{"title":"Itinerary recommenders: how do users customize their routes and what can we learn from them?","authors":"Richard Schaller, David Elsweiler","doi":"10.1145/2637002.2637024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2637002.2637024","url":null,"abstract":"Itinerary recommenders provide tourists with personalized routes connecting several Points of Interest (POIs). Therefore transit times and users' preferences have to be considered to generate optimal plans. Nevertheless users might appreciate routes being customised to their liking, e.g. based on further contextual factors the system does not know of. Additionally new knowledge on the go, e.g. an unexpectedly overcrowded POI, might make it necessary to adapt plans. In this paper we present a system that is able to recommend itineraries and allows users to customize them via manual editing. We investigate, via 2 large-scale naturalistic studies (n=1235 and n=2649), how these editing operations were performed. To this end logs of user interactions with the system were collected. The results of the analysis of these data reveal some surprising usage patterns and point to how such systems can better serve users' needs. Our main conclusion is that itinerary recommendations can benefit from incorporating additional knowledge about users' preferences derived from how users modifiy their route. Moreover, assistance on the go can be improved by suggesting better route alternatives in case of unexpected incidents by imitating the modifications users would manually perform.","PeriodicalId":447867,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium","volume":"16 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":"114436399","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":"Classifying the influence of negative affect expressed by the financial media on investor behavior","authors":"Andy Moniz, F. D. Jong","doi":"10.1145/2637002.2637041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2637002.2637041","url":null,"abstract":"Prior text mining studies have documented a causal link between human emotions and stock market patterns, yet relatively little research exists into what triggers these emotions. This paper aims to bridge the gap by empirically testing a social psychology theory of human behavior. Underlying our approach lies Attribution Theory, which addresses how observers form causal inferences and moral judgments to explain human behavior, particularly those with negative outcomes. The system presented here works in three stages. The first phase computes a measure of media pessimism by counting negative terms from the General Inquirer dictionary to detect acts of corporate irresponsible behavior. The second phase extends the term-counting approach to capture contextual information. Emotion topic priors are incorporated in a Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model to infer the financial media's expression of negative affect. Finally, the system combines the two components in an ensemble tree to classify the impact of financial media allegations on a company's stock market patterns. The paper underlines the potential benefit of text mining technology for the support of investor strategies, and more generally demonstrates the power of combining multiple methods for applications in specific domains.","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":"126024260","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":"Primary school children's single topic search over multiple search sessions: does search evolve?","authors":"Sophie A. Rutter","doi":"10.1145/2637002.2637055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2637002.2637055","url":null,"abstract":"Children's search behavior has mainly been studied in single search sessions where the search task is new to the children. In this proposal it is suggested that an investigation into children's search on a single topic across multiple search sessions may reveal different search behaviour to what is already known.","PeriodicalId":447867,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium","volume":"50 4 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":"129124341","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":"Does the perceived usefulness of search facets vary by task type?","authors":"Kristof Kessler, Luanne Freund, R. Kopak","doi":"10.1145/2637002.2637039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2637002.2637039","url":null,"abstract":"This research addresses the need for faceted search systems that can support task-based searching. We report on a systems review carried out to identify the most prevalent facets in current use across three domains and an online questionnaire with 83 responses conducted to assess the perceived usefulness of search facets for different types of search tasks. Results include a ranked list of commonly used search facets. Facets are perceived to be more useful for search tasks motivated by learning goals than those with functional goals (doing tasks). Usefulness scores for specific facets were quite consistent across tasks, so findings do not support the concept of dynamic, task-based display of search facets.","PeriodicalId":447867,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium","volume":"198 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":"133851687","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}
Sean McKeown, David Maxwell, L. Azzopardi, W. Glisson
{"title":"Investigating people: a qualitative analysis of the search behaviours of open-source intelligence analysts","authors":"Sean McKeown, David Maxwell, L. Azzopardi, W. Glisson","doi":"10.1145/2637002.2637023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2637002.2637023","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet and the World Wide Web have become integral parts of the lives of many modern individuals, enabling almost instantaneous communication, sharing and broadcasting of thoughts, feelings and opinions. Much of this information is publicly facing, and as such, it can be utilised in a multitude of online investigations, ranging from employee vetting and credit checking to counter-terrorism and fraud prevention/detection. However, the search needs and behaviours of these investigators are not well documented in the literature. In order to address this gap, an in-depth qualitative study was carried out in cooperation with a leading investigation company. The research contribution is an initial identification of Open-Source Intelligence investigator search behaviours, the procedures and practices that they undertake, along with an overview of the difficulties and challenges that they encounter as part of their domain. This lays the foundation for future research in to the varied domain of Open-Source Intelligence gathering.","PeriodicalId":447867,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium","volume":"47 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":"114700597","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":"Designing autotelic searching experience for casual-leisure by using the user's context","authors":"Juan D. Millan-Cifuentes, A. Göker, A. MacFarlane","doi":"10.1145/2637002.2637061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2637002.2637061","url":null,"abstract":"Which is more important: the journey or the destination? Classical Interactive Information Retrieval (IIR) based on work-task scenarios usually puts the emphasis on the destination of the search (the results) with metrics such as precision and recall rather than the search journey. But social media, mobile devices and other pervasive technologies have made information accessible to people in leisure scenarios and open up casual-leisure search behaviours motivated by hedonistic need such as having fun, or relaxing instead of a well-defined information need. During search sessions users might find irrelevant information but they may keep exploring because the IR system satisfies their current leisure need. This research aims to understand better casual-leisure search behaviour and design new IR systems to support autotelic search experiences.","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":"114189668","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}
Paul Thomas, Alistair Moffat, P. Bailey, Falk Scholer
{"title":"Modeling decision points in user search behavior","authors":"Paul Thomas, Alistair Moffat, P. Bailey, Falk Scholer","doi":"10.1145/2637002.2637032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2637002.2637032","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding and modeling user behavior is critical to designing search systems: it allows us to drive batch evaluations, predict how users would respond to changes in systems or interfaces, and suggest ideas for improvement. In this work we present a comprehensive model of the interactions between a searcher and a search engine, and the decisions users make in these interactions. The model is designed to deal only with observable phenomena. Based on data from a user study, we are therefore able to make initial estimates of the probabilities associated with various decision points. More sophisticated estimates of these decision points could include probabilities conditioned on some amount of search activity state. In particular, we suggest that one important part of this state is the amount of utility a user is seeking, and how much of this they have collected so far. We propose an experiment to test this, and to elucidate other factors which influence user actions.","PeriodicalId":447867,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium","volume":"40 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":"122514073","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":"Visual information search based on knowledge schema modeling","authors":"Seulki Lee, A. Shah, W. Yoon","doi":"10.1145/2637002.2641199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2637002.2641199","url":null,"abstract":"This paper suggests a new interactive system based on visualization of the user's knowledge schema to aid the process of information search and knowledge discovery. The system, inspired from the human memory model, constructs an external representation of the user's conceptual knowledge structure from the user's existing information such as the folder structure and associated tags. In contrast to existing systems based on user models, the system allows users to specify their information needs by selecting a part of their knowledge schema, understand their search results in the context of their existing knowledge organization, and store new information based on their knowledge schema. Through a preliminary evaluation, we show that the visualization of the extracted knowledge structure and the presented relevance of new information was perceived to be useful, even with a basic model of text processing. The participants were able to search for relevant information effectively and expand their information collection with consistency.","PeriodicalId":447867,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium","volume":"21 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":"123005613","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}
David Elsweiler, Bernd Ludwig, L. Azzopardi, Max L. Wilson
{"title":"Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium","authors":"David Elsweiler, Bernd Ludwig, L. Azzopardi, Max L. Wilson","doi":"10.1145/2637002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2637002","url":null,"abstract":"It is our pleasure to welcome you to the fifth Information Interaction in conteXt Conference, IIiX2014 in Regensburg. The conference has been organised by the Chair for Information Science at the University of Regensburg. The conference follows four previous IIiX symposia in Copenhagen ('06), London ('08), New Brunswick ('10) and Nijmegen ('12). These proceedings contain the refereed papers presented at the conference. The IIiX conference explores the relationships between and within the contexts that affect information retrieval (IR) and information seeking, how these contexts impact how users behave with and around information, and how knowledge of information contexts and behaviours can be used to improve the design of interactive information systems. \u0000 \u0000The intention of IIiX is to foster an integrated approach to information access by bringing together members of the research communities in information seeking behaviour, user interface design for IR systems and IR system design.","PeriodicalId":447867,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium","volume":"61 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":"117077545","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}
Luanne Freund, Jiyin He, J. Gwizdka, N. Kando, Preben Hansen, Soo Young Rieh
{"title":"Searching as learning (SAL) workshop 2014","authors":"Luanne Freund, Jiyin He, J. Gwizdka, N. Kando, Preben Hansen, Soo Young Rieh","doi":"10.1145/2637002.2643203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2637002.2643203","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we describe the Searching as Learning Workshop (SAL 2014) taking place at IIiX 2014 in Regensburg, Germany.","PeriodicalId":447867,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium","volume":"151 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":"131823102","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}