Conference Program: First Workshop on Web Information-Seeking and Interaction
Conference Program Now Available: First Workshop on Web Information-Seeking and Interaction
The workshop will take place in Amsterdam on July 27th. We will be monitoring the web for full text copies of the very interesting papers listed below. We will keep you posted.
The Agenda includes:
+ Panel: “Challenges and Opportunities in Supporting Web Search Interaction” including an expert in: a) information seeking, b) user interfaces for search, and c) large-scale Web search interface development and/or evaluation. The aim of the panel is to provide a broad overview of the issues in this area.
+ Papers:
Adaptive Personalization of Web Search (Abstract Only)
Shady Elbassuoni, Julia Luxenburger, Gerhard Weikum
(Max-Planck-Institute of Informatics)
++ Exploring How Mouse Movements Relate to Eye Movements on Web Search Results Pages
Kerry Rodden* (Google Inc.); Xin Fu (University of North Carolina)
++ Evaluating Engagement in Interactive Search
Heather O’Brien, Elaine Toms (Dalhousie University)
++ Clickthrough-based Measures of Search Engine Performance
Erik Graf, Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow)
* Some of Google’s Kerry Rodden papers are available online. They are all listed here. Three of special note:
+ Incorporating Eyetracking into User Studies at Google, Position paper for workshop Getting a Measure of Satisfaction from Eyetracking in Practice, 2006
+ Y. Nakhimovsky, R. Schusteritsch, and K. Rodden, caling the card sort method to over 500 items: Restructuring the Google AdWords Help Center (experience report), 2006.