The Eighth Workshop on Search-Oriented Conversational Artificial Intelligence (SCAI’24) [Full day, Thursday]
Website: https://scai.info/scai-2024/
With the emergence of voice assistants and large language models, conversational interaction with information has become part of everyday life. The eighth edition of the search-oriented conversational AI (SCAI) workshop brings together practitioners and researchers from various disciplines to discuss challenges and advances in conversational search systems. This year's edition focuses on evaluations beyond relevance and accuracy and looks at conversational search from the user's perspective. The workshop features a shared task on user-centered evaluation datasets and metrics, challenging participants to develop new and innovative ways to evaluate conversational search systems while accounting for the needs and preferences of users.
Organisers
- Alexander Frummet (Universität Regensburg)
- Johannes Kiesel (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
- Maik Fröbe (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
- Andrea Papenmeier (University of Twente)
Unpublished FrontCHIIRs: A Workshop Exploring the Boundaries of Published Works [Half day, Sunday]
Website: https://frontchiirs.github.io/
Abstract: With this workshop, we aim to create a venue to actually workshop ideas that explore the future of search experiences and user interactions with information in a collaborative, low-pressure environment. While such topics could involve generative systems, revisiting old results and research outcomes to determine new or continued applicability is also of interest. This workshop enables participants to form a sub-community within CHIIR to facilitate further development of the proposed ideas and allow deeper collaborative problem-solving than just presenting late-breaking work.
Organisers
- Adam Roegiest (Zuva)
- Johanne Trippas (RMIT University)
PIM 2024: The Information We Need, When We Need It…As We Get Ever Closer, Is this Ideal Still Ideal? [Full day, Thursday]
Website: http://pimworkshop.org/2024
Abstract: An oft-repeated ideal of personal information management (PIM) is to have “the right information, at the right time, in the right place…” for the current need. But the technologies and innovations that bring us ever closer to this ideal carry costs as well as benefits. In this ninth in a series of PIM workshops, we give closer, critical consideration to the “right time, right place” ideal of PIM. Can we manage the potential downsides involved in achieving this ideal, while preserving its obvious benefits? Or should we revise our ideal of PIM?
Organisers
- Rob Capra (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- Mary Czerwinski (Microsoft Research)
- Jesse David Dinneen (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
- Jacek Gwizdka (University of Texas, Austin)
- William Jones (University of Washington, Seattle)
- Unmil Karadkar (CIRAC, University of Graz; iSchool, University of Texas)
