Program

• Date: Friday, July 12, 2018
• Time: 09:00 - 17:00
• Venue: The Michigan League, 2nd Floor, Hussey Room

Program at a Glance

• Welcome
• Keynote Talk I: Brian Strope (Google)
• Coffee Break
• Oral Session 1
• Lunch Break
• Oral Session 2
• Keynote Talk II: Eugene Agichtein (Emory University)
• Coffee Break
• Joint Panel with KG4IR + Closing

09:00-09:05

Welcome

10:00-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:00

Oral Session I

• Conceptualizing Agent-Human Interactions during the Conversational Search Process. Leif Azzopardi (University of Strathclyde), Mateusz Dubiel (University of Strathclyde), Martin Halvey (University of Strathclyde) and Jeffery Dalton (University of Glasgow)
• Wizard of Oz: Protocols and Challenges in Studying Searchbots to Support Collaborative Search. Sandeep Avula (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
• Investigating How Conversational Search Agents Affect User’s Behaviour, Performance and Search Experience. Mateusz Dubiel (University of Strathclyde), Martin Halvey (University of Strathclyde), Leif Azzopardi (University of Strathclyde) and Sylvain Darronat (University of Strathclyde)
• Interactive Search through Iterative Refinement. Muuo Wambua (University of Toronto), Stefania Raimondo (University of Toronto), Jennifer Boger (University of Waterloo), Jan Polgar (Western University), Hamidreza Chinaei (University of Toronto) and Frank Rudzicz (Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-UHN; University of Toronto; Vector Institute)

12:00 - 1:30pm

Lunch Break

1:30pm-1:50pm

Oral Session II

• Exploring Current User Web Search Behaviours in Analysis Tasks to be Supported in Conversational Search. Abhishek Kaushik (Dublin City University), Gareth Jones (Dublin City University)

2:45pm-3:00pm

Poster Discussions

3:00-3:30pm

Coffee Break

3:30-3:45pm

Poster Discussions