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== About PAWS ==
 
== About PAWS ==
 
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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.
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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 the 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 NIH funding.
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== Most Recent News ==
 
== Most Recent News ==
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* Dr. Rosta Farzan is a Program Chair [https://chi.acm.org/welcome-to-the-chi-2027-chairs/ CHI 2027 happening in Pittsburgh]!
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* Jordan defends his PhD thesis and starts a position as Professor at UDP, Chile ([[News#2025-11-21|details]])
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* Kamil defends his PhD thesis and starts his postdoc position at CMU ([[News#2025-09-02|details]])
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* Behnam defends his PhD thesis and starts his postdoc position at Stanford ([[News#2025-02-04|details]])
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* Khushboo Thaker defends her PhD thesis ([[News#2024-12-09|details]])
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* PAWS alumni Rosta Farzan and Claudia López co-chair ACM CSCW 2024 conference ([[News#2024-09-09|details]])
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* Kamil's paper nominated for the Best Paper Award at EC-TEL 2024 ([[News#2024-09-15|details]])
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* Rosta Farzan has been promoted to Full Professor at the University of Pittsburgh ([[News#2024-09-09|details]])
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* Denis Parra serves as program co-chair of ACM IUI 2024 ([[News#2024-03-18|details]])
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* Hung Chau defends his PhD Thesis ([[News#2023-11-03|details]])
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* Sherry Sahebi has been promoted to Associate Professor at the University at Albany, SUNY ([[News#2023-09-01|details]])
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* Sergey Sosnovsky has been promoted to Associate Professor at Utrecht University ([[News#2023-04-24|details]])
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* Peter Brusilovsky receives 2023 Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award as a leader in the field of "cutting-edge research" ([[News#2023-03-14|details]])
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* Peter Brusilovsky receives Amazon Research Award ([[News#2022-08-31|details]])
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* Chun-Hua "Ronald" Tsai receives best paper award at ACM Learning at Scale 2022 ([[News#2022-06-08|details]])
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* Peter Brusilovsky receives an NIH grant to work on the personalized treatment of aphasia ([[News#2022-04-05|details]])
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* PAWS team receives Best Demo Award at ACM RecSys 2021 ([[News#2021-09-23|details]])
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* Sharon Hsiao joins Santa Clara University as an endowed assistant professor ([[News#2021-09-01|details]])
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* PAWS takes over EDM 2021! ([[News#2021-06-29|details]])
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* Kamil Akhuseyinoglu and Peter Brusilovsky win Best Paper Award at UMAP 2021 ([[News#2021-06-23|details]])
 
* Chun-Hua "Ronald" Tsai starts as a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha in Fall 2021! ([[News#2021-05-08|details]])
 
* Chun-Hua "Ronald" Tsai starts as a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha in Fall 2021! ([[News#2021-05-08|details]])
* Sherry Sahebi receives NSF CAREER award! ([[News#|details]])
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* Sherry Sahebi receives NSF CAREER award! ([[News#2021-05-06|details]])
* Chun-Hua Tsai joins Penn State as Assistant Research Professor! ([[News#2019-08-25|details]])
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* Rosta Farzan is appointed Associate Dean for diversity, equity and inclusion at the School of Computing and Information ([[News#2021-02-21|details]])
* Hung Chau wins the Best Paper award at the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery Learning at Scale Conference!([[News#2019-06-25|details]])
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* Chun-Hua Tsai defends his PhD Thesis and joins Penn State as Assistant Research Professor ([[News#2019-08-25|details]])
* Prof. Peter Brusilovksy is awarded AMiner Most Influential Scholar Award in recognition of his outstanding and vibrant contributions to the field of Recommender System by AMiner.([[News#2019-03-04|details]])
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* Hung Chau wins the Best Paper award at the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery Learning at Scale Conference! ([[News#2019-06-25|details]])
* Two PAWS graduates' papers were short-listed for the best paper award at EC-TEL 2018.([[News#2018-08-13|details]])
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* Prof. Peter Brusilovsky is awarded AMiner Most Influential Scholar Award in recognition of his contributions to the field of Recommender Systems by AMiner ([[News#2019-03-04|details]])
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] awarded NSF grant under the program Cyberlearn And Future Learn Tech. ([[News#2018-07-31|details]])
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* Two PAWS graduates' papers were short-listed for the best paper award at EC-TEL 2018 ([[News#2018-08-13|details]])
* Roya Hosseini defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Program Construction Examples in Computer Science Education: From Static Text to Adaptive and Engaging Learning Technology'.([[News#2018-07-24|details]])
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* Yun Huang defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Learner Modeling for Integration Skills in Programming' ([[News#2018-07-05|details]])
 
* PAWS Lab scores thrice at IUI 2018  ([[News#2018-03-08|details]])
 
* Julio Guerra defended his Ph. D. Thesis: 'Open Learner Models for Self-Regulated Learning: Exploring the Effects of Social Comparison and Granularity'.([[News#2017-10-24|details]])
 
* [[User:Suleehs | Danielle Lee]] moves to Sangmyung University as an assistant professor  ([[News#2017-08-17|details]])
 
* Two PAWS papers were nominated and one received Best Paper Awards at UMAP 2017  ([[News#2017-07-11|details]])
 
*  [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] received the 2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring.  ([[News#2017-02-21|details]])
 
*  [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor  ([[News#2016-11-23|details]])
 
* Maria Harrington moves to University of Central Florida as an Assistant Professor ([[News#2016-08-15 |details]])
 
  
 
Go to [[News | News Page]] for all news.
 
Go to [[News | News Page]] for all news.
  
== Try PAWS Tools at our Community Portal ==  
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== View Demos of Some PAWS Lab Systems & Tools ==
 
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* [https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3640544.3645223 CARE: An Infrastructure for Evaluation of Carousel-Based Recommender Interfaces]
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.
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* [https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3279720.3279726 Programming Construction Examples] (2017) with [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-09680-8_4 Self Explanations] (2022)
 
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* [https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3460231.3478879 Grapevine] (2021) - an interactive recommender system for finding research advisors
[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~cagent/ CourseAgent]: Share evaluations of IS graduate courses at Pitt and plan your career.
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI9Fxo_FeRw&t=145s&ab_channel=RH Mastery Grids for Java] (2017) - a personalized Java Programming Practice System
 
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roCkp7QVfB8 Mastery Grids for Python] (2017) - a personalized Python Programming Practice System
[http://pittsburgh.comettalks.com/ Comet]: Share, tag, recommend and schedule interesting talks in Pittsburgh.
 
 
 
[http://eventur.us/ Eventur]: Share and schedule cultural events in Pittsburgh.
 
 
 
[http://www.computingportal.org/ Ensemble]: This cross-university collaborative effort aims to bring together the global community of computing educators around a growing set of content collections with high-quality educational resources.
 
 
 
[http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yournews/ YourNews]: This is a personalized RSS news access portal with several levels of user modeling and feed recommendation. Read your news in a personalized way!
 
  
If you are a researcher and would like to  quickly try our adaptation tools, create the trial account (link above) and proceed [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/cbum/ here].
 
  
 
== PAWS Lab Contact Information ==
 
== PAWS Lab Contact Information ==
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135 North Bellefield Avenue<br/>
 
135 North Bellefield Avenue<br/>
 
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA<br/>
 
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA<br/>
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Tel: +1 (412) 624-9437<br/>

Latest revision as of 16:27, 5 March 2026

About PAWS

AIED 2019 - Chicago, IL

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 the 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 NIH funding.


Most Recent News

  • Dr. Rosta Farzan is a Program Chair CHI 2027 happening in Pittsburgh!
  • Jordan defends his PhD thesis and starts a position as Professor at UDP, Chile (details)
  • Kamil defends his PhD thesis and starts his postdoc position at CMU (details)
  • Behnam defends his PhD thesis and starts his postdoc position at Stanford (details)
  • Khushboo Thaker defends her PhD thesis (details)
  • PAWS alumni Rosta Farzan and Claudia López co-chair ACM CSCW 2024 conference (details)
  • Kamil's paper nominated for the Best Paper Award at EC-TEL 2024 (details)
  • Rosta Farzan has been promoted to Full Professor at the University of Pittsburgh (details)
  • Denis Parra serves as program co-chair of ACM IUI 2024 (details)
  • Hung Chau defends his PhD Thesis (details)
  • Sherry Sahebi has been promoted to Associate Professor at the University at Albany, SUNY (details)
  • Sergey Sosnovsky has been promoted to Associate Professor at Utrecht University (details)
  • Peter Brusilovsky receives 2023 Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award as a leader in the field of "cutting-edge research" (details)
  • Peter Brusilovsky receives Amazon Research Award (details)
  • Chun-Hua "Ronald" Tsai receives best paper award at ACM Learning at Scale 2022 (details)
  • Peter Brusilovsky receives an NIH grant to work on the personalized treatment of aphasia (details)
  • PAWS team receives Best Demo Award at ACM RecSys 2021 (details)
  • Sharon Hsiao joins Santa Clara University as an endowed assistant professor (details)
  • PAWS takes over EDM 2021! (details)
  • Kamil Akhuseyinoglu and Peter Brusilovsky win Best Paper Award at UMAP 2021 (details)
  • Chun-Hua "Ronald" Tsai starts as a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha in Fall 2021! (details)
  • Sherry Sahebi receives NSF CAREER award! (details)
  • Rosta Farzan is appointed Associate Dean for diversity, equity and inclusion at the School of Computing and Information (details)
  • Chun-Hua Tsai defends his PhD Thesis and joins Penn State as Assistant Research Professor (details)
  • Hung Chau wins the Best Paper award at the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery Learning at Scale Conference! (details)
  • Prof. Peter Brusilovsky is awarded AMiner Most Influential Scholar Award in recognition of his contributions to the field of Recommender Systems by AMiner (details)
  • Two PAWS graduates' papers were short-listed for the best paper award at EC-TEL 2018 (details)


Go to News Page for all news.

View Demos of Some PAWS Lab Systems & Tools


PAWS Lab Contact Information

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