Keynote Speaker:
Micheline Beaulieu (University of Sheffield, UK)
"Interaction in Context in Information Research: Shifting the Paradigm"

Prof. Micheline Beaulieu is professor in Information Science at Department of Information Studies, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Academic Planning and Chair of ICOSS (Informatics Collaboratory for the Social Sciences) at the University of Sheffield. Her research interest include models of information seeking behaviour, interface design and human-computer interaction for information retrieval, advanced methods for information retrieval and evaluation methodologies, and the design of evaluative experiments for interactive searching.

Invited Speaker:
Barry Smyth (University College Dublin / ChangingWorlds Ltd)
"Social and Personal: Communities and Collaboration in Adaptive Web Search"

Prof. Barry Smyth holds the Digital Chair of Computer Science in University College Dublin and is currently head of Computer Science. He is an ECCAI Fellow and also a co-founder, director, and Chief Technical Officer of ChangingWorlds Ltd. His research covers a broad set of topics within Artificial Intelligence including Case-Based Reasoning, Machine Learning, User Modeling and Planning with particular focus on so-called Personalization techniques, which looks at ways of combining ideas from these areas to develop information systems that automatically learn about, and adapt to, the needs of individual users.