Establishing an Online Access Panel for Interactive Information Retrieval Research
This addresses a logistical bottleneck for IIR researchers by providing a shared resource, though it is incremental as it builds on existing panel concepts.
The authors tackled the challenge of participant recruitment for Interactive Information Retrieval (IIR) system evaluations by proposing an online access panel called IIRpanel, which aims to minimize recurring recruitment efforts for both web-based and lab studies.
We propose an online access panel to support the evaluation process of Interactive Information Retrieval (IIR) systems - called IIRpanel. By maintaining an online access panel with users of IIR systems we assume that the recurring effort to recruit participants for web-based as well as for lab studies can be minimized. We target on using the online access panel not only for our own development processes but to open it for other interested researchers in the field of IIR. In this paper we present the concept of IIRpanel as well as first implementation details.