[NORSLIS] 2nd Call for Doctoral Forum Participation at IIiX2012

[Birger Larsen]

IIiX 2012: Fourth Information Interaction in Context Symposium

http://iiix2012.org, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, August 21-24, 2012



Call for Doctoral Forum Participation



We invite doctoral students to the Doctoral Consortium held in conjunction with the main conference of IIiX. The Doctoral Consortium aims to provide a constructive setting for presentations and discussions of doctoral students' research projects with senior researchers and other participating students. The two main goals of the Doctoral Consortium are: 1) to advise students regarding current critical issues in their research; and 2) to make students aware of the strengths and weakness of their research as viewed from different perspectives. The Doctoral Consortium is aimed at students in the middle of their thesis projects; at minimum, students ought to have formulated their research problem, theoretical framework and suggested methods, and at maximum, students ought to have just initiated data analysis.



SEMINAR OUTLINE

The format is planned as follows: The doctoral students will present summaries of their work to other participating doctoral students and the senior researchers. Each presentation will be followed by a plenary discussion, and individual discussion with one senior advising researcher. The discussions in the group and with the advisers are intended to help the doctoral student to reflect on and carry on with their thesis work.



TOPICS

- Interactive IR issues

- Design of IR user interfaces

- Qualitative approaches to the study of context-sensitive information seeking and IR

- Context-aware retrieval models

- Relevance feedback (implicit & explicit) and query modification issues for capturing context

- Novel approaches to eliciting, identifying, capturing and representing contextual information

- Task-based interactive IR and information seeking behavior

- Issues of genre, media, language, modality and structure in contextual information seeking and IR

- Personalized and collaborative information access in context

- Contextual information interaction theory

- Nature of relevance in context

- Measures and methods for studying and evaluating information seeking and IR in context

- Test collections for interactive or context-sensitive IR



FORMAT

Proposals should be formatted using the ACM Conference style (for LaTeX or Word). Submissions should be made in PDF, no more than 5 pages in length. Submit proposals to https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=iiix2012



WHAT TO INCLUDE IN YOUR PROPOSAL

Proposals should contain the following aspects in order for mentors to provide constructive feedback.

- Tentative thesis title

- Your name, affiliation, supervisor(s)

- Stage in PhD (e.g., 1st Year, 2nd Year)

- Motivation of research

- Research questions

- Planned methodology

- Summary of progress you have made so far

- Points for desired feedback (e.g., experimental design)

- Participation in previous DCs if any



IMPORTANT DATES

- Proposals due: April 27, 2012

- Acceptance Notification (same as regular paper): May 25, 2012

- Deadline for DC Camera-Ready Copy (one page summary - proceedings): June 22, 2012

- Deadline for DC Camera-Ready Copy (full paper - notebook): July 20, 2012

- Deadline for DC Presentation Slides: Aug 14, 2012

- Doctoral Consortium: Aug 21, 2012



COST

Participation in the Doctoral Consortium is included in the conference fee. The Consortium is open only to invited participants.



CREDIT AND CERTIFICATE

It is recommended that students participating in the Doctoral Consortium will be awarded 2 credits, ECTS or equivalent, by their home department. Students will be presented with a certificate upon completed participation in the Doctoral Consortium.



CONTACT

If you have any enquiries regarding the Doctoral Consortium, please contact the DC Co-Chairs.



Email: iiix2012 at cs.ru.nl<mailto:iiix2012 at cs.ru.nl>



Hideo Joho and Birger Larsen

IIiX 2012 Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs






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