One of the things we did slightly differently in this year’s HCIR Symposium was to introduce full-length, pier reviewed, top-tier conference-quality papers. We received a number of submissions, each of which was read and discussed by three reviewers. We then rejected some of papers, and sent several back for a rewrite-and-resubmit cycle. In the end, we accepted four papers, which have now been published in the ACM Digital Library.

The four papers are:

• Tatiana Gossen, Marcus Nitsche, and Andreas Nürnberger. 2012. Knowledge journey: a web search interface for young users. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR ’12). ACM, New York, NY, USA.
• Soroush Ghorashi and Carlos Jensen. 2012. Leyline: provenance-based search using a graphical sketchpad. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR ’12). ACM, New York, NY, USA.
• Mark D. Smucker and Charles L. A. Clarke. 2012. Modeling user variance in time-biased gain. InProceedings of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR ’12). ACM, New York, NY, USA.
• Barbara M. Wildemuth and Luanne Freund. 2012. Assigning search tasks designed to elicit exploratory search behaviors. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR ’12). ACM, New York, NY, USA.

We would like to thank the authors for taking a chance on this new venue, and our reviewers for expending significant effort in review and discussion. We look forward to more excellent submissions next year!

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