The conference will include a special session on web technologies. Possible topics include:
+ Web Algorithms and Techniques
+ Web Search Engines
+ Multimedia Web
+ Web Interfaces, e.g., Voice User Interfaces (speech); e.g. for handicapped or disabled people, or for mobile citizens (or workers)
+ Web User Studies
+ Web Architectures; e.g. performance, fault tolerance, design, etc.
The CFP specifically for this track also notes that the web tech track will also include a session on a popular topic these days, log analysis.
Many researchers are studying logs of user behaviour on the Web. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
+ Studies and models of user interaction developed using Web logs analysis
+ Methodologies for Web data collection
+ Methods for matching user behaviour to Web technologies development
Btw, the Web Tech track is being led by the legendary Dr. Amanda Spink. Her vitae contains enough interesting writing about web search to keep one busy for several weeks.
What hasn't changed much in seven years is how hard people are willing to work at searching. The answer: not very. Spink and [Bernard] Jansen found that people averaged about two words per query and two queries per search session. The searches are taking less than five minutes, and they're only looking at the first page of results," Spink said. "That's why people are wanting to get their results on the first page of search engine results. We were surprised that people weren't doing more complex searches, Spink said. If you put a couple of words into the web, you're going to get hundreds of thousands of results. I think people aren't trained very well to use the search engines.
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