Important Dates
- Submissions: 10 20th June 2014
- Notifications: 30th June 2014
- IIiX EarlyBird Reg: 7th July 2014
- Camera Ready: 1st August 2014
- Workshop: 30th August 2014
Previous Workshop
Read about the Searching4Fun 2012 Workshop and look at the papers in Searching4Fun 2012 Proceedings.
Twitter
We'll be using the #search4fun hashtag where possible
Call for Papers
The topics of the workshop will be evaluation focused and include but are not be limited to:
- Understanding information needs and search behaviour in casual-leisure situations.
- How existing systems are used in casual-leisure searching scenarios.
- Systems / Interfaces / Algorithmic approaches to supporting Search in Casual-leisure situations.
- Use of Recommender Systems for Entertaining Content (books, movies, videos, music, websites).
- Modelling of users interests and generation of accurate and appropriate user profiles.
- Interfaces for exploratory search for casual-leisure situations.
- Evaluation (methods, metrics) of Casual-leisure searching situations.
We are seeking short 2-4 page position papers in this area, or short papers reporting early or formative results in the area of searching for fun.
Reviewing and Publishing
Papers will be reviewed by an international program committee, and we intend to publish the accepted papers using the CEUR Workshop Proceedings service.
We intend to move towards a special journal issue on searching4fun after the workshop.
Submissions
Participants should submit anonymised 2-4 page ACM format PDFs to the easychair page. More details are in our submissions page.