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- July 14, 2020: In order to give the CHIIR 2020 paper authors an opportunity to interact with the community, we have organized a Virtual CHIIR 2020 event, which will be held on August 13 and 14, 2020. The new schedule can be accessed here, or by clicking Virtual CHIIR 2020 in the navigation menu.
Schedule
Day 1: Saturday, March 14, 2020
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 09:00 AM – 05:00 PM | Doctoral Consortium |
| 09:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Tutorial 1: Multi-Methods Evaluation for IR and Recommender Systems |
| 09:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Tutorial 2: Co-Design to Include Users with Intellectual Disability in Information Interaction Research |
| 01:30 PM – 05:00 PM | Tutorial 3: Capturing Information Behaviour in the Wild |
| 01:30 PM – 05:00 PM | Tutorial 4: Social Network Analysis as a Tool for Data Analysis and Visualization in Information Behaviour and Interactive Information Retrieval Research |
| 06:00 PM – 08:00 PM |
Opening Reception Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art 639 Hornby Street |
Day 2: Sunday, March 15, 2020
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 09:00 AM – 09:30 AM | Opening |
| 09:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Keynote: Christine Borgman, “Big Data, Little Data, or No Data? Why Human Interaction with Data is a Hard Problem” |
| 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM | Coffee |
| 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM | Paper Session 1: Innovations in Interface Design |
| 12:15 PM – 01:15 PM | Lunch |
| 01:15 PM – 02:30 PM | Paper Session 2: Conversational Systems |
| 02:30 PM – 03:00 PM | Coffee |
| 03:00 PM – 04:15 PM | Paper Session 3: Interactions with Conversational Agents |
| 04:15 PM – 05:15 PM | Poster Boaster |
| 05:30 PM – 08:00 PM |
Poster Session SFU Harbour Centre ICBC Concourse |
Day 3: Monday, March 16, 2020
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 09:00 AM – 10:15 AM | Paper Session 4: Understanding Diverse Populations |
| 10:15 AM – 10:45 AM | Coffee |
| 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM | Paper Session 5: On Privacy, Trust, and Ethics |
| 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM | Lunch |
| 01:00 PM – 02:15 PM | Paper Session 6: Understanding Interactions |
| 02:15 PM – 02:45 PM | Presentation of Best Paper Awards |
| 02:45 PM – 03:15 PM | Coffee |
| 03:15 PM – 04:30 PM | Paper Session 7: Supporting Task-Based Interactions |
| 07:00 PM – 11:00 PM |
Conference Banquet Craft Beer Market 85 West First Avenue |
Day 4: Tuesday, March 17, 2020
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 09:30 AM – 10:45 AM | Paper Session 8: Evaluation Tools and Models |
| 10:45 AM – 11:15 AM | Coffee |
| 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM | Keynote: Meredith Ringel Morris, “Accessible Information Seeking” |
| 12:15 PM – 01:15 PM | Lunch |
| 01:15 PM – 02:30 PM | Paper Session 9: Assessing Search Results |
| 02:30 PM – 03:00 PM | Coffee |
| 03:00 PM – 04:15 PM | Paper Session 10: Information Seeking |
| 04:15 PM – 05:00 PM | CHIIR it Forward & Closing |
Day 5: Wednesday, March 18, 2020
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 09:00 AM – 05:30 PM | Workshop 1: Made to Measure: A Workshop on Human-Centred Metrics for Information Seeking |
| 09:00 AM – 05:30 PM | Workshop 2: Third Workshop on Evaluation of Personalisation in Information Retrieval (WEPIR 2020) |
| 09:00 AM – 05:30 PM | Workshop 3: Third International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval (CAIR’20) |
Paper Session 1: Innovations in Interface Design
Session Chair: Robert Capra
- On Birthing Dancing Stars: The Need for Bounded Chaos in Information Interaction
- Enabling Predictive Number Entry and Editing on Touchscreen-Based Mobile Devices
- Vroom!: A Search Engine for Sounds by Vocal Imitation Queries
Paper Session 2: Conversational Systems
Session Chair: Chirag Shah
- Harnessing Evolution of Multi-Turn Conversations for Effective Answer Retrieval
- Conversations with Documents: An Exploration of Document-Centered Assistance
- Investigating Expectations for Voice-based and Conversational Argument Search on the Web
Paper Session 3: Interactions with Conversational Agents
Session Chair: Martin Halvey
- Hands-Free but Not Eyes-Free: A Usability Evaluation of Siri While Driving
- Conversational Agents for Recipe Recommendation
- Would you Like to Talk about Sports Now? Towards Contextual Topic Suggestion for Open-Domain Conversational Bots
Paper Session 4: Understanding Diverse Populations
Session Chair: Stephann Makri
- “Information Needs of the End Users Have Never Been Discussed”: An Investigation of the User-Intermediary Interaction of People With Intellectual Impairments
- Engaging the Abilities of Participants with Intellectual Disability in IIR Research
- An In-Situ Study of Information Needs in Design-Related Creative Projects
Paper Session 5: On Privacy, Trust, and Ethics
Session Chair: Henry Feild
- Towards Search Strategies for Better Privacy and Information
- We Could, but Should We? Ethical Considerations for Providing Access to GeoCities and Other Historical Digital Collections
- Human Information Interaction and the Cognitive Predicting Theory of Trust
Paper Session 6: Understanding Interactions
Session Chair: Diane Kelly
- Effects of Past Interactions on User Experience with Recommended Documents
- Everyday Cross-Session Search: How and Why Do People Search Across Multiple Sessions?
- We Are the Change That We Seek: Information Interactions During a Change of Viewpoint
Paper Session 7: Supporting Task-Based Interactions
Session Chair: Katriina Byström
- A Workflow Analysis Perspective to Scholarly Research Tasks
- Identifying and Predicting the States of Complex Search Tasks
- Step-Wise Recommendation for Complex Task Support
Paper Session 8: Evaluation Tools and Models
Session Chair: Paul Thomas
- Data-Driven Evaluation Metrics for Heterogeneous Search Engine Result Pages
- Relevance Prediction from Eye-movements Using Semi-interpretable Convolutional Neural Networks
- Reflecting upon Perceptual Speed Tests in Information Retrieval: Limitations, Challenges, and Recommendations
Paper Session 9: Assessing Search Results
Session Chair: Catherine Smith
- The Usefulness of Search Results: A Systematization of Types and Predictors
- The Role of Attributes in Product Quality Comparisons
- Intercomprehension in Retrieval: User Perspectives On Six Related Scarce Resource Languages
Paper Session 10: Information Seeking
Session Chair: George Buchanan
- A Think-Aloud Study to Understand Factors Affecting Online Health Search
- Studying How Health Literacy Influences Attention During Online Information Seeking
- PokeME: Applying Context-Driven Notifications to Increase Worker Engagement in Mobile Crowd-sourcing
