{"id":305,"date":"2018-03-22T12:30:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/?p=305"},"modified":"2018-03-22T16:44:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T21:44:39","slug":"infoseekers-success-of-chiir2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infoseeking.org\/iblog\/2018\/03\/22\/infoseekers-success-of-chiir2018\/","title":{"rendered":"InfoSeekers Are Key to Success of the Third Annual CHIIR Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three cheers to InfoSeeking Lab Director Chirag Shah and several other InfoSeekers who helped organize and host a successful CHIIR conference.<\/h3>\n

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On March 11, some 130 researchers from 25 countries in North America, Europe and Australia descended on New Brunswick for five days of workshops, presentations, tutorials, networking and fun.<\/p>\n

CHIIR stands for the Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, which is sponsored by the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR), in cooperation with (SIGCHI). The international conference represents a merger of two successful past events: the Information Interaction in Context (IIiX) conference and the Human Computer Information Retrieval (HCIR) symposium, which have run since 2006 and 2007, respectively.<\/p>\n

The events took place at the SC&I building on the College Avenue campus of Rutgers and at The Heldrich Hotel in New Brunswick.\u00a0This year\u2019s keynote speakers were Pertti Vakkari from Finland\u2019s University of Tampere and Susan Dumais from Microsoft.\u00a0Dr. Vakkari spoke about \u201cInformation Search Processes in Complex Tasks,\u201d focusing on key areas in information retrieval, such as how the effect of information search would depend on task outcome.\u00a0Dr. Dumais\u2019s talk, entitled, \u201cBetter Together: Interdisciplinary Perspective on Information Retrieval,\u201d reflected on her work in Information Retrieval and Human-Computer Interaction and provided some predictions on the future of search on the Web.<\/p>\n

The major areas of study discussed at CHIIR 2018 included user-centered aspects of information interaction and information retrieval focusing on aspects of human involvement in search activities, and information seeking and use in context.<\/p>\n

InfoSeeking Lab Director Chirag Shah said, \u201cI\u2019m very proud of InfoSeekers for representing our lab at this international conference \u2013 not just with their scholarly contributions (papers, posters, demos, doctoral consortium), but also in helping organize this event.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Susan Dumais of Microsoft taking questions following her keynote address.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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There were 22 full papers, two dozen short papers (posters), five demos, 10 doctoral dissertation proposals, four tutorials, and two workshops.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Most attendees participated in sessions on full papers, short papers,
demonstrations, and the doctoral consortium.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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InfoSeekers at the welcome reception at Zimmerli Art Museum. InfoSeekers contributed four full papers, some short papers, a couple of demos, and a doctoral consortium presentation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nick Belkin, Pertti Vakkari and Souvick Ghosh at the Welcome Reception at the Zimmerli Art Museum on the Rutgers campus, which featured the exhibition \u201cSet in Stone: Lithography in Paris, 1815-1900.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The banquet dinner was held at Ria Mar, a Portuguese\u00a0restaurant in New Brunswick. A highlight was seeing Chirag\u00a0warm up the dance floor. (Did you know he\u2019s a trained ballroom
dancer?!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This year\u2019s conference was sponsored by Siemens, Rutgers SC&I, Google, and Microsoft.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A snap of the student get-together at the Hub City Brewhouse in New Brunswick.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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CHIIR 2019 will be held in Glasgow, Scotland. Looking forward to 2020, the conference will be in Vancouver, Canada, and in 2021, Canberra, Australia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Photo credits: Souvick Ghosh, Matt Mitsui, Chirag Shah.<\/p>\n

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Three cheers to InfoSeeking Lab Director Chirag Shah and several other InfoSeekers who helped organize and host a successful CHIIR conference.   On March 11, some 130 researchers from 25 countries in North America, Europe and Australia descended on New Brunswick for five days of workshops, presentations, tutorials, networking and fun. CHIIR stands for the Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, which is sponsored by the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR), in cooperation with (SIGCHI). The international…<\/p>\n

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