A total of 10 awards have be awarded to student authors and/or students accepted for the doctoral forum.
 

Doctoral Forum

Aim
The Doctoral Forum is an invitation to doctoral students to present their research projects, and in return receive constructive feedback. The primary objective of the Doctoral Forum is to provide doctoral students with a forum to present and discuss their research projects with senior researchers and fellow students and to develop their relationships with other scientists. We especially welcome projects where contextual features are being considered as part of the research design, e.g., in the areas of information retrieval, information seeking or human-computer interaction.

The Doctoral Forum is a one-day event that takes place prior to the IIiX symposium. Students are to give a 15-20 minute presentation of their research project. Each presentation is followed by 15-20 minutes of discussion with senior researchers that are experts in one or more of the IIiX symposium themes.

Due to the time consuming form of the Doctoral Forum, the number of participants is restricted. The doctoral forum is only open to the invited senior researchers and the accepted students. There is no seperate fee for attending the doctoral forum, but participation presupposes that the students register for the conference.

Doctoral Forum Senior Researchers
Dr. Andrew MacFarlane, City University, UK
Dr. Diane Kelly, University of North Carolina, US
Dr. Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dr. Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, UK
Dr. Monica Landoni, University of Strathclyde, UK
Dr. Tassos Tombros, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Location (same as the symposium)
Royal School of Library & Information Science
Birketinget 6
DK-2300 Copenhagen S
Denmark

Time
October 17, 2006 between 9.00-17.00

Doctoral Forum Chairs
Assistant professor, Birger Larsen, Royal School of Library & Information Science, Copenhagen - Denmark.
Assistant professor, Jesper W. Schneider, Royal School of Library & Information Science, Aalborg - Denmark.

Accepted projects

Andrea Johnson - A Proposal for Modelling Contextual Interaction in the Digital Archive Domain
Ann M. Abraham - How Learners Make Sense of the Information they Gather whilst Completing Web-based Learning Activities and the Implications for Interaction Design
Anne Luther - E-government: indexing practice
Dilip Kumar Limbu - Contextual Information Retrieval from the World Wide Web (WWW)
Georgina Ramirez - The Role of Non-Content Features in XML Retrieval
Heather L. O’Brien - Measuring User Engagement in Interactive Search Contexts
Koraljka Golub - Controlled-vocabulary Based Approach to Automated Subject Classification of Textual Web Pages
Mette Skov - The Taxonomy’s Role in Museum Context - a User Oriented Approach
Nazlena Mohamad Ali - Studies of Information-seeking Behavior among Image/video Users
Patricia Cristina Nascimento Souto - User-adaptive Information Access Supported by Situational Predictors: Applying User’s Sense Making Behavior to Support Adaptivity
Saadia Malik - Tactics to Support Interactive Retrieval in Structured Documents
Stina Westman - Determinants of Image Search Strategy
Toine Bogers - A Propos: ProActive Personalization for Professional Document Writing
Tove Faber Frandsen - The Context of Research Evaluation: Including Open Access Based Resources as Means of Validation
 

We recommend that student participation and presentation of the research project at the Doctoral Forum are credited 2 ECTS by their home department.

We also recommend that doctoral students register for the main IIiX symposium, and submit full papers or research in progress papers related to their projects.