Workshop on searching for fun 2014

Abstract

The Searching for Fun workshop brings together researchers who are interested in furthering our knowledge about searching and browsing in a casual leisure scenario. These are scenarios where the searcher does not have a specific information need to fulfil, but rather simply wishes to be entertained with no specific goal in mind. This can include: online window shopping with nothing to buy, reading online (including the news), watching funny videos, finding funny pictures, browsing Wikipedia or social networking sites. Following on from the successful workshop at ECIR in 2012 and later discussions at Dagstuhl meetings, this event involves researchers from several IR sub-communities (e.g. recommender systems, result diversity, multimedia retrieval) and related disciplines, discussing new and early research and creating a vision for future work in this area.