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* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
* Early Registration deadline: Monday, September 23
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* HCIR 2013
* Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction & Information Retrieval
* http://hcir.info/hcir-2013
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* Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
* October 3-4, 2013
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*You are cordially invited to attend HCIR 2013!*
The 7th annual Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information
Retrieval (HCIR 2013) will be held on Thursday and Friday, October 3 and
4th, 2013, at Simon Fraser University's Segal School of Business in
downtown Vancouver, BC, Canada. The symposium is being supported by the
University of British Columbia iSchool.
HCIR 2013 is a two-day event consisting of a single-track of
user-centered IR research presentations, a poster session, and ample
opportunity for informal discussions and social interaction that
includes a reception on the Thursday evening.
Areas of interest for HCIR include, but are not limited to:
* Novel interaction techniques for information retrieval.
* Modeling and evaluation of interactive information retrieval.
* Exploratory search and information discovery.
* Information visualization and visual analytics.
* Applications of HCI techniques to information retrieval needs
in specific domains.
* Ethnography and user studies relevant to information retrieval
and access.
* Scale and efficiency considerations for interactive information
retrieval systems.
* Relevance feedback and active learning approaches for
information retrieval.
The symposium offers full and short paper presentations, posters and two
exciting keynote talks:
* * Dr. Ed Chi, Google *
* * Dr. Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia *
The following full papers have been accepted for presentation:
*Slow Search: Information Retrieval without Time Constraints*
Jaime Teevan, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Ryen W. White, Susan Dumais, and
Yubin Kim
*Are Some Tweets More Interesting Than Others? #HardQuestion*
Omar Alonso, Catherine Marshall and Marc Najork
*Adaptation of a Search User Interface towards User Needs -- A Prototype
Study with Children & Adults*
Tatiana Gossen, Marcus Nitsche, Jana Vos and Andreas Nuernberger
*Sewing the Seams of Sensemaking: A Practical Interface for Tagging and
Organizing Saved Search Results*
Marti Hearst and Duane Degler
*Why Do Users Perceive Search Tasks As Difficult? Exploring Difficulty
in Different Task Types*
Jingjing Liu and Chang Suk Kim
Please check the website for the schedule and full list of papers:
http://hcir.info/hcir-2013
HCIR would not be possible without the generous support of its sponsors:
* The Graphics, Animation and New Media Network of Centres of
Excellence, Canada
* ACM SIGIR -- Special Interest Group for Information Retrieval
* Microsoft Research
* The iSchool At UBC
* SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS
Robert Capra, UNC Chapel Hill
Luanne Freund, University of British Columbia
Gene Golovchinsky, FX Palo Alto Laboratory
Catherine Smith, Kent State University
Mark Smucker, University of Waterloo
Ryen White, Microsoft Research
