Session Chair: Bogeum Choi

• Attention! Rethinking What We Measure in CHIIR Studies — Dan Zhang, Gavindya Jayawardena and Jacek Gwizdka [pp]
• Effects of Working Memory Capacity and Search Task Complexity on Cognitive Load — Gavindya Jayawardena, Li Shi and Jacek Gwizdka [fp]
• 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 [fp]

Session Chair: Rosie Jones

• "Although Powerful, it's not Infallible": Investigating Academic Researchers' Verification Challenges with LLMs — Monica Visani Scozzi, Stephann Makri and Pranava Madhyastha [fp]
• Bias or Balance? Analyzing Stance in Google and Bing Results for the 2024 EU Parliament Election — Sebastian Schultheiß, Katja Niemann and Dirk Lewandowski [fp]
• Does Cognitive Load Affect Human Accuracy in Detecting Voice-Based Deepfakes? — Marcel Gohsen, Nicola Libera, Johannes Kiesel, Jan Ehlers and Benno Stein [fp]

Session Chair: Stephann Makri

• 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 [fp]
• 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 [fp]
• Technology Use in Community Work: Operational Realities and Implications for Smart Cities — Sunyoung Kim, Phaneendra Shivangula and Ge Gao [fp]

Session Chair: Souvick Ghosh

• "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 [fp]
• Cooking Up Politeness in Human-AI Information Seeking Dialogue — David Elsweiler, Christine Elsweiler and Anna Ziegner [fp]
• Understanding the Effects of Conversational Agent Personality on the Credibility of LLM-Based Conversational Search — Hyeonjeong Byeon, Uran Oh and Gary Hsieh [fp]

SessionChair: Vivien Petras

• 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 [fp]
• From Tool to Teacher: Rethinking Search Systems as Instructive Interfaces — David Elsweiler [pp]
• The Effects of Goal-Setting on Learning During Information Seeking with Generative AI — Kelsey Urgo, Yuan Li, Jaime Arguello and Robert Capra [fp]

Session Chair: Jaime Arguello

• 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 [fp]
• The Bayesian Storyteller: An Interactive System for Human-AI Collaborative Pitch Book Narrative Generation — Zichao Li [fp]
• The Influence of the Communication Medium on Data Storytelling — Tamara Nagel and Toine Bogers [fp]

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

• SEA-u-lator: Privacy Preserving Social Engineering Attack Simulator for Gmail — Marcin Pawlukiewicz and Shaun Wallace [demo]
• Cleo: A Transparent and Controllable Chatbot for Conversational Commerce — Kevin Schott, Jan Lattenkamp, Daniel Hienert and Dagmar Kern [demo]
• 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 [demo]
• Exploring Art through Internet Aesthetics: A Serendipitous Interface for Artpedia — Sophia Rangelova, Bruno Nadalic Sotic and Jaap Kamps [demo]
• Building a Test Collection for Social Science Dataset Retrieval — Ji Eun Kim, Sara Lafia and Libby Hemphill [rr]
• In-Browser Agents for Search Assistance — Saber Zerhoudi and Michael Granitzer [demo]
• Expanded Tag Genomes for Cross-Domain Recommendation — Denis Kotkov, Alan Medlar, Dorota Glowacka and Martin Halvey [rr]
• Interactive Taxonomy Development with Hybrid Methods — Jiaming Qu, Madhu Gopinathan, Shayan Ali Akbar and Omar Alonso [demo]
• Retrieval-Augmented Search for Large-Scale Map Collections with ColPali — Jamie Mahowald and Benjamin Lee [demo]
• CHARISMA: Character-Based Interaction Simulation with Multi-LLM Agents Toward Computational Social Psychology — Vahid Sadiri Javadi, Fryderyk Róg, Aksa Aksa, Johanne R. Trippas, Svitlana Vakulenko and Lucie Flek [demo]
• Seek and You Shall Find: Design & Evaluation of a Context-Aware Interactive Search Companion — Markus Bink, Marten Risius, Udo Kruschwitz and David Elsweiler [demo]
• 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 [demo]
• SearchPath: A Visual Reminder of Past Search Activity to Support Students with Dyslexia when Undertaking Exploratory Searches — Anita Seihoon, Lynne Beveridge and Orland Hoeber [demo]
• ImmiGo - An Adaptive Multilingual Chatbot for Immigration Assistance — Stephen Toriola, Anirban Chakraborty and Ingo Frommholz [demo]
• Measuring What Matters: Aligning System-Level RAG Metrics with User Trust in a High-Stakes Compliance Domain — Paul Momoh and Julius Odede [demo]
• 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 [demo]
• Supporting Humans in Evaluating AI Summaries of Legal Depositions — Naghmeh Farzi, Laura Dietz and David D. Lewis [demo]
• From SERPs to Agents: A Platform for Comparative Studies of Information Interaction — Saber Zerhoudi and Michael Granitzer [rr]

Session Chair: Luanne Sinnamon

• 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 [fp]
• Rules, Resources, and Restrictions: A Taxonomy of Task-Based Information Request Intents — Melanie A. Kilian and David Elsweiler [fp]
• Tip-of-the-Tongue Search in the Wild: Analyzing Human and LLM Performance and Success Factors on Complex Search Requests — Toine Bogers, Maria Gäde, Mark Hall, Marijn Koolen, Vivien Petras and Mette Skov [fp]

Session Chair: Maria Gäde

• Does It Still Make Sense? Organizing and Summarizing Resources in Cross-Session Aggregated Search — Milad Momeni and Orland Hoeber [fp]
• 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 [fp]
• Information Farming: From Berry Pickers to Berry Growers — Leif Azzopardi and Adam Roegiest [pp]

Session Chair: Jaap Kamps

• "Can You Tell Me?": Designing Copilots to Support Human Judgment in Online Information Seeking — Markus Bink, Marten Risius, David Elsweiler and Udo Kruschwitz [fp]
• CollabSearch: A Study of User–LLM Collaboration in Task-Based Search — Gloris Denisse Cedeño Batista, Joemon Jose and Hideo Joho [fp]
• Rethinking Human-AI Collaboration in Information Seeking: Why Epistemic Incompatibility Demands New Design Paradigms — Chirag Shah [pp]