IIiX 2008 - Final Call for Papers, Tutorials and Doctoral Forum applications

(Apologies for cross postings)

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Final Call for Papers, Tutorials, and Doctoral Forum applications

Second International Symposium on Information Interaction in Context 
(IIiX), 14-17 October, 2008, London, UK
http://irsg.bcs.org/iiix2008/

Held in cooperation with ACM SIGIR

Submission deadlines:
Full papers or Research-in-Progress papers:   May 1, 2008
Tutorials and Doctoral Forum applications:   June 1, 2008

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The availability of information across media and genres, across 
languages, and across modalities constantly increases. How people 
access this information is highly dependent on the context of their 
interaction and this context is influenced by a range of factors 
such as the time, place, and history of interaction, the tasks 
motivating the interaction and the technical possibilities of the 
information systems. Although the use of information systems is 
heavily affected by contextual factors, Information Retrieval and 
Seeking research is largely conducted out of context.

IIiX will explore the relationships between the contexts that 
affect Information Retrieval and Seeking, how these contexts impact 
on information behaviour, and how knowledge of information contexts 
can help design truly interactive information systems.

Keynote Speakers:
* Professor Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Cambridge, UK 
* Dr. Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, UK 

IIiX invites research contributions that approach information 
contexts from a broad range of perspectives, such as context 
surrounding documents, context influencing seeking, humans and 
their tasks, the context of information seekers and providers, 
the context of interactive search, and the technical contexts of 
information systems.

IIiX encourages the submission of original, high quality research 
papers that have not been previously published and are not under 
review for another conference or journal, in any of the symposium 
topics of interest. All submissions will be reviewed by an 
international programme committee, and all accepted research papers 
will be published in the symposium proceedings by a major 
publisher. Submissions may either be full research papers 
(max 5000 words) or research in progress papers (max 2000 words). 
Full details on submissions are available on the symposium web page 
(http://irsg.bcs.org/iiix2008/).


Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following:

* Case studies, field experiments, simulations, etc. of 
  context-sensitive information seeking & retrieval
* Context-aware retrieval models
* Relevance feedback - implicit & explicit - and query modification 
  issues for capturing context
* Other approaches to eliciting, identifying and 
  expressing/capturing contextual information
* Task-based interactive information retrieval and seeking behaviour
* The effect of genre, media, language, modality and structure on 
  context
* Personalised and collaborative information access in context
* Contextual information interaction theory
* Interactive information retrieval and interface issues
* Nature of relevance in contexts
* Measures of performance in context and situation-sensitive 
  information access
* Test collections for context-sensitive research


**** IMPORTANT DATES ****

Full papers or Research-in-Progress papers:   May 1, 2008
Notification of acceptance:                 June 23, 2008
Camera-ready copy due:                          July 2008
Tutorials and Doctoral Forum applications:   June 1, 2008

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Symposium co-chairs:
Mounia Lalmas & Anastasios Tombros
Queen Mary University of London, UK

Symposium Programme co-chairs:
Pia Borlund & Jesper W. Schneider
Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark

Thematic Programme Chairs:
Diane Kelly (Interactive IR)
University of North Carolina, USA

Arjen de Vries  (Laboratory IR)
CWI, Netherlands

John Feather (Information Behaviour)
University of Loughborough, UK

Tutorial co-chairs:
Eero Sormunen, University of Tampere, Finland
Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library and Information Science

Doctoral Forum co-chairs:
Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Australia
Erica Cosijn, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Local organization chair:
Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow, UK

Web site:
Murat Yakici, University of Strathclyde, UK

Publicity Chair:
Birger Larsen
Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark