- Regensburg, Germany, August 26-29, 2014, http://bit.ly/1fbXzlF

 - in cooperation with SIGIR and sponsored by The Vielberth Foundation & Spinque

News: 

   - 3 Keynotes announced: Peter Pirolli, Francesco Ricci and Ryen White (see below for more details)

   - Free tutorials on Evaluation, User Interfaces, IIR Systems & Models

   - 2 workshops: “Searching as Learning” and “Searching4Fun”

   - Doctoral Consortium (deadline 30th of April, 2014)

   - Student grants will now be offered

   - Follow us on Twitter @iiix2014

Full Papers Due: 23rd April 2014 (Short papers 7th May, 2014)

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),  Francesco Ricci (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) and Ryen White (MSR).

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

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

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.”

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).

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.

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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Dr. Leif Azzopardi, BInfoSci (Hons I), PhD CompSci, PgCAP

Glasgow Information Retrieval group

School of Computing Science

University of Glasgow

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