4 papers
From Questions to Trust Reports: A LLM-IR Framework for the TREC 2025 DRAGUN Track
Ignacy Alwasiak, Kene Nnolim, Jaclyn Thi +5
The DRAGUN Track at TREC 2025 targets the growing need for effective support tools that help users evaluate the trustworthiness of online news. We describe the UR_Trecking system s…
Seek and You Shall Find: Design & Evaluation of a Context-Aware Interactive Search Companion
Markus Bink, Marten Risius, Udo Kruschwitz +1
Many users struggle with effective online search and critical evaluation, especially in high-stakes domains like health, while often overestimating their digital literacy. Thus, in…
"Can You Tell Me?": Designing Copilots to Support Human Judgement in Online Information Seeking
Markus Bink, Marten Risius, Udo Kruschwitz +1
Generative AI (GenAI) tools are transforming information seeking, but their fluent, authoritative responses risk overreliance and discourage independent verification and reasoning.…
Query Smarter, Trust Better? Exploring Search Behaviours for Verifying News Accuracy
David Elsweiler, Samy Ateia, Markus Bink +8
While it is often assumed that searching for information to evaluate misinformation will help identify false claims, recent work suggests that search behaviours can instead reinfor…