Desktop Search Workshop
Understanding, Supporting, and Evaluating Personal Data Search
A SIGIR 2010 workshop, July 23, Geneva, Switzerland
http://www.cdvp.dcu.ie/DS2010/

Desktop search refers to the process of searching within one’s personal space of information.  The information searched during a desktop search can include content that resides on one's personal computer (e.g., documents, emails, visited Web pages, and multimedia files), and may extend to content on other personal devices, such as music players and mobile phones.  Despite recent research interest, desktop search is under-explored compared to other search domains such as the web, semi-structured data, or flat text. 

This workshop will bring together academics and industrial practitioners interested in desktop search with the goal of fostering collaborations and addressing the challenges faced in this area. The workshop will be structured to encourage group discussion and active collaboration among attendees. We encourage participation from people in the fields of information retrieval, personal information management, natural language processing, human-computer interaction, and related areas.

The topics of the workshop include but are not limited to:

• Understanding desktop search behavior
• Studies of desktop search behavior
• Desktop query log analysis
• Psychological aspects of re-finding (e.g., people’s memories of items)
• Supporting desktop search
• Retrieval approaches (e.g., content analysis, search algorithms)
• Personalization to account for highly individual collections and needs
• Interfaces for desktop search and presentation of results
• Evaluating desktop search
• Evaluation approaches (e.g., test collections, lab studies, log analyses)
• Test set creation  (e.g., common reference task, common corpora)
• Other uses of desktop collections
• Life-logging
• Introspection and reflection using personal collections

Submission Guidelines
Short papers (max 4 pages) and short position papers (max 2 pages) describing significant work in progress, late breaking results or ideas / challenges for the domain are invited. Submissions should be in ACM SIGIR format. LaTeX and Word templates are available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates (for LaTeX, use the "Option 2" style).

Anonymised papers in pdf format should be submitted to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=desktop2010 no later than midnight Pacific Daylight Time on June 9, 2010. Submissions will be subject to double-blind reviewing. 

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. These proceedings will be distributed to workshop participants and made available on-line. At the workshop we will discuss the possibility of publishing in a journal special issue or similar.

Important Dates
June 9, 2010 – Deadline for paper submission
June 23, 2010 – Notification to authors
June 28, 2010 – Camera-ready copy due
July 23, 2010 – Workshop

Further Information
Further information is available on the workshop website at http://www.cdvp.dcu.ie/DS2010/ or by emailing the workshop organizers.

Workshop Organizers
David Elsweiler – University of Erlangen, Germany (david@elsweiler.co.uk)
Gareth J. F. Jones – Dublin City University, Ireland (gjones@computing.dcu.ie)
Liadh Kelly – Dublin City University, Ireland (lkelly@computing.dcu.ie)
Jaime Teevan – Microsoft Research Redmond, USA (teevan@microsoft.com)

Program Committee
Leif Azzopardi - University of Glasgow, UK
Ofer Bergman – Sheffield University, UK
Daragh Byrne -  Dublin City University, Ireland
Rob Capra -  University of North Carolina, USA
Yi Chen -  Dublin City University, Ireland
Sergey Chernov - University of Hanover, Germany
Bruce Croft - University of Massachusetts, USA
Ed Cutrell - Microsoft Research, India
Susan Dumais - Microsoft Research, USA  
Karl Gyllstrom - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium  
Diane Kelly - University of North Carolina, USA
Yukun Li - Renmin University, China
Ian Ruthven - University of Strathclyde, UK