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@article{Geninatti-etal:24,\r\n  author={Cossatin, Angelo Geninatti and Mauro, Noemi and Ardissono, Liliana},\r\n  journal={IEEE Access}, \r\n  title={Promoting Green Fashion Consumption Through Digital Nudges in Recommender Systems}, \r\n  year={2024},\r\n  volume={12},\r\n  number={},\r\n  pages={6812-6829},\r\n  keywords={Green products;Image color analysis;Standards;Ethics;Sustainable development;Recommender systems;Clothing industry;Digital nudging;recommender systems;sustainable fashion consumption},\r\n  abstract={The fashion industry accounts for a relevant portion of the environmental impact of EU consumption. Moreover, the expansion of fast fashion raises further concerns about the well-being of the people and animals involved in its production. Increasing the purchase of green clothes (i.e., sustainable garments that have been produced by brands conforming to good ethical standards) is thus key to the reduction of fashion’s environmental and social footprint. In this paper, we investigate digital nudges to promote the selection of green clothes in online catalogs. For this purpose, we propose a recommender system that combines the personalized suggestion of new and second-hand garments with the presentation of sustainability and ethical standards data to favor item comparison and support responsible selection decisions. This is different from standard recommender systems, which suggest homogeneous products, either new or second-hand. Moreover, it is challenged by the tendency to buy new products observed in the literature about clothing consumption. In a user study involving 251 participants, we found that enhancing clothes recommendations with 1) sentences that promote second-hand garments and 2) visual labels that summarize items’ sustainability and brands’ ethical standards, sensibly reduced this tendency. Moreover, it induced some people to take the sustainability of products into account in their selection decisions. However, participants’ interest in brands’ ethical standards seemed to be secondary, especially regarding respect for animals. This finding reveals a need to enhance people’s awareness and sensitivity on this topic. Even though more work is needed to increase green, and especially ethical fashion consumption, our findings suggest the adoption of nudges in clothes recommender systems to enhance user awareness about items, their sustainability, and their social impact.},\r\n  doi={10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3349710},\r\n  url_Link = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10380588},\r\n  url_Paper = {2024_IEEE_Fashion.pdf},\r\n} \r\n\r\n
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\n The fashion industry accounts for a relevant portion of the environmental impact of EU consumption. Moreover, the expansion of fast fashion raises further concerns about the well-being of the people and animals involved in its production. Increasing the purchase of green clothes (i.e., sustainable garments that have been produced by brands conforming to good ethical standards) is thus key to the reduction of fashion’s environmental and social footprint. In this paper, we investigate digital nudges to promote the selection of green clothes in online catalogs. For this purpose, we propose a recommender system that combines the personalized suggestion of new and second-hand garments with the presentation of sustainability and ethical standards data to favor item comparison and support responsible selection decisions. This is different from standard recommender systems, which suggest homogeneous products, either new or second-hand. Moreover, it is challenged by the tendency to buy new products observed in the literature about clothing consumption. In a user study involving 251 participants, we found that enhancing clothes recommendations with 1) sentences that promote second-hand garments and 2) visual labels that summarize items’ sustainability and brands’ ethical standards, sensibly reduced this tendency. Moreover, it induced some people to take the sustainability of products into account in their selection decisions. However, participants’ interest in brands’ ethical standards seemed to be secondary, especially regarding respect for animals. This finding reveals a need to enhance people’s awareness and sensitivity on this topic. Even though more work is needed to increase green, and especially ethical fashion consumption, our findings suggest the adoption of nudges in clothes recommender systems to enhance user awareness about items, their sustainability, and their social impact.\n
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@article{Mauro-etal:23b,  \r\ntitle={An Intelligent Support System to Help Teachers Plan Field Trips},\r\nauthor={Mauro, Noemi and Ardissono, Liliana and Cena, Federica\r\nand Scarpinati, Livio and Torta, Gianluca},\r\njournal={International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education},\r\npages={1--32},\r\nyear={2023},\r\npublisher={Springer},\r\ndoi={10.1007/s40593-023-00366-x},\r\nabstract={Field trips enrich learning programs with out-of-school activities that can bring gains in students’ academic content knowledge and personal growth. However, they are a source of anxiety for teachers because of the bureaucracy, pedagogy, etc., risks they imply. To address this issue, we propose FieldTripOrganizer, a field trip planner based on the mixed-initiative approach aimed at increasing teachers’ autonomy and motivation in designing educational tours. The key aspects of our application are (i) the simultaneous provision of information filtering and automated scheduling support while the user designs the field trip, and (ii) the visual annotation of places and activities to show whether they can be included in the itinerary without violating its time constraints. Different from current tour planners, these functions enable the user to be in full control of the design process, delegating the system to manage difficult and burdensome tasks such as consistency checks and itinerary optimization. We evaluated FieldTripOrganizer in the use case of organizing a science field trip. In a preliminary user study involving 18 science teachers, our application turned up to be superior to a baseline tour planner in both usability and user experience. Moreover, the teachers declared that it was helpful, motivated them, and reduced their anxiety during the design of the field trips.},\r\nurl_Link = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40593-023-00366-x},\r\nurl_Paper = {2023_IJAIE_Teachers.pdf},\r\n}\r\n\r\n
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\n Field trips enrich learning programs with out-of-school activities that can bring gains in students’ academic content knowledge and personal growth. However, they are a source of anxiety for teachers because of the bureaucracy, pedagogy, etc., risks they imply. To address this issue, we propose FieldTripOrganizer, a field trip planner based on the mixed-initiative approach aimed at increasing teachers’ autonomy and motivation in designing educational tours. The key aspects of our application are (i) the simultaneous provision of information filtering and automated scheduling support while the user designs the field trip, and (ii) the visual annotation of places and activities to show whether they can be included in the itinerary without violating its time constraints. Different from current tour planners, these functions enable the user to be in full control of the design process, delegating the system to manage difficult and burdensome tasks such as consistency checks and itinerary optimization. We evaluated FieldTripOrganizer in the use case of organizing a science field trip. In a preliminary user study involving 18 science teachers, our application turned up to be superior to a baseline tour planner in both usability and user experience. Moreover, the teachers declared that it was helpful, motivated them, and reduced their anxiety during the design of the field trips.\n
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@article{Mauro-etal:23c,  \r\ntitle={Justification of Recommender Systems Results: a Service-based Approach},\r\nauthor={Mauro, Noemi and Hu, Zhongli Filippo and Ardissono, Liliana},\r\njournal={User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction},\r\npages={643–685},\r\nyear={2023},\r\nissue={33},\r\npublisher={Springer},\r\ndoi={10.1007/s11257-022-09345-8},\r\nabstract={With the increasing demand for predictable and accountable Artificial Intelligence, the ability to explain or justify recommender systems results by specifying how items are suggested, or why they are relevant, has become a primary goal. However, current models do not explicitly represent the services and actors that the user might encounter during the overall interaction with an item, from its selection to its usage. Thus, they cannot assess their impact on the user’s experience. To address this issue, we propose a novel justification approach that uses service models to (i) extract experience data from reviews concerning all the stages of interaction with items, at different granularity levels, and (ii) organize the justification of recommendations around those stages. In a user study, we compared our approach with baselines reflecting the state of the art in the justification of recommender systems results. The participants evaluated the Perceived User Awareness Support provided by our service-based justification models higher than the one offered by the baselines. Moreover, our models received higher Interface Adequacy and Satisfaction evaluations by users having different levels of Curiosity or low Need for Cognition (NfC). Differently, high NfC participants preferred a direct inspection of item reviews. These findings encourage the adoption of service models to justify recommender systems results but suggest the investigation of personalization strategies to suit diverse interaction needs.},\r\nurl_Link = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11257-022-09345-8},\r\nurl_Paper = {2023_UMUAI_Justification.pdf},\r\n}\r\n\r\n
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\n The current models for the explanation and justification of recommender systems results focus on qualitative and quantitative data about items, overlooking the power of images to describe the different aspects of experience that the consumer should expect from their selection to post-sales. In the present paper, we extend previous justification models by exploiting object recognition on images to support a service-oriented presentation of multimodal (textual, quantitative, and images) information about items. As a testbed for our model, we chose the home-booking domain. In a user study, we found that item comparison can be enhanced by empowering the user to filter multimodal data based on a set of evaluation dimensions describing the experience with items. These results encourage the introduction of service-based filters for multimodal information retrieval in product and service catalogs.\n
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@inproceedings{Ardissono-23,\r\nauthor = {Ardissono, Liliana and Bona, Francesca and Concilio, Carmelina and Cravero, Ester and Ferraris, Stefano and Ferrero, Fabio and Geninatti Cossatin, Angelo and Giardino, Marco and Magnano, Guido and Mattutino, Claudio and Mauro, Noemi},\r\ntitle = {Demo: the Triangolazioni Mobile Guide for Exploring the Interconnections between Science, Art and Territory},\r\nyear = {2023},\r\nisbn = {9798400708060},\r\npublisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\naddress = {New York, NY, USA},\r\nurl = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3605390.3610808},\r\ndoi = {10.1145/3605390.3610808},\r\nabstract = {Most Cultural Heritage sites are immersed in parallel and interlaced stories about art, history, and science, which are typically presented as isolated narratives, providing a partial view of the richness of such places. To address this issue, the Triangolazioni project of the University of Torino has developed a mobile app that enables the customer to gain an overall view of these stories, and their interconnections, by hopping from one to the other, depending on her/his information interests. This demo paper presents the Triangolazioni mobile guide, which supports the thematic exploration of Points of Interest through the navigation, and the exploration of narratives based on their thematic similarity as well as on the Points of Interest they talk about.},\r\nbooktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter},\r\narticleno = {51},\r\nnumpages = {4},\r\nkeywords = {Cultural Heritage, location-based hypertext, mobile guides},\r\nseries = {CHItaly '23},\r\nurl_Link = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3605390.3610808},\r\nurl_Paper = {2023_CHITALY_Triangolazioni.pdf},\r\n}\r\n\r\n\r\n
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\n Most Cultural Heritage sites are immersed in parallel and interlaced stories about art, history, and science, which are typically presented as isolated narratives, providing a partial view of the richness of such places. To address this issue, the Triangolazioni project of the University of Torino has developed a mobile app that enables the customer to gain an overall view of these stories, and their interconnections, by hopping from one to the other, depending on her/his information interests. This demo paper presents the Triangolazioni mobile guide, which supports the thematic exploration of Points of Interest through the navigation, and the exploration of narratives based on their thematic similarity as well as on the Points of Interest they talk about.\n
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@inproceedings{Mauro:23b,\r\n  author = {Noemi Mauro and Zhongli Filippo Hu and Giovanna Petrone and Marino Segnan and Claudio Mattutino},\r\n  title = {Impact of Users’ Cultural Background on Multi-faceted Trust-based Recommender Systems},\r\n  year = {2023},\r\n  booktitle = {Joint Proceedings of the ACM IUI 2023 Workshops - Workshop on Social and Cultural Interaction with Personalized Interfaces (SOCIALIZE)},\r\n  series    = {{CEUR} Workshop Proceedings},\r\n  volume    = {3359},\r\n  publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},\r\n  url_Link       = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3359/paper32.pdf},\r\n  url_Paper = {2023_SOCIALIZE_Trust.pdf},\r\n  doi       = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3359/paper32.pdf},\r\n  keywords = {Multi-faceted Reputation Model, Trust-based Recommender Systems, Social Relations, Cultural Background of Users, Web\r\nsearching and information discovery, Recommender systems},\r\n  abstract = {Trust-based recommender systems usually overlook the cultural background of people when making suggestions. In this\r\npaper, we propose some strategies to include the home country of users in trust-based recommendation algorithms and we\r\naim to understand if this information can improve the recommender system performance.\r\n}\r\n}\r\n\r\n\r\n
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@inproceedings{Geninatti-23c,\r\nauthor = {Geninatti Cossatin, Angelo and Mauro, Noemi and Izzi, Gianmarco and Ardissono, Liliana},\r\ntitle = {Synchronized Multi-list User Interfaces for Fashion Catalogs},\r\nyear = {2023},\r\nisbn = {9781450398916},\r\npublisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\naddress = {New York, NY, USA},\r\ndoi = {10.1145/3563359.3597382},\r\nabstract = {Several online catalogs use carousels to present thematic lists of products, based on different optimization criteria. While this makes it possible to search for items according to diverse relevance perspectives, it hardly supports an integrated evaluation, which is key to critical consuming behavior. To address this issue, we propose a synchronized multi-list model that (i) enriches item presentation by visualizing its evaluation and (ii) enables the user to simultaneously center the carousels of the multi-list on the item in her/his focus of attention, showing its ranking in each list. This type of visualization is aimed at enhancing the transparency of results by enabling the user to simultaneously compare products across all the evaluation criteria applied within the multi-list. As a testbed for our model, we selected fashion catalogs, with the aim of making users aware of clothes’ evaluation with respect to the sustainability and ethical issues concerning the production practices applied by their brands. In a preliminary user study, we analyzed users’ gaze behavior to reveal how people interact with the carousels of the multi-list for product comparison. The results show that people explored the position of items in all the carousels, following a pattern that differs from the top-left triangle observed in traditional multi-lists, and they selected items having a fairly good ranking, showing their interest in sustainability and ethical standards.},\r\nbooktitle = {Adjunct Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization},\r\npages = {224–228},\r\nnumpages = {5},\r\nkeywords = {Environmental Sustainability, Ethics, Recommender Systems, Transparent User Interfaces},\r\nlocation = {Limassol, Cyprus},\r\nseries = {UMAP '23 Adjunct},\r\n  url_Link = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3563359.3597382},\r\n  url_Paper = {2023_EXUM_Sustainability.pdf},\r\n}\r\n\r\n
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\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n CARES: an Inclusive Personalized Touristic System for Autism.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n Cena, F.; Mauro, N.; Ardissono, L.; Ferrero, F.; Ferrigno, S.; Rapp, A.; Mattutino, C.; and Keller, R.\n\n\n \n\n\n\n In Adjunct Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, of UMAP '23 Adjunct, pages 363–366, New York, NY, USA, 2023. Association for Computing Machinery\n \n\n\n\n
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@inproceedings{Cena-etal:23b,\r\nauthor = {Cena, Federica and Mauro, Noemi and Ardissono, Liliana and Ferrero, Fabio and Ferrigno, Serena and Rapp, Amon and Mattutino, Claudio and Keller, Roberto},\r\ntitle = {CARES: an Inclusive Personalized Touristic System for Autism},\r\nyear = {2023},\r\nisbn = {9781450398916},\r\npublisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\naddress = {New York, NY, USA},\r\ndoi = {10.1145/3563359.3596665},\r\nabstract = {People have different interests and cognitive capabilities that should be taken into account when developing technological support for cultural heritage exploration. In this project, we aim to help people with autism to plan a tourist trip by taking into account their interests and their cognitive skills. We plan to personalize the suggestion of touristic places and itineraries taking into account different types of constraints such as temporal and physical ones. Moreover, we aim to adapt the user interface of the system on the basis of the users’ capabilities to deliver the right information, using a proper visualization modality, avoiding information overload. In this way, people will be able to know in advance the plan for the trip and this would reduce their level of stress and anxiety. In this paper, we focus on the first stage of the project, i.e. the qualitative interviews we carried out together with the user requirements for our application.},\r\nbooktitle = {Adjunct Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization},\r\npages = {363–366},\r\nnumpages = {4},\r\nkeywords = {Accessible Tourism, Autism, Mobile Guide},\r\nlocation = {Limassol, Cyprus},\r\nseries = {UMAP '23 Adjunct},\r\n  url_Link = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3563359.3596665},\r\n  url_Paper = {2023_PATCH_CARES.pdf},\r\n}\r\n\r\n
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@inproceedings{Ardissono-etal:23c,\r\nauthor = {Ardissono, Liliana and Cena, Federica and Mauro, Noemi and Palomba, Mauro and Parizia, Francesco and Perotti, Luigi and Scarpinati, Livio and Torta, Gianluca},\r\ntitle = {A Mobile App Supporting Field Trip Organization for Natural and Cultural Heritage Exploration},\r\nyear = {2023},\r\nisbn = {9781450398916},\r\npublisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\naddress = {New York, NY, USA},\r\ndoi = {10.1145/3563359.3596669},\r\nabstract = {Mobile tourist guides have great potential to promote Cultural and Natural Heritage but usually do this from a narrow perspective, such as a single exhibition or museum, failing to provide users with an integrated viewpoint of the resources available in a geographical area. The organization of tourist plans might thus be challenging because of the many information sources to be consulted. Current tourist guides also limit users’ freedom in building custom trips because they almost fully control the itinerary generation process. Moreover, they fail to recognize that cultural and scientific tours might include both the visit to places and the execution of activities aimed at deepening people’s experience through experimental work. This is a limitation, especially for the learning field, which recognizes the importance of practical activities in strengthening students’ knowledge and understanding. To address this issue, we developed the FieldTripOrganizer application as a model to create mobile tourist guides that support the design of plans suitable for cultural/scientific tourism. FieldTripOrganizer empowers users to design a trip by helping them select Points of Interest and activities that are relevant to the interests and knowledge background of the people who will participate in the tour. Moreover, it simultaneously provides information filtering, automated scheduling, and user-awareness support to let users compose the itinerary from scratch while being informed about the feasibility of the options that can be included without violating its time constraints. We exploited FieldTripOrganizer to present the Cultural and Natural resources provided by the Geodidalab scientific laboratory located in the area of Ivrea (Piedmont, Italy).},\r\nbooktitle = {Adjunct Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization},\r\npages = {355–362},\r\nnumpages = {8},\r\nkeywords = {Natural Heritage, Field Trip Organization, Cultural Heritage},\r\nlocation = {Limassol, Cyprus},\r\nseries = {UMAP '23 Adjunct},\r\n  url_Link = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3563359.3596669},\r\n  url_Paper = {2023_PATCH_Openalplab.pdf},\r\n}\r\n\r\n
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@inproceedings{Ardissono-etal:23b,\r\nauthor = {Ardissono, Liliana and Mauro, Noemi and Petrelli, Daniela and Raptis, George E. and Wecker, Alan},\r\ntitle = {14th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2023)},\r\nyear = {2023},\r\nisbn = {9781450398916},\r\npublisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\naddress = {New York, NY, USA},\r\ndoi = {10.1145/3563359.3595622},\r\nabstract = {Following the successful series of PATCH workshops, PATCH 2023 will again be the meeting point between state-of-the-art cultural heritage (CH) research and personalization research, focused on those using different types of technology, with emphasis on ubiquitous and adaptive scenarios, to enhance the personal experience in CH sites. The workshop is aimed at bringing together researchers and practitioners who are working on various aspects of cultural heritage and are interested in exploring the potential of state-of-the-art mobile and personalized technology (onsite as well as online) to enhance the CH visiting experience. The expected result of the workshop is a multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future research directions and, hopefully, forge some research collaborations. This summary provides an overview of the papers that have been accepted for presentation at the workshop and for publication in its proceedings.},\r\nbooktitle = {Adjunct Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization},\r\npages = {352–354},\r\nnumpages = {3},\r\nkeywords = {User Modeling., Personalization, Cultural Heritage},\r\nlocation = {Limassol, Cyprus},\r\nseries = {UMAP '23 Adjunct},\r\n  url_Link = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3563359.3595622},\r\n  url_Paper = {2023_PATCH_Workshop_Summary.pdf},\r\n}\r\n\r\n\r\n
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@article{Mauro-etal:22b,  \r\ntitle = {Using Consumer Feedback from Location-based Services in PoI Recommender Systems for People with Autism},\r\njournal = {Expert Systems with Applications},\r\nvolume = {199},\r\npages = {116972},\r\nyear = {2022},\r\nissn = {0957-4174},\r\ndoi = {10.1016/j.eswa.2022.116972},\r\nauthor = {Noemi Mauro and Liliana Ardissono and Stefano Cocomazzi and Federica Cena},\r\nkeywords = {Sensory features from reviews, Autism, Recommender systems},\r\nabstract = {When suggesting Points of Interest (PoIs) to people with autism spectrum disorders, we must take into account that they have idiosyncratic sensory aversions to noise, brightness and other features that influence the way they perceive places. Therefore, recommender systems must deal with these aspects. However, the retrieval of sensory data about PoIs is a real challenge because most geographical information servers fail to provide this data. Moreover, ad-hoc crowdsourcing campaigns do not guarantee to cover large geographical areas and lack sustainability. Thus, we investigate the extraction of sensory data about places from the consumer feedback collected by location-based services, on which people spontaneously post reviews from all over the world. Specifically, we propose a model for the extraction of sensory data from the reviews about PoIs, and its integration in recommender systems to predict item ratings by considering both user preferences and compatibility information. We tested our approach with autistic and neurotypical people by integrating it into diverse recommendation algorithms. For the test, we used a dataset built in a crowdsourcing campaign and another one extracted from TripAdvisor reviews. The results show that the algorithms obtain the highest accuracy and ranking capability when using TripAdvisor data. Moreover, by jointly using these two datasets, the algorithms further improve their performance. These results encourage the use of consumer feedback as a reliable source of information about places in the development of inclusive recommender systems.},\r\nurl_Link = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0957417422003980},\r\nurl_Paper = {2022_ESWA_Autism.pdf},\r\n}\r\n\r\n
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\n When suggesting Points of Interest (PoIs) to people with autism spectrum disorders, we must take into account that they have idiosyncratic sensory aversions to noise, brightness and other features that influence the way they perceive places. Therefore, recommender systems must deal with these aspects. However, the retrieval of sensory data about PoIs is a real challenge because most geographical information servers fail to provide this data. Moreover, ad-hoc crowdsourcing campaigns do not guarantee to cover large geographical areas and lack sustainability. Thus, we investigate the extraction of sensory data about places from the consumer feedback collected by location-based services, on which people spontaneously post reviews from all over the world. Specifically, we propose a model for the extraction of sensory data from the reviews about PoIs, and its integration in recommender systems to predict item ratings by considering both user preferences and compatibility information. We tested our approach with autistic and neurotypical people by integrating it into diverse recommendation algorithms. For the test, we used a dataset built in a crowdsourcing campaign and another one extracted from TripAdvisor reviews. The results show that the algorithms obtain the highest accuracy and ranking capability when using TripAdvisor data. Moreover, by jointly using these two datasets, the algorithms further improve their performance. These results encourage the use of consumer feedback as a reliable source of information about places in the development of inclusive recommender systems.\n
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\n Current recommender systems employ item-centric properties to estimate ratings and present the results to the user. However, recent studies highlight the fact that the stages of item fruition also involve extrinsic factors, such as the interaction with the service provider before, during and after item selection. In other words, a holistic view of consumer experience, including local properties of items, as well as consumers’ perceptions of item fruition, should be adopted to enhance user awareness and decision-making. In this work, we integrate recommender systems with service models to reason about the different stages of item fruition. By exploiting the Service Journey Maps to define service-based item and user profiles, we develop a novel family of recommender systems that evaluate items by taking preference management and overall consumer experience into account. Moreover, we introduce a two-level visual model to provide users with different information about recommendation results: (i) the higher level summarizes consumer experience about items and supports the identification of promising suggestions within a possibly long list of results; (ii) the lower level enables the exploration of detailed data about the local properties of items. In a user test instantiated in the home-booking domain, we compared our models to standard recommender systems. We found that the service-based algorithms that only use item fruition experience excel in ranking and minimize the error in rating estimation. Moreover, the combination of data about item fruition experience and item properties achieves slightly lower recommendation performance; however, it enhances users’ perceptions of the awareness and the decision-making support provided by the system. These results encourage the adoption of service-based models to summarize user preferences and experience in recommender systems.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Exploring Semantically Interlaced Cultural Heritage Narratives.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n Mauro, N.; Geninatti Cossatin, A.; Cravero, E.; Ardissono, L.; Magnano, G.; and Giardino, M.\n\n\n \n\n\n\n In Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, of HT '22, pages 192–197, New York, NY, USA, 2022. Association for Computing Machinery\n \n\n\n\n
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@inproceedings{10.1145/3511095.3536366,\r\nauthor = {Mauro, Noemi and Geninatti Cossatin, Angelo and Cravero, Ester and Ardissono, Liliana and Magnano, Guido and Giardino, Marco},\r\ntitle = {Exploring Semantically Interlaced Cultural Heritage Narratives},\r\nyear = {2022},\r\nisbn = {9781450392334},\r\npublisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\naddress = {New York, NY, USA},\r\ndoi = {10.1145/3511095.3536366},\r\nabstract = {While traditional mobile guides propose itineraries underlying the presentation of individual narrations, a broad view of Cultural Heritage should take into account that Points of Interests, historical characters and objects are frequently related in different stories linking art, history and science. Moreover, stories could be associated through their common themes. Thus, a focus on individual narrations is not enough to provide users with a holistic view of the places they visit. In this paper, we investigate the presentation of interlaced Cultural Heritage information to make users aware about the connections among such stories. For this purpose, we propose an exploration model that enables the user to take side walks in semantically-related narrations concerning Points of Interest. This is based on a semantic knowledge representation where two types of relations connect entities within individual stories, and stories through their common themes. Based on this representation, we developed the Triangolazioni mobile guide that presents multimedia information about Cultural Heritage in Torino city. A user study has shown that participants perceived the app, and its ”side walking” support, as highly usable. Moreover, they appreciated the storytelling capabilities of the app.},\r\nbooktitle = {Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media},\r\npages = {192–197},\r\nnumpages = {6},\r\nkeywords = {Cultural Heritage, hypertext models, mobile guides},\r\nlocation = {Barcelona, Spain},\r\nseries = {HT '22},\r\nurl_Link = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3511095.3536366},\r\nurl_Paper = {2022_HT_Triangolazioni}\r\n}\r\n\r\n
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\n Most Cultural Heritage mobile guides are developed using a location-based hypertext model that guides the exploration of individual itineraries. However, Cultural Heritage places are often immersed in parallel and interlaced stories about art, history and science, which might be relevant to the tourist. Therefore, we are interested in investigating the semantic connections between the narratives that involve different Point of Interests to provide tourists with interconnected views of the Cultural Heritage of a place. As a first step in this direction, we present the Triangolazioni mobile guide, which allows users to thematically explore places through the navigation of narratives, and to connect narratives to each other based on topic similarity. Triangolazioni can be accessed from mobile phone, tablet and desktop, and supports the physical and virtual exploration of Points of Interest in the area around Torino, Italy.\n
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@inproceedings{10.1145/3511047.3536341,\r\nauthor = {Kuflik, Tsvika and Mauro, Noemi and Raptis, George E. and Wecker, Alan},\r\ntitle = {13th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2022) - Towards Hybrid CH Experience},\r\nyear = {2022},\r\nisbn = {9781450392327},\r\npublisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\naddress = {New York, NY, USA},\r\nurl_Link = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3511047.3536341},\r\ndoi = {10.1145/3511047.3536341},\r\nabstract = {ACM PATCH 2022, the 13th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage, is organized in conjunction with the 30th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization. It is the meeting point between researchers and practitioners working on personalization in cultural heritage, aiming to enhance the user experience in digital and physical Cultural Heritage sites. The PATCH workshops started in 2007 and they are typically held in conjunction with UMAP, IUI and recently AVI Conference series. This paper summarizes the main ideas addressed in the papers accepted for presentation at PATCH 2022 and for publication in the workshop proceedings.},\r\nbooktitle = {Adjunct Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization},\r\npages = {371–373},\r\nnumpages = {3},\r\nkeywords = {Cultural Heritage, Personalization, User Modeling.},\r\nlocation = {Barcelona, Spain},\r\nseries = {UMAP '22 Adjunct}\r\n}\r\n\r\n
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\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Session-aware Recommendation: A Surprising Quest for the State-of-the-art.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n Latifi, S.; Mauro, N.; and Jannach, D.\n\n\n \n\n\n\n Information Sciences, 573: 291-315. 2021.\n \n\n\n\n
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@article{Latifi-etal:21,\r\nauthor = {Sara Latifi and Noemi Mauro and Dietmar Jannach},\r\ntitle = {Session-aware Recommendation: A Surprising Quest for the State-of-the-art},\r\njournal = {Information Sciences},\r\nvolume = {573},\r\npages = {291-315},\r\nyear = {2021},\r\nissn = {0020-0255},\r\ndoi = {10.1016/j.ins.2021.05.048},\r\nurl_Link = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020025521005089},\r\nurl_Paper = {2021_IS_Session-aware.pdf},\r\nkeywords = {Session-aware Recommendation, Evaluation, Reproducibility},\r\nabstract = {Recommender systems are designed to help users in situations of information overload. In recent years we observed increased interest in session-based recommendation scenarios, where the problem is to make item suggestions to users based only on interactions observed in an ongoing session, e.g., on an e-commerce site. However, in cases where interactions from previous user sessions are also available, the recommendations can be personalized according to the users’ long-term preferences, a process called session-aware recommendation. Today, research in this area is scattered, and many works only compare a newly proposed session-aware with existing session-based models. This makes it challenging to understand what represents the state-of-the-art. To close this research gap, we benchmarked recent session-aware algorithms against each other and against a number of session-based recommendation algorithms along with heuristic extensions thereof. Our comparison, to some surprise, revealed that (i) simple techniques based on nearest neighbors consistently outperform recent neural techniques and that (ii) session-aware models were mostly not better than approaches that do not use long-term preference information. Our work therefore points to potential methodological issues where new methods are compared to weak baselines, and it also indicates that there remains a huge potential for more sophisticated session-aware recommendation algorithms.}\r\n}\r\n\r\n
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\n Recommender systems are designed to help users in situations of information overload. In recent years we observed increased interest in session-based recommendation scenarios, where the problem is to make item suggestions to users based only on interactions observed in an ongoing session, e.g., on an e-commerce site. However, in cases where interactions from previous user sessions are also available, the recommendations can be personalized according to the users’ long-term preferences, a process called session-aware recommendation. Today, research in this area is scattered, and many works only compare a newly proposed session-aware with existing session-based models. This makes it challenging to understand what represents the state-of-the-art. To close this research gap, we benchmarked recent session-aware algorithms against each other and against a number of session-based recommendation algorithms along with heuristic extensions thereof. Our comparison, to some surprise, revealed that (i) simple techniques based on nearest neighbors consistently outperform recent neural techniques and that (ii) session-aware models were mostly not better than approaches that do not use long-term preference information. Our work therefore points to potential methodological issues where new methods are compared to weak baselines, and it also indicates that there remains a huge potential for more sophisticated session-aware recommendation algorithms.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n User and Item-aware Estimation of Review Helpfulness.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n Mauro, N.; Ardissono, L.; and Petrone, G.\n\n\n \n\n\n\n Information Processing & Management, 58(1): 102434. 2021.\n \n\n\n\n
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\n In online review sites, the analysis of user feedback for assessing its helpfulness for decision-making is usually carried out by locally studying the properties of individual reviews. However, global properties should be considered as well to precisely evaluate the quality of user feedback. In this paper we investigate the role of deviations in the properties of reviews as helpfulness determinants with the intuition that “out of the core” feedback helps item evaluation. We propose a novel helpfulness estimation model that extends previous ones with the analysis of deviations in rating, length and polarity with respect to the reviews written by the same person, or concerning the same item. A regression analysis carried out on two large datasets of reviews extracted from Yelp social network shows that user-based deviations in review length and rating clearly influence perceived helpfulness. Moreover, an experiment on the same datasets shows that the integration of our helpfulness estimation model improves the performance of a collaborative recommender system by enhancing the selection of high-quality data for rating estimation. Our model is thus an effective tool to select relevant user feedback for decision-making.\n
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\n In the selection of products or services, overviewing the list of options to identify the most promising ones is key to decision-making. However, current models for the justification of recommender systems results poorly support this task because, as they exclusively focus on item properties, they generate detailed justifications that are lengthy to skim. Moreover, they overlook the existence of a complex item fruition process which can impact customer satisfaction as well. For instance, consumer feedback shows that relevant factors in home booking include both the properties of apartments, and previous customers' perceptions of the interaction with the personnel who manages the homes. To address this issue, we propose a visual model that exploits an explicit representation of the service underlying item fruition to generate a high-level, holistic summary of previous consumers' opinions about the suggested items. From this overview, the user can identify the relevant items and retrieve detailed information about them, in a selective way, thus reducing information load. Our model is instantiated on the Airbnb experiences domain and uses the Service Blueprints to identify evaluation dimensions for the incremental presentation of data about items. A preliminary user study has shown that our model supports user awareness about items by enabling people to quickly filter out the unsuitable recommendations, so that they can analyze in detail the most relevant options.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n A Service-Oriented Perspective on the Summarization of Recommendations: Preliminary Experiment.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n Mauro, N.; Hu, Z. F. F.; Ardissono, L.; and Izzi, G.\n\n\n \n\n\n\n In Adjunct Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, of UMAP '21, pages 213–219, New York, NY, USA, 2021. Association for Computing Machinery\n \n\n\n\n
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@inproceedings{Mauro-etal:21c,\r\nauthor = {Mauro, Noemi and Hu, Zhongli Filippo Filippo and Ardissono, Liliana and Izzi, Gianmarco},\r\ntitle = {A Service-Oriented Perspective on the Summarization of Recommendations: Preliminary Experiment},\r\nyear = {2021},\r\nisbn = {9781450383677},\r\npublisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\naddress = {New York, NY, USA},\r\nurl_Link = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3450614.3464475},\r\nurl_Paper = {2021_ExUM_Airbnb.pdf},\r\ndoi = {10.1145/3450614.3464475},\r\nabstract = {The explanation and justification of recommender systems’ results are challenging research tasks. On the one hand, a model-based description that clarifies the reasoning approach behind the suggestions might be difficult to understand, or it might fail to convince the user, if (s)he does not agree on the applied inference mechanism. On the other hand, an aspect-based justification based on few characteristics might provide a partial view of items or, if more detailed, it might overload the user with too much information. In order to address these issues, we propose a visual model aimed at justifying recommendations from a holistic perspective. Our model is based on a service-oriented summary of consumers’ experience with items. We use the Service Journey Maps to extract data about the experience with services from online reviews, and to generate a visual summary of such feedback, based on evaluation dimensions that refer to all the stages of service fruition. Thanks to a graphical representation of these dimensions (based on bar graphs), and on the provision of on-demand data about the associated aspects of items, our model enables the user to overview the recommendation list and to quickly identify the subset of results that deserve to be inspected in detail for a final selection decision. A preliminary user study, based on the Apartment Monitoring application, has provided encouraging results about the usefulness and efficacy of our model to enhance user awareness and decision-making in the presence of medium-size recommendation lists.},\r\nbooktitle = {Adjunct Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization},\r\npages = {213–219},\r\nnumpages = {7},\r\nkeywords = {justification or results, summarization of recommendation lists, Service Journey Maps, review-based recommender systems},\r\nlocation = {Utrecht, Netherlands},\r\nseries = {UMAP '21}\r\n}\r\n\r\n
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\n The explanation and justification of recommender systems’ results are challenging research tasks. On the one hand, a model-based description that clarifies the reasoning approach behind the suggestions might be difficult to understand, or it might fail to convince the user, if (s)he does not agree on the applied inference mechanism. On the other hand, an aspect-based justification based on few characteristics might provide a partial view of items or, if more detailed, it might overload the user with too much information. In order to address these issues, we propose a visual model aimed at justifying recommendations from a holistic perspective. Our model is based on a service-oriented summary of consumers’ experience with items. We use the Service Journey Maps to extract data about the experience with services from online reviews, and to generate a visual summary of such feedback, based on evaluation dimensions that refer to all the stages of service fruition. Thanks to a graphical representation of these dimensions (based on bar graphs), and on the provision of on-demand data about the associated aspects of items, our model enables the user to overview the recommendation list and to quickly identify the subset of results that deserve to be inspected in detail for a final selection decision. A preliminary user study, based on the Apartment Monitoring application, has provided encouraging results about the usefulness and efficacy of our model to enhance user awareness and decision-making in the presence of medium-size recommendation lists.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Beyond Traditional Cultural Heritage Recommender Systems: Suggesting Airbnb Experiences to Users.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n Mauro, N.; Ardissono, L.; Petrone, G.; Geninatti Cossatin, A.; and Mattutino, C.\n\n\n \n\n\n\n In Adjunct Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, of UMAP '21, pages 203–207, New York, NY, USA, 2021. Association for Computing Machinery\n \n\n\n\n
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@inproceedings{Mauro-etal:21d,\r\nauthor = {Mauro, Noemi and Ardissono, Liliana and Petrone, Giovanna and Geninatti Cossatin, Angelo and Mattutino, Claudio},\r\ntitle = {Beyond Traditional Cultural Heritage Recommender Systems: Suggesting Airbnb Experiences to Users},\r\nyear = {2021},\r\nisbn = {9781450383677},\r\npublisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\naddress = {New York, NY, USA},\r\nurl_Link = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3450614.3463385},\r\nurl_Paper = {2021_PATCH_Airbnb},\r\ndoi = {10.1145/3450614.3463385},\r\nabstract = {Traditional recommender systems suggest Cultural and Natural Heritage items to visitors by matching the target user to the available options, one-to-one. However, the increasing diffusion of informal activities and events, supported by location-based services such as Airbnb, extends personalized recommendation to a many-to-one match-making task. Airbnb experiences, which any citizen can propose to offer geographic tours and thematic activities, are composed of at least two entities to be evaluated: the former is the experience itself (in terms of topic, cost, etc.); the latter is the host, who directly interacts with guests during the management of the planned activities. As both entities can dramatically influence guests’ perceptions, they should be jointly taken into account by recommender systems. This paper presents our preliminary work aimed at extending the personalized suggestion of Cultural Heritage items to such composite objects.},\r\nbooktitle = {Adjunct Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization},\r\npages = {203–207},\r\nnumpages = {5},\r\nkeywords = {Cultural Heritage, experience modeling, review-based recommender systems},\r\nlocation = {Utrecht, Netherlands},\r\nseries = {UMAP '21}\r\n}\r\n\r\n
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\n Traditional recommender systems suggest Cultural and Natural Heritage items to visitors by matching the target user to the available options, one-to-one. However, the increasing diffusion of informal activities and events, supported by location-based services such as Airbnb, extends personalized recommendation to a many-to-one match-making task. Airbnb experiences, which any citizen can propose to offer geographic tours and thematic activities, are composed of at least two entities to be evaluated: the former is the experience itself (in terms of topic, cost, etc.); the latter is the host, who directly interacts with guests during the management of the planned activities. As both entities can dramatically influence guests’ perceptions, they should be jointly taken into account by recommender systems. This paper presents our preliminary work aimed at extending the personalized suggestion of Cultural Heritage items to such composite objects.\n
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@inproceedings{patch:2021b,\r\nauthor = {Ardissono, Liliana and Gena, Cristina and Kuflik, Tsvika and Mauro, Noemi and E. Raptis, George E. and Wecker, Alan},\r\ntitle = {International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage},\r\nyear = {2021},\r\npublisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\naddress = {New York, NY, USA},\r\ndoi = {10.1145/3450614.3461456},\r\nurl_Link = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3450614.3461456},\r\nabstract = {ACM PATCH 2021, organized in conjunction with the 29th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, is the meeting point between researchers and practitioners of personalization in cultural heritage, aiming to enhance the user experience in digital and physical Cultural Heritage sites. The PATCH workshops started in 2007 and they are typically held in conjunction with UMAP, IUI and recently AVI Conference series. This paper summarizes the main ideas addressed in the articles accepted for presentation at PATCH 2021 and for publication in the workshop proceedings.},\r\nbooktitle = {Adjunct Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization},\r\npages = {184–185},\r\nnumpages = {2},\r\nkeywords = {User Modeling., Personalization, Cultural Heritage},\r\nlocation = {Utrecht, Netherlands},\r\nseries = {UMAP '21}\r\n}\r\n\r\n
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\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Information Extraction for Inclusive Recommender Systems.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n Mauro, N.; Ardissono, L.; Cena, F.; and Cocomazzi, S.\n\n\n \n\n\n\n In Joint Proceedings of the ACM IUI 2021 Workshops - Workshop on Social and Cultural Interaction with Personalized Interfaces (SOCIALIZE), volume 2903, of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Online, 2021. CEUR-WS.org\n \n\n\n\n
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@inproceedings{Mauro:21c,\r\n  author = {Noemi Mauro and Liliana Ardissono and Federica Cena and Stefano Cocomazzi},\r\n  title = {Information Extraction for Inclusive Recommender Systems},\r\n  year = {2021},\r\n  booktitle = {Joint Proceedings of the ACM IUI 2021 Workshops - Workshop on Social and Cultural Interaction with Personalized Interfaces (SOCIALIZE)},\r\n  address = {Online},\r\n  series    = {{CEUR} Workshop Proceedings},\r\n  volume    = {2903},\r\n  publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},\r\n  url_Link       = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2903/IUI21WS-SOCIALIZE-7.pdf},\r\n  url_Paper = {2021_SOCIALIZE_Autism},\r\n  doi       = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2903/IUI21WS-SOCIALIZE-7.pdf},\r\n  keywords = {Recommender Systems, Geographic Information Systems, People with Autism},\r\n  abstract = {Inclusive recommender systems should take both user preferences and the compatibility of items with the user into account in order to generate suggestions that can be appreciated and smoothly experienced at the same time. For instance, considering people in the Autism Spectrum Disorder, the sensory features of a place that is potentially interesting to the user are important to predict whether it might make her/him uncomfortable when visiting it. However, information about users’ experience with items can\r\nhardly be found in the metadata provided by online geographic sources.\r\nIn order to address this issue, we suggest to retrieve it from the consumer feedback collected by location-based services that publish item reviews. This type of feedback represents a sustainable information source because it is supported by people through a continuous reviewing activity. Thus, it deserves special attention as a potential data source. In this paper, we outline how this type of information can be retrieved and we discuss its benefits to Top-N recommendation of Points of Interest.\r\n}\r\n}\r\n\r\n\r\n
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\n Trust-based recommender systems improve rating prediction with respect to Collaborative Filtering by leveraging the additional information provided by a trust network among users to deal with the cold start problem. However, they are challenged by recent studies according to which people generally perceive the usage of data about social relations as a violation of their own privacy. In order to address this issue, we extend trust-based recommender systems with additional evidence about trust, based on public anonymous information, and we make them configurable with respect to the data that can be used in the given application domain: 1. We propose the Multi-faceted Trust Model (MTM) to define trust among users in a compositional way, possibly including or excluding the types of information it contains. MTM flexibly integrates social links with public anonymous feedback received by user profiles and user contributions in social networks. 2. We propose LOCABAL+, based on MTM, which extends the LOCABAL trust-based recommender system with multi-faceted trust and trust-based social regularization. Experiments carried out on two public datasets of item reviews show that, with a minor loss of user coverage, LOCABAL+ outperforms state-of-the art trust-based recommender systems and Collaborative Filtering in accuracy, ranking of items and error minimization both when it uses complete information about trust and when it ignores social relations. The combination of MTM with LOCABAL+ thus represents a promising alternative to state-of-the-art trust-based recommender systems.\n
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@article{Mauro-etal:20a,\r\ntitle = "Service-Aware Interactive Presentation of Items for Decision-Making",\r\njournal = "Applied Sciences",\r\nvolume = "10",\r\nnumber = "16",\r\npages = "5599",\r\nyear = "2020",\r\nissn = "",\r\ndoi = "10.3390/app10165599",\r\nurl_Link = "https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/16/5599",\r\nurl_Paper = "2020_APPLIEDSC_Apart_Mon.pdf",\r\nauthor = "Noemi Mauro and Liliana Ardissono and Sara Capecchi and Rosario Galioto",\r\nkeywords ="Interactive information exploration; Information visualization; Service design; Service Journey Maps",\r\nabstract = "Current information exploration models present low-level features or technical aspects related to the paradigm used to generate results. While this may increase transparency, it does not help the user form a personal opinion about items because it does not describe the overall experience with them. In order to address this issue, we propose the INTERactivE viSualizaTion model (INTEREST) that supports the exploration and analysis of search results by means of a graphical representation of consumer feedback aimed at making the user aware of the service properties in all the stages of fruition, focusing on the data that is most relevant to her/him. INTEREST is based on the Service Journey Maps for the design and description of user experience with services. We applied it to the home booking domain by developing the Apartment Monitoring application that supports overviewing and analyzing online reviews about rented homes. In a user study, we compared the decision-making support provided by our application with that of a baseline model that enables a temporal filtering of consumer feedback. We found out that Apartment Monitoring outperforms the baseline in user experience, user awareness of item properties, and user control during the interaction with the system. In particular, according to the participants of the study, Apartment Monitoring describes the expectations about the homes and it supports their selection in a more effective way than the baseline. These findings encourage moving from a low-level description of item properties to a service-oriented one in order to improve users’ decision-making capabilities."\r\n}\r\n\r\n
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\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Personalized Recommendation of PoIs to People with Autism.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n Mauro, N.; Ardissono, L.; and Cena, F.\n\n\n \n\n\n\n In Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, of UMAP '20, pages 163–172, New York, NY, USA, 2020. Association for Computing Machinery\n \n\n\n\n
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@inproceedings{Mauro:2020,\r\nauthor = {Mauro, Noemi and Ardissono, Liliana and Cena, Federica},\r\ntitle = {Personalized Recommendation of PoIs to People with Autism},\r\nyear = {2020},\r\nisbn = {9781450368612},\r\npublisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\naddress = {New York, NY, USA},\r\nurl_Link = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3340631.3394845},\r\nurl_Paper = {2020_UMAP_Autism.pdf},\r\ndoi = {10.1145/3340631.3394845},\r\nabstract = {The suggestion of Points of Interest to people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) challenges recommender systems research because these users' perception of places is influenced by idiosyncratic sensory aversions which can mine their experience by causing stress and anxiety. Therefore, managing individual preferences is not enough to provide these people with suitable recommendations. In order to address this issue, we propose a Top-N recommendation model that combines the user's idiosyncratic aversions with her/his preferences in a personalized way to suggest the most compatible and likable Points of Interest for her/him. We are interested in finding a user-specific balance of compatibility and interest within a recommendation model that integrates heterogeneous evaluation criteria to appropriately take these aspects into account. We tested our model on both ASD and "neurotypical" people. The evaluation results show that, on both groups, our model outperforms in accuracy and ranking capability the recommender systems based on item compatibility, on user preferences, or which integrate these two aspects by means of a uniform evaluation model.},\r\nbooktitle = {Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization},\r\npages = {163–172},\r\nnumpages = {10},\r\nkeywords = {autism spectrum disorder, recommender systems, accessibility},\r\nlocation = {Genoa, Italy},\r\nseries = {UMAP '20}\r\n}\r\n\r\n\r\n
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\n The suggestion of Points of Interest to people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) challenges recommender systems research because these users' perception of places is influenced by idiosyncratic sensory aversions which can mine their experience by causing stress and anxiety. Therefore, managing individual preferences is not enough to provide these people with suitable recommendations. In order to address this issue, we propose a Top-N recommendation model that combines the user's idiosyncratic aversions with her/his preferences in a personalized way to suggest the most compatible and likable Points of Interest for her/him. We are interested in finding a user-specific balance of compatibility and interest within a recommendation model that integrates heterogeneous evaluation criteria to appropriately take these aspects into account. We tested our model on both ASD and \"neurotypical\" people. The evaluation results show that, on both groups, our model outperforms in accuracy and ranking capability the recommender systems based on item compatibility, on user preferences, or which integrate these two aspects by means of a uniform evaluation model.\n
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@inproceedings{Cena:20,\r\nauthor = {Cena, Federica and Mauro, Noemi and Ardissono, Liliana and Mattutino, Claudio and Rapp, Amon and Cocomazzi, Stefano and Brighenti, Stefania and Keller, Roberto},\r\ntitle = {Personalized Tourist Guide for People with Autism},\r\nyear = {2020},\r\nisbn = {9781450379502},\r\npublisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\nlocation = {New York, NY, USA},\r\nurl_Link = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3386392.3399280},\r\nurl_Paper = {2020_PATCH_Autism.pdf},\r\ndoi = {10.1145/3386392.3399280},\r\nbooktitle = {Adjunct Publication of the 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization},\r\npages = {347–351},\r\nnumpages = {5},\r\nkeywords = {autism spectrum disorder, accessibility, recommender systems, cultural heritage exploration, tourism},\r\naddress = {Genoa, Italy},\r\nseries = {UMAP ’20 Adjunct},\r\nabstract = {Cultural Heritage exploration is interesting for the development of inclusive tourist guides because it exposes visitors to different types of challenges, from steering content recommendation to visitors' interests and cognitive capabilities, to the suggestion of places that can be effectively reached and visited under different types of constraints: e.g., temporal and physical ones. In this work we are interested in the needs of people with Autism in order to support them in the exploration of a geographic area. Specifically, this paper presents a mobile tourist guide that we are developing to help people in visiting new places. The app is an evolution of PIUMA (Personalised Interactive Urban Maps for Autism), conceived to help autistic citizens in their everyday movements. It shows a map tailored to users with Autism Spectrum Disorder. In particular, it presents a personalized selection of safe Points of Interest, i.e., places that are, at the same time, interesting for the user and have "safe" characteristics from the sensory point of view, such as being quiet, scarcely crowded, or with smooth lights. In this paper, we present how we intend to extend PIUMA to support tourists.},\r\n}\r\n\r\n
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\n Cultural Heritage exploration is interesting for the development of inclusive tourist guides because it exposes visitors to different types of challenges, from steering content recommendation to visitors' interests and cognitive capabilities, to the suggestion of places that can be effectively reached and visited under different types of constraints: e.g., temporal and physical ones. In this work we are interested in the needs of people with Autism in order to support them in the exploration of a geographic area. Specifically, this paper presents a mobile tourist guide that we are developing to help people in visiting new places. The app is an evolution of PIUMA (Personalised Interactive Urban Maps for Autism), conceived to help autistic citizens in their everyday movements. It shows a map tailored to users with Autism Spectrum Disorder. In particular, it presents a personalized selection of safe Points of Interest, i.e., places that are, at the same time, interesting for the user and have \"safe\" characteristics from the sensory point of view, such as being quiet, scarcely crowded, or with smooth lights. In this paper, we present how we intend to extend PIUMA to support tourists.\n
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@inproceedings{Rapp:20,\r\n  author = {Amon Rapp and Federica Cena and Claudio Mattutino and Claudio Schifanella and Noemi Mauro and Liliana Ardissono and Guido Boella and  Stefania Brighenti and Romina Castaldo and Roberto Keller and Arianna Boldi and Maurizio Tirassa},\r\n  title = {How Can We Engage People to Map Places Suitable for the Autistic Population? {A} Crowdsourced Approach},\r\n  year = {2020},\r\n  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Psychology-Based Technologies (PSYCHOBIT 2020)},\r\n  address = {Naples, Italy},\r\n  series    = {{CEUR} Workshop Proceedings},\r\n  volume    = {2730},\r\n  publisher = {CEUR-WS.org},\r\n  url_Link       = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2730/paper4.pdf},\r\n  url_Paper = {2020_PSYCHOBIT.pdf},\r\n  doi       = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2730/paper4.pdf},\r\n  keywords = {Autism, Crowdsourcing, Maps},\r\n  abstract = {The crowdsourcing paradigm applied to the urban environment (i.e.,\r\n  people while moving can provide data from different places) may play a fundamental\r\n  role in transforming users in significant actors of the places in which\r\n  they live. In the last years, several crowdsourcing services have been developed\r\n  to allow citizens to collaborate, by collecting data about urban accessibility.\r\n  This effort, however, focused mainly on physical disabilities. We aim to help\r\n  people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) move across and live in urban\r\n  environments by means of a crowdsourced personalized map. The map is populated\r\n  with comments and reviews by people with ASD and caregivers, in order\r\n  to highlight places, routes, and activities (e.g., less crowded routes, quiet places)\r\n  to make ASD people’s daily lives more comfortable.}\r\n}\r\n\r\n\r\n
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\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Faceted Exploration of Cultural Heritage.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n Mauro, N.; Izzi, G.; Pellegrino, M.; Ardissono, L.; Grandi, C.; Lucenteforte, M.; and Segnan, M.\n\n\n \n\n\n\n In Adjunct Publication of the 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, of UMAP ’20 Adjunct, pages 340–346, Genoa, Italy, 2020. Association for Computing Machinery\n \n\n\n\n
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@inproceedings{Mauro:20a,\r\nauthor = {Noemi Mauro and Izzi, Gianmarco and Pellegrino, Marco and Ardissono, Liliana and Grandi, Claudio and Lucenteforte, Maurizio and Segnan, Marino},\r\ntitle = {Faceted Exploration of Cultural Heritage},\r\nyear = {2020},\r\nisbn = {9781450379502},\r\npublisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\nlocation = {New York, NY, USA},\r\nurl_Link = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3386392.3399279},\r\nurl_Paper={2020_PATCH_Faceted.pdf},\r\ndoi = {10.1145/3386392.3399279},\r\nbooktitle = {Adjunct Publication of the 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization},\r\npages = {340–346},\r\nnumpages = {7},\r\nkeywords = {dynamic projection of geographic maps, interactive user interfaces for ch applications, geographic information search, faceted information exploration},\r\naddress = {Genoa, Italy},\r\nseries = {UMAP ’20 Adjunct},\r\nabstract = {The richness of Cultural Heritage (CH) sites exposes tourists to an information overload which makes it difficult to efficiently select the items that they like and can practically visit within a tour.Faceted information exploration has been proposed as a solution to analyze large sets of data. However, most works focus on the inspection of a single type of information, e.g., hotels or music. In contrast, CH items are heterogeneous: they include natural and artificial monuments and different types of artworks which might be visited within a single tour. Moreover, CH sites are often visited in group, thus raising the expectation that all the involved people share information and decisions about what to do.In order to address this issue, we propose a map-based faceted exploration model that makes it possible to create custom, long-lasting maps representing a shared information space for user collaboration, and temporally project these maps on the basis of fine-grained filters which help users focus on items associated to short-term, specific interests. Our model supports the user in the organization and filtering of CH information on the basis of multiple perspectives related to the attributes of items. We propose graphical widgets to support interactive data visualization, faceted exploration, category-based information hiding and transparency of results at the same time. The widgets are based on the sunburst diagram, which compactly displays visualization criteria on data categories by showing facets and facet values in a circular structure.},\r\n}\r\n    \r\n\r\n
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@inproceedings{Ludewig:2019,\r\n author = {Ludewig, Malte and Noemi Mauro and Latifi, Sara and Jannach, Dietmar},\r\n title = {Performance Comparison of Neural and Non-neural Approaches to Session-based Recommendation},\r\n booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems},\r\n series = {RecSys '19},\r\n year = {2019},\r\n isbn = {978-1-4503-6243-6},\r\n address = {Copenhagen, Denmark},\r\n pages = {462--466},\r\n numpages = {5},\r\n url_Link = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3298689.3347041},\r\n url_Paper = {2019_RecSys_Neural.pdf},\r\n doi = {10.1145/3298689.3347041},\r\n acmid = {3347041},\r\n publisher = {ACM},\r\n location = {New York, NY, USA},\r\n keywords = {evaluation, reproducibility, session-based recommendation},\r\n abstract = {The benefits of neural approaches are undisputed in many application areas. However, today's research practice in applied machine learning---where researchers often use a variety of baselines, datasets, and evaluation procedures---can make it difficult to understand how much progress is actually achieved through novel technical approaches. In this work, we focus on the fast-developing area of session-based recommendation and aim to contribute to a better understanding of what represents the state-of-the-art.To that purpose, we have conducted an extensive set of experiments, using a variety of datasets, in which we benchmarked four neural approaches that were published in the last three years against each other and against a set of simpler baseline techniques, e.g., based on nearest neighbors. The evaluation of the algorithms under the exact same conditions revealed that the benefits of applying today's neural approaches to session-based recommendations are still limited. In the majority of the cases, and in particular when precision and recall are used, it turned out that simple techniques in most cases outperform recent neural approaches. Our findings therefore point to certain major limitations of today's research practice. By sharing our evaluation framework publicly, we hope that some of these limitations can be overcome in the future.},\r\n} \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n  
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@inproceedings{Mauro:2019b,\r\n author = {Noemi Mauro and Ardissono, Liliana and Hu, Zhongli Filippo},\r\n title = {Multi-Faceted Trust-Based Collaborative Filtering},\r\n year = {2019},\r\n isbn = {9781450360210},\r\n publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\n location = {New York, NY, USA},\r\n url_Link = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3320435.3320441},\r\n url_Paper = {2019_UMAP_Trust.pdf},\r\n doi = {10.1145/3320435.3320441},\r\n booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization},\r\n pages = {216–224},\r\n numpages = {9},\r\n keywords = {thematic maps, information search, personalization., session-based concept suggestion},\r\n address = {Larnaca, Cyprus},\r\n series = {UMAP ’19},\r\n abstract = {Many collaborative recommender systems leverage social correlation theories to improve suggestion performance. However, they focus on explicit relations between users and they leave out other types of information that can contribute to determine users' global reputation; e.g., public recognition of reviewers' quality.We are interested in understanding if and when these additional types of feedback improve Top-N recommendation. For this purpose, we propose a multi-faceted trust model to integrate local trust, represented by social links, with various types of global trust evidence provided by social networks. We aim at identifying general classes of data in order to make our model applicable to different case studies. Then, we test the model by applying it to a variant of User-to-User Collaborative filtering (U2UCF) which supports the fusion of rating similarity, local trust derived from social relations, and multi-faceted reputation for rating prediction.We test our model on two datasets: the Yelp one publishes generic friend relations between users but provides different types of trust feedback, including user profile endorsements. The LibraryThing dataset offers fewer types of feedback but it provides more selective friend relations aimed at content sharing. The results of our experiments show that, on the Yelp dataset, our model outperforms both U2UCF and state-of-the-art trust-based recommenders that only use rating similarity and social relations. Differently, in the LibraryThing dataset, the combination of social relations and rating similarity achieves the best results. The lesson we learn is that multi-faceted trust can be a valuable type of information for recommendation. However, before using it in an application domain, an analysis of the type and amount of available trust evidence has to be done to assess its real impact on recommendation performance.},\r\n}\r\n\r\n\r\n  
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@inproceedings{Mauro:2019a,\r\n author = {Noemi Mauro and Ardissono, Liliana},\r\n title = {Extending a Tag-Based Collaborative Recommender with Co-Occurring Information Interests},\r\n year = {2019},\r\n isbn = {9781450360210},\r\n publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\n location = {New York, NY, USA},\r\n url_Link = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3320435.3320458},\r\n url_Paper = {2019_UMAP_Cat.pdf},\r\n doi = {10.1145/3320435.3320458},\r\n booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization},\r\n pages = {181–190},\r\n numpages = {10},\r\n keywords = {collaborative filtering, category-based user profiles, tag-based recommender systems, preference co-occurrence in information search.},\r\n address = {Larnaca, Cyprus},\r\n series = {UMAP ’19},\r\n abstract = {Collaborative Filtering is largely applied to personalize item recommendation but its performance is affected by the sparsity of rating data. In order to address this issue, recent systems have been developed to improve recommendation by extracting latent factors from the rating matrices, or by exploiting trust relations established among users in social networks. In this work, we are interested in evaluating whether other sources of preference information than ratings and social ties can be used to improve recommendation performance. Specifically, we aim at testing whether the integration of frequently co-occurring interests in information search logs can improve recommendation performance in User-to-User Collaborative Filtering (U2UCF). For this purpose, we propose the Extended Category-based Collaborative Filtering (ECCF) recommender, which enriches category-based user profiles derived from the analysis of rating behavior with data categories that are frequently searched together by people in search sessions. We test our model using a big rating dataset and a log of a largely used search engine to extract the co-occurrence of interests. The experiments show that ECCF outperforms U2UCF and category-based collaborative recommendation in accuracy, MRR, diversity of recommendations and user coverage. Moreover, it outperforms the SVD++ Matrix Factorization algorithm in accuracy and diversity of recommendation lists.},\r\n}\r\n\r\n
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@inproceedings{Mauro:2019c,\r\n author = {Noemi Mauro},\r\n title = {Supporting the Exploration of Cultural Heritage Information via Search Behavior Analysis},\r\n year = {2019},\r\n isbn = {9781450367110},\r\n publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\n location = {New York, NY, USA},\r\n url_Link = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3314183.3323862},\r\n url_Paper = {2019_PATCH_Topics.pdf},\r\n doi = {10.1145/3314183.3323862},\r\n booktitle = {Adjunct Publication of the 27th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization},\r\n pages = {371–376},\r\n numpages = {6},\r\n keywords = {session-based concept suggestion, personalization, thematic maps, information search},\r\n address = {Larnaca, Cyprus},\r\n series = {UMAP’19 Adjunct},\r\n abstract = {Thematic maps, traditionally developed to present specific themes within defined geographical areas, are an interesting information presentation model for Cultural Heritage exploration because of the abstract view on the territory they provide. However, in order to cope with possibly heterogeneous user interests, they should be adapted to the individual user by including the relevant types of information, given her/his specific interests. In a previous paper, we proposed an approach to the integration of thematic maps in the OnToMap Participatory GIS (Geographic Information System), in order to support query expansion during an exploratory search task. The proposed maps were built on the basis of a survey in which we asked people to rate the relevance of a set of concepts to five main themes around which we developed the maps. In this paper we go one step forward and we propose a more general approach to information search support in order to automatically create thematic maps, based on the analysis of frequently co-occurring search interests in a search engine query log. This type of analysis supports the identification of clusters of concepts that people frequently search within the same sessions and helps the identification of co-occurring topics that can be proposed to users when exploring an information space. In this way, when the user browses a catalog of Cultural Heritage information, (s)he can both visualize the thematic maps relevant to the search context, and be guided in the navigation within types of information, looking for possibly complementary types of data to satisfy her/his needs.},\r\n}\r\n\r\n
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\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n UMAP PATCH 2019 Chairs' Welcome.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n Ardissono, L.; Gena, C.; Kuflik, T.; and Mauro, N.\n\n\n \n\n\n\n In Adjunct Publication of the 27th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, of UMAP'19 Adjunct, pages 359–361, New York, NY, USA, 2019. Association for Computing Machinery\n \n\n\n\n
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@inproceedings{patch2019,\r\nauthor = {Ardissono, Liliana and Gena, Cristina and Kuflik, Tsvi and Mauro, Noemi},\r\ntitle = {UMAP PATCH 2019 Chairs' Welcome},\r\nyear = {2019},\r\nisbn = {9781450367110},\r\npublisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\naddress = {New York, NY, USA},\r\nurl_Link = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3314183.3323860},\r\ndoi = {10.1145/3314183.3323860},\r\nbooktitle = {Adjunct Publication of the 27th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization},\r\npages = {359–361},\r\nnumpages = {3},\r\nkeywords = {recommender systems, personalization, cultural heritage, user modeling.},\r\nlocation = {Larnaca, Cyprus},\r\nseries = {UMAP'19 Adjunct}\r\n}\r\n\r\n
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@inproceedings{Mauro:2018b,\r\n author = {Mauro, Noemi and Di Rocco, Laura and Ardissono, Liliana and Bertolotto, Michela and Guerrini, Giovanna},\r\n title = {Impact of Semantic Granularity on Geographic Information Search Support},\r\n booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence},\r\n series = {WI '18},\r\n year = {2018},\r\n url_Link = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8609610},\r\n url_Paper = {2018_WI_Granularity.pdf},\r\n doi={10.1109/WI.2018.00-73},\r\n address = {Santiago De Chile, Chile},\r\n keywords = {geographical information retrieval, semantic granularity, session-based concept suggestion},\r\n abstract = {The Information Retrieval research has used semantics to provide accurate search results, but the analysis of conceptual abstraction has mainly focused on information integration. We consider session-based query expansion in Geographical Information Retrieval, and investigate the impact of semantic granularity (i.e., specificity of concepts representation) on the suggestion of relevant types of information to search for. We study how different levels of detail in knowledge representation influence the capability of guiding the user in the exploration of a complex information space. A comparative analysis of the performance of a query expansion model, using three spatial ontologies defined at different semantic granularity levels, reveals that a fine-grained representation enhances recall. However, precision depends on how closely the ontologies match the way people conceptualize and verbally describe the geographic space.}\r\n} \r\n\r\n
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@inproceedings{Ardissono-etal:18,\r\nauthor = {Ardissono, Liliana and Delsanto, Matteo and Lucenteforte, Maurizio and Mauro, Noemi and Savoca, Adriano and Scanu, Daniele},\r\ntitle = {Map-Based Visualization of 2D/3D Spatial Data via Stylization and Tuning of Information Emphasis},\r\nyear = {2018},\r\nisbn = {9781450356169},\r\npublisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\naddress = {New York, NY, USA},\r\n pages = {38:1--38:5},\r\nurl_Link = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3206505.3206516},\r\nurl_Paper = {2018_AVI_3D_Short.pdf},\r\ndoi = {10.1145/3206505.3206516},\r\nabstract = {In Geographical Information search, map visualization can challenge the user because results can consist of a large set of heterogeneous items, increasing visual complexity. We propose a novel visualization model to address this issue. Our model represents results as markers, or as geometric objects, on 2D/3D layers, using stylized and highly colored shapes to enhance their visibility. Moreover, the model supports interactive information filtering in the map by enabling the user to focus on different data categories, using transparency sliders to tune the opacity, and thus the emphasis, of the corresponding data items. A test with users provided positive results concerning the efficacy of the model.},\r\nbooktitle = {Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces},\r\narticleno = {38},\r\nnumpages = {5},\r\nkeywords = {visual information filtering, search results visualization, opacity tuning, 2D/3D geographical maps},\r\nlocation = {Castiglione della Pescaia, Grosseto, Italy},\r\nseries = {AVI '18}\r\n}\r\n\r\n\r\n
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@inproceedings{Ardissono-etal:18b,\r\nauthor = {Ardissono, Liliana and Delsanto, Matteo and Lucenteforte, Maurizio and Mauro, Noemi and Savoca, Adriano and Scanu, Daniele},\r\ntitle = {Transparency-Based Information Filtering on 2D/3D Geographical Maps},\r\nyear = {2018},\r\nisbn = {9781450356169},\r\npublisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\naddress = {New York, NY, USA},\r\nurl_Link = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3206505.3206566},\r\nurl_Paper = {2018_AVI_3D_Demo.pdf},\r\ndoi = {10.1145/3206505.3206566},\r\n pages = {56:1--56:3},\r\nabstract = {The presentation of search results in GIS can expose the user to cluttered geographical maps, challenging the identification of relevant information. In order to address this issue, we propose a visualization model supporting interactive information filtering on 2D/3D maps. Our model is based on the introduction of transparency sliders that enable the user to tune the opacity, and thus the emphasis, of data categories in the map. In this way, he or she can focus the maps on the most relevant types of information for the task to be performed. A test with users provided positive results concerning the efficacy of our model.},\r\nbooktitle = {Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces},\r\narticleno = {56},\r\nnumpages = {3},\r\nkeywords = {visual information filtering, search results visualization, opacity tuning, 2D/3D geographical maps},\r\nlocation = {Castiglione della Pescaia, Grosseto, Italy},\r\nseries = {AVI '18}\r\n}\r\n\r\n\r\n
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@inproceedings{Mauro:2018,\r\nauthor = {Mauro, Noemi and Ardissono, Liliana},\r\ntitle = {Session-Based Suggestion of Topics for Geographic Exploratory Search},\r\nyear = {2018},\r\nisbn = {9781450349451},\r\npublisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\naddress = {New York, NY, USA},\r\nurl_Link = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3172944.3172957},\r\nurl_Paper= {2018_IUI_Topics.pdf},\r\ndoi = {10.1145/3172944.3172957},\r\nabstract = {Exploratory information search can challenge users in the formulation of efficacious search queries. Moreover, complex information spaces, such as those managed by Geographical Information Systems, can disorient people, making it difficult to find relevant data. In order to address these issues, we developed a session-based suggestion model that proposes concepts as a em "you might also be interested in»» function, by taking the user»s previous queries into account. Our model can be applied to incrementally generate suggestions in interactive search. It can be used for query expansion, and in general to guide users in the exploration of possibly complex spaces of data categories. Our model is based on a concept co-occurrence graph that describes how frequently concepts are searched together in search sessions. Starting from an ontological domain representation, we generated the graph by analyzing the query log of a major search engine. Moreover, we identified clusters of ontology concepts which frequently co-occur in the sessions of the log via community detection on the graph. The evaluation of our model provided satisfactory accuracy results.},\r\nbooktitle = {23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces},\r\npages = {341–352},\r\nnumpages = {12},\r\nkeywords = {query expansion, geographical information retrieval, session-based concept suggestion},\r\nlocation = {Tokyo, Japan},\r\nseries = {IUI '18}\r\n}\r\n\r\n
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@inproceedings{Mauro:2018a,\r\nauthor = {Mauro, Noemi},\r\ntitle = {Suggestion Models in Geographic Exploratory Search},\r\nyear = {2018},\r\nisbn = {9781450349451},\r\npublisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\naddress = {New York, NY, USA},\r\nurl_Link = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3172944.3173148},\r\nurl_Paper = {2018_IUI_DC.pdf},\r\ndoi = {10.1145/3172944.3173148},\r\nabstract = {My PhD project focuses on the suggestion of information categories in exploratory search in a geographical domain. Geographical maps may challenge the user in the exploration of possibly complex information spaces, making difficult to find all the relevant data for the completion of her/his search task. I propose different models for concepts suggestion which, given a search query, allow the creation of clusters of categories useful for query expansion as a "you might be interested in" function. The training of these models is done by exploiting different types of information: search sessions, users» preferences and social data coming from Twitter.},\r\nbooktitle = {23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces},\r\npages = {669–670},\r\nnumpages = {2},\r\nkeywords = {geographical information retrieval and search, query expansion, session-based concept suggestion},\r\nlocation = {Tokyo, Japan},\r\nseries = {IUI '18}\r\n}\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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\n My PhD project focuses on the suggestion of information categories in exploratory search in a geographical domain. Geographical maps may challenge the user in the exploration of possibly complex information spaces, making difficult to find all the relevant data for the completion of her/his search task. I propose different models for concepts suggestion which, given a search query, allow the creation of clusters of categories useful for query expansion as a \"you might be interested in\" function. The training of these models is done by exploiting different types of information: search sessions, users» preferences and social data coming from Twitter.\n
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@article{Ardissono-etal:17e,\r\n   author = {Liliana Ardissono and Maurizio Lucenteforte and Noemi Mauro and Adriano Savoca and Angioletta Voghera},\r\n   title = {Personalised Community Maps},\r\n   journal = {International Journal of Electronic Governance},\r\n   publisher = {Inderscience},\r\n   volume = {9},\r\n   number = {1-2},\r\n   pages = {156-178},\r\n   year = {2017},\r\n    doi = {10.1504/IJEG.2017.084648},\r\n    url_Link = {https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEG.2017.084648},\r\n    abstract = {Abstract: With the convergence of geographical information systems (GIS) and internet technology, the public administration is starting to use online maps as a web-based bidirectional communication channel with the population: maps are used: i) in public portals, for publishing and crowdsourcing information about the territory; ii) in policy-making, for defining a community vision of the territory and for involving people in public choices. Both cases raise challenges related to the large amount of data handled in the maps, and to their lack of group collaboration support. We attempted to address these issues by developing an information-sharing model, and a testbed software application, that support group management and the generation of persistent, custom community maps focused on the user's interests. Our model builds on tag-based user profiles and on information filtering. This paper describes our model and the results of an evaluation of the GroupMapping application, based on it.}\r\n}\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n 
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\n Abstract: With the convergence of geographical information systems (GIS) and internet technology, the public administration is starting to use online maps as a web-based bidirectional communication channel with the population: maps are used: i) in public portals, for publishing and crowdsourcing information about the territory; ii) in policy-making, for defining a community vision of the territory and for involving people in public choices. Both cases raise challenges related to the large amount of data handled in the maps, and to their lack of group collaboration support. We attempted to address these issues by developing an information-sharing model, and a testbed software application, that support group management and the generation of persistent, custom community maps focused on the user's interests. Our model builds on tag-based user profiles and on information filtering. This paper describes our model and the results of an evaluation of the GroupMapping application, based on it.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Concept-Aware Geographic Information Retrieval.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n Mauro, N.; Ardissono, L.; and Savoca, A.\n\n\n \n\n\n\n In Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence, of WI '17, pages 34–41, New York, NY, USA, 2017. Association for Computing Machinery\n \n\n\n\n
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@inproceedings{Mauro:2017b,\r\nauthor = {Mauro, Noemi and Ardissono, Liliana and Savoca, Adriano},\r\ntitle = {Concept-Aware Geographic Information Retrieval},\r\nyear = {2017},\r\nisbn = {9781450349512},\r\npublisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\naddress = {New York, NY, USA},\r\nurl_Link = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3106426.3106498},\r\nurl_Paper = {2017_WI_Search.pdf},\r\ndoi = {10.1145/3106426.3106498},\r\nabstract = {Textual queries are largely employed in information retrieval to let users specify search goals in a natural way. However, differences in user and system terminologies can challenge the identification of the user's information needs, and thus the generation of relevant results. We argue that the explicit management of ontological knowledge, and of the meaning of concepts (by integrating linguistic and encyclopaedic knowledge in the system ontology), can improve the analysis of search queries, because it enables a flexible identification of the topics the user is searching for, regardless of the adopted vocabulary. This paper proposes an information retrieval support model based on semantic concept identification. Starting from the recognition of the ontology concepts that the search query refers to, this model exploits the qualifiers specified in the query to select information items on the basis of possibly fine-grained features. Moreover, it supports query expansion and reformulation by suggesting the exploration of semantically similar concepts, as well as of concepts related to those referred in the query through thematic relations. A test on a data-set collected using the OnToMap Participatory GIS has shown that this approach provides accurate results.},\r\nbooktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence},\r\npages = {34–41},\r\nnumpages = {8},\r\nkeywords = {ontologies, information search, participatory GIS, linked data},\r\nlocation = {Leipzig, Germany},\r\nseries = {WI '17}\r\n}\r\n\r\n
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\n Textual queries are largely employed in information retrieval to let users specify search goals in a natural way. However, differences in user and system terminologies can challenge the identification of the user's information needs, and thus the generation of relevant results. We argue that the explicit management of ontological knowledge, and of the meaning of concepts (by integrating linguistic and encyclopaedic knowledge in the system ontology), can improve the analysis of search queries, because it enables a flexible identification of the topics the user is searching for, regardless of the adopted vocabulary. This paper proposes an information retrieval support model based on semantic concept identification. Starting from the recognition of the ontology concepts that the search query refers to, this model exploits the qualifiers specified in the query to select information items on the basis of possibly fine-grained features. Moreover, it supports query expansion and reformulation by suggesting the exploration of semantically similar concepts, as well as of concepts related to those referred in the query through thematic relations. A test on a data-set collected using the OnToMap Participatory GIS has shown that this approach provides accurate results.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n OnToMap: Semantic Community Maps for Knowledge Sharing.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n Ardissono, L.; Lucenteforte, M.; Mauro, N.; Savoca, A.; Voghera, A.; and La Riccia, L.\n\n\n \n\n\n\n In Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, of HT '17, pages 317–318, New York, NY, USA, 2017. Association for Computing Machinery\n \n\n\n\n
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@inproceedings{Ardissono:2017c,\r\nauthor = {Ardissono, Liliana and Lucenteforte, Maurizio and Mauro, Noemi and Savoca, Adriano and Voghera, Angioletta and La Riccia, Luigi},\r\ntitle = {OnToMap: Semantic Community Maps for Knowledge Sharing},\r\nyear = {2017},\r\nisbn = {9781450347082},\r\npublisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\naddress = {New York, NY, USA},\r\nurl_Link = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3078714.3078747},\r\nurl_Paper = {2017_HT_Demo_Ontomap.pdf},\r\ndoi = {10.1145/3078714.3078747},\r\nabstract = {We present the information retrieval model adopted in the OnToMap Participatory GIS. The model addresses the limitations of keyword-based and category-based search by semantically interpreting the information needs specified in free-text search queries. The model is based on an ontological representation of linguistic and encyclopaedic knowledge, which makes it possible to exploit terms and synonyms occurring in the definitions of concepts to flexibly match the user's and system's terminologies. This feature enables users to query the application using their own vocabulary.},\r\nbooktitle = {Proceedings of the 28th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media},\r\npages = {317–318},\r\nnumpages = {2},\r\nkeywords = {ontologies, linked data, information search, participatory gis},\r\nlocation = {Prague, Czech Republic},\r\nseries = {HT '17}\r\n}\r\n\r\n
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\n We present the information retrieval model adopted in the OnToMap Participatory GIS. The model addresses the limitations of keyword-based and category-based search by semantically interpreting the information needs specified in free-text search queries. The model is based on an ontological representation of linguistic and encyclopaedic knowledge, which makes it possible to exploit terms and synonyms occurring in the definitions of concepts to flexibly match the user's and system's terminologies. This feature enables users to query the application using their own vocabulary.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Personalization in Geographical Information Search.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n Mauro, N.\n\n\n \n\n\n\n In Seventh BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access, of FDIA 2017, pages 1–4, Barcelona, Spain, 2017. eWiC Series\n \n\n\n\n
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@inproceedings{Mauro:2017a,\r\n author = {Noemi Mauro},\r\n title = {Personalization in Geographical Information Search},\r\n booktitle = {Seventh BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access},\r\n series = {FDIA 2017},\r\n year = {2017},\r\n address = {Barcelona, Spain},\r\n pages = {1--4},\r\n numpages = {4},\r\n url_Link = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/FDIA2017.5},\r\n url_Paper = {2017_FDIA.pdf},\r\n doi = {10.14236/ewic/FDIA2017.5},\r\n publisher = {eWiC Series},\r\n keywords = {Semantic search, personalization, user model, participatory GIS, linked data, ontologies},\r\n abstract = {My PhD project focuses on the personalization of Participatory GIS (PGIS). In the project I analyze two methodologies to offer personalized search results in community maps and a natural interaction with the system. The first consists of automatically gathering the users interests at a concept level in order to generate clusters of concepts useful for the presentation of thematic maps. This is done by creating ontology-based user models mapped to the domain ontology adopted by the PGIS. The second concerns the creation of content-based user models useful for filtering the items belonging to each concept in a multifaceted way: the goal is that of reducing and adapting the information space presented in the map. In the project I also analyze how these techniques may be jointly used during the query expansion process to retrieve more accurate and relevant search results.}\r\n} \r\n\r\n
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\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thematic Maps for Geographical Information Search.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n Mauro, N.; and Ardissono, L.\n\n\n \n\n\n\n In Adjunct Publication of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, of UMAP '17, pages 337–342, New York, NY, USA, 2017. Association for Computing Machinery\n \n\n\n\n
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@inproceedings{Mauro:2017c,\r\nauthor = {Mauro, Noemi and Ardissono, Liliana},\r\ntitle = {Thematic Maps for Geographical Information Search},\r\nyear = {2017},\r\nisbn = {9781450350679},\r\npublisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\naddress = {New York, NY, USA},\r\nurl_Link = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3099023.3099087},\r\nurl_Paper = {2017_PATCH_Thematic_Maps.pdf},\r\ndoi = {10.1145/3099023.3099087},\r\nabstract = {The exploration of cultural heritage information is challenged by the fact that most data provided by online resources is fragmented and it is repository or application-centered. In order to address this issue, a data integration approach should be adopted, that makes it possible to generate custom views, focused on the user's information needs, but easily extensible to support the inspection of topically related contents.In this paper, we present a model supporting the management of thematic maps for information exploration, and their integration with query expansion during the interaction with the user. Our model is based on: (i) an ontological domain knowledge representation for describing the meaning of concepts and their semantic relations; (ii) a semantic interpretation model for identifying the concepts referenced in the user's queries. We are experimenting our model in the OnToMap Participatory GIS, which manages interactive community maps for information sharing and participatory decision-making.},\r\nbooktitle = {Adjunct Publication of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization},\r\npages = {337–342},\r\nnumpages = {6},\r\nkeywords = {thematic maps, personalization, information search},\r\nlocation = {Bratislava, Slovakia},\r\nseries = {UMAP '17}\r\n}\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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\n The exploration of cultural heritage information is challenged by the fact that most data provided by online resources is fragmented and it is repository or application-centered. In order to address this issue, a data integration approach should be adopted, that makes it possible to generate custom views, focused on the user's information needs, but easily extensible to support the inspection of topically related contents.In this paper, we present a model supporting the management of thematic maps for information exploration, and their integration with query expansion during the interaction with the user. Our model is based on: (i) an ontological domain knowledge representation for describing the meaning of concepts and their semantic relations; (ii) a semantic interpretation model for identifying the concepts referenced in the user's queries. We are experimenting our model in the OnToMap Participatory GIS, which manages interactive community maps for information sharing and participatory decision-making.\n
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\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Semantic Interpretation of Search Queries for Personalization.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n Ardissono, L.; Lucenteforte, M.; Mauro, N.; Savoca, A.; Voghera, A.; and La Riccia, L.\n\n\n \n\n\n\n In Adjunct Publication of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, of UMAP '17, pages 101–102, New York, NY, USA, 2017. Association for Computing Machinery\n \n\n\n\n
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@inproceedings{Ardissono:2017b,\r\nauthor = {Ardissono, Liliana and Lucenteforte, Maurizio and Mauro, Noemi and Savoca, Adriano and Voghera, Angioletta and La Riccia, Luigi},\r\ntitle = {Semantic Interpretation of Search Queries for Personalization},\r\nyear = {2017},\r\nisbn = {9781450350679},\r\npublisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\naddress = {New York, NY, USA},\r\nurl_Link = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3099023.3099030},\r\nurl_Paper = {2017_UMAP_Poster_Ontomap.pdf},\r\ndoi = {10.1145/3099023.3099030},\r\nabstract = {This demo paper describes the semantic query interpretation model adopted in the OnToMap Participatory GIS and presents its benefits to information retrieval and personalized information presentation.},\r\nbooktitle = {Adjunct Publication of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization},\r\npages = {101–102},\r\nnumpages = {2},\r\nkeywords = {information search, ontologies, user modeling},\r\nlocation = {Bratislava, Slovakia},\r\nseries = {UMAP '17}\r\n}\r\n\r\n\r\n
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\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Intelligent and Personalized Community Maps.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n Mauro, N.\n\n\n \n\n\n\n In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Companion, of IUI '17 Companion, pages 181–184, New York, NY, USA, 2017. Association for Computing Machinery\n \n\n\n\n
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@inproceedings{Mauro:2017d,\r\nauthor = {Mauro, Noemi},\r\ntitle = {Intelligent and Personalized Community Maps},\r\nyear = {2017},\r\nisbn = {9781450348935},\r\npublisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\naddress = {New York, NY, USA},\r\nurl_Link = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3030024.3038282},\r\nurl_Paper = {2017_IUI_DC.pdf},\r\ndoi = {10.1145/3030024.3038282},\r\nabstract = {My PhD project focuses on Participatory GIS (PGIS). In the project I analyze two methodologies to offer personalized search results in community maps and a natural interaction with the system. The first consists of automatically gathering the terms according to which the users express their information needs, in order to enrich the domain conceptualization of a PGIS, giving common definitions for places. The second concerns the creation of ontology-based user models that reflect the interests, lexicon and modality of expression adopted by each person, mapped to the domain ontology adopted by the PGIS. In the project I also analyze how these techniques may be jointly used during the query expansion process to retrieve more accurate and relevant search results.},\r\nbooktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Companion},\r\npages = {181–184},\r\nnumpages = {4},\r\nkeywords = {linked data, semantic search, ontologies, personalization, ontology-based user model, participatory GIS},\r\nlocation = {Limassol, Cyprus},\r\nseries = {IUI '17 Companion}\r\n}\r\n\r\n\r\n
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\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Supporting Knowledge Sharing and Learning via Semantic Geographical Maps.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n Ardissono, L.; Mauro, N.; and Savoca, A.\n\n\n \n\n\n\n In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Workshop on Intelligent Interfaces for Ubiquitous and Smart Learning, of SmartLearn '17, pages 3–6, New York, NY, USA, 2017. Association for Computing Machinery\n \n\n\n\n
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@inproceedings{Ardissono:2017,\r\nauthor = {Ardissono, Liliana and Mauro, Noemi and Savoca, Adriano},\r\ntitle = {Supporting Knowledge Sharing and Learning via Semantic Geographical Maps},\r\nyear = {2017},\r\nisbn = {9781450349048},\r\npublisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\naddress = {New York, NY, USA},\r\nurl_Link = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3038535.3038537},\r\nurl_Paper = {2017_SMART_LEARN.pdf},\r\ndoi = {10.1145/3038535.3038537},\r\nabstract = {Map-based applications are a good starting point for helping teachers in the preparation of learning material and students in their researches in social sciences. However, they offer basic information filtering support to the generation of dynamic maps. In this paper, we investigate the adoption of semantic knowledge representation and cooperative work approaches for managing thematic maps in group-based learning activities. Moreover, we present a possible solution, based on the OnToMap Participatory GIS, which uses an ontological representation of geographical information to support multi-faceted information retrieval, crowdsourcing, and map creation.},\r\nbooktitle = {Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Workshop on Intelligent Interfaces for Ubiquitous and Smart Learning},\r\npages = {3–6},\r\nnumpages = {4},\r\nkeywords = {ontologies, participatory gis, collaborative information sharing, interactive geographical maps for learning},\r\nlocation = {Limassol, Cyprus},\r\nseries = {SmartLearn '17}\r\n}\r\n\r\n\r\n
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@inproceedings{Ardissono:2016,\r\nauthor = {Ardissono, Liliana and Lucenteforte, Maurizio and Mauro, Noemi and Savoca, Adriano and Voghera, Angioletta and La Riccia, Luigi},\r\ntitle = {Exploration of Cultural Heritage Information via Textual Search Queries},\r\nyear = {2016},\r\nisbn = {9781450344135},\r\npublisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},\r\naddress = {New York, NY, USA},\r\nurl_Link = {https://doi.org/10.1145/2957265.2962648},\r\nurl_Paper = {2016_MOBILEHCI.pdf},\r\ndoi = {10.1145/2957265.2962648},\r\nabstract = {Searching information in a Geographical Information System (GIS) usually imposes that users explore precompiled category catalogs and select the types of information they are looking for. Unfortunately, that approach is challenging because it forces people to adhere to a conceptualization of the information space that might be different from their own. In order to address this issue, we propose to support textual search as the basic interaction model, exploiting linguistic information, together with category exploration, for query interpretation and expansion. This paper describes our model and its adoption in the OnToMap Participatory GIS.},\r\nbooktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct},\r\npages = {992–1001},\r\nnumpages = {10},\r\nkeywords = {community maps, GIS, text-based information search},\r\nlocation = {Florence, Italy},\r\nseries = {MobileHCI '16}\r\n}\r\n
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\n Searching information in a Geographical Information System (GIS) usually imposes that users explore precompiled category catalogs and select the types of information they are looking for. Unfortunately, that approach is challenging because it forces people to adhere to a conceptualization of the information space that might be different from their own. In order to address this issue, we propose to support textual search as the basic interaction model, exploiting linguistic information, together with category exploration, for query interpretation and expansion. This paper describes our model and its adoption in the OnToMap Participatory GIS.\n
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