Second Workshop: Post-Workshop

POST-WORKSHOP IN MILANO, DEI Seminar Room

The workshop will take place at the Dipartimento di Elettronica (DEI), Seminar Room (map).

May 31, all day, Seminar Room:
Session on “Visual Interaction for Search Computing”
Organizer: Stefano Ceri, Piero Fraternali, Maristella Matera
Experts: Tiziana Catarci (Università di Roma La Sapienza), Stuart Card (Palo Alto Research Center), Alan Dix (Lancaster University), Moira Norrie (ETH Zürich), Gianluca Demartini (L3S Hannover)

When search gets complex, user interaction with search systems cannot be limited to independent keyword-based search sessions: on one hand, queries should be progressively developed and refined, with an exploratory approach; on the other hand, complex results - involving many domains and sources and different, potentially incomparable rankings - should be made available in user-friendly formats, which should also facilitate refinement actions such as focusing, expansion, clustering, diversification. This session aims at understanding which paradigms are most effective in supporting complex search interactions, and which quality criteria should guide the design of user interfaces for search systems.

10:00-10:15 Stefano Ceri: Welcome (audio)
10:15-10:45 Piero Fraternali: Quality Issues in Search Computing Interfaces (audio)
10:45-11:00 Alex Bozzon: SeCo Demonstration (audio)
11:00 -13:00

Talks by:

  • Stuart Card (audio)
  • Alan Dix: Action and Context in Web Interaction (ppt file) (audio)
  • Moira Norrie: Desktop, Tabletop or Mobile? (ppt file) (audio)
  • Gianluca Demartini: Current Approaches to Search Result Diversification (ppt file) (audio)
14:30–17:00 Panel Discussion (Moderator: Tiziana Catarci): Effective Interfaces for Complex Search

Panel topics (audio) :

  • Which paradigms better support the users in exploratory search processes?
  • Which visualization techniques better convey multi-domain and ranked information?
  • How do we form "good" result sets, e.g., by means of clustering and diversification?
  • How do we personalize results?
  • Which are the usability criteria for complex search applications?


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