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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
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* Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
* October 3-4, 2013
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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