Robert Capra

Professor at UNC SILS. Research interests: human-computer interaction, collaborative search, information retrieval, personal information management.

[Robert Capra @rcapra3]

@SIGIRConf - Sorry to miss #sigir2023, especially the Generative AI workshop. Sharing a link to our arxiv paper, How does AI chat change search behaviors? https://t.co/b0FbXKYlv7 We report on an exploratory user study about how users integrated AI chat into search processes

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@gingdottwit talking about the importance of understanding the difference between a task’s demand and a user’s readiness. #MSFTFacSumm

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In @philfeld van on the way to #chiir2018 banquet. #vanlife #chiiritforward #standingroomonly @ACM_CHIIR @sigirf

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Toine Bogers presenting about PIM on handheld devices #chiir2018 @ACM_CHIIR @sigirf

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@meier_flo describing interesting reasons why people needed to refind tweets @ACM_CHIIR @sigirf #chiir2018

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Very nice discussion of how @meier_flo coded their data on refinding tweets. #chiir2018 @ACM_CHIIR @sigirf

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Florian Meier presenting about refinding behavior on Twitter. #chiir2018 @ACM_CHIIR @sigirf

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Tarfah Alrashed talking about the lifetime of email messages. #chiir2018 @ACM_CHIIR @sigirf

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Kathy Brennan presenting her boaster with Diane Kelly on role of gov info in finding and eval financial info #chiir2018 #uncsils @ACM_CHIIR

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Yuan Li presenting her boaster on work with Jingjing Liu to understand how systems can help support infotasks #chiir2018 @ACM_CHIIR @sigirf

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Sandeep Avula starting his presentation on our work on SearchBots. #chiir2018 @ACM_CHIIR @sigirf #uncsils

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@pt_ir Conversational search partners had more aligned styles over time #chiir2018 @ACM_CHIIR @sigirf

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@pt_ir #chiir2018 there is no “best” style, but differences in style between conversational partners may affect effort

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@pt_ir showing mapping from Tannen’s conversation style aspects onto lab study measures. #chiir2018 @ACM_CHIIR @sigirf

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@pt_ir Starting his talk on style and alignment in info seeking conversation. #chiir2018 @ACM_CHIIR @sigirf

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@JTrippas - audio-only search increases complexity and interactivity. #chiir2018 @sigirf @ACM_CHIIR

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@JTrippas starting her talk about the design of spoken conversational search systems. #chiir2018 @ACM_CHIIR @sigirf

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@leifos How many points if I like and retweet @leifos retweet if my reply to his tweet? #chiir2018

[Robert Capra @rcapra3]

@chirag_shah @leifos Or just give @rcapra3 all the points. ;-)

[Chirag Shah @chirag_shah]

(Soup Nazi voice) No points for you @leifos #chiir2018 https://t.co/Z7FF5o4CvB