position in computer science with the focus on educational technology started on November 1st, 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-07-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-07-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'. More details on the thesis can be accessed [here]. She will now join the University of Albany as an Assistant Professor in September 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-05-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-05-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board  ====&lt;br /&gt;
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Two SIS faculty members on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board. &lt;br /&gt;
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Peter Brusilovsky, professor and current chair of the Information Sciences program, and Rosta Farzan, assistant professor of Information Sciences &amp;amp; Technology, have been selected as associate editors of the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) new journal titled “Transactions on Social Computing.”&lt;br /&gt;
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This quarterly journal will publish works encompassing theoretical, empirical, systems, and design research on social computing. It will be part of the ACM Digital Library, which is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-03-04&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-03-04&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Congratulations to [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] for receiving Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang and Roya Hosseini received prestigious Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award for the academic year 2016-2017.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-02-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-02-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou gave a talk on the topic of &amp;quot;Personalized Crowdsourcing&amp;quot; ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Lykourentzou  illustrated the potential that personalization has for the improvement of crowdsourcing systems, through two example applications. The first application was about making personalized task recommendations to crowd workers, and the second application was about personalizing team building, i.e. a method that brings people to work together on a collaborating task taking into account their individual personalities. &lt;br /&gt;
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At the time, Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou was a researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology and was collaborating with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, as Visiting Researcher.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]  and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He (project lead and co-lead respectively) has been awarded a Nation Science Foundation Information and Intelligent Systems grant for their project titled “[[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]].” The project will focus on streamlining and expanding the reach of effective adaptive educational hypermedia, which allows students and independent learners without access to traditional classrooms to gain a personalized education.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-04-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-04-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities'. ====&lt;br /&gt;
More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/25836/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-11-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-11-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;, and presented his research on Recommender Systems. &lt;br /&gt;
Please find the slides [http://www.slideshare.net/denisparra/keynote-at-chilean-week-of-computer-science here].&lt;br /&gt;
The abstract of the talk is also available at the home page of the event, JCC 2014. [http://www.jcc2014.ucm.cl/en/ (more)].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-09-19&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-09-19&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: PAWS won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Tomek, [[User:Julio | Julio]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya]], and [[User:peterb| Peter]]! Their paper entitled &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266656951_Mastery_Grids_An_Open_Source_Social_Educational_Progress_Visualization Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization]&amp;quot; has won the best paper award of EC-TEL 2014 conference. More details on the paper can be accessed [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-11200-8_18 here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-05-06&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-05-06&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] is appointed as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall.====&lt;br /&gt;
On completing 2 years successful post-doctoral innovation fellow position in [http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu EdLab], Teachers College @ Columbia University, [[User: shoha99 | Sharon]] is moving onto a tenure-track position in [http://cidse.engineering.asu.edu School of Computing, Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering] (AKA: Engineering school) in [http://www.asu.edu Arizona State University], Phoenix, Arizona. She anticipates to continue working on the emerging topics of computational technologies in learning. Meanwhile, persistently dedicate to the course - [http://www.columbia.edu/~ih2240/dataviz/index.htm Data Visualization], which she established in [http://www.qmss.columbia.edu QMSS (Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences)], School of Arts &amp;amp; Sciences in [http://www.columbia.edu Columbia University]. For more details see [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-14-2014.php SIS news].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] to deliver a keynote at a WWW 2014 workshop. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter will deliver a keynote titled &amp;quot;Addictive Links: Engaging Students through Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Student Modeling&amp;quot; at [http://www2014.kr/program/webet-2014/ WebET 2014] - Workshop on Web-based Education Technologies at the Word Wide Web Conference in Seoul, Korea. The talk will present PAWS work on such systems as [[QuizGuide]], [[NavEx]], JavaGuide, [[Progressor]], and [[ProgressorPlus|Progressor+]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Jennifer | Yi-Ling(Jennifer) Lin]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan.====&lt;br /&gt;
Yi-Ling (Jennifer) joined the Information Management faculty at the National Sun Yat-Sen University [http://http://epage.mis.nsysu.edu.tw/files/11-1100-4988-1.php?Lang=en] where she is an Assistant Professor. She is teaching Java course and continues to cooperate with Paws Lab to explore the social comparison in cyberlearning.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-08-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-08-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] started a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.====&lt;br /&gt;
Denis joined the faculty at the School of Engineering in Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, [http://www.topuniversities.com/node/2261/ranking-details/latin-american-university-rankings/2013  ranked 2nd among Latinamerican Universities],  where he is an [http://www.ing.puc.cl/cuerpo-docente/parra-santander/ Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science]. At the undergraduate level, he is teaching a course that explores several topics for the major in Computer Science, and at the graduate level he teaches Data Mining in the [http://mpgi.ing.puc.cl/profesores.html  Master for Information Processing and Management]. He continues doing research on Recommender Systems, the topic he investigated while a student at the PAWS lab, and is also Analyzing Social Media, collaborating with PAWS lab student Xidao Wen, studying [http://www.christophtrattner.info/pubs/ht2014.pdf how Twitter is used in academic Conferences]. In addition, he is fostering collaboration between professor Brusilovsky and some areas of teaching such as Databases in the CS department at Catholic University.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-18&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-18&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[Systems#KnowledgeZoom | KnowledgeZoom]] paper receives ICALT 2013 Best full Paper Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to paws! &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256524709_KnowledgeZoom_for_Java_A_Concept-Based_Exam_Study_Tool_with_a_Zoomable_Open_Student_Model KnowledgeZoom for Java: A Concept Based Exam Study Tool with a Zoomable Open Student Model]&amp;quot; won the best full paper award of ICALT 2013 conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Falakmasir | Mohammad Falakmasir]] won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Mohammad! His paper with Zachary A. Pardos, Geoffrey J. Gordon, and Peter Brusilovsky entitled &amp;quot;A Spectral Learning Approach to Knowledge Tracing&amp;quot; won the best student paper award of EDM 2013 conference. In his paper, he proposed using Spectral Learning (SL) to learn the BKT parameters.  Results of his study showed that SL can improve knowledge tracing parameter fitting time significantly while maintaining the same prediction accuracy. For more details on his paper please refer to his article [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/presentation2.php?presentationID=5323&amp;amp;conferenceID=115]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair. ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]], has been selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair by the Fulbright Commission. With this Award Peter will spend 5 month in FInland collaborating with researchers from University of Helsinki, Aalto University, and Helsinki Institute of Information Technology. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky, Professor at the iSchool, has been awarded a contract by the United States Army Contracting Command to participate in the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. Brusilovsky’ s contract, for $623,005 over a three-year period, will support the project [[Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Learner Modeling for PAL]] that will focus on the architecture, algorithms, and interfaces for a Personal Assistant for Learning (PAL), one of the major endeavors undertaken by the ADL Initiative. Through a PAL, the Initiative will provide state of the art education and training -- using technology and innovative learning methodologies -- for workforce members in the Department of Defense and the federal government. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-04-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-04-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Sergey Sosnovsky profiled in International Innovation ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky, who earned his PhD in Information Science in 2012, was recently profiled in International Innovation Magazine about his work on eLearning systems research and tools. Sosnovsky is the Principal Researcher and Head of the Intelligent e-Learning Technology Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbruken, Germany. The article explored his work on the Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content project funded by the European Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service. The magazine article (published March 2013) discussed how Sosnovsky’s project will enhance adaptive e-Learning by making it possible to develop smart instructional material for a broader audience of content authors. The article can be viewed at [[http://www.research-europe.com/magazine/REGIONAL/EX8/index.html]] , beginning on page 71.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-01-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-01-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt  IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies]. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter is appointed the Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, a journal dedicated to advancing the state of the art in technology-enhanced learning. This quarterly publication covers leading edge research on topics such as educational software applications, online learning systems, and simulation systems for education and training. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/3-11-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-08-26&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Rosta! After 3 years as a postdoc at CMU, she is now back to Pitt as an Assistant Professor. During her first semester at SIS she is teaching IS2430 Social Computing course. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-02-2012.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] Thesis Defence: Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
A large number of educational resources is now made available on the Web to support both regular classroom learning and online learning. However, the abundance of available content produced at least two problems: how to help students to find the most appropriate resources and how to engage them into using these resources and benefit from them. Personalized and social learning have been suggested as potential ways to address these problems.&lt;br /&gt;
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This work attempts to combine the ideas of personalized and social learning by providing navigation support through an open social student modeling visualization. A series of classroom studies exploited the idea of the approach and revealed promising results, which demonstrated the personalized guidance and social visualization combined helped students to find the most relevant resources of parameterized self-assessment questions for Java programming. Thus, this dissertation extend the approach to a larger collection of learning objects for cross content navigation and verify its capability of supporting social visualization for personalized E-Learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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The study results confirm that working with the non-mandatory system, students enhanced the learning quality in increasing their motivation and engagement. They successfully achieved better learning results. Meanwhile, incorporating a mixed collection of content in the open social student modeling visualizations effectively led the students to work at the right level of questions. Both strong and weak student worked with the appropriate levels of questions for their readiness accordingly and yielded a consistent performance across all three levels of complexities. Additionally, providing a more realistic content collection on the navigation supported open social student modeling visualizations results in a uniform performance in the group. The classroom study revealed a clear pattern of social guidance, where the stronger students left the traces for weaker ones to follow. The subjective evaluation confirms the design of the interface in terms of the content organization. Students’ positive responses also compliment the objective system usage data.&lt;br /&gt;
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download it from [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/13439/ here]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-11-30&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-11-30&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Thesis Defence: Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Conventional closed-corpus adaptive information systems control limited sets of documents in fixed subject domains and cannot provide access to the content outside the system. Such restrictions contradict the requirements of today, when most of the information systems are implemented in the open document space of WWW and are expected to operate on the open-corpus content. In order to maintain personalized access to open-corpus documents, an adaptive system should be able to model the documents and the relations between the documents and the domain knowledge automatically and dynamically. This dissertation explores the problem of open-corpus personalization and semantic modeling of open-corpus content in the context of e-Learning. Information on WWW is not without structure. Many collections of online instructional material (tutorials, electronic books, digital libraries, etc.) have been provided with implicit knowledge models encoded in form of tables of content, indexes, headers of chapters, links between pages, and different styles of text fragments. The main dissertation approach tries to leverage this layer of hidden semantics by extracting and representing it as coarse-grained models of collections. A central domain ontology is used to maintain overlay modeling of studentsÕ knowledge and serves as a reference point for multiple collections of external instructional material. In order to establish the link between the ontology and the open-corpus content models a special ontology mapping algorithm has been developed.  The proposed approach has been applied in the Ontology-based Open-corpus Personalization Service (OOPS) that recommends and adaptively annotates online reading material. The domain of Java programming has been chosen for the proof-of-concept implementation. A controlled experiment has been organized to evaluate the developed adaptive system and the proposed approach overall. The results of the evaluation have demonstrated several significant learning effects of the implemented open-corpus personalization. The analysis of log-based data has also shown that the open-corpus version of the system is capable of providing personalization of similar quality to the close-corpus one. Such results indicate that the proposed approach supports fully-scale open-corpus personalization for e-Learning. Further research is required to verify if the approach remains effective in other subject domains and with other types of instructional content.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-07-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-07-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:DParra | Denis Parra]] earns a  James Chen Best Student paper award in UMAP 2011 ====&lt;br /&gt;
In the last conference of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011) Denis Parra won one of the 2 [http://www.umap2011.org/program/best-paper-awards James Chen Best Student paper awards] for his paper '''Walk The Talk: Analyzing the relation between implicit and explicit feedback for preference elicitation''' that he co-authored with Dr. Xavier Amatriain. In this paper, the authors present a study on the music domain with last.fm users, which results leads them to create a regression model that maps implicit information (such as playcounts and how recently a user listened to albums) with explicit information in the form of ratings. More details in the [http://www.springerlink.com/content/645721483544r815/  conference proceedings in Springer]. Denis is the third PAWS Lab member to receive this prestigious award. Prior to that, Rosta Farzan and Michael Yudelson won this award at earlier User Modeling conferences. Rosta also won another James Chen award at Adaptive Hypermedia conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] Promoted to Rank of Full Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our head of PAWS lab! [[http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/06-10-2011.php Read more ]]&lt;br /&gt;
==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon]] received 2011 Allen Kent Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Graduate Program in Information Science ==== &lt;br /&gt;
She has worked with [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gray/ Dr. Glenn Ray] several years in designing and teaching undergraduate courses. She's affiliated as teaching fellow and teaches in our school now.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-12-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-12-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] received Google grant to work on ''[[Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities]]'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
The grant will support our efforts to increase user participation in social systems designed for local communities. In the course of the project will explore two innovative ideas for increasing participation. The first idea is to provide access to information “beyond the desktop,” by adding a mobile location-based interface to access information. This will increase both the number of active users and the volume of their contributions. The second idea is to provide personalized access to information to increase the chance to gather relevant information. This work will be based on two existing social systems that were developed and maintained by PAWs lab: the [[Systems#CoMeT | CoMeT]] system for sharing information about research talks at Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh and [[Systems#Eventur | Eventur]], a social system for recommending cultural events in the Pittsburgh area.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] Thesis Defence: Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System ====&lt;br /&gt;
The dissertation proposes a novel way of speeding the development of new adaptive hypermedia systems. The gist of the approach is to extract the adaptation functionality out of the adaptive hypermedia system, encapsulate it into a standalone system, and offer adaptation as a service to the client applications. Such a standalone adaptation provider reduces the development of adaptation functionality to configuration and compliance and as a result creates new adaptive systems faster and helps serve larger user populations with adaptively accessible content. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=777 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
The electronic version of [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] dissertation has been approved by the School of Information Sciences. ETD is accessible worldwide from the online library catalog of the University of Pittsburgh ([http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-10132010-092137/ link]).&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This EAGER grant will allow us to investigate how to model and visualize latent communities – those groups of people who form communities based on their similar interests. This work will consider how to elicit latent communities from various kinds of data about individuals available in the modern social Web and deliver the results in a manner suitable for interactive exploration through interactive visualizations. This will be one of the first attempts to use a variety of social Web data and approaches to community modeling. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1059577 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] Thesis Defence: Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn's dissertation proposes to incorporate interactive visualization into personalized search in order to overcome the limitation. By combining the personalized search and the interactive visualization, we expect our approach will be able to help users to better explore the information space and locate relevant information more efficiently. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=764 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This one-year grant will support a project exploring personalization and social networking for short-term communities. Using academic research conferences as a test bed, our team will explore new methods to leverage information about user interests (available from multiple external resources) and develop techniques to facilitate use of existing social technologies. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1052768 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-08-15 :: SIGWeb Newsletter published an interview with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
The Summer 2010 issue of SIGWeb Newsletter (a magazine of ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web) published an [http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1796390.1796393 interview with Peter Brusilovsky]. The interview provides some personal view on research project performed at PAWS.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-07-01 :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook]] has received Computing Inovation Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn was chosen as a [http://cifellows.org  CIFellow] (Computing Innovation Fellow) supported by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the Computing Research Association (CRA), and the National Science Foundation.  Starting from the fall 2010, he is going to work with [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/ Dr. Ben Shneiderman] at the [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil Human Computer Interaction Lab], University of Maryland.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-05-01 :: Sergey has received EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky's proposal for EU [http://cordis.europa.eu/improving/fellowships/home.htm Marie Curie Fellowship] is approved by the EU Research Executive Agency. The funding starts in July, 2010 and will last until July 2012. The project &amp;quot;Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content&amp;quot; will focus on implementation of author-friendly technologies for learning content development, including collaborative authoring support, metadata authoring support, open-corpus content discovery, interactivity authoring, and gap detection.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-27 :: Rosta receives her second James Chen Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rosta Farzan received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 12th International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP2009, in Trento, Italy for the paper ''Social Navigation Support for Information Seeking: If You Build It, Will They Come?'' by Rosta Farzan and Peter Brusilovsky. This is her second James Chen Award, congratulations!&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-26 :: PAWS Caught on UMAP 2009 Video ====&lt;br /&gt;
* 0:27 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:09 [[User:Rostaf|Rosta]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:18 [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:51 [[User:Suleehs|Danielle]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 3:12 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]] and [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 4:01 [[User:Peterb|Peter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-05-28 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] awarded honorary doctorate by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava ====&lt;br /&gt;
At a ceremony in Bratislava today, Peter Brusilovsky was honored by the [http://www.stuba.sk/ Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava] with the degree of Doctor honoris causa. The university, founded in 1937 in Bratislava, is one of the most significant institutions of higher education in Slovakia. Peter was selected for this recognition for &amp;quot;his contributions to the fields of Informatics and Information Technologies&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2008-07-31 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] receives Best Paper Award at AH 2008 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky received Best Paper Award at the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2008, in Hannover, Germany  for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/6h410u3w4836v866/ ''Social Information Access for the Rest of Us: An Exploration of Social YouTube''] by Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Brusilovsky, and Barry Smyth&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2007-06-28 :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael]] receives James Chen Best Student Paper Award at UM 2007 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Michael Yudelson received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on User Modelling, UM07, in Corfu, Greece for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/c723060442701737/ ''A User Modeling Server for Contemporary Adaptive Hypermedia: an Evaluation of Push Approach  to Evidence Propagation''] by Michael Yudelson, Peter Brusilovsky, and Vladimir Zadorozhny&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-02-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2017-02-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations on to our mentor at PAWS, Dr. Peter Brusilovsky, on receiving the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring!&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-11-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-11-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to  Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]]has joined [http://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/department-of-information-and-computing-sciences the Department of Information and Computing Sciences] at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). The tenure-track position in computer science with the focus on educational technology started on November 1st, 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-07-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-07-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'. More details on the thesis can be accessed [here]. She will now join the University of Albany as an Assistant Professor in September 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-05-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-05-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board  ====&lt;br /&gt;
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Two SIS faculty members on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board. &lt;br /&gt;
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Peter Brusilovsky, professor and current chair of the Information Sciences program, and Rosta Farzan, assistant professor of Information Sciences &amp;amp; Technology, have been selected as associate editors of the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) new journal titled “Transactions on Social Computing.”&lt;br /&gt;
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This quarterly journal will publish works encompassing theoretical, empirical, systems, and design research on social computing. It will be part of the ACM Digital Library, which is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-03-04&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-03-04&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Congratulations to [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] for receiving Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang and Roya Hosseini received prestigious Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award for the academic year 2016-2017.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-02-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-02-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou gave a talk on the topic of &amp;quot;Personalized Crowdsourcing&amp;quot; ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Lykourentzou  illustrated the potential that personalization has for the improvement of crowdsourcing systems, through two example applications. The first application was about making personalized task recommendations to crowd workers, and the second application was about personalizing team building, i.e. a method that brings people to work together on a collaborating task taking into account their individual personalities. &lt;br /&gt;
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At the time, Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou was a researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology and was collaborating with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, as Visiting Researcher.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]  and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He (project lead and co-lead respectively) has been awarded a Nation Science Foundation Information and Intelligent Systems grant for their project titled “[[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]].” The project will focus on streamlining and expanding the reach of effective adaptive educational hypermedia, which allows students and independent learners without access to traditional classrooms to gain a personalized education.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-04-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-04-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities'. ====&lt;br /&gt;
More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/25836/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-11-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-11-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;, and presented his research on Recommender Systems. &lt;br /&gt;
Please find the slides [http://www.slideshare.net/denisparra/keynote-at-chilean-week-of-computer-science here].&lt;br /&gt;
The abstract of the talk is also available at the home page of the event, JCC 2014. [http://www.jcc2014.ucm.cl/en/ (more)].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-09-19&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-09-19&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: PAWS won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Tomek, [[User:Julio | Julio]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya]], and [[User:peterb| Peter]]! Their paper entitled &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266656951_Mastery_Grids_An_Open_Source_Social_Educational_Progress_Visualization Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization]&amp;quot; has won the best paper award of EC-TEL 2014 conference. More details on the paper can be accessed [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-11200-8_18 here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-05-06&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-05-06&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] is appointed as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall.====&lt;br /&gt;
On completing 2 years successful post-doctoral innovation fellow position in [http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu EdLab], Teachers College @ Columbia University, [[User: shoha99 | Sharon]] is moving onto a tenure-track position in [http://cidse.engineering.asu.edu School of Computing, Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering] (AKA: Engineering school) in [http://www.asu.edu Arizona State University], Phoenix, Arizona. She anticipates to continue working on the emerging topics of computational technologies in learning. Meanwhile, persistently dedicate to the course - [http://www.columbia.edu/~ih2240/dataviz/index.htm Data Visualization], which she established in [http://www.qmss.columbia.edu QMSS (Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences)], School of Arts &amp;amp; Sciences in [http://www.columbia.edu Columbia University]. For more details see [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-14-2014.php SIS news].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] to deliver a keynote at a WWW 2014 workshop. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter will deliver a keynote titled &amp;quot;Addictive Links: Engaging Students through Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Student Modeling&amp;quot; at [http://www2014.kr/program/webet-2014/ WebET 2014] - Workshop on Web-based Education Technologies at the Word Wide Web Conference in Seoul, Korea. The talk will present PAWS work on such systems as [[QuizGuide]], [[NavEx]], JavaGuide, [[Progressor]], and [[ProgressorPlus|Progressor+]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Jennifer | Yi-Ling(Jennifer) Lin]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan.====&lt;br /&gt;
Yi-Ling (Jennifer) joined the Information Management faculty at the National Sun Yat-Sen University [http://http://epage.mis.nsysu.edu.tw/files/11-1100-4988-1.php?Lang=en] where she is an Assistant Professor. She is teaching Java course and continues to cooperate with Paws Lab to explore the social comparison in cyberlearning.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-08-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-08-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] started a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.====&lt;br /&gt;
Denis joined the faculty at the School of Engineering in Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, [http://www.topuniversities.com/node/2261/ranking-details/latin-american-university-rankings/2013  ranked 2nd among Latinamerican Universities],  where he is an [http://www.ing.puc.cl/cuerpo-docente/parra-santander/ Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science]. At the undergraduate level, he is teaching a course that explores several topics for the major in Computer Science, and at the graduate level he teaches Data Mining in the [http://mpgi.ing.puc.cl/profesores.html  Master for Information Processing and Management]. He continues doing research on Recommender Systems, the topic he investigated while a student at the PAWS lab, and is also Analyzing Social Media, collaborating with PAWS lab student Xidao Wen, studying [http://www.christophtrattner.info/pubs/ht2014.pdf how Twitter is used in academic Conferences]. In addition, he is fostering collaboration between professor Brusilovsky and some areas of teaching such as Databases in the CS department at Catholic University.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-18&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-18&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[Systems#KnowledgeZoom | KnowledgeZoom]] paper receives ICALT 2013 Best full Paper Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to paws! &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256524709_KnowledgeZoom_for_Java_A_Concept-Based_Exam_Study_Tool_with_a_Zoomable_Open_Student_Model KnowledgeZoom for Java: A Concept Based Exam Study Tool with a Zoomable Open Student Model]&amp;quot; won the best full paper award of ICALT 2013 conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Falakmasir | Mohammad Falakmasir]] won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Mohammad! His paper with Zachary A. Pardos, Geoffrey J. Gordon, and Peter Brusilovsky entitled &amp;quot;A Spectral Learning Approach to Knowledge Tracing&amp;quot; won the best student paper award of EDM 2013 conference. In his paper, he proposed using Spectral Learning (SL) to learn the BKT parameters.  Results of his study showed that SL can improve knowledge tracing parameter fitting time significantly while maintaining the same prediction accuracy. For more details on his paper please refer to his article [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/presentation2.php?presentationID=5323&amp;amp;conferenceID=115]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair. ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]], has been selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair by the Fulbright Commission. With this Award Peter will spend 5 month in FInland collaborating with researchers from University of Helsinki, Aalto University, and Helsinki Institute of Information Technology. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky, Professor at the iSchool, has been awarded a contract by the United States Army Contracting Command to participate in the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. Brusilovsky’ s contract, for $623,005 over a three-year period, will support the project [[Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Learner Modeling for PAL]] that will focus on the architecture, algorithms, and interfaces for a Personal Assistant for Learning (PAL), one of the major endeavors undertaken by the ADL Initiative. Through a PAL, the Initiative will provide state of the art education and training -- using technology and innovative learning methodologies -- for workforce members in the Department of Defense and the federal government. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-04-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-04-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Sergey Sosnovsky profiled in International Innovation ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky, who earned his PhD in Information Science in 2012, was recently profiled in International Innovation Magazine about his work on eLearning systems research and tools. Sosnovsky is the Principal Researcher and Head of the Intelligent e-Learning Technology Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbruken, Germany. The article explored his work on the Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content project funded by the European Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service. The magazine article (published March 2013) discussed how Sosnovsky’s project will enhance adaptive e-Learning by making it possible to develop smart instructional material for a broader audience of content authors. The article can be viewed at [[http://www.research-europe.com/magazine/REGIONAL/EX8/index.html]] , beginning on page 71.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-01-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-01-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt  IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies]. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter is appointed the Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, a journal dedicated to advancing the state of the art in technology-enhanced learning. This quarterly publication covers leading edge research on topics such as educational software applications, online learning systems, and simulation systems for education and training. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/3-11-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-08-26&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Rosta! After 3 years as a postdoc at CMU, she is now back to Pitt as an Assistant Professor. During her first semester at SIS she is teaching IS2430 Social Computing course. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-02-2012.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] Thesis Defence: Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
A large number of educational resources is now made available on the Web to support both regular classroom learning and online learning. However, the abundance of available content produced at least two problems: how to help students to find the most appropriate resources and how to engage them into using these resources and benefit from them. Personalized and social learning have been suggested as potential ways to address these problems.&lt;br /&gt;
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This work attempts to combine the ideas of personalized and social learning by providing navigation support through an open social student modeling visualization. A series of classroom studies exploited the idea of the approach and revealed promising results, which demonstrated the personalized guidance and social visualization combined helped students to find the most relevant resources of parameterized self-assessment questions for Java programming. Thus, this dissertation extend the approach to a larger collection of learning objects for cross content navigation and verify its capability of supporting social visualization for personalized E-Learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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The study results confirm that working with the non-mandatory system, students enhanced the learning quality in increasing their motivation and engagement. They successfully achieved better learning results. Meanwhile, incorporating a mixed collection of content in the open social student modeling visualizations effectively led the students to work at the right level of questions. Both strong and weak student worked with the appropriate levels of questions for their readiness accordingly and yielded a consistent performance across all three levels of complexities. Additionally, providing a more realistic content collection on the navigation supported open social student modeling visualizations results in a uniform performance in the group. The classroom study revealed a clear pattern of social guidance, where the stronger students left the traces for weaker ones to follow. The subjective evaluation confirms the design of the interface in terms of the content organization. Students’ positive responses also compliment the objective system usage data.&lt;br /&gt;
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download it from [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/13439/ here]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-11-30&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-11-30&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Thesis Defence: Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Conventional closed-corpus adaptive information systems control limited sets of documents in fixed subject domains and cannot provide access to the content outside the system. Such restrictions contradict the requirements of today, when most of the information systems are implemented in the open document space of WWW and are expected to operate on the open-corpus content. In order to maintain personalized access to open-corpus documents, an adaptive system should be able to model the documents and the relations between the documents and the domain knowledge automatically and dynamically. This dissertation explores the problem of open-corpus personalization and semantic modeling of open-corpus content in the context of e-Learning. Information on WWW is not without structure. Many collections of online instructional material (tutorials, electronic books, digital libraries, etc.) have been provided with implicit knowledge models encoded in form of tables of content, indexes, headers of chapters, links between pages, and different styles of text fragments. The main dissertation approach tries to leverage this layer of hidden semantics by extracting and representing it as coarse-grained models of collections. A central domain ontology is used to maintain overlay modeling of studentsÕ knowledge and serves as a reference point for multiple collections of external instructional material. In order to establish the link between the ontology and the open-corpus content models a special ontology mapping algorithm has been developed.  The proposed approach has been applied in the Ontology-based Open-corpus Personalization Service (OOPS) that recommends and adaptively annotates online reading material. The domain of Java programming has been chosen for the proof-of-concept implementation. A controlled experiment has been organized to evaluate the developed adaptive system and the proposed approach overall. The results of the evaluation have demonstrated several significant learning effects of the implemented open-corpus personalization. The analysis of log-based data has also shown that the open-corpus version of the system is capable of providing personalization of similar quality to the close-corpus one. Such results indicate that the proposed approach supports fully-scale open-corpus personalization for e-Learning. Further research is required to verify if the approach remains effective in other subject domains and with other types of instructional content.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-07-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-07-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:DParra | Denis Parra]] earns a  James Chen Best Student paper award in UMAP 2011 ====&lt;br /&gt;
In the last conference of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011) Denis Parra won one of the 2 [http://www.umap2011.org/program/best-paper-awards James Chen Best Student paper awards] for his paper '''Walk The Talk: Analyzing the relation between implicit and explicit feedback for preference elicitation''' that he co-authored with Dr. Xavier Amatriain. In this paper, the authors present a study on the music domain with last.fm users, which results leads them to create a regression model that maps implicit information (such as playcounts and how recently a user listened to albums) with explicit information in the form of ratings. More details in the [http://www.springerlink.com/content/645721483544r815/  conference proceedings in Springer]. Denis is the third PAWS Lab member to receive this prestigious award. Prior to that, Rosta Farzan and Michael Yudelson won this award at earlier User Modeling conferences. Rosta also won another James Chen award at Adaptive Hypermedia conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] Promoted to Rank of Full Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our head of PAWS lab! [[http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/06-10-2011.php Read more ]]&lt;br /&gt;
==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon]] received 2011 Allen Kent Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Graduate Program in Information Science ==== &lt;br /&gt;
She has worked with [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gray/ Dr. Glenn Ray] several years in designing and teaching undergraduate courses. She's affiliated as teaching fellow and teaches in our school now.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-12-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-12-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] received Google grant to work on ''[[Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities]]'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
The grant will support our efforts to increase user participation in social systems designed for local communities. In the course of the project will explore two innovative ideas for increasing participation. The first idea is to provide access to information “beyond the desktop,” by adding a mobile location-based interface to access information. This will increase both the number of active users and the volume of their contributions. The second idea is to provide personalized access to information to increase the chance to gather relevant information. This work will be based on two existing social systems that were developed and maintained by PAWs lab: the [[Systems#CoMeT | CoMeT]] system for sharing information about research talks at Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh and [[Systems#Eventur | Eventur]], a social system for recommending cultural events in the Pittsburgh area.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] Thesis Defence: Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System ====&lt;br /&gt;
The dissertation proposes a novel way of speeding the development of new adaptive hypermedia systems. The gist of the approach is to extract the adaptation functionality out of the adaptive hypermedia system, encapsulate it into a standalone system, and offer adaptation as a service to the client applications. Such a standalone adaptation provider reduces the development of adaptation functionality to configuration and compliance and as a result creates new adaptive systems faster and helps serve larger user populations with adaptively accessible content. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=777 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
The electronic version of [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] dissertation has been approved by the School of Information Sciences. ETD is accessible worldwide from the online library catalog of the University of Pittsburgh ([http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-10132010-092137/ link]).&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This EAGER grant will allow us to investigate how to model and visualize latent communities – those groups of people who form communities based on their similar interests. This work will consider how to elicit latent communities from various kinds of data about individuals available in the modern social Web and deliver the results in a manner suitable for interactive exploration through interactive visualizations. This will be one of the first attempts to use a variety of social Web data and approaches to community modeling. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1059577 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] Thesis Defence: Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn's dissertation proposes to incorporate interactive visualization into personalized search in order to overcome the limitation. By combining the personalized search and the interactive visualization, we expect our approach will be able to help users to better explore the information space and locate relevant information more efficiently. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=764 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This one-year grant will support a project exploring personalization and social networking for short-term communities. Using academic research conferences as a test bed, our team will explore new methods to leverage information about user interests (available from multiple external resources) and develop techniques to facilitate use of existing social technologies. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1052768 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-08-15 :: SIGWeb Newsletter published an interview with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
The Summer 2010 issue of SIGWeb Newsletter (a magazine of ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web) published an [http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1796390.1796393 interview with Peter Brusilovsky]. The interview provides some personal view on research project performed at PAWS.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-07-01 :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook]] has received Computing Inovation Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn was chosen as a [http://cifellows.org  CIFellow] (Computing Innovation Fellow) supported by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the Computing Research Association (CRA), and the National Science Foundation.  Starting from the fall 2010, he is going to work with [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/ Dr. Ben Shneiderman] at the [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil Human Computer Interaction Lab], University of Maryland.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-05-01 :: Sergey has received EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky's proposal for EU [http://cordis.europa.eu/improving/fellowships/home.htm Marie Curie Fellowship] is approved by the EU Research Executive Agency. The funding starts in July, 2010 and will last until July 2012. The project &amp;quot;Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content&amp;quot; will focus on implementation of author-friendly technologies for learning content development, including collaborative authoring support, metadata authoring support, open-corpus content discovery, interactivity authoring, and gap detection.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-27 :: Rosta receives her second James Chen Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rosta Farzan received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 12th International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP2009, in Trento, Italy for the paper ''Social Navigation Support for Information Seeking: If You Build It, Will They Come?'' by Rosta Farzan and Peter Brusilovsky. This is her second James Chen Award, congratulations!&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-26 :: PAWS Caught on UMAP 2009 Video ====&lt;br /&gt;
* 0:27 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:09 [[User:Rostaf|Rosta]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:18 [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:51 [[User:Suleehs|Danielle]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 3:12 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]] and [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 4:01 [[User:Peterb|Peter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-05-28 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] awarded honorary doctorate by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava ====&lt;br /&gt;
At a ceremony in Bratislava today, Peter Brusilovsky was honored by the [http://www.stuba.sk/ Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava] with the degree of Doctor honoris causa. The university, founded in 1937 in Bratislava, is one of the most significant institutions of higher education in Slovakia. Peter was selected for this recognition for &amp;quot;his contributions to the fields of Informatics and Information Technologies&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2008-07-31 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] receives Best Paper Award at AH 2008 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky received Best Paper Award at the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2008, in Hannover, Germany  for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/6h410u3w4836v866/ ''Social Information Access for the Rest of Us: An Exploration of Social YouTube''] by Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Brusilovsky, and Barry Smyth&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2007-06-28 :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael]] receives James Chen Best Student Paper Award at UM 2007 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Michael Yudelson received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on User Modelling, UM07, in Corfu, Greece for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/c723060442701737/ ''A User Modeling Server for Contemporary Adaptive Hypermedia: an Evaluation of Push Approach  to Evidence Propagation''] by Michael Yudelson, Peter Brusilovsky, and Vladimir Zadorozhny&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-02-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-11-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations on to our mentor at PAWS, Dr. Peter Brusilovsky, on receiving the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring!&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-11-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-11-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to  Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]]has joined [http://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/department-of-information-and-computing-sciences the Department of Information and Computing Sciences] at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). The tenure-track position in computer science with the focus on educational technology started on November 1st, 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-07-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-07-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'. More details on the thesis can be accessed [here]. She will now join the University of Albany as an Assistant Professor in September 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-05-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-05-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board  ====&lt;br /&gt;
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Two SIS faculty members on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board. &lt;br /&gt;
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Peter Brusilovsky, professor and current chair of the Information Sciences program, and Rosta Farzan, assistant professor of Information Sciences &amp;amp; Technology, have been selected as associate editors of the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) new journal titled “Transactions on Social Computing.”&lt;br /&gt;
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This quarterly journal will publish works encompassing theoretical, empirical, systems, and design research on social computing. It will be part of the ACM Digital Library, which is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-03-04&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-03-04&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Congratulations to [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] for receiving Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang and Roya Hosseini received prestigious Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award for the academic year 2016-2017.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-02-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-02-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou gave a talk on the topic of &amp;quot;Personalized Crowdsourcing&amp;quot; ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Lykourentzou  illustrated the potential that personalization has for the improvement of crowdsourcing systems, through two example applications. The first application was about making personalized task recommendations to crowd workers, and the second application was about personalizing team building, i.e. a method that brings people to work together on a collaborating task taking into account their individual personalities. &lt;br /&gt;
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At the time, Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou was a researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology and was collaborating with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, as Visiting Researcher.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]  and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He (project lead and co-lead respectively) has been awarded a Nation Science Foundation Information and Intelligent Systems grant for their project titled “[[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]].” The project will focus on streamlining and expanding the reach of effective adaptive educational hypermedia, which allows students and independent learners without access to traditional classrooms to gain a personalized education.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-04-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-04-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities'. ====&lt;br /&gt;
More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/25836/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-11-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-11-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;, and presented his research on Recommender Systems. &lt;br /&gt;
Please find the slides [http://www.slideshare.net/denisparra/keynote-at-chilean-week-of-computer-science here].&lt;br /&gt;
The abstract of the talk is also available at the home page of the event, JCC 2014. [http://www.jcc2014.ucm.cl/en/ (more)].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-09-19&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-09-19&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: PAWS won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Tomek, [[User:Julio | Julio]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya]], and [[User:peterb| Peter]]! Their paper entitled &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266656951_Mastery_Grids_An_Open_Source_Social_Educational_Progress_Visualization Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization]&amp;quot; has won the best paper award of EC-TEL 2014 conference. More details on the paper can be accessed [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-11200-8_18 here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-05-06&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-05-06&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] is appointed as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall.====&lt;br /&gt;
On completing 2 years successful post-doctoral innovation fellow position in [http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu EdLab], Teachers College @ Columbia University, [[User: shoha99 | Sharon]] is moving onto a tenure-track position in [http://cidse.engineering.asu.edu School of Computing, Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering] (AKA: Engineering school) in [http://www.asu.edu Arizona State University], Phoenix, Arizona. She anticipates to continue working on the emerging topics of computational technologies in learning. Meanwhile, persistently dedicate to the course - [http://www.columbia.edu/~ih2240/dataviz/index.htm Data Visualization], which she established in [http://www.qmss.columbia.edu QMSS (Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences)], School of Arts &amp;amp; Sciences in [http://www.columbia.edu Columbia University]. For more details see [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-14-2014.php SIS news].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] to deliver a keynote at a WWW 2014 workshop. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter will deliver a keynote titled &amp;quot;Addictive Links: Engaging Students through Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Student Modeling&amp;quot; at [http://www2014.kr/program/webet-2014/ WebET 2014] - Workshop on Web-based Education Technologies at the Word Wide Web Conference in Seoul, Korea. The talk will present PAWS work on such systems as [[QuizGuide]], [[NavEx]], JavaGuide, [[Progressor]], and [[ProgressorPlus|Progressor+]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Jennifer | Yi-Ling(Jennifer) Lin]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan.====&lt;br /&gt;
Yi-Ling (Jennifer) joined the Information Management faculty at the National Sun Yat-Sen University [http://http://epage.mis.nsysu.edu.tw/files/11-1100-4988-1.php?Lang=en] where she is an Assistant Professor. She is teaching Java course and continues to cooperate with Paws Lab to explore the social comparison in cyberlearning.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-08-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-08-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] started a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.====&lt;br /&gt;
Denis joined the faculty at the School of Engineering in Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, [http://www.topuniversities.com/node/2261/ranking-details/latin-american-university-rankings/2013  ranked 2nd among Latinamerican Universities],  where he is an [http://www.ing.puc.cl/cuerpo-docente/parra-santander/ Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science]. At the undergraduate level, he is teaching a course that explores several topics for the major in Computer Science, and at the graduate level he teaches Data Mining in the [http://mpgi.ing.puc.cl/profesores.html  Master for Information Processing and Management]. He continues doing research on Recommender Systems, the topic he investigated while a student at the PAWS lab, and is also Analyzing Social Media, collaborating with PAWS lab student Xidao Wen, studying [http://www.christophtrattner.info/pubs/ht2014.pdf how Twitter is used in academic Conferences]. In addition, he is fostering collaboration between professor Brusilovsky and some areas of teaching such as Databases in the CS department at Catholic University.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-18&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-18&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[Systems#KnowledgeZoom | KnowledgeZoom]] paper receives ICALT 2013 Best full Paper Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to paws! &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256524709_KnowledgeZoom_for_Java_A_Concept-Based_Exam_Study_Tool_with_a_Zoomable_Open_Student_Model KnowledgeZoom for Java: A Concept Based Exam Study Tool with a Zoomable Open Student Model]&amp;quot; won the best full paper award of ICALT 2013 conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Falakmasir | Mohammad Falakmasir]] won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Mohammad! His paper with Zachary A. Pardos, Geoffrey J. Gordon, and Peter Brusilovsky entitled &amp;quot;A Spectral Learning Approach to Knowledge Tracing&amp;quot; won the best student paper award of EDM 2013 conference. In his paper, he proposed using Spectral Learning (SL) to learn the BKT parameters.  Results of his study showed that SL can improve knowledge tracing parameter fitting time significantly while maintaining the same prediction accuracy. For more details on his paper please refer to his article [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/presentation2.php?presentationID=5323&amp;amp;conferenceID=115]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair. ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]], has been selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair by the Fulbright Commission. With this Award Peter will spend 5 month in FInland collaborating with researchers from University of Helsinki, Aalto University, and Helsinki Institute of Information Technology. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky, Professor at the iSchool, has been awarded a contract by the United States Army Contracting Command to participate in the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. Brusilovsky’ s contract, for $623,005 over a three-year period, will support the project [[Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Learner Modeling for PAL]] that will focus on the architecture, algorithms, and interfaces for a Personal Assistant for Learning (PAL), one of the major endeavors undertaken by the ADL Initiative. Through a PAL, the Initiative will provide state of the art education and training -- using technology and innovative learning methodologies -- for workforce members in the Department of Defense and the federal government. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-04-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-04-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Sergey Sosnovsky profiled in International Innovation ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky, who earned his PhD in Information Science in 2012, was recently profiled in International Innovation Magazine about his work on eLearning systems research and tools. Sosnovsky is the Principal Researcher and Head of the Intelligent e-Learning Technology Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbruken, Germany. The article explored his work on the Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content project funded by the European Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service. The magazine article (published March 2013) discussed how Sosnovsky’s project will enhance adaptive e-Learning by making it possible to develop smart instructional material for a broader audience of content authors. The article can be viewed at [[http://www.research-europe.com/magazine/REGIONAL/EX8/index.html]] , beginning on page 71.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-01-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-01-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt  IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies]. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter is appointed the Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, a journal dedicated to advancing the state of the art in technology-enhanced learning. This quarterly publication covers leading edge research on topics such as educational software applications, online learning systems, and simulation systems for education and training. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/3-11-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-08-26&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Rosta! After 3 years as a postdoc at CMU, she is now back to Pitt as an Assistant Professor. During her first semester at SIS she is teaching IS2430 Social Computing course. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-02-2012.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] Thesis Defence: Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
A large number of educational resources is now made available on the Web to support both regular classroom learning and online learning. However, the abundance of available content produced at least two problems: how to help students to find the most appropriate resources and how to engage them into using these resources and benefit from them. Personalized and social learning have been suggested as potential ways to address these problems.&lt;br /&gt;
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This work attempts to combine the ideas of personalized and social learning by providing navigation support through an open social student modeling visualization. A series of classroom studies exploited the idea of the approach and revealed promising results, which demonstrated the personalized guidance and social visualization combined helped students to find the most relevant resources of parameterized self-assessment questions for Java programming. Thus, this dissertation extend the approach to a larger collection of learning objects for cross content navigation and verify its capability of supporting social visualization for personalized E-Learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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The study results confirm that working with the non-mandatory system, students enhanced the learning quality in increasing their motivation and engagement. They successfully achieved better learning results. Meanwhile, incorporating a mixed collection of content in the open social student modeling visualizations effectively led the students to work at the right level of questions. Both strong and weak student worked with the appropriate levels of questions for their readiness accordingly and yielded a consistent performance across all three levels of complexities. Additionally, providing a more realistic content collection on the navigation supported open social student modeling visualizations results in a uniform performance in the group. The classroom study revealed a clear pattern of social guidance, where the stronger students left the traces for weaker ones to follow. The subjective evaluation confirms the design of the interface in terms of the content organization. Students’ positive responses also compliment the objective system usage data.&lt;br /&gt;
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download it from [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/13439/ here]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-11-30&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-11-30&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Thesis Defence: Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Conventional closed-corpus adaptive information systems control limited sets of documents in fixed subject domains and cannot provide access to the content outside the system. Such restrictions contradict the requirements of today, when most of the information systems are implemented in the open document space of WWW and are expected to operate on the open-corpus content. In order to maintain personalized access to open-corpus documents, an adaptive system should be able to model the documents and the relations between the documents and the domain knowledge automatically and dynamically. This dissertation explores the problem of open-corpus personalization and semantic modeling of open-corpus content in the context of e-Learning. Information on WWW is not without structure. Many collections of online instructional material (tutorials, electronic books, digital libraries, etc.) have been provided with implicit knowledge models encoded in form of tables of content, indexes, headers of chapters, links between pages, and different styles of text fragments. The main dissertation approach tries to leverage this layer of hidden semantics by extracting and representing it as coarse-grained models of collections. A central domain ontology is used to maintain overlay modeling of studentsÕ knowledge and serves as a reference point for multiple collections of external instructional material. In order to establish the link between the ontology and the open-corpus content models a special ontology mapping algorithm has been developed.  The proposed approach has been applied in the Ontology-based Open-corpus Personalization Service (OOPS) that recommends and adaptively annotates online reading material. The domain of Java programming has been chosen for the proof-of-concept implementation. A controlled experiment has been organized to evaluate the developed adaptive system and the proposed approach overall. The results of the evaluation have demonstrated several significant learning effects of the implemented open-corpus personalization. The analysis of log-based data has also shown that the open-corpus version of the system is capable of providing personalization of similar quality to the close-corpus one. Such results indicate that the proposed approach supports fully-scale open-corpus personalization for e-Learning. Further research is required to verify if the approach remains effective in other subject domains and with other types of instructional content.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-07-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-07-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:DParra | Denis Parra]] earns a  James Chen Best Student paper award in UMAP 2011 ====&lt;br /&gt;
In the last conference of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011) Denis Parra won one of the 2 [http://www.umap2011.org/program/best-paper-awards James Chen Best Student paper awards] for his paper '''Walk The Talk: Analyzing the relation between implicit and explicit feedback for preference elicitation''' that he co-authored with Dr. Xavier Amatriain. In this paper, the authors present a study on the music domain with last.fm users, which results leads them to create a regression model that maps implicit information (such as playcounts and how recently a user listened to albums) with explicit information in the form of ratings. More details in the [http://www.springerlink.com/content/645721483544r815/  conference proceedings in Springer]. Denis is the third PAWS Lab member to receive this prestigious award. Prior to that, Rosta Farzan and Michael Yudelson won this award at earlier User Modeling conferences. Rosta also won another James Chen award at Adaptive Hypermedia conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] Promoted to Rank of Full Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our head of PAWS lab! [[http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/06-10-2011.php Read more ]]&lt;br /&gt;
==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon]] received 2011 Allen Kent Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Graduate Program in Information Science ==== &lt;br /&gt;
She has worked with [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gray/ Dr. Glenn Ray] several years in designing and teaching undergraduate courses. She's affiliated as teaching fellow and teaches in our school now.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-12-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-12-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] received Google grant to work on ''[[Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities]]'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
The grant will support our efforts to increase user participation in social systems designed for local communities. In the course of the project will explore two innovative ideas for increasing participation. The first idea is to provide access to information “beyond the desktop,” by adding a mobile location-based interface to access information. This will increase both the number of active users and the volume of their contributions. The second idea is to provide personalized access to information to increase the chance to gather relevant information. This work will be based on two existing social systems that were developed and maintained by PAWs lab: the [[Systems#CoMeT | CoMeT]] system for sharing information about research talks at Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh and [[Systems#Eventur | Eventur]], a social system for recommending cultural events in the Pittsburgh area.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] Thesis Defence: Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System ====&lt;br /&gt;
The dissertation proposes a novel way of speeding the development of new adaptive hypermedia systems. The gist of the approach is to extract the adaptation functionality out of the adaptive hypermedia system, encapsulate it into a standalone system, and offer adaptation as a service to the client applications. Such a standalone adaptation provider reduces the development of adaptation functionality to configuration and compliance and as a result creates new adaptive systems faster and helps serve larger user populations with adaptively accessible content. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=777 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
The electronic version of [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] dissertation has been approved by the School of Information Sciences. ETD is accessible worldwide from the online library catalog of the University of Pittsburgh ([http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-10132010-092137/ link]).&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This EAGER grant will allow us to investigate how to model and visualize latent communities – those groups of people who form communities based on their similar interests. This work will consider how to elicit latent communities from various kinds of data about individuals available in the modern social Web and deliver the results in a manner suitable for interactive exploration through interactive visualizations. This will be one of the first attempts to use a variety of social Web data and approaches to community modeling. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1059577 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] Thesis Defence: Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn's dissertation proposes to incorporate interactive visualization into personalized search in order to overcome the limitation. By combining the personalized search and the interactive visualization, we expect our approach will be able to help users to better explore the information space and locate relevant information more efficiently. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=764 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This one-year grant will support a project exploring personalization and social networking for short-term communities. Using academic research conferences as a test bed, our team will explore new methods to leverage information about user interests (available from multiple external resources) and develop techniques to facilitate use of existing social technologies. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1052768 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-08-15 :: SIGWeb Newsletter published an interview with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
The Summer 2010 issue of SIGWeb Newsletter (a magazine of ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web) published an [http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1796390.1796393 interview with Peter Brusilovsky]. The interview provides some personal view on research project performed at PAWS.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-07-01 :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook]] has received Computing Inovation Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn was chosen as a [http://cifellows.org  CIFellow] (Computing Innovation Fellow) supported by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the Computing Research Association (CRA), and the National Science Foundation.  Starting from the fall 2010, he is going to work with [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/ Dr. Ben Shneiderman] at the [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil Human Computer Interaction Lab], University of Maryland.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-05-01 :: Sergey has received EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky's proposal for EU [http://cordis.europa.eu/improving/fellowships/home.htm Marie Curie Fellowship] is approved by the EU Research Executive Agency. The funding starts in July, 2010 and will last until July 2012. The project &amp;quot;Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content&amp;quot; will focus on implementation of author-friendly technologies for learning content development, including collaborative authoring support, metadata authoring support, open-corpus content discovery, interactivity authoring, and gap detection.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-27 :: Rosta receives her second James Chen Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rosta Farzan received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 12th International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP2009, in Trento, Italy for the paper ''Social Navigation Support for Information Seeking: If You Build It, Will They Come?'' by Rosta Farzan and Peter Brusilovsky. This is her second James Chen Award, congratulations!&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-26 :: PAWS Caught on UMAP 2009 Video ====&lt;br /&gt;
* 0:27 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:09 [[User:Rostaf|Rosta]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:18 [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:51 [[User:Suleehs|Danielle]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 3:12 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]] and [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 4:01 [[User:Peterb|Peter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-05-28 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] awarded honorary doctorate by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava ====&lt;br /&gt;
At a ceremony in Bratislava today, Peter Brusilovsky was honored by the [http://www.stuba.sk/ Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava] with the degree of Doctor honoris causa. The university, founded in 1937 in Bratislava, is one of the most significant institutions of higher education in Slovakia. Peter was selected for this recognition for &amp;quot;his contributions to the fields of Informatics and Information Technologies&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2008-07-31 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] receives Best Paper Award at AH 2008 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky received Best Paper Award at the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2008, in Hannover, Germany  for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/6h410u3w4836v866/ ''Social Information Access for the Rest of Us: An Exploration of Social YouTube''] by Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Brusilovsky, and Barry Smyth&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2007-06-28 :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael]] receives James Chen Best Student Paper Award at UM 2007 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Michael Yudelson received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on User Modelling, UM07, in Corfu, Greece for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/c723060442701737/ ''A User Modeling Server for Contemporary Adaptive Hypermedia: an Evaluation of Push Approach  to Evidence Propagation''] by Michael Yudelson, Peter Brusilovsky, and Vladimir Zadorozhny&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2017-02-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-11-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] .... ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations on to our mentor at PAWS, Dr. Peter Brusilovsky, on receiving the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring!&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-11-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-11-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to  Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]]has joined [http://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/department-of-information-and-computing-sciences the Department of Information and Computing Sciences] at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). The tenure-track position in computer science with the focus on educational technology started on November 1st, 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-07-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-07-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'. More details on the thesis can be accessed [here]. She will now join the University of Albany as an Assistant Professor in September 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-05-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-05-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board  ====&lt;br /&gt;
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Two SIS faculty members on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board. &lt;br /&gt;
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Peter Brusilovsky, professor and current chair of the Information Sciences program, and Rosta Farzan, assistant professor of Information Sciences &amp;amp; Technology, have been selected as associate editors of the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) new journal titled “Transactions on Social Computing.”&lt;br /&gt;
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This quarterly journal will publish works encompassing theoretical, empirical, systems, and design research on social computing. It will be part of the ACM Digital Library, which is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-03-04&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-03-04&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Congratulations to [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] for receiving Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang and Roya Hosseini received prestigious Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award for the academic year 2016-2017.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-02-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-02-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou gave a talk on the topic of &amp;quot;Personalized Crowdsourcing&amp;quot; ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Lykourentzou  illustrated the potential that personalization has for the improvement of crowdsourcing systems, through two example applications. The first application was about making personalized task recommendations to crowd workers, and the second application was about personalizing team building, i.e. a method that brings people to work together on a collaborating task taking into account their individual personalities. &lt;br /&gt;
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At the time, Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou was a researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology and was collaborating with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, as Visiting Researcher.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]  and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He (project lead and co-lead respectively) has been awarded a Nation Science Foundation Information and Intelligent Systems grant for their project titled “[[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]].” The project will focus on streamlining and expanding the reach of effective adaptive educational hypermedia, which allows students and independent learners without access to traditional classrooms to gain a personalized education.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-04-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-04-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities'. ====&lt;br /&gt;
More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/25836/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-11-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-11-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;, and presented his research on Recommender Systems. &lt;br /&gt;
Please find the slides [http://www.slideshare.net/denisparra/keynote-at-chilean-week-of-computer-science here].&lt;br /&gt;
The abstract of the talk is also available at the home page of the event, JCC 2014. [http://www.jcc2014.ucm.cl/en/ (more)].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-09-19&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-09-19&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: PAWS won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Tomek, [[User:Julio | Julio]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya]], and [[User:peterb| Peter]]! Their paper entitled &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266656951_Mastery_Grids_An_Open_Source_Social_Educational_Progress_Visualization Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization]&amp;quot; has won the best paper award of EC-TEL 2014 conference. More details on the paper can be accessed [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-11200-8_18 here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-05-06&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-05-06&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] is appointed as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall.====&lt;br /&gt;
On completing 2 years successful post-doctoral innovation fellow position in [http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu EdLab], Teachers College @ Columbia University, [[User: shoha99 | Sharon]] is moving onto a tenure-track position in [http://cidse.engineering.asu.edu School of Computing, Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering] (AKA: Engineering school) in [http://www.asu.edu Arizona State University], Phoenix, Arizona. She anticipates to continue working on the emerging topics of computational technologies in learning. Meanwhile, persistently dedicate to the course - [http://www.columbia.edu/~ih2240/dataviz/index.htm Data Visualization], which she established in [http://www.qmss.columbia.edu QMSS (Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences)], School of Arts &amp;amp; Sciences in [http://www.columbia.edu Columbia University]. For more details see [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-14-2014.php SIS news].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] to deliver a keynote at a WWW 2014 workshop. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter will deliver a keynote titled &amp;quot;Addictive Links: Engaging Students through Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Student Modeling&amp;quot; at [http://www2014.kr/program/webet-2014/ WebET 2014] - Workshop on Web-based Education Technologies at the Word Wide Web Conference in Seoul, Korea. The talk will present PAWS work on such systems as [[QuizGuide]], [[NavEx]], JavaGuide, [[Progressor]], and [[ProgressorPlus|Progressor+]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Jennifer | Yi-Ling(Jennifer) Lin]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan.====&lt;br /&gt;
Yi-Ling (Jennifer) joined the Information Management faculty at the National Sun Yat-Sen University [http://http://epage.mis.nsysu.edu.tw/files/11-1100-4988-1.php?Lang=en] where she is an Assistant Professor. She is teaching Java course and continues to cooperate with Paws Lab to explore the social comparison in cyberlearning.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-08-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-08-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] started a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.====&lt;br /&gt;
Denis joined the faculty at the School of Engineering in Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, [http://www.topuniversities.com/node/2261/ranking-details/latin-american-university-rankings/2013  ranked 2nd among Latinamerican Universities],  where he is an [http://www.ing.puc.cl/cuerpo-docente/parra-santander/ Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science]. At the undergraduate level, he is teaching a course that explores several topics for the major in Computer Science, and at the graduate level he teaches Data Mining in the [http://mpgi.ing.puc.cl/profesores.html  Master for Information Processing and Management]. He continues doing research on Recommender Systems, the topic he investigated while a student at the PAWS lab, and is also Analyzing Social Media, collaborating with PAWS lab student Xidao Wen, studying [http://www.christophtrattner.info/pubs/ht2014.pdf how Twitter is used in academic Conferences]. In addition, he is fostering collaboration between professor Brusilovsky and some areas of teaching such as Databases in the CS department at Catholic University.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-18&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-18&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[Systems#KnowledgeZoom | KnowledgeZoom]] paper receives ICALT 2013 Best full Paper Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to paws! &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256524709_KnowledgeZoom_for_Java_A_Concept-Based_Exam_Study_Tool_with_a_Zoomable_Open_Student_Model KnowledgeZoom for Java: A Concept Based Exam Study Tool with a Zoomable Open Student Model]&amp;quot; won the best full paper award of ICALT 2013 conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Falakmasir | Mohammad Falakmasir]] won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Mohammad! His paper with Zachary A. Pardos, Geoffrey J. Gordon, and Peter Brusilovsky entitled &amp;quot;A Spectral Learning Approach to Knowledge Tracing&amp;quot; won the best student paper award of EDM 2013 conference. In his paper, he proposed using Spectral Learning (SL) to learn the BKT parameters.  Results of his study showed that SL can improve knowledge tracing parameter fitting time significantly while maintaining the same prediction accuracy. For more details on his paper please refer to his article [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/presentation2.php?presentationID=5323&amp;amp;conferenceID=115]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair. ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]], has been selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair by the Fulbright Commission. With this Award Peter will spend 5 month in FInland collaborating with researchers from University of Helsinki, Aalto University, and Helsinki Institute of Information Technology. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky, Professor at the iSchool, has been awarded a contract by the United States Army Contracting Command to participate in the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. Brusilovsky’ s contract, for $623,005 over a three-year period, will support the project [[Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Learner Modeling for PAL]] that will focus on the architecture, algorithms, and interfaces for a Personal Assistant for Learning (PAL), one of the major endeavors undertaken by the ADL Initiative. Through a PAL, the Initiative will provide state of the art education and training -- using technology and innovative learning methodologies -- for workforce members in the Department of Defense and the federal government. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-04-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-04-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Sergey Sosnovsky profiled in International Innovation ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky, who earned his PhD in Information Science in 2012, was recently profiled in International Innovation Magazine about his work on eLearning systems research and tools. Sosnovsky is the Principal Researcher and Head of the Intelligent e-Learning Technology Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbruken, Germany. The article explored his work on the Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content project funded by the European Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service. The magazine article (published March 2013) discussed how Sosnovsky’s project will enhance adaptive e-Learning by making it possible to develop smart instructional material for a broader audience of content authors. The article can be viewed at [[http://www.research-europe.com/magazine/REGIONAL/EX8/index.html]] , beginning on page 71.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-01-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-01-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt  IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies]. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter is appointed the Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, a journal dedicated to advancing the state of the art in technology-enhanced learning. This quarterly publication covers leading edge research on topics such as educational software applications, online learning systems, and simulation systems for education and training. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/3-11-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-08-26&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Rosta! After 3 years as a postdoc at CMU, she is now back to Pitt as an Assistant Professor. During her first semester at SIS she is teaching IS2430 Social Computing course. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-02-2012.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] Thesis Defence: Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
A large number of educational resources is now made available on the Web to support both regular classroom learning and online learning. However, the abundance of available content produced at least two problems: how to help students to find the most appropriate resources and how to engage them into using these resources and benefit from them. Personalized and social learning have been suggested as potential ways to address these problems.&lt;br /&gt;
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This work attempts to combine the ideas of personalized and social learning by providing navigation support through an open social student modeling visualization. A series of classroom studies exploited the idea of the approach and revealed promising results, which demonstrated the personalized guidance and social visualization combined helped students to find the most relevant resources of parameterized self-assessment questions for Java programming. Thus, this dissertation extend the approach to a larger collection of learning objects for cross content navigation and verify its capability of supporting social visualization for personalized E-Learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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The study results confirm that working with the non-mandatory system, students enhanced the learning quality in increasing their motivation and engagement. They successfully achieved better learning results. Meanwhile, incorporating a mixed collection of content in the open social student modeling visualizations effectively led the students to work at the right level of questions. Both strong and weak student worked with the appropriate levels of questions for their readiness accordingly and yielded a consistent performance across all three levels of complexities. Additionally, providing a more realistic content collection on the navigation supported open social student modeling visualizations results in a uniform performance in the group. The classroom study revealed a clear pattern of social guidance, where the stronger students left the traces for weaker ones to follow. The subjective evaluation confirms the design of the interface in terms of the content organization. Students’ positive responses also compliment the objective system usage data.&lt;br /&gt;
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download it from [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/13439/ here]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-11-30&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-11-30&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Thesis Defence: Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Conventional closed-corpus adaptive information systems control limited sets of documents in fixed subject domains and cannot provide access to the content outside the system. Such restrictions contradict the requirements of today, when most of the information systems are implemented in the open document space of WWW and are expected to operate on the open-corpus content. In order to maintain personalized access to open-corpus documents, an adaptive system should be able to model the documents and the relations between the documents and the domain knowledge automatically and dynamically. This dissertation explores the problem of open-corpus personalization and semantic modeling of open-corpus content in the context of e-Learning. Information on WWW is not without structure. Many collections of online instructional material (tutorials, electronic books, digital libraries, etc.) have been provided with implicit knowledge models encoded in form of tables of content, indexes, headers of chapters, links between pages, and different styles of text fragments. The main dissertation approach tries to leverage this layer of hidden semantics by extracting and representing it as coarse-grained models of collections. A central domain ontology is used to maintain overlay modeling of studentsÕ knowledge and serves as a reference point for multiple collections of external instructional material. In order to establish the link between the ontology and the open-corpus content models a special ontology mapping algorithm has been developed.  The proposed approach has been applied in the Ontology-based Open-corpus Personalization Service (OOPS) that recommends and adaptively annotates online reading material. The domain of Java programming has been chosen for the proof-of-concept implementation. A controlled experiment has been organized to evaluate the developed adaptive system and the proposed approach overall. The results of the evaluation have demonstrated several significant learning effects of the implemented open-corpus personalization. The analysis of log-based data has also shown that the open-corpus version of the system is capable of providing personalization of similar quality to the close-corpus one. Such results indicate that the proposed approach supports fully-scale open-corpus personalization for e-Learning. Further research is required to verify if the approach remains effective in other subject domains and with other types of instructional content.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-07-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-07-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:DParra | Denis Parra]] earns a  James Chen Best Student paper award in UMAP 2011 ====&lt;br /&gt;
In the last conference of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011) Denis Parra won one of the 2 [http://www.umap2011.org/program/best-paper-awards James Chen Best Student paper awards] for his paper '''Walk The Talk: Analyzing the relation between implicit and explicit feedback for preference elicitation''' that he co-authored with Dr. Xavier Amatriain. In this paper, the authors present a study on the music domain with last.fm users, which results leads them to create a regression model that maps implicit information (such as playcounts and how recently a user listened to albums) with explicit information in the form of ratings. More details in the [http://www.springerlink.com/content/645721483544r815/  conference proceedings in Springer]. Denis is the third PAWS Lab member to receive this prestigious award. Prior to that, Rosta Farzan and Michael Yudelson won this award at earlier User Modeling conferences. Rosta also won another James Chen award at Adaptive Hypermedia conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] Promoted to Rank of Full Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our head of PAWS lab! [[http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/06-10-2011.php Read more ]]&lt;br /&gt;
==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon]] received 2011 Allen Kent Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Graduate Program in Information Science ==== &lt;br /&gt;
She has worked with [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gray/ Dr. Glenn Ray] several years in designing and teaching undergraduate courses. She's affiliated as teaching fellow and teaches in our school now.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-12-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-12-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] received Google grant to work on ''[[Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities]]'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
The grant will support our efforts to increase user participation in social systems designed for local communities. In the course of the project will explore two innovative ideas for increasing participation. The first idea is to provide access to information “beyond the desktop,” by adding a mobile location-based interface to access information. This will increase both the number of active users and the volume of their contributions. The second idea is to provide personalized access to information to increase the chance to gather relevant information. This work will be based on two existing social systems that were developed and maintained by PAWs lab: the [[Systems#CoMeT | CoMeT]] system for sharing information about research talks at Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh and [[Systems#Eventur | Eventur]], a social system for recommending cultural events in the Pittsburgh area.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] Thesis Defence: Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System ====&lt;br /&gt;
The dissertation proposes a novel way of speeding the development of new adaptive hypermedia systems. The gist of the approach is to extract the adaptation functionality out of the adaptive hypermedia system, encapsulate it into a standalone system, and offer adaptation as a service to the client applications. Such a standalone adaptation provider reduces the development of adaptation functionality to configuration and compliance and as a result creates new adaptive systems faster and helps serve larger user populations with adaptively accessible content. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=777 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
The electronic version of [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] dissertation has been approved by the School of Information Sciences. ETD is accessible worldwide from the online library catalog of the University of Pittsburgh ([http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-10132010-092137/ link]).&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This EAGER grant will allow us to investigate how to model and visualize latent communities – those groups of people who form communities based on their similar interests. This work will consider how to elicit latent communities from various kinds of data about individuals available in the modern social Web and deliver the results in a manner suitable for interactive exploration through interactive visualizations. This will be one of the first attempts to use a variety of social Web data and approaches to community modeling. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1059577 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] Thesis Defence: Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn's dissertation proposes to incorporate interactive visualization into personalized search in order to overcome the limitation. By combining the personalized search and the interactive visualization, we expect our approach will be able to help users to better explore the information space and locate relevant information more efficiently. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=764 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This one-year grant will support a project exploring personalization and social networking for short-term communities. Using academic research conferences as a test bed, our team will explore new methods to leverage information about user interests (available from multiple external resources) and develop techniques to facilitate use of existing social technologies. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1052768 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-08-15 :: SIGWeb Newsletter published an interview with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
The Summer 2010 issue of SIGWeb Newsletter (a magazine of ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web) published an [http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1796390.1796393 interview with Peter Brusilovsky]. The interview provides some personal view on research project performed at PAWS.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-07-01 :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook]] has received Computing Inovation Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn was chosen as a [http://cifellows.org  CIFellow] (Computing Innovation Fellow) supported by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the Computing Research Association (CRA), and the National Science Foundation.  Starting from the fall 2010, he is going to work with [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/ Dr. Ben Shneiderman] at the [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil Human Computer Interaction Lab], University of Maryland.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-05-01 :: Sergey has received EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky's proposal for EU [http://cordis.europa.eu/improving/fellowships/home.htm Marie Curie Fellowship] is approved by the EU Research Executive Agency. The funding starts in July, 2010 and will last until July 2012. The project &amp;quot;Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content&amp;quot; will focus on implementation of author-friendly technologies for learning content development, including collaborative authoring support, metadata authoring support, open-corpus content discovery, interactivity authoring, and gap detection.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-27 :: Rosta receives her second James Chen Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rosta Farzan received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 12th International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP2009, in Trento, Italy for the paper ''Social Navigation Support for Information Seeking: If You Build It, Will They Come?'' by Rosta Farzan and Peter Brusilovsky. This is her second James Chen Award, congratulations!&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-26 :: PAWS Caught on UMAP 2009 Video ====&lt;br /&gt;
* 0:27 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:09 [[User:Rostaf|Rosta]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:18 [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:51 [[User:Suleehs|Danielle]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 3:12 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]] and [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 4:01 [[User:Peterb|Peter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-05-28 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] awarded honorary doctorate by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava ====&lt;br /&gt;
At a ceremony in Bratislava today, Peter Brusilovsky was honored by the [http://www.stuba.sk/ Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava] with the degree of Doctor honoris causa. The university, founded in 1937 in Bratislava, is one of the most significant institutions of higher education in Slovakia. Peter was selected for this recognition for &amp;quot;his contributions to the fields of Informatics and Information Technologies&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2008-07-31 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] receives Best Paper Award at AH 2008 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky received Best Paper Award at the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2008, in Hannover, Germany  for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/6h410u3w4836v866/ ''Social Information Access for the Rest of Us: An Exploration of Social YouTube''] by Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Brusilovsky, and Barry Smyth&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2007-06-28 :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael]] receives James Chen Best Student Paper Award at UM 2007 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Michael Yudelson received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on User Modelling, UM07, in Corfu, Greece for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/c723060442701737/ ''A User Modeling Server for Contemporary Adaptive Hypermedia: an Evaluation of Push Approach  to Evidence Propagation''] by Michael Yudelson, Peter Brusilovsky, and Vladimir Zadorozhny&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PAWS&amp;diff=3764</id>
		<title>PAWS</title>
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		<updated>2017-03-17T18:28:41Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: /* Most Recent News */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;== About PAWS ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:IMG_5103.jpg|Caption=''|frame|right|UMAP 2011 - Girona, Spain]]&lt;br /&gt;
Personalized Adaptive Web Systems Lab was established in 2004 with support from National Science Foundation and the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. The goal of the PAWS Lab is development and evaluation of innovative user- and group-adaptive Web-based technologies, systems, and architectures. The Lab currently explores a range of user modeling, adaptation and personalization technologies. The work of the Lab is supported by NSF and DARPA funding.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Most Recent News ==&lt;br /&gt;
*  [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring.  ([[News#2017-02-21|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
*  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor  ([[News#2016-11-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: ''Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'', will start as an Assistant Professor in University of Albany  ([[News#2016-07-21|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board.  ([[News#2016-05-13|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] received Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship for the academic year 2016-2017. ([[News#2016-03-04|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
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* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]]   ([[News#2016-02-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: ''Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities''.  ([[News#2015-04-15|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ([[News#2014-11-11|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Tomek Loboda, [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] , and [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ([[News#2014-09-19|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User: Yuh43 | Yun Huang]] has been nominated for the best paper award at the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2014). ([[News#2014-07-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] finished her 2nd year postdoc in Columbia University and starts  as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall ([[News#2014-05-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[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. &lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]], Dhruba Baishya, [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]],  [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]], and  Miner Liang received the best full paper award at IEEE 13th Int. Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2013.([[News#2013-07-18|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] defended his Ph. D. Thesis: ''User Controllability in a Hybrid Recommender System'' and joins the Department of Computer Sciences at PUC Chile. ([[News#2013-08-13|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Mohammad Falakmasir won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper Award  ([[News#2013-07-09|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] awarded  a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair ([[News#2013-06-12|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture ([[News#2013-05-01|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]]  profiled in International Innovation ([[News#2013-04-01|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[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]])&lt;br /&gt;
Go to [[News | News Page]] for all news.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Try PAWS Tools at our Community Portal == &lt;br /&gt;
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Go to [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt Knowledge Tree] portal and [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt/register.html create trial account] to try our tools.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~cagent/ CourseAgent]: Share evaluations of IS graduate courses at Pitt and plan your career.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://pittsburgh.comettalks.com/ Comet]: Share, tag, recommend and schedule interesting talks in Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://eventur.us/ Eventur]: Share and schedule cultural events in Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://www.computingportal.org/ Ensemble]: This cross-university collaborative effort aims to bring together the global community of computing educators around a growing set of content collections with high-quality educational resources.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yournews/ YourNews]: This is a personalized RSS news access portal with several levels of user modeling and feed recommendation. Read your news in a personalized way!&lt;br /&gt;
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If you are a researcher and would like to  quickly try our adaptation tools, create the trial account (link above) and proceed [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/cbum/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
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== PAWS Lab Contact Information ==&lt;br /&gt;
Information Sciences Building, Rm. 2A04&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
135 North Bellefield Avenue&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Tel: +1(412)624-9437&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=Systems&amp;diff=3763</id>
		<title>Systems</title>
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		<updated>2017-03-08T13:42:36Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: /* KnowledgeZoom */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;This page is a quick overview of the systems and frameworks developed at [[Main Page|PAWS]] lab.&lt;br /&gt;
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== ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; ==&lt;br /&gt;
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{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:adapt2-arcitecture.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; Architecture]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt; (read adapt-square) - Advanced Distributed Architecture for Personalized Teaching and Training - is a framework targeted at providing personalization and adaptation services for developers of content that lacks personalization. [[ADAPT2|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
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== AdVisE (Adaptive Document Visualization for Education)  ==&lt;br /&gt;
==== ADVISE 2D ====&lt;br /&gt;
Two dimensional document visualization based on inter-document similarities. The locations of the documents on the 2D space are determined by their similarities to another documents and users can visually see the relationships of the documents based on their contents.&lt;br /&gt;
==== ADVISE 3D ====&lt;br /&gt;
Three dimensional visualization of documents based on similarities. By adding one more dimension to 2D visualization, users are able to explore the document space more easily and access each document.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== ADVISE VIBE ====&lt;br /&gt;
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Relevance-based visualization of educational documents based on re-implementation of VIBE, a document visualization method based on similarities between documents and POIs (Points Of Interests) developed by Molde College and School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. &lt;br /&gt;
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([http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/advise more on ADVISE])&lt;br /&gt;
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==Adaptive VIBE==&lt;br /&gt;
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{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:AdaptiveVibe_part.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Adaptive VIBE]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Two dimensional visualization based on POIs(Point Of Interest, or concepts) and document similarities. The position of the documents are calculated by their relationships with each POI. &lt;br /&gt;
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* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~codex/tasksieve System Link] (Adaptive VIBE integrated into TaskSieve)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Adaptive_VIBE | more on Adaptive VIBE]]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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== AnnotatEd ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:ated.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|AnnotatEd]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | AnnotatEd is a system that enables learners to annotate online pages while keeping track of all activities of learners. AnnotatEd uses the learners' activity information to offer ''social navigation support'' for hyperlinks inside the AnnotatEd system. ([[AnnotatEd|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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== AnnotEx ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:AnnotEx.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|AnnotEx]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | AnnotEx - Example Annotator- is a web-based community based authoring tool for annotating programming examples.([[AnnotEx|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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== CoMeT ==&lt;br /&gt;
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{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:comet.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Comet]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | COMET is a social system for sharing informaion about research talks. It allows to collaboratively collect, publish, and tag interesting research talks in Pittsburgh. COMET allows its users to schedule the talks they want to attend. It also automatically reminds about bookmarked talks and recommends other talks that fits isers' interests. ([http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/comet/ visit COMET])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
== Conference Navigator 3==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Cn3.jpg|thumb|left|'''100'''|CN3]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Conference Navigator 3 (CN3) is a personal conference scheduling tool with social linking and recommendation features. Users can control access to their information in the CN3 system and link their account with third party academic and non-academic social networks such as linkedIn, Facebook, citeulike, or Mendeley. Our main goal is to enhance attendees' experience at the conferences, and also investigate the mechanisms that drives attendees to engage in their research community. ([http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/ visit Conference Navigator 3])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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== CoPE (Collaborative Paper Exchange) ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:CoPE.1.overall.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|CoPE]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | CoPE - Collaborative Paper Exchange - is a system that provides community-based access to paper summaries via web. CoPE is currently an in-class tool for both teachers and students. ([[CoPE|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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== CourseAgent ==&lt;br /&gt;
coming soon&lt;br /&gt;
([[CourseAgent|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
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== CUMULATE ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[CUMULATE]] is a centralized user modeling server built for the [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] architecture. It is mainly targeted at providing user modeling support for adaptive educational hypermedia (AEH) systems. [[CUMULATE]] maintains a set of overlay models of students' knowledge. It uses several techniques for computing student models, including thresholded averaging, asymptotic user knowledge assessment, time-spent-reading.&lt;br /&gt;
([[CUMULATE|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
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== Eventur ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Pittcult.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|PittCult]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | This project is to recommend interesting information using the combined technology of collaborative filtering and trust-based human network. This system is to overcome the emerging problems regarding collaborative filtering recommendations and to investigate how the information propagation is affected by trust among people. ([[Eventur|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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== JavaGuide ==&lt;br /&gt;
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{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Quizguide.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|JavaGuide]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | JavaGuide is a personalized front-end for QuizJET developed by PAWS Lab (Hsiao, 2010). Java Guide collects student performance data sent by QuizJET to the activity storage, determines student current level of knowledge for multiple topics and concepts of Java programming language, and use it to provide adaptive guidance to the questions  that are most appropriate for a specific student given the course goals and current state of knowledge.. ([[JavaGuide|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Knowledge Sea II ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:ks2.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Knowledge Sea II]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Knowledge Sea II is an extension of Knowledge Sea project that is designed to help users navigate from lectures to relevant online tutorials in a map-based horizontal navigation format. The most important feature of Knowledge Sea is facilitating the navigation through providing traffic and annotation based social navigation support. ([[Knowledge Sea II|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Knowledge Tree ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:KnowledgeTreeLogo.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|Knowledge Tree]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Knowledge Tree is a link aggregating portal. It presents content structured according to the folder-document paradigm. Knowledge Tree provides authentication and authorization and implements a simplified form of access control. It supports collaborative authoring and social annotation. ([[Knowledge Tree|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
== KnowledgeZoom ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:KnowledgeZoom.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|KnowledgeZoom]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | KnowledgeZoom is an exam preparation system with zoomable open student model showing student level of knowledge for hierarchy of Java programming concepts. KnowledgeZoom allows students to find gaps in their knowledge and access learning content that helps to bridge these gaps. &lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Mastery Grids ==&lt;br /&gt;
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{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Mg_1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Mastery Grids Interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Mastery Grids is our latest implementation of Open Social Learner Modeling (OSLM). It is both an innovative Open Social Learner Model Interface and an adaptive E-learning platform with integrated functionalities enabling multi-facet social comparison, open learner modeling, and adaptive navigation support to access multiple kinds of smart learning content. Mastery Grids is supported by adaptive social learning framework [[Aggregate]]. This framework supports several kinds of open student modeling, social comparison, and recommendation. In detail, Mastery Grids presents and compares user learning progress and knowledge level using colored grids, tracks user activities with learning content, and provides flexible user-centered navigation across different content levels (e.g. topic, question) and different content types (e.g. problem, example). Our past research shows that open student modeling and social comparison effectively increases students’ performance, motivation, engagement and retention. &lt;br /&gt;
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* [[Mastery Grids Interface|More about Mastery Grids interface]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/um-vis-adl/index.html?usr=adl01&amp;amp;grp=ADL&amp;amp;sid=test&amp;amp;cid=13&amp;amp;data-top-n-grp=5&amp;amp;def-val-rep-lvl-id=p&amp;amp;def-val-res-id=AVG&amp;amp;ui-tbar-rep-lvl-vis=0&amp;amp;ui-tbar-topic-size-vis=0 An interactive demo of Mastery Grids interface]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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== MEMA ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:MEMA.jpg|thumb|left|'''100'''|MEMA]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | MEMA (Museum Exhibition MAnagement) ([[MEMA|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/mema/web/ Web System link]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/mema Mobile System link]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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== NameSieve ==&lt;br /&gt;
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{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:NameSieve-NEpanel.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|NameSieve Named-entity Navigator]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | A name-entity based news exploration and filtering system.  Important named-entities extracted from the search results are provided in the &amp;quot;cloud&amp;quot; form and helps further exploration. ([[NameSieve|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
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* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/namesieve System Link 1]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://ir.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~jahn/cma/index.php System Link 2] (Carnegie Museum of Art version)&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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== NavEx - Navigation to Examples ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:NavEx.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|NavEx]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | NavEx provides adaptive guidance for accessing online interactive examples. Adaptation allows students to visualize both whether they are ready to explore certain examples and what is their progress with them. NavEx-SN (SN for social navigation) also allows students to relate their progress with the progress of the group. ([[NavEx|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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== PERSEUS ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Perseus.gif|thumb|left|100px|PERSEUS]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[PERSEUS]] is a Personalization Service Engine. It provides adaptive support for non-personalized (educational) hypermedia systems by abstracting content presentation/aggregation from user modeling. [[PERSEUS]] protocols are based on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rdf RDF] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)#RSS_1.0 RSS 1.0]. Although, [[PERSEUS]] was initially developed for [[ADAPT2|ADAPT&amp;lt;sup&amp;gt;2&amp;lt;/sup&amp;gt;]] framework, its data model permits seamless support of any other hypermedia application. Currently [[PERSEUS]] provides social navigation, topic-based navigation, concept-based navigation, and adaptive filtering techniques. ([[PERSEUS|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Proactive ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Proactive.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|PittCult]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | The Proactive is content-based recommender system which is based on several knowledge engineering technology and personalized techniques. The system is proprietary to each user by collecting various user's usage patterns. I am particularly interested in how to efficiently make suggestions from multi-faceted point of view. ([[Proactive|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Progressor ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Progressor.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|Progressor]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | The Progressor is a system of personalized visual access to programming problems, which is based on open social user modeling technology and personalized techniques. ([[Progressor|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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== Progressor+ ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:progressorplus1.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|ProgressorPlus]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | Progressor+ extends the benefits from Progressor and addresses the problems in personalized and social learning of how to help students to find the most appropriate educational resources and engage them into using these resources. Progressor+ adopts the same idea of open student modeling visualization and uses generic table representation for accessing and visualizing assorted educational content ([[ProgressorPlus|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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== ReadingCircle ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Readingcircle1.png|left|thumb|200px|Screenshot of the ReadingCircle interface.]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | ReadingCircle is a system that explores approaches to encourage student reading using a social progress visualization interface. Click on the link to [[ReadingCircle]] to see more details]].&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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== QuizGuide ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; |  [[Image:Quizguide.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|QuizGuide]]&lt;br /&gt;
| valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | QuizGuide, is an adaptive system that helps students in selecting most relevant quizzes for self-assessment of C knowledge. Quizzes are assigned to topics and adaptively annotated, to show which topics are currently important and which require further work. ([[QuizGuide|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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== QuizJET ==&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:Quizjet.gif|thumb|left|'''100'''|QuizJET]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | QuizJET is a system serves quizzes as a self-assessment Java Evaluation Tool. It's mainly used to assess students' knowledge in Java Programming Language. QuizJET randomly generates a question parameter, creates a presentation of the parameterized question in a Web-based quiz, compares student's input to the correct answer which QuizJET runs the parameterized code &amp;quot;behind the stage&amp;quot;, and records the results into a server-side database. ([[QuizJET|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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== SetFusion ==&lt;br /&gt;
coming soon&lt;br /&gt;
([[SetFusion|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
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== TalkExplorer ==&lt;br /&gt;
coming soon&lt;br /&gt;
([[TalkExplorer|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
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== TaskSieve ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:TaskSieve-surrogates.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|TaskSieve -- mediates query and user model]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | An experimental personalized news search system based on task models and the interface to mediate between the query and the task model.  Users can select three options (1) query only, (2) task model only, and (3) both. ([[TaskSieve|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/tasksieve System link 1]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/~codex/tasksieve System link 2] (newer version integrated with Adaptive VIBE)&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== WADEIn (cWADEIn/jWADEIn) ==&lt;br /&gt;
coming soon&lt;br /&gt;
([[WADEIn|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
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== YourNews ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
{|&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | [[Image:YourNews-openUM.png|thumb|left|'''100'''|YourNews Open User Model UI]]&lt;br /&gt;
|valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot; | YourNews is a news recommendation system based on the RSS feeds collected from various news sources. News articles are crawled every two hours, indexed, and then provided to users according to their specific needs.  Users also can view and control their user profile with '''Open User Profile'''  ([[YourNews|more]])&lt;br /&gt;
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* [http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yournews System Link]&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>https://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/w/index.php?title=PAWS&amp;diff=3762</id>
		<title>PAWS</title>
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		<updated>2017-03-08T13:41:14Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: /* Most Recent News */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;== About PAWS ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:IMG_5103.jpg|Caption=''|frame|right|UMAP 2011 - Girona, Spain]]&lt;br /&gt;
Personalized Adaptive Web Systems Lab was established in 2004 with support from National Science Foundation and the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. The goal of the PAWS Lab is development and evaluation of innovative user- and group-adaptive Web-based technologies, systems, and architectures. The Lab currently explores a range of user modeling, adaptation and personalization technologies. The work of the Lab is supported by NSF and DARPA funding.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Most Recent News ==&lt;br /&gt;
*  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor  ([[News#2016-11-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: ''Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'', will start as an Assistant Professor in University of Albany  ([[News#2016-07-21|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board.  ([[News#2016-05-13|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] received Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship for the academic year 2016-2017. ([[News#2016-03-04|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]]   ([[News#2016-02-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: ''Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities''.  ([[News#2015-04-15|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ([[News#2014-11-11|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Tomek Loboda, [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] , and [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ([[News#2014-09-19|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User: Yuh43 | Yun Huang]] has been nominated for the best paper award at the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2014). ([[News#2014-07-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] finished her 2nd year postdoc in Columbia University and starts  as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall ([[News#2014-05-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[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. &lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]], Dhruba Baishya, [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]],  [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]], and  Miner Liang received the best full paper award at IEEE 13th Int. Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2013.([[News#2013-07-18|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] defended his Ph. D. Thesis: ''User Controllability in a Hybrid Recommender System'' and joins the Department of Computer Sciences at PUC Chile. ([[News#2013-08-13|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Mohammad Falakmasir won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper Award  ([[News#2013-07-09|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] awarded  a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair ([[News#2013-06-12|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture ([[News#2013-05-01|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]]  profiled in International Innovation ([[News#2013-04-01|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[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]])&lt;br /&gt;
Go to [[News | News Page]] for all news.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Try PAWS Tools at our Community Portal == &lt;br /&gt;
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Go to [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt Knowledge Tree] portal and [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt/register.html create trial account] to try our tools.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~cagent/ CourseAgent]: Share evaluations of IS graduate courses at Pitt and plan your career.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://pittsburgh.comettalks.com/ Comet]: Share, tag, recommend and schedule interesting talks in Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://eventur.us/ Eventur]: Share and schedule cultural events in Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://www.computingportal.org/ Ensemble]: This cross-university collaborative effort aims to bring together the global community of computing educators around a growing set of content collections with high-quality educational resources.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yournews/ YourNews]: This is a personalized RSS news access portal with several levels of user modeling and feed recommendation. Read your news in a personalized way!&lt;br /&gt;
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If you are a researcher and would like to  quickly try our adaptation tools, create the trial account (link above) and proceed [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/cbum/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
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== PAWS Lab Contact Information ==&lt;br /&gt;
Information Sciences Building, Rm. 2A04&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
135 North Bellefield Avenue&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Tel: +1(412)624-9437&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>News</title>
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		<updated>2017-03-08T13:40:36Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: /* &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-25&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-25&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  KnowledgeZoom paper receives ICALT 2013 Best full Paper Award */&lt;/p&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-11-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-11-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to  Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]]has joined [http://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/department-of-information-and-computing-sciences the Department of Information and Computing Sciences] at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). The tenure-track position in computer science with the focus on educational technology started on November 1st, 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-07-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-07-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'. More details on the thesis can be accessed [here]. She will now join the University of Albany as an Assistant Professor in September 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-05-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-05-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board  ====&lt;br /&gt;
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Two SIS faculty members on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board. &lt;br /&gt;
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Peter Brusilovsky, professor and current chair of the Information Sciences program, and Rosta Farzan, assistant professor of Information Sciences &amp;amp; Technology, have been selected as associate editors of the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) new journal titled “Transactions on Social Computing.”&lt;br /&gt;
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This quarterly journal will publish works encompassing theoretical, empirical, systems, and design research on social computing. It will be part of the ACM Digital Library, which is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-03-04&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-03-04&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Congratulations to [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] for receiving Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang and Roya Hosseini received prestigious Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award for the academic year 2016-2017.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-02-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-02-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou gave a talk on the topic of &amp;quot;Personalized Crowdsourcing&amp;quot; ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Lykourentzou  illustrated the potential that personalization has for the improvement of crowdsourcing systems, through two example applications. The first application was about making personalized task recommendations to crowd workers, and the second application was about personalizing team building, i.e. a method that brings people to work together on a collaborating task taking into account their individual personalities. &lt;br /&gt;
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At the time, Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou was a researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology and was collaborating with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, as Visiting Researcher.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]  and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He (project lead and co-lead respectively) has been awarded a Nation Science Foundation Information and Intelligent Systems grant for their project titled “[[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]].” The project will focus on streamlining and expanding the reach of effective adaptive educational hypermedia, which allows students and independent learners without access to traditional classrooms to gain a personalized education.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-04-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-04-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities'. ====&lt;br /&gt;
More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/25836/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-11-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-11-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;, and presented his research on Recommender Systems. &lt;br /&gt;
Please find the slides [http://www.slideshare.net/denisparra/keynote-at-chilean-week-of-computer-science here].&lt;br /&gt;
The abstract of the talk is also available at the home page of the event, JCC 2014. [http://www.jcc2014.ucm.cl/en/ (more)].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-09-19&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-09-19&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: PAWS won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Tomek, [[User:Julio | Julio]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya]], and [[User:peterb| Peter]]! Their paper entitled &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266656951_Mastery_Grids_An_Open_Source_Social_Educational_Progress_Visualization Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization]&amp;quot; has won the best paper award of EC-TEL 2014 conference. More details on the paper can be accessed [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-11200-8_18 here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-05-06&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-05-06&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] is appointed as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall.====&lt;br /&gt;
On completing 2 years successful post-doctoral innovation fellow position in [http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu EdLab], Teachers College @ Columbia University, [[User: shoha99 | Sharon]] is moving onto a tenure-track position in [http://cidse.engineering.asu.edu School of Computing, Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering] (AKA: Engineering school) in [http://www.asu.edu Arizona State University], Phoenix, Arizona. She anticipates to continue working on the emerging topics of computational technologies in learning. Meanwhile, persistently dedicate to the course - [http://www.columbia.edu/~ih2240/dataviz/index.htm Data Visualization], which she established in [http://www.qmss.columbia.edu QMSS (Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences)], School of Arts &amp;amp; Sciences in [http://www.columbia.edu Columbia University]. For more details see [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-14-2014.php SIS news].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] to deliver a keynote at a WWW 2014 workshop. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter will deliver a keynote titled &amp;quot;Addictive Links: Engaging Students through Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Student Modeling&amp;quot; at [http://www2014.kr/program/webet-2014/ WebET 2014] - Workshop on Web-based Education Technologies at the Word Wide Web Conference in Seoul, Korea. The talk will present PAWS work on such systems as [[QuizGuide]], [[NavEx]], JavaGuide, [[Progressor]], and [[ProgressorPlus|Progressor+]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Jennifer | Yi-Ling(Jennifer) Lin]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan.====&lt;br /&gt;
Yi-Ling (Jennifer) joined the Information Management faculty at the National Sun Yat-Sen University [http://http://epage.mis.nsysu.edu.tw/files/11-1100-4988-1.php?Lang=en] where she is an Assistant Professor. She is teaching Java course and continues to cooperate with Paws Lab to explore the social comparison in cyberlearning.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-08-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-08-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] started a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.====&lt;br /&gt;
Denis joined the faculty at the School of Engineering in Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, [http://www.topuniversities.com/node/2261/ranking-details/latin-american-university-rankings/2013  ranked 2nd among Latinamerican Universities],  where he is an [http://www.ing.puc.cl/cuerpo-docente/parra-santander/ Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science]. At the undergraduate level, he is teaching a course that explores several topics for the major in Computer Science, and at the graduate level he teaches Data Mining in the [http://mpgi.ing.puc.cl/profesores.html  Master for Information Processing and Management]. He continues doing research on Recommender Systems, the topic he investigated while a student at the PAWS lab, and is also Analyzing Social Media, collaborating with PAWS lab student Xidao Wen, studying [http://www.christophtrattner.info/pubs/ht2014.pdf how Twitter is used in academic Conferences]. In addition, he is fostering collaboration between professor Brusilovsky and some areas of teaching such as Databases in the CS department at Catholic University.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-18&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-18&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[Systems#KnowledgeZoom | KnowledgeZoom]] paper receives ICALT 2013 Best full Paper Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to paws! &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256524709_KnowledgeZoom_for_Java_A_Concept-Based_Exam_Study_Tool_with_a_Zoomable_Open_Student_Model KnowledgeZoom for Java: A Concept Based Exam Study Tool with a Zoomable Open Student Model]&amp;quot; won the best full paper award of ICALT 2013 conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Falakmasir | Mohammad Falakmasir]] won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Mohammad! His paper with Zachary A. Pardos, Geoffrey J. Gordon, and Peter Brusilovsky entitled &amp;quot;A Spectral Learning Approach to Knowledge Tracing&amp;quot; won the best student paper award of EDM 2013 conference. In his paper, he proposed using Spectral Learning (SL) to learn the BKT parameters.  Results of his study showed that SL can improve knowledge tracing parameter fitting time significantly while maintaining the same prediction accuracy. For more details on his paper please refer to his article [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/presentation2.php?presentationID=5323&amp;amp;conferenceID=115]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair. ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]], has been selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair by the Fulbright Commission. With this Award Peter will spend 5 month in FInland collaborating with researchers from University of Helsinki, Aalto University, and Helsinki Institute of Information Technology. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky, Professor at the iSchool, has been awarded a contract by the United States Army Contracting Command to participate in the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. Brusilovsky’ s contract, for $623,005 over a three-year period, will support the project [[Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Learner Modeling for PAL]] that will focus on the architecture, algorithms, and interfaces for a Personal Assistant for Learning (PAL), one of the major endeavors undertaken by the ADL Initiative. Through a PAL, the Initiative will provide state of the art education and training -- using technology and innovative learning methodologies -- for workforce members in the Department of Defense and the federal government. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-04-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-04-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Sergey Sosnovsky profiled in International Innovation ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky, who earned his PhD in Information Science in 2012, was recently profiled in International Innovation Magazine about his work on eLearning systems research and tools. Sosnovsky is the Principal Researcher and Head of the Intelligent e-Learning Technology Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbruken, Germany. The article explored his work on the Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content project funded by the European Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service. The magazine article (published March 2013) discussed how Sosnovsky’s project will enhance adaptive e-Learning by making it possible to develop smart instructional material for a broader audience of content authors. The article can be viewed at [[http://www.research-europe.com/magazine/REGIONAL/EX8/index.html]] , beginning on page 71.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-01-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-01-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt  IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies]. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter is appointed the Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, a journal dedicated to advancing the state of the art in technology-enhanced learning. This quarterly publication covers leading edge research on topics such as educational software applications, online learning systems, and simulation systems for education and training. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/3-11-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-08-26&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Rosta! After 3 years as a postdoc at CMU, she is now back to Pitt as an Assistant Professor. During her first semester at SIS she is teaching IS2430 Social Computing course. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-02-2012.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] Thesis Defence: Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
A large number of educational resources is now made available on the Web to support both regular classroom learning and online learning. However, the abundance of available content produced at least two problems: how to help students to find the most appropriate resources and how to engage them into using these resources and benefit from them. Personalized and social learning have been suggested as potential ways to address these problems.&lt;br /&gt;
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This work attempts to combine the ideas of personalized and social learning by providing navigation support through an open social student modeling visualization. A series of classroom studies exploited the idea of the approach and revealed promising results, which demonstrated the personalized guidance and social visualization combined helped students to find the most relevant resources of parameterized self-assessment questions for Java programming. Thus, this dissertation extend the approach to a larger collection of learning objects for cross content navigation and verify its capability of supporting social visualization for personalized E-Learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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The study results confirm that working with the non-mandatory system, students enhanced the learning quality in increasing their motivation and engagement. They successfully achieved better learning results. Meanwhile, incorporating a mixed collection of content in the open social student modeling visualizations effectively led the students to work at the right level of questions. Both strong and weak student worked with the appropriate levels of questions for their readiness accordingly and yielded a consistent performance across all three levels of complexities. Additionally, providing a more realistic content collection on the navigation supported open social student modeling visualizations results in a uniform performance in the group. The classroom study revealed a clear pattern of social guidance, where the stronger students left the traces for weaker ones to follow. The subjective evaluation confirms the design of the interface in terms of the content organization. Students’ positive responses also compliment the objective system usage data.&lt;br /&gt;
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download it from [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/13439/ here]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-11-30&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-11-30&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Thesis Defence: Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Conventional closed-corpus adaptive information systems control limited sets of documents in fixed subject domains and cannot provide access to the content outside the system. Such restrictions contradict the requirements of today, when most of the information systems are implemented in the open document space of WWW and are expected to operate on the open-corpus content. In order to maintain personalized access to open-corpus documents, an adaptive system should be able to model the documents and the relations between the documents and the domain knowledge automatically and dynamically. This dissertation explores the problem of open-corpus personalization and semantic modeling of open-corpus content in the context of e-Learning. Information on WWW is not without structure. Many collections of online instructional material (tutorials, electronic books, digital libraries, etc.) have been provided with implicit knowledge models encoded in form of tables of content, indexes, headers of chapters, links between pages, and different styles of text fragments. The main dissertation approach tries to leverage this layer of hidden semantics by extracting and representing it as coarse-grained models of collections. A central domain ontology is used to maintain overlay modeling of studentsÕ knowledge and serves as a reference point for multiple collections of external instructional material. In order to establish the link between the ontology and the open-corpus content models a special ontology mapping algorithm has been developed.  The proposed approach has been applied in the Ontology-based Open-corpus Personalization Service (OOPS) that recommends and adaptively annotates online reading material. The domain of Java programming has been chosen for the proof-of-concept implementation. A controlled experiment has been organized to evaluate the developed adaptive system and the proposed approach overall. The results of the evaluation have demonstrated several significant learning effects of the implemented open-corpus personalization. The analysis of log-based data has also shown that the open-corpus version of the system is capable of providing personalization of similar quality to the close-corpus one. Such results indicate that the proposed approach supports fully-scale open-corpus personalization for e-Learning. Further research is required to verify if the approach remains effective in other subject domains and with other types of instructional content.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-07-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-07-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:DParra | Denis Parra]] earns a  James Chen Best Student paper award in UMAP 2011 ====&lt;br /&gt;
In the last conference of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011) Denis Parra won one of the 2 [http://www.umap2011.org/program/best-paper-awards James Chen Best Student paper awards] for his paper '''Walk The Talk: Analyzing the relation between implicit and explicit feedback for preference elicitation''' that he co-authored with Dr. Xavier Amatriain. In this paper, the authors present a study on the music domain with last.fm users, which results leads them to create a regression model that maps implicit information (such as playcounts and how recently a user listened to albums) with explicit information in the form of ratings. More details in the [http://www.springerlink.com/content/645721483544r815/  conference proceedings in Springer]. Denis is the third PAWS Lab member to receive this prestigious award. Prior to that, Rosta Farzan and Michael Yudelson won this award at earlier User Modeling conferences. Rosta also won another James Chen award at Adaptive Hypermedia conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] Promoted to Rank of Full Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our head of PAWS lab! [[http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/06-10-2011.php Read more ]]&lt;br /&gt;
==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon]] received 2011 Allen Kent Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Graduate Program in Information Science ==== &lt;br /&gt;
She has worked with [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gray/ Dr. Glenn Ray] several years in designing and teaching undergraduate courses. She's affiliated as teaching fellow and teaches in our school now.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-12-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-12-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] received Google grant to work on ''[[Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities]]'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
The grant will support our efforts to increase user participation in social systems designed for local communities. In the course of the project will explore two innovative ideas for increasing participation. The first idea is to provide access to information “beyond the desktop,” by adding a mobile location-based interface to access information. This will increase both the number of active users and the volume of their contributions. The second idea is to provide personalized access to information to increase the chance to gather relevant information. This work will be based on two existing social systems that were developed and maintained by PAWs lab: the [[Systems#CoMeT | CoMeT]] system for sharing information about research talks at Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh and [[Systems#Eventur | Eventur]], a social system for recommending cultural events in the Pittsburgh area.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] Thesis Defence: Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System ====&lt;br /&gt;
The dissertation proposes a novel way of speeding the development of new adaptive hypermedia systems. The gist of the approach is to extract the adaptation functionality out of the adaptive hypermedia system, encapsulate it into a standalone system, and offer adaptation as a service to the client applications. Such a standalone adaptation provider reduces the development of adaptation functionality to configuration and compliance and as a result creates new adaptive systems faster and helps serve larger user populations with adaptively accessible content. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=777 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
The electronic version of [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] dissertation has been approved by the School of Information Sciences. ETD is accessible worldwide from the online library catalog of the University of Pittsburgh ([http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-10132010-092137/ link]).&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This EAGER grant will allow us to investigate how to model and visualize latent communities – those groups of people who form communities based on their similar interests. This work will consider how to elicit latent communities from various kinds of data about individuals available in the modern social Web and deliver the results in a manner suitable for interactive exploration through interactive visualizations. This will be one of the first attempts to use a variety of social Web data and approaches to community modeling. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1059577 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] Thesis Defence: Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn's dissertation proposes to incorporate interactive visualization into personalized search in order to overcome the limitation. By combining the personalized search and the interactive visualization, we expect our approach will be able to help users to better explore the information space and locate relevant information more efficiently. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=764 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This one-year grant will support a project exploring personalization and social networking for short-term communities. Using academic research conferences as a test bed, our team will explore new methods to leverage information about user interests (available from multiple external resources) and develop techniques to facilitate use of existing social technologies. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1052768 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-08-15 :: SIGWeb Newsletter published an interview with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
The Summer 2010 issue of SIGWeb Newsletter (a magazine of ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web) published an [http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1796390.1796393 interview with Peter Brusilovsky]. The interview provides some personal view on research project performed at PAWS.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-07-01 :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook]] has received Computing Inovation Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn was chosen as a [http://cifellows.org  CIFellow] (Computing Innovation Fellow) supported by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the Computing Research Association (CRA), and the National Science Foundation.  Starting from the fall 2010, he is going to work with [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/ Dr. Ben Shneiderman] at the [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil Human Computer Interaction Lab], University of Maryland.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-05-01 :: Sergey has received EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky's proposal for EU [http://cordis.europa.eu/improving/fellowships/home.htm Marie Curie Fellowship] is approved by the EU Research Executive Agency. The funding starts in July, 2010 and will last until July 2012. The project &amp;quot;Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content&amp;quot; will focus on implementation of author-friendly technologies for learning content development, including collaborative authoring support, metadata authoring support, open-corpus content discovery, interactivity authoring, and gap detection.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-27 :: Rosta receives her second James Chen Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rosta Farzan received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 12th International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP2009, in Trento, Italy for the paper ''Social Navigation Support for Information Seeking: If You Build It, Will They Come?'' by Rosta Farzan and Peter Brusilovsky. This is her second James Chen Award, congratulations!&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-26 :: PAWS Caught on UMAP 2009 Video ====&lt;br /&gt;
* 0:27 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:09 [[User:Rostaf|Rosta]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:18 [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:51 [[User:Suleehs|Danielle]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 3:12 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]] and [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 4:01 [[User:Peterb|Peter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-05-28 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] awarded honorary doctorate by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava ====&lt;br /&gt;
At a ceremony in Bratislava today, Peter Brusilovsky was honored by the [http://www.stuba.sk/ Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava] with the degree of Doctor honoris causa. The university, founded in 1937 in Bratislava, is one of the most significant institutions of higher education in Slovakia. Peter was selected for this recognition for &amp;quot;his contributions to the fields of Informatics and Information Technologies&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2008-07-31 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] receives Best Paper Award at AH 2008 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky received Best Paper Award at the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2008, in Hannover, Germany  for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/6h410u3w4836v866/ ''Social Information Access for the Rest of Us: An Exploration of Social YouTube''] by Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Brusilovsky, and Barry Smyth&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2007-06-28 :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael]] receives James Chen Best Student Paper Award at UM 2007 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Michael Yudelson received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on User Modelling, UM07, in Corfu, Greece for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/c723060442701737/ ''A User Modeling Server for Contemporary Adaptive Hypermedia: an Evaluation of Push Approach  to Evidence Propagation''] by Michael Yudelson, Peter Brusilovsky, and Vladimir Zadorozhny&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-11-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-11-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to  Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]]has joined [http://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/department-of-information-and-computing-sciences the Department of Information and Computing Sciences] at Utrecht University (the Netherlands). The tenure-track position in computer science with the focus on educational technology started on November 1st, 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-07-21&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-07-21&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'. More details on the thesis can be accessed [here]. She will now join the University of Albany as an Assistant Professor in September 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-05-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-05-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board  ====&lt;br /&gt;
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Two SIS faculty members on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board. &lt;br /&gt;
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Peter Brusilovsky, professor and current chair of the Information Sciences program, and Rosta Farzan, assistant professor of Information Sciences &amp;amp; Technology, have been selected as associate editors of the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) new journal titled “Transactions on Social Computing.”&lt;br /&gt;
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This quarterly journal will publish works encompassing theoretical, empirical, systems, and design research on social computing. It will be part of the ACM Digital Library, which is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records covering the fields of computing and information technology.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-03-04&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-03-04&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Congratulations to [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] for receiving Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Yun Huang and Roya Hosseini received prestigious Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship Award for the academic year 2016-2017.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2016-02-23&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2016-02-23&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; ::  Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou gave a talk on the topic of &amp;quot;Personalized Crowdsourcing&amp;quot; ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Lykourentzou  illustrated the potential that personalization has for the improvement of crowdsourcing systems, through two example applications. The first application was about making personalized task recommendations to crowd workers, and the second application was about personalizing team building, i.e. a method that brings people to work together on a collaborating task taking into account their individual personalities. &lt;br /&gt;
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At the time, Dr. Ioanna Lykourentzou was a researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology and was collaborating with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, as Visiting Researcher.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-08-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-08-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]]  and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He (project lead and co-lead respectively) has been awarded a Nation Science Foundation Information and Intelligent Systems grant for their project titled “[[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]].” The project will focus on streamlining and expanding the reach of effective adaptive educational hypermedia, which allows students and independent learners without access to traditional classrooms to gain a personalized education.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2015-04-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2015-04-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities'. ====&lt;br /&gt;
More details on the thesis can be accessed [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/25836/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-11-11&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-11-11&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;, and presented his research on Recommender Systems. &lt;br /&gt;
Please find the slides [http://www.slideshare.net/denisparra/keynote-at-chilean-week-of-computer-science here].&lt;br /&gt;
The abstract of the talk is also available at the home page of the event, JCC 2014. [http://www.jcc2014.ucm.cl/en/ (more)].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-09-19&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-09-19&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: PAWS won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Tomek, [[User:Julio | Julio]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya]], and [[User:peterb| Peter]]! Their paper entitled &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266656951_Mastery_Grids_An_Open_Source_Social_Educational_Progress_Visualization Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization]&amp;quot; has won the best paper award of EC-TEL 2014 conference. More details on the paper can be accessed [http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-11200-8_18 here].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-05-06&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-05-06&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] is appointed as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall.====&lt;br /&gt;
On completing 2 years successful post-doctoral innovation fellow position in [http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu EdLab], Teachers College @ Columbia University, [[User: shoha99 | Sharon]] is moving onto a tenure-track position in [http://cidse.engineering.asu.edu School of Computing, Informatics, Decision Systems Engineering] (AKA: Engineering school) in [http://www.asu.edu Arizona State University], Phoenix, Arizona. She anticipates to continue working on the emerging topics of computational technologies in learning. Meanwhile, persistently dedicate to the course - [http://www.columbia.edu/~ih2240/dataviz/index.htm Data Visualization], which she established in [http://www.qmss.columbia.edu QMSS (Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences)], School of Arts &amp;amp; Sciences in [http://www.columbia.edu Columbia University]. For more details see [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-14-2014.php SIS news].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] to deliver a keynote at a WWW 2014 workshop. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter will deliver a keynote titled &amp;quot;Addictive Links: Engaging Students through Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Student Modeling&amp;quot; at [http://www2014.kr/program/webet-2014/ WebET 2014] - Workshop on Web-based Education Technologies at the Word Wide Web Conference in Seoul, Korea. The talk will present PAWS work on such systems as [[QuizGuide]], [[NavEx]], JavaGuide, [[Progressor]], and [[ProgressorPlus|Progressor+]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2014-03-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2014-03-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Jennifer | Yi-Ling(Jennifer) Lin]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan.====&lt;br /&gt;
Yi-Ling (Jennifer) joined the Information Management faculty at the National Sun Yat-Sen University [http://http://epage.mis.nsysu.edu.tw/files/11-1100-4988-1.php?Lang=en] where she is an Assistant Professor. She is teaching Java course and continues to cooperate with Paws Lab to explore the social comparison in cyberlearning.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-08-13&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-08-13&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] started a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.====&lt;br /&gt;
Denis joined the faculty at the School of Engineering in Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, [http://www.topuniversities.com/node/2261/ranking-details/latin-american-university-rankings/2013  ranked 2nd among Latinamerican Universities],  where he is an [http://www.ing.puc.cl/cuerpo-docente/parra-santander/ Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science]. At the undergraduate level, he is teaching a course that explores several topics for the major in Computer Science, and at the graduate level he teaches Data Mining in the [http://mpgi.ing.puc.cl/profesores.html  Master for Information Processing and Management]. He continues doing research on Recommender Systems, the topic he investigated while a student at the PAWS lab, and is also Analyzing Social Media, collaborating with PAWS lab student Xidao Wen, studying [http://www.christophtrattner.info/pubs/ht2014.pdf how Twitter is used in academic Conferences]. In addition, he is fostering collaboration between professor Brusilovsky and some areas of teaching such as Databases in the CS department at Catholic University.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-25&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-25&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[Systems#KnowledgeZoom | KnowledgeZoom]] paper receives ICALT 2013 Best full Paper Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to paws! &amp;quot;[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256524709_KnowledgeZoom_for_Java_A_Concept-Based_Exam_Study_Tool_with_a_Zoomable_Open_Student_Model KnowledgeZoom for Java: A Concept Based Exam Study Tool with a Zoomable Open Student Model]&amp;quot; won the best full paper award of ICALT 2013 conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User: Falakmasir | Mohammad Falakmasir]] won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Mohammad! His paper with Zachary A. Pardos, Geoffrey J. Gordon, and Peter Brusilovsky entitled &amp;quot;A Spectral Learning Approach to Knowledge Tracing&amp;quot; won the best student paper award of EDM 2013 conference. In his paper, he proposed using Spectral Learning (SL) to learn the BKT parameters.  Results of his study showed that SL can improve knowledge tracing parameter fitting time significantly while maintaining the same prediction accuracy. For more details on his paper please refer to his article [http://halley.exp.sis.pitt.edu/cn3/presentation2.php?presentationID=5323&amp;amp;conferenceID=115]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair. ====&lt;br /&gt;
[[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]], has been selected as a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair by the Fulbright Commission. With this Award Peter will spend 5 month in FInland collaborating with researchers from University of Helsinki, Aalto University, and Helsinki Institute of Information Technology. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky, Professor at the iSchool, has been awarded a contract by the United States Army Contracting Command to participate in the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. Brusilovsky’ s contract, for $623,005 over a three-year period, will support the project [[Adaptive Navigation Support and Open Social Learner Modeling for PAL]] that will focus on the architecture, algorithms, and interfaces for a Personal Assistant for Learning (PAL), one of the major endeavors undertaken by the ADL Initiative. Through a PAL, the Initiative will provide state of the art education and training -- using technology and innovative learning methodologies -- for workforce members in the Department of Defense and the federal government. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/05-01-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-04-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-04-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: Sergey Sosnovsky profiled in International Innovation ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky, who earned his PhD in Information Science in 2012, was recently profiled in International Innovation Magazine about his work on eLearning systems research and tools. Sosnovsky is the Principal Researcher and Head of the Intelligent e-Learning Technology Lab at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbruken, Germany. The article explored his work on the Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content project funded by the European Commission’s Community Research and Development Information Service. The magazine article (published March 2013) discussed how Sosnovsky’s project will enhance adaptive e-Learning by making it possible to develop smart instructional material for a broader audience of content authors. The article can be viewed at [[http://www.research-europe.com/magazine/REGIONAL/EX8/index.html]] , beginning on page 71.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2013-01-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2013-01-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt  IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies]. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter is appointed the Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, a journal dedicated to advancing the state of the art in technology-enhanced learning. This quarterly publication covers leading edge research on topics such as educational software applications, online learning systems, and simulation systems for education and training. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/3-11-2013.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-08-26&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] started her new position as an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences. ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to Rosta! After 3 years as a postdoc at CMU, she is now back to Pitt as an Assistant Professor. During her first semester at SIS she is teaching IS2430 Social Computing course. Read the news story on SIS Web site: [http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/08-02-2012.php]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2012-07-09&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2012-07-09&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] Thesis Defence: Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
A large number of educational resources is now made available on the Web to support both regular classroom learning and online learning. However, the abundance of available content produced at least two problems: how to help students to find the most appropriate resources and how to engage them into using these resources and benefit from them. Personalized and social learning have been suggested as potential ways to address these problems.&lt;br /&gt;
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This work attempts to combine the ideas of personalized and social learning by providing navigation support through an open social student modeling visualization. A series of classroom studies exploited the idea of the approach and revealed promising results, which demonstrated the personalized guidance and social visualization combined helped students to find the most relevant resources of parameterized self-assessment questions for Java programming. Thus, this dissertation extend the approach to a larger collection of learning objects for cross content navigation and verify its capability of supporting social visualization for personalized E-Learning.&lt;br /&gt;
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The study results confirm that working with the non-mandatory system, students enhanced the learning quality in increasing their motivation and engagement. They successfully achieved better learning results. Meanwhile, incorporating a mixed collection of content in the open social student modeling visualizations effectively led the students to work at the right level of questions. Both strong and weak student worked with the appropriate levels of questions for their readiness accordingly and yielded a consistent performance across all three levels of complexities. Additionally, providing a more realistic content collection on the navigation supported open social student modeling visualizations results in a uniform performance in the group. The classroom study revealed a clear pattern of social guidance, where the stronger students left the traces for weaker ones to follow. The subjective evaluation confirms the design of the interface in terms of the content organization. Students’ positive responses also compliment the objective system usage data.&lt;br /&gt;
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download it from [http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/13439/ here]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-11-30&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-11-30&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] Thesis Defence: Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning  ====&lt;br /&gt;
Conventional closed-corpus adaptive information systems control limited sets of documents in fixed subject domains and cannot provide access to the content outside the system. Such restrictions contradict the requirements of today, when most of the information systems are implemented in the open document space of WWW and are expected to operate on the open-corpus content. In order to maintain personalized access to open-corpus documents, an adaptive system should be able to model the documents and the relations between the documents and the domain knowledge automatically and dynamically. This dissertation explores the problem of open-corpus personalization and semantic modeling of open-corpus content in the context of e-Learning. Information on WWW is not without structure. Many collections of online instructional material (tutorials, electronic books, digital libraries, etc.) have been provided with implicit knowledge models encoded in form of tables of content, indexes, headers of chapters, links between pages, and different styles of text fragments. The main dissertation approach tries to leverage this layer of hidden semantics by extracting and representing it as coarse-grained models of collections. A central domain ontology is used to maintain overlay modeling of studentsÕ knowledge and serves as a reference point for multiple collections of external instructional material. In order to establish the link between the ontology and the open-corpus content models a special ontology mapping algorithm has been developed.  The proposed approach has been applied in the Ontology-based Open-corpus Personalization Service (OOPS) that recommends and adaptively annotates online reading material. The domain of Java programming has been chosen for the proof-of-concept implementation. A controlled experiment has been organized to evaluate the developed adaptive system and the proposed approach overall. The results of the evaluation have demonstrated several significant learning effects of the implemented open-corpus personalization. The analysis of log-based data has also shown that the open-corpus version of the system is capable of providing personalization of similar quality to the close-corpus one. Such results indicate that the proposed approach supports fully-scale open-corpus personalization for e-Learning. Further research is required to verify if the approach remains effective in other subject domains and with other types of instructional content.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-07-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-07-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:DParra | Denis Parra]] earns a  James Chen Best Student paper award in UMAP 2011 ====&lt;br /&gt;
In the last conference of User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2011) Denis Parra won one of the 2 [http://www.umap2011.org/program/best-paper-awards James Chen Best Student paper awards] for his paper '''Walk The Talk: Analyzing the relation between implicit and explicit feedback for preference elicitation''' that he co-authored with Dr. Xavier Amatriain. In this paper, the authors present a study on the music domain with last.fm users, which results leads them to create a regression model that maps implicit information (such as playcounts and how recently a user listened to albums) with explicit information in the form of ratings. More details in the [http://www.springerlink.com/content/645721483544r815/  conference proceedings in Springer]. Denis is the third PAWS Lab member to receive this prestigious award. Prior to that, Rosta Farzan and Michael Yudelson won this award at earlier User Modeling conferences. Rosta also won another James Chen award at Adaptive Hypermedia conference.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-06-12&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-06-12&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] Promoted to Rank of Full Professor ====&lt;br /&gt;
Congratulations to our head of PAWS lab! [[http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/news/06-10-2011.php Read more ]]&lt;br /&gt;
==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2011-05-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2011-05-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:shoha99 | Sharon]] received 2011 Allen Kent Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Graduate Program in Information Science ==== &lt;br /&gt;
She has worked with [http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~gray/ Dr. Glenn Ray] several years in designing and teaching undergraduate courses. She's affiliated as teaching fellow and teaches in our school now.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-12-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-12-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] received Google grant to work on ''[[Personalized Social Systems for Local Communities]]'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
The grant will support our efforts to increase user participation in social systems designed for local communities. In the course of the project will explore two innovative ideas for increasing participation. The first idea is to provide access to information “beyond the desktop,” by adding a mobile location-based interface to access information. This will increase both the number of active users and the volume of their contributions. The second idea is to provide personalized access to information to increase the chance to gather relevant information. This work will be based on two existing social systems that were developed and maintained by PAWs lab: the [[Systems#CoMeT | CoMeT]] system for sharing information about research talks at Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh and [[Systems#Eventur | Eventur]], a social system for recommending cultural events in the Pittsburgh area.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-17&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-17&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] Thesis Defence: Providing Service-Based Personalization In An Adaptive Hypermedia System ====&lt;br /&gt;
The dissertation proposes a novel way of speeding the development of new adaptive hypermedia systems. The gist of the approach is to extract the adaptation functionality out of the adaptive hypermedia system, encapsulate it into a standalone system, and offer adaptation as a service to the client applications. Such a standalone adaptation provider reduces the development of adaptation functionality to configuration and compliance and as a result creates new adaptive systems faster and helps serve larger user populations with adaptively accessible content. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=777 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
The electronic version of [[User:Myudelson | Michael Yudelson's]] dissertation has been approved by the School of Information Sciences. ETD is accessible worldwide from the online library catalog of the University of Pittsburgh ([http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-10132010-092137/ link]).&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-15&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-15&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received NSF grant to work on ''Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This EAGER grant will allow us to investigate how to model and visualize latent communities – those groups of people who form communities based on their similar interests. This work will consider how to elicit latent communities from various kinds of data about individuals available in the modern social Web and deliver the results in a manner suitable for interactive exploration through interactive visualizations. This will be one of the first attempts to use a variety of social Web data and approaches to community modeling. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1059577 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-08&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-08&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook's]] Thesis Defence: Adaptive Visualization for Focused Personalized Information Retrieval ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn's dissertation proposes to incorporate interactive visualization into personalized search in order to overcome the limitation. By combining the personalized search and the interactive visualization, we expect our approach will be able to help users to better explore the information space and locate relevant information more efficiently. [[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/presentColloquium.do?col_id=764 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== &amp;lt;span id=&amp;quot;2010-09-01&amp;quot;&amp;gt;2010-09-01&amp;lt;/span&amp;gt; :: [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Jung Sun Oh received NSF grant to work on ''Personalization and social networking for short-term communities'' ====&lt;br /&gt;
This one-year grant will support a project exploring personalization and social networking for short-term communities. Using academic research conferences as a test bed, our team will explore new methods to leverage information about user interests (available from multiple external resources) and develop techniques to facilitate use of existing social technologies. [[http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1052768 details]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-08-15 :: SIGWeb Newsletter published an interview with [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] ====&lt;br /&gt;
The Summer 2010 issue of SIGWeb Newsletter (a magazine of ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web) published an [http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1796390.1796393 interview with Peter Brusilovsky]. The interview provides some personal view on research project performed at PAWS.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-07-01 :: [[User:jahn | Jae-wook]] has received Computing Inovation Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Jae-wook Ahn was chosen as a [http://cifellows.org  CIFellow] (Computing Innovation Fellow) supported by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), the Computing Research Association (CRA), and the National Science Foundation.  Starting from the fall 2010, he is going to work with [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/ Dr. Ben Shneiderman] at the [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil Human Computer Interaction Lab], University of Maryland.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2010-05-01 :: Sergey has received EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship ====&lt;br /&gt;
Sergey Sosnovsky's proposal for EU [http://cordis.europa.eu/improving/fellowships/home.htm Marie Curie Fellowship] is approved by the EU Research Executive Agency. The funding starts in July, 2010 and will last until July 2012. The project &amp;quot;Intelligent Support for Authoring Semantic Learning Content&amp;quot; will focus on implementation of author-friendly technologies for learning content development, including collaborative authoring support, metadata authoring support, open-corpus content discovery, interactivity authoring, and gap detection.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-27 :: Rosta receives her second James Chen Award ====&lt;br /&gt;
Rosta Farzan received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 12th International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP2009, in Trento, Italy for the paper ''Social Navigation Support for Information Seeking: If You Build It, Will They Come?'' by Rosta Farzan and Peter Brusilovsky. This is her second James Chen Award, congratulations!&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-06-26 :: PAWS Caught on UMAP 2009 Video ====&lt;br /&gt;
* 0:27 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:09 [[User:Rostaf|Rosta]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:18 [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 1:51 [[User:Suleehs|Danielle]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 3:12 [[User:Myudelson|Michael]] and [[User:Sergey|Sergey]]&lt;br /&gt;
* 4:01 [[User:Peterb|Peter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2009-05-28 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] awarded honorary doctorate by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava ====&lt;br /&gt;
At a ceremony in Bratislava today, Peter Brusilovsky was honored by the [http://www.stuba.sk/ Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava] with the degree of Doctor honoris causa. The university, founded in 1937 in Bratislava, is one of the most significant institutions of higher education in Slovakia. Peter was selected for this recognition for &amp;quot;his contributions to the fields of Informatics and Information Technologies&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2008-07-31 :: [[User:peterb | Peter]] receives Best Paper Award at AH 2008 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Peter Brusilovsky received Best Paper Award at the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, AH 2008, in Hannover, Germany  for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/6h410u3w4836v866/ ''Social Information Access for the Rest of Us: An Exploration of Social YouTube''] by Maurice Coyle, Jill Freyne, Peter Brusilovsky, and Barry Smyth&lt;br /&gt;
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==== 2007-06-28 :: [[User:Myudelson | Michael]] receives James Chen Best Student Paper Award at UM 2007 ====&lt;br /&gt;
Michael Yudelson received James Chen Best Student Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on User Modelling, UM07, in Corfu, Greece for the paper [http://www.springerlink.com/content/c723060442701737/ ''A User Modeling Server for Contemporary Adaptive Hypermedia: an Evaluation of Push Approach  to Evidence Propagation''] by Michael Yudelson, Peter Brusilovsky, and Vladimir Zadorozhny&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&lt;div&gt;== About PAWS ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:IMG_5103.jpg|Caption=''|frame|right|UMAP 2011 - Girona, Spain]]&lt;br /&gt;
Personalized Adaptive Web Systems Lab was established in 2004 with support from National Science Foundation and the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. The goal of the PAWS Lab is development and evaluation of innovative user- and group-adaptive Web-based technologies, systems, and architectures. The Lab currently explores a range of user modeling, adaptation and personalization technologies. The work of the Lab is supported by NSF and DARPA funding.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Most Recent News ==&lt;br /&gt;
*  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor  ([[News#2016-11-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: ''Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'', will start as an Assistant Professor in University of Albany  ([[News#2016-07-21|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board.  ([[News#2016-05-13|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] received Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship for the academic year 2016-2017. ([[News#2016-03-04|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
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* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]]   ([[News#2016-02-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: ''Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities''.  ([[News#2015-04-15|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ([[News#2014-11-11|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Tomek Loboda, [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] , and [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ([[News#2014-09-19|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User: Yuh43 | Yun Huang]] has been nominated for the best paper award at the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2014). ([[News#2014-07-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] finished her 2nd year postdoc in Columbia University and starts  as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall ([[News#2014-05-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[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. &lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]], Dhruba Baishya, [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]],  [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]], and  Miner Liang received the best full paper award at IEEE 13th Int. Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2013.([[News#2013-07-15|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] defended his Ph. D. Thesis: ''User Controllability in a Hybrid Recommender System'' and joins the Department of Computer Sciences at PUC Chile. ([[News#2013-08-13|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Mohammad Falakmasir won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper Award  ([[News#2013-07-09|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] awarded  a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair ([[News#2013-06-12|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture ([[News#2013-05-01|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]]  profiled in International Innovation ([[News#2013-04-01|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[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]])&lt;br /&gt;
Go to [[News | News Page]] for all news.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Try PAWS Tools at our Community Portal == &lt;br /&gt;
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Go to [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt Knowledge Tree] portal and [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt/register.html create trial account] to try our tools.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~cagent/ CourseAgent]: Share evaluations of IS graduate courses at Pitt and plan your career.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://pittsburgh.comettalks.com/ Comet]: Share, tag, recommend and schedule interesting talks in Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://eventur.us/ Eventur]: Share and schedule cultural events in Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://www.computingportal.org/ Ensemble]: This cross-university collaborative effort aims to bring together the global community of computing educators around a growing set of content collections with high-quality educational resources.&lt;br /&gt;
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[http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yournews/ YourNews]: This is a personalized RSS news access portal with several levels of user modeling and feed recommendation. Read your news in a personalized way!&lt;br /&gt;
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If you are a researcher and would like to  quickly try our adaptation tools, create the trial account (link above) and proceed [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/cbum/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
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== PAWS Lab Contact Information ==&lt;br /&gt;
Information Sciences Building, Rm. 2A04&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
135 North Bellefield Avenue&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;== About PAWS ==&lt;br /&gt;
[[Image:IMG_5103.jpg|Caption=''|frame|right|UMAP 2011 - Girona, Spain]]&lt;br /&gt;
Personalized Adaptive Web Systems Lab was established in 2004 with support from National Science Foundation and the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. The goal of the PAWS Lab is development and evaluation of innovative user- and group-adaptive Web-based technologies, systems, and architectures. The Lab currently explores a range of user modeling, adaptation and personalization technologies. The work of the Lab is supported by NSF and DARPA funding.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Most Recent News ==&lt;br /&gt;
*  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor  ([[News#2016-11-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: ''Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'', will start as an Assistant Professor in University of Albany  ([[News#2016-07-21|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board.  ([[News#2016-05-13|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] received Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship for the academic year 2016-2017. ([[News#2016-03-04|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
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* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]]   ([[News#2016-02-23|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: ''Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities''.  ([[News#2015-04-15|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the &amp;quot;Chilean Computing Conference 2014&amp;quot;. ([[News#2014-11-11|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Tomek Loboda, [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] , and [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ([[News#2014-09-19|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User: Yuh43 | Yun Huang]] has been nominated for the best paper award at the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2014). ([[News#2014-07-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] finished her 2nd year postdoc in Columbia University and starts  as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall ([[News#2014-05-06|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[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. &lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]], Dhruba Baishya, [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]],  [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]], and  Miner Liang received best full paper award at IEEE 13th Int. Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2013.([[News#2013-07-15|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] defended his Ph. D. Thesis: ''User Controllability in a Hybrid Recommender System'' and joins the Department of Computer Sciences at PUC Chile. ([[News#2013-08-13|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* Mohammad Falakmasir won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper Award  ([[News#2013-07-09|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] awarded  a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair ([[News#2013-06-12|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture ([[News#2013-05-01|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]]  profiled in International Innovation ([[News#2013-04-01|details]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[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]])&lt;br /&gt;
Go to [[News | News Page]] for all news.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Try PAWS Tools at our Community Portal == &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Go to [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt Knowledge Tree] portal and [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt/register.html create trial account] to try our tools.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~cagent/ CourseAgent]: Share evaluations of IS graduate courses at Pitt and plan your career.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://pittsburgh.comettalks.com/ Comet]: Share, tag, recommend and schedule interesting talks in Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://eventur.us/ Eventur]: Share and schedule cultural events in Pittsburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://www.computingportal.org/ Ensemble]: This cross-university collaborative effort aims to bring together the global community of computing educators around a growing set of content collections with high-quality educational resources.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yournews/ YourNews]: This is a personalized RSS news access portal with several levels of user modeling and feed recommendation. Read your news in a personalized way!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If you are a researcher and would like to  quickly try our adaptation tools, create the trial account (link above) and proceed [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/cbum/ here].&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== PAWS Lab Contact Information ==&lt;br /&gt;
Information Sciences Building, Rm. 2A04&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
135 North Bellefield Avenue&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Tel: +1(412)624-9437&amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>Publications</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: /* Knowledge Zoom */&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;===ADVISE===&lt;br /&gt;
{{:Adaptive_VIBE}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[AnnotEx]]===&lt;br /&gt;
* Hsiao, I. and Brusilvsky, P. (2011) '''The Role of Community Feedback in the Student Example Authoring Process: an Evaluation of AnnotEx''', British Journal of Educational Technology, Vol 42, Issue 3, Pages 482 - 499 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2009.01030.x DOI]&lt;br /&gt;
* Hsiao, I. &amp;amp; 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]&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Hsiao, I. &amp;amp; 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]&lt;br /&gt;
* Hsiao, I. &amp;amp; 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]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===ASSIST===&lt;br /&gt;
* Freyne, J., Farzan, R., and Coyle, M. (2007). Toward the exploitation of social access patterns for recommendation. RecSys 2007.&lt;br /&gt;
* Farzan, R., Coyle, M., Freyne, J., Brusilovsky, P., and Smyth, P. (2007). ASSIST: Adaptive Social Support for Information Space Traversal. Hypertext 2007.&lt;br /&gt;
* Freyne J., Farzan R., Brusilovsky P., Smyth B., and Coyle M. (2007). Collecting Community Wisdom: Integrating Social Search &amp;amp; Social Navigation. In Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Conference Navigator===&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Clau|López C.]], Farzan R., Sahebi S., and Brusilovsky P. (2013). What Influences the Decision to Participate in Audience-bounded Online Communities. iConference 2013.&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Clau|López C.]], Farzan R., and Brusilovsky P. (2012). Personalized Incremental Users' Engagement: Driving Contributions One Step Forward. ACM GROUP 2012.&lt;br /&gt;
* Farzan R., and Brusilovsky P. Where did the Researchers Go? Supporting Social Navigation at a Large Academic Conference. Hypertext 2008.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[CourseAgent]]===&lt;br /&gt;
* Farzan, R. and Brusilovsky, P. (2011) Encouraging User Participation in a Course Recommender System: An Impact on User Behavior. Computers in Human Behavior  27 (1), 276-284.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*Farzan R. &amp;amp; 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.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[CUMULATE]]===&lt;br /&gt;
{{:CUMULATE}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[Eventur]]===&lt;br /&gt;
* 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 &lt;br /&gt;
* 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 &amp;amp; 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]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[Knowledge Sea II]] and [[AnnotatEd]]===&lt;br /&gt;
* Lin, Y., Brusilovsky, P., and He, D. (2011) Improving Self-Organizing Information Maps as Navigational Tools: A Semantic Approach. Online Information Review  35 (3), 401-424.&lt;br /&gt;
* 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)&lt;br /&gt;
* 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.&lt;br /&gt;
* 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&lt;br /&gt;
* Farzan R. &amp;amp; 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.  &lt;br /&gt;
* 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).&lt;br /&gt;
* Farzan, R. &amp;amp; Brusilovsky P. (2005). Social Navigation Support through Annotation-Based Group Modeling.  In proceedings of 10th International Conference on User Modeling.&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky P., Farzan R. &amp;amp; Ahn J. (2005). Comprehensive Personalized Information Access in an Educational Digital Library. In proceedings of Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.&lt;br /&gt;
* 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&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Knowledge Zoom===&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Baishya, D., Hosseini, R., Guerra, J., &amp;amp; Liang, M. (2013, July). '''Knowledgezoom for java: A concept-based exam study tool with a zoomable open student model'''. In 2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), (pp. 275-279). IEEE [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6601929/]. [Received Best Paper Award]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Mastery Grids===&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Hosseini, R.,  Somyurek, S., Brusilovsky, P. (2016). An Intelligent Interface for Learning Content: Combining an Open Learner Model and Social Comparison to Support Self-Regulated Learning and Engagement. I press (available [http://columbus.exp.sis.pitt.edu/jguerra/files/intelligent-interface-learning.pdf here]). IUI 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
* Loboda, T., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Brusilovsky, P. (2014). Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization. Paper accepted in ECTEL 2014&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[NameSieve]]===&lt;br /&gt;
{{:NameSieve}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[NavEx]]===&lt;br /&gt;
{{:NavEx}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[PERSEUS]]===&lt;br /&gt;
{{:PERSEUS}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[Proactive]]===&lt;br /&gt;
* Lee, D. H. &amp;amp; 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 &lt;br /&gt;
* Lee, D. and Brusilovsky, P. (2012) Proactive: Comprehensive Access to Job Information. Journal of Information Processing Systems  8 (4), 707-724.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[Progressor]]===&lt;br /&gt;
{{:Progressor}}&lt;br /&gt;
===[[ProgressorPlus]]===&lt;br /&gt;
{{:ProgressorPlus}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[QuizJET]] and [[JavaGuide]]===&lt;br /&gt;
* Sahebi, S., Huang, Y., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) '''Predicting Student Performance in Solving Parameterized Exercises''', ITS 2014.&lt;br /&gt;
* Sahebi, S., Huang, Y., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) '''Parameterized Exercises in Java Programming: using Knowledge Structure for Performance Prediction''', The second Workshop on AI-supported Education for Computer Science (AIEDCS) 2014.&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Sahebi, S., Lin, Y., Brusilovsky, P. The Problem Solving Genome: Analyzing Sequential Patterns of Student Work with Parameterized Exercises. Paper accepted in EDM 2014&lt;br /&gt;
{{:QuizJET}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[TaskSieve]]===&lt;br /&gt;
{{:TaskSieve}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[YourNews]]===&lt;br /&gt;
{{:YourNews}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[Others]]===&lt;br /&gt;
* Sahebi, S. and Brusilovsky, P. (2013) '''Cross-Domain Recommendation in a Cold-Start Context: The impact of User Profile Size on the Quality of Recommendation''', UMAP 2013, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, p. 289-295.&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Hsiao, I-H. and Folajimi, Y., (2011) '''QuizMap: Open Social Student Modeling and Adaptive Navigation Support with TreeMaps''', In: Proceedings of 6th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Education (ECTEL), ECTEL 2011, Palermo, Italy, September 20-23, 2011, Springer-Verlag, Volume 6964/2011, pp.71-82&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;R.hosseini: /* Knowledge Zoom */&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;===ADVISE===&lt;br /&gt;
{{:Adaptive_VIBE}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[AnnotEx]]===&lt;br /&gt;
* Hsiao, I. and Brusilvsky, P. (2011) '''The Role of Community Feedback in the Student Example Authoring Process: an Evaluation of AnnotEx''', British Journal of Educational Technology, Vol 42, Issue 3, Pages 482 - 499 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2009.01030.x DOI]&lt;br /&gt;
* Hsiao, I. &amp;amp; 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]&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Hsiao, I. &amp;amp; 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]&lt;br /&gt;
* Hsiao, I. &amp;amp; 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]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===ASSIST===&lt;br /&gt;
* Freyne, J., Farzan, R., and Coyle, M. (2007). Toward the exploitation of social access patterns for recommendation. RecSys 2007.&lt;br /&gt;
* Farzan, R., Coyle, M., Freyne, J., Brusilovsky, P., and Smyth, P. (2007). ASSIST: Adaptive Social Support for Information Space Traversal. Hypertext 2007.&lt;br /&gt;
* Freyne J., Farzan R., Brusilovsky P., Smyth B., and Coyle M. (2007). Collecting Community Wisdom: Integrating Social Search &amp;amp; Social Navigation. In Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Conference Navigator===&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Clau|López C.]], Farzan R., Sahebi S., and Brusilovsky P. (2013). What Influences the Decision to Participate in Audience-bounded Online Communities. iConference 2013.&lt;br /&gt;
* [[User:Clau|López C.]], Farzan R., and Brusilovsky P. (2012). Personalized Incremental Users' Engagement: Driving Contributions One Step Forward. ACM GROUP 2012.&lt;br /&gt;
* Farzan R., and Brusilovsky P. Where did the Researchers Go? Supporting Social Navigation at a Large Academic Conference. Hypertext 2008.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[CourseAgent]]===&lt;br /&gt;
* Farzan, R. and Brusilovsky, P. (2011) Encouraging User Participation in a Course Recommender System: An Impact on User Behavior. Computers in Human Behavior  27 (1), 276-284.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
*Farzan R. &amp;amp; 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.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[CUMULATE]]===&lt;br /&gt;
{{:CUMULATE}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[Eventur]]===&lt;br /&gt;
* 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 &lt;br /&gt;
* 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 &amp;amp; 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]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[Knowledge Sea II]] and [[AnnotatEd]]===&lt;br /&gt;
* Lin, Y., Brusilovsky, P., and He, D. (2011) Improving Self-Organizing Information Maps as Navigational Tools: A Semantic Approach. Online Information Review  35 (3), 401-424.&lt;br /&gt;
* 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)&lt;br /&gt;
* 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.&lt;br /&gt;
* 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&lt;br /&gt;
* Farzan R. &amp;amp; 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.  &lt;br /&gt;
* 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).&lt;br /&gt;
* Farzan, R. &amp;amp; Brusilovsky P. (2005). Social Navigation Support through Annotation-Based Group Modeling.  In proceedings of 10th International Conference on User Modeling.&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky P., Farzan R. &amp;amp; Ahn J. (2005). Comprehensive Personalized Information Access in an Educational Digital Library. In proceedings of Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.&lt;br /&gt;
* 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&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Knowledge Zoom===&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Baishya, D., Hosseini, R., Guerra, J., &amp;amp; Liang, M. (2013, July). '''Knowledgezoom for java: A concept-based exam study tool with a zoomable open student model'''. In 2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT),(pp. 275-279). IEEE [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6601929/]. [Received Best Paper Award]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===Mastery Grids===&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Hosseini, R.,  Somyurek, S., Brusilovsky, P. (2016). An Intelligent Interface for Learning Content: Combining an Open Learner Model and Social Comparison to Support Self-Regulated Learning and Engagement. I press (available [http://columbus.exp.sis.pitt.edu/jguerra/files/intelligent-interface-learning.pdf here]). IUI 2016.&lt;br /&gt;
* Loboda, T., Guerra, J., Hosseini, R., Brusilovsky, P. (2014). Mastery Grids: An Open Source Social Educational Progress Visualization. Paper accepted in ECTEL 2014&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[NameSieve]]===&lt;br /&gt;
{{:NameSieve}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[NavEx]]===&lt;br /&gt;
{{:NavEx}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[PERSEUS]]===&lt;br /&gt;
{{:PERSEUS}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[Proactive]]===&lt;br /&gt;
* Lee, D. H. &amp;amp; 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 &lt;br /&gt;
* Lee, D. and Brusilovsky, P. (2012) Proactive: Comprehensive Access to Job Information. Journal of Information Processing Systems  8 (4), 707-724.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[Progressor]]===&lt;br /&gt;
{{:Progressor}}&lt;br /&gt;
===[[ProgressorPlus]]===&lt;br /&gt;
{{:ProgressorPlus}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[QuizJET]] and [[JavaGuide]]===&lt;br /&gt;
* Sahebi, S., Huang, Y., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) '''Predicting Student Performance in Solving Parameterized Exercises''', ITS 2014.&lt;br /&gt;
* Sahebi, S., Huang, Y., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) '''Parameterized Exercises in Java Programming: using Knowledge Structure for Performance Prediction''', The second Workshop on AI-supported Education for Computer Science (AIEDCS) 2014.&lt;br /&gt;
* Guerra, J., Sahebi, S., Lin, Y., Brusilovsky, P. The Problem Solving Genome: Analyzing Sequential Patterns of Student Work with Parameterized Exercises. Paper accepted in EDM 2014&lt;br /&gt;
{{:QuizJET}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[TaskSieve]]===&lt;br /&gt;
{{:TaskSieve}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[YourNews]]===&lt;br /&gt;
{{:YourNews}}&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
===[[Others]]===&lt;br /&gt;
* Sahebi, S. and Brusilovsky, P. (2013) '''Cross-Domain Recommendation in a Cold-Start Context: The impact of User Profile Size on the Quality of Recommendation''', UMAP 2013, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, p. 289-295.&lt;br /&gt;
* Brusilovsky, P., Hsiao, I-H. and Folajimi, Y., (2011) '''QuizMap: Open Social Student Modeling and Adaptive Navigation Support with TreeMaps''', In: Proceedings of 6th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Education (ECTEL), ECTEL 2011, Palermo, Italy, September 20-23, 2011, Springer-Verlag, Volume 6964/2011, pp.71-82&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>R.hosseini</name></author>
		
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