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Lora Aroyo

Assistant professor Intelligent Information Systems Web and Media Department of Computer Science Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Associate member Information Systems Group Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. Scientific coordinator of NWO project: CHIP: Cultural Heritage Information Personalization Scientific coordinator of the EU Integrated Project: NoTube: integration of Web and TV data with the help of semantics former TU/e sceintific coordinator of the ITEA project: Passepartout: Personalized Ambient Multimedia; Current follow-up project iFanzy in collaboration with Stoneroos Interactive TV Add me to your FOAF profile

Short CV

In 1996 I received my M.Sc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Sofia University in Bulgaria. I worked for a year at the same university as a project assistant and moved in 1997 to the University of Twente in The Netherlands, where I became a PhD student at the department of Educational Science and Technology in the field of adaptive information retrieval for web-based education. In 2001 I was granted a PhD on a thesis entitled "Task-based approach to information handling support with web-based education". Shortly after my PhD I accepted a position as assistant professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. In 2005 I became an associate member of the Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction Group of CWI in Amsterdam, where I spent on average one day per week.

Here you can find quite recent full CV

Publications

Check out my most recent publications at DBLP, look at the pdf until 2009

Awards

• Semantic Web Challenge 2007, 3rd Prize: CHIP Demonstrator, jointly with TU/e, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and Telematica Institute, at ISWC'07, Seoul, Korea 2007; (see the article in Journal of Web Semantics)
• James Chen Annual Award for Best UMUAI Article 2008: Henriette S. M. Cramer, Vanessa Evers, Satyan Ramlal, Maarten van Someren, Lloyd Rutledge, Natalia Stash, Lora Aroyo, Bob J. Wielinga: The effects of transparency on trust in and acceptance of a content-based art recommender. User Modelling, User-Adaptation and Interaction, 18(5): 455-496 (2008)

Research interests

• Adaptive Information Management & Recommendation Systems
• Ontology-based User and Context Modeling
• User-centered Design of Interactive Semantic Systems
• Task-based Information Retrieval
• Application of Semantic Web Technologies for e-Learning, e-culture and iTV
• Concept Structures (Ontologies, Conceptual Graphs, Concept Maps, Topic Maps)
• Authoring of Adaptive Web-based Information Systems, Web-based Educational Systems (ITS, KBS)

On-going Projects

• Scientific Coordinator of Integrated Project NoTube (VU project fact sheet) (February 2009 - February 2012)


• Scientific Coordinator of NWO-CATCH CHIP: Cultural Heritage Information Personalization (January 2005 - December 2009)


• Integrated Project PrestoPRIME: Keeping Audiovisual Contents Alive (VU project fact sheet) (January 2009 - June 2012)


• NWO-CATCH-2 Project Agora: Creating the Historic Fabric for and Providing Web-enabled Access to Objects in Dynamic Historical Sequences (2009 - 2013)

Past Projects

• Dutch BSIK project MultimediaN e-culture project
  • 1st Prize Semantic Web Challenge 2006, ISWC'06, Athens Georgia with the MultimediaN E-Culture demonstrator, jointly with CWI and UvA (paper)
  • Aricle on the Semantic Web group at the VU, in VrijNederland (in Dutch)
  • Article on Semantic Web in the Dutch business-weekly Intermediair.


• NWO-CATCH Project CHOICE: CHarting the informatiOn landscape employIng ContExt information (January 2005 - December 2008)


• EU Network of Excellence Knowledge Web


• European ITEA Project Passepartout: Personalized Ambient Media (January 2005 - March 2007). Read about us at:
  
  • Interview in Het Parool, "Ifanzy: een medicijn tegen tv-zapperitis"
  • sync.nl and in Automatiserings Gids
  • Interview in Eindhovens Dagblad, "Zappen tot je een ons weegt, is voorbij"
  • Interview in TU/e news paper Cursor "Persoonlijke tv-gids helpt bij het tv kijken"


• British Council NL-UK Partnership in Science Workshop Grant (2005)
• British Council NL-UK Partnership in Science SWALE Project (2003 - 2004)
• FP6 IST MobiLife Integrated Project - WP2, T2.3 (TELIN consortium)
• AlterEgo @ Telematica Instituut
• ToKeN2000 CHIME: Cultural Heritage in an Interactive Multimedia Environment (January 2002 - December 2006)
• IST-2000-31050 Agent Academy Project: A Data Mining Framework for Training Intelligent Agents (2001-2003)

Invited Talks and Presentations

• Semantic annotation and search of cultural-heritage and TV content, at CSAIL Seminar, MIT, 9 April 2009, Boston.
• Invited talk at Kennismarathon 2009: Competing for the VUture, Olympisch Stadion Amsterdam, 19 January 2009, Amsterdam
• Invited talk at Museum Symposium on Interaction, Mobility and Ubiquitous Availability, Jewish Museum Berlin, 8 May 2008, Berlin
• Invited talk at Participation in e-culture, Ministry of the Flemish Community for Culture, Youth, Sport and Media, 27 Mar 2007, Brussels
• Invited presentation at EUREKA Results and Perspectives, 20 March 2007, European Parliament, Brussels
• Short press coverage of Passepartout presentation at the European parliament, Automatisering Gids, 20 March 2007


• Distributed Personalization, 26 Mar 2007, WAI Meeting, VU, Amsterdam
• IUI'07, 30 Jan 2007, Hawaii
• ITEA Passepartout Project, 26 Feb 2007, WAI meetings, VU, Amsterdam
• Presentation at ACHE day, 30 Mar 2006, Amsterdam
• Personalized Information Retrieval, DFKI, 27 Jul 2006, Saarbruecken
• Paper presentation at EKAW'06, 3 Oct 2006, Podebrady, Chech Republic
• Visit at DFKI, 17 Aug 2004, Saarbruecken, pictures

Professional activities

Chair / Organizer:

• Program Co-chair of European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2009)
• Doctoral Consortium Chair, at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006), program
• Education Track Co-chair, at the International WWW'05 conference
• Interactive Events Chair, at the International Conference on AI in Education (AIED 2005)
• Workshops and Tutorials Co-Chair, at the Adaptive Hypermedia and Web-based Systems Conference (AH 2004)
• CH-SW Workshop: Cultural Heritage on the Semantic Web, at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007)
• PATCH Workshop: Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage, at the User Modeling Conference (UM 2007)
• myTV Workshop: Personalized for Interactive TV, at the EuroITV 2007 Conference
• SW-EL Workshop: Applications of Semantic Web Technologies for E-Learning (2004, 2005, 2006)
• PerSWeb'05 Workshop: Personalization on the Semantic Web, at the User Modeling Conference (UM 2005)
• WOSE'05 Workshop: Ontologies, Semantics and E-learning
• Workshop on Concepts and Ontologies in Web-based Educational Systems, at the ICCE 2002 Conference

PC memberships (recent):

• International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'05, ISWC'06, ISWC'07, ISWC'08, ISWC'09)
• European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'07, ESWC'08)
• User Modeling Conference (UM'05, UM'07, UMAP'09)
• International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP'09)
• World Wide Web Conference (WWW'05)
• Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED'05, AIED'07, AIED'09)
• IEEE ICALT: Advanced Learning Technologies Conference (2004, 2005)
• IEEE/ACM WI: Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technologies Conference (2004, 2005)
• AACE E-Learn: E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare & Higher Education (2004, 2005)
• IFIP AI'06: IFIP TC12 and WG12.5 -- Conference on Artificial Intelligence
• IFIP AIAI: Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (2004, 2005)
• ACM SAC'04: Track on Engineering e-Learning Systems (ELS)
• e-Society'04
• IKE'04: Information and Knowledge Engineering
• ICAI: Artificial Intelligence (2002, 2004)
• WOSE: OTM 2004 Workshop on Ontologies, Semantics and E learning (2004, 2005)

Reviewing activities:

• Journal of Web Semantics (IJHCS)
• International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS)
• International Journal on User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI), special reviewer
• IEEE Internet Computing Journal: Engineering and Applying the Internet
• Journal of Interactive Learning Research (JILR, AACE)
• Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning(IJCEELL)
• Elsevier Data and Knowledge Engineering
• IEEE Learning Technology Task Force
• AAAI Spring Symposium on Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management (AMKM'03)
• All the refereed conferences and workshops mentioned above

Editorial activities:

•   Guest Editor of IEEE Intelligent Systems, Special Issue on AI and Cultural Heritage, March/April 2009, Vol. 24, No. 2.
•   Guest Editor of IEEE Intelligent Systems, Special Issue on Intelligent Educational Systems, July/August 2007, Vol. 22, No. 4.
• Guest Editor of the Int. J. of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning (IJCEELL), Special Issue on Application of Semantic Web Technologies in E-learning, Vol. 16, 1/2, 2006
• Guest Editor of the Int. J. of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning (IJCEELL), Special Issue on Concepts and Ontologies in Web-based Educational Systems, Vol. 14, 3, 2004
• Guest Editor of the Int. J. of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning (IJCEELL), Special Issue on Software Agents in Education, Vol. 12, 3/4, 2002
• Guest Editor of the Int. J. for Interactive Learning Research (JILR), Special Issue on Intelligent Agents for Education and Training Systems, Vol. 10, 3/4, 1999
• Journal associate for the Int. J. of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning (IJCEELL)

Memberships:

• Associaltion for Computing Machinery (ACM member)
• Int. Society of Artificial Intelligence in Education (IAIED member)
• Association for Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE member)
• IFETS and IEEE Learning Technology Task Force
• SIKS Research School, The Netherlands

Courses

At the Free University of Amsterdam I am involved in the following courses:

• Information Retrieval
• Human Computer Interaction

At the Eindhoven University of Technology I was involved in the following courses:

• 2L340: Kennissystemen (Knowledge systems)
• 2ID10: Information Retrieval
• 2R290: ISO - Inleiding Informatiesysteemontwikkeling
• 2R350: Graphical User-Interfaces

Interesting Events

• European Semantic Web Conference 2009, Crete, Greece
• 16-18 October 2007: AudioCubes Workshop, organized by V2 _ Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam
• 19-20 October 2007: Recalling RFID, organized by the center for culture and politics De Balie in Amsterdam. See also NRC.next blog
• 25 October 2007: the future of Google, organized by the Club Amsterdam.
• 31 October 2007: Ambient intelligence in De Waag, organized by the center for new media De Waag and University of Tilburg (TILT) in Amsterdam. Se also NRC.next blog
• PICNIC 2007, organized by the center for new media De Waag in Amsterdam.
• FabLabs in NL
• RFID Hackers camp @ PICNIC 2007
• 22 February 2007: the future of Ambient Intelligence, slides

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Free University Amsterdam, FEW, Computer Science,
De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Room U-339.
Tel: +31 20 598 2868/7718.
Fax: +31 20 598 7728.
E-mail: l.m.aroyo at cs.vu.nl
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