TAIA 2015 - 2015 Workshop on Temporal, Social and Spatially-aware Information Access

Spatial and temporal context are tightly coupled. For example, users may visit a place during specific times of the day or on certain days of the week. Some places have special relevance during a specific time of the year, or only exist for a limited window of time.
Understanding the spatial and temporal context of a user is often necessary to understand their information need. Understanding the user's spatial and temporal context is especially important on a mobile device where the space is limited, and the user expectation far exceeds the ability of the technology to satisfy him.
Users provide an unprecedented volume of detailed, and continuously updated information about where they are, what they are doing, who they are with, and what they are thinking and feeling about their current activities. The provision of this stream creates an informal contract between the user and the information access application that is expected to provide results that are contextually relevant.
In this workshop we explore spatial and temporal context in dynamic geotagged collections, such as Wikipedia, and traditional news sources, as well as social media sites such as Twitter, Foursquare, Facebook and Flickr. We also investigate the geo-temporal dynamics of user engagements with apps and search engines on mobile devices and cross-device. We aim to bring together practitioners and researchers to discuss their recent breakthroughs and the challenges with addressing spatial and temporal information access, both from the algorithmic and the architectural perspectives.