People interact with information in a myriad of ways [1]. As well as actively seeking information, people also encounter it, and there have been various efforts to design systems that support encountering and keeping track of encountered information [2,...

Interacting with information in an on-line capacity is common place for the majority of people nowadays. However, there still remains a considerable section of society whose skills, knowledge and experience in such activities are creating significant ...

At the heart of this research is the role freedom of speech and freedom of access plays in the information era. Prior research found that while our access to information is rising, so is our level of spreading misinformation. This research will build on ...

The aim of this research proposal is to understand the extent in which Information Scent, part of Information Foraging Theory, influence the perception of relevance of retrieved search engine result pages (SERPs) in different environments (desktop and ...

In practice, query recommenders in Web search typically recommend queries directly from a query log or iteratively refine a user's current context to make recommendations. These approaches either limit themselves to queries in the log or do not take ...

Hiring and engaging real users for conducting user studies is costly and time consuming. Therefore, simulating users has been proposed as a resource saving solution. Simulation helps to predict users' performance with retrieval systems and could provide ...

Leisure travelers most often travel in groups with family, relatives or friends. It is argued that tourist information search tends to be more collaborative than a completely individual decision-making exercise. Collaborative information seeking (CIS) ...

Due to a major digitization effort, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, NRK, has made Norwegian cultural heritage from the last century of radio and TV available to the public. It is impossible to manually go through and index all the digitized ...

The workshop will be the second in a series, building upon a successful workshop held at the SIGIR 2015 conference. The main aim is to focus on a narrow but highly important set of topics that have been identified in the last workshop and are of ...

The workshop on the evaluation of collaborative information retrieval and seeking (ECol) is held in conjunction with the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval (CHIIR) in Oslo, Norway. To make the workshop active and the ...

There is broad consensus in the field of IR that search is complex in many use cases and applications, both on the Web and in domain specific collections, and both professionally and in our daily life. Yet our understanding of complex search tasks, in ...

Modeling how people interact with search interfaces has been of particular interest and importance to the field of Interactive Information Retrieval. Recently, there has been a move to developing formal models of the interaction between the user and the ...

Due to increasing possibilities to create digital video, we are facing the emergence of large video archives that are made accessible either online or offline. Though a lot of research has been spent on video retrieval tools and methods, which allow for ...

Mobile devices and the internet of things blend our virtual online behavior with our actions in the real-world. The physical context creates numerous external factors that play a role in the user's online interactions, thus creating new external biases ...

One of the major failings of ebook collections is the lack of readily available browsing mechanisms particularly in academic libraries. This stands in sharp contrast to the library shelves, and is bemoaned by readers as a reason to avoid the use of ...

A largely unquestioned assumption in social reading is that publicly shared annotations improve reading outcomes. In this study, we explore the specific assumption that relevant and irrelevant passive highlighting affects comprehension. Participants ...

We investigate query characteristics and click behavior on SERPs of children in grades 6 and 8 (ages 11 and 13, respectively). We employ Retrospective Think-Aloud (RTA) protocol to elicit children's thought processes while clicking on results and to ...

Due to its nature, a complex and exploratory search task is not directly actionable; it needs to be decomposed into actionable sub-tasks. Achieving this decomposition is usually not trivial for non-expert users. Also, the users need additional support ...

Supporting exploratory search tasks with the help of structured data is an effective way to go beyond keyword search, as it provides an overview of the data, enables users to zoom in on their intent, and provides assistance during their navigation ...

We describe an initial study into the identification of important and useful information units within documents retrieved by an information retrieval system in response to a user query created in response to an underlying information need. This study is ...