Our research project “Interactive Information Retrieval” deals with various aspects of human-computer interaction in information search. Some specific subprojects are briefly described in the following.
Subprojects
CollabTiles
As part of the subproject “CollabTiles” different aspects of collaborative search with mobile devices (smartphones, tablets) are investigated and scenarios of different roles and tasks within a group of searchers are considered. We especially concentrate on awareness support through status information and contextual feedback from search queries.
Semantic Search
Interaction and visualization techniques for large, semantic data collections are still a great challenge. In this subproject, approaches for appropriate data visualization and interaction are developed, with the aim of facilitating efficient search and working with large semantic data by a meaningful reduction of the complexity.
Partner: Ontos GmbH
Eye-Tracking Studies
Mobile and stationary eye-tracking technology can provide valuable information on user search behavior and give relevance feedback. Among other things, we investigated the reading behavior in information search on the Web in a user study to evaluate a just-in-time retrieval approach in cooperation with the Chair of Media Informatics at the University of Passau.
IR with novel interaction techniques
In combination with novel interaction techniques and input / output modalities, a completely new quality of dealing with data arises, as well as completely new possibilities of request formulation and reformulation and the presentation of results. We investigate possibilities of realizing efficient information retrieval in multi-device environments, as well as AR and VR environments.
Related Publications
@inproceedings{Bueschel2018a,
author = {Wolfgang B\"{u}schel and Annett Mitschick and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {Demonstrating Reality-Based Information Retrieval},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
series = {CHI EA '18},
year = {2018},
month = {4},
isbn = {978-1-4503-5621-3},
location = {Montreal, QC, Canada},
pages = {D312:1-D312:4},
numpages = {4},
doi = {10.1145/3170427.3186493},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3186493},
acmid = {3186493},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {augmented reality, immersive visualization, in situ visual analytics, reality-based information retrieval, spatial user interface}
}@inproceedings{Bueschel:2018,
author = {Wolfgang B\"{u}schel and Annett Mitschick and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {Here and Now: Reality-based Information Retrieval},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval},
year = {2018},
month = {3},
location = {New Brunswick, NJ, USA},
pages = {171--180},
numpages = {10},
doi = {10.1145/3176349.3176384},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3176349.3176384},
publisher = {ACM}
}@inproceedings{Mitschick2017_IcicleQuery,
author = {Annett Mitschick and Franz Nieschalk and Martin Voigt and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {IcicleQuery},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data co-located with the 16th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2017)},
series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
volume = {1947},
year = {2017},
month = {10},
location = {Vienna, Austria},
pages = {99--110},
numpages = {12}
}
@inproceedings{,
author = {Christin Seifert and Annett Mitschick and J\"{o}rg Schl\"{o}tterer and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {Focus Paragraph Detection for Online Zero-Effort Queries: Lessons learned from Eye-Tracking Data},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval},
series = {CHIIR '17},
year = {2017},
month = {3},
location = {Oslo, Norway},
pages = {301--304},
numpages = {4},
doi = {10.1145/3020165.3022138},
url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3020165.3022138},
acmid = {3022138},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {eye tracking, focus paragraph detection, zero-effort queries}
}@inproceedings{fixme,
author = {Ricardo Langner and Anton Augsburg and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {CubeQuery: Tangible Interface for Creating and Manipulating Database Queries},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces},
year = {2014},
month = {11},
isbn = {978-1-4503-2587-5},
location = {Dresden, Germany},
pages = {423--426},
numpages = {4},
doi = {10.1145/2669485.2669526},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2669485.2669526},
acmid = {2669526},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {Tangible UIs, Faceted Browsing \& Search, Database Queries, Sifteo Cubes, Microsoft Surface}
}@inproceedings{morawa-14-ITS,
author = {Robert Morawa and Tom Horak and Ulrike Kister and Annett Mitschick and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {Combining Timeline and Graph Visualization},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces},
year = {2014},
month = {11},
isbn = {978-1-4503-2587-5},
location = {Dresden, Germany},
pages = {345--350},
numpages = {4},
doi = {10.1145/2669485.2669544},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2669485.2669544},
acmid = {2669544},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {time-visualization, information visualization, semantic data}
}@proceedings{sda2013,
title = {3rd International Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives (SDA 2013)},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives},
series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
volume = {1091},
year = {2013},
month = {11},
isbn = {urn:nbn:de:0074-1091-8},
location = {Valetta, Malta},
numpages = {120},
url = {http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-1091},
publisher = {CEUR}
}@proceedings{sda2012,
title = {2nd International Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives (SDA 2012)},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives},
series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
volume = {912},
year = {2012},
month = {10},
location = {Paphos, Cyprus},
url = {http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-912},
publisher = {CEUR}
}@inproceedings{,
author = {Martin Voigt and Annett Mitschick and Jonas Schulz},
title = {Yet Another Triple Store Benchmark? Practical Experiences with Real-World Data},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Digital Archives},
series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
year = {2012},
month = {9},
location = {Paphos, Cyprus},
pages = {85--94},
numpages = {10},
url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0074-912-6},
publisher = {CEUR}
}
Related Student Theses
Towards Collaborative Session-based Semantic Search
Sebastian Straub March 27th, 2017 until September 4th, 2017
Supervision: Annett Mitschick, Anke Lehmann, Raimund Dachselt
Scalable, web-based Visualization of Event Logs with High Volume und Velocity
Bianca Preißler April 15th, 2017 until September 23rd, 2017
Supervision: Annett Mitschick, Raimund Dachselt
Image Retrieval within Augmented Reality
Philip Manja November 25th, 2016 until May 5th, 2017
Supervision: Annett Mitschick, Wolfgang Büschel, Raimund Dachselt
Providing Information About Application States and User Activities During Collaborative Searches With Mobile Devices
Dam Duc Dung May 17th, 2016 until October 25th, 2016
Supervision: Ricardo Langner, Annett Mitschick, Tom Horak, Raimund Dachselt
Collaborative Search with Mobile Devices: Interactive Visualization of Search Results
Meinhardt Branig June 6th, 2016 until November 14th, 2016
Supervision: Ricardo Langner, Annett Mitschick, Tom Horak, Raimund Dachselt
Entity-centric Search in Heterogeneous Information Spaces
Franz Nieschalk April 1st, 2016 until September 9th, 2016
Supervision: Raimund Dachselt, Annett Mitschick
Query Formulation and Representation on Mobile Handheld Devices for Information Retrieval in Multi-Device Settings
André Gleißner March 2nd, 2018 until May 18th, 2018
Supervision: Annett Mitschick, Raimund Dachselt
Interactive Visualization of Eye-Tracking Data from User Studies
Elin Rixmann April 7th, 2017 until June 23rd, 2017
Supervision: Annett Mitschick, Raimund Dachselt
Recording and Analysis of Eye-Tracking Data to Improve a Just-in-time Web Retrieval Approach
E.R. July 4th, 2016 until September 26th, 2016
Supervision: Annett Mitschick
Roles and Combination of Mobile Devices for Collaborative Search
Philipp Heisig April 25th, 2016 until July 18th, 2016
Supervision: Ricardo Langner, Tom Horak, Annett Mitschick, Raimund Dachselt
Innovative Interaction Techniques for Collaborative Search using Mobile Devices
Marius Hogräfer June 13th, 2016 until September 5th, 2016
Supervision: Annett Mitschick, Tom Horak, Ricardo Langner, Raimund Dachselt
Sophia Krause January 6th, 2014 until March 31st, 2014
Supervision: Raimund Dachselt, Annett Mitschick
Tom Horak June 3rd, 2013 until August 26th, 2013
Supervision: Raimund Dachselt, Ricardo Langner, Annett Mitschick
Visualisierung zeitbezogener semantischer Daten durch interaktive Graphen
Robert Morawa June 3rd, 2013 until August 26th, 2013
Supervision: Raimund Dachselt, Annett Mitschick, Ulrike Kister
Intuitive and intelligent integration of users in the creation and training process of deep learning algorithms
Jack Engelmann October 30th, 2017 until March 19th, 2018
Supervision: Annett Mitschick, Raimund Dachselt
Relation Extraction from News Texts
Jack Engelmann May 1st, 2017 until August 1st, 2017
Supervision: Annett Mitschick, Raimund Dachselt
Related Lectures and Courses
Interactive Multimedia Information Retrieval
Seminar Interactive Multimedia Technologies