[Eurchap] CfP: Second International Symposium on Information Interaction in Context (IIiX), 14-17 October, 2008, London, UK

[Jesper Wiborg Schneider]

Call for Papers

Second International Symposium on Information Interaction in Context
(IIiX)
14-17 October, 2008, London, UK
http://irsg.bcs.org/iiix2008/

Submission deadline for all contributions: May 1, 2008.

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The availability of information across media and genres, across
languages, and across modalities constantly increases. How people access
this information is highly dependent on the context of their interaction
and this context is influenced by a range of factors such as the time,
place, and history of interaction, the tasks motivating the interaction
and the technical possibilities of the information systems. Although the
use of information systems is heavily affected by contextual factors,
Information Retrieval and Seeking research is largely conducted out of
context.

IIiX will explore the relationships between the contexts that affect
Information Retrieval and Seeking, how these contexts impact on
information behaviour, and how knowledge of information contexts can
help design truly interactive information systems.

IIiX invites research contributions that approach information contexts
from a broad range of perspectives, such as context surrounding
documents, context influencing seeking, humans and their tasks, the
context of information seekers and providers, the context of interactive
search, and the technical contexts of information systems.

IIiX encourages the submission of original, high quality research papers
that have not been previously published and are not under review for
another conference or journal, in any of the symposium topics of
interest. All submissions will be reviewed by an international programme
committee, and all accepted research papers will be published in the
symposium proceedings by a major publisher. Submissions may either be
full research papers (max 5000 words) or research in progress papers
(max 2000 words). 
Full details on submissions are available on the symposium web page
(http://irsg.bcs.org/iiix2008/).


Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following:

* 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


**** IMPORTANT DATES ****

Full papers or Research-in-Progress papers:   May 1, 2008
Notification of acceptance:                 June 23, 2008
Camera-ready copy due:                          July 2008

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Symposium co-chairs:
Mounia Lalmas & Anastasios Tombros
Queen Mary University of London, UK

Symposium Programme co-chairs:
Pia Borlund & Jesper W. Schneider
Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark

Thematic Programme Chairs:
Diane Kelly (Interactive IR)
University of North Carolina, USA

Arjen de Vries  (Laboratory IR)
CWI, Netherlands

John Feather (Information Behaviour)
University of Loughborough, UK

Tutorial co-chairs:
Eero Sormunen, University of Tampere, Finland Peter Ingwersen, Royal
School of Library and Information Science

Doctoral Forum co-chairs:
Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Australia
Erica Cosijn, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Local organization chair:
Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow, UK

Web site:
Murat Yakici, University of Strathclyde, UK

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Jesper Wiborg Schneider, PhD, Associate Professor
Royal School of Library & Information Science, Denmark
Fredrik Bajers Vej 7K, 9220 Aalborg East
Tel. +45 98773041, Fax. +45 98151042
E-mail: jws at db.dk
Homepage:http://www.db.dk/jws 
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