CALL For PAPERS
INFORMATION ACCESS & RETRIEVAL: THE WEB, USERS, AND HCI
In Digital Media: Content and Communication Track
of the 43rd
Hawai’i
This minitrack addresses issues related to information access in the context of the Web. We are looking for papers that examine a broad range of issues related to the design of the next generation of information retrieval systems to cope with our increasing reliance on the Web for access to information.
This minitrack includes essential questions related to how we can help the user access and make use of digital data. Our goal is to bring together the common threads of research in this area and to provide a forum for researchers in which emerging topics can be fostered.
Submission Date is June 15, 2009
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MINITRACK TOPICS
Topics of interest are related to information retrieval, web retrieval search and effectiveness, user experience, and HCI issues related to web access as well as emergent related topics.
Information Retrieval and Web search: Information Retrieval supports the computerized search of large document and digital media collections (millions or billions of items) to select small subsets of those documents relevant to a user's information need. Such algorithms are the basis for internet search engines and question-answering systems. In this minitrack we will examine both theoretical and application issues related but not limited to the following areas:
- Information Retrieval Language Models, Algorithms and Tools
- Fact-based Open-domain Question Answering
- Web-based Information Retrieval
- Topic Detection and Tracking over time
- Geographic Information Retrieval, gazeteers
- Information Visualization
- Text Categorization and Summarization
- Cross Language Retrieval
- Image and Video Retrieval
User Experience and HCI Perspectives: While we have learned a great deal about creating large document spaces and accessing these spaces, we know relatively little about the users who deal with a multi-billion-page Web and design factors for improving the user experience with these systems. Further research is needed to address the user issues related to effectiveness and quality of experience when interacting with Web search engines and when designing new applications in this area. A focus on the users from an HCI perspective allows us to align the user focus and the system focus in a multi-disciplinary forum that includes theoretical foundations, evaluation measures, methodologies, case studies and user study results.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- User-based Web search engines effectiveness measures
- Evaluation of Web search tools in information seeking problems
- Human design issues and evaluations of web applications
- Profiles and personalization to enhance Web search
- Effect of task on information seeking behavior on the Web
- Log analysis
- Individual differences in Web search
Target Audience
These topics are of prime interest to researchers, developers, interface designers, and information managers. We will target researchers and system developers working on new interfaces and search algorithms, and information managers concerned about increasing the value of Web access to information. The multidisciplinary nature of this emerging area allows us to welcome a wide range of participant interests, including human computer interface design, information seeking behavior, search algorithms, and information management.
CONTACT INFORMATION FOR THE CO-CHAIRS
University of California,
ray@ischool.berkeley.edu
Carolyn Watters
Faculty of
carolyn.watters@dal.ca
Amanda Spink
Queensland University of Technology
Queensland, Australia
ah.spink@qut.edu.au
RELEVANT BACKGROUND OF CO-CHAIRS
Ray Larson is a Professor in the UC Berkeley School of Information, where he specializes in the design and performance evaluation of information systems, and the evaluation of user interaction with those systems. His research has concentrated on the design and evaluation of information retrieval systems, with an emphasis on online library catalogs, digital libraries and Geographic Information Retrieval. Prof. Larson has been a participant, chair and co-chair of minitracks at HICSS since 1997. He was also technical program chair for the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries for 2007, and has participated as a program committee member and as a chair and speaker for Information retrieval evaluations and conferences including SIGIR, TREC, CLEF, INEX. Prof. Larson is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Carolyn Watters is a Professor of Computer Science at
Amanda Spink, Research Capacity Building Professor of Information Science in the Faculty of Science and Technology at the Queensland University of Technology has an M.B.A. (Fordham) and a Ph.D Information Science (Rutgers). Her research focuses on studies of information behavior. Professor Spink.s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Australian Research Council, NEC, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Alta Vista, Infospace, Vivisimo, Excite and the Andrew R. Mellon Foundation. She has over 320 publications and her recent books include Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Springer), Handbook of Research in Web Log Analysis (Idea Group) and a forthcoming monograph on information behavior. Professor Spink was recently reported as having the second highest citation h-index in the field of Library and Information Science.