<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-3824eefb-0146-a4bc-4cc4-dc30b032ceee"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA)</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tokyo, Japan, March 11, 2018</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hosted by IUI 2018, March 7-11, 2018</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/esida2018" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://sites.google.com/view/esida2018</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Important dates:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submission deadline: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">December 17, 2017</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (midnight Hawaii time)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Acceptance notification: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">January 23, 2018</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Final manuscript due: </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">February 6, 2018</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshop Topic and Description</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In recent years, retrieval techniques operating on text or semantic annotations, have become the industry standard for retrieval from large data collections, such as documents, images, videos, music, medical data. This approach works well with sufficient high-quality meta-data or tagging. However, with the explosive growth of big data collections, it has become apparent that tagging new data quickly and efficiently is not always possible. Secondly, even if instantaneous high-quality data tagging were possible, there would still be many instances, where search by keyword query is problematic. For example, in the case of image retrieval it might be easier for a user to define their query if they are looking for an image of a cat, but how would they specify that the cat should be of a particular shade of ginger with sad looking eyes? A solution to these problems is active engagement of the user in the information retrieval loop, thus enabling the user to not only explore a given dataset more easily but also gradually direct their search to a more specific area of the search space.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The aim of this workshop is to explore new methods and interface/system design for interactive data analytics and management in various domains, including specialised text collections (e.g. legal, medical, scientific), multimedia, and bioinformatics, as well as for various tasks, such as semantic information retrieval, conceptual organization and clustering of data collections for sense-making, semantic expert profiling, and document/multimedia recommender systems. The primary audience of the workshop is researchers and practitioners in the area of interactive and personalized system design as well as interactive machine learning both from academia and industry. IUI, with its focus on the intersection of HCI and AI, is a perfect venue where researchers from system/interface design community and the machine learning community can meet.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshop Target Areas</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The workshop aims to solicit submissions in all areas of interactive data analytics and exploratory search including:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- design, testing and assessment of interactive systems for data analytics</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- interactive data visualization for exploratory and investigative analysis</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- interactive classification and clustering of data</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- user-assisted curation and validation of the analysis process, and generation of data visualizations</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- user engagement in the semantic analysis process via suitable annotation and correction tools</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- study of the trade-off between accuracy of the results and user effort</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- personalization and user modeling related to interactive system design</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submissions aimed at solving practical problems in specific application domains are especially welcome, including:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- digital libraries</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- legal document management</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- personalized online learning systems</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- news media</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- biomedical data</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- multimedia collections</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- specialized image and video collections, e.g. medical images.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We encourage submissions of work in progress, concept papers, case studies, and generally material that will stimulate discussion, generate useful feedback to the authors, encourage research collaborations and vigorous exchange of ideas on promising research directions, in one of the following formats:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">full papers</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (up to 8 pages in the ACM SIGCHI format), which will be presented either as contributed talks or posters</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">extended abstracts</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (up to 4 pages in the ACM SIGCHI format), which will be presented as posters with a possibility to be accompanied by a demo.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submission information</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submissions to the workshop will be through EasyChair, </span><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esida2018" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esida2018</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The accepted workshop papers will be published in a joint workshop proceedings volume published by CEUR-WS.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshop date:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">March 11, 2018</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshop location:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(68,68,68);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hitotsubashi Hall (National Center of Sciences Building) located in central Tokyo</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - </span><a href="http://iui.acm.org/2018/attending.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://iui.acm.org/2018/attending.html</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Keynotes:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Giulio Jacucci, University of Helsinki, Finland</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO, Australia</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Organizers:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dorota Glowacka,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:dorota.glowacka@ed.ac.uk">dorota.glowacka@ed.ac.uk</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Evangelos Milios,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:eem@cs.dal.ca">eem@cs.dal.ca</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Axel J. Soto,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:axel.soto@manchester.ac.uk">axel.soto@manchester.ac.uk</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Fernando V. Paulovich</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, </span><a href="mailto:paulovich@dal.ca" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">paulovich@dal.ca</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Denis Parra,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(33,33,33);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><a href="mailto:dparra@ing.puc.cl" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">dparra@ing.puc.cl</span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Program Committee (to be updated/confirmed)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Koji Koyamada (University of Tokyo, Japan)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abang Xu (IBM Almaden, USA)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Remco Chang (Tufts University, USA)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tobias Schreck (TU Graz, Austria)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jaegul Choo (Korea University)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">John O’Donovan (UCSB, USA)  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nava Tintarev (TU Delft, the Netherlands)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Isabel Meirelles (OCADU, Toronto, Canada)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Patrik Floreen (University of Helsinki, Finland)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Giulio Jacucci (University of Helsinki, Finland)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Alan Medlar (University of Helsinki, Finland)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Torsten Moller (University of Vienna, Austria)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Eduardo Veas (University of Cuyo, Argentina; Know-Center, Austria)</span></p></span></div>