[Siguse-l] [Fwd: IIiX 2008 - Final Call for Doctoral Forum Participation]

[Nicholas Belkin]

[apologies for multiple postings]

Final 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, CSIRO, 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 directly by email to Erica Cosijn
(erica.cosijn {at} up.ac.za) or Ross Wilkinson (ross.wilkinson {at}
csiro.au) 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






-- 
Nicholas J. Belkin
Professor II
Director, PhD Program in Communication, Information & Library Studies
Department of Library and Information Science
School of Communication, Information & Library Studies
Rutgers University
4 Huntington Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1071, USA
email: nick at belkin.rutgers.edu; belkin at rci.rutgers.edu
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