• ScratchTalk and Social Computation: Towards a natural language scripting model (Ian Eslick) [pdf]
• Thematically Related Words toward Creative Information Retrieval (Eiko Yamamoto, Hitoshi Isahara) [pdf]
• Paving the Path to Automatic User Task Identification (Anne Gutschmidt, Clemens H. Cap, Friedemann W. Nerdinger) [pdf]
• Different Degrees of Explicitness in Intentional Artifacts: Studying User Goals in a Large Search Query Log (Markus Strohmaier, Peter Prettenhofer, Mathias Lux) [pdf]

Afterwards we had a very lively discussion about user goals and common sense in user interfaces and applications. Henry Lieberman joined us for the workshop and the discussion. One of the interesting things he said was that at his group they investigated the explicitness of common sense in kid’s books. They found that common sense is only explicit in books intended for kids up to a certain age (around 8). For older kids it is assumed that they already know about theses things. They also found a very interesting corpus for common sense knowledge: Stories for people with autism, where every day tasks and situations are explained like for instance getting your hair cut at a barber shop. It contains hints and associations capturing things one might not think about like “There will be hair on the floor, but you are not meant to touch it”.

All in all the workshop was very successful and we already talked about a possible follow up event.