{"id":2246,"date":"2026-06-22T14:53:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exdigit.plus.ac.at\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2026-06-22T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:00:09","slug":"three-papers-presented-at-umap-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exdigit.plus.ac.at\/en\/three-papers-presented-at-umap-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Three papers presented at UMAP 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three full papers co-authored by <a href=\"https:\/\/exdigit.plus.ac.at\/en\/exdigitteam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christine Bauer<\/a> were presented and published at the at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.um.org\/umap2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">34th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2026)<\/a> in Gothenburg, Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>The publications reflect collaborations with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uu.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Utrecht University<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpgmediagroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DPG Media<\/a> across different aspects of personalized and context-aware systems:<br \/>\n\u2022 Modelling preference heterogeneity for context-aware decision support during public transport disruptions (presented by Anouk van Kasteren) investigates how situational factors influence individual preferences during public transport disruptions and proposes models for context-aware decision support.<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3774935.3806191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1145\/3774935.3806191<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 Does tone matter? Exploring context-aware explanations in route recommendations (led by Marloes Vredenborg and presented by Judith Masthoff) examines how situational context\u2014particularly urgency\u2014affects users&#8217; preferences for explanation tone and introduces a methodology for designing context-aware recommendation explanations.<br \/>\nDOI: 1<a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3774935.3806780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">0.1145\/3774935.3806780<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 Enhancing diversity in news recommendations increases click-through rates: Insights from an online experiment and user study (presented by Robin Verachtert) reports results from a large-scale deployment on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nu.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NU.nl<\/a> (a Dutch online newspaper). This industry collaboration demonstrates that diversity-aware recommendation methods can simultaneously improve topic diversity, click-through rates, and perceived relevance.<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/3774935.3806153\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1145\/3774935.3806153<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all co-authors and presenters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three full papers co-authored by Christine Bauer were presented and published at the at the 34th ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2026) in Gothenburg, Sweden. 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