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