Jacek Gwizdka:
Selected Activity:   |  Activity listed in the School Updates
    Journal article "Inferring user knowledge level from eye movement patterns" Information Processing and Management online DOI
    Presentation at NeuroIS workshop. June 3-6, 2012.
    Presentation at Polish IA Summit 2012. April 18-20, 2012. The largest UX/IA/HCI conference in Central Europe
    Invited talk "Using Eye-Gaze Patterns to Infer Higher-level Cognitive Constructs" in the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology at University of Valencia, Spain.
    Presented a paper at the workshop on Inferring Cognitive and Emotional States from Multimodal Measures (MMCogEmS'2011) held in Alicante, Spain on November 17, 2011: Gwizdka, J., Cole, MJ. (2011). Inferring Cognitive States from Multimodal Measures in Information Science.
    IMLS Early Career Development award (8% success rate) for the project "Continuous Assessment of Cognitive Load in Information Seeking"
    Paper, poster and video to be presented at ASIST 2011, October 9-12, 2011, New Orleans
    Invited presentation at the symposium "Web Navigation and Web Search" held at the 21st annual meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse in Poitiers, France, in July 2011
    Journal article "Task and User Effects on Reading Patterns in Information Search" Interacting with Computers| PDF | Elsevier: DOI
    Two workshop papers from my project group to be presented at SIGIR 2011 Workshop on Enriching Information Retrieval ENIR 2011
    Associate chair for the short-papers track at INTERACT 2011
    Gave an invited talk at U of Missouri on Learning about Information Searchers from Eye-Tracking  (Slides)
    Became faculty affiliated with Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS)
    Google Faculty Research Award for project "Implicit Detection of Relevance Decisions and Affect in Web Search" Description |  in SC&I news
    Journal article "Distribution of Cognitive Load in Web Search" JASIST | pre-print | Wiley online: DOI
    Conference paper "Predicting Task Difficulty for Different Task Types" at ASIST10 in Pittsburgh, PA (Oct)
    Conference paper "Analysis and Evaluation of Query Reformulations in Different Task Types" at ASIST'10 in Pittsburgh, PA (Oct)
    Conference paper "Linking search tasks with low-level eye movement patterns" presented at ECCE'10 in Delft, The Netherlands (August)
    Conference short paper "Using Stroop task to assess cognitive load" presented at ECCE'10 in Delft, The Netherlands (August)
    Conference paper "Helping identify when users find useful documents: Examination of query reformulation interval" presented by doctoral student Chang Liu at IIiX'10
    Conference short paper & poster "Can Search Systems Detect Users' Task Difficulty? Some Behavioral Signals" at SIGIR'10 (July)
    Conference short paper "Of Kings, Traffic Signs and Flowers: Exploring Navigation of Tagged Documents" presented at Hypertext'10 in Toronto (June)
    Conference paper "Search Behaviors in Different Task Types" presented by Jingjing Liu at JCDL'10 in Brisbane, Australia (June)
    Prof. Marcia Bates' visit and talk (April 7, 2010)
    Conferene committees: iConference 2011 - PC member | IIiX 2010 Conference Publicity Chair
    Interview with a French online technology magazine l'Atelier about my work on cognitive load on web search. Snapshot of the short article
    Journal article: Gwizdka (2009). What a difference a tag cloud makes: effects of tasks and cognitive abilities on search results interface use" Information Research, 14(4) Online
    Journal article: Gwizdka (2009). Assessing Cognitive Load on Web Search Tasks" in the special issue on "Cognition and the Web" Ergonomics Open Journal. Full text
    Journal article: Gwizdka & Lopatovska (2009). The role of subjective factors in the information search process. JASIST Abstract DOI
    Panels at ASIST 2009: Multiple facets of personalization & What Can Eye-Trackers Visualize?--An Approach to Capture the Reality of Search Process
    Demos at ASIST 2009 : PooDLE system | PooDLE IIR Modeling Exploration System | Tag Trails Interfac
    Posters at HCIR 2009: Cognitive Load and Web Search Tasks | at CHI 2009 : Tag Trails  DOI
    Member of editorial board: "Interacting with Computers" Elsevier Journal
    Workshops: Understanding the User UUIR 2009 at SIGIR 2009 July 23, 2009 | Personal Information Management 2009 | 2008 | 2006 |and SIG 2004
     
     
Jacek Gwizdka's activities from old SC&I updates (up to Oct 2010):
  2010-10 Faculty Activities and Accomplishments:
Professors Jacek Gwizdka, Nicholas Belkin, Ph.D. candidate Chang Liu, and recent Ph.D. graduate Jingjing Liu, published a paper: Liu, J., Gwizdka, J., Liu, C., Belkin, N. (2010), titled: “Predicting Task Difficulty for Different Task Types” in: Proceedings of the 73rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T 2010). Pittsburgh, PA. October 22-27, 2010. (acceptance rate 29.7%) http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~jacekg/pubs/txt/2010_ASIST_liuj-gwizdkaj-etall_PredictTaskDiff.pdf
  2010-10 Faculty Activities and Accomplishments:
Professors Jacek Gwizdka, Nicholas Belkin, with Ph.D. candidate Chang Liu, recent Ph.D. graduate Jingjing Liu and doctoral student Tao Xu (from SUNY Albany), published a paper: Liu, C., Gwizdka, J., Liu, J., , Xu, T., Belkin, NJ. (2010), titled: “Analysis and Evaluation of Query Reformulations in Different Task Types” in: Proceedings of the 73rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T 2010). Pittsburgh, PA. October 22-27, 2010. (acceptance rate 29.7%) http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~jacekg/pubs/txt/2010_ASIST_liuc-gwizdkaj-etall_QueryReform.pdf
  2010-10 Faculty Activities and Accomplishments:
Professors Jacek Gwizdka, Nicholas Belkin, Ph.D. candidates Michael Cole, Chang Liu, PostDoc Ralf Bierig, recent Ph.D. graduate Jingjing Liu, and Dr. Xiangmin Zhang published a paper: Cole, MJ., Zhang, Z, Liu, J., Liu, C., Belkin, NJ., Bierig, R., Gwizdka, J. (2010), titled: “Are Self-assessments Reliable Indicators of Topic Knowledge?” in: Proceedings of the 73rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T 2010). Pittsburgh, PA. October 22-27, 2010. (acceptance rate 29.7%) http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~jacekg/pubs/txt/2010_ASIST_selfAssessmentTopicKnowledge_MCole_etal.pdf
  2010-10 Conferences, Seminars, Other Events:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka presented a paper entitled, “Predicting Task Difficulty for Different Task Types”.
  2010-08 Faculty Activities and Accomplishments:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka published a paper: “Using Stroop Task to Assess Cognitive Load” in W-P Brinkman & M. Neerincx (Eds.) Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE 2010), (pp. 219-222), Delft: Mediamatica.  The paper was also presented at the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics.
  2010-08 Faculty Activities and Accomplishments:
Professors Jacek Gwizdka, Nicholas Belkin, Ph.D. candidates Michael Cole, Chang Liu, Jingjing Liu, PostDoc Ralf Bierig and Dr. Xiangmin Zhang published a paper: “Linking Search Tasks with Low-level Eye Movement Patterns” in W-P Brinkman & M. Neerincx (Eds.) Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE 2010), (pp. 109-116), Delft: Mediamatica.  The paper was also presented at the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics. 
  2010-08 Faculty Activities and Accomplishments:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka, Ph.D. candidates Chang Liu and Jingjing Liu published a paper: “Helping Identify when Users Find Useful Documents: Examination of Query Reformulation Interval” in: Proceedings of the 3rd Information Interaction in Context Symposium (IIiX 2010). (pp. 215 - 224), New York, ACM Press. DOI:10.1145/1840784.1840816.
  2010-08 Student Activities and Accomplishments:
Ph.D. candidates Chang Liu and Jingjing Liu were co-authors, with Professor Jacek Gwizdka, of the following paper: “Helping Identify When Users Find Useful Documents: Examination of Query Reformulation Intervals” in: Proceedings of the Information Interaction in Context Symposium 2010 (IIiX 2010) (pp. 215-224), New York: ACM.
  2010-08 Conferences, Seminars, Other Events:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka participated in the workshop "Eye-Tracking=Reading the Mind" at the 28th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics held in Delft, the Netherlands, where he presented a paper co-authored with Ph.D. candidate Michael Cole titled: “Eye Movement Patterns and Interaction for High Level Information Seeking.”
  2010-07 Faculty Activities and Accomplishments:
Professors Nicholas Belkin, Jacek Gwizdka, and Ph.D. candidates, Jingjing Liu and Chang Liu published “Can Search Systems Detect Users' Task Difficulty? Some Behavioral Signals,” Liu, J., Liu, C., Gwizdka, J. & Belkin, N.J. (2010) in: H.H. Chen, E.N. Efthimiadis, J. Savoy, F. Crestani & S. Marchand-Maillet (Eds.) SIGIR 2010, Proceeding of the 33rd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (pp. 845-846). New York: ACM.
  2010-06 Conferences, Seminars, Other Events:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka presented a paper entitled: “Of Kings, Traffic Signs and Flowers: Exploring Navigation of Tagged Documents” at the 21st ACM conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT 2010) in Toronto. Full text: http://bit.ly/ht2010jg Citation: Gwizdka, J. (2010). Of Kings, Traffic Signs and Flowers: Exploring Navigation of Tagged Documents. Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia. Toronto, ON. June 13-16, 2010. 167 - 172. New York: ACM Press. DOI:10.1145/1810617.1810646
  2010-02 Conferences, Seminars, Other Events:
Doctoral student Chang Liu and LIS Professors Jacek Gwizdka and Nick Belkin co-authored a short paper "Analysis of Query Reformulation Types on Different Search Tasks".  The paper was presented as a poster at the iConference 2010 held at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, February 3-6, 2010. Link to the paper: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/15049
  2010-02 Conferences, Seminars, Other Events:
LIS faculty members Claire McInerney, Marie Radford,  Nina Wacholder, Jacek Gwizdka along with doctoral students Chang Liu, Jingjing Liu, Jeanette de Richemond (and others...)  participated in the 4th iConference 2010 held at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, February 3-6, 2010.
  2010-01 Faculty Activities and Accomplishments:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka was interviewed by a French online technology magazine l'Atelier. The topic of the interview was his work on cognitive load on web search [recently presented in: Gwizdka, J. (2009). Assessing cognitive load on web search tasks. Ergonomics Open Journal, 2, 114-123].  You can see a snapshot of the short article here.
  2009-12 Faculty Activities and Accomplishments:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka and recent Ph.D. graduate Irene Lopatovska published an article entitled: “The Role of Subjective Factors in the Information Search Process” in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60(12), 2452-2464. http://bit.ly/subj_factors_in_search
  2009-12 Faculty Activities and Accomplishments:
Professor Gwizdka published an article entitled: "What a Difference a Tag Cloud Makes: Effects of Tasks and Cognitive Abilities on Search Results Interface Use", in the Information Research Journal, 14(4) paper 414. Available at: http://bit.ly/tagcloud_search
  2009-12 Faculty Activities and Accomplishments:
Professor Gwizdka published an article entitled: "Assessing Cognitive Load on Web Search Tasks" in a special issue on "Cognition and the Web" in the Ergonomics Open Journal. [Article full text: http://bit.ly/CogLoad_WebTask_erg] [Journal: http://www.bentham.org/open/toergj/openaccess2.htm ]
  2009-12 Faculty Activities and Accomplishments:
Professor Gwizdka had his report from a SIGIR 2009 workshop co-organized by LIS Professor Nicholas Belkin published in SIGIR Forum.  The report is named, “SIGIR 2009 Workshop on Understanding the User – Logging and interpreting user interactions in information search and retrieval”. ACM SIGIR Forum 43(2). pp 57-62. Available at: http://www.sigir.org/forum/2009D/sigirwksp/2009d_sigirforum_buscher.pdf
  2009-12 Public/Community Service; Outreach Efforts:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka presented "Tablet Computers in the Classroom" at the Rutgers' Office of Instructional and Research Technology (OIRT) annual Technology Showcase on Dec 18, 2009.
  2009-11 Conferences, Seminars, Other Events:
Professors Nicholas Belkin and Jacek Gwizdka were the moderator and co-organizers of the Panel: Multiple Facets of Personalization, http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM09/panels/7.html.
  2009-11 Conferences, Seminars, Other Events:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka co-organized and co-led the 4th workshop on Personal Information Management.  The workshop's theme was "Personal information intersections: What happens when PIM spaces overlap?" http://www.pimworkshop.org/2009/index.php.
  2009-11 Conferences, Seminars, Other Events:
Professor Gwizdka was an invited panelist on "What Can Eye-Trackers Visualize?--An Approach to Capture the Reality of Search Processes", http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM09/panels/24.html.
  2009-11 Conferences, Seminars, Other Events:
Professor Gwizdka was an invited panelist on "What Can Eye-Trackers Visualize?--An Approach to Capture the Reality of Search Processes", http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM09/panels/24.html.
  2009-11 Conferences, Seminars, Other Events:
Professor Gwizdka and PostDoc Ralf Bierig presented three demos from the Poodle project (http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/imls/poodle) : 3.1. Poodle User Interaction Data Integration and Modeling System (first author Ralf Bierig), 3.2. Poodle User Interaction Exploration and Modeling System (first author Ph.D. student Michael Cole) , and 3.3. Tag Trails Interface (first author Jacek Gwizdka).
  2009-11 Conferences, Seminars, Other Events:
Professor Gwizdka presented a poster co-authored with MLIS student Philip Bakelaar "Navigating One Million Tags". Poster abstract: http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM09/posters/81.html.
  2009-10 Conferences, Seminars, Other Events:
Professors Nicholas Belkin and Jacek Gwizdka, PostDoc Ralf Bierig, with Ph.D. students Michael Cole, Chang Liu and Jingjing Liu participated in the 3rd Annual Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR '09) in Washington, D.C. http://cuaslis.org/hcir2009/. Jingjing Liu and Michael Cole presented a paper co-authored by the group entitled: "Usefulness as the Criterion for Evaluation of Interactive Information Retrieval". Professor Gwizdka also presented a poster "Cognitive Load and Web Search Tasks".
  2009-08 Other (e.g., new appointments; alumni relations; staff activities; new websites):
Professor Jacek Gwizdka has joined the editorial board of Interacting with Computers - a peer-reviewed, international and interdisciplinary journal of Human-Computer Interaction published by Elsevier.  Professor Gwizdka is a member of the journal's editorial board in the area of Human Sciences.More information about the journal: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/issn/09535438  
  2009-07 Conferences, Seminars, Other Events:
Professors Nicholas Belkin and Jacek Gwizdka, together with Post-Doc Ralf Bierig and colleagues from the German Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Microsoft Research, were co-organizers of the "Workshop on Understanding the User" (http://uiir-2009.dfki.de/) at the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2009), Boston, MA on June 23, 2009. Professor Gwizdka was co-author with Post-Doc Ralf Bierig and Ph.D. student Michael Cole of a paper presented at that workshop. The citation for the paper is: Bierig, R., Gwizdka, J., and Cole, M. (2009). A User-Centered Experiment and Logging Framework for Interactive Information Retrieval. SIGIR 2009 Workshop on Understanding the User. Retrieved on September 9, 2009 at http://uiir-2009.dfki.de/papers/uiir2009_submission_19.pdf  Also at the conference, Professor Belkin was co-author with Ph.D. students Jingjing Liu and Michael Cole, of a paper presented at the "Workshop on The Future of IR Evaluation".  The citation for the paper is: Liu, J., Cole, M. and Belkin, N.J. (2009) A model for evaluation of interactive information retrieval. SIGIR 2009 Workshop on The Future of IR Evaluation. Retrieved on August 8, 2009 at http://staff.science.uva.nl/~kamps/ireval/program.html/paper_4.pdf
  2009-04 Conferences, Seminars, Other Events:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka and MLIS student Philip (Ben) Bakelaar had a "Work in Progress" paper entitled: "Tag Trails: Navigation with Context and History" along with an interactive poster presentation at the 27th ACM conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2009 (CHI'09) held in Boston, MA, on April 4-9, 2009.  Paper (PDF) and poster (JPG)
  2009-02 Conferences, Seminars, Other Events:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka participated in the 2009 HP Technology for Teaching Worldwide Higher Education Conference, where he presented a poster "Mobile iThinking: Mobile Tablet Computers for Active Learning" reporting on the initial results from the HP funded project that introduces tablet computer technology into undergraduate classes.  Professor Gwizdka is a PI and Professor Claire McInerney a Co-PI. Project web page: http://ithinking.rutgers.edu/
  2008-10 Conferences, Seminars, Other Events:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka presented a paper entitled: “Revisiting Search Task Difficulty: Behavioral and Individual Difference Measures,” Proceedings of the 71st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T 2008) in Columbus, Ohio on October 24-Oct 29, 2008.
  2008-06 Conferences, Seminars, Other Events:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka and Ph.D. student, Michael Cole, presented a poster: "Tagging Semantics: Investigations with WordNet" at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2008) in Pittsburgh.  A short paper that accompanied the poster was published in the electronic conference proceedings.
  2008-05 Student Activities and Accomplishments:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka and MLIS students Kevin Andreano, Steve Caruso, Inma Megia, Doris Wang and Jun Zhang from the Interface Design class successfully presented their final course projects to the Rutgers Libraries staff.  In a semester-long project, students tackled redesign of most important areas of the RUL website.  The combined student project outcomes will be used as information for the RUL website redesign next year.
  2008-04 Grants and Fundraising Efforts:
Professors Jacek Gwizdka and Claire McInerney received the 2008 HP Teaching Grant for their proposal entitled: "Mobile iThinking – Mobile Tablet Computers for Active Learning".  The grant will bring innovative mobile Tablet PC technology into SCILS classrooms.  This was a very competitive award, less than 12% of submitted proposals were funded.
  2008-04 Conferences, Seminars, Other Events:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka attended the Workshop on Cognition and the Web in Granada, Spain(http://www.cognitive-ergonomics.org/webcog2008/), where he presented a paper entitled: "Cognitive Load on Web Search Tasks".  The paper is published in the workshop proceedings.
  2007-11 Conferences, Seminars, Other Events:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka gave an invited lecture "What Can We Learn from Social Tagging Activity?" at the Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto, on November 1, 2007.
  2007-10 Faculty Activities and Accomplishments:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka had two co-authored book chapters in the first scholarly book devoted solely to the topic of Personal Information Management:  Gwizdka, J. Chignell, M.H. (2007). “Individual Differences” in W. Jones and J. Teevan (Eds.) Personal Information Management, (pp. 206-220), Seattle: University of Washington Press: Seattle and London; and Whittaker, S., Bellotti, V., Gwizdka, J. (2007) “Everything through Email” in W. Jones and J. Teevan (Eds.) Personal Information Management, (pp. 167-189), Seattle: University of Washington Press: Seattle and London.  The book is available through Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Personal-Information-Management-William-Jones/dp/0295987375/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-6986364-2462057?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193338381&sr=8-1
  2007-09 Faculty Activities and Accomplishments:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka and Ph.D. student Michael Cole had a paper in the proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. The proceedings are published by Springer in their book series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and are available online through RU library at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-540-74850-2/ Gwizdka, J., Cole, M. (2007). Finding it on Google, Finding it on del.icio.us. In L. Kovács, N. Fuhr, and C. Meghini (Eds.): ECDL 2007, LNCS 4675, pp. 559–562, 2007. Springer-Verlag: Berlin Heidelberg.
  2007-09 Grants and Fundraising Efforts:
Professors Nicholas Belkin (PI), Jacek Gwizdka (Co-PI), and Xiangmin Zhang (Co-PI) received a $964,887 research award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS.gov), project title: "Personalization of the Digital Library Experience."  Researchers at SCILS will investigate ways to improve the ability of people to find information they need in digital libraries.  By examining the interaction of factors such as the searchers location, individual characteristics, the nature of his or her task, and similar data, the team will create a personalization assistant that will help searchers use digital libraries more effectively.  The open source tool based on this research will reside on the users own computer to enhance the users interactions with digital libraries while protecting the users privacy.
  2007-09 Conferences, Seminars, Other Events:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka participated in the 11th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL'2007 - http://www.ecdl2007.org/index.php) in Budapest, Hungary where he presented a poster: "Finding it on Google, Finding it on del.icio.us."  The presented research was conducted with Ph.D. student Michael Cole.
  2007-06 Conferences, Seminars, Other Events:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka participated in PersDL, the 10th DELOS Thematic workshop on "Personalized Access, Profile Management, and Context Awareness in Digital Libraries," where he was invited to a panel discussion on the question: "Do Digital Libraries Require Anything Special from Personalization?” The workshop took place on 29-30 June 2007, in Corfu Island, Greece, in conjunction with the 11th Int'l Conference on User Modeling (UM2007).
  2007-04 Faculty Activities and Accomplishments:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka with Spence, I. (2007) published an article titled: “Implicit Measures of Lostness and Success in Web Navigation,” in Interacting with Computers, 19(3), 357-369.  The article is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intcom.2007.01.001

  2007-04 Conferences, Seminars, Other Events:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka co-presented (with William Jones from iSchool, UW) a full-day course entitled: "Personal Information Management in Theory and Practice" at the recent ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'2007) held in San Jose, CA on April 28-May 3, 2007.
  2006-11 Public/Community Service; Outreach Efforts:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka represented the undergraduate ITI program at the World Usability Day NJ 2006. http://www.worldusabilityday.org/  The event was held at Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ on November 14, 2006.  Governor Jon Corzine proclaimed November 14, 2006 as "New Jersey Usability Day" throughout the state. http://www.usabilitynj.org/meeting_details/nov2006_proclamation.html.  Also, his research on email habits was featured in a short internet radio interview for IEEE Spectrum Radio. http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/radio
  2006-11 Conferences, Seminars, Other Events:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka presented a paper co-authored with Professor Ian Spence "What Can Searching Behavior Tell Us about the Difficulty of Information Tasks? A Study of Web Navigation."  The paper was at the same time published in peer-reviewed proceedings of the 69th annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T 2006), vol. 43.  He also presented a poster entitled: "Effects of Cognitive Complexity and Individual Differences on Perception of Information Task Difficulty" at the ASIS&T SIG HCI Research Symposium "Human Computer Interaction in Information-Intensive Environments."  The symposium was organized as a part of the ASIS&T conference.
  2006-08 Conferences, Seminars, Other Events:
At the ACM Conference on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006) held in Seattle, WA, on August 6-11, 2006. Professors Gwizdka and Nicholas Belkin were on the organizing committee for a two-day workshop on Personal Information Management. The workshop was held as a part of the ACM Conference on Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2006), workshop home page: http://pim.ischool.washington.edu/pim06/index.htm. Professor Gwizdka also presented at this workshop a position paper entitled: "Finding to Keep and Organize: Personal Information Collections as Context."
  2006-08 Conferences, Seminars, Other Events:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka co-presented with William Jones from iSchool, UW, a full-day tutorial entitled: "The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management"
  2006-05 Other (e.g., new appointments; alumni relations; staff activities; new websites):
Professor Jacek Gwizdka was one of 32 faculty members who participated in "Garden State 101," the New Faculty Traveling Seminar, on May 22-25. http://travelingseminar.rutgers.edu/
  2006-04 Conferences, Seminars, Other Events:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka co-presented with William Jones from iSchool, UW, a full-day course entitled: "Personal Information Management in Theory and Practice" (http://www.chi2006.org/courses.php#12) at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'2006) held in Montreal, QC, Canada, on April 22-27.
  2006-03 Faculty Activities and Accomplishments:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka is a co-PI (with Professors Ian Spence, PI, Psychology, and March Chignell, co-PI, Industrial Engineering, of the University of Toronto), on a recently funded project "Software Module to Detect Lostness in the Navigation of Large e-Commerce Web Sites." The project is a continuation of Professor Gwizdka's post doctoral research at the University of Toronto. The project is funded by Communications and Information Technology Ontario (CITO, a division of Ontario Centres of Excellence - OCE) and Bell Canada (via the Bell University Labs program).
  2006-01 Faculty Activities and Accomplishments:
Professor Jacek Gwizdka co-authored an article “Email in Personal Information Management” in the January 2006 issue of Communications of Association of Computing Machinery,  CACM 49, 1 (January 2006), 68-73.  The article is part of a special section on Personal Information Management.  Whittaker, S., Bellotti, V., and Gwizdka, J. 2006. DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1107458.1107494

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