The Fifth Information Interaction in Context Conference - IIiX2014
- Regensburg, Germany, August 26-29, 2014, http://bit.ly/1fbXzlF
- in cooperation with SIGIR, Sponsored by The Vielberth Foundation &
Spinque
Updates:
- 3 Keynotes announced: Ryen White, Francesco Ricci, & Peter
Pirolli. More detail further below.
- Free tutorials on topics Search as Evaluation, IR Systems, and
User Interfaces
- 2 workshops: “Searching as Learning” and “Searching4Fun”
- at least 8 student grants available for ~$500
Full Papers Due: 23rd April 2014. (Short papers 7th May)
Call for Papers
The Information Interaction in Context (IIiX) conference explores the
relationships between and within the contexts that affect information
retrieval and information seeking, how these contexts influence
information behaviours, and how knowledge of information contexts and
behaviours improves the design of interactive information systems. IIiX
2014 will be held in the beautiful Regensburg, Germany next August (see
http://bit.ly/1fbXzlF ).
The overarching theme for IIiX 2014 is building bridges – between the
main themes of the conference, which are often treated in isolation and
between researchers from different communities. The intention of IIiX is
to foster an integrated approach to information access by bringing
together members of the research communities in information seeking
behaviour, user interface design, interactive information retrieval and
system design. To reflect this intention, there will be a number of
tutorials on offer that cross between disciplines and there will be
three excellent keynote speaker sharing their experiences on research on
information interactions from three different perspectives: Peter
Pirolli (PARC), Ryen White (MSR) and Francesco Ricci (Free University of
Bozen-Bolzano).
Conference Themes and Topics
With the focus on information interaction in context, we are inviting
submissions that focuses on or combines the following themes and topics.
People and Behaviours:
- Human information interaction
- Understanding people, their needs, cognition, affect and behaviour
- Information use and analysis
- Task-based interactive Information Seeking & Retrieval (ISR)
behaviour
- User experience and user engagement
- Genre, media, language, modality and structure in contextual ISR
Interfaces:
- Design and evaluation of user interfaces for information interaction
- Methods for eliciting, identifying, capturing and representing
contextual information
- Novel interaction modalities for Information Retrieval (IR)
- Techniques for information presentation and visualization
- Search interfaces for specialized tasks, populations and domains
Systems:
- Context-aware retrieval models and systems
- Relevance feedback (implicit & explicit) and query modification
issues for capturing context
- Collaborative information seeking and retrieval models and systems
- Personalized information access in context
- Exploratory search and information discovery
- Recommendation models and recommender systems
Evaluation:
- Measures and methods for studying and evaluating ISR
- Ethnography and user studies relevant to information interaction
- Test collections for interactive or context-sensitive IR
- Simulations of interaction
- Qualitative approaches to the study of context-sensitive ISR
Contribution Types
Full papers: We are looking for high quality original research of
relevance to IIiX. This year we are encouraging a variety of paper types
and invite authors to consider submitting papers that provide:
· empirical and experimental contributions,
· conceptual and theoretical contributions, and,
· reflections and experience-based contributions, or a combination of.
We believe that to build bridges we need to promote and encourage work
that is conceptual in nature and work that discusses important issues
that affect information interaction in context. So we are particularly
encouraging authors to submit papers that include:
· reflections upon the body of research, considering how the field,
the theories, the models, and the methods have developed,
· discussion of the implications of research findings on users in
the real world,
· proposals for and discussions of theories or models of
information-interaction, or
· provoking and creative contributions to stir debate and discussion.
Short Papers: Short papers should also be original, high-quality
submissions, like full papers, but based upon a smaller, concise
contribution. Consequently, we are looking for a range of short paper
submissions that describe work in progress, late-breaking results, and
reports on projects, applications, software releases and demos. Short
papers will be presented as part of an interactive poster session to
provide an open forum for discussion and future collaboration between
participants. Also, selected topically relevant and interesting short
papers will be chosen for oral presentation to highlight the best of
these smaller but strong submissions.
Conditions:
- IIiX submissions should be original, high quality research that
has not been published previously and are not under review for another
conference or journal.
- An international program committee will review all submissions.
- All reviews will be double-blind so submissions should be made
anonymous.
- Full papers will be up to 10 pages in length, while short papers
will be up to 4 pages.
- All submissions should be formatted using the ACM Conference
style (for LaTeX or Word). Submissions should be made in PDF.
- All accepted submissions will be made available in the ACM
Digital Library as part of the IIiX series.
Deadlines:
- Full Papers: April 23, 2014
- Short Papers: May 7, 2014
Full details of the call are available from: http://bit.ly/16bDw5G
Keynotes
Ryen White - is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond,
Washington, USA. His research interests lie in understanding search
interaction and in developing tools to help people search more
effectively. He received his Ph.D. in Interactive Information Retrieval
from the Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, United
Kingdom, in 2004. Ryen has published over 150 conference papers and
journal articles in Web search, log analysis, and user studies of search
systems. He has received seven best-paper awards, including three at the
ACM SIGIR conference (2007, 2010, 2013), one at the ACM SIGCHI
conference (2011), and one in JASIST (2010). His doctoral research
received the British Computer Society’s Distinguished Dissertation Award
for the best Computer Science Ph.D. dissertation in the United Kingdom
in 2004/2005. Ryen has co-organized workshops on information seeking, in
particular exploratory search, including an NSF-sponsored invitational
workshop, and has guest co-edited special issues in these areas for a
variety of outlets, including Communications of the ACM and IEEE
Computer. Since 2008, he has co-organized the annual HCIR Symposium.
Ryen has served as area chair for top conferences such as SIGIR, WSDM,
WWW, and CIKM, and currently serves on the editorial board of ACM TOIS,
ACM TWEB, and the Information Retrieval Journal. In addition to academic
impact, his research has shipped in a number of Microsoft products,
including Bing, Xbox, Internet Explorer, and Lync.
Francesco Ricci - is associate professor of computer science at Free
University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. His current research interests
include recommender systems, intelligent interfaces, mobile systems,
machine learning, case-based reasoning, and the applications of ICT to
tourism and eHealth. He has published more than one hundred of academic
papers on these topics and has been invited to give talks in many
international conferences, universities and companies. He is among the
editors of the Handbook of Recommender Systems (Springer 2011), a
reference text for researchers and practitioners working in this area.
He is the editor in chief of the Journal of Information Technology &
Tourism and in the editorial board of the Journal of User Modeling and
User Adapted Interaction. He is member of the steering committee of the
ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. He served on the program
committees of several conferences, including as a program co-chair of
the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys), the International
Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR) and the International
Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism (ENTER).
Peter Pirolli - is a Research Fellow in the Interactive Intelligence
Area at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he has been pursuing
studies of human information interaction since 1991. Prior to joining
PARC, he was an Associate Professor in the School of Education at UC
Berkeley. Peter received his doctorate in cognitive psychology from
Carnegie Mellon University in 1985. He is an elected Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for
Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, the
National Academy of Education, and the Association for Computing
Machinery SIGCHI Academy. He is the author of “Information Foraging
Theory: Adaptive Interaction with Information.”
Organization
General Co-chairs:
David Elsweiler (University of Regensburg, Germany)
Bernd Ludwig (University of Regensburg, Germany)
Program Chairs:
Leif Azzopardi (University of Glasgow, UK)
Max L. Wilson (University of Nottingham, UK)
Honourary Chair:
Gene Golovinsky (FX Palo Alto, USA)
Theme Chairs:
Luanne Freund (University of British Columbia)
Tetsuya Sakai (Microsoft Research, Asia),
Peiling Wang (Tennessee-Knoxville, USA)
Doctoral Consortium Chairs:
Ian Ruthven (Strathclyde, UK)
David Losada (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Local Chair:
Markus Kattenbeck (University of Regensburg, Germany)
Proceedings Chairs:
Morgan Harvey (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
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