{"title":"Develop, implement, and improve a web session detection model","authors":"Chaoyu Ye, Max L. Wilson, T. Rodden","doi":"10.1145/2637002.2637057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2637002.2637057","url":null,"abstract":"More research in web and Information Retrieval is turning towards session-based retrieval rather than single item or query investigation. However, most of the session detection attempts only used simplistic rules (e.g. \"30 mins inactivity creates a new session\"). Up to this point, there are various fuzzy definitions of session, but no general consensus about it in the literature [3]. Whilst comparably little work has involved the mental model about the \"web session\" from real users. In response to these, my research focuses on web session detection involving real users with a comprehensive set of factors identified by them rather than the \"simple fixed timeout\". My objective is to develop a session detection model with corresponding rules for each factor, and then embedded them into a Chrome Extension to automatically detect more accurate web sessions from log data.","PeriodicalId":447867,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128528493","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":"Relating user interaction to experience during festivals","authors":"Richard Schaller, Morgan Harvey, David Elsweiler","doi":"10.1145/2637002.2637009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2637002.2637009","url":null,"abstract":"Festivals held in a city (or number of cities) contain many geographically distributed events often occurring contemporaneously. Visitors to the festival need to make numerous cognitively-challenging decisions about which events to see, and in which order. Consequently, the visitors' information interactions with online and mobile guides are likely to influence their experience of the festival. In this paper we investigate how such interactions with a mobile app, designed to provide visitors with information about the festival and to help them plan their itinerary, relate to their experience and how they participated in the festival. The app was deployed in a large-scale naturalistic study (n=1159). Our analysis reveals that different information interaction styles corresponded to itineraries with different properties. The results of a follow-up survey (n=59), completed by a sub-sample of these users, suggests that this is no coincidence. Analysing what people reported in terms of their desires for their evening reveals trends indicating that user groups who made use of the same interface features (i.e. search, browse or recommendation) had similar priorities when planning their evening and ended up visiting events that reflect those priorities. These findings suggest that users are able to adapt their interaction style to use the features most appropriate to their needs. We conclude by discussing what our findings mean in terms of the information behaviour literature and evaluating interactive information retrieval systems embedded in a real context.","PeriodicalId":447867,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124651977","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":"Personal information management and social networks re-finding on Twitter","authors":"F. Meier, David Elsweiler","doi":"10.1145/2637002.2637058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2637002.2637058","url":null,"abstract":"The following PhD project argues for analyzing Personal Information Management (PIM) behaviour on social networks and microblogging platforms, such as Twitter, as such services go far beyond their expected usage and have grown a viable source of information to many users. Of the three main information interaction activities that characterise PIM (finding - keeping - re-finding), only the retrieval of information has received researcher attention on such services. However, recent literature suggests that other PIM related activities occur, that should be further investigated. In addition to motivating the project, this position statement outlines the main research questions and approach, details the current status, which sheds light on how people perform PIM activities in the context of social networks and microblogging platforms. Here we detail some of the key findings and describe our tentative plans for the future. It is this plans that I wish to discuss in the doctoral consortium.","PeriodicalId":447867,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium","volume":"180 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116313428","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":"Are episodic context features helpful for refinding tasks?: lessons learnt from a case study with lifelogs","authors":"Yi Chen, G. Jones","doi":"10.1145/2637002.2637013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2637002.2637013","url":null,"abstract":"Both psychological theories and findings in information science suggest that people may remember the episodic context of previously encountered information. This implies that a user's episodic memory might be utilized to improve the efficiency or effectiveness of refinding tasks. In this paper, we report a case study which aims to explore the feasibility of integrating episodic context into the design of information refinding systems. The subjects in this study collected 20 months of rich contextual data along including the full text of all documents, emails, web pages and so on, which they accessed during the collection period. We developed a \"memory-friendly\" system based on psychological theories to test the hypothesis through user studies requiring the subjects to find their personal data using this system. From examination of the user activity log and a post-task questionnaire, we found that although our designed features, which support or utilize episodic context or autobiographical memory, were not used as frequently as we expected, they did improve the effectiveness of the refinding tasks.","PeriodicalId":447867,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115936580","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":"Browsing patterns in retrieved documents","authors":"Jaana Kekäläinen, Paavo Arvola, S. Kumpulainen","doi":"10.1145/2637002.2637047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2637002.2637047","url":null,"abstract":"The paper reports a test exploring how retrieved documents are browsed. The access point to the documents was varied -- starting either from the beginning of the document or from the point where relevant information is located -- to find out how much browsing and context the users need to judge relevance. Test results reveal different within-document browsing patterns.","PeriodicalId":447867,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126295420","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":"A qualitative exploration of secondary assessor relevance judging behavior","authors":"A. Al-Harbi, Mark D. Smucker","doi":"10.1145/2637002.2637025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2637002.2637025","url":null,"abstract":"Secondary assessors frequently differ in their relevance judgments. Primary assessors are those that originate a search topic and whose judgments truly reflect the assessor's relevance criteria. Secondary assessors do not originate the search and must instead attempt to make relevance judgments based on a description of what is and is not relevant. Secondary assessors may be hired to help in the construction of test collections. Currently our knowledge about secondary assessors is largely limited to quantitative measurements of the differences between judgments produced by secondary and primary assessors. In order to better understand the behavior of secondary assessors, we conducted a think-aloud study of secondary assessing behavior. We asked secondary assessors to think-aloud their thoughts as they judged documents. The think-aloud method gives us insight into how relevance decisions are made. We found that assessors are not always certain in their judgments. In the extreme, secondary assessors are forced to make guesses concerning the relevance of documents. We present many reasons and examples of why secondary assessors produce differing relevance judgments. These differences result from the interactions between the search topic, the secondary assessor, the document being judged, and can even apparently be caused by a primary assessor's error in judging relevance. To improve the quality of secondary assessor judgments, we recommend that relevance assessing systems allow for the collection of assessor's certainty and provide a means to help assessors efficiently express their judgment rationale.","PeriodicalId":447867,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126373665","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}
M. Albakour, Romain Deveaud, C. Macdonald, I. Ounis
{"title":"Diversifying contextual suggestions from location-based social networks","authors":"M. Albakour, Romain Deveaud, C. Macdonald, I. Ounis","doi":"10.1145/2637002.2637018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2637002.2637018","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we study the emerging Information Retrieval (IR) task of contextual suggestion in location-based social networks. The aim of this task is to make personalised recommendations of venues for entertainments or activities whilst visiting a city, by appropriately representing the context of the user, such as their location and personal interests. Instead of only representing the specific low-level interests of a user, our approach is driven by estimates of the high-level categories of venues that the user may be interested in. Moreover, we argue that an effective model for contextual suggestion should not only promote the categories that the user is interested in, but it should also be capable of eliminating redundancy by diversifying the recommended venues in the sense that they should cover various categories of interest to the given user. Therefore, we adapt web search result diversification approaches to the task of contextual suggestion. For categorising the venues, we use the category classifications employed by location-based social networks such as FourSquare, urban guides such as Yelp, and a large collection of web pages, the ClueWeb12 corpus, to build a textual classifier that is capable of predicting the category distribution for a certain venue given its web page. We thoroughly evaluate our approach using the TREC 2013 Contextual Suggestion track. We conduct a number of experiments where we consider venues from the closed environments of both FourSquare and Yelp, and the general web using the ClueWeb12 corpus. Our empirical results suggest that category diversification consistently improves the effectiveness of the recommendation model over a reasonable baseline that only considers the similarity between the user's profile and venue. The results also give insights on the effectiveness of our approach with different types of users.","PeriodicalId":447867,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130980406","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":"Multilingual interface preferences","authors":"Maria Gäde, Vivien Petras","doi":"10.1145/2637002.2637030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2637002.2637030","url":null,"abstract":"The most common level of multilinguality in information systems is the adaptation of the interface language. In this paper, the usage of multilingual interfaces is investigated and a comparison between interface language preferences for daily versus occasional usage as well as automatic versus user-triggered interface language change settings is drawn. The study presents the results of a log file analysis of 10 months of Europeana usage data, the digital library for Europe's cultural institutions such as libraries, audio-visual archives, and museums. In total, 1,071,872 sessions from 21 countries are analyzed with respect to their browser, Google referrer and Europeana interface language preferences. Both browser and search engine result page referrer language indicate a strong preference for native language use. In contrast, the analysis of the Europeana interface language use and interface language change indicates weaker preferences for native languages and a stronger acceptance of the default English version. Instead, language information from the query, facet usage as well as objects viewed could reveal language preferences.","PeriodicalId":447867,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131021115","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}
Julia Jürgens, Christa Womser-Hacker, Thomas Mandl
{"title":"Modeling the interactive patent retrieval process: an adaptation of Marchionini's information seeking model","authors":"Julia Jürgens, Christa Womser-Hacker, Thomas Mandl","doi":"10.1145/2637002.2637034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2637002.2637034","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an adapted information seeking model for the patent retrieval process, providing a theoretical ground for improvements of information retrieval systems in this special domain. The generation of the model is based on insights gained from the literature and from interviews with patent searchers.","PeriodicalId":447867,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium","volume":"33 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132291278","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":"From multistage information-seeking models to multistage search systems","authors":"Hugo C. Huurdeman, J. Kamps","doi":"10.1145/2637002.2637020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2637002.2637020","url":null,"abstract":"The ever expanding digital information universe makes us rely on search systems to sift through immense amounts of data to satisfy our information needs. Our searches using these systems range from simple lookups to complex and multifaceted explorations. A multitude of models of the information seeking process, for example Kuhlthau's ISP model, divide the information seeking process for complex search tasks into multiple stages. Current search systems, in contrast, still predominantly use a \"one-size-fits-all\" approach: one interface is used for all stages of a search, even for complex search endeavors. The main aim of this paper is to bridge the gap between multistage information seeking models, documenting the search process on a general level, and search systems and interfaces, serving as the concrete tools to perform searches. To find ways to reduce the gap, we look at existing models of the information seeking process, at search interfaces supporting complex search tasks, and at the use of interface features over time. Our main contribution is that we conceptually bring together macro level information seeking stages and micro level search system features. We highlight the impact of search stages on the flow of interaction with user interface features, providing new handles for the design of multistage search systems.","PeriodicalId":447867,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium","volume":"11 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133037697","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}