PAWS

About PAWS

Personalized Adaptive Web Systems Lab was established in 2004 with support from National Science Foundation and the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. The goal of the PAWS Lab is development and evaluation of innovative user- and group-adaptive Web-based technologies, systems, and architectures. The Lab currently explores a range of user modeling, adaptation and personalization technologies. The work of the Lab is supported by NSF and DARPA funding.

Most Recent News

• PAWS MasteryGrids paper has won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). (details)
• Yun Huang has been nominated for the best paper award at the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2014). (details)
• Sharon Hsiao is appointed as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall. (details)
• Sharon Hsiao is finishing her 2nd year postdoc in Columbia University enroute to CIDSE@ASU as Assistant Professor (details)
• Jennifer Lin Defended her Ph. D. Thesis: Enhancing Image Findability through a Dual-Perspective Navigation Framework and joins the Department of Information Management at the National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan.
• Denis Parra Defended his Ph. D. Thesis: User Controllability in a Hybrid Recommender System and joins the Department of Computer Sciences at PUC Chile. (details)
• Peter Brusilovsky and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture (details)
• Sergey Sosnovsky profiled in International Innovation (details)
• Peter Brusilovsky appointed the Editor-In-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (details)
• Rosta Farzan joined School of Information Sciences as an Assistant Professor (details)
• Sharon Hsiao defended her Ph. D.Thesis: Navigation Support and Social Visualization for Personalized E-Learning (details)
• Sergey Sosnovsky defended his Ph. D.Thesis: Ontology-Based Open-Corpus Personalization for E-Learning (details)
• Denis Parra earns the James Chen student paper award at UMAP 2011 (details)

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PAWS Lab Contact Information

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