A look back and a look forward
SIGIR '88 Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
On the evaluation of IR systems
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on evaluation issues in information retrieval
User interactions with everyday applications as context for just-in-time information access
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Why batch and user evaluations do not give the same results
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
ScentTrails: Integrating browsing and searching on the Web
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Implicit feedback for inferring user preference: a bibliography
ACM SIGIR Forum
Display time as implicit feedback: understanding task effects
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The Turn: Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context (The Information Retrieval Series)
User performance versus precision measures for simple search tasks
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A study on the effects of personalization and task information on implicit feedback performance
CIKM '06 Proceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
A probability ranking principle for interactive information retrieval
Information Retrieval
To personalize or not to personalize: modeling queries with variation in user intent
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Affective feedback: an investigation into the role of emotions in the information seeking process
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Discounted cumulated gain based evaluation of multiple-query IR sessions
ECIR'08 Proceedings of the IR research, 30th European conference on Advances in information retrieval
Proceedings of the second international symposium on Information interaction in context
Segment-level display time as implicit feedback: a comparison to eye tracking
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Usage based effectiveness measures: monitoring application performance in information retrieval
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Personalized social search based on the user's social network
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Personalizing information retrieval for people with different levels of topic knowledge
Proceedings of the 10th annual joint conference on Digital libraries
Personalizing information retrieval for multi-session tasks: the roles of task stage and task type
Proceedings of the 33rd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Are self-assessments reliable indicators of topic knowledge?
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
Linking search tasks with low-level eye movement patterns
Proceedings of the 28th Annual European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics
A new tangible user interface for machine learning document review
Artificial Intelligence and Law
The economics in interactive information retrieval
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Moving towards adaptive search in digital libraries
NLP4DL'09/AT4DL'09 Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Advanced language technologies for digital libraries
Enhanced information retrieval using domain-specific recommender models
ICTIR'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Advances in information retrieval theory
CLEF'11 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation
The need for music information retrieval with user-centered and multimodal strategies
MIRUM '11 Proceedings of the 1st international ACM workshop on Music information retrieval with user-centered and multimodal strategies
Interpreting user inactivity on search results
ECIR'2010 Proceedings of the 32nd European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
Proceedings of the 18th Australasian Document Computing Symposium
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Although we see the positive results of information retrieval research embodied throughout the Internet, on our computer desktops, and in many other aspects of daily life, at the same time we notice that people still have a wide variety of difficulties in finding information that is useful in resolving their problematic situations. This suggests that there still remain substantial challenges for research in IR. Already in 1988, on the occasion of receiving the ACM SIGIR Gerard Salton Award, Karen Spärck Jones suggested that substantial progress in information retrieval was likely only to come through addressing issues associated with users (actual or potential) of IR systems, rather than continuing IR research's almost exclusive focus on document representation and matching and ranking techniques. In recent years it appears that her message has begun to be heard, yet we still have relatively few substantive results that respond to it. In this paper, I identify and discuss a few challenges for IR research which fall within the scope of association with users, and which I believe, if properly addressed, are likely to lead to substantial increases in the usefulness, usability and pleasurability of information retrieval.