Workshop on Social Navigation and Community-Based Adaptation Technologies Call for participation June 20, 2006, Dublin, Ireland in conjunction with Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (AH'06) http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~paws/SNC_BAT06/ ====================================================================== The organisers would like to invite you to participate in this topical and varied workshop, exploring the personalization side of the collective behaviour enabled by the social technologies that underpin what some are calling 'Web 2.0.' Background and Motivation Social Navigation systems have shown some ways that the collective wisdom of a community of users can be distilled to produce adaptive behavior. Social navigation systems typically use visual changes to the environment to shift emphases and organisation of navigational cues, or to add navigation cues to help users locate information. Between 1994 and 2000 pioneer research on Social Navigation and other community-based systems such as collaborative filtering systems brought a range of interesting results. Over the last three years research into socially-based systems has expanded as a result of the rapid development of what is sometimes described as 'Web 2.0'. The mushrooming growth of social software (including "folksonomy" systems employing social tagging) has brought social navigation techniques out of the backwaters of research environments and created a lot of interest in community-based technologies. The abundance of social software, including annotation systems, wikis, clusters of blogs, social network visualisations, social recommender systems, and new ways of visualising conversations,creates a unique opportunity to broaden research on community-based adaptation and to bring its results into practice. The underlying principle that binds these systems together is that they both affect and are affected by aspects of collective group behaviour. While most modern community-based systems are not adaptive, a range of old and new community-based adaptation techniques could be applied in the new context and deliver interesting results. The workshop will bring together researchers and developers from a range of disciplines and approaches to share knowledge and to seek synergies and syntheses. One goal of the workshop is to explore the potential for interoperability techniques and standards, allowing richer blends and mashups of sociable media, social software and systems using social navigation. * Technical paper presentations: Full and short papers o A Two-Level Adaptive Visualization for Information Access to Open-Corpus Educational Resources Jae-wook Ahn, Rosta Farzan, Peter Brusilovsky o Social Awareness in the iHelp Courses Learning Content Management System Christopher Brooks, Collene Hansen, Jim Greer o Social Interaction in the CATS Group Recommender Kevin McCarthy, Lorraine McGinty, Barry Smyth & Maria Salamo o Using Social Tagging to Improve Social Navigation David R Millen and Jonathan Feinberg o Semantic Halo for Collaboration Tagging Systems Alan Dix, Stefano Levialdi, Alessio Malizia o Using Collaborative Filtering in an Intelligent Tutoring System for Legal Argumentation Niels Pinkwart, Vincent Aleven, Kevin Ashley and Collin Lynch o On the Importance of "Who Tagged What" Mark van Setten, Rogier Brussee, Harry van Vliet, Luit Gazendam, Ynze van Houten, Mettina Veenstra * Software demonstrations and posters o Implicit Culture as a Tool for Social Navigation Aliaksandr Birukou, Enrico Blanzieri, and Paolo Giorgini o Unobtrusive Data Collection for Web-Based Social Navigation Katja Hofmann, Catherine Reed, Hilary Holz o Proximo, Location-Aware Collaborative Recommender Eoghan Parle and Aaron Quigley o Linking in Lurkers: The Comtella Discussion Forum Andrew Webster, Julita Vassileva Workshop organizers: -------------------- Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA Jon Dron, University of Brighton, UK Jaakko Kurhila, University of Helsinki, Finland Program committee: ------------------ Johan Bollen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Joseph Konstan, University of Minnesota, USA Rosta Farzan, University of Pittsburgh, USA Jill Freyne, University College Dublin, Ireland Max Harper, University of Minnesota, USA Åsa Rudström, SICS, Sweden Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland Martin Svensson, SICS, Sweden Colin Tattersall, Open University, the Netherlands Julita Vassileva, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Alan Wexelblat, HOVIR, USA For further information, contact the organisers or visit the website at: -------------------- * Webpage: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~paws/SNC_BAT06/ <http://www.sis.pitt.edu/%7Epaws/SNC_BAT06/> * Contact: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~peterb <http://www.sis.pitt.edu/%7Epeterb> * AH2006: http://www.ah2006.org/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send an empty email to mailto:[log in to unmask] For further details of CHI lists see http://sigchi.org/listserv ---------------------------------------------------------------