[Asis-l] CFP: Information Interaction in Context (IIiX 2012)

[Jaap Kamps]

IIiX 2012: Fourth Information Interaction in Context Symposium
http://iiix2012.org
Nijmegen, the Netherlands, August 21-24, 2012

Second Call for Papers
				
The Information Interaction in Context conference (IIiX) explores the 
relationships between and within the contexts that affect information 
retrieval (IR) and information seeking, how these contexts impact 
information behavior, and how knowledge of information contexts and 
behaviors improves the design of interactive information systems.
The intention of IIiX is to foster an integrated approach to information 
access by bringing together members of the research communities in 
information seeking behavior (Behavior Track), user interface design for 
IR systems (Interface Track),  interactive IR (Interaction Track), and 
IR system design (System Track).

TOPICS
- Interactive IR issues
- Design of IR user interfaces
- Qualitative approaches to the study of context-sensitive information 
seeking and IR
- Context-aware retrieval models
- Relevance feedback (implicit & explicit) and query modification issues 
for capturing context
- Novel approaches to eliciting, identifying, capturing and representing 
contextual information
- Task-based interactive IR and information seeking behavior
- Issues of genre, media, language, modality and structure in contextual 
information seeking and IR
- Personalized and collaborative information access in context
- Contextual information interaction theory
- Nature of relevance in context
- Measures and methods for studying and evaluating information seeking 
and IR in context
- Test collections for interactive or context-sensitive IR

Submissions are sought that integrate two or more of these perspectives 
represented by tracks.  While it is understood that one area might be 
the dominant theme of the submission, the expectation is that authors 
will provide an explicit discussion of how their submission informs at 
least one other area.  For example, a submission that primarily 
discusses system aspects should provide mention of how the system 
impacts interaction or behavior.  A paper that primarily discusses 
information behavior should discuss implications for interaction or 
system design.  Papers that investigate multiple themes directly are 
especially welcome.


SUBMISSION TYPES: PAPERS and POSTERS
- Papers - IIiX encourages the submission of original, high quality 
research papers that have not been published previously and are not 
under review for another conference or journal. All submissions will be 
reviewed by an international program committee. Full papers, describing 
completed research results, should be no more than 10 pages in length. 
Accepted papers will be made available in the ACM Digital Library.
- Posters - Provocative and interesting poster submissions, describing 
work in progress or late-breaking results are also sought. The aim of 
the poster session is to encourage debate, discussion, and future 
collaboration. As well as being reviewed according to typical measures 
of originality and technical merit, submissions will also be reviewed 
for their suitability for an exciting and engaging poster session. 
Poster papers should be no more than 4 pages in length.  In addition, 
authors of accepted posters are expected to include a 1 page image of 
their posters (in PDF) as part of their FINAL submissions.  It will be 
included alongside the paper in the ACM Digital Library.  This image 
SHOULD NOT be included as part of the initial submission.

FORMAT
Full papers and poster papers should be formatted using the ACM 
Conference style (for LaTeX or Word).  Submissions should be made in 
PDF.  Submit papers and posters to 
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=iiix2012
Paper review will be double-blind so submissions should be anonymous. 
Please omit author names and affiliations from the initial submission.

DEADLINES
Papers: April 2, 2012
Posters: April 16, 2012

ORGANIZATION
General Conference Co-chairs:
- Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- Wessel Kraaij (Radboud University Nijmegen/TNO, Netherlands).
Local Chair: Suzan Verberne (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Treasurer: Theo van der Weide (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Program Chair: Norbert Fuhr (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Area Chairs:
- Behavior Track: Elaine Toms (Sheffield University, UK)
- Interaction Track: Kal Järvelin (University of Tampere, Finland)
- Interface Track: Max Wilson (Swansea University, UK)
- Systems Track: Paul Thomas (CSIRO, Australia)
Posters Chair: Stefan Rüger (The Open University, UK)
Doctoral Consortium Chairs:
- Hideo Joho (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
- Birger Larsen (Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark)

CONTACT
iiix2012 at cs.ru.nl