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  1. Can We Hide Machines in the Crowd? Quantifying Equivalence in LLM-in-the-loop Annotation Tasks

    Article • December 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Damiano Spina

  2. ISMIE: A Framework to Characterize Information Seeking in Modern Information Environments

    Article • December 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Damiano Spina, Shuoqi Sun

  3. Diversification and Fairness in Search: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

    Article • ACM Transactions on Information Systems, October 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Damiano Spina

  4. SenseSeek Dataset: Multimodal Sensing to Study Information Seeking Behaviors

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, August 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Damiano Spina

  5. Preaching to the ChoIR: Lessons IR Should Share with AI

    Article • July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gianluca Demartini, Kevin Roitero, Mark Sanderson, Damiano Spina, Prof.dr.ir. Arjen P. de Vries

  6. Characterising Topic Familiarity and Query Specificity Using Eye-Tracking Data

    Article • July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Thomas Ploetz, Damiano Spina

  7. Report on the 3rd Workshop on NeuroPhysiological Approaches for Interactive Information Retrieval (NeuroPhysIIR 2025) at SIGIR CHIIR 2025

    Article • ACM SIGIR Forum, June 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Damiano Spina

  8. Can Users Detect Biases or Factual Errors in Generated Responses in Conversational Information-Seeking?

    Article • December 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Damiano Spina

  9. Hands-On PhD Course on Responsible AI from the Lens of an Information Access Researcher

    Article • ACM SIGIR Forum, December 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Damiano Spina, Michael Soprano

  10. Everything We Hear: Towards Tackling Misinformation in Podcasts

    Article • November 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Damiano Spina

  11. Towards Investigating Biases in Spoken Conversational Search

    Article • November 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Damiano Spina

  12. Advancing Physiological Methods for Human-Information Interaction

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Nattapat Boonprakong, Damiano Spina

  13. Towards Detecting and Mitigating Cognitive Bias in Spoken Conversational Search

    Article • September 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Damiano Spina

  14. Explainability for Transparent Conversational Information-Seeking

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Damiano Spina

  15. Characterizing Information Seeking Processes with Multiple Physiological Signals

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Damiano Spina

  16. Walert: Putting Conversational Information Seeking Knowledge into Action by Building and Evaluating a Large Language Model-Powered Chatbot

    Article • March 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Damiano Spina

  17. Designing and Evaluating Presentation Strategies for Fact-Checked Content

    Article • October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mark Sanderson, Damiano Spina

  18. Towards Detecting Tonic Information Processing Activities with Physiological Data

    Article • October 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Damiano Spina

  19. Examining the Impact of Uncontrolled Variables on Physiological Signals in User Studies for Information Processing Activities

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Damiano Spina

  20. Component-based Analysis of Dynamic Search Performance

    Article • ACM Transactions on Information Systems, July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Damiano Spina

  21. Combining Human and Machine Confidence in Truthfulness Assessment

    Article • Journal of Data and Information Quality, July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kevin Roitero, Gianluca Demartini, Damiano Spina

  22. Ranking Interruptus

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Damiano Spina

  23. Where Do Queries Come From?

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mark Sanderson, Damiano Spina

  24. Crowdsourcing Backstories for Complex Task-Based Search

    Article • December 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Damiano Spina

  25. Evaluating Fairness in Argument Retrieval

    Article • October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Damiano Spina

  26. The Meant, the Said, and the Understood: Conversational Argument Search and Cognitive Biases

    Article • July 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Damiano Spina

  27. Accessing Media Via an Audio-only Communication Channel: A Log Analysis

    Article • July 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Johanne Trippas, Mark Sanderson, Damiano Spina

  28. Report on the future conversations workshop at CHIIR 2021

    Article • ACM SIGIR Forum, June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Johanne Trippas, Damiano Spina

  29. The COVID-19 Infodemic

    Article • October 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Gianluca Demartini, Michael Soprano, Damiano Spina

  30. Can The Crowd Identify Misinformation Objectively?

    Article • July 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Michael Soprano, Gianluca Demartini, Damiano Spina

  31. Intelligent Task Recognition: Towards Enabling Productivity Assistance in Daily Life

    Article • June 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Flora Salim, Yongli Ren, Johann Trippas, Mark Sanderson, Damiano Spina

  32. Investigating the Learning Process in Job Search

    Article • November 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Jiaxin Mao, Mark Sanderson, Damiano Spina

  33. CAIR'18

    Article • ACM SIGIR Forum, January 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Damiano Spina

  34. Second International Workshop on Conversational Approaches to Information Retrieval (CAIR'18)

    Article • June 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Damiano Spina

  35. Towards Understanding the Impact of Length in Web Search Result Summaries over a Speech-only Communication Channel

    Article • August 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Mark Sanderson, Johann Trippas, Damiano Spina

  36. Active Learning for Entity Filtering in Microblog Streams

    Article • August 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Damiano Spina