Marko Tkalčič
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Associate Professor
University of Primorska Faculty of
Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies (UP
FAMNIT)
Glagoljaška 8, SI-6000 Koper, Slovenia
E-mail:
marko.tkalcic at gmail.com
I am associate professor at the Faculty of Mathematics, Natural
Sciences and Information Technologies (FAMNIT) at the University of
Primorska in Koper, Slovenia. I aim at improving personalized services
(e.g. recommender systems) through the usage of psychological models in
personalization algorithms. To achieve this, I use diverse research
methodologies, including data mining, machine learning, and user
studies.
If you are further interested in my work, please download my CV.
Updates
- 2024-10-01
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I will be a keynote speaker at the HCAI
SYMPOSIUM, which will be held at the Faculty of Computer Science,
Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, in November 4-5, 2024.
- 2024-05-13
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Call for papers for the special issue on Recommender Systems for
Good in the ACM
Transactions on Recommender Systems coediting with Nava Tintarev, Noemi Mauro, Antonela Tommasel, and Alan Said
- 2024-05-08
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The edited book Ferwerda, B., Graus, M., Germanakos, P., & Tkalčič,
M. (Eds.). (2024). A
Human-Centered Perspective of Intelligent Personalized Environments and
Systems. Springer Nature Switzerland.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55109-3 is finally out!
- 2024-04-29
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(Position is filled) I am hiring! TLDR: PhD position,
full-time employment (40 hrs/week), duration four years (start October
2024), research and teaching. More info at PhD
Call
- 2024-04-09
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Proud to announce that my PhD student Elham Motamedi succesfully
defended her thesis.
- 2024-03-08
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Keynote at the PsyIAS
workshop in conjunction with WSDM 2024
- 2024-02-19
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I am hiring! TLDR: postdoc position (PhD required),
full-time employment (40 hrs/week), duration 2 years (preferred start
October 2024), research and teaching. More info at Postdoc Call
- 2023-12-15
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My PhD student Elham Motamedi published the paper Predicting movies’
eudaimonic and hedonic scores: A machine learning approach using
metadata, audio and visual features in the prestigious journal Elsevier
Information Processing & Management (Impact Factor 2022 8.6)
- 2023-11-06
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Keynote at the CREAI Workshop on AI and Creativity in conjunction with
AIxIA 2023 in Rome https://creai.github.io/creai2023/program.html
- 2023-09-15
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Keynote at the IntRS workshop at RecSys 2023 in Singapore: https://intrs2023.wordpress.com/program-and-proceedings/
- 2023-04-02
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I will have two presentations in Bergen (Norway): a lecture for students
at the University of Bergen on 13.4.2023 and another one at the MediaFutures
institute.
- 2022-06-20
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I will give a keynote at the 12th
Italian Information Retrieval Workshop on June 30th, 2022 in Milano,
Italy
- 2022-03-15
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Organizing the HAAPIE workshop
at ACM UMAP 2022. Deadline for papers: 15. April 2022
- 2021-12-10
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I’ll be chairing the Intelligent User Interfaces track with Elisabeth Lex at the 2022
ACM UMAP conference in Barcelona. Abstract submission deadline: 10.
February 2022
- 2021-11-15
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Chairing the Demos and Posters at the International
Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) conference with Yashar Deldjoo and Irene
Garrigos in beautiful Bari. Submission deadline: 19. February 2022
- 2021-11-08
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Organized the ACM HCI Slovenia
conference in Koper, the first live event I attended in a while. Great
to have had Peter
Knees and Gregor
Geršak as keynote speakers
- 2021-11-05
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Happy to share that I made it into the Stanford list of the
top-scientists cited worldwide https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3
- 2021-06-17
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Welcome to ACM
UMAP 2021
- 2021-06-17
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The paper Investigating the
impact of recommender systems on user-based and item-based popularity
bias coauthored with Mehdi Elahi, Danial Khosh Kholg, Mohammad Sina
Kiarostami, Sorush Saghar, and Shiva Parsa Rad has been published in Elsevier Information
Processing and Management
- 2021-05-05
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Co-editing the focus section on User
Modeling and Recommendations in Frontiers in Big Data Mining and
Management with Denis
Helić and Ujwal Gadiraju.
Deadline: 20. September 2021
- 2021-05-15
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Co-editing the Special issue on Group
Recommender Systems in Springer User Modeling and User-adapted
Interaction with Ludovico
Boratto, Alexander Felfernig,
and Martin Stettinger. Deadline:
15. June 2022
- 2020-11-11
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The paper A
Comparison of Human and Computational Melody Prediction Through
Familiarity and Expertise co-authored with Matevž Pesek, Anja
Podlesek, Špela Medvešek, and Matija
Marolt has been accepted to the research topic The
Effects of Music on Cognition and Action in Frontiers
in Psychology/Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience
- 2020-10-20
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Happy to share that I was among the best reviewers at ISMIR - 21st International
Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference
- 2020-09-23
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I am happy to announce that I will be, with Nava Tintarev, Program Co-chair of
the 29th Conference on User
Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP) 2021, which will be
held in Utrecht (the Netherlands) in June 2021
- 2020-09-22
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I will give a keynote at the HCI-IS,
hosted by the Slovenian ACM SIGCHI Chapter
- 2020-08-25
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I will give a keynote at ISMIS
2020 - 25th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent
Systems with the title Complementing Behavioural Modeling with
Cognitive Modeling for Better Recommendations
- 2020-06-25
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I will chair the RecSys 3 session at the ACM UMAP 2020
conference on 16. July 2020
- 2020-04-15
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I will chair the User Modeling-A(3) session at The Web Conference 2020.
Schedule and other info here: https://www2020.citi.sinica.edu.tw/schedule/research_track/#User-Modeling-A-3
- 2020-01-14
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I was just awarded the Italian habilitation of Full Professor both for
the sectors ASN
01/B1 - INFORMATICA and 09/H1
Sistemi di elaborazione delle informazioni
- 2019-12-23
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Interview for the Russian business portal RBK on cognitive and
behavioural user modeling https://youtu.be/p-HVFER9Kd0
- 2019-11-15
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The video of my keynote talk at the AI Journey conference in Moscow is
available at this YouTube
link.
- 2019-10-23
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Together with Li Chen
and Bruce Ferwerda I am
editing the focus section Psychological
Models for Personalized Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in Frontiers in
Psychology (Impact Factor 2.129) and Frontiers
in Computer Science. Submission deadline: 03 March
2020
- 2019-10-22
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I will give an invited talk at the AI
Journey conference in Moscow on November 9th 2019. The title of the
talk will be From Behavioural to Cognitive Modeling in Recommender
Systems
- 2019-10-01
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I started my tenured position as associate professor at the University of Primorska Faculty of
Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies (UP
FAMNIT)
- 2019-08-15
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Together with Mehdi
Elahi I am editing the special issue Algorithms
for Personalization Techniques and Recommender Systems in the MDPI Algorithms
journal. Submission deadline: 20. November 2019
- 2019-07-01
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The video of my presentation at ACM IUI 2019 is available here: Video: Prediction of
music pairwise preferences from facial expressions Paper: Paper: Prediction of
music pairwise preferences from facial expressions
- 2019-04-25
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Together with Sole Pera I am
chairing the
Late-breaking
Results - Posters and Demos
at the ACM RecSys 2019
conference. The submission deadline is 1. July 2019
- 2019-03-04
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I am co-organizing the 3rd
Workshop on Theory-Informed User Modeling for Tailoring and
Personalizing Interfaces (HUMANIZE) at ACM IUI 2019 conference. With Mark Graus, Bruce Ferwerda, and Panagiotis Germanakos
- 2019-02-27
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Our paper Personality
and taxonomy preferences, and the influence of category choice on the
user experience for music streaming services has been published in
the journal Multimedia
Tools and Applications. With Bruce Ferwerda, Emily Yang,
and Markus Schedl
- 2018-12-08
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Our paper Prediction of music
pairwise preferences from facial expressions has been accepted as a
long paper at the ACM
IUI 2019 conference. With Nima Maleki, Matevz Pesek,
Mehdi
Elahi, Francesco
Ricci, and Matija
Marolt
- 2018-07-12
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I will give a tutorial on Emotions
and Personality in Recommender Systems on October 2 at RecSys 2018 in Vancouver.
The material can be found here
- 2018-06-01
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I am co-organizing the International Workshop on
Decision Making and Recommender Systems 2018 (29-30 November 2018,
Bozen-Bolzano, Italy) with Francesco Ricci, Markus
Zanker and Mehdi
Elahi.
- 2018-03-15
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I am co-editing the UMUAI Special Issue
on User Modeling for Personalized Interaction with Music with Markus Schedl and Peter Knees.
Submission deadline for extended abstracts: 1. June
2018.
- 2018-01-11
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Our book Group
Recommender Systems : An Introduction (Springer), edited together
with Alexander
Felfernig, Martin
Stettinger and Ludovico
Boratto, will be on the shelves from March 2018.
- 2017-12-06
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I have been habilitated as Associate Professor
(Professore di II. fascia) in Italy by the national habilitation
committee (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) for the area 09/H1
(ING-INF/05).
- 2017-10-18
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Starting with January 2018 I will be member of the editorial board of
the Springer User
Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction journal (2016 impact factor
3.625).