A Human-Centered Perspective of Intelligent Personalized Environments and Systems

Part I: Theory: Individual differences for intelligent personalized environments.- Human factors in user modeling for intelligent systems.- The role of human-centred ai in user modeling, adaptation, and personalization - Models, frameworks, and paradigms.- Fairness and explainability for enabling trust in AI systems.- Part II: Method: User models driven from human factors, inferred from data.- Transparent music preference modeling and recommendation with a model of human memory theory.- Personalization and individual differences in business data analytics.- Inferring Eudaimonia and Hedonia from digital traces.- Computational methods to infer human factors for adaptation and personalization using eye tracking.- Part III: Practice: The human factors in the center of applications and domains.- Coarse-grained detection for personalized online learning interventions.- Psychologically-informed design of energy recommender systems: Are nudges still effective in tailored choice environments?- Personalized persuasive technologies in health and wellness: From theory to practice.

Dr. Bruce FerwerdaBruce is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Informatics at Jönköping University, Sweden, and leads the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the university. His research focuses on psychological user modeling and personalization, particularly in recommender systems. Bruce has over 70 publications, including books, journals, and conference contributions. He is an active contributor to several communities by taking part in the organizing committee or program committee. Selective organizations of previous events: Inclusion Chair at Recsys 2024, RecSys Challenge at RecSys 2021, 2022; Proceedings Chair at IUI 2020; Co-Chair of HUMANIZE 2017-2024 at ACM IUI; Co-chair HAAPIE at UMAP 2022-2023.
Dr. Mark GrausMark is a freelance data scientist with a background in combining psychological theory in machine learning applications for personalization. He holds a PhD from Eindhoven University of Technology and worked as assistant professor at Maastricht University, during which he (co-)authored several conference and journal articles and book chapters and contributed to the organizing committees of conferences such as IUI and RecSys.
Dr. Panagiotis GermanakosPanagiotis is User Experience Research Expert - Instructor at SAP SE, leading and supporting the user research activities of product teams for delivering usable, high quality, human-centred solutions. Embracing the role of SAP University Alliances Ambassador, he serves as a liaison between the business and academia, consulting and transferring knowledge that inspires innovations. He is also a Research Scientist, conducting basic and applied research in the fields of HCI/UX, User Modeling - bringing the 'human-in-the-loop', Adaptation & Personalization, and Human-centered Computing. He has an interdisciplinary background which lies in the cross-borders of Computer Science,Psychology and Business Informatics disciplines and he holds a PhD from the National