CFP: PATCH@UMAP 202 - Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage

[Noemi Mauro]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The 17th International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2026)

Held in conjunction with ACM UMAP 2026 - Gothenburg, Sweden

Details & submission guidelines can be found here:

https://patch2026.di.unito.it/

Important dates:

April 9, 2026 - Paper Submission

April 28, 2025 - Notification

May 7, 2025 -  Papers Camera-ready Submission

Abstract and Topics

Following the successful series of PATCH workshops, PATCH 2026 will be again the meeting point between state-of-the-art cultural heritage research and personalization – using any kind of technology, while focusing on ubiquitous and adaptive scenarios, to enhance the personal experience in cultural heritage sites. The workshop is aimed at bringing together, physically and/or virtually, researchers and practitioners who are working on various aspects of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CH/NH) and are interested in exploring the potential of state of the art mobile technology (onsite as well as online) to enhance the CH visit experience. The expected result of the workshop is a sharing and discussing novel ideas and creating a multidisciplinary research agenda that will inform future research directions and hopefully, forge some research collaborations.

We invite cultural heritage professionals and researchers to join us to discuss findings and trends on personalisation of cultural heritage in the broadest sense, from online and remote cultural access to onsite visit, from individuals to groups, from tangible to virtual and robotic mediation.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Adaptive navigation and browsing in digital and physical CH/NH sites and collections

• Generative AI for CH/NH

• Intelligent agents and recommender systems for CH/NH exploration

• Conversational agents for CH/NH

• Intelligent user interfaces and gestural interfaces for CH/NH applications

• Adaptation strategies for text and non-verbal content in CH/NH

• Natural Language Generation techniques for mobile user modeling in natural and cultural heritage sites

• Robots, mobile museum guides and personal museum assistants

• Context-aware information presentation in CH/NH

• The use of personality to guide CH/NH experiences

• Integration of virtual and physical collections

• 3D, Augmented, and Virtual Reality for CH/NH

• Immersive cultural and natural heritage

• Short-term, long-term, and group personalization for CH/NH

• Personalization to author and manage collective CH information

• Creativity and collaboration support in CH

• Personalization across the whole of a person's digital ecosystem

• IoT and Cultural Heritage

• Living lab in a museum

• Analysis of behavior patterns to improve CH/NH recommendation

• Multiple viewpoints and perspectives for CH

Workshop organizers

Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy, liliana....@unito.it

Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel, tsv...@is.haifa.ac.il

Noemi Mauro, University of Torino, Italy, noemi...@unito.it

Alan J. Wecker, The University of Haifa, Israel, ajwe...@gmail.com