ECIR 2012
                                         Barcelona, Spain
                                            April 1st, 2012




Searching4FUN
      Workshop of the 34rd European
          Conference on Information
                           Retrieval




Organised by:
David Elsweiler, Max. L Wilson and Morgan Harvey


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Copyright ©2012 remains with the author/owner(s). Proceedings of the ECIR 2012 Workshop on
Searching4Fun. Held in Barcelona, Spain. April 1, 2012.




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                                                   Preface

These proceedings contain the papers presented at the ECIR 2012 Searching4Fun Workshop, that took place on 1 st
April, 2012 in Barcelona, Spain.

People spend more and more time online, not just to find information, but with the goal of enjoying themselves
and passing time. Research has begun to show that during casual-leisure search, peoples’ intentions, their
motivations, their criteria for success, and their querying behaviour all differ from typical web search, whilst
potentially representing a significant portion of search queries. This workshop will investigate searching for fun, or
casual-leisure search, and aims to understand this increasingly important type of searching, bring together relevant
IR sub-communities (e.g. recommender systems, result diversity, multimedia retrieval) and related disciplines,
discuss new and early research, and create a vision for future work in this area.

There are lots of other open questions relating to searching for fun and the papers presented at the workshop deal
with issues such as:

- Understanding information needs and search behaviour in particular casual-leisure situations.

- How existing systems are used in casual-leisure searching scenarios.

- Use of Recommender Systems for Entertaining Content (books, movies, videos, music, websites).

- Interfaces for exploratory search for casual-leisure situations.

- Evaluation (methods, metrics) of Casual-leisure searching situations.

- The role of Emotion in Casual-leisure search


We would like to thank ECIR for hosting the workshop. Thanks also go to the programme committee and paper
authors, without whom there would be no workshop.



April 2012
                                                                                                     David Elsweiler
                                                                                                      Max L. Wilson
                                                                                                     Morgan Harvey




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                                 Organisation

Program Chairs
David Elsweiler (University of Regensburg, Germany)
Max L. Wilson (University of Nottingham, England)
Morgan Harvey (University of Erlangen, Germany)


Program Committee
Pertti Vakkari, Tampere, Finland
Elaine Toms, Sheffield, UK
Ryen White, Microsoft Research, USA
Leif Azzopardi, Glasgow, UK
Bernd Ludwig, University of Regensburg, Germany
Ian Ruthven, Strathclyde, UK
Daniel Tunkelang, LinkedIn, USA
Pablo Castells, Madrid, Spain
Richard Schaller, Erlangen, Germany
Stefan Mandl, Augsburg, Germany
Amund, Tveit - Atbrox, Norway
Michael Hurst - Loughborough University, UK




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                                   Table of Contents

Preface………………………………………………………………………………………………………...………I

Organisation………………………………………………………………………………………………………….II

Table of Contents…………………………………………………………………………………………………...III



Keynote Lecture
Finding without Seeking, Retrieving without Searching……………………………………………......................VI
Elaine Toms (University of Sheffield)

Presentations
Session 1: Mobile Search

Rethinking mobile search: towards casual, shared, social mobile search experiences ………………………....1
Sofia Reis (Telefonica), Karen Church (Telefonica) and Nuria Oliver (Telefonica)

Out and About on Museums Night: Investigating Mobile Search Behaviour for Leisure Events ……………...5
Richard Schaller (Erlangen-Nuremberg), Morgan Harvey (Erlangen-Nuremberg) and David Elsweiler
(Regensburg)

The Information Needs of Mobile Searchers: A Framework ……………………………………………...........9
Tyler Tate (TwigKit) and Tony Russell-Rose (UXLabs)

Session 2: Emotion
Role of Emotion in Information Retrieval for Entertainment. …………………………………………….....…12
Yashar Moshfeghi (Glasgow) and Joemon M. Jose (Glasgow).

Searching Wikipedia: learning the why, the how, and the role played by emotion ………………………….....14
Hanna Knäusl (Regensburg)

Rushed or Relaxed? -- How the Situation on the Road Influences the Driver's Preferences for Music Tracks ..16
Linas Baltrunas (Telefonica), Bernd Ludwig (FAU-EN) and Francesco Ricci (Bozon-Bolzano)

Session 3: Browsing for Reading
Serendipitous Browsing: Stumbling the Wikipedia ……………………………………………………………..21
Claudia Hauff (Delft) and Geert-Jan Houben (Delft)

A Diary Study of Information Needs Produced in Casual-Leisure Reading Situations. ………………………..25
Max L. Wilson (Nottingham), Basmah Alhodaithi (Swansea) and Michael Hurst (Loughborough)

In Search of a Good Novel: Examining Results Matter ………………………………………………………...29
Suvi Oksaenen (Tampere) and Pertti Vakkari (Tampere)




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Keynote Lecture – Elaine Toms

Finding without Seeking, Retrieving without Searching

In information retrieval we tend to focus on the process from specific information need to
desired solution that follows a lockstep path from start to finish. Yet a rich part of our
information world is in the unfocused, accidental encounter with information that leads to
novel findings, and enriched experiences that maybe more about the journey than the
destination. This is very true of how we approach information spaces in our leisure activities
and how we use our unplanned time in digital worlds. This talk will focus on the accidental
encountering of people with information, how systems support (or not) the orienteering and
foraging that people tend to do, and how information retrieval might provide more optimal
solutions.




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