booksonline 2010 - Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories and Complementary Media

Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories and Complementary Media

CIKM 2010, October 26, 2010, Toronto, Canada

http://research.microsoft.com/booksonline10/

Call for papers - Submissions due: June 30, 2010

*Goals*

The 3rd BooksOnline workshop aims to bring together researchers and industry
practitioners in Information Retrieval, Digital Libraries, eBooks, Human Computer
Interaction, Publishing industry and on-line book services to foster progress on
addressing challenges and exploring opportunities around large collections of
digital books and complementary media.

We solicit research papers, position papers and project proposals around key
research issues and innovation opportunities. The workshop will serve as a forum
for the presentation of research papers and the discussion of the challenges and
opportunities identified in the position papers and project proposals.

Participants will be encouraged to jointly create innovative solutions in
collaboration around the themes that emerge from the submissions and discussions
at the workshop. A seed fund of £3,000, provided by Microsoft Research, will be
awarded to one or more selected projects as judged by the workshop organizers and
a selected panel of experts.

*Workshop format*

The one day workshop will include keynote and selected paper presentations, a poster
session, break-out sessions to brainstorm around proposals and research ideas, and a
panel discussion to present and summarize the results of the break-out sessions.

The £3,000 seed fund will be awarded following the workshop to one or more research
project proposals selected by a panel of judges from those proposed at the workshop.

*Topics of interest*

We invite submissions of full research papers (up to 10 pages) describing novel
developments and research, or position papers and project proposals (up to 5 pages)
presenting ideas, goals or directions of work, highlighting pressing issues or
opportunities for innovation involving digital books and complementary media.

The following is a sample listing of possible topics of interests. Other topics
relevant to research advances, developments, emerging issues and possible opportunities
for innovation in large digital book repositories and complementary media are all welcome:

? Enriched digital collections:

? Virtual learning environments and eBooks and eBooks in teaching

? eBooks as integrated content, data, and media

? Knowledge discovery and sharing in digital book repositories

? Cross-referencing and sense making

? Community interests and social context.
? Usage scenarios and user expectations from digital book services:

? Affordances of physical books and electronic media

? Mobile and multi-touch devices for reading and annotating

? Ink-based applications

? Social navigation and annotations, social interactions

? User profiles and content types

? Children and electronic reading

? Usage scenarios: searching, browsing, collection building, annotations, authoring, sharing

? Personalization and context sensitivity

? Ubiquitous access

? Immersive user experience

? User studies and study design
? Design and technology

? eBook UI and interaction designs, e.g., for active reading

? Usability issues when reading digital books

? Feature engineering for collection browsing

? Content representation and discovery

? Indexing and retrieval

? Scalability and interoperability

? Technologies for searching, browsing, filtering, and information extraction

? Universal access across nations and cultures; translation of content and metadata

? Integration of complementary content and services

? Evaluation methodology and practices

*Paper submission and participation*

Submissions must be written in English, formatted using the ACM templates, using the
"Option 2" style: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-t....
This is also the style that will be required for final papers. Papers must be submitted
as pdf files.

To submit a research paper (max 10 pages), position paper or project proposal (max 5 pages),
please go to the BooksOnline'10 Easychair submission site:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bookson....
Please note that you may need to create an account first.

Contributions will be reviewed by the programme committee. Authors of selected topics will
be invited to give an oral or poster presentation or facilitate a brainstorming session at
the workshop.

Authors will be notified by July 30, 2010 of the outcome of the review process. Camera ready
copies of accepted papers will be due by August 10, 2010.

One author per accepted paper is required to register and attend the workshop.

*Organizers*

Gabriella Kazai (Microsoft Research, UK)
Peter Brusilovsky (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

*Further information*

For further information, please visit http://research.microsoft.com/booksonline10/