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== About PAWS ==
 
== About PAWS ==
[[Image:IMG_5103.jpg | left|400px]] 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 ==
* Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the "Chilean Computing Conference 2014". ([[News#2014-11-11|details]])
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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]!
* 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]])
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* Jordan defends his PhD thesis and starts a position as Professor at UDP, Chile ([[News#2025-11-21|details]])
* [[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]])
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* Kamil defends his PhD thesis and starts his postdoc position at CMU ([[News#2025-09-02|details]])
* [[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]])
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* Behnam defends his PhD thesis and starts his postdoc position at Stanford ([[News#2025-02-04|details]])
* [[User:Jennifer | Jennifer Lin]] Defended her Ph. D. Thesis: ''Enhancing Image Findability through a Dual-Perspective Navigation Framework'' and joins the Department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan.
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* Khushboo Thaker defends her PhD thesis ([[News#2024-12-09|details]])
* [[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]])
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* PAWS alumni Rosta Farzan and Claudia López co-chair ACM CSCW 2024 conference ([[News#2024-09-09|details]])
* Mohammad Falakmasir won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper Award ([[News#2013-07-09|details]])
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* Kamil's paper nominated for the Best Paper Award at EC-TEL 2024 ([[News#2024-09-15|details]])
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] awarded  a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair ([[News#2013-06-12|details]])
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* Rosta Farzan has been promoted to Full Professor at the University of Pittsburgh ([[News#2024-09-09|details]])
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture ([[News#2013-05-01|details]])
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* Denis Parra serves as program co-chair of ACM IUI 2024 ([[News#2024-03-18|details]])
* [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] profiled in International Innovation ([[News#2013-04-01|details]])
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* Hung Chau defends his PhD Thesis ([[News#2023-11-03|details]])
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt  IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies] ([[News#2013-01-01|details]])
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* Sherry Sahebi has been promoted to Associate Professor at the University at Albany, SUNY ([[News#2023-09-01|details]])
* [[User:Rostaf | Rosta Farzan]] joined School of Information Sciences as an Assistant Professor ([[News#2012-08-26|details]])
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* Sergey Sosnovsky has been promoted to Associate Professor at Utrecht University ([[News#2023-04-24|details]])
* [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] defended her Ph. D.Thesis: ''Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning''  ([[News#2012-07-09|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]])
* [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] defended his Ph. D.Thesis: ''Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning''  ([[News#2011-11-30|details]])
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* Peter Brusilovsky receives Amazon Research Award ([[News#2022-08-31|details]])
* [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the James Chen Best Student Paper award at UMAP 2011 ([[News#2011-07-15|details]])
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* Chun-Hua "Ronald" Tsai receives best paper award at ACM Learning at Scale 2022 ([[News#2022-06-08|details]])
Go to [[News | News Page]]
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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]])
== Try PAWS Tools at our Community Portal ==
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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]])
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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* Kamil Akhuseyinoglu and Peter Brusilovsky win Best Paper Award at UMAP 2021 ([[News#2021-06-23|details]])
 
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* 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]])
[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~cagent/ CourseAgent]: Share evaluations of IS graduate courses at Pitt and plan your career.
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* Sherry Sahebi receives NSF CAREER award! ([[News#2021-05-06|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]])
[http://washington.sis.pitt.edu/comet/ Comet]: Share, tag, recommend and schedule interesting talks in Pittsburgh.
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* Chun-Hua Tsai defends his PhD Thesis and joins Penn State as Assistant Research Professor ([[News#2019-08-25|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]])
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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]])
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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]])
  
[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.
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Go to [[News | News Page]] for all news.
  
[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!
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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]
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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
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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
  
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/>
Tel: +1(412)624-9437<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