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ACM SIGIR CHIIR Conference Comes to Austin!

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The University of Texas at Austin School of Information (iSchool) will host the eighth annual Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2023) from March 19-23, 2023. After three years of virtual conferences, co-chairs Soo Young Rieh and Jacek Gwizdka are excited that this year’s conference will be held in-person at the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center and the iSchool. The major areas of study that will be discussed at CHIIR (pronounced “cheer”) focus on user-centered approaches to the design and evaluation of systems for information access, seeking, retrieval, and use.

"CHIIR is a well-established and highly regarded international forum that brings together researchers from diverse disciplines such as human-information interaction, human-computer interaction, information retrieval, and information behavior."

CHIIR’23 General Co-Chairs Jacek Gwizdka and Soo Young Rieh said, “CHIIR is a well-established and highly regarded international forum that brings together researchers from diverse disciplines such as human-information interaction, human-computer interaction, information retrieval, and information behavior. We are very pleased to see a growing range of topics and organizations represented in the CHIIR program. The number of contributed papers, short papers, demos and doctoral consortium papers clearly demonstrate the value this unique forum has achieved among researchers.”

Twenty-six full and perspective papers will be presented in nine sessions over three days. Twenty short papers and eight demos will be presented in the poster session. In addition, ten doctoral consortium papers will be presented on the last day of the conference. CHIIR 2023 also features also two workshops and one tutorial.

The presenting researchers include the following iSchoolers:

The conference will feature two keynote speakers:

  • Elizabeth Churchill, Senior Director of UX at Google, will share examples from prior work on content production and annotation and on social and collaborative information search in a number of domains, and will reflect on the future of information seeking and creative decision making in the evolving landscape of AI enhanced information exploration.

  • Stephen Downie, Associate Dean for Research and a Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and the Illinois Co-Director of the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC), will reflect on some key similarities between the Music Information Retrieval (MIR) and HTRC retrieval tasks including the ruminations on collection vs. item retrieval, hedonistic and genre-based retrieval goals, and the role of human-led search iterations.

In addition to Jacek Gwizdka and Soo Young Rieh serving as conference co-chairs, several iSchool researches also served as organizers for the event, including: Yan Zhang (Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair), Matt Lease (Demo Co-Chair), Catherine Chavula (Local Arrangements Chair), Yujin Choi (Student Volunteer Chair), and Han-Hsuan Lin and Nilavra Bhattacharya (Website Design & Development).