Report on the future conversations workshop at CHIIR 2021
- Damiano Spina ,
- Johanne R Trippas ,
- Paul Thomas ,
- Hideo Joho ,
- Katriina Byström ,
- Leigh Clark ,
- Nick Craswell ,
- Mary Czerwinski ,
- David Elsweiler ,
- Alexander Frummet ,
- Souvick Ghosh ,
- Johannes Kiesel ,
- Irene Lopatovska ,
- Daniel McDuff ,
- Selina Meyer ,
- Ahmed Mourad ,
- Paul Owoicho ,
- Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal ,
- Daniel Russell ,
- Laurianne Sitbon
SIGIR Forum | , Vol 55(1): pp. 1-22
The Future Conversations workshop at CHIIR’21 looked to the future of search, recommendation, and information interaction to ask: where are the opportunities for conversational interactions? What do we need to do to get there? Furthermore, who stands to benefit?
The workshop was hands-on and interactive. Rather than a series of technical talks, we solicited position statements on opportunities, problems, and solutions in conversational search in all modalities (written, spoken, or multimodal). This paper — co-authored by the organisers and participants of the workshop — summarises the submitted statements and the discussions we had during the two sessions of the workshop. Statements discussed during the workshop are available at https://bit.ly/FutureConversations2021Statements (opens in new tab).