Wednesday Program
09:00 – 09:30 Registration
09:30 – 11:00 Session I
Maria Bielikova (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava): Towards Personalization of UsereXperience Studies
Giovanni Semeraro (The University of Bari Aldo Moro): An investigation on the serendipity problem in recommender systems
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00 Session II
David Carmel (Yahoo): Supporting Human Answers for Advice Seeking Questions in CQA sites
Cataldo Musto (The University of Bari Aldo Moro): Recommender Systems based on Linked Open Data
Eugenia Pritsker (The University of Haifa): Predicting Personal Traits from Social Media Using a Graph-based Approach.
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30 Session III
Christoph Trattner (MODUL University Vienna): Towards Health-Aware Food Recommender Systems
Hilik Berezin (Microsoft research): Music Recommendations in Microsoft Groove
Moshe Unger (Ben Gurion University of the Negev): Inferring Contextual Preferences Using Deep Auto-Encoding
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:00 Session IV
Tal Zarsky (The University of Haifa): Dancing with Algorithms: How the Law Can Foster Good Decisions by Proxy
Ran Wolff (Yahoo): Emergent Privacy as a Fundamental Model
17:00 - 17:30 Discussion
The good the bad and the ugly – multifaceted look at personalization what we usually tend to ignore - how can we integrate privacy into UM
19:00 – 21:00 Dinner
Invited speakers’ dinner at Ben-Ezra Hadayag, Atlit