Nava is working as a research fellow in natural language generation in the
dot.rural digital hub. She is working on the
CURIOS and
MinkApp projects.
Before that she was working on an Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) tool for interactive personal narrative
in relation to the
"How was school today...?" project.
And before that, she was at Telefonica Research, Barcelona, working on user-centered issues in recommender systems.
Relevant keywords: natural language generation, human-computer interaction, personalization (recommender systems), and assistive technology.
News
16th of April Invited to be on the panel discussion at the
Symposium on Influencing People with Information (SIPI). Aberdeen, April 25th.
11th of April 2012 Proposal for Recsys'12 Workshop on Interfaces for Recommender Systems accepted.
First version of the page is now up.
28th of March 2012 Paper accepted for INLG'12 -
MinkApp: Generating Spatio-temporal Summaries for Nature Conservation Volunteers. Submitted as short but accepted for oral presentation!
15th of March 2012 Gave a talk on the CURIOS project at the Smart Tourism and the RCUK dot.rural workshop
'Rural needs in Scotland'
I also gave a seminar on Affecting people with Natural Language Generation at
Herriot-Watt (MACS)
3rd of Feb 2012 Teaching and coordinating Digital Society (SX1509) this term!
12th of Dec 2011 Article accepted for UMUAI journal:
Evaluating the effectiveness of explanations for recommender systems: Methodological issues and empirical studies on the impact of personalization