BehavRec Workshop @RecSys 2023: Call for papers

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*BehavRec Workshop @RecSys 2023 - Call For Papers - *** DEADLINE July, 18
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International Workshop on Behavior Change and Persuasive Recommender Systems

co-located with the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys ’23)
Singapore, 18th-22nd September 2023

Web: https://behavrec.wordpress.com/
Submission site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=behavrec23

For any information: amon.rapp@unito.it

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ABSTRACT
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For solving a variety of personal and societal problems, changing human
behavior is crucial. Persuasive and behavior change recommender systems are
intentionally designed to provide users with suggestions on how to modify
their behavior, habits, beliefs and opinions. Research in this area has
advanced over the years attracting interest from both practitioners and
researchers also due to the increasing availability of personal data, like
medical records, physiological parameters, and psychological states, which
may enable novel forms of tailored suggestions that can be delivered
anywhere at any time, leveraging multiple technologies (e.g., natural
language processing) and different devices (e.g., ambient, wearable and
mobile devices).

The BehavRec workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing open problems
and innovative research approaches in this area. Some questions that
motivate the workshop are: What kind of data should be used to design
“persuasive” recommendations? How should they be delivered? What kind of
strategies should be implemented to design timely and contextualized
persuasive recommendations? What kind of theories should we rely on to
design effective persuasive recommendations? How to support the user’s
motivation and help them sustain the desired behavior in the long term?
What contextual factors may affect the effectiveness of behavior change
recommender systems and should be considered in design?

This workshop will deepen the discussion of novel approaches and
applications of recommender systems that might want to persuade users into
taking beneficial actions in domains as diverse as health and wellness,
safety and security, food and environmental sustainability, education and
politics.

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TOPICS
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Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

∑ RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS
– Persuasive and Behavior change recommender systems
– Health recommender systems
– Food recommender systems
– Recommender systems for education
– Persuasive conversational recommender systems

∑ USER INTERFACES FOR PERSUASIVE AND BEHAVIOR CHANGE RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS
– Visual interfaces
– Context-aware interfaces
– Ubiquitous, wearable and mobile interfaces
– Conversational interfaces

∑ NEW APPROACHES TO DESIGNING AND DELIVERING PERSUASIVE RECOMMENDATIONS
– Controllability, transparency, and explainability
– Persuasive recommendation (e.g., argumentation-aware recommendation)
– Cultural differences (e.g., culture-aware recommendation)
– Context-aware recommendation
– How to balance the cost and benefit of behavior change recommender systems
– Challenges and limitations of implementing behavior change recommender
systems

∑ ETHICS, PRIVACY AND THEORIES
– Theories of behavior change and persuasion
– How to develop ethical and privacy-sensitive behavior change recommender
systems
– Frameworks and models for developing personalized persuasive technology
– Objective and subjective approaches to behavior change recommendations

∑ EVALUATION
– Empirical studies and evaluations of recommender systems for behavior
change
– Evaluation methods and metrics (e.g., evaluation questionnaire design)
– Case studies and examples of behavior change recommender systems
– Success and failure stories with regard to behavior change recommender
systems
– Long-term evaluation and evidence of long-term effects of behavior change
recommender systems.

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SUBMISSIONS
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We accept four kinds of submissions:

(A) Regular papers (5-12 pages + references - single-column CEURART style)
(B) Position papers, Ongoing projects and Demos (5-8 pages + references -
single-column CEURART style);
(C) Journal papers (already published - 2 pages including abstract,
highlights, and a pointer to the complete paper single-column CEURART
style);
(D) Manifestations of interest (max 2 pages including a bio of the
participant and a brief statement about why they are interest in the
workshop)

Submission site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=behavrec23

All submitted papers will be evaluated by two members of the program
committee, based on originality, significance, relevance, and technical
quality. Note that the references do not count toward page limits.
Submissions should be single-blinded, i.e. authors’ names should be
included in the submissions.

We aim to publish all accepted papers, except from the (C-D) submission
type in CEUR WS Proceedings, as a joint volume. At least one author of each
accepted paper must register for the workshop.

The templates and format instructions are available here:
https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Early submission are strongly encouraged. We adopt a rolling review system:
early submissions will be immediately reviewed and the notification will be
sent out approximately two weeks after the submission.

* Paper submission final deadline: July 18, 2023 (GMT)
* Paper notification: August 18, 2023 (GMT)
* Camera-ready version deadline: September 10, 2023

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ORGANIZATION
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Amon Rapp
University of Torino, Torino, Italy

Federica Cena
University of Torino, Torino, Italy

Christoph Trattner
University of Bergen, Norway

Rita Orji
Dalhousie University, Canada

Julita Vassileva
University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Alain Starke
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands