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== About PAWS ==
 
== About PAWS ==
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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.
 
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 ==
 
== Most Recent News ==
* [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]] moves to Utrecht University as a tenure-track professor ([[News#2016-11-23|details]])
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* Sergey Sosnovsky has been promoted to Associate Professor at Utrecht University ([[News#2023-04-24|details]])
* Shaghayegh (Sherry) Sahebi defended her Ph. D. Thesis: ''Canonical Correlation Analysis in Cross-Domain Recommendation'', will start as an Assistant Professor in University of Albany  ([[News#2016-07-21|details]])
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* Peter Brusilovsky receives 2023 Distinguished Research Award as a leader in the field of "cutting edge research"([[News#2023-03-14|details]])
* Dr. [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Rosta Farzan are on new Association for Computing Machinery journal’s editorial board. ([[News#2016-05-13|details]])
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* Peter Brusilovsky receives Amazon Research Award ([[News#2022-08-31|details]])
* [[User:Yuh43 | Yun Hung]] and [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] received Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship for the academic year 2016-2017. ([[News#2016-03-04|details]])
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* Chun-Hua "Ronald" Tsai receives best paper award at ACM Learning at Scale 2022 ([[News#2022-06-08|details]])
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* Peter Brusilovsky receives an NIH grant to work on the personalized treatment of aphasia ([[News#2022-04-05|details]])
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* PAWS team receives Best Demo Award at ACM RecSys 2021 ([[News#2021-09-23|details]])
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* Kamil Akhuseyinoglu and Peter Brusilovsky win Best Paper Award at UMAP 2021 ([[News#2021-06-23|details]])
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* Chun-Hua "Ronald" Tsai starts as a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha in Fall 2021! ([[News#2021-05-08|details]])
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* Sherry Sahebi receives NSF CAREER award! ([[News#2021-05-06|details]])
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* Rosta Farzan is appointed Associate Dean for diversity, equity and inclusion at the School of Computing and Information ([[News#2021-02-21|details]])
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* Chun-Hua Tsai defends his PhD Thesis and joins Penn State as Assistant Research Professor ([[News#2019-08-25|details]])
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* Hung Chau wins the Best Paper award at the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery Learning at Scale Conference!([[News#2019-06-25|details]])
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* Prof. Peter Brusilovsky is awarded AMiner Most Influential Scholar Award in recognition of his contributions to the field of Recommender System by AMiner ([[News#2019-03-04|details]])
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* Two PAWS graduates' papers were short-listed for the best paper award at EC-TEL 2018 ([[News#2018-08-13|details]])
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* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] awarded NSF grant under the program Cyberlearn And Future Learn Tech. ([[News#2018-07-31|details]])
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* Roya Hosseini defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Program Construction Examples in Computer Science Education: From Static Text to Adaptive and Engaging Learning Technology'.([[News#2018-07-24|details]])
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* Yun Huang defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Learner Modeling for Integration Skills in Programming' ([[News#2018-07-05|details]])
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* PAWS Lab scores thrice at IUI 2018  ([[News#2018-03-08|details]])
  
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and Daqing He awarded NSF grant to work on  [[Open Corpus Personalized Learning]]  ([[News#2016-02-23|details]])
 
* Chirayu Wongchokprasitti defended his Ph. D. Thesis: ''Using External Sources To Improve Research Talk Recommendation In Small Communities''.  ([[News#2015-04-15|details]])
 
* Dr.[[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] won the contest for an invited talk at the "Chilean Computing Conference 2014". ([[News#2014-11-11|details]])
 
* Tomek Loboda, [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]], [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]] , and [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] won the best paper award at the 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2014). ([[News#2014-09-19|details]])
 
* [[User: Yuh43 | Yun Huang]] has been nominated for the best paper award at the 7th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2014). ([[News#2014-07-06|details]])
 
* [[User:shoha99 | Sharon Hsiao]] finished her 2nd year postdoc in Columbia University and starts  as Assistant Professor in CIDSE @ ASU this Fall ([[News#2014-05-06|details]])
 
* [[User:Jennifer | 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.
 
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]], Dhruba Baishya, [[User:R.hosseini | Roya Hosseini]],  [[User:Julio | Julio Guerra]], and  Miner Liang received the best full paper award at IEEE 13th Int. Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2013.([[News#2013-07-18|details]])
 
* [[User:Dparra | Denis Parra]] defended his Ph. D. Thesis: ''User Controllability in a Hybrid Recommender System'' and joins the Department of Computer Sciences at PUC Chile. ([[News#2013-08-13|details]])
 
* Mohammad Falakmasir won EDM 2013 Best Student Paper Award  ([[News#2013-07-09|details]])
 
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] awarded  a Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair ([[News#2013-06-12|details]])
 
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] and PAWS lab win Army Contract to develop social personalized learning architecture ([[News#2013-05-01|details]])
 
* [[User:Sergey | Sergey Sosnovsky]]  profiled in International Innovation ([[News#2013-04-01|details]])
 
* [[User:peterb | Peter Brusilovsky]] appointed the Editor-In-Chief of [http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tlt  IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies] ([[News#2013-01-01|details]])
 
 
Go to [[News | News Page]] for all news.
 
Go to [[News | News Page]] for all news.
  
== Try PAWS Tools at our Community Portal ==  
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== Check Demos of some of PAWS Lab systems Tools ==  
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* [https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3640544.3645223 CARE: An Infrastructure for Evaluation of Carousel-Based Recommender Interfaces]
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* [https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3279720.3279726 Programming Construction Examples] (2017) with [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-09680-8_4 Self Explanations] (2022)
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* [https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3460231.3478879 Grapevine] (2021) - an interactive recommender system for finding research advisors
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI9Fxo_FeRw&t=145s&ab_channel=RH Mastery Grids For Java] (2017) - a personalized Java Programming Practice System
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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roCkp7QVfB8 Mastery Grids For Python] (2017) - a personalized Python Programming Practice System
  
Go to [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt Knowledge Tree] portal and [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt/register.html create trial account] to try our tools.
 
  
[http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~cagent/ CourseAgent]: Share evaluations of IS graduate courses at Pitt and plan your career.
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== Try PAWS Lab systems Tools at our Community Portal ==
  
[http://pittsburgh.comettalks.com/ Comet]: Share, tag, recommend and schedule interesting talks in Pittsburgh.
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Go to [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt Knowledge Tree] portal and [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/kt/register.html create a trial account] to try our tools.
  
[http://eventur.us/ Eventur]: Share and schedule cultural events in Pittsburgh.
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If you are a researcher and would like to quickly try our adaptation tools, create the trial account (link above) and proceed [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/cbum/ here].
 
 
[http://www.computingportal.org/ Ensemble]: This cross-university collaborative effort aims to bring together the global community of computing educators around a growing set of content collections with high-quality educational resources.
 
 
 
[http://amber.exp.sis.pitt.edu/yournews/ YourNews]: This is a personalized RSS news access portal with several levels of user modeling and feed recommendation. Read your news in a personalized way!
 
 
 
If you are a researcher and would like to quickly try our adaptation tools, create the trial account (link above) and proceed [http://adapt2.sis.pitt.edu/cbum/ here].
 
  
 
== PAWS Lab Contact Information ==
 
== PAWS Lab Contact Information ==

Latest revision as of 03:14, 22 April 2024

About PAWS

EDM 2018 - Buffalo, NY

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

  • Sergey Sosnovsky has been promoted to Associate Professor at Utrecht University (details)
  • Peter Brusilovsky receives 2023 Distinguished Research Award as a leader in the field of "cutting edge research"(details)
  • Peter Brusilovsky receives Amazon Research Award (details)
  • Chun-Hua "Ronald" Tsai receives best paper award at ACM Learning at Scale 2022 (details)
  • Peter Brusilovsky receives an NIH grant to work on the personalized treatment of aphasia (details)
  • PAWS team receives Best Demo Award at ACM RecSys 2021 (details)
  • Kamil Akhuseyinoglu and Peter Brusilovsky win Best Paper Award at UMAP 2021 (details)
  • Chun-Hua "Ronald" Tsai starts as a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha in Fall 2021! (details)
  • Sherry Sahebi receives NSF CAREER award! (details)
  • Rosta Farzan is appointed Associate Dean for diversity, equity and inclusion at the School of Computing and Information (details)
  • Chun-Hua Tsai defends his PhD Thesis and joins Penn State as Assistant Research Professor (details)
  • Hung Chau wins the Best Paper award at the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery Learning at Scale Conference!(details)
  • Prof. Peter Brusilovsky is awarded AMiner Most Influential Scholar Award in recognition of his contributions to the field of Recommender System by AMiner (details)
  • Two PAWS graduates' papers were short-listed for the best paper award at EC-TEL 2018 (details)
  • Peter Brusilovsky awarded NSF grant under the program Cyberlearn And Future Learn Tech. (details)
  • Roya Hosseini defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Program Construction Examples in Computer Science Education: From Static Text to Adaptive and Engaging Learning Technology'.(details)
  • Yun Huang defended her Ph. D. Thesis: 'Learner Modeling for Integration Skills in Programming' (details)
  • PAWS Lab scores thrice at IUI 2018 (details)

Go to News Page for all news.

Check Demos of some of PAWS Lab systems Tools


Try PAWS Lab systems Tools at our Community Portal

Go to Knowledge Tree portal and create a trial account to try our tools.

If you are a researcher and would like to quickly try our adaptation tools, create the trial account (link above) and proceed here.

PAWS Lab Contact Information

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