Programme

Main Conference: 24th-26th March

The main conference venue will be in the Conversation Quarter at the State Library of Victoria, right in the heart of Melbourne's downtown.

Tutorials, Doctoral Colloquium and Workshops: 27th-28th March

These events will be held on Level 7 of Storey Hall at RMIT University.

Schedule At-a-Glance

Session 1: Interfaces (Chair: Maria Gäde)

Principles of Exploratory Search Interface Design
Orland Hoeber

Integrating Eye Tracking, Feature Use, and Emotional Responses: A Holistic Approach to Evaluating Search Interfaces
Abbas Pirmoradi, Orland Hoeber, Morgan Harvey, Milad Momeni and David Gleeson

Pupillometric Analysis of Cognitive Load in Relation to Relevance and Confirmation Bias
Li Shi, Gavindya Jayawardena and Jacek Gwizdka

g-Rel-READER: A Dataset for Relevance and Reading Evaluation through Advanced Data from Eye-tracking and EEG Recordings
Jacek Gwizdka and Michael Cole

Session 2: Looking Deeper (Chair: Rob Capra)

Exploring Self-dehumanization as a Factor in Misinformation Belief and Spread
Andrew Weiss, Souvick Ghosh and Frances Johnson

Contextualizing the Role of Web Search In Creative Workflows: Insights from a Longitudinal Study
Srishti Palani and Steven Dow

Collaborative image data interaction in social science and humanities research tasks
Elina Late, Inés Matres, Anna Sendra and Sanna Kumpulainen

Theory-Based User Search Behaviour Modelling and Understanding through Search Log Analysis
Junhao Zhang and Haiming Liu

Beyond the Surface: Investigating Explicit and Implicit Perceptions of Music Diversity
Yuyu Yang, Rob Capra and Mengtian Guo

Session 3: Commerce (Chair: Adam Roegeist)

From Queries to Candidates: Exploring Search and Source Interaction Behavior of Recruiters
Toine Bogers, Mesut Kaya and Maria Gaede

Search Changes Consumers' Minds: How Recognizing Gaps Drives Sustainable Choices
Frans van der Sluis and Leif Azzopardi

Eliciting Implicit Information Needs in E-Commerce Search by Using the Think-Aloud Method
Kosetsu Tsukuda, Atsuki Maruta, Makoto P. Kato and Hideo Joho

Session 4: Teaching and Learning (Chair: Vivien Petras)

Teacher Online Educational Resource Search in a Flexible Curriculum: A Case Study from Scotland
Vidminas Vizgirda, Fiona McNeill and Judy Robertson

Personalized Knowledge Gain Estimation Through Query-Driven Learning Goal Inference in Search As Learning
Hadi Nasser, Célia Da Costa Pereira, Cathy Escazut and Andrea Tettamanzi

Search+Chat: Integrating Search and GenAI to Support Users with Learning-oriented Search Tasks
Yuyu Yang, Kelsey Urgo, Jaime Arguello and Robert Capra

"I’m Looking for a Book with a Big Watermelon and Many Small Ants": An Exploratory Study on a Visualized Search System for Preschoolers' Picture Book Search
Jinghan Zhang, Yi Xie, Junyang Ma, Zhihan Zheng, Shenkang Zhai and Pianran Wang

Session 5: Sharing (Chair: Catherine Chavula)

Online Information Disclosure and Information Privacy Practices During Significant Life Transitions: A Scoping Review
Ryan Gibson, Ramsay Meiklem, Wendy Moncur and Ian Ruthven

A Whole New World: Migrant Journeys Through Digital Information Landscapes
Rashika Bahl, Shanton Chang, Dana McKay, George Buchanan and Marc Cheong

Assessing Risks in Online Information Sharing
Leif Azzopardi, Emma Nicol, Jo Briggs, Wendy Moncur, Burkhard Schafer, Callum Nash and Melissa Duheric

Session 6: Music and Leisure (Chair: Toine Bogers)

ExIM: Exploring Intent of Music Listening for Retrieving User-generated Playlists
Anna Hausberger, Hannah Strauss and Markus Schedl

Why They Come And Go: A Case Study of Productive Flyby Users and Their Rating Integrity Challenge in Movie Recommenders
Ruixuan Sun, Ruoyan Kong, Ashlee Milton, Daniel Kluver, Ian Paterson and Joseph Konstan

Fitting to the body: the role of embodiment in beauty information seeking
Catherine Chavula and Cassandra Kist

Session 7: Making Sense (Chair: Paul Thomas)

The Effects of Working Memory during a Search and Sensemaking Task
Bogeum Choi and Jaime Arguello

IR-chiver: An Information-Centric Personal Web Archive for Revisiting Past Online Sensemaking Tasks
Zhicheng Huang and Jeff Huang

Seeking Control: How Women Use and Evaluate Menopause Related Information
Francesca Emter and Catherine Chavula

Session 8: Training (Chair: Mark Sanderson)

Exploring the Zero-Shot Known-Item Retrieval Capabilities of LLMs for Casual Leisure Information Needs
Toine Bogers, Maria Gaede, Mark Hall, Marijn Koolen, Vivien Petras and Mette Skov

Instruct-to-SPARQL: A text-to-SPARQL dataset for training SPARQL Agents
Mehdi Ben Amor, Alexis Strappazzon, Michael Granitzer, Elöd Egyed-Zsigmond and Jelena Mitrović

Boundedly Rational Searchers Interacting with Medical Misinformation: Characterizing Context-Dependent Decoy Effects on Credibility and Usefulness Evaluation in Sessions
Jiqun Liu and Jiangen He

Two Heads Are Better Than One: Improving Search Effectiveness Through LLM Generated Query Variants
Kun Ran, Marwah Alaofi, Mark Sanderson and Damiano Spina

Session 9: Conversation (Chair: Hideo Joho)

Blending Queries and Conversations: Understanding Trust, Verification, and System Choice in Search and Chat Interactions
Kerstin Mayerhofer, Rob Capra and David Elsweiler

Do Images Clarify? A Study on the Effect of Images on Clarifying Questions in Conversational Search
Clemencia Siro, Zahra Abbasiantaeb, Yifei Yuan, Mohammad Aliannejadi and Maarten de Rijke

SearchLab: Exploring Conversational and Traditional Search Interfaces in Information Retrieval
Saber Zerhoudi and Michael Granitzer

Session 10: Demonstrations

Organizing Found Information in Public Digital Library Search
Kimeya Orin and Orland Hoeber

Crowdsourced and Automated Educational Resource Metadata
Vidminas Vizgirda

Paths and Recreation: Inclusive Recommendation of Physical Activities in your Neighbourhood
Denis Kotkov, Alan Medlar and Dorota Glowacka

A Tool for Researching how AI Affects Information Seeking
Alamir Novin and Georgia Towne

Accepted Full Papers

Why They Come And Go: A Case Study of Productive Flyby Users and Their Rating Integrity Challenge in Movie Recommenders
Ruixuan Sun, Ruoyan Kong, Ashlee Milton, Daniel Kluver, Ian Paterson and Joseph Konstan

Principles of Exploratory Search Interface Design
Orland Hoeber

Integrating Eye Tracking, Feature Use, and Emotional Responses: A Holistic Approach to Evaluating Search Interfaces
Abbas Pirmoradi, Orland Hoeber, Morgan Harvey, Milad Momeni and David Gleeson

Online Information Disclosure and Information Privacy Practices During Significant Life Transitions: A Scoping Review
Ryan Gibson, Ramsay Meiklem, Wendy Moncur and Ian Ruthven

Search+Chat: Integrating Search and GenAI to Support Users with Learning-oriented Search Tasks
Yuyu Yang, Kelsey Urgo, Jaime Arguello and Robert Capra

Assessing Risks in Online Information Sharing
Leif Azzopardi, Emma Nicol, Jo Briggs, Wendy Moncur, Burkhard Schafer, Callum Nash and Melissa Duheric

Teacher Online Educational Resource Search in a Flexible Curriculum: A Case Study from Scotland
Vidminas Vizgirda, Fiona McNeill and Judy Robertson

The Effects of Working Memory during a Search and Sensemaking Task
Bogeum Choi and Jaime Arguello

From Queries to Candidates: Exploring Search and Source Interaction Behavior of Recruiters
Toine Bogers, Mesut Kaya and Maria Gaede

Collaborative image data interaction in social science and humanities research tasks
Elina Late, Inés Matres, Anna Sendra and Sanna Kumpulainen

Fitting to the body: the role of embodiment in beauty information seeking
Catherine Chavula and Cassandra Kist

Boundedly Rational Searchers Interacting with Medical Misinformation: Characterizing Context-Dependent Decoy Effects on Credibility and Usefulness Evaluation in Sessions
Jiqun Liu and Jiangen He

Blending Queries and Conversations: Understanding Trust, Verification, and System Choice in Search and Chat Interactions
Kerstin Mayerhofer, Rob Capra and David Elsweiler

Seeking Control: How Women Use and Evaluate Menopause Related Information
Francesca Emter and Catherine Chavula

Search Changes Consumers' Minds: How Recognizing Gaps Drives Sustainable Choices
Frans van der Sluis and Leif Azzopardi

Contextualizing the Role of Web Search In Creative Workflows: Insights from a Longitudinal Study
Srishti Palani and Steven Dow

Pupillometric Analysis of Cognitive Load in Relation to Relevance and Confirmation Bias
Li Shi, Gavindya Jayawardena and Jacek Gwizdka

IRchiver: An Information-Centric Personal Web Archive for Revisiting Past Online Sensemaking Tasks
Zhicheng Huang and Jeff Huang

A Whole New World: Migrant Journeys Through Digital Information Landscapes
Rashika Bahl, Shanton Chang, Dana McKay, George Buchanan and Marc Cheong

Personalized Knowledge Gain Estimation Through Query-Driven Learning Goal Inference in Search As Learning
Hadi Nasser, Célia Da Costa Pereira, Cathy Escazut and Andrea Tettamanzi

Do Images Clarify? A Study on the Effect of Images on Clarifying Questions in Conversational Search
Clemencia Siro, Zahra Abbasiantaeb, Yifei Yuan, Mohammad Aliannejadi and Maarten de Rijke

Accepted Short Papers

Eliciting Implicit Information Needs in E-Commerce Search by Using the Think-Aloud Method
Kosetsu Tsukuda, Atsuki Maruta, Makoto P. Kato and Hideo Joho

Theory-Based User Search Behaviour Modelling and Understanding through Search Log Analysis
Junhao Zhang and Haiming Liu

Beyond the Surface: Investigating Explicit and Implicit Perceptions of Music Diversity
Yuyu Yang, Rob Capra and Mengtian Guo

Exploring the Zero-Shot Known-Item Retrieval Capabilities of LLMs for Casual Leisure Information Needs
Toine Bogers, Maria Gaede, Mark Hall, Marijn Koolen, Vivien Petras and Mette Skov

Exploring Self-dehumanization as a Factor in Misinformation Belief and Spread
Andrew Weiss, Souvick Ghosh and Frances Johnson

Two Heads Are Better Than One: Improving Search Effectiveness Through LLM Generated Query Variants
Kun Ran, Marwah Alaofi, Mark Sanderson and Damiano Spina

"I’m Looking for a Book with a Big Watermelon and Many Small Ants": An Exploratory Study on a Visualized Search System for Preschoolers' Picture Book Search
Jinghan Zhang, Yi Xie, Junyang Ma, Zhihan Zheng, Shenkang Zhai and Pianran Wang

ExIM: Exploring Intent of Music Listening for Retrieving User-generated PlaylistsAnna Hausberger, Hannah Strauss and Markus Schedl

Accepted Demonstrations and Resources

Organizing Found Information in Public Digital Library Search
Kimeya Orin and Orland Hoeber

Crowdsourced and Automated Educational Resource Metadata
Vidminas Vizgirda

Paths and Recreation: Inclusive Recommendation of Physical Activities in your Neighbourhood
Denis Kotkov, Alan Medlar and Dorota Glowacka

g-Rel-READER: A Dataset for Relevance and Reading Evaluation through Advanced Data from Eye-tracking and EEG Recordings
Jacek Gwizdka and Michael Cole

SearchLab: Exploring Conversational and Traditional Search Interfaces in Information Retrieval
Saber Zerhoudi and Michael Granitzer

Instruct-to-SPARQL: A text-to-SPARQL dataset for training SPARQL Agents
Mehdi Ben Amor, Alexis Strappazzon, Michael Granitzer, Elöd Egyed-Zsigmond and Jelena Mitrović

A Tool for Researching how AI Affects Information Seeking
Alamir Novin and Georgia Towne

ACM SIGIR CHIIR 2025 is hosted on the unceded lands of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia, and their continuing connection to culture, community, land, sea, and sky. We pay our respects to Ancestors and Elders past, and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.