Personalization and Social Networking for Short-Term Communities

About the project

This NSF-supported project aims to explore personalization and social networking for short-term communities. Using academic research conferences as a test bed, the project explored new methods to leverage information about user interests (available from multiple external resources) and develop techniques to facilitate use of existing social technologies. In the course of the project we implemented and explored Conference Navigator 3 along with a number of recommendation and visualization approaches for it.

Systems

Conference Navigator 3 is a social conference support system. It offers an enhanced version of traditional tools: conference schedule and attendee list. It combines social tagging and social navigation features, but also use accumulated data from existing long-term communities (e.g. Facebook, CiteULike, Mendeley) to help users to find the relevant sessions to attend and to determine the appropriate people to make contact with during the conference. more

Team

PI: Associate Professor Peter Brusilovsky.

co-PI: Assistant Professor Jung Sun Oh.

- Chirayu Wongchokprasitti: Research on recommendations, main developer of the two first version of CN and developer of the current version.

- Sherry Sahebi: Research on recommendations, and Database developer.

- Shaopeng Zhang: Developer and designer of the first version of Web interface.

- Yijin Wu: Developer of Android application.

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

- Denis Parra: Researcher on recommendations and adaptive visualization, developer of the second versuion of Web interface

- Steve Van Tuyl: Researcher on social networks.

- Claudia Lopez: Researcher on incentive-based design.

- Xidao Wen: Researcher on Social technologies and log analysis

Publications

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

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

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

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

• Verbert, K., Parra-Santander, D., Brusilovsky, P., and Duval, E. (2013) Visualizing Recommendations to Support Exploration, Transparency and Controllability. In: Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI '2013, Santa Monica, USA, March 19–22, 2013, ACM Press, pp. 351-362, available at [2].

• Verbert, K., Parra, D., and Brusilovsky, P. (2014) The Effect of Different Set-based Visualizations on User Exploration of Recommendations In: Proceedings of Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS'14) at 2014 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys'14), Silicon Valley, USA, October 6, 2014, ACM Press, pp. 37-44, [3].

• Parra-Santander, D., Brusilovsky, P., and Trattner, C. (2014) See What You Want to See: Visual User-Driven Approach for Hybrid Recommendation. In: Proceedings of Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Haifa, Israel, ACM, pp. 235-240 [4]

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

• Verbert, K., Parra-Santander, D., and Brusilovsky, P. (2016) Agents Vs. Users: Visual Recommendation of Research Talks with Multiple Dimension of Relevance. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems 6 (2), Article No. 11

• Verbert, K., Seipp, K., He, C., Parra, D., Wongchokprasitti, C., and Brusilovsky, P. (2016) Scalable Exploration of Relevance Prospects to Support Decision Making. In: P. Brusilovsky, et al. (eds.) Proceedings of Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems at 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Boston, MA, USA, September 16, 2016, pp. 28-35.

• Verbert, K., Brusilovsky, P., Wongchokprasitti, C., Parra, D., and Cardoso, B. (2017) Supporting Conference Attendees with Visual Decision Making Interfaces. In: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (Companion Proceedings), Limassol, Cyprus, ACM, pp. 161-164.

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

• Li, S., Brusilovsky, P., Su, S., and Cheng, X. (2018) Conference Paper Recommendation for Academic Conferences. IEEE Access 6, 17153 - 17164. [5]

• Cardoso, B., Sedrakyan, G., Gutiérrez, F., Parra, D., Brusilovsky, P., and Verbert, K. (2019) IntersectionExplorer, a multi-perspective approach for exploring recommendations. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 121 (January), 73-92.

• Brusilovsky, P., Oh, J. S., López, C., Parra, D., and Jeng, W. (2017) Linking information and people in a social system for academic conferences. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia 23 (2), 81-111. [6]