It's a pleasure to welcome you to Marist College and our scenic and historic Hudson River Valley. Since Marist was a founding member of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR), we're delighted to welcome our friends and colleagues from around the world to the 5th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK) conference. Over the past 36 years, I have been privileged to serve ...

Mobile TVs have been available for many years, without ever becoming very popular. Moreover, the first wave of research has been mostly concerned with technology and standards, which are necessary to ensure interoperability and market acceptance. Although, there has been a significant body of computer supported co-operative work (CSCW) and mobile human-computer interaction (HCI) research findin...

W ho are the inhabitants of the marketplace? Are they the spiritless, calculating robots depicted in so much economic theory? Or are they the heartless money-grubbing corporate executives depicted in television and film who assume that theft, murder, and environmental degradation are all part of good business? In mainstream economic theory, the market is presented almost as a dead place in whic...

Advertisements(Ads) are the main revenue earner for Television (TV) broadcasters. As TV reaches a large audience, it acts as the best media for advertisements of products and services. With the emergence of digital TV, it is important for the broadcasters to provide an intelligent service according to the various dimensions like program features, ad features, viewers’ interest and sponsors’ pre...

Weather affects our mood and behaviors, and many aspects of our life. When it is sunny, most people become happier; but when it rains, some people get depressed. Despite this evidence and the abundance of data, weather has mostly been overlooked in the machine learning and data science research. This work presents a causal analysis of how weather affects TV watching patterns. We show that some ...