Ben Steichen
Associate Professor
Computer Science, College of Science
About me
Dr. Ben Steichen is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at . He received his PhD from (TCD), Ireland, an M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from TCD, and a First Class Honours B.Sc. degree in Computing Sciences from the , UK.
Dr. Steichen leads the (human-centered, adaptive, and personalized information interaction), which researches novel information access solutions that support each individual person. This research involves techniques and concepts from the fields of Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval & Visualization, and Web & Information Science.
Publications
Book chapters
Steichen, B. , A Human-Centered Perspective of Intelligent Personalized Environments and Systems. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, 2024.
Journal, Conference, and Workshop Articles
Steichen, B., Isaacs, M., To, S., Tran, K., and Varela, D. Humans and AI against Misinformation - Understanding the Role of User Characteristics on Susceptibility to Misleading Visualizations & the Potential of AI Assistance. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Designing and Building Hybrid Human-AI Systems (SYNERGY 2026), co-located with the 18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2026), to appear, 2026.
Steichen, B., Mahadevappa, S., Gershman, M., Geronimo, M., Kermad, A., Stoehr, K., and Figueira, S. Math-Language Minigames - Helping Bilingual Children Learn Mathematics by Closing the Language Gap. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Designing Advanced Interfaces for Learning and Teaching, co-located with the 18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2026), to appear, 2026.
Mahadevappa, S., Dasari, W.W., Nagalapatti, G., Steichen, B., Figueira, S. MathTarea: Mathematics Homework Support for Bilingual Students. Proceedings of the 25th Interaction Design and Children (IDC) Conference, to appear, 2026.
Steichen, B., Ling, C., and Figueira, S. . International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 40(19), pp. 5648-5663, 2024.
Steichen, B., Mahadevappa, S., Gershman, M., Geronimo, M., Kermad, A., Stoehr, K., and Figueira, S. Math-Language Minigames - Helping Bilingual Children Learn Mathematics by Closing the Language Gap. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Designing Advanced Interfaces for Learning and Teaching, co-located with the 18th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2026), to appear, 2026.
Mahadevappa, S., Dasari, W.W., Nagalapatti, G., Steichen, B., Figueira, S. MathTarea: Mathematics Homework Support for Bilingual Students. Proceedings of the 25th Interaction Design and Children (IDC) Conference, to appear, 2026.
Steichen, B., Ling, C., and Figueira, S. . International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 40(19), pp. 5648-5663, 2024.
Steichen, B., Kosasih, W., Becerra, C. . Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2022), pp. 211-220, 2022.
Fu, B., Steichen, B. . Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2022), Article No.7, 1-9, 2022.
Fu, B., Steichen, B. . International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2022.
Steichen, B., Lowe, R. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 72(6), pp.759-776, 2021.
Steichen, B., Fu, B. Frontiers in Computer Science, 2, 49, 2020.
Steichen, B., Castillo, C., Scroggins, K. . Proceedings of the international ACM conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2020), pp. 343-347, 2020.
Steichen, B., Fu, B., Nguyen, T. . Proceedings of the international ACM conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2020), pp. 348-352, 2020.
Fu, B., Steichen, B., McBride, A. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS’20), 2020.
Ling, C., Steichen, B., Figueira, S. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 36(6), 2019.
Steichen, B., Fu, B. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2, 22, 2019.
Fu, B., Steichen, B., Zhang, W. International Journal of Semantic Computing, 13(4), 2019.
Fu, B., Steichen, B. Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2019), pp. 216-223, 2019. (Best Paper nominee)
Ling, C., Steichen, B., Choulos, A. Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval (CHIIR '18), pp. 211-220, 2018.
Lowe, R., Steichen, B. Proceedings of the international conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2017), pp. 303-307, 2017.
Koidl, K., Levacher, K., Conlan, O., Steichen, B. Proceedings of the EvalUMAP2016 Workshop: Towards Comparative Evaluation in the User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization Space, in conjunction with the 24th conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2016), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, Vol-1618, 2016.
Steichen, B., Freund, L. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2015), pp. 3483-3492, 2015.
Steichen, B., Ghorab, M. R., Lawless, S., O'Connor, A., Wade, V. Proceedings of the international conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2014), pp. 435-446, 2014.
Steichen, B., Carenini, G., Conati, C. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 4, 2, Article 11, 2014. (Best Paper Award)
Conati, C., Carenini, G., Hoque, E., Steichen, B., Toker, D. Computer Graphics Forum, Volume 33, Issue 3, pp. 371–380, 2014.
Steichen, B., Wu, M. M. A., Toker, D., Conati, C., Carenini, G. Proceedings of the international conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2014), pp. 183-194, 2014. (Best Paper Award)
Carenini, G., Conati, C., Steichen, B., Toker, D., and Enns, J. Proceedings of the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2014), pp. 1835-1844, 2014.
Toker, D., Steichen, B., Gingerich, M., Conati, C., Carenini, G. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2014), pp. 105-114, 2014. (Best Paper nominee)
Toker, D., Conati, C., Steichen, B., Carenini G., Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013), pp. 295-304, 2013.
Steichen, B., Schmid, O., Conati, C., Carenini, G. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on User-Adaptive Information Visualization (WUAV 2013), in conjunction with the 21st conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2013), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, Vol-997, 2013.
Conati, C., Hoque, E., Toker, D., Steichen, B. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on User-Adaptive Information Visualization (WUAV 2013), in conjunction with the 21st conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2013), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, Vol-997, 2013.
Carenini, G., Conati, C., Hoque, E., Steichen, B. Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on User-Adaptive Information Visualization (WUAV 2013), in conjunction with the 21st conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2013), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, Vol-997, 2013.
Steichen, B., Ashman, H., Wade, V. Information Processing & Management, Volume 48, Issue 4, pp. 698–724, 2012.
Steichen, B., Carenini, G., Conati, C. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2013), pp. 317-328, 2013. (Best Paper nominee)
Steichen, B., O'Connor, A., Wade, V. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia (HT '11), pp. 73-82, 2011.
Ghorab, M. R., Zhou, D., Steichen, B., Wade, V. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Personalized Multilingual Hypertext Retrieval (PMHR 2011), in conjunction with the 22nd ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia (HT '11), 2011.
Steichen, B., Wade, V. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Adaptation in Social and Semantic Web (SAS-WEB 2010), in conjunction with the 19th conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2010), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, Vol-590, pp. 1-10, 2010.
Steichen, B., Lawless, S., O'Connor, A., Wade, V. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia (HT '09), pp. 119-128, 2009.
Steichen, B., Clarke, S. In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCom 2008), ISBN 978-1-4244-2107-7, pp.1-9, 2008.
Fu, B., Bernáth, G., Steichen, B., Weber, S. In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCom 2008), ISBN 978-1-4244-2107-7, pp. 1-7, 2008.
Proceedings Editing & Workshop Reports
Germanakos, P., Dimitrova, V., Steichen, B., Ferwerda, B., Tkalcic, M. Adjunct Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2024), 2024.
Germanakos, P., Dimitrova, V., Steichen, B., Ferwerda, B., Tkalcic, M. Adjunct Proceedings of the 31st international ACM conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2023), 2023.
Germanakos, P., Dimitrova, V., Steichen, B., Ferwerda, B., Tkalcic, M. Adjunct Proceedings of the 30th international ACM conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2022), 2022.
Germanakos, P., Dimitrova, V., Steichen, B., Piotrkowicz, A. Adjunct Proceedings of the 29th international ACM conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2021), 2021.
Germanakos, P., Dimitrova, V., Steichen, B., Piotrkowicz, A. Adjunct Publication of the 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP '20 Adjunct), 2020.
Germanakos, P., Dimitrova, V., Steichen, B., Piotrkowicz, A. Adjunct Publication of the 27th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP'19 Adjunct), 2019.
Kleanthous, S., Bielikova, M., and Steichen, B. Adjunct Publication of the 27th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP'19 Adjunct), 2019.
Germanakos, P., Kleanthous-Loizou, S., Samaras, G., Dimitrova, V., Steichen, B., Piotrkowicz, A. Adjunct Publication of the 26th international conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2018), 2018.
Germanakos, P., Kleanthous-Loizou, S., Samaras, G., Dimitrova, V., Steichen, B. Adjunct Publication of the 25th international conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2017), pp. 213-214, 2017.
Steichen, B., Ferro, N., Lewis, D., Chi, E. H. SIGIR Forum 49, 2 (January 2016), 137-140, 2016.
Steichen, B., Ferro, N., Lewis, D., Chi, E.H. Companion proceedings of the 24th international conference on World Wide Web, 2015.
Steichen, B., Ruotsalo, T., Agosti, M., Jacucci, G., Lawless, S., Brusilovsky, P., Wade, V., Kaski, S., Barral, O. Extended proceedings of the international conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2014), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, Vol-1181, 2014.
Conference Posters
Gadon, A., Steichen, B., Leon, J. Southern California Conferences for Undergraduate Research, 2019.
Castillo, C., Scroggins, K., Steichen, B. Southern California Conferences for Undergraduate Research, 2019.
Daroy, P., Steichen, B. Southern California Conferences for Undergraduate Research, 2019.
Castillo, C., Chen, K., Steichen, B. Southern California Conferences for Undergraduate Research, 2018.
Pierre-Louis, D., Arima, J., Steichen, B. Southern California Conferences for Undergraduate Research, 2018.
Toker, D., Steichen, B., Birk, M. Extended proceedings of the international conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2014), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, Vol-1181, 2014.
Steichen, B., Carenini, G., Conati, C. Poster and Workshop Proceedings of the 20th conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2012), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073, Vol-872, 2012.
Theses
Steichen B., PhD thesis. School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, 2012. (Best Thesis Award)
Steichen B., MSc thesis. School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, 2007.