HCIR 2010 Accepted Papers

The 4th Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR 2010) is coming up on August 22 in New Brunswick, NJ, taking place immediately after the Information Interaction in Context conference (IIiX 2010). That’s just a few weeks away!

If you are are interested in attending and haven’t already registered, please let me know as soon as possible via email or Twitter (speaking of which, follow the #hcir2010 hash tag). We’re making the remaining slots available to the community on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Google user experience researcher Dan Russell will be delivering this year’s keynote on “Why is search sometimes easy and sometimes hard? Understanding serendipity and expertise in the mind of the searcher“.

Here is the list of accepted papers:

Oral Presentations

VISTO: for Web Information Gathering and Organization
Anwar Alhenshiri, Carolyn Watters, and Michael Shepherd (Dalhousie University)
Time-based Exploration of News Archives
Omar Alonso (Microsoft Corporation), Klaus Berberich (Max-Planck Institute for Informatics), Srikanta Bedathur (Max-Planck Institute for Informatics), and Gerhard Weikum (Max-Planck Institute for Informatics)
Combining Computational Analyses and Interactive Visualization to Enhance Information Retrieval
Carsten Goerg, Jaeyeon Kihm, Jaegul Choo, Zhicheng Liu, Sivasailam Muthiah, Haesun Park, and John Stasko (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Impact of Retrieval Precision on Perceived Difficulty and Other User Measures
Mark Smucker and Chandra Prakash Jethani (University of Waterloo)
Exploratory Searching As Conceptual Exploration
Pertti Vakkari (University of Tampere)
Casual-leisure Searching: The Exploratory Search Scenarios that Break our Current Models
Max L. Wilson (Swansea University) and David Elsweiler (University of Erlangen)

HCIR Challenge Reports

Search for Journalists: New York Times Challenge Report
Corrado Boscarino, Arjen P. de Vries, and Wouter Alink (Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica)
Exploring the New York Times Corpus with NewsClub
Christian Kohlschütter (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Searching Through Time in the New York Times
Michael Matthews, Pancho Tolchinsky, Roi Blanco, Jordi Atserias, Peter Mika, and Hugo Zaragoza (Yahoo! Labs)
News Sync: Three Reasons to Visualize News Better
V.G. Vinod Vydiswaran (University of Illinois), Jeroen van den Eijkhof (University of Washington), Raman Chandrasekar (Microsoft Research), Ann Paradiso (Microsoft Research), and Jim St. George (Microsoft Research)
Custom Dimensions for Text Corpus Navigation
Vladimir Zelevinsky (Endeca Technologies)
A Retrieval System Based on Sentiment Analysis
Wei Zheng and Hui Fang (University of Delaware)

Research Posters

Improving Web Search for Information Gathering: Visualization in Effect
Anwar Alhenshiri, Carolyn Watters, and Michael Shepherd (Dalhousie University)
User-oriented and Eye-Tracking-based Evaluation of an Interactive Search System
Thomas Beckers and Norbert Fuhr (University of Duisberg-Essen)
Exploring Combinations of Sources for Interaction Features for Document Re-ranking
Emanuele Di Buccio (University of Padua), Massimo Melucci (University of Padua), and Dawei Song (The Robert Gordon University)
Extracting Expertise to Facilitate Exploratory Search and Information Discovery: Combining Information Retrieval Techniques with a Computational Cognitive Model
Wai-Tat Fu and Wei Dong (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
An Architecture for Real-time Textual Query Term Extraction from Images
Cathal Hoare and Humphrey Sorensen (University College Cork)
Transaction Log Analysis of User Actions in a Faceted Library Catalog Interface
Bill Kules (The Catholic University of America), Robert Capra (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), and Joseph Ryan (North Carolina State University Libraries)
Context in Health Information Retrieval: What and Where
Carla Lopes and Cristina Ribeiro (University of Porto)
Tactics for Information Search in a Public and an Academic Library Catalog with Faceted Interfaces
Xi Niu and Bradley M. Hemminger (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Position Papers

Understanding Information Seeking in the Patent Domain and its Impact on the Interface Design of IR Systems
Daniela Becks, Matthias Görtz, and Christa Womser-Hacker (University of Hildesheim)
Better Search Applications Through Domain Specific Context Descriptions
Corrado Boscarino, Arjen P. de Vries, and Jacco van Ossenbruggen (Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica)
Layered, Adaptive Results: Interaction Concepts for Large, Heterogeneous Data Sets
Duane Degler (Design for Context)
Revisiting Exploratory Search from the HCI Perspective
Abdigani Diriye (University College London), Max L. Wilson (Swansea University), Ann Blandford (University College London), and Anastasios Tombros (Queen Mary University London)
Supporting Task with Information Appliances: Taxonomy of Needs
Sarah Gilbert, Lori McCay-Peet, and Elaine Toms (Dalhousie University)
A Proposal for Measuring and Implementing Group’s Affective Relevance in Collaborative Information Seeking
Roberto González-Ibáñez and Chirag Shah (Rutgers University)
Evaluation of Music Information Retrieval: Towards a User-Centered Approach
Xiao Hu (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) and Jingjing Liu (Rutgers University)
Information Derivatives: A New Way to Examine Information Propagation
Chirag Shah (Rutgers University)
Implicit Factors in Networked Information Feeds
Fred Stutzman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Improving the Online News Experience
V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran (University of Illinois) and Raman Chandrasekar (Microsoft Research)
Breaking Down the Assumptions of Faceted Search
Vladimir Zelevinsky (Endeca Technologies)
A Survey of User Interfaces in Content-based Image Search Engines on the Web
Danyang Zhang (The City University of New York)