INFORMATION RETRIEVAL & SEARCH EFFECTIVENESS INFORMATION ACCESS & RETRIEVAL: THE WEB, USERS & HCI CALL FOR PAPERS MINITRACK IN DIGITAL MEDIA: CONTENT AND COMMUNICATION TRACK 43RD HAWAI’I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCE HAWAI’I, JANUARY 5-8, 2010 PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JUNE 15, 2009 [WWW.HICSS.HAWAII.EDU] The Information Access & Retrieval Minitrack welcomes papers in information retrieval, search effectiveness, user experience, and related emergent topics, including but not limited to the following areas: * Web-based Information Retrieval * Topic detection and tracking * Geographic retrieval * Information visualization * Text categorization and summary * User based Search Engine effectiveness measures * Human design issues and evaluations * Evaluation of Web search tools * Individual differences in Web search * Personalization and profiles to enhance Web search * Role of task in information seeking behavior on the Web * More information available at www.cs.dal.ca/~watters/HICSSIR43<http://www.cs.dal.ca/~watters/HICSSIR43> MINITRACK COCHAIRS: Carolyn Watters. Dalhousie University, Canada. watters@cs.dal.ca<mailto:watters@cs.dal.ca> Ray Larsen, Univ.of California, Berkeley, USA ray@sims.berkeley.edu<mailto:ray@sims.berkeley.edu> Amanda Spink, Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia ah.spink@qut.edu.au<mailto:ah.spink@qut.edu.au> ***************************************** Amanda Spink Research Capacity Building Professor of Information Science Vice-President - Queensland Academy of Arts & Sciences Faculty of Science and Technology Queensland University of Technology Gardens Point Campus, 2 George St, GPO Box 2434 Brisbane QLD 4001 Australia http://www.fit.qut.edu.au<http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/> Tel: 61-7-3138-9583 Fax: 61-7-3864-2703 Email: ah.spink@qut.edu.au<mailto:ah.spink@qut.edu.au> Homepage: http://sky.scitech.qut.edu.au/~spinkah/index.htm ******************************************