The importance of tasks in information retrieval (IR) has been long argued for, addressed in
different ways, often ignored, and frequently revisited. For decades, scholars made a case …

While great strides have been made in the field of search and recommendation, there are
still challenges and opportunities to address information access issues that involve solving …

Interactive information retrieval (IIR) researchers often conduct laboratory studies to
understand the relationship between people seeking information and information retrieval …

While great strides are made in the field of search and recommendation, there are still
challenges and opportunities to address information access issues that involve solving tasks …

People engage in search episodes as they have a task or a problematic situation. Often this
task is not clearly expressed by the information seeker, nor directly supported by the search …

Searching and interacting with information is one of the most fundamental behaviours of
human beings–something that takes place in both online and physical environments. Yet …

Previous work in interactive information retrieval (IIR) has explored the relationships
between individuals' search behavior, the characteristics of their search tasks, and their …