IWILDS 2020: International Workshop on Investigating Learning During Web Search Online Galway, Ireland, October 19, 2020 |
Conference website | https://iwilds2020.wordpress.com/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwilds2020 |
Submission deadline | July 31, 2020 |
Web search is one of the most ubiquitous online activities and is often used for learning purposes, i.e. to acquire or extend one’s knowledge or skills about certain topics or procedures. The importance of learning as an outcome of Web search has also been recognized in research at the intersection of information retrieval, human-computer interaction, psychology, and educational sciences. Search as Learning (SAL) research examines relationships between querying, navigation, and reading behavior during Web search and the resulting learning outcomes, and how they can be measured, predicted, and supported. IWILDS aims to provide a platform to the interdisciplinary SAL community, with the objective to bring together interested researchers from all related disciplines, provide space for presentation and discussion of novel research insights and future directions of SAL research. We thus invite submissions addressing topics related to the understanding of online learning, specifically during Web search, or the technological support of such learning processes.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
We will welcome two types of contributions:
- Full papers up to 8 pages, presenting high-quality technical contributions which fit the workshop’s scope
- Short papers up to 4 pages, presenting positions, work in progress and minor contributions
All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted according to the CEUR-WS format (two-columned style, no page numbers)[1]. Please submit your contributions electronically in PDF format via the IWILDS2020 submission system at easychair [2]. Accepted papers will be published as part of the conference proceeding companion volume.
[1] Format guidelines: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/samplestyles/
[2] Submission page: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=iwilds2020#
List of Topics
Topics of interest include the following (but are not limited to):
- Understanding learning during Web search
- Role of individual differences (e.g. self-regulation, confidence, engagement, affect, etc) on learning while searching
- Modeling & predicting learning processes and outcomes in Web search
- Information literacy & multiple documents comprehension
- Methods of data collection (e.g. query & navigation logs, eye-tracking) to understand learning
- Indicators of learning (while searching) & learning outcome measures
- Collaborative aspects of SAL
- Context effects (e.g. search at the library, outdoors, etc) on learning while searching
- Support of learning during Web search
- Interventions, tools, & user interfaces to foster SAL
- Information/multimedia retrieval for SAL
- Learning analytics & educational data mining in Web-based (informal & formal) learning
- Fairness and transparency of Web-based learning
- Source credibility evaluation during Web search
- Transparency of retrieval & ranking in SAL
- Implications of SAL for different populations: e.g., children, low-literacy searchers
- Bias in recommendation, user profiling etc. for SAL scenarios
Committees
Program Committee (preliminary)
- Franck Amadieu, University of Toulouse, France
- Sören Auer, L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany
- Ralph Ewerth, L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany
- Inmaculada Fajardo, University of Valencia, Spain
- Ujwal Gadiraju, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
- Jacek Gwizdka, University of Texas, Austin, US
- Carolin Hahnel, Leibniz Institute for Research & Information in Education, Frankfurt, Germany
- Sherzod Hakimov, Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hanover, Germany
- Peter Holtz, Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM), Tübingen, Germany
- Gábor Kismihók, Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hanover, Germany
- Mônica Macedo-Rouet, Université Paris 8, France
- Ivana Marenzi, L3S research centre, Hanover, Germany
- Dwaipan Roy, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS), Cologne, Germany
Organizing committee
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Anett Hoppe, Leibniz Information Centre for Science & Technology (TIB), Hannover, Germany,
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Ran Yu, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS), Cologne, Germany,
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Yvonne Kammerer, Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM), Tübingen, Germany / Open Universiteit, Heerlen, The Netherlands,
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Ladislao Salmerón, University of Valencia, Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, Research Unit on Reading (ERI Lectura), Valencia, Spain,
Invited Speakers
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Claudia Hauff, Web Information Systems Group, Faculty of Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology
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Carita Kiili, Faculty of Education & Culture University of Tampere, Finland
Publication
IWILDS 2020 proceedings will be published in as part of the conference proceeding companion volume of the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2020.
Venue
The conference will be held fully online.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to iwilds at easychair dot org.