CN3

About the system

Conference Navigator 3 is the main outcome of EAGER (Early Concept Grants for Exploratory Research) project Personalization and Social Networking for Short-Term Communities. Using academic research conferences as a test bed, the project explored new methods to leverage information about user interests (available from multiple external resources) and develop techniques to facilitate use of existing social technologies.

Team

PI: Associate Professor Peter Brusilovsky.

co-PI: Assistant Professor Jung Sun Oh.

Research Assistants:

- Chirayu Wongchokprasittti: Researcher on recommendations, main developer of the two first versions of CN and co-developer of CN3.

- Sherry Sahebi: Researcher on recommendations and software developer.

- Wei Jeng: User interface design and data analysis for CN3

- Shaopeng Zhang: Developer and designer of web user interface for CN3.

- Lei Jin: Developer of Android application.

- Ranjani Rajagopal: Developer and designer of Android and iPhone application.

- Denis Parra: Researcher on recommendations and software developer.

- Steve Van Tuyl: Researcher on social networks.

- Claudia Lopez: Researcher on incentive-based design and software developer.

Publications

• Wongchokprasitti, C., Brusilovsky, P., and Parra, D. (2010) Conference Navigator 2.0: Community-Based Recommendation for Academic Conferences. In: Proceedings of Workshop on Social Recommender Systems at the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2010), Hong Kong, China, February 7, 2010, available at [1].

• Brusilovsky, P., Parra, D., Sahebi, S., and Wongchokprasitti, C. (2010) Collaborative Information Finding in Smaller Communities: The Case of Research Talks. In: Proceedings of 6th International ICST Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, Chicago, Illinois, USA October 9-12, 2010.

• Parra-Santander, D., Jeng, W., Brusilovsky, P., López, C., and Sahebi, S. (2012) Conference Navigator 3: An online social conference support system. In: E. Herder, K. Yacef, L. Chen and S. Weibelzahl (eds.) Proceedings of Workshop and Poster Proceedings of the 20th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization, Montreal, Canada, July 16-20, 2012.

• Parra, D. and Brusilovsky, P. (2013) A Field Study of a Visual Controllable Talk Recommender. In: Proceedings of Proceedings of the 2013 Chilean Conference on Human - Computer Interaction, Temuco, Chile, ACM, pp. 56-59.

• Lee, D. and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) Recommending Talks at Research Conferences Using Users’ Social Networks. International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems 23 (2).

• Brusilovsky, P., Oh, J. S., López, C., Parra, D., and Jeng, W. (2017) Linking information and people in a social system for academic conferences. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia 23 (2), 81-111. [2]

• Bailey, S. M., Wei, J. A., Wang, C., Parra, D., and Brusilovsky, P. (2018) CNVis: A Web-Based Visual Analytics Tool for Exploring Conference Navigator Data. In: Proceedings of IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Visualization and Data Analysis, pp. 376.1-376.11.

• Li, S., Brusilovsky, P., Su, S., and Cheng, X. (2018) Conference Paper Recommendation for Academic Conferences. IEEE Access 6, 17153 - 17164. [3]