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).
