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Damiano Spina
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PhD in Computer Science. Information Retrieval, Human-AI Cooperation, Evaluation.
@rmitcomputing.bsky.social | @admscentre.org.au | @internetobservatory.org.au
🤸🏼‍♂️Contramestre Camaleão, Capoeira ACDP.
🪘Percussionist @ Wombatuque

📍Naarm, AU
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Meet Damiano Spina, a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on Information Retrieval (IR), Text Analytics, and Human-AI interaction.

Read more about Spina and how to request a lecture here: buff.ly/1dYp35L
September 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Jiaman He, Zikang Leng, Dana McKay, Damiano Spina, Johanne R. Trippas: Can We Hide Machines in the Crowd? Quantifying Equivalence in LLM-in-the-loop Annotation Tasks https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06658 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06658 https://arxiv.org/html/2510.06658
October 9, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Kaixin Ji, Danula Hettiachchi, Falk Scholer, Flora D. Salim, Damiano Spina: SenseSeek Dataset: Multimodal Sensing to Study Information Seeking Behaviors https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14792 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.14792 https://arxiv.org/html/2507.14792
July 22, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Shuoqi Sun, Danula Hettiachchi, Damiano Spina: ISMIE: A Framework to Characterize Information Seeking in Modern Information Environments https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07644 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07644 https://arxiv.org/html/2510.07644
October 10, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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The Report on the 3rd Workshop on NeuroPhysiological Approaches for Interactive Information Retrieval (#NeuroPhysIIR 2025) at #SIGIR #CHIIR 2025 is now available in the ACM DL: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

#SIGIRForum

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Report on the 3rd Workshop on NeuroPhysiological Approaches for Interactive Information Retrieval (NeuroPhysIIR 2025) at SIGIR CHIIR 2025 | ACM SIGIR Forum
The International Workshop on NeuroPhysiological Approaches for Interactive Information Retrieval (NeuroPhysIIR'25), co-located with ACM SIGIR CHIIR 2025 in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia, included 19 par...
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October 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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The pre-print of our #SIGIRAP2025 paper titled "ISMIE: A Framework to Characterize Information Seeking in Modern Information Environments" is now available arxiv.org/abs/2510.07644

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ISMIE: A Framework to Characterize Information Seeking in Modern Information Environments
The modern information environment (MIE) is increasingly complex, shaped by a wide range of techniques designed to satisfy users' information needs. Information seeking (IS) models are effective mecha...
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October 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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The October edition of the ADM+S Newsletter is here. It includes our latest reports on major community-engaged research projects, policy submissions, journal publications, videos & more https://mailchi.mp/rmit/xiao9risv9-17446335
#AI #Automation #DigitalSociety #Research
October 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Look who just joined Bluesky! 👀

It's @acmsigir.bsky.social. 😇
Screenshot of ACM SIGIR profile on Bluesky displaying their logo, banner image, description, and website information.
September 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Today we celebrate our extraordinary professional team, whose commitment and dedication make the remarkable achievements of ADM+S researchers possible. Our professional team spans across 8 Australian partner universities. #ResearchAdministratorsDay
September 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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The #CLEF2025 Working Notes are now available at: ceur-ws.org/Vol-4038/
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-4038 - CLEF 2025 Working Notes
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September 23, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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🌟Really excited to share the fourth Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval (SWIRL) report published in SIGIR Forum!

Paper 👉🏻 www.johannetrippas.com/papers/tripp...

More info 👉🏻 sites.google.com/view/swirl20...

#SWIRL2025 #SIGIR2026 #IR #GenAI #Research #CHIIR2026
September 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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In early July, I had the opporunity to discuss The AI Con with @kobotic.bsky.social at RMIT. ABC is presenting part of that conversation in their programme "Big Ideas" on Tuesday Sept 2:

www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
The AI Con — unpacking the artificial intelligence hype machine - ABC listen
Is the world really in the midst of an AI revolution, or is it all just clever marketing, powered by immense amounts of money, capital and hype? This episode arms you to spot AI hype in all its guises...
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August 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Today ADM+S proudly celebrates Wear It Purple Day. A day that strives to foster supportive, safe, empowering and inclusive environments for rainbow young people
#WearItPurple #Inclusion #DiversityMatters
August 29, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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As AI reshapes how we search, they’re no longer just tools for finding, they’re turning into engines for answering, filtering, and even shaping what we know. Read more in this latest ADM+S Medium article bit.ly/4mCMPmL #SearchEngines #AI #DigitalSociety
How Search Engines Work: Components and Mechanics of Search Engines
Authors: Ashwin Nagappa, Kateryna Kasianenko, Shir Weinbrand & Oleg Zendel
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August 22, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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A team from the ADM+S at RMIT University has taken out first place amongst 70 teams across 27 countries in the LiveRAG Challenge at SIGIR 2025, showcasing world-class innovation in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technologies admscentre.org/3IBFe8Z
ADM+S team wins global LiveRAG Challenge at SIGIR 2025 - ADM+S Centre
Researchers from ADM+S at RMIT University have taken out first place in the LiveRAG Challenge at SIGIR 2025, showcasing world-class innovation in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technologies.
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July 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Lucky to witness #IRRJ editor-in-chief @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy signing a copy of the first edition of @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy for Ian Soboroff, author of the paper “Don’t Use LLMs to Make Relevance Judgments” in the volume.

#SIGIR2025

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July 15, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Join us at the #SIGIR2025 poster session today and check out Jiaman He’s poster #10 on “Characterising Topic Familiarity and Query Specificity Using Eye-Tracking Data”

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July 15, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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We are at #sigir2025 in Padua, Italy this week. Talk to our editors at the coffee breaks. #sigir
Stack of IRRJ first issues and flyers on table
July 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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🎉 Exciting news for #SIGIRAP2025! This year, we're continuing our tradition of offering both face-to-face and remote participation options. Remote presentations are fully supported! Join us to participate from anywhere! 📡 #HybridConference
July 7, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Never seen our editor in chief, Djoerd Hiemstra, more happy than today, holding a copy of the first issue of #irrj
Djoerd Hiemstra proudly holding a copy of the first issue
July 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Day 2 of the 2025 ADM+S Symposium brought together ADM+S researchers, technologists, social service professionals, and policymakers. Sessions showcased innovative responses to the challenges of building inclusive, ethical, and responsible automated social services for everyday Australians. #ADMS2025
July 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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We look forward to hearing from our speakers and participants at the 2025 ADM+S Symposium: Automated Social Services this week. Public recordings of key sessions will be made available after the event. #ADMS2025
June 30, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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I’ve just started my 3-year appointment as a Distinguished Speaker of the Association for Computing Machinery (#ACM), the world's largest educational and scientific computing society.

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June 29, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Congrats to Prof Axel Bruns on being elected a Fellow of the International Communication Association - an honour recognising his influential work in media & communication & his impact on how we understand social media, technology, & society @snurb.info @qutdmrc.bsky.social admscentre.org/3I09sCo
Axel Bruns Elected Fellow of the International Communication Association - ADM+S Centre
Professor Axel Bruns has been elected a Fellow of the International Communication Association in recognition of his outstanding scholarly contributions to media and communication research and his last...
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June 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Well deserved recognition to our PhD candidate Kaixin!

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admscentre.org.au ADM+S Centre @admscentre.org.au · Jun 22
ADM+S researcher Kaixin Ji has been awarded the prestigious 2024 China Scholarship Council Outstanding Self-funded International Student Scholarship

Read more: admscentre.org/4jVqYon
June 23, 2025 at 5:35 AM