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...ercises in connection to the oral presentations resulted in a set of important aspects to be considered in future research in HCI and IR. 1 Introduction HCIR is a phrase coined by Marchionini in 2005 =-=[4]-=- and is representative of the growing interest in uniting both those who are interested in how information systems are built (IR community) and those who are interested in how humans search for inform...

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...13, within the EuroHCIR workshop would be able to focus on extended search scenarios like holiday planning, entertainment, and casual browsing, especially with the growing interest in Search Sessions =-=[2, 6]-=-. The increased focus on users at SIGIR2013, with several user-oriented paper sessions, was evidence of this interest outside of our workshop too. Consequently, we believe that our proposal to organis...

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...13, within the EuroHCIR workshop would be able to focus on extended search scenarios like holiday planning, entertainment, and casual browsing, especially with the growing interest in Search Sessions =-=[2, 6]-=-. The increased focus on users at SIGIR2013, with several user-oriented paper sessions, was evidence of this interest outside of our workshop too. Consequently, we believe that our proposal to organis...

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... considered whether it was possible to degrade systems enough that participants move to a second page, or whether degradation would lead instead to a switch of search engine. Paper 2: Potthast et al. =-=[5]-=-. Exploratory Search Missions for TREC topics. This paper focused on the development of a corpus of user behaviour data produced by participants of a user study. The participants were professional wri...

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...hop. During the discussions, each group had access to a Google document to make note of important issues identified by their group. 2.2 Working Sessions: Paper 1-6 Paper 1: Thomas, Scholer and Moffat =-=[9]-=- Fading Away: Dilution and User Behaviour This paper was a focused example of when it is difficult to determine how system changes will affect ACM SIGIR Forum 79 Vol. 47 No. 2 December 2013 search beh...

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...oned that log data could be used for modelling exploratory tasks, but considered that the quality of the retrieval mechanism would have a big effect user interaction. Paper 3: Hall, Katsaris and Toms =-=[11]-=-. A Pluggable Work-bench for Creating Interactive IR Interfaces This paper described the development of a framework for creating quick and dirty, plug and play, user interfaces. The utility is describ...

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...lower prediction accuracy. They also considered how frequently you would see sessions with sufficient number of queries and data points to make a prediction. Paper 5: Gossen, Nitsche, and Nürnberger =-=[1]-=-. Evolving Search User Interfaces The authors introduced the concept of an evolving search user interface (ESUI). It adapts the UI dynamically based on the derived capabilities of the user interacting...

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...xperiments, while managing their tasks. Finally, the main focus of the system group was that it would be nice if the system better supported easy extension of customized widgets. Paper 4: Chirag Shah =-=[7]-=-. A Proposal for User-Focused Evaluation and Prediction of Information Seeking Process. Shah proposed a machine-learning based method to dynamically evaluate and predict search performance several tim...

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...sed communities well, and led to many design and human-evaluation papers, but fewer IR measure and systems papers. One notable exception was Smucker & Clarke’s introduction to Time-Based Gain measure =-=[8]-=-, which is the kind of paper that we wanted to encourage in the EuroHCIR 2013 workshop. We hoped that the community at SIGIR2013, within the EuroHCIR workshop would be able to focus on extended search...

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... with personalisation and changing entire interfaces, while discussing the options to gradually and more subtly make changes to a system. Paper 6: Simon Tretter, Gene Golovchinsky, Pernilla Qvarfordt =-=[10]-=-. SearchPanel: ACM SIGIR Forum 81 Vol. 47 No. 2 December 2013 A browser extension for managing search activity The authors, including the now sadly missed Golovchinsky, designed and built a Chrome ext...