As from September 1 (2017), I am holding an Assistant Professor position at Jönköping University (Sweden). Although I will still be associated with Johannes Kepler University Linz until December 1 (2017), it will be better to contact me through my new affiliation: http://www.ju.se/
 


Bruce Ferwerda, PhD


Department of Computational Perception
Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz
Altenberger Str. 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria
Science Park 3, 4th Floor
Room 442

Tel: +43 732 2468 4706
Fax: +43 732 2468 4705

E-Mail: 

Personal website: http://www.bruceferwerda.com/


Research Interests

Publications

2017

Personality Traits and Music Genre Preferences: How Music Taste Varies Over Age Groups
Ferwerda, B., Tkalčič, M., & Schedl, M.
In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Temporal Reasoning in Recommender Systems (RecTemp), at the 11th Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys). Como, Italy (2017).
Personality Traits and Music Genres: What Do People Prefer to Listen To?
Ferwerda, B., Tkalčič, M., & Schedl, M.
In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP). Bratislava, Slowakia (2017).
Personalizing Online Educational Tools.
M.J. Lee & Ferwerda, B.
In Extended Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). Limassol, Cyprus (2017).
Predicting Genre Preferences from Cultural and Socio-economic Factors for Music Retrieval.
Skowron, M., Lemmerich, F., Ferwerda, B., & Schedl, M.
In Proceedings of the 39th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR). Aberdeen, Scotland (2017).
How Item Discovery Enabled by Diversity Leads to Increased Recommendation List Attractiveness.
Ferwerda, B., Graus, M., Vall, A., Tkalčič, M., & Schedl, M.
In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC). Marrakesh, Morocco (2017).

2016

The Influence of Users' Personality Traits on Satisfaction and Attractiveness of Diversified Recommendation Lists.
Ferwerda, B., Graus, M., Vall, A., Tkalčič, M., & Schedl, M.
In Proceedings of the 4rd Workshop on Emotions and Personality in Personalized Systems (EMPIRE), at the 10th Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys). Boston, MA, USA (2016).
Personality-Based User Modeling for Music Recommender Systems.
Ferwerda, B. & Schedl, M.
In Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECMLPKDD). Riva del Grada, Italy (2016).
Investigating the Relationship Between Diversity in Music Consumption Behavior and Cultural Dimensions: A Cross-Country Analysis.
Ferwerda, B. & Schedl, M.
In Extended Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP). Halifax, NS, Canada (2016).
Exploring Music Diversity Across Countries.
Ferwerda, B., Vall, A., Tkalčič, M., & Schedl, M.
In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP). Halifax, NS, Canada (2016).
Fusing Social Media Cues: Personality Prediction from Twitter and Instagram.
Skowron, M., Ferwerda, B., Tkalčič, M., & Schedl, M.
In Companion Proceedings of the International Word Wide Web Conference. Montreal, CQ, Canada (2016).
Personality Traits and the Relationship with (Non-)Disclosure Behavior on Facebook.
Ferwerda, B., Schedl, M., & Tkalčič, M.
In Companion Proceedings of the International Word Wide Web Conference. Montreal, CQ, Canada (2016).
Using Instagram Picture Features to Predict Users' Personality.
Ferwerda, B., Schedl, M., & Tkalčič, M.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia Modelling. Miami, FL, USA (2016).

2015

Predicting Personality Traits with Instagram Pictures.
Ferwerda, B., Schedl, M., & Tkalčič, M.
In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Emotions and Personality in Personalized Systems (EMPIRE), at the 9th Conference on Recommender Systems(RecSys). Vienna, Austria (2015).
Personality & Emotional States: Understanding Users' Music Listening Needs.
Ferwerda, B., Schedl, M., & Tkalčič, M.
In Extended Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP). Dublin, Ireland (2015).
Personality Correlates for Digital Concert Program Notes.
Tkalčič, M., Ferwerda, B., Hauger, D., & Schedl, M.
In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP). Dublin, Ireland (2015).
Personality Traits Predict Music Taxonomy Preferences.
Ferwerda, B., Yang, E., Schedl, M., & Tkalčič, M.
In ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI). Seoul, South Korea (2015).
The Soundtrack of My Life: Adjusting the Emotion of Music.
Ferwerda, B.
In Collaborating with Intelligent Machines (workshop), at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). Seoul, South Korea (2015).

2014

Enhancing Music Recommender Systems with Personality Information and Emotional States: A Proposal.
Ferwerda, B. & Schedl, M.
In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services (EMPIRE), at the 22nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP). Aalborg, Denmark (2014).
Using social media mining for estimating theory of planned behaviour parameters.
Tkalčič, M., Ferwerda, B., Schedl, M., Liem, C., Melenhorst, M., Odić, A., & Košir, A.
In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services (EMPIRE), at the 22nd Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP). Aalborg, Denmark (2014).
To Post or Not to Post: The Effects of Persuasive Cues and Group Targeting Mechanisms on Posting Behavior.
Ferwerda, B., Schedl, M., & Tkalčič, M.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom). Stanford, CA, USA (2014).

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