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PUBLICATIONS.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Bereket A. Yilma and Luis A. Leiva: MOSAIC: multimodal multistakeholder-aware visual art recommendation

    Journal of User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI),Volume 35, article number 14, (2025)

  • Bereket A. Yilma and Luis A. Leiva: Affect-aware Cross-Domain Recommendation for Art Therapy via Music Preference Elicitation

    Proceedings of the Nineteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2025)

  • Bereket A. Yilma, Saravanakumar Duraisamy, Stefan Penchev, Tudor Pristav and Luis A. Leiva: ArtAICare: An End-to-End Platform for Personalized Art Therapy

    Proceedings of the Nineteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2025)

  • Rully Agus Hendrawan, Peter Brusilovsky, Luis A. Leiva and Bereket A. Yilma: ArtEx: A User-Controllable Web Interface for Visual Art Recommendations

    Proceedings of the Nineteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2025)

  • Rully Agus Hendrawan, Peter Brusilovsky, Luis A. Leiva and Bereket A. Yilma: ArtEx: Recommending Paintings in Web Art Gallery with Adjustable Popularity and Diversity

    Adjunct Proceedings of the 33rd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2025)

  • Bereket A. Yilma, Chan Mi Kim, Gerald C. Cupchik, Luis A. Leiva:

    The AI-Therapist Duo: Exploring the Potential of Human-AI Collaboration in Personalized Art Therapy for PICS Intervention

    International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction (IJHCI) Volume 41, 2025 - Issue 23

  • Bereket A. Yilma, Chan Mi Kim, Gerald C. Cupchik, Luis A. Leiva:

    Artful Path to Healing: Using Machine Learning for Visual Art Recommendation to Prevent and Reduce Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS),

    Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024)

  • Bereket A. Yilma: Computational Methods for Designing Human-Centered Recommender Systems: A Case Study Approach Intersecting Visual Arts and Healthcare

    Proceedings of the Nineteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2024)

  • Désirée CA Lemarquis, Bereket A. Yilma and Luis A. Leiva: What can a swiped word tell us more? Demographic and behavioral correlates from shape-writing text entry

    Journal of Neural Computing and Applications, Volume 35, pages 15531–15548, (2023)

  • Bereket A. Yilma, and Luis A. Leiva: Together Yet Apart: Multimodal Representation Learning for Personalised Visual Art Recommendation

    Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2023)

  • Bereket A. Yilma, and Luis A. Leiva: The Elements of Visual Art Recommendation: Learning Latent Semantic Representations of Paintings

    Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023)

  • Yannick Naudet, Hervé Panetto and Bereket A. Yilma: Towards cognitive interoperability in cyber-physical enterprises

    Proceedings of the 22nd International Federation of Automatic Control World Congress, IFAC2023.

  • Mateusz Dubiel, Bereket A. Yilma, and Luis A. Leiva: A Contextual Framework for Adaptive User Interfaces: Modelling the Interaction Environment

    Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Adaptive UIs Workshop (CHI 2022)

  • Bereket A. Yilma, Yannick Naudet and Hervé Panetto: Systemic formalisation of Cyber-Physical-Social System (CPSS): A systematic literature review

    Journal of Computers in Industry, Volume 129, August 2021, 103458

  • Bereket A. Yilma, and Luis A. Leiva: Personalisation in cyber-physical-social systems: A multi-stakeholder aware recommendation and guidance

    Proceedings of the 29th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2021)

  • Bereket A. Yilma, Yannick Naudet and Hervé Panetto: Towards a Personalisation Framework for Cyber-Physical-Social System (CPSS)

    17th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing INCOM 2021

  • Fadhil Ahmed, Schiavo Gianluca, Wang Yunlong and Bereket A. Yilma: The effect of emojis when interacting with conversational interface assisted health coaching system

    Proceedings of the 12th EAI international conference on pervasive computing technologies for healthcare

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For a Full list of publications, please refer to my Google Scholar page

Selected Publications

Advancing human-centered AI, brain-computer interfaces, and digital art therapy.

Human AI
Close-up of a human hand gently interacting with a glowing digital neural network.
Close-up of a human hand gently interacting with a glowing digital neural network.

Designing AI that understands and respects human needs and values.

A sleek brain-computer interface headset resting on a minimalist desk with soft ambient lighting.
A sleek brain-computer interface headset resting on a minimalist desk with soft ambient lighting.
Abstract digital artwork blending vibrant colors to evoke emotional healing and creativity.
Abstract digital artwork blending vibrant colors to evoke emotional healing and creativity.
Brain Tech

Innovating seamless connections between minds and machines for enhanced cognition.

Harnessing art and technology to support mental wellness and emotional expression.

Art Therapy