[Asis-l] 2nd CFP: NeuroIIR'2017: CHIIR Workshop on Challenges in Bringing Neuroscience to Research in Human-Information Interaction

[Jacek Gwizdka]

2nd 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: 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 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
Sampath Jayarathna, Computer Science, California Polytechnic University


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Jacek Gwizdka, PhD(Toronto) MASc(Toronto) MEng(TULodz)
'Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate' - William
of Ockham (1285-1349)
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