Second International Workshop on Search as Learning (SaL 2016)

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Search systems to date are viewed more as tools for the retrieval of content to satisfy immediate information needs, than as part of larger complex information environments in which humans learn while interacting with information content. Since users increasingly learn informally while searching as well as use search systems as tools for self-study, there is a growing recognition of the importance to address the challenges of designing, developing, and evaluating search systems (algorithms, interfaces, etc.) that foster discovery and enhance learning outside of formal educational settings.

The second international workshop on Search as Learning aims to esh out research directions and methodologies, and survey state-of-the-art approaches in this important emerging research area. Further, this workshop wishes to bring together researchers with backgrounds in information science (IS), human-computer interaction (HCI), and information retrieval (IR), with the goal of integrating conceptual, experimental, and simulationbased approaches and methodologies from within these di erent elds, thus allowing the transformation of search systems as isolated information access tools into systems that provide support for learning directly and that consider the broader outcomes of searching beyond a set of search results.

Organisers

Jacek Gwizdka, University of Texas Austin, USA Preben Hansen, Stockholm University, Sweden Claudia Hau , Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Jiyin He, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands

Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Program committee

Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow, UK David Elsweiler, University of Regensburg, Germany

Christa Womser-Hacker, University of Hildesheim, Germany

Kevyn Collins-Thompson, University of Michigan, USA

Rebecca Reynolds, Rutgers University, USA

Jussi Karlgren, Gavagei/KTH, Sweden

Soo Young Rieh, University of Michigan, USA

Hitomi Saito, Aichi University of Education, Japan

Jeremy Pickens, Catalyst Repository Systems, USA

Pia Borlund, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Pertti Vakkari, University of Tampere, Finland Andreas Nurnberger, University of Magdeburg, Germany Kalervo Jarvelin, University of Tampere, Finland Rick Kopak, University of British Columbia, Canada Robert Capra, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

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