The workshop was held in in conjunction with the 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference in Amsterdam an took place on Friday, July 27, 2007.

The workshop was organized by:
++ Kerry Rodden, Google
++ Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde
++ Ryen W. White, Microsoft

Full-Text papers are already available in the proceedings (68 pages; PDF). Titles include:

+ Adaptive Personalization of Web Search
by Shady Elbassuoni, Julia Luxenburger and Gerhard Weikum

+ ‘I’ll just Google it!’: Should lawyers’ perceptions of Google inform the design of
electronic legal resources?
by Stephann Makri, Ann Blandford and Anna L. Cox

+ Increasing the speed of Information Access on the web using HTML feature extraction
by Andreas Komninos and Chris Milligan

+ Separating Human and Non-Human Web Queries
by Yuye Zhang and Alistair Moffat

+ Interaction Pool: Towards a user-centred test collection
by Hideo Joho, Robert Villa and Joemon M. Jose

+ Using Subjunctive Interfaces to Show Web Retrievals in Context
by Aran Lunzer

+ Naming the Topic or Reversing Query Terms from Result Documents – Successful
Strategies in Web Search
by Anne Aula

+ Exploring How Mouse Movements Relate to Eye Movements on Web Search
Results Pages
by Kerry Rodden and Xin Fu

+ Revisiting informativeness as a process measure for information interaction
by Luanne Freund and Elaine G. Toms

+ Measuring the Navigability of Document Networks
by Mark D. Smucker and James Allan

+ Evaluating Engagement in Interactive Search
by Heather L. O’Brien and Elaine G. Toms

+ Clickthrough based measures of search engine performance
by Erik Graf, Craig Macdonald and Iadh Ounis

+ Comparing System Evaluation with User Experiments for Japanese Web Navigational
Retrieval
by Masao Takaku,Yuka Egusa, Hitomi Saito and Hitoshi Terai

+ Position paper: Web Page Relevance: What are we measuring?
by Diane Kelly

+ Position paper: User interactions with results summaries
by Frances Johnson

+ Position Paper: Towards Evaluating the User Experience of Interactive Information
Access Systems
by Leif Azzopardi

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