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Link: http://www.gesis.org/veranstaltungen/konferenzen/workshop-usefulness-of-interactive-ir-systems/ | |||||||||||||||
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1st Workshop on Usefulness of Interactive IR Systems CALL FOR PAPERS In conjunction with the CHIIR 2016 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA 13–17 March 2016 Workshop 2016: http://www.gesis.org/veranstaltungen/konferenzen/workshop-usefulness-of-interactive-ir-systems/ CHIIR 2016: http://sigir.org/chiir2016 ################################ --------- Important dates Submission deadline: January 8, 2016 Notification of acceptance: January 22, 2016 Camera ready: February 12, 2016 Workshop date: March 17, 2016 --------- Contact Claus-Peter Klas GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany Contact: claus-peter.klas@gesis.org Motivation Information Retrieval (IR) systems aim at helping a user to solve an information seeking problem. There is a long-standing tradition in IR research to measure the quality of an IR system in terms of the relevance of the documents returned (so-called Cranfield paradigm). However, due to the high interactivity of current IR systems it turned out that pure relevance-based measures fail to capture many factors that should be taken into account for IR evaluations, such as learning, task completion and effort. Current IR research therefore started to "take a broader perspective of the information seeking process to explicitly include users, tasks, and contexts in a dynamic setting" (Cole et al. 2009). This novel paradigm in IR evaluation expands the perspective to the entire search process instead of just evaluating single search results (cp. Dumais 2012). In addition, modern digital libraries offer more functionality besides search e.g. – browsing relations, recommender, storing and structuring information, sharing information -- broadening the user-system interaction possibilities. These interactions lead to more valuable data for a better understanding of user needs and contexts and what is useful or not. The notion of usefulness was first introduced by Cole et al. (2009) as a general criterion evaluating "how well the user is able to achieve their goal". However, there is still a lack of computational usefulness metrics that can be taken to evaluate interactive IR systems. The main goal of the workshop is to provide an international forum for discussing novel approaches that might contribute to an approximation of usefulness in interactive information retrieval. The workshop aims at bringing together experts from both 'user' and 'system' oriented information retrieval for a fruitful exchange of ideas and discussion how to tackle the evaluation of interactive IR from the perspective of usefulness. The long-term research goal is to develop and evaluate new approaches for measuring usefulness of interactive IR systems. More specifically, we address questions such as: * What is usefulness and how can it be measured? * How can logging tools and frameworks look like to better capture usefulness? * How can usefulness be evaluated? * What can usefulness contribute to the improvement of interactive IR systems? Workshop Topics Contributions are solicited on, but not limited to, following topics: * Evaluation of interactive information retrieval * Information seeking behavior * Task based user modelling, interaction and personalization * Logging frameworks for sessions and tasks * Analyzing user behavior Format, Structure and Audience The format of the workshop should reflect a form of grass root movement, meaning to go bottom up in order to identify real measurements, to analyze existing logs and the gap in logs to measure usefulness along several dimensions. The workshop will be a full-day workshop with a keynote speech and paper sessions laying the ground of understanding in the morning. The paper sessions will focus on the following areas: * Theoretical measures for usefulness * How can usefulness be observed? - Tools - Case studies - Evaluation methods and metrics For the afternoon we propose a world cafe format to enable brainstorming of ideas and deeper discussions of the approaches presented in the morning. We intend to have discussion rounds of 15-30 minutes at max. four tables which are moderated by the organizers and/or participants. The participants should move from table to table after each round. In the final session the discussion result will be presented by the moderators. It workshop is intended for around 20 researchers in the field of interactive information retrieval and digital libraries and librarians interested in a better understanding of users and user needs and provide better system support to enhance the digital libraries systems. Submissions Short Papers (4 pages): Position papers or work in progress Poster and Demonstrations (2 pages): Poster and presentation of systems or prototypes Submissions have to follow the ACM template, see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates and should be submitted as PDF files to EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=uiirs2016. All submissions will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. At least one author per paper needs to register for the workshop and attend the workshop to present the work. In case of no-show the paper (even if accepted) will be deleted from the proceedings AND from the program. Output Workshop proceedings will be deposited online in the CEUR workshop proceedings publication service (ISSN 1613-0073). This way the proceedings will be permanently available and citable (digital persistent identifiers and long term preservation). All accepted workshop papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Program Committee * Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow, UK * Stefano Mizzaro, University of Udine, IT * Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany * Claus-Peter Klas, GESIS-Leibniz-Institute for the SocialSciences, Germany * Peter Mutschke, GESIS-Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany * Vivien Petras, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany * Chirag Shah, Rudgers University, USA References * Cole, M., Liu, J., Belkin, N. J., Bierig, R., Gwizdka, J., Liu, C., Zhjang, J., Zhang, X. (2009): Usefulness as the Criterion for Evaluation of Interactive Information Retrieval. Proc. HCIR, 1-4. * Dumais, S. (2012): Whole-session evaluation of interactive information retrieval systems. Compilation of Homework, NII Shonan Workshop, Oct 8-12, 2012, http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/sdumais/niishonanworkshop-web/NII-Shonan-CompiledHomework_Final.pdf |
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