NeuroIIR: Challenges in Bringing Neuroscience to Research in Human-Information Interaction

The workshop will be the second in a series, building upon a successful workshop held at the SIGIR 2015 conference. The main aim is to focus on a narrow but highly important set of topics that have been identified in the last workshop and are of importance to IR and IIR researchers. The core theme of the workshop will be challenges is using and applying neurophysiological experimental methodologies and their applicability and adaptation in the context of IR and IIR research studies. The goal will be to clarify some of the major neurophysiological methodological concepts and constructs relevant to IR and IIR, expand awareness of critical parameters associated with neurophysiological devices and equipment, and provide a foundation to researchers to enable them to apply appropriate neurophysiological modalities for specific types of IR and IIR research investigations. Discussions on establishing reference tasks and standard data sets and launching a special journal issue on key topics will round out the event.