I just wanted to let folks know that the position papers for the NSF Information Seeking Support Systems Workshop are now available at this link.
Here is a listing to whet your curiosity:
- Supporting Interaction and Familiarity
James Allan, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA - From Web Search to Exploratory Search: Can we get there from here?
Peter Anick, Yahoo! Inc., USA - Complex and Exploratory Web Search (with Daniel Russell)
Anne Aula, Google, USA - Really Supporting Information Seeking: A Position Paper
Nicholas J. Belkin, Rutgers University, USA - Transparent and User-Controllable Personalization For Information Exploration
Peter Brusilovsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA - Faceted Exploratory Search Using the Relation Browser
Robert Capra, UNC, USA - Towards a Model of Understanding Social Search
Ed Chi, Palo Alto Research Center, USA - Building Blocks For Rapid Development of Information Seeking Support Systems
Gary Geisler, University of Texas at Austin, USA - Collaborative Information Seeking in Electronic Environments
Gene Golovchinsky, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, USA - NeoNote: User Centered Design Suggestions for a Global Shared Scholarly Annotation System
Brad Hemminger, UNC, USA - Speaking the Same Language About Exploratory Information Seeking
Bill Kules, The Catholic University of America, USA - Musings on Information Seeking Support Systems
Michael Levi, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, USA - Social Bookmarking and Information Seeking
David Millen, IBM Research, USA - Making Sense of Search Result Pages
Jan Pedersen, Yahoo, USA - A Multilevel Science of Social Information Foraging and Sensemaking
Peter Pirolli, XEROX PARC USA - Characterizing, Supporting and Evaluating Exploratory Search
Edie Rasmussen, University of British Columbia, Canada - The Information-Seeking Funnel
Daniel Rose, A9.com, USA - Complex and Exploratory Web Search (with Anne Aula)
Daniel Russell, Google, USA - Research Agenda: Visual Overviews for Exploratory Search
Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, USA - Five Challenges for Research to Support IS3
Elaine Toms, Dalhousie University, Canada - Resolving the Battle Royale between Information Retrieval and Information Science
Daniel Tunkelang, Endeca, USA
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