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[Apologies for cross postings. *Please note the new submission deadline June 9, 2010*] ** Due to requests, the deadline for submissions to the SIGIR 2010 Desktop Search (Understanding, Supporting and Evaluating Personal Data Search) Workshop has been extended to *June 9, 2010.* In the interest of streamlining the review process we would request that you submit an abstract through the EasyChair system by June 6, 2010 so that other important dates will not be affected.** Desktop Search Workshop Understanding, Supporting, and Evaluating Personal Data Search *A SIGIR 2010 workshop, July 23, Geneva, Switzerland* http://www.cdvp.dcu.ie/DS2010/ *Desktop search* refers to the process of searching within ones personal space of information. The information searched during a desktop search can include content that resides on one's personal computer (e.g., documents, emails, visited Web pages, and multimedia files), and may extend to content on other personal devices, such as music players and mobile phones. Despite recent research interest, desktop search is under-explored compared to other search domains such as the web, semi-structured data, or flat text. This workshop will bring together academics and industrial practitionersinterested in desktop search with the goal of fostering collaborations and addressing the challenges faced in this area. The workshop will be structured to encourage group discussion and active collaboration among attendees. We encourage participation from people in the fields of information retrieval, personal information management, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, and related areas. The topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: - Understanding desktop search behavior · Studies of desktop search behavior · Desktop query log analysis · Psychological aspects of re-finding (e.g., peoples memories of items) - Supporting desktop search · Retrieval approaches (e.g., content analysis, search algorithms) · Personalization to account for highly individual collections and needs · Interfaces for desktop search and presentation of results - Evaluating desktop search · Evaluation approaches (e.g., test collections, lab studies, log analyses) · Test set creation (e.g., common reference task, common corpora) - Other uses of desktop collections · Life-logging · Introspection and reflection using personal collections Submission Guidelines Short papers (max 4 pages) and short position papers (max 2 pages) describing significant work in progress, late breaking results or ideas / challenges for the domain are invited. Submissions should be in ACM SIGIR format. LaTeX and Word templates are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates (for LaTeX, use the "Option 2" style). Anonymised papers in pdf format should be submitted to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=desktop2010 no later than midnight Pacific Daylight Time on June 9, 2010. Submissions will be subject to triple-blind reviewing. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. These proceedings will be distributed to workshop participants and made available on-line. At the workshop we will discuss the possibility of publishing in a journal special issue or similar. Important Dates *June 9, 2010 Deadline for paper submission* June 27, 2010 Notification to authors July 5, 2010 Camera-ready copy due July 23, 2010 Workshop Further Information Further information is available on the workshop website at http://www.cdvp.dcu.ie/DS2010/ or by emailing the workshop organizers. Workshop Organizers David Elsweiler University of Erlangen, Germany ([log in to unmask]) Gareth J. F. Jones Dublin City University, Ireland ( [log in to unmask]) Liadh Kelly Dublin City University, Ireland ([log in to unmask]) Jaime Teevan Microsoft Research Redmond, USA ([log in to unmask]) Program Committee Leif Azzopardi - University of Glasgow, UK Ofer Bergman Sheffield University, UK Rob Capra - University of North Carolina, USA Sergey Chernov - University of Hanover, Germany Bruce Croft - University of Massachusetts, USA Ed Cutrell - Microsoft Research, India Susan Dumais - Microsoft Research, USA Diane Kelly - University of North Carolina, USA Ian Ruthven - University of Strathclyde, UK