[Asis-l] CfP: Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

[Kelly, Diane]

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*    CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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*    CHIIR 2016: Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
(CHIIR)
*    Sponsored by ACM SIGIR
*    In cooperation with ACM SIGCHI
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*    http://sigir.org/chiir2016/
*    Follow us:  @ACM_CHIIR
*    Tweet with us: #CHIIR2016
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*    Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
*    March 13-17, 2016
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*    Submission deadline: September 1, 2015
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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/