[Siguse-l] CFP - WWW2006 Logging Web Activity Workshop

[Don Turnbull]

Call for Participation -  Workshop on Logging Traces of Web Activity:  
The Mechanics of Data Collection

At the World Wide Web Conference 2006 in Edinburgh, Scotland on May  
23, 2006

Submission deadline extended until February 10, 2006

We invite position papers for the WWW 2006 workshop “Logging Traces  
of Web Activity: The Mechanics of Data Collection”. Many WWW  
researchers require logs of user behaviour on the Web. Researchers  
study the interactions of web users, both with respect to general  
behaviour and in order to develop and evaluate new tools and  
techniques. Traces of web activity are used for a wide variety of  
research and commercial purposes including user interface usability  
and evaluations of user behaviour and patterns on the web. Currently,  
there is a lack of available logging tools to assist researchers with  
data collection and it can be difficult to choose an appropriate  
technique. There are several tradeoffs associated with different  
methods of capturing log-based data. There are also challenges  
associated with processing, analyzing and utilizing the collected data.

This one day workshop will examine the trade-offs and challenges  
inherent to the different logging approaches and provide workshop  
attendees the opportunity to discuss both previous data collection  
experiences and upcoming challenges. The goal of this workshop is to  
establish a community of researchers and practitioners to contribute  
to a shared repository of logging knowledge and tools. The workshop  
will consist of a panel discussion, participant presentations,  
demonstrations of logging tools and prototypes, and a discussion of  
the next steps for the group. Participation is open to researchers,  
practitioners, and students in the field.

**Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

     * Methodologies for data collection (client-side, server-side,  
proxy-based)
     * Collecting browser data (e.g. events, bookmarks, history, and  
caches)
     * Collecting data from users across different browsers
     * AJAX-compatible logging systems
     * Using mixed data sources for data validation
     * Cleaning web data
     * Web data warehousing
     * Using web data for proactive user functionality
     * Methods for matching user behaviour to task models
     * Qualitative annotation of web data

**Submission Details

Potential participants are invited to submit either a one page  
statement of interest or a four page position paper. All accepted  
submissions will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will  
be published online. Participants will be selected based on the  
relevance of the submission to the workshop topic, interest to other  
participants, and breadth of submissions. A selected number of  
position papers will be chosen for presentation by the participants  
during the workshop.

Submissions should be sent to www2006 at cs.dal.ca no later than  
February 10, 2006. Please send submissions in PDF format. Submissions  
should follow the WWW2006 submission format.

For more information see the full description for the Call for  
Participation at: http://torch.cs.dal.ca/~www2006/ 
DataCollectionWorkshop.html


Feel free to email me directly at donturn at ischool.utexas.edu with any  
questions.

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Don Turnbull, Ph.D.
Asst. Professor
School of Information
University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station, D7000
Austin, TX 78712
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~donturn/