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style="font-family: -moz-fixed; font-size: 13px;" lang="x-western">ΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚ
Workshop
on
Accessible
Search
Systems
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<br>
ΚΚ in conjunction with the 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference
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ΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚ Geneva, Switzerland, 23 July 2010
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ΚΚΚΚΚΚΚ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/%7Eir/accessiblesearch">http://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/~ir/accessiblesearch</a>
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AIMS
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Current search systems are not adequate for individuals with specific
<br>
needs: children, older adults, people with visual or motor impairments,
<br>
and people with intellectual disabilities or low literacy. Search
<br>
services are typically created for average users (young or middle-aged
<br>
adults without physical or mental disabilities) and information
<br>
retrieval methods are based on their perception of relevance as well.
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The workshop will be the first to raise the discussion on how to make
<br>
search engines accessible for different types of users, including
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those with problems in reading, writing or comprehension of complex
<br>
content. Search accessibility means that people whose abilities are
<br>
considerably different from those that average users have will be able
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to successfully use search systems.
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The objective of the workshop is to provide a forum and initiate
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collaborations between academics and industrial practitioners
interested
<br>
in making search more usable for users in general and for users with
<br>
specific needs in particular. We encourage presentation and
participation
<br>
from researchers working at the intersection of information retrieval,
<br>
natural language processing, human-computer interaction, ambient
<br>
intelligence and related areas.
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INVITED SPEAKERS
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The organisers are pleased to announce two invited speakers who will
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present at the workshop:
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Dr. T.V. Raman, Senior Research Scientist at Google Labs. Dr. Raman
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leads the project "Google Accessible Search", helping users with
<br>
impairments to find accessible Web content.
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Dr. Allison Druin, Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at
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the University of Maryland. Since 1998, Dr. Druin has led an
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interdisciplinary research teams looking for ways to improve
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information access for children and understand their search behaviour.
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PAPERS AND POSTERS
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The conference language is English. The workshop will be a mix of oral
<br>
presentations for long papers (maximum of 8 pages), a session for
posters
<br>
(maximum of 2 pages) and a panel discussion. All submissions will be
<br>
reviewed by at least two program committee members. Workshop
proceedings
<br>
will be available at the workshop.
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SUBMISSION DETAILS
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Please, submit papers in pdf-format, using the ACM SIG Proceedings
style
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(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html">http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html</a>
) using EasyChair:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=accessiblesearch2010">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=accessiblesearch2010</a>
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IMPORTANT DATES
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4 June:Κ Paper submission deadline (previous deadline: 23 May)
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16 June: Notification of acceptance
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23 June: Camera-ready papers due (provisional, awaiting confirmation
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ΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚ from the SIGIR conference chairs)
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23 July: Workshop in Geneva, Switzerland
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TOPICS
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The workshop welcomes contributions on any issue concerning accessible
<br>
search, for instance:
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Κ* Understanding of search behavior of users with specific needs
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Κ* Understanding of relevance criteria of users with specific needs
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Κ* Understanding the effects of domain expertise, age, user experience
<br>
ΚΚ and cognitive abilities on search goals and results evaluation
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Κ* Non-topical aspects of relevance: text style, readability,
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ΚΚ appropriateness of language (harassment and explicit content
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ΚΚ detection)
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Κ* Development of test collections for evaluation of accessible search
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ΚΚ systems
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Κ* Collaborative search techniques for assisting users with specific
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ΚΚ needs (e.g. parents helping children)
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Κ* Potential of search personalization techniques to satisfy users with
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ΚΚ specific needs
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Κ* Search interfaces and result representation for people with specific
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ΚΚ needs
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Κ* Using assistive technologies for interaction with search systems,
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ΚΚ e.g. speech recognition or eye tracking software for querying and
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ΚΚ browsing.
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ORGANISATION COMMITTEE
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Pavel Serdyukov, TU Delft
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Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente
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Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde
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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow
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Dania Bilal, University of Tennessee
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Jamshid Beheshti, McGill University, Montreal
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Carlos Castillo, Yahoo Research
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Kevin Collins-Thompson, Microsoft Research
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Arjen de Vries, CWI, Amsterdam
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Hilary Hutchinson, Google
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Diane Kelly, University of North Carolina
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Mounia Lalmas, University of Glasgow
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Barbara Leporini, CNR, Pisa
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Andrew MacFarlane, City University, London
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Marie-Francine Moens, University of Leuven
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