Week 26

Keywords: CHIIR conference, Open day at UiO, Women in Science exhibition

Bilde: Simen Kjellin UiO. Ellen Gleditsch blant dagens forskere.

Summary

This week, Hugo attended and presented at the CHIIR conference (Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval), at Oslo and Akershus University College. A number of presentations at the conference were very inspiring for the Visual Navigation Project, and are summarized here. Furthermore, the Science Fiction application for the touch table was used during an open day at the University of Oslo.

Specific activities, including

Adding news post about the development and design of the “Hidden Figures” touch table application we developed for our touch table. Available here.


Opening of Women in Science Exhibition. Screening of the “Hidden Figures” movie, for which we made a touch table application.


Open day at UiO - Science Library Stand. The Science Library stand, attended by Trude, featured the touch table in combination with the Science Fiction application made by informatics students last fall.


Attending / presenting at the CHIIR conference (Hugo). Papers of interest are presented below.

 

Long papers of interest

User Interests in German Social Science Literature Search: A Large Scale Log Analysis (https://doi.org/10.1145/3020165.3020168)

This paper from GESIS, Germany looks at longitudinal user statistics of use of a social sciences digital library. They visualize the data via interactive visualizations in d3.

 

SearchGazer: Webcam Eye Tracking for Remote Studies of Web Search (https://doi.org/10.1145/3020165.3020170)

Presenting a quite revolutionary way to conduct eye tracking studies via the webcam, evaluated by replicating previous search user interface user studies.

 

Something is Lost, Something is Found: Book Use at the Library Shelves (https://doi.org/10.1145/3020165.3020187)

This paper, by taking pictures of library shelves, looks at how books are used within the library space (i.e. books which are used but not loaned), a topic not previously studied much.

 

Manoeuvres in the Dark: Design Implications of the Physical Mechanics of Library Shelf Browsing (https://doi.org/10.1145/3020165.3020179)

A paper looking at how people actually browse the bookshelves in the physical library space, can be quite informative for thinking about alternative/digital solutions for book browsing.

 

Visual Re-Ranking for Multi-Aspect Information Retrieval (https://doi.org/10.1145/3020165.3020174)

Perhaps not immediately applicable in the visual navigation project, but interesting nonetheless: a tryout of a visual/spatial interface to browse academic papers.

 

Structure-Aware Visualization of Text Corpora (https://doi.org/10.1145/3020165.3020182)

An exploration of a visualization containing more structure than e.g. tag clouds, which may be an interesting concept to think more about.

 

Evaluating the Value of Lensing Wikipedia During the Information Seeking Process (https://doi.org/10.1145/3020165.3020178)

This paper actually was inspired by the setup of a paper Hugo wrote last year for the CHIIR conference, and looks at the influence of search stage on the use of wikipedia visualizations.

 

Some short papers of interest

Slide Over Here: The Various Adjacencies of Co-borrowed Ebooks (https://doi.org/10.1145/3020165.3022159)

This paper compares physical and digital book browsing, and shows that ebooks are not used in the same way (e.g. choosing different books for a topic) as books on physical library shelves.

 

Skip or Stay: Users' Behavior in Dealing with Onsite Information Interaction Crowd-Bias (https://doi.org/10.1145/3020165.3022160)

A bit perennial to our project, perhaps, but an interesting study of user behavior in a physical museum setting.

 

Accidentally Successful Searching: Users’ Perceptions of a Digital Library (https://doi.org/10.1145/3020165.3022124)

Questionnaire based study, looking at the occurrence of serendipity in digital library searches.

 

‘Too Much Serendipity’: The Tension between Information Seeking and Encountering at the Library Shelves (https://doi.org/10.1145/3020165.3022132)

Paper about the tension between high-risk, high-reward activities of exploring new information, versus the relative safety of goal-directed browsing.

Hugo’s (poster) presentations

Co-author of short paper “A process model of time-based media annotation in a scholarly context.” (https://doi.org/10.1145/3020165.3022139)

Based on a study with media scholars, this paper aims to shed more light on their annotation practices, and shows how these annotations fit in their overall research process

 

Author of workshop paper “Dynamic Compositions: Recombining Search User Interface Features for Supporting Complex Work Tasks” (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1798/paper5.pdf)

This paper, based on previous research, provides a framework for creating more supportive search interfaces for complex tasks, and suggests which interface features are most useful in different stages of such a task. This framework may be useful in a book search context as well.

Publisert 18. mars 2017 17:02 - Sist endret 17. mars 2020 10:19