Relevant Topics
We welcome submissions on a range of quantitative and qualitative research methods. Topics covered include, but are not limited to:
- Information seeking, including task-based and exploratory studies
- Search interfaces, including those for specialised tasks, populations, and domains
- Information access methods and systems for users of all abilities
- Information interactions beyond search
- User-centered design approaches to humans interacting with information and systems
- Interaction techniques for information retrieval and discovery
- Online information seeking, including log analysis of search and browsing
- Modelling and simulation of information interaction
- Quantitative and qualitative studies of human information interaction
- Information seeking and use behaviours, including measures of use and broader sensemaking
- Field and case studies of information searching, design, and access
- User-centered evaluation methods and measures, including online, lab-based and situated measures of user experience and performance, experiment and search task design, eye-tracking and neuro-physiological approaches, data analysis methods, and usability
- Human interaction and experience with conversational information systems and other types of stateful and multi-turn interactions between users and search applications
- Context-aware and personalised search, including design, contextual features and analysis of information interaction
- Information visualisation and visual analytics, including search result presentation
- Enabling and studying multi-modal interactions with information, including augmented and virtual reality interfaces
- Collaborative information seeking and social search, including social utility and network analysis for information interaction
- Insights and analyses related to human experiences and usage trends with recommendation technologies
- Information interaction and seeking with mobile devices and services
- Studies of the usage of generative AI for information interaction and retrieval
- Information interaction and retrieval in the context of Digital Humanities
- Ethical and societal aspects of information access
- Gamification in interactive information retrieval
