[Asis-l] CFPosters: NeuroIIR'2017: A CHIIR Workshop

[Jacek Gwizdka]

CFPosters: NeuroIIR'2017: CHIIR Workshop on Challenges in
Bringing Neuroscience to Research in Human-Information Interaction
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  ** Please forward to anyone who might be interested **

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CALL FOR *POSTERS* - 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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* Poster submission deadline: *** February 27th, 2017  ***
* Notification of acceptance: March 2nd, 2017

* Workshop date: March 11, 2017 (half-day: afternoon)


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 in the following category only:

A single-page poster abstract submissions that may include the following
topics:
* findings from completed or in progress IR/IIR research that utilized NP
tools;
* 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;
* description of how IIR research protocols were (or will be) modified to
allow for use of NP tools;
* lessons were learned from using NP tools in IIR research;


One-page poster abstracts will be reviewed by workshops co-chairs only.

The accepted poster abstracts would need to be prepared in a visual poster
format for the 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 poster abstracts 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.
*  poster abstracts  should be submitted in EasyChair to
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=neuroiir2017


* 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.



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Best
- Jacek

Jacek Gwizdka, PhD(Toronto) MASc(Toronto) MEng(TULodz)
'Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate' - William
of Ockham (1285-1349)
Research Talk <http://bit.ly/Jacek_RU_talk_2015> on NeuroIR          |
       http://gwizdka.com/research
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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