ACCEPTED PAPERS

Full Papers

  • A Multi-Year Survey of Use and Perceptions of Generative AI in Higher Education — Anita Crescenzi, Bogeum Choi, Pao-Pei Huang, Emma Gautier, Riley Little and Siddhida Pandya.
  • "Although Powerful, it's not Infallible": Investigating Academic Researchers' Verification Challenges with LLMs — Monica Visani Scozzi, Stephann Makri and Pranava Madhyastha.
  • Bias or Balance? Analyzing Stance in Google and Bing Results for the 2024 EU Parliament Election — Sebastian Schultheiß, Katja Niemann and Dirk Lewandowski.
  • "Can You Tell Me?": Designing Copilots to Support Human Judgment in Online Information Seeking — Markus Bink, Marten Risius, David Elsweiler and Udo Kruschwitz.
  • Characterizing Personality from Eye-Tracking: The Role of Gaze and Its Absence in Interactive Search Environments — Jiaman He, Marta Micheli, Damiano Spina, Dana McKay, Johanne R. Trippas and Noriko Kando.
  • CollabSearch: A Study of User-LLM Collaboration in Task-Based Search — Gloris Denisse Cedeño Batista, Joemon Jose and Hideo Joho.
  • Cooking Up Politeness in Human-AI Dialogue — David Elsweiler, Christine Elsweiler and Anna Ziegner.
  • Designing for Complex Information Needs: A Case Study in Special Education Health Services and Future Information Retrieval Systems — Amir Reza Asadi, Jess Kropczynski, Jennifer Johnson, Corey O'Connor, Wesley Reed and Hazem Said.
  • Does Cognitive Load Affect Human Accuracy in Detecting Voice-Based Deepfakes? — Marcel Gohsen, Nicola Libera, Johannes Kiesel, Jan Ehlers and Benno Stein.
  • Does It Still Make Sense? Organizing and Summarizing Resources in Cross-Session Aggregated Search — Milad Momeni and Orland Hoeber.
  • Don't Break the Flow: Supporting Deferral and Review of Potentially Serendipitous Information in Library Search — Orland Hoeber, Abbas Pirmoradi, Ei Ei Mon and Stephann Makri.
  • Effects of Working Memory Capacity and Search Task Complexity on Cognitive Load — Gavindya Jayawardena, Li Shi and Jacek Gwizdka.
  • From SERPs to Sound: How Search Engine Result Pages and AI-generated Podcasts Interact to Influence User Attitudes on Controversial Topics — Junjie Wang, Gaole He, Alisa Rieger and Ujwal Gadiraju.
  • "I don't know anything about laptops!" - User Perception of Digital Product Advisors Adapting to Their Knowledge Levels — Kevin Schott, Andrea Papenmeier, Daniel Hienert and Dagmar Kern.
  • Micro-Behavioral Analysis of Online Shopping Patterns for Blind Users — Yash Prakash, Akshay Kolgar Nayak, Nithiya Venkatraman, Sampath Jayarathna, Hae-Na Lee and Vikas Ashok.
  • Rules, Resources, and Restrictions: A Taxonomy of Task-Based Information Request Intents — Melanie A. Kilian and David Elsweiler.
  • The Bayesian Storyteller: An Interactive System for Human-AI Collaborative Pitch Book Narrative Generation — Zichao Li.
  • The effects of goal-setting on learning during information seeking with generative AI — Kelsey Urgo, Yuan Li, Jaime Arguello and Robert Capra.
  • The Influence of the Communication Medium on Data Storytelling — Tamara Nagel and Toine Bogers.
  • Technology Use in Community Work: Operational Realities and Implications for Smart Cities — Sunyoung Kim, Phaneendra Shivangula and Ge Gao.
  • Tip-of-the-Tongue Search in the Wild: Analyzing Human and LLM Performance and Success Factors on Complex Search Requests — Toine Bogers, Maria Gaede, Mark Hall, Marijn Koolen, Vivien Petras and Mette Skov.
  • Understanding the Effects of Conversational Agent Personality on the Credibility of LLM-Based Conversational Search — Hyeonjeong Byeon, Uran Oh and Gary Hsieh.
  • VoxVista: Enhancing Screen Reading Experience for Online User Comments — Yash Prakash, Akshay Kolgar Nayak, Mohammed Shoaib Alyaan, Sampath Jayarathna, Hae-Na Lee and Vikas Ashok.

Short Papers

  • A Questionnaire for Capturing Perceptions of Self-Regulated Learning Processes during Information Seeking — Kelsey Urgo, Jaime Arguello and Robert Capra.
  • Beyond the Query: A Survey Design for Eliciting Underlying Motivations in Web Search — Elsa Lichtenegger, Aleksandra Urman and Aniko Hannak.
  • Can Instructed Retrieval Models Really Support Exploration? — Piyush Maheshwari, Sheshera Mysore and Hamed Zamani.
  • Confirmation, Framing, and Position Biases in LLM Responses — Liana Ermakova, Anton Firsov and Jaap Kamps.
  • Do LLMs Understand Collaborative Signals? Diagnosis and Repair — Shahrooz Pouryousef and Ali Montazeralghaem.
  • Implicit Humanization in Everyday LLM Moral Judgments — Hoda Ayad and Tanu Mitra.
  • Improving Data Reusability in Interactive IR: Insights from the Community — Tianji Jiang, Wenqi Li and Jiqun Liu.
  • Information Infrastructures of Play: Metadata, Discourse, and Storytelling in Iranian Video Games — Melinda Cohoon.
  • Information Overload in Information Seeking with Conversational Agents: A Survey and Design Considerations — Paul Compensis.
  • Interest-Driven Search in AI-Mediated Information Environments: An Audio Diary Study — Yujin Choi and Soo Young Rieh.
  • Length Effects in Conversation-Style Sustainability Information for Ethical Consumption: An Eye-tracking Study — Letizia Sangoi and Frans van der Sluis.
  • Measuring the credibility of generative AI-produced information: An exploratory factor analysis — Anita Crescenzi, Bogeum Choi, Pao-Pei Huang, Siddhida Pandya, Emma Gautier and Riley Little.
  • Not All Transparency Is Equal: Source Presentation Effects on Attention, Interaction, and Persuasion in Conversational Search — Jiangen He and Jiqun Liu.
  • Offscript: Automated Auditing of Instruction Adherence in LLMs — Nicholas Clark, Ryan Bai and Tanu Mitra.
  • Privacy Discourse and Emotional Dynamics in Mental Health Information Interaction on Reddit — Jai Kruthunz Naveen Kumar, Aishwarya Surani, Harkirat Singh and Sanchari Das.
  • Rare but Respected: Sustainable Intent in Online Product Search — Florian Meier and David Elsweiler.
  • The Effects of Thinking Aloud on Participants during Search and Sensemaking — Bogeum Choi and Jaime Arguello.
  • The Martian Game: Exploring Open-Ended Question-Asking via an Online Gaming Environment — Gili Cohen and Yoed N. Kenett.

Resource Papers

  • Building a Test Collection for Social Science Dataset Retrieval — Ji Eun Kim, Sara Lafia and Libby Hemphill.
  • Expanded Tag Genomes for Cross-Domain Recommendation — Denis Kotkov, Alan Medlar, Dorota Glowacka and Martin Halvey.
  • From SERPs to Agents: A Platform for Comparative Studies of Information Interaction — Saber Zerhoudi and Michael Granitzer.

Perspective Papers

  • Attention! Rethinking What We Measure in CHIIR Studies — Dan Zhang, Gavindya Jayawardena and Jacek Gwizdka.
  • From Tool to Teacher: Rethinking Search Systems as Instructive Interfaces — David Elsweiler.
  • Information Farming: From Berry Pickers to Berry Growers — Leif Azzopardi and Adam Roegiest.
  • Rethinking Human-AI Collaboration in Information Seeking: Why Epistemic Incompatibility Demands New Design Paradigms — Chirag Shah.

Demonstration Papers

  • AskAda: An AI-Anchored Conversational Agent for Scholarly Information Seeking in Educational Contexts to Improve Learning — Ruochen Zhao, Nibras Ar Rakib, Qianru Shi, Sangeun Han and Javed Mostafa.
  • CHARISMA: Character-Based Interaction Simulation with Multi-LLM Agents Toward Computational Social Psychology — Vahid Sadiri Javadi, Fryderyk Róg, Aksa Aksa, Johanne Trippas, Svitlana Vakulenko and Lucie Flek.
  • Cleo: A Transparent and Controllable Chatbot for Conversational Commerce — Kevin Schott, Jan Lattenkamp, Daniel Hienert and Dagmar Kern.
  • Exploring Art through Internet Aesthetics: A Serendipitous Interface for Artpedia — Sophia Rangelova, Bruno Nadalic Sotic and Jaap Kamps.
  • ImmiGo - An Adaptive Multilingual Chatbot for Immigration Assistance — Stephen Toriola, Anirban Chakraborty and Ingo Frommholz.
  • In-Browser Agents for Search Assistance — Saber Zerhoudi and Michael Granitzer.
  • Interactive Taxonomy Development with Hybrid Methods — Jiaming Qu, Madhu Gopinathan, Shayan Ali Akbar and Omar Alonso.
  • Measuring What Matters: Aligning System-Level RAG Metrics with User Trust in a High-Stakes Compliance Domain — Paul Momoh and Julius Odede.
  • PulseSearch: Modeling Long- and Short-term Patterns for Personalized Music Search Suggestions — Antonios Anagnostou, José Luis Redondo García, Emelie Jin, Jonathan Warburton, Vinay Rao, Yannis Kantarelis, Daniel Lazarovski, Dani Doro, Francesco Cucari, Christine Doig Cardet, Hugues Bouchard, Dominic Child, Jonathan C. Brooks-Bartlett and Mounia Lalmas-Roelleke.
  • Result Assessment Tool (RAT): An Open-Source Toolkit for Conducting Studies based on Search Results — Sebastian Sünkler, Kardelen Bilir, Tuhina Kumar, Oliver Koop, Sebastian Schultheiß and Dirk Lewandowski.
  • Retrieval-Augmented Search for Large-Scale Map Collections with ColPali — Jamie Mahowald and Benjamin Lee.
  • SEA-u-lator: Privacy Preserving Social Engineering Attack Simulator for Gmail — Marcin Pawlukiewicz and Shaun Wallace.
  • SearchPath: A Visual Reminder of Past Search Activity to Support Students with Dyslexia when Undertaking Exploratory Searches — Anita Seihoon, Lynne Beveridge and Orland Hoeber.
  • Seek and You Shall Find: Design & Evaluation of a Context-Aware Interactive Search Companion — Markus Bink, Marten Risius, Udo Kruschwitz and David Elsweiler.
  • Supporting Humans in Evaluating AI Summaries of Legal Depositions — Naghmeh Farzi, Laura Dietz and David D. Lewis.

Tutorials

  • Controlled Experimentation of Model Search Behaviour with Geniie-Lab — Hideo Joho.
  • Information Seeking in the Age of Agentic AI: A Half-Day Tutorial — Preetam Prabhu Srikar Dammu and Tanya Roosta.
  • Simulation of Interactive Information Retrieval: A Guided Tour — Saber Zerhoudi, Adam Roegiest and Johanne R. Trippas.

Workshops

  • Workshop on Generative AI and Academic Search (GAI&AS) — Yifan Liu, Jaime Arguello, Orland Hoeber, Chang Liu, Soo Young Rieh and Luanne Sinnamon.
  • Workshop on Human-Centered Proactive and Personalized Agents for Interactive Information Access — Kirandeep Kaur, Vinayak Gupta, Madhura Raju, Tanya Roosta, Grace Hui Yang and Chirag Shah.

Doctoral Consortium Papers

  • An Exploration of Conversation Enhanced Browsing with Hypergraph of Text — Dean Alvarez.
  • Autonomy in Older Adults' Information Seeking with Information Agents — Jiaxin An.
  • Building Conversational Information Sources as Human-Centered Digital Persona Twins for Probation Officer Training — Amir Reza Asadi.
  • Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Information Seeking Behavior for Menopause Amongst Migrant Women — Shenell Silva.
  • Designing a Question-Asking AI to Cultivate Epistemic Curiosity in Information Seeking — Yujin Choi.
  • Designing and Evaluating Generative AI Search Tools for Human Cognitive Augmentation — Zhitong Guan.
  • Navigating an Evolving Landscape: Exploring Researchers' Interactions with AI-Enhanced Academic Search Systems — Yifan Liu.
  • The Designs of Generative AI Search Results on User Perceptions and Information Adoption — Alice Li.