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Program
This one-day event will be held at Microsoft Research (MS Building 99, Lecture Room 1919) in Redmond, Washington, USA (address and driving directions). Free parking is available; attendees must register their vehicles at Building 99 reception.
If you are interested in attending the workshop you must register in advance. Please contact Ryen White (ryenw@microsoft.com) for more details on registration.
Agenda
08.00 - 09.00:
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Continental breakfast
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09.00 - 09.10:
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Welcome
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09.10 - 09.30:
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Introductions/Ice-breaker activity
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09.30 - 10.30:
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Keynote: Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research
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10.30 - 11.00:
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Break
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11:00 - 12.30:
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Session 1 - Guidance and Navigation
UIs for Faceted Navigation Recent Advances and Remaining Open Problems
Marti A. Hearst (University of California at Berkeley)
Polestar: Assisted Navigation for Exploring Multi-dimensional Information Spaces
Davor Cubranic (SAP)
Human-Guided Ontology Learning
Hui Yang and Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University)
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12.30 - 13.30:
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Lunch (including Microsoft "DemoFest"). Demos included:
- BackStory (Gina Venolia)
- FacetLens (Greg Smith, Brian Meyers)
- InkSeine (Ken Hinckley)
- Phlat (Ed Cutrell)
- PSearch (Dan Leibling, Sue Dumais)
- Research Desktop Activities (Gabriella Kazai)
- Search Experience Feedback (Raman Chandrasekar)
- SearchTogether (Merrie Morris)
- Snippet (Steven Drucker)
- WebAssistant (Silviu-Petru Cucerzan)
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13.30 - 15.00:
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Session 2 - Search and Evaluation
Personal Information Organization and Retrieval Using an Activity-Based Desktop Interface
Stephen Voida (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Constructing Exploratory Tasks for a Faceted Search Interface
Bill Kules (The Catholic University of America) and Robert Capra (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Measuring Search Experience Satisfaction using Explicit Context-Aware Feedback
Raman Chandrasekar (Microsoft Research), Matthew R. Scott (Microsoft Research), Dean Slawson (Microsoft Research), A.R.D. Rajan (New York University), and Daniel Makoski (Microsoft Corporation)
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15.00 - 15.30:
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Brainstorm in preparation for breakout sessions
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15.30 - 16.00:
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Break
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16.00 - 16.45:
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Breakout sessions
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16.45 - 17.15:
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Report back from breakouts and workshop-wide discussion
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17.15 - 17.30:
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Wrap-up and next steps
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17.30 - 19.00:
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Reception
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Please note: All workshop participants will have the opportunity to present a poster describing their work. Posters will be displayed in the workshop room all day. Poster presenters will be available for questions/discussion about
their poster during breaks and/or lunch.
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