workshop

The VulGen: International Workshop on Vulnerabilities in Generative Systems for Information Retrieval will be held as a full-day workshop at the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, on 24 July 2026. Generative systems are rapidly transforming both academic research and industrial practices. These systems are increasingly integrated into information access and information retrieval (IR) tasks and continue to evolve at a substantial pace. Integrating these models into daily workflows exposes critical vulnerabilities, including adversarial attacks, inherent biases, and negative impacts on user behavior, which can lead to suboptimal or even detrimental outcomes. The VulGen workshop brings together the IR community and related disciplines (e.g., cyber security) to map this evolving landscape. Through a full day of structured discussion and engagement, we aim to synthesize the current state of research and identify new avenues for investigation.

The International Workshop on NeuroPhysiological Approaches for Interactive Information Retrieval (NeuroPhysIIR'25) at ACM SIGIR CHIIR 2025 aims to bring together experts and non-experts interested in advancing knowledge on how to effectively use neurophysiological signals captured with multiple wearable devices to characterize cognitive and affective processes that occur when we interact with information access systems, including search engines, recommender systems, and conversational assistants. The workshop aims to lower the entry barrier to this research area, and researchers and practitioners without experience in any of the disciplines involved (cognitive science, information science, wearable computing, etc.) are particularly welcomed.