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Research Portofolio

We introduce the examples of 1) Process Understanding Research, 2) User Experience Development Research, and 3) Test Collection Building Research based on our lab's three missions.

Information Searching Behaviour of Large Language Models

An Instruction-Response Perspective on Large Language Models in Information Retrieval Tasks.
JOHO, Hideo, Jose, Joemon M.
SIGIR '25: Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Jul, 2025

Effect of LLM's Personality Traits on Query Generation.
IMASAKA, Yuta, JOHO, Hideo
SIGIR-AP 2024: Proceedings of the 2024 Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific Region, 249-258, Dec, 2024

Information Searching Behaviour of Conversational Search

Towards a model for spoken conversational search
Trippas, Johanne R, Spina, Damiano, Thomas, Paul, Sanderson, Mark, Joho, Hideo, Cavedon, Lawrence
Information Processing & Management, 57(2), Mar, 2020

Conversational Search (Dagstuhl Seminar 19461)
Anand, Avishek, Cavedon, Lawrence, Joho, Hideo, Sanderson, Mark, Stein, Benno
Dagstuhl Reports, 9(11) 34-83, May, 2020

Informing the Design of Spoken Conversational Search
Trippas, Johanne R, Spina, Damiano, Cavedon, Lawrence, Joho, Hideo, Sanderson, Mark
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval, 32-41, Mar, 2018

Modelling information needs in collaborative search conversations
Sosuke Shiga, Hideo Joho, Roi Blanco, Johanne R. Trippas, Mark Sanderson
SIGIR 2017 - Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 715-724, Aug 7, 2017

Information Searching Behaviour of Collaborative Search

Exploring the role of large language model in collaborative travel planning task
KUMAMOTO, Hikaru, JOHO, Hideo
Information Research an international electronic journal, 30(iConf) 1123-1130, Mar, 2025

Modelling information needs in collaborative search conversations
Sosuke Shiga, Hideo Joho, Roi Blanco, Johanne R. Trippas, Mark Sanderson
SIGIR 2017 - Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 715-724, Aug 7, 2017

Effect of Explicit Roles on Collaborative Search in Travel Planning Task
Marika Imazu, Shin'ichi Nakayama, Hideo Joho
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL TECHNOLOGY, 7097 205-+, 2011

Comparing collaborative and independent search in a recall-oriented task
Joho, Hideo, Hannah, David, Jose, Joemon M
Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Information Interaction in Context (IIiX 2008), 89-96, Oct, 2008

Information Seeking Behaviour in Natural Disasters

Demographic Factors in the Disaster-Related Information Seeking Behaviour.
Rahmi, Joho, Hideo
Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue: 16th International Conference, iConference 2021, Beijing, China, March 17–31, 2021, Proceedings, Part II 16, 48-65, Mar, 2021

An Analysis of Natural Disaster-related Information Seeking Behaviour Using Temporal Stages
Rahmi, Joho, Hideo, Shirai, Tetsuya
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 70(7) 715-728, 2019

Information Searching Behaviour of Temporal Search

Temporal information searching behaviour and strategies
Hideo Joho, Adam Jatowt, Roi Blanco
INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT, 51(6) 834-850, Nov, 2015

Temporal Information Access
Masaharu Yoshioka, Hideo Joho
Information Retrieval Series, 43 127-141, 2021

A Survey of Temporal Web Search Experience
Joho, Hideo, Jatowt, Adam, Blanco, Roi
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web companion (WWW '13 Companion), 1101-1108, 2013

Information Seeking Behaviour of Patent Search

A survey of patent users: An analysis of tasks, behavior, search functionality and system requirements Hideo Joho, Leif Azzopardi, Wim Vanderbauwhede IIiX 2010 - Proceedings of the 2010 Information Interaction in Context Symposium, 13-22, 2010

Search System Requirements of Patent Analysts Leif Azzopardi, Wim Vanderbauwhede, Hideo Joho SIGIR 2010: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 33RD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ACM SIGIR CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT IN INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, 775-776, 2010

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NTCIR Transfer Task

Overview of the NTCIR-18 Transfer-2 Task Hideo Joho, Atsushi Keyaki, Yuuki Tachioka, Shuhei Yamamoto NTCIR 18 Conference: Proceedings of the 18th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, June 10-13, 2025, Tokyo, Japan, 373-377, Jun, 2025

Overview of the NTCIR-17 Transfer Task Hideo Joho, Atsushi, Keyaki, Yuki, Oba NTCIR 17 Conference: Proceedings of the 17th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, December 12-15, 2023, Tokyo, Japan, Dec 2023

NTCIR Lifelog Task

Overview of the NTCIR-18 Lifelog-6 Task Liting, Zhou, Cathal, Gurrin, Hsin-Hung, Chen, Joho, Hideo, Chenyang, Lyu, Longyue, Wang, Graham, Healy, Ly-Duyen, Tran, Tran, Quang_linh, Le, Hoang Bao, Duc-Tien, Dang-Nguyen, Tianbo, Ji NTCIR 18 Conference: Proceedings of the 18th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, June 10-13, 2025, Tokyo, Japan, 148-154, Jun, 2025

Overview of the NTCIR-17 Lifelog-5 Task Liting, Zhou, Cathal, Gurrin, Duc-Tien, Dang-Nguyen, Graham, Healy, Chenyang, Lyu, Tianbo, Ji, Longyue, Wang, Joho, Hideo, Ly-Duyen, Tran NTCIR 17 Conference: Proceedings of the 17th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, December 12-15, 2023, Tokyo, Japan, Dec 2023

Advances in Lifelog Data Organisation and Retrieval at the NTCIR-14 Lifelog-3 Task Gurrin, Cathal, Joho, Hideo, Hopfgartner, Frank, Zhou, Liting, Ninh, Van-Tu, Le, Tu-Khiem, Albatal, Rami, Dang-Nguyen, Duc-Tien, Healy, Graham NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research. NTCIR 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 11966 16-28, Nov, 2019

Overview of the NTCIR-14 Lifelog-3 Task Gurrin, Cathal, Joho, Hideo, Hopfgartner, Frank, Zhou, Liting, Ninh, Van-Tu, Le, Tu-Khiem, Albatal, Rami, Nguyen, Duc Tien Dang, Healy, Graham Proceedings of the 14th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, June 10-13, 2019 Tokyo Japan, 14-26, Jun, 2019

Overview of NTCIR-13 Lifelog-2 Task Gurrin, Cathal, Joho, Hideo, Hopfgartner, Frank, Zhou, Liting, Gupta, Rashmi, Albatal, Rami, Dang-Nguyen, Duc-Tien Proceedings of the 13th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, December 5-8, 2017 Tokyo Japan, 6-11, Dec, 2017

Overview of NTCIR-12 Lifelog Task Cathal, Gurrin, Hideo, Joho, Frank, Hopfgartner, Liting, Zhou, Rami, Albatal Proceedings of the 12th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, June 7-10, 2016 Tokyo Japan, 354-360, Jun, 2016

NTCIR Lifelog: The First Test Collection for Lifelog Research Cathal,Gurrin, Hideo,Joho, Frank,Hopfgartner, Liting,Zhou, Rami,Albatal Proceedings of the 39th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 705-708, Jun, 2016

NTCIR Actionable Knowledge Graph (AKG) Task

Overview of NTCIR-13 Actionable Knowledge Graph (AKG) Task Blanco, Roi, Joho, Hideo, Jatowt, Adam, Yu, Haitao, Yamamoto, Shuhei Proceedings of the 13th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, December 5-8, 2017 Tokyo Japan, 340-345, Dec, 2017

NTCIR Temporalia Taks

Overview of NTCIR-12 Temporal Information Access (Temporalia-2) Task Joho, Hideo, Jatowt, Adam, Blanco, Roi, Yu, Haitao, Yamamoto, Shuhei Proceedings of the 12th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, June 7-10, 2016 Tokyo Japan, 217-224, Dec, 2016

Overview of NTCIR-11 Temporal Information Access (Temporalia) Task Joho, Hideo, Jatowt, Adam, Blanco, Roi, Naka, Hajime, Yamamoto, Shuhei Proceedings of the 11th NTCIR Conference on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies, 429-437, Dec, 2014

NTCIR VisEx Task

Overview of the VisEx task at NTCIR-9” Kato, Tsuneaki, Matsushita, Mitsunori, Joho, Hideo Proceedings of the Ninth NTCIR Workshop Meeting on the Evaluation of Information Access Technologies (NTCIR-9), 524-532, Dec, 2011