10 papers
SearchLog: A Web Browser Extension for Capturing Search Logs in Laboratory Studies
Jiaman He, Riccardo Xia, Dana McKay +2
Natural search logs are valuable for studying search behavior in information seeking settings. We present SearchLog, an easy-to-install web browser extension for collecting natural…
RMIT-ADM+S at the MMU-RAG NeurIPS 2025 Competition
Kun Ran, Marwah Alaofi, Danula Hettiachchi +9
This paper presents the award-winning RMIT-ADM+S system for the Text-to-Text track of the NeurIPS~2025 MMU-RAG Competition. We introduce Routing-to-RAG (R2RAG), a research-focused…
Characterizing Personality from Eye-Tracking: The Role of Gaze and Its Absence in Interactive Search Environments
Jiaman He, Marta Micheli, Damiano Spina +3
Personality traits influence how individuals engage, behave, and make decisions during the information-seeking process. However, few studies have linked personality to observable s…
Can We Hide Machines in the Crowd? Quantifying Equivalence in LLM-in-the-loop Annotation Tasks
Jiaman He, Zikang Leng, Dana McKay +2
Many evaluations of large language models (LLMs) in text annotation focus primarily on the correctness of the output, typically comparing model-generated labels to human-annotated…
ISMIE: A Framework to Characterize Information Seeking in Modern Information Environments
Shuoqi Sun, Danula Hettiachchi, Damiano Spina
The modern information environment (MIE) is increasingly complex, shaped by a wide range of techniques designed to satisfy users' information needs. Information seeking (IS) models…
SenseSeek Dataset: Multimodal Sensing to Study Information Seeking Behaviors
Kaixin Ji, Danula Hettiachchi, Falk Scholer +2
Information processing tasks involve complex cognitive mechanisms that are shaped by various factors, including individual goals, prior experience, and system environments. Underst…