================================================================ Call for Papers / Participation
Understanding the user
- Logging and interpreting user interactions in information search and retrieval http://uiir-2009.dfki.de/ Workshop held in conjunction with SIGIR’09 (http://sigir2009.org) in Boston, USA July 23, 2009 ================================================================ Important Dates May 18, 2009: Submission deadline for - papers - position statements (not mandatory, but encouraged) June 8, 2009: Notification of acceptance June 15, 2009: Submission deadline for - camera-ready paper - one introductory slide for each participant July 23, 2009: Workshop date
Overview Modern information search systems can benefit greatly from using additional information about the user and the user's behavior. Feedback data based on direct interaction (e.g., clicks, scrolling, etc.) as well as on general user profiles/preferences has been proven valuable for personalizing the retrieval process. New technology has made it inexpensive and easy to collect more feedback data and more different types of data (e.g., gaze, emotional, or biometric data). The workshop focuses on discussing and identifying most promising research directions with respect to logging, interpreting, integrating, and using feedback data. Ultimately, it will be aimed at arranging a commonly shared collection of user interaction logging tools for various purposes and based on a variety of feedback data sources. The workshop brings together researchers from IR as well as from human-computer interaction.
Participation Participants are encouraged to contribute in one of the following ways (submission deadline: May 18, 2009; camera-ready deadline: June 15): - Experience papers, describing acquisition, logging, interpretation and/or use of user interaction data (maximum 4 pages). Could be accepted as presentation or poster. - Demo of application or new technology descriptions (not exceeding 2 pages): presented as demo - Position statement (1 to 2 pages) about focused types of user interaction data / their interpretation / their use PDF files should be prepared in ACM format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates).
Papers should be submitted online via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=uiir2009) Additionally, all participants are encouraged to submit one slide about their main interest (submission deadline: June 15, 2009). The slide will be presented during a participant introduction session in the beginning of the workshop.
Topics of Interest include but are not limited to: * Types of implicit data o Gaze o Affect o Use o Physiological data o Click-through * Tools for acquiring/logging implicit data o Observation technologies + Search tool instrumentation (clicks, mouse movements, printing, …) + Eye tracking + Bio sensors + EEG + Facial expression detection o Frameworks for logging user interaction data * Interpretation of implicit data o Integration of different types of implicit data o Models (long-term/short-term) of + User interest + User types + User tasks + User states + Other contextual features * Use/application of implicit data o Personalization of + Retrieval results + Interaction mode + Visualization and presentation o Deciding when to use implicit data
Organizers Nicholas J. Belkin, Rutgers University, USA Ralf Bierig, Rutgers University, USA Georg Buscher, DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany Ludger van Elst, DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany Jacek Gwizdka, Rutgers University, USA Joemon Jose, Glasgow University, Scotland Jaime Teevan, Microsoft Research, USA