CaRR 2012 Opening Presentation

2nd Workshop on Context-awareness in Retrieval and Recommendation 14 February 2012 IUI 2012 Lisbon, Portugal

Topics
What is context?
Is context-awareness in retrieval and recommendation necessary?
Which benefits come from context-awareness?
How do user interfaces handle context?
In what ways can context improve HCI?
Combinations of general- & user-centric context-awareness
How should context affect the way information is presented?
Which means for collecting user feedback does UbiComp provide?
What new type of items are worth recommending by means of context-aware systems?

Submission Statistics
10 submissions
9 countries
6 accepted
At least 3 reviews each from 27 PC members

History & Related Events
CaRR 2011 @IUI2011
http://2011.carr-workshop.org
Context-Aware Recommender Systems 2009, 2010, 2011 @RecSys
http://www.cars-workshop.org
Challenge on Context-aware Movie Recommendation 2010, 2011 @RecSys
http://www.camrachallenge.com

Community
Mailing list on Context-awareness
[email_address]
https://groups.google.com/group/context-awareness
RecSysWiki
www.recsyswiki.com

Program
9:00 Welcome
9:30-10:30 Keynote :
Roles of Context in Information Retrieval and Recommendation: A Choice and Decision Making Perspective,
Anthony Jameson
10:30-11:00 : Coffee Break
1 1:00-11:30: Enhancing Matrix Factorization Through Initialization for Implicit Feedback Databases
Balázs Hidasi and Domonkos Tikk.
11:30-12:00: A Model for Serendipitous Music Retrieval
Markus Schedl, David Hauger and Dominik Schnitzer.
12:00-12:30: Overview and Analysis of Personal and Social Tagging Context to construct User Models
Karin Schoefegger and Michael Granitzer
12:30-14:00: Lunch
14:00-14:30: PersonalWeb: An Extensible Framework to Recommend Web and Personal Information,
João Guerreiro, Juliana Gomes and Daniel Gonçalves.
14:30-15:00: Monitoring of Real Interaction in Marketing Websites: Australia and Portugal’s Perspective
Tomayess Issa and Pedro Isaias.
15:00-15:30: Context Aware Point of Interest Adaptive Recommendation
Paulo Pombinho, Maria Beatriz Carmo and Ana Paula Afonso.
15:30-16:30: Coffe Break + Breakout Session
16:30-: Closing Discussion

Keynote
Anthony Jameson, DFKI Roles of Context in Information Retrieval and Recommendation: A Choice and Decision Making Perspective

Organizers
Ernesto W. De Luca
FH-Potsdam, Germany
@ernestowdeluca
Matthias Böhmer
DFKI, Germany
@matboehmer
Ed H. Chi
Google Inc., USA
@edchi
Alan Said
TU-Berlin, Germany
@alansaid

Proceedings
The proceedings will be available in the ACM DL within a few weeks
Temporarily available at
www.carr-workshop.org/proceedings

CaRR 2012 Opening Presentation

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