Tuesday, October 14

Wednesday, October 15

11.30 Session 1: Interactive IR – 1

• Tagging for Use: an analysis of use-centred resource description
  Luanne Freund, University of British Columbia, Canada & Richard Butterworth, UK
• Search strategies in multimodal image retrieval
  Stina Westman, Antti Lustila & Pirkko Oittinen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

13.30 Session 2: Context retrieval models

• Types of query reformulation, search performance, and term suggestion device in question-answering tasks
  Ying-Hsang Liu & Nicholas Belkin, Rutgers University, USA
• Novelty as a form of contextual re-ranking: Efficient KLD models and mixture models
  Ronald Teijeira Fernández & David Enrique Losada Carril, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
• A graph based approach to estimating lexical cohesion
  Hayrettin Gürkök, Murat Karamuftuoglu & Markus Schaal, Bilkent University, Turkey

15.20 Session 3: Personalisation

• A study of remembered context for information access from personal digital Archives
  Liadh Kelly, Yi Chen, Marguerite Fuller & Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland
• Activity put in context: Passively monitoring the user’s document interaction to identify implicit task context
  Karl Gyllstrom, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA; Craig Soules & Alistair Veitch, HP Labs, USA
• Learning user interests for a session-based personalized search
  Mariam Daoud, Lynda Tamine-Lechani & Mohand Boughanem, IRIT, France

Thursday, October 16

9.30 Session 4: Evaluation & relevance – 1

• Retrieval of context-aware applications on mobile devices: How to evaluate?
  Stefano Mizzaro, Elena Nazzi & Luca Vassena, University of Udine, Italy
• Content or context? Searching for musical meaning in task-based interactive information retrieval (research-in-progress)
  Charlie Inskip, Andy Macfarlane, City University London, UK & Pauline Rafferty, University of Aberystwyth, Wales
• The effects of performance feedback on users’ evaluations of an interactive IR System
  Diane Kelly, Chirag Shah, Cassidy Sugimoto, Earl Bailey, Rachel Clemens, Ann K. Irvine, Nicholas A. Johnson, Weimao Ke, Sanghee Oh, Anezka Poljakova, Marcos A. Rodriguez, Megan G. van Noord & Yan Zhang All, University of North Carolina, USA

11.10 Session 5: Interactive IR – 2

• Improving skim reading for document triage
  George Buchanan & Tom Owen, Swansea University, UK
• Comparing collaborative and independent search in a recall-oriented task
  Hideo Joho, David Hannah & Joemon M. Jose, University of Glasgow, UK
• A task-based information retrieval interface to support bioinformatics analysis (research-in-progress)
  Joan Bartlett, McGill University, Canada & Tomasz Neugebauer, Concordia University, Canada

• Nick Belkin, Rutgers University, US
• Ayse Goker, City University London, UK
• Diane Kelly, University of North Carolina, US
• Steve Robertson, Microsoft Cambridge, UK
• Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, UK

15.30 Session 6: Museum & archives in contexts

• Access to archival material in context
  Khairun Nisa Fachry, Jaap Kamps & Junte Zhang, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Exploring information seeking behaviour in a digital museum context (research-in-progress)
  Mette Skov & Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark
• Characteristics of information needs for television broadcasts of scholars and students in media studies
  Brian Kirkegaard & Pia Borlund, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark

Friday, October 17

11.15 Session 7: Evaluation & relevance – 2

• Searchers' relevance judgments and criteria in evaluating Web pages in a learning style perspective Chariste Papaeconomou, Annemarie Zijlema & Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark
• Deriving context from users’ evaluations to inform software development (research-in-progress) Stevie Barrett, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, UK & Charlie Inskip, City University London, UK
• Experiences evaluating personal metasearch (research-in-progress) Paul Thomas & David Hawking, CSIRO, Australia

13.30 Session 8: Information Seeking

• Optimal access to information while writing: Writing in the Internet age Olga Muñoz Ramos, Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherland; Maria Gracia Castillo Vergara, University of Granada, Spain; Mari Carmen Puerta Melguizo & Lou Boves, Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• Towards a model of children’s information seeking behavior in using digital libraries Dania Bilal & Sonia Sarangthem, University of Tennessee, USA; Imad Bachir, Lebanese University, Lebanon
• Differences between informational and transactional tasks in information seeking on the Web Hitoshi Terai, Tokyo Denki University, Japan; Hitomi Saito, Aichi University of Education, Japan; Yuka Egusa, National Institute for Educational Policy Research, Japan; Masao Takaku, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Japan; Makiko Miwa, National Institute of Multimedia Education, Japan & Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan