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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">IIiX 2012: Fourth Information Interaction in Context Symposium<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://iiix2012.org">http://iiix2012.org</a>, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, August 21-24, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">Call for Doctoral Forum Participation <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">SEMINAR OUTLINE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">TOPICS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Interactive IR issues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Design of IR user interfaces<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Qualitative approaches to the study of context-sensitive information seeking and IR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Context-aware retrieval models<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Relevance feedback (implicit & explicit) and query modification issues for capturing context<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Novel approaches to eliciting, identifying, capturing and representing contextual information<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Task-based interactive IR and information seeking behavior<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Issues of genre, media, language, modality and structure in contextual information seeking and IR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Personalized and collaborative information access in context<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Contextual information interaction theory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Nature of relevance in context<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Measures and methods for studying and evaluating information seeking and IR in context<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Test collections for interactive or context-sensitive IR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">FORMAT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">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
<a href="https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=iiix2012">https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=iiix2012</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">WHAT TO INCLUDE IN YOUR PROPOSAL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">Proposals should contain the following aspects in order for mentors to provide constructive feedback.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Tentative thesis title<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Your name, affiliation, supervisor(s)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Stage in PhD (e.g., 1st Year, 2nd Year)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Motivation of research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Research questions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Planned methodology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Summary of progress you have made so far<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Points for desired feedback (e.g., experimental design)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Participation in previous DCs if any<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Proposals due: April 27, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Acceptance Notification (same as regular paper): May 25, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Deadline for DC Camera-Ready Copy (one page summary - proceedings): June 22, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Deadline for DC Camera-Ready Copy (full paper - notebook): July 20, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Deadline for DC Presentation Slides: Aug 14, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">- Doctoral Consortium: Aug 21, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">COST<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">Participation in the Doctoral Consortium is included in the conference fee. The Consortium is open only to invited participants.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">CREDIT AND CERTIFICATE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">CONTACT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">If you have any enquiries regarding the Doctoral Consortium, please contact the DC Co-Chairs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">Email: <a href="mailto:iiix2012@cs.ru.nl">
iiix2012@cs.ru.nl</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">Hideo Joho and Birger Larsen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-GB">IIiX 2012 Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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