CFP: Workshop on Information Retrieval for Understudied Users - IR4U2@ECIR 2023

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*CFP for the 1st Workshop on Information Retrieval for Understudied Users
(IR4U2)*

Please join us at IR4U2, co-located with the 46th European Conference on
Information Retrieval (ECIR), which will take place 24th-28th March 2024 in
Glasgow, Scotland

Information Retrieval (IR) remains an active, fast-paced area of research.
Nevertheless, most advancements in this domain have primarily favored what
we might term 'conventional' users, such as English-speaking adults.

We envision IR4U2 as a forum to spotlight efforts that, while sparse,
consider diverse, and often understudied, user groups when designing,
developing, assessing, and deploying the IR technologies that directly
impact them.

Among these groups, we find, for example, older adults, young children and
adolescents, individuals afflicted by mental health disorders, users with
autism spectrum disorder (ASD), individuals with intellectual disabilities,
or those with specific learning needs.

We aim to

   1.

   Raise awareness about ongoing efforts focused on IR technologies
   designed for and used by often understudied user groups;
   2.

   Identify challenges and open issues impacting this area of research;
   3.

   Ignite discussions to identify common frameworks for future research;
   4.

   Outline a general approach to facilitate research endeavors driven by
   and at the service of specific user groups.
   5.

   Cross-fertilization and community-building by sharing lessons learned
   gathered from research catering to different audiences by researchers an=
d
   (industry) practitioners across various disciplines.


IR4U2 will be a highly participatory, full-day, in-person workshop. This
will involve informal interactions, facilitated group work, and brief
presentations of accepted contributions. These contributions will help
construct a snapshot of the current works in this area.

Topics of interest include:

   -

   User modeling to enable IR and recommendation technologies tailored to
   understudied populations.
   -

   Data collection and benchmark development of IR catering to understudied
   populations.
   -

   IR applications targeting understudied populations.
   -

   UI/UX for search, recommender, and question-answering systems for
   understudied populations.
   -

   IR-related technology (clustering, classification, text processing, text
   complexity) and their impact on understudied populations.
   -

   Different perspectives of evaluation.
   -

   Design of the user interaction with IR systems.
   -

   Ethical issues associated with IR technologies for understudied users;
   e.g., their right to be represented, acknowledged, have access, and be
   served by existing and to-be-developed systems.


This is not an exhaustive list, as we are also interested in contributions
discussing challenges inherent to designing IR technology at the service of
understudied user groups=E2=80=93from the need for multidisciplinary,
multi-stakeholder collaborations to how to build datasets.

Submissions:

Peer-reviewed contributions. These include research papers presenting
empirical explorations, user studies, and/or new algorithms related to the
open problems listed in topics of interest, as well as position/vision
contributions discussing uses cases, challenges, and future research
directions. These contributions should be submitted on EasyChair (
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=3Dir4u2) at least 4 pages, but up =
to
12 (excluding references) formatted in CEURART=E2=80=99s single-column temp=
late.
Accepted contributions will be presented at the workshop and published in
workshop proceedings.

Editorially-reviewed contributions. To enable potential attendees to
articulate their views on the topics of the workshop, share
already-published works, bring awareness to ongoing European projects in
this area, etc., we ask the submission of a short extended abstract. This
type of informal submission (via this form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1yZcqJiY9tMP03DXrDtJkeX0rY9ZB0AH5Dvs9DdehSO=
8/edit)
will be editorially

reviewed by workshop organizers to gauge fit as well as themes of interest
for group discussions. Accepted contributions will be presented at the
workshop, but not published in the proceedings.

Important dates

All the deadlines are set at 11:59 PM AoE.

   -

   Submission: January 29, 2024
   -

   Author notification: February 20, 2024
   -

   Camera-ready: February 26, 2024
   -

   Workshop day: March 24, 2024

At least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the
workshop. Please feel free to reach out to the [email protected]
with questions. For further information, see Home | Ir4u2
(ir4u2workshop.wixsite.com) <https://ir4u2workshop.wixsite.com/ir4u2>.

Organizers:

Sole Pera, TU Delft, The Netherlands

Federica Cena, University of Turin, Italy

Theo Huibers, University of Twente,  The Netherlands

Monica Landoni,Universit=C3=A0 della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland

Noemi Mauro, University of Turin, Italy

Emiliana Murgia, Universit=C3=A0 di Genova, Italy

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