Doctoral Consortium

The CHIIR Doctoral Consortium, held in conjunction with the main conference, provides an opportunity for doctoral students to present and discuss their research with senior researchers and other doctoral students in a seminar format. The CHIIR Doctoral Consortium will take place on Sunday, March 13, 2016. The following students have been accepted to the Consortium

• Horatiu Bota, University of Glasgow
  Nonlinear Composite Search Results

• Sara Chizari, University of South Carolina
  Exploring the Role of Culture in Online Searching Behavior from Cultural Cognition Perspective

• Dongho Choi, Rutgers
  Investigating Information Search Behavior using Personal and Social Contextual Signals

• David Maxwell, University of Glasgow
  Building Realistic Simulations for Interactive Information Retrieval

• Yin Qu, Interface Ecology Lab, Texas A&M University
  Supporting Ideation by Integrating Exploratory Search, Browsing, and Curation

• Ning Sa, University at Albany, SUNY
  Improving Query Reformulation in Voice Search System

• Vinesha Selvarajah, Monash University, Malaysia
  Information Retrieval Behaviors among EBM Practitioners when performing Evidence Based Medicine

• Johanne R. Trippas, RMIT University
  Spoken Conversational Search: Speech-only Interactive Information Retrieval

• Jieyu Wang, UMBC
  Understanding users' language selection: Code-switching in online searches

• Tesfahun Yilma, Monash University Malaysia
  Health Information Seeking Behavior among College Students: A case in a Developing Country