HICSS’40 Digital DocumentTrack
New MiniTrack for 2007

<title>HICSS 2007 Search Effectiveness MiniTrack</title> <center><h1>
HICSS’40 Digital DocumentTrack<br> New MiniTrack for 2007 </h1> 
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color="red"> Search Effectiveness: User Perspective </h1></font> </center>
The goal of this MiniTrack is to bring the users of the Web into focus by
bringing together researchers, developers, and information managers to
discuss both how to measure effectiveness of Web searching from the user
perspective and how to use this information to build better systems. <p>
This MiniTrack will cover the effectiveness of search tools for users
seeking information on the Web, where the data set is extremely large and
heterogeneous with respect to content, structure, and quality. This brings
into the discussion, considerations of the impact that design choices in
the design and development of new Web systems and tools have on Web users.

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Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
<br>User-based Web search engines effectiveness measures including 
relevance, utility and usefulness
<ul><li>	Usability of Web search tools
	<li>Evaluation of Web search tools in information seeking problems
	<li>Profiles and personalization to enhance Web search
	<li>Effect of task on information seeking behavior on the Web
	<li>Multimedia effectiveness measures
       <li>Individual differences in Web search
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The Search Effectiveness: User Perspective MiniTrack will be a
multi-disciplinary forum for considering the concepts of effectiveness of
Web searching from the users’ perspective.  The MiniTrack will be a
combination of presentations and discussions of theoretical foundations,
evaluation measures, methodologies, case studies and user study results.

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<center>			www.cs.dal.ca/~watters/HICSS/SE
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Contact Information
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Dr. Carolyn Watters				   
<br>Professor of Computer Science		
<br>Faculty of Computer Science		
<br>Dalhousie University		              
<br>Halifax, Nova Scotia			    
<br>Canada. 					   

<br>watters@cs.dal.ca				    
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                                 Dr. Amanda Spink
   <br>        Professor of Information 

       <br>      Faculty  of Information Technology
           <br>               Queensland University of 
Technology
               <br>         Brisbane, Queensland
                   <br>                          Australia
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                                   ah.spink@qut.edu.au


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<h2> More Information after February 1, 2006</h2>
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