Welcome

Welcome to the Interactive Information Science Laboratory, part of the School of Information and Library Science at UNC Chapel Hill.

We are a group of researchers who study how people search for information and interpret results, and develop new tools and approaches to help people find what they need faster.

Recent News:

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  Interactive Information Systems Lab featured in UNC Endeavors magazine!

  Interactive Information Systems Lab featured in UNC Endeavors magazine! Our lab was featured in a UNC Endeavors magazine article discussing the trajectory of research on information retrieval and HCI at SILS over the past 20 years.  Several on-going lab projects … Continued

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  Three papers accepted to SIGIR 2021!

  We are excited to have three papers accepted to the ACM SIGIR 2021 conference: Crescenzi, A., Ward, A. R., Li, Y., and Capra, R. Supporting metacognition during exploratory search with the OrgBox. Ward, A. R. and Capra R. OrgBox: Supporting … Continued