{"title":"Capturing context and mental state of knowledge workers","authors":"Saskia Koldijk","doi":"10.1145/2362724.2362786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2362724.2362786","url":null,"abstract":"We live in an information society, in which effective and efficient interaction with information is crucial. Many people are knowledge workers, whose main job it is to interpret and generate information. Due to their typical working conditions these people often experience stress while working with information [1]. They get overwhelmed by all the available information and often have a fragmented way of working due to inappropriate interruptions, for example by incoming mails with information requests. As a consequence, this way of working can diminish well-being at work, which -for some people- may finally result in burn-out.","PeriodicalId":413481,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Information Interaction in Context","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128266489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Generating queries from user-selected text","authors":"Chia-Jung Lee, W. Bruce Croft","doi":"10.1145/2362724.2362744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2362724.2362744","url":null,"abstract":"People browsing the web or reading a document may see text passages that describe a topic of interest, and want to know more about it by searching. Manually formulating a query from that text can be difficult, however, and an effective search is not guaranteed. In this paper, to address this scenario, we propose a learning-based approach which generates effective queries from the content of an arbitrary user-selected text passage. Specifically, the approach extracts and selects representative chunks (noun phrases or named entities) from the content (a text passage) using a rich set of features. We carry out experiments showing that the selected chunks can be effectively used to generate queries both in a TREC environment, where weights and query structure can be directly incorporated, and with a \"black-box\" web search engine, where query structure is more limited.","PeriodicalId":413481,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Information Interaction in Context","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125266261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Said, Brijnesh J. Jain, A. Lommatzsch, S. Albayrak
{"title":"Correlating perception-oriented aspects in user-centric recommender system evaluation","authors":"A. Said, Brijnesh J. Jain, A. Lommatzsch, S. Albayrak","doi":"10.1145/2362724.2362778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2362724.2362778","url":null,"abstract":"Research on recommender systems evaluation generally measures the quality of the algorithm, or system, offline, i.e. based on some information retrieval metric, e.g. precision or recall. The metrics do however not always reflect the users' perceptions of the recommendations. Perception-related values are instead often measured through user studies, however the bulk of the work on recommender systems is evaluated through offline analysis. In the work presented in this paper we choose to neglect the quality of the recommender system and instead focus on the similarity of aspects related to users' perception of recommender systems. Based on a user study (N = 132) we show the correlation of concepts such as usefulness, ratings, obviousness, and serendipity from the users' perspectives.","PeriodicalId":413481,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Information Interaction in Context","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114670539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scientists' preferences for bioinformatics tools: the selection of information retrieval systems","authors":"Joan C. Bartlett, Y. Ishimura, Lorie A. Kloda","doi":"10.1145/2362724.2362761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2362724.2362761","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present the findings of a survey of scientists regarding the characteristics they rate as important in their selection of bioinformatics tools. A total of 223 biologists completed a web-based questionnaire in which they assessed 39 individual characteristics of bioinformatics tools, independently rating the importance of each one in their selection of bioinformatics tools. The most highly rated characteristic was whether a tool actually accomplished what a participant needed it to do. Other highly rated characteristics included the ease of use of a tool, online availability, little or no cost, the ability to handle large data sets, and compatibility with other tools. Rated as non-important were characteristics relating to an imposed choice, such as a tool already having been purchased. Differences in ratings were found between those whose work was primarily focused on laboratory biology, and those whose work was primarily computer focused. The findings provide a set of characteristics by which bioinformatics tools can be annotated to facilitate the selection of tools. The findings also highlight the need to consider the requirements of different user groups in the design and development of information systems, rather than assuming that one size fits all.","PeriodicalId":413481,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Information Interaction in Context","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133631878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Practical considerations when filtering documents","authors":"Desmond Elliott, L. Azzopardi","doi":"10.1145/2362724.2362772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2362724.2362772","url":null,"abstract":"Implementing, configuring, and running an information filtering system in a practical setting is a difficult and challenging problem. This is due to variety and configuration of available system components along with additional factors such as topic length, feedback, and system training. Moreover, the interplay between the different components and additional factors can lead to degraded system performance when adding or manipulating particular components. We explore the interactions and effects of different components and some of the factors with respect to performance. The main contribution of this paper is a better understanding of how to configure filtering systems along with the possible pitfalls of applying conflicting components which harm performance and result in a poor user experience.","PeriodicalId":413481,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Information Interaction in Context","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132928846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examining the effect of task stage and topic knowledge on searcher interaction with a \"digital bookstore\"","authors":"N. Pharo, R. Nordlie","doi":"10.1145/2362724.2362730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2362724.2362730","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports some results from the experiment of the 2010 INEX interactive track. The experiment was designed to let searchers simulate being at two distinct stages of a work task process. Data were also collected on the test participants' topic knowledge. We have performed statistical analysis of the collected data to study differences with respect to relevance judgments and use of different types of metadata, at the different stages and for users with high and low topic knowledge.","PeriodicalId":413481,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Information Interaction in Context","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132000562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Entertainment on the go: finding things to do and see while visiting distributed events","authors":"Richard Schaller, Morgan Harvey, David Elsweiler","doi":"10.1145/2362724.2362743","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2362724.2362743","url":null,"abstract":"Distributed events are collections of single events taking place within a small geographical area at approximately the same time, normally related to one given topic e.g. music, film, arts etc. There are usually a large number of events on offer and the times in which they can be visited are heavily constrained. Therefore the information seeking task of choosing the events to visit and in which order can be very difficult.\u0000 In this paper we investigate, via 2 large-scale naturalistic studies (n=391 and n=740), how mobile applications can be designed to assist users in this task and how such applications are used. We present an application that allows users to search and browse the events on offer in a number of different ways including via personalised event recommendations. Logs were collected of user interactions with the system. The results of this log analysis in combination with 2 surveys show some surprising usage patterns and point to how such applications can better serve users' needs.","PeriodicalId":413481,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Information Interaction in Context","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127860507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Studying information interaction in context: some lessons for traffic experiments","authors":"M. Colbert, Adam Oliver","doi":"10.1145/2362724.2362763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2362724.2362763","url":null,"abstract":"One way of studying information interaction in context is to conduct traffic experiments. We recently compared different versions of a small website with low traffic volumes to demonstrate some hypothesised effects on information interaction. In this paper, we describe the methodological lessons we learnt when conducting these experiments. The lessons concern: i) implementing versions of the site in a way that supports parallel testing; and ii) designing the web site to operationalise information quality variables (persuasiveness, credibility etc).","PeriodicalId":413481,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Information Interaction in Context","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116179272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Citations and references as keys to relevance ranking in interactive IR","authors":"P. Ingwersen","doi":"10.1145/2362724.2362726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2362724.2362726","url":null,"abstract":"According to the principle of Polyrepresentation (Ingwersen & Jäärvelin, 2005; Ingwersen, 2012) bibliographic references in scientific documents as well as citations to documents have the potential of serving as useful features for re-ranking of retrieved documents. References (and thus citations) can be seen as footprints of information interaction, because of the behavioral conventions built in to the scientific communication and publication process. They are manifestations of degrees of utility of methods, results and ideas made earlier on by other scientists. The use of references in IR has been demonstrated to improve retrieval performance (Skov et al. 2008), whereas the number of citations has not provided similar improvements.","PeriodicalId":413481,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Information Interaction in Context","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128862393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Readers' search strategies for accessing books in public libraries","authors":"A. Mikkonen, P. Vakkari","doi":"10.1145/2362724.2362760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2362724.2362760","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study was to survey typical search tactics used by readers in public libraries. We analyzed whether demographic factors, the frequency of library visits, reading activity and the type of books read were associated with major search tactics. The data consisted of 1000 respondents of mail questionnaire collected in 2010 as a stratified random sample of the Finnish population aged 15 to 79 years. The most often used search tactics for accessing books in public libraries were known book or author search together with browsing search. The use of known item search strategy was associated with high educational level and the amount of non-fiction books read. The use of browsing search strategy was associated with the frequency of library visits, gender and the amount of fiction books read.","PeriodicalId":413481,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Information Interaction in Context","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122178121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}