[Asis-l] CFP: NeuroIIR'2017: CHIIR Workshop on Challenges in Bringing Neuroscience to Research in Human-Information Interaction

[Jacek Gwizdka]

CFP: NeuroIIR'2017: CHIIR Workshop on Challenges in Bringing Neuroscience
to Research in Human-Information Interaction
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CALL FOR PAPERS - NeuroIIR'2017
2nd International NeuroIIR Workshop on Challenges in Bringing Neuroscience
to Research in Human-Information Interaction in conjunction with the 2nd
Annual ACM CHIIR Conference (CHIIR'2017) to be held in Oslo, Norway

Workshop date: March 11th, 2017 (afternoon)
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/neuroiir2017

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Important Dates:
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* Paper submission deadline: January 12, 2017
* Notification of acceptance: February 12, 2017
* Camera-ready deadline: February 27, 2017
* Workshop date: March 11, 2017 (half-day)


Workshop Organizers:
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Jacek Gwizdka, NeuroIIR2017 at gwizdka.com
  (School of Information, University of Texas at Austin)

Javed Mostafa, jm at unc.edu
  (Biomedical Research & Imaging Center, School of Medicine & the iSchool,
 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)


Objectives:
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NeuroIIR'2017 will build upon a successful workshop held at the SIGIR'2015.
One critical take-away from the last workshop was that application of
neuro-physiological (NP) experimental methodologies in IIR research studies
is promising but highly challenging. The 2017 workshop has three broad
aims:
    1) Develop a foundational knowledge of appropriate methods or adapting
experimental methods in IIR that permit execution of a large range of
information seeking tasks, while wearing specialized devices or being
inside scanning equipment.
    2) Gain a deeper and clearer understanding of the wide variety of
parameters that are essential to operating the NP equipment and tuning them
for particular types of information interaction events.
    3) A related aim is to gain insights regarding a set of well-known NP
modalities/devices and related parameters, so that they could be
potentially combined to study complex information seeking phenomena.


Submissions:
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We invite submissions that may include the following topics:
* findings from completed IR/IIR research that utilized neuro-physiological
tools;
* research questions in IR/IIR that are likely to benefit from NP methods;
* comparative analysis of NP tools and techniques with their applications
in IR/IIR;
* data fusion methods that support combination of NP data with traditional
IR/IIR data;

In all types of submissions we ask the authors to describe some of the
following:
* how IIR research protocols were (or will be) modified to allow for use of
NP tools;
* why NP modalities (one or more) were selected for use in IIR research;
* what lessons were learned from using NP tools in IIR research;

We invite submissions in two categories:
1. papers describing completed research or methodological contributions (up
to 4 pages)
2. work-in-progress - short report papers  (up to 2 pages). ). The accepted
WIPs would need to be submitted in poster format for poster-session
presentation during the workshop.

The neuro-cognitive and physiological tools of interest include, but are
not limited to, fMRI, fNIRS, EEG, MEG, eye-tracking.


Submission guidelines:
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All submitted papers must be written in English;
* contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses;
* be formatted according to the ACM SIG Proceedings template (
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) with a font
size no smaller than 9pt;
* be in PDF (make sure that the PDF can be viewed on any platform), and
formatted for US Letter size.
* papers should be submitted in EasyChair to
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=neuroiir2017
* paper submission deadline: January 12, 2017

* Accepted papers will be published in workshop proceedings at CEUR-WS.org

* Workshop attendees will be encouraged to submit manuscripts to a special
issue on Neuro-Information Science to be published by Journal of the
Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST).


Workshop Location:
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NeuroIR 2017 will take place in Oslo, Norway and will be held in
conjunction with the 2nd Annual ACM CHIIR Conference.


Program Committee (preliminary):
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Ioannis Arapakis, Yahoo Labs, Spain
Ofer Bergman, Bar-Ilan University, Isreael
Vincent N. Carrasco, Info. Science, UNC at Chapel Hill, USA
Kelly Giovanello, Neuroscience, UNC at Chapel Hill, USA
Yasher Moshfeghi, CS, U Glasgow, UK
Henning Muller, Medical Imaging & Informatics, Switzerland
Frank Pollick, Psychology, Univeristy of Glasgow, UK
Tuukka Ruotsalo, HIIT, Finland
Erin Treacy Solovey, iSchool, Drexel, USA
Max Wilson, University of Nottingham, UK


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Jacek Gwizdka, PhD (Toronto)  http://gwizdka.com/research
'Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate' - William
of Ockham (1285-1349)
Research Talk <http://bit.ly/Jacek_RU_talk_2015> on NeuroIR
Assistant Professor at School of Information, University of Texas at Austin
1616 Guadalupe St,  Austin, TX 78701, USA |  Office 5.532 (5th floor)
Information eXperience (IX) lab Co-Director   |  ACM Senior Member
Distinguished Fellow of the Kosciuszko Foundation Collegium of Eminent
Scientists
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