Call for Participation, CHIIR 2016: Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

Posted July 30, 2015

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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
March 13-17, 2016

Submission deadline: September 1, 2015

OVERVIEW

The 1st annual ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2016) will be held on March 13-17, 2016 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. CHIIR is a forum for the dissemination and discussion of research on the user-centered aspects of information interaction and information retrieval. CHIIR focuses on elements such as human involvement in search activities, and information seeking and use in context. The conference represents a merger of two successful past events: the Information Interaction in Context conference (IIiX) and the Human Computer Information Retrieval symposium (HCIR), which have run since 2006 and 2007, respectively.

CHIIR 2016 solicits several types of submissions: full papers, short papers and workshop proposals. In addition, CHIIR will host a doctoral consortium.

*New Paper Category: New Perspectives*

New Perspectives papers provide novel ideas or insights concerning conceptualizations, problem statements, concerns or methodological issues in Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, and that have the potential to inspire substantive discussion and significant advances in the field. Contributions could be meta-theoretical and include views and claims that function as directives of how and what to study, or systematize previous studies to give a broader view of a sub-field or field as a whole. New Perspectives contributions should not be reports of empirical research (that type of paper should be submitted as a Full or Short paper), but rather should argue systematically for a new approach, methodology, or larger theory in our field.

IMPORTANT DATES

1 Sept 2015 – Full Papers and New Perspectives Papers Due
15 Sept 2015 – Short Papers, Workshops Proposals and DC Submissions Due
20 Oct 2015 – Workshop Notifications
13 Nov 2015 – All Other Notifications
13-17 Mar 2016 – CHIIR conference

SCOPE

We expect submissions to contain a rigorous evaluation of any proposed findings, using techniques such as laboratory studies, field experiments, in situ observational studies, crowdsourcing, simulations of search behavior, and log analysis. Authors should describe their methods and techniques in enough detail to allow for replication and reuse.

Users are central to the design, evaluation, and use of information retrieval systems. Many areas of interest for CHIIR have traditionally been covered under “Users and interactive IR” at the SIGIR Conference, and at previous HCIR and IIiX conferences. CHIIR provides a dedicated venue for broader, deeper discussion of research in this important area.

We are particularly interested in papers about the following areas:

Information seeking, search and retrieval, including task-based and exploratory search
Interaction techniques for information retrieval and discovery
Online information-seeking behavior, including log analysis of search and browsing
Modeling and simulation of information interaction
Search user interfaces, including those for specialized tasks, populations and domains
Information use, including measures of use and sensemaking
Field and case studies relevant to information retrieval and access
User-centered evaluation methods and measures, including measures of user experience and performance, experiment and search task design, data analysis methods, and usability
Context-aware and personalized search, contextual features and analysis for information interaction
Collaborative information seeking and social search, including social utility and network analysis for information interaction
Information visualization and visual analytics, search result presentation
User-centered work in other areas of information retrieval

For more details, see: http://sigir.org/chiir2016/