[Eurchap] CFP IIiX 2008 Doctoral Forum, Oct 14, 2008, London, UK

[Birger Larsen]

[apologies for multiple postings]

 

  Call for Participation

 

Doctoral Forum at the Second Information 

Interaction in Context Symposium (IIiX)

October 14, 2008, London, UK

 

Application deadline: June 1, 2008.

 

The Doctoral Forum at the Second Information Interaction in Context
Symposium (IIiX) is a one-day event that will take place on 14 October
2008, one day prior to the IIiX symposium
<http://irsg.bcs.org/iiix2008/index.php> . The primary objective of the
Doctoral Forum is to provide doctoral students with a forum to present
and discuss their research projects with senior researchers and fellow
students and to develop their relationships with other scientists. 

 

We invite all doctoral students investigating aspects in, e.g.,
information retrieval, information seeking or human-computer interaction
related areas to apply for the forum. We especially welcome projects
where contextual features are being considered as part of the research
design. 

 

Students are to give a 15-20 minute presentation of their research
project. Each presentation will be followed by 15 to 20 minutes of
discussion with senior researchers, which are experts in one or more of
the general IIiX symposium themes
<http://irsg.bcs.org/iiix2008/themes.php> : 

- Case studies, field experiments, simulations, etc. of
context-sensitive information seeking & retrieval 

- Context-aware retrieval models 

- Relevance feedback (implicit & explicit) and query modification issues
for capturing context 

- Other approaches to eliciting, identifying and expressing/capturing
contextual information 

- Task-based interactive information retrieval and seeking behaviour 

- The effect of genre, media, language, modality and structure on
context 

- Personalised and collaborative information access in context 

- Contextual information interaction theory 

- Interactive information retrieval and interface issues 

- Nature of relevance in contexts 

- Measures of performance in context and situation-sensitive information
access 

- Test collections for context-sensitive research 

 

Due to the time consuming form of the Doctoral Forum, the number of
participants is restricted. 

 

Doctoral Forum Chairs: 
Erica Cosijn, Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria,
South Africa, erica.cosijn at up.ac.za 
Ross Wilkinson, Research Director, Information Engineering, CSIRO ICT
Centre, Australia, ross.wilkinson at csiro.au 

 

Applications: 
To apply to the workshop, please submit an application of 1500 words
containing: 

 

* a description of your doctoral research project that includes research
questions; and 

* a motivation for your student participation at the Doctoral Forum. 

 

The first page of the application must contain the name, affiliation and
full address of the doctoral student including phone and fax numbers and
email address. Proof of student status will be required from successful
applicants. 
The application should be submitted electronically through the
conference submission software no later than June 1, 2008 in PDF format.
We recommend that student participation and presentation of the research
project at the Doctoral Forum are credited 2 ECTS by their home
department. We also recommend that doctoral students register for the
main IIiX symposium, and submit full papers or research in progress
papers related to their projects. 

 

Kind regards 

 

Ross Wilkinson and Erica Cosijn 

 

 

 

 

_____________________________________________________

Birger Larsen, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Information Studies

Royal School of Library and Information Science

Birketinget 6, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark

Tel. +45 3258 6066 / +45 32341520, Fax. +45 32840201

Email: blar at db.dk, Homepage: http://www.db.dk/blar

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Co-organiser of the INEX interactive track

(http://inex.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de/2006/)

 

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