Thanks to all those who made IIiX 2010 a great success! Highlights of the conference include:

• Keynote by Tefko Saracevic on the nature of context in IR.
• Best Paper Session with three excellent presentations!
  • Congratulations to Sanna Kumpulainen and Kalervo Järvelin (University of Tampere, Finland) who were awarded the Best Paper Award for their paper, “Information Interaction in Molecular Medicine: Integrated Use of Multiple Channels.”
• An engaging Poster Reception with plenty of food and drinks! Two posters won the Best Poster Award (as determined by IIiX participants):
  • Fernando Loizides, George Buchanan (City University London, UK) for their poster, “Performing Document Triage on Small Screen Devices. Part 1: Structured Documents.”
  • Jingjing Liu, Chang Liu, Jun Zhang, Ralf Bierig, Michael Cole (Rutgers University, USA) for their poster, “Identifying Queries in the Wild, Wild Web.”
• An unforgettable singing performance by Peter Ingwersen at the banquet.
• Career reflections by both Peter Ingwersen and Tefko Saracevic at the banquet.
• An entertaining and stimulating Oxford-style debate about user simulations. Thanks to the great debaters for all their hard work!
• The pictures document all these events and others from IIiX 2010 (lead photo is from the Doctoral Consortium).
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IIiX Focus

The availability of information across media and genres, across languages, and across modalities constantly increases. How people access this information is highly dependent on the context of their interactions and this context is influenced by a range of factors such as time, place, and history of interaction, tasks motivating the interaction and technical possibilities of information systems. Although the use of information systems is heavily affected by contextual factors, information retrieval and information seeking research is largely conducted out of context.

IIiX will explore the relationships between the contexts that affect information retrieval and information seeking, how these contexts impact information behavior, and how knowledge of information contexts and information behaviors can help design truly interactive information systems.

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