Social Information Access: The Other Side of the Social Web

Speaker
Peter Brusilovsky
School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh

When
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Where
Newell-Simon Hall 1305 (Michael Mauldin Auditorium)

Description

Modern Web, which is frequently called Social Web or Web 2.0, celebrates the power of the user community. Most frequently it is associated with the power of users as contributors or various kinds of contents through Wikis, blogs, and resource sharing sites. However, the power of the user community impacts not only the production of Web content, but also access to all kinds of Web content. A number or research groups worldwide work on social information access techniques, which helps users get to the right information using “community wisdom” extracted from tracked actions of those who worked with this information earlier. The talk provides an brief introduction into this research stream and present recent work of our group on several social information access techniques.

Speaker's Bio

Peter Brusilovsky has been working in the field of adaptive educational systems, user modeling, and intelligent user interfaces for more than 20 years. He published numerous papers and edited several books on adaptive hypermedia and the adaptive Web. Peter is currently an Associate Professor of Information Science and Intelligent Systems at the University of Pittsburgh, where he directs Personalized Adaptive Web Systems (PAWS) lab. He was holding visiting faculty appointments at the Moscow State University (Russia), Sussex University (UK), Tokyo Denki University (Japan), University of Trier (Germany), Free University of Bolzano (Italy), National College of Ireland, and Carnegie Mellon University. Peter is the Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies and a board member of several journals including User Modeling and User Adapted Interaction, ACM Transactions on the Web, and Web Intelligence and Agent Systems. He is also the current President of User Modeling Inc., a professional association of user modeling researchers.

Speaker's Website
http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~peterb/

Host
Brad Myers