Information Retrieval in Context -- IRiX.

The article highlights the workshop on information retrieval (IR) in context conducted by the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval during its annual conference in Brazil in 2005. The elements of context that are potentially significant to IR include work or daily-life task features, searcher features, interaction features, system features, document features, environmental/physical features, and temporal features. Personalized searching, the roles of actors accessing their e-mail archives and information needs representations touched upon the information seeking actor side of interaction.