Awarded best paper at #SIGIR2023: The Information Retrieval Experiment Platform by Maik Fröbe, Jan Heinrich Reimer, Sean MacAvaney, Niklas Deckers, Simon Reich, Janek Bevendorff, Benno Stein, Matthias Hagen, and Martin Potthast
https://webis.de/downloads/publications/papers/froebe_2023e.pdf
The view from the room on the panel on Generative Information Retrieval @emilymbender 👋
Now watching the recording of @Negin's presentation on cross-market question answering using CMJim. Yay! #SIGIR2023
https://djoerdhiemstra.com/2023/cross-market-product-related-question-answering/
Ryan White discusses the challenges of unifying search+chat. #SIGIR2023
Blog post on practical application of Kumar's line of research in user experience testing: https://www.usertesting.com/blog/interactive-path-flows
Great tooling to manage user study data, including the collected talk-aloud observations.
Can you automate the analysis part of user experience test?
https://www.usertesting.com/blog/instant-insight
(They did not think to remove the chat popup from the UI/UX experience on their site though, so not sure it works in practice 😬)
Leveraging patent-pending technology, Interactive Path Flows aggregate interaction data across multiple participant sessions into a flow visualization, surfacing unexpected behaviors and linking to their corresponding video segments.
Ranjitha Kumar introduces the Rico app design dataset at #SIGIR2023. Usefull resource for mobile app search?
Watching the **Ranjitha Kumar** keynote w/ @djoerd. Her PhD thesis "Zeitgeist" on Web mining design information led to founding startup Apropos that provided a product to A/B test design effectiveness.
She now leads a research group at UIUC exploring "interaction mining", notable for the well-known dataset interactionmining.org/rico with applications in testing designs but also task automation and UI Generation ("autocomplete Web design with transformers"!)
Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉
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Arjen P. de Vries Timmers 🕊️