| Rafaella Sampaio de Alencar, Michael Yudelson, Peter Brusilovsky and William Evans |
Using Elo to Operationalize Modeling of Aphasia Patients’ Word-Recall Practice During Recovery |
Full Papers |
| Diletta Micol Tobia, Hrishita Chakrabarti, Maria Soledad Pera and Monica Landoni |
Using Anti-Personas to Model Children: How to Represent User-System Mismatches |
Full Papers |
| David Johnson |
Raising the Stakes: A Framework for Modeling the Influence of Stakes on Appropriate Reliance in Human-AI Decision-Making |
Short Papers |
| Giuseppe Spillo, Cataldo Musto, Francesco Musci, Marco de Gemmis and Giovanni Semeraro |
MMGCF: Multimodal Graph Collaborative Filtering for Recommendation with Graph Convolutional Networks |
Short Papers |
| Michael Müller, Amir Reza Mohammadi, Andreas Peintner, Beatriz Barroso Gstrein, Günther Specht and Eva Zangerle |
Can Third-Party Annotators Reliably Evaluate Conversational Recommender Systems? |
Short Papers |
| Wu Ziqing, Zhu Sun, Dongxia Wang, Lu Zhang, Jie Zhang and Yew Soon Ong |
MRP-LLM: Multitask Reflective Large Language Models for Privacy-Preserving Next POI Recommendation |
Full Papers |
| Tim Donkers and Jürgen Ziegler |
How Humans and LLMs Differ in Processing Uncertainty in Polarized Discourse |
Full Papers |
| Aurora Toma, Davide Lofrese and Giuseppe Palestra |
Personalized Human–Robot Interaction through Ontology-Based Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models |
Full Papers |
| Anouk van Kasteren, Marloes Vredenborg, Christine Bauer and Judith Masthoff |
Modelling Preference Heterogeneity for Context-Aware Decision Support During Public Transport Disruptions |
Full Papers |
| Raciel Yera and Luis Martínez |
Behind the Re-Rank: Explaining Fairness in Top-N Recommendations |
Full Papers |
| Eveline Ingesson and Maria Riveiro |
Explanation Demand as a Trait, Not a State: Implications for User Modeling in Adaptive Systems |
Full Papers |
| Morita Tarvirdians, Senthil Chandrasegaran, Hayley Hung, Catholijn M. Jonker and Catharine Oertel |
Reflecti-Mate: A Conversational Agent for Adaptive Decision-Making Support Through System 1 and System 2 Thinking |
Full Papers |
| Marloes Vredenborg, Marit Bentvelzen, Christine Bauer and Judith Masthoff |
Does Tone Matter? Exploring Context-Aware Explanations in Route Recommendations |
Full Papers |
| Andrii Dzhoha, Alisa Mironenko, Evgeny Labzin, Vladimir Vlasov, Maarten Versteegh and Marjan Celikik |
Harnessing Query Context for Personalized User Intent-Aware Sequential Recommendation |
Short Papers |
| Alessio Ferrato, Giuseppe Sansonetti and Marko Tkalčič |
On the Role of Dwell Time for Implicitly Profiling Museum Visitors |
Short Papers |
| Miguel Portaz, Alberto Corbi and Olga C. Santos |
May the Force Be with You: Force-Aware and Explainable User Modeling for Personalized Psychomotor Support |
Short Papers |
| Moyan Zhou, Minzhu Zhao and Loren Terveen |
WikiCoach: Scaffolding Learning for Novices in Online Apprenticeship Communities |
Full Papers |
| Annie Landerberg, Kari Flatmo and Alan Said |
Trust as a Situated User State in Social LLM-Based Chatbots: A Longitudinal Study of Snapchat’s My AI |
Short Papers |
| Hatim Alsayahani, Simon Harper and Markel Vigo |
Balancing Guidance and Control: Nudging Users Toward Effective Dashboard Customisation |
Short Papers |
| Rongtao Zhang, Xin Zhu, Masoume Pourebadi Khotbehsara, Warren Dao, Erdem Bıyık and Heather Culbertson |
Vibrotactile Preference Learning: Uncertainty-Aware Preference Learning for Personalized Vibration Feedback |
Short Papers |
| Anas Buhayh, Elizabeth McKinnie, Clement Canel and Robin Burke |
Multistakeholder Impacts of Profile Portability in a Recommender Ecosystem |
Full Papers |
| Roberto Legaspi, Kazushi Ikeda, Akihiro Sasaki, Akihiro Miyamoto, Kae Nakajima, Nao Kobayashi and Yasushi Naruse |
Modeling the Sense of Agency as a Latent User State during Music Listening |
Full Papers |
| Jovan Jeromela, Matt Murtagh White, Jasmina Gajcin, Alok Debnath, Dipto Barman and Owen Conlan |
"As Long as It Does What I Want, I’d Be Happy to Trust It": Exploring User Perspectives on a Scrutable Assistant for Time Management |
Full Papers |
| Florian Atzenhofer-Baumgartner and Dominik Kowald |
What Do Humanities Scholars Need? A User Model for Recommendation in Digital Archives |
Short Papers |
| Sophia Egbert, Stefanie M. Störtebek and Juliane A. Lischka |
To Explain or Not to Explain? An Empirical Investigation into Users’ Information Needs in News Recommender Systems and Its Impact on User Engagement |
Full Papers |
| Patrik Dokoupil, Ludovico Boratto and Ladislav Peska |
CALISSTA: Calibrated Candidate Retrieval Using Sparse Autoencoders and Top-k Aggregation |
Short Papers |
| Alejandra Barbarelli, Olga C. Santos, Angeles Manjarrés, Miguel Portaz, Raúl Cabestrero, Pilar Quirós, Mar Hermosilla, Maribel Abril and Simon Pickin |
Participatory Elicitation of User Model Dimensions for Active Ageing: The EMERGE Methodology |
Short Papers |
| Tobias Jovall Wessel, Christoph Trattner and Alain Starke |
Increasing Editor Trust in News Personalization Systems with Fact-checked Large Language Models |
Full Papers |
| Jason Mina, Lorenzo Zangari, Alexandre Alahi, Davide Picca and Luigi Bagnato |
Evaluating Persona Consistency and Emotion Understanding in Small Language Models |
Short Papers |
| Robin Ungruh and Maria Soledad Pera |
This Is The World (Recommender Systems Made It For You): Capturing Risk Pathways for Children through a Pluralistic Multi-Risk Assessment of Recommenders |
Full Papers |
| Hrishita Chakrabarti, Diletta Micol Tobia, Garrett Allen, Monica Landoni and Maria Soledad Pera |
It is relevant, but is it useful?: A Reflection on Human-Centred Evaluation in Children Information Retrieval |
Short Papers |
| Xin Sun, Shu Wei, Ting Pan, Yajing Wang, Jos A. Bosch, Isao Echizen, Abdallah El Ali and Saku Sugawara |
Eyes Can’t Always Tell: Fusing Eye Tracking and User Priors for User Modeling under AI Advice Conditions |
Full Papers |
| Angelo Geninatti Cossatin, Maria Maistro and Noemi Mauro |
Investigating the Gap Between Offline Metrics and Perceived Fairness |
Short Papers |
| Yusra Suhail, Kushas Khadka, Borano Llana, Maedah Hosseinpour and Shaun Wallace |
Personalizing Font Size Normalization: Linguistic Background Shapes Which Font Attributes Matter |
Full Papers |
| Yufan Zhou, Yirui Huang, Zhao Wang and Yucheng Jin |
How Personal Characteristics Influence the Use of Multi-Agent Conversational Recommender Systems for Diverse Exploration |
Full Papers |
| Rafael Sereicikas, Pedro Pires, Gregório Azevedo and Tiago Almeida |
Learning Behaviorally Grounded Item Embeddings via Personalized Temporal Contexts |
Full Papers |
| Rodrigo Alves, Vojtěch Vančura, Pavel Kordík and Antoine Ledent |
Language Embeddings Meet Shallow Autoencoders |
Short Papers |
| Qurat Ul Ain, Mohamed Amine Chatti, Nasim Yazdian Varjani, Farah Kamal and Astrid Rosenthal-von der Pütten |
Visual or Textual: Effects of Explanation Format and Personal Characteristics on the Perception of Explanations in an Educational Recommender System |
Full Papers |
| Eliya Naomi Aharon, Meytal Grimland, Yossi Levi Belz, Kobi Gal, Avi Segal, Loona Ben Dayan, Inbar Shenfeld and Joy Benatov |
SAGE: A Strategy-Aware Graph-Enhanced Generation Framework For Online Counseling |
Short Papers |
| Stavros Davidopoulos, Dimitris Sacharidis and Panagiotis Symeonidis |
Differentially Private and Fair Algorithmic Hiring for Recruiters |
Short Papers |
| Yan-Martin Tamm, Gregor Meehan, Vojtěch Nekl, Vojtěch Vančura, Rodrigo Alves, Johan Pauwels and Anna Aljanaki |
Leveraging Artist Catalogs for Cold-Start Music Recommendation |
Full Papers |
| Eleonora Balloccu, Ludovico Boratto, Angelo Geninatti Cossatin, Mirko Marras, Noemi Mauro and Giacomo Medda |
Evaluating the Role of Context Representations in the Behavioral Fidelity of LLM-based Personas for Food Preferences |
Short Papers |
| Tobias Wagner, Enrico Rukzio and Teresa Hirzle |
What Do Your Eyes Reveal About Learning from Videos? A Dataset Demonstrating the Link Between Gaze Measures, Engagement, and Learning |
Full Papers |
| Elena Minucci, Simone Stumpf and Martin Lages |
"It's a Bit of Me": Predicting Persuasion from Writing Style and Persuader-Receiver Similarity |
Full Papers |
| Brett Binst, Ulysse Maes, Martijn Willemsen and Annelien Smets |
Let Me Introduce You: Stimulating Taste-Broadening Serendipity through Song Introductions |
Full Papers |
| Bereket Yilma, Saravanakumar Duraisamy and Luis Leiva |
The AI-Therapist Duo in Virtual Reality: A Triadic Design for Immersive Exposure Digital Art Therapy |
Full Papers |
| Ibrahim Al Hazwani and Nava Tintarev |
Exploring the Latitude of Acceptance over Several Recommendation Turns in a Game Settings |
Short Papers |
| Aditya Joshi and Sergey Sosnovsky |
Towards Student Profiles for Personalized Social Comparison in Learning Interfaces |
Full Papers |
| Ovide Kuichua, Michel Desmarais, Arman Bakhtiari and Chahe Nerguizian |
Instructor-Centered Per-Question Adaptation for Short Answer Grading Using LLM Scores and Informative Sampling |
Full Papers |
| Robin Verachtert, Kim Falk and Christine Bauer |
Enhancing Diversity in News Recommendations Increases Click-Through Rates: Insights from an Online Experiment and User Study |
Full Papers |
| Filipe Altoe, Sergio M. Pinto and H. Sofia Pinto |
Personalized Misinformation Interventions: User-Adaptive Fact-Check Explanations Through Affective Modalities |
Full Papers |
| Branislav Pecher, Adrian Bindas, Jan Jakubcik, Matus Tuna, Matus Tibensky, Simon Liska, Peter Sakalik, Andrej Suty, Matej Mosnar, Filip Hossner and Ivan Srba |
Algorithmic Audit of Personalisation Drift in Polarising Topics on TikTok |
Full Papers |
| Mark Mensah, Evans Kwasi, Mohammed Abdulmawjood and Kiemute Oyibo |
User Modelling and Adaptation in Immersive Preventive Health Interventions: A Systematic Review and Evidence Map |
Full Papers |
| David Guo, Minqi Sun, Yilun Jiang, Jiazhou Liang and Scott Sanner |
VOGUE: A Multimodal Dataset for Conversational Recommendation in Fashion |
Full Papers |
| Yelyzaveta Lysova, Christoph Trattner and Alain Dominique Starke |
Using AI as a Chef: Users Overlook Nutritional Flaws in LLM-Generated Recipes |
Full Papers |
| Ruixuan Sun, Junyuan Wang, Sanjali Roy and Joseph Konstan |
Productively Wrong: How Critiquing AI Profiles Enhances Interest Awareness and Reflection in Movie Recommender |
Short Papers |
| Patryk Bartkowiak and Michal Podstawski |
EdgeWisePersona: A Dataset for On-Device User Profiling from Natural Language Interactions |
Short Papers |
| Timipado Imomotebegha |
When Personalisation Becomes Exploitation: An Integrated Evaluation Methodology for Personality-Adaptive Relationship Forming AI. |
Doctoral Symposium |
| Hayriye Dönmez |
User-Conditioned Personalized Side-Information in Sequential Recommendation |
Doctoral Symposium |
| Lu Wang |
From Understanding to Anchoring: Informal Caregivers' Mental Models of Generative Artificial Intelligence-based Conversational Agents for Problem-Solving |
Doctoral Symposium |
| Aleid Oonk |
Supporting Preadolescents with Developmental Language Disorders through Co-Designed Adaptive Assistive Technology |
Doctoral Symposium |
| Esma Karahodza |
Towards An Agentic Conversational Approach to Group Recommender Systems |
Doctoral Symposium |
| Aurora Toma |
Modeling Relational Dynamics into Cognitive Architectures for Socially Assistive Robots |
Doctoral Symposium |
| Marlene Holzleitner |
Studying Longitudinal Effects of Recommender Systems: A Multi-Method Approach |
Doctoral Symposium |
| Marie-Sophie Simon |
AI for active learners: Applying insights from the learning sciences and human-centered AI to educational contexts |
Doctoral Symposium |
| Simone Calbi |
Which Individual Differences Predict Success at an LLM-integrated Search Task?* |
Doctoral Symposium |
| Valdy Wiratama |
Towards a Stakeholder-Centered Auditing Framework for Assessing Fairness in (Music) Recommender Systems |
Doctoral Symposium |
| Ahmed Nour Abdesselam |
Designing Operator-Centred Recommender Systems for Knowledge Retention in Industrial Manufacturing |
Doctoral Symposium |
| Ahmadou Wagne |
Investigating Preference Elicitation Strategies in Conversational Recommender Systems |
Doctoral Symposium |
| Juliano Soares |
Causal Reasoning Augmented Agents for Adaptive and Explainable Knowledge Retrieval |
Doctoral Symposium |
| Han Jun Yoon, Janith Weerasinghe, Himanshu Jahagirdar, Meng Ling, Suja Thomas, Anuradha Uduwage and Sam Han |
Uncertainty-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Conversion-Optimized Content Gating |
Industry Papers |
| Manisha R, Pradeep M and Satyen Abrol |
Cross-Domain Cold-Start Personalization via LLM-Synthesized Structured User Profiles |
Industry Papers |
| Dan Turkel, Dev Goyal, Frankie Lu, Sihan Chen, Eyan Yeung, Richie Mendelsohn and Behrooz Afghahi |
Multi-Objective Candidate Generation for Reciprocal Recommendation at Hinge |
Industry Papers |
| Dominik Freunberger, Sebastian Agerhåll, Jesper Hedlund, Jorge Letosa and Ana Sílvia C. Silva |
Multi-Armed Bandits for Recommendation Strategy Selection in Front Page Personalisation |
Industry Papers |
| Olivier Jeunen, Eleanor Hanna and Schaun Wheeler |
Sustained Impact of Agentic Personalisation in Marketing: A Longitudinal Case Study |
Industry Papers |
| Meng Ling, Himanshu Jahagirdar, Janith Weerasinghe, Hanjun Yoon, Suja Thomas, Anuradha Uduwage and Sam Han |
LLM-Based Content Tagging at The Washington Post |
Industry Papers |
| Andrii Dzhoha and Egor Malykh |
Toward Balanced Personalization: Bridging Short-Term Intent and Long-Term Preference |
Industry Papers |
| Janith Weerasinghe, Han Jun Yoon, Meng Ling, Himanshu Jahagirdar, Suja Thomas, Anuradha Uduwage and Sam Han |
A Case Study of Offline Reinforcement Learning for Paywall Decisioning |
Industry Papers |
| Faisal Shehzad and Dietmar Jannach |
Reproducibility of LLM-based Recommender Systems Research: Worrying Observations from an Initial Analysis |
LBR |
| Maria João Lavoura, Robert Jungnickel and João Vinagre |
Measuring the stability and plasticity of recommender systems |
LBR |
| Robin Ungruh, Alejandro Bellogin, Dominik Kowald and Maria Soledad Pera |
When Preference Is Not Enough: Why Recommender Systems Require Human-Aware Evaluation for Children |
LBR |
| Cedric Waterschoot, Nava Tintarev and Francesco Barile |
Who is the Fairest of Them All? Using Large Language Models for Fairness Assessments |
LBR |
| Kathleen W. Guan, Sarthak Giri, Mohammed Al Owayyed, Bernard J. Jansen, Gayane Sedrakyan, Joao Fernando Ferreira Goncalves, Mark de Reuver and Caroline A. Figueroa |
Leveraging Participatory Personas for Reflexive Co-design of Personalization in Large Language Models for Youth Well-Being |
LBR |
| Kaidong Feng, Zhu Sun, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Xun Jiang, Yin-Leng Theng and Yi Ding |
Personalization Matters: Benchmarking ML, DL and LLMs for Mental Health Forecasting from Smartphone Sensing Data |
LBR |
| Sofie Kastelli, Napsugár Takács, Marko Tkalčič and Bruce Ferwerda |
Evaluating Vibrotactile Feedback: Usability and User Experience in Glove vs. Non-Glove Conditions |
LBR |
| Bianca Maria Deconcini, Elisa Sorri and Federica Cena |
"Voglia di": Supporting Food Choices Through Transient Cravings |
LBR |
| Irina Nalis, Nils Klüwer and Julia Neidhardt |
From Labels to Context: Context-Sensitive User Modeling of Affect with Large Language Models |
LBR |
| Diogo Carvalho, Senka Krivic, Timothy Tang and Salman Ahmad |
User-State Verification in Conversational Commerce: Detecting Journey Hallucinations via Trace Invariants |
LBR |
| Peter Müllner, Dominik Kowald, Markus Schedl and Elisabeth Lex |
Meta-Learning and Targeted Differential Privacy to Improve the Accuracy-Privacy Trade-off in Recommendations |
LBR |
| Ashmi Banerjee, Adithi Satish, Wolfgang Wörndl and Yashar Deldjoo |
Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of Sustainable City Trips with LLM-as-a-Judge and Human-in-the-Loop |
LBR |
| Rodrigo Alves and Antoine Ledent |
The Stars Align: Modeling User Rating Calibration with Sparse Semantic Review Features |
LBR |
| Andrew Thompson and Brenna Argall |
A Zero-Force Optical Sensor Interface and Fitting Protocol for Customized Assistive Technology Control |
LBR |
| Tom Bovie, Bhupender Kumar Saini, Chandan Kumar and Mihai Bâce |
DUPLet: Dynamic User Modeling for Personalized Cover Letter Generation |
LBR |
| Caroline Frössling, Uroš Sergaš, Marko Tkalčič and Bruce Ferwerda |
Game On for News: Stance-Aware Gamification in a News Aggregator to Promote Engagement with Diverse Viewpoints |
LBR |
| Janine Riemann, Jasmin Alt, Uroš Sergaš, Marko Tkalčič and Bruce Ferwerda |
Progress Feedback for Countering Selective Exposure: When Visualization Can Backfire |
LBR |
| Payam Pourashraf, Masoud Mansoury and Bamshad Mobasher |
PerSpect: Perspective-aware Contrastive Learning for Hybrid News Recommendation |
LBR |
| Liam Hebert, Lucas Kopp and Robin Cohen |
Community Norms in the Spotlight: Enabling Task-Agnostic Unsupervised Pre-Training to Benefit Online Social Media |
LBR |
| Roman Chervinskyy and Antonela Tommasel |
Identifying Misinformation Spreaders through Multi-Source User Modeling |
LBR |
| Mirna Saad, Elena Battipede, Luca Botturi, Martin Hlosta, Omran Ayoub, Monica Landoni and Silvia Giordano |
Student Web Search Behaviour: A Comparative Study of AI-Assisted and Traditional Search Styles and Performance |
LBR |
| Ondřej Kříž, Patrik Dokoupil and Ladislav Peska |
Match-it: Group Recommendations in the Age of Mobile Applications |
Demo |
| Manel Slokom and Alejandro Bellogin |
Beyond Centralization: User-Controlled Federated Recommendations in Practice |
Demo |
| Maxwell Szymanski, Robin De Croon, Marie Meuris, Ann Swillen and Katrien Verbert |
GeneticPuzzle: a Mobile Psychoeducational Tool to Support Families Affected by 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome |
Demo |
| Ulysse Maes, Cedric Waterschoot, Francesco Barile and Nava Tintarev |
FIRE: A Modular Framework for Prototyping and Evaluating Interactive Recommender Explanations |
Demo |
| Yong Zheng and Jian Zhang. |
OmniSim: A LLM-Powered Open-Source Simulator for Generating Personalized and Adaptive Conversational Recommendation Dialogues |
Demo |
| Yizhe Zhang, Robin De Croon, Maxwell Szymanski and Katrien Verbert. |
CAPTURE: A Visual–Conversational Dashboard for Supporting User-Driven Explanations in a Job–Candidate Matching Algorithm |
Demo |
| Chandan Kumar, Christian Knecht, Jeremias Lange, Bhupender Kumar Saini and Matthias Peissner |
Virtual User Lab: An Interactive System for Simulating User Perspectives in Ideation and Evaluation |
Demo |
| Wolfgang Wörndl and Cem Nasit Sarica |
DestiRec: User Interaction with a Travel Destination Recommender System |
Demo |
| Liliana Ardissono, Fabio Ferrero, Angelo Geninatti Cossatin, Claudio Mattutino and Noemi Mauro |
A Context-Aware Cultural Heritage Guide Powered by LLMs |
Demo |
| Roman Chervinskyy and Antonela Tommasel |
From emotional hooks to conspiratorial claims: A teen-focused game for reflecting on misinformation interactions |
Demo |