Work-related musculoskeletal disorders, often caused by poor lifting posture and unsafe manual handling, continue to pose a significant threat to worker health and safety. This paper presents a health recommender system designed to prevent injury by assessing and correcting posture for lifting techniques. Leveraging monocular video input, our method estimates key ergonomic parameters to compute the Lifting Index based on the Revised NIOSH Lifting Equation. When the computed Lifting Index exceeds a predefined safety threshold, the system automatically generates graphical and textual recommendations to guide the worker towards safer postural strategies. This safety-aware recommender system provides interpretable and actionable feedback without requiring wearable sensors or multi-camera setups, making it suitable for deployment in real-world workplace environments. By integrating ergonomics with recommender system design, we contribute to a new class of context-aware, safety-oriented recommendation technologies tailored for occupational health.

Adaptive and personalized systems have become pervasive technologies that are gradually playing an increasingly important role in our daily lives. Indeed, we are now used to interact every day with algorithms that help us in several scenarios, ranging from services that suggest us music to be listened to or movies to be watched, to personal assistants able to proactively support us in complex decision-making tasks. As the importance of such technologies in our everyday lives grows, it is fundamental that the internal mechanisms that guide these algorithms are as clear as possible. Unfortunately, the current research tends to go in the opposite direction, since most of the approaches try to maximize the effectiveness of the personalization strategy (e.g., recommendation accuracy) at the expense of the explainability and the transparency of the model. The main research questions which arise from this scenario is simple and straightforward: How can we deal with such a dichotomy between the need for effective adaptive systems and the right to transparency and interpretability? The workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing such problems, challenges, and innovative research approaches in the area, by investigating the role of transparency and explainability on the recent methodologies for building user models or developing personalized and adaptive systems.

Adaptive and personalized systems have become pervasive technologies which are gradually playing an increasingly important role in our daily lives. Indeed, we are now used to interact every day with algorithms that help us in several scenarios, ranging from services that suggest us music to be listened to or movies to be watched, to personal assistants able to proactively support us in complex decision-making tasks. As the importance of such technologies in our everyday lives grows, it is fundamental that the internal mechanisms that guide these algorithms are as clear as possible. Unfortunately, the current research tends to go in the opposite direction, since most of the approaches try to maximize the effectiveness of the personalization strategy (e.g., recommendation accuracy) at the expense of the explainability and the transparency of the model. The main research questions which arise from this scenario is simple and straightforward: How can we deal with such a dichotomy between the need for effective adaptive systems and the right to transparency and interpretability? The workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing such problems, challenges and innovative research approaches in the area, by investigating the role of transparency and explainability on the recent methodologies for building user models or for developing personalized and adaptive systems.