Associate Professor
Information eXperience Lab Director
Dr. Jacek Gwizdka conducts research in human-computer interaction with interests in information search processes and search interfaces, in application of cognitive psychology to interactive information retrieval, and in implicit assessment of cognitive load using psycho-physiological methods. His recent projects include application of cognitive neuroscience tools to the study of cognitive function engaged in human-information interaction as well as examination of effects of search results presentation and cognitive abilities on information search task performance. He serves in various roles at international conference and workshop organization committees (for example, IIiX, ASIS&T, ACM SIGCHI and SIGIR). He serves on editorial board of Interacting with Computers.
PostDoc 2005 University of Toronto, Psychology / HCI
Ph.D. 2004 University of Toronto, Industrial Eng. / HCI
M.A.Sc. 1998 University of Toronto, Industrial Eng. / IS
n.d. 1988 Lodz University of Technology, Computer Science
M.Eng. 1985 Lodz University of Technology, Electrical Eng.
Neuro-information Science
Eye Tracking
Information Seeking Support Systems
Cognitive Psychology of Information Interaction
Human-Computer Interaction
Jayawardena, G., Jayawardana, Y., Abeysinghe, Y., Mahanama, B., Jayarathna, S., & Gwizdka, J. (2025). A Real-Time Approach to Capture Ambient and Focal Attention in Visual Search. Proceedings of the 2025 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715669.3723111
Shi, L., Jayawardena, G., & Gwizdka, J. (2025). Pupillometric Analysis of Cognitive Load in Relation to Relevance and Confirmation Bias. Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 219–230. https://doi.org/10.1145/3698204.3716458
Gwizdka, J., & Cole, M. (2025). g-Rel-READER: A Dataset for Relevance and Reading Evaluation through Advanced Data from Eye-tracking and EEG Recordings. Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 377–381. https://doi.org/10.1145/3698204.3716474
Liu, H., Gwizdka, J., Lease, M. (2025). Exploring Multidimensional Checkworthiness: Designing AI-assisted Claim Prioritization for Human Fact-checkers. CSCW 2025.
Aliannejadi, M., Gwizdka, J., & Zamani, H. (2025). Interactions with Generative Information Retrieval Systems. In R. W. White & C. Shah (Eds.), Information Access in the Era of Generative AI (pp. 47–71). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73147-1_3
Gwizdka, J., Mostafa, J., Moshfeghi, Y., & vom Brocke, J. (2025). Neurophysiological Approaches for Understanding Information Seeking Behavior: A NeuroIS 2024 Panel. Information Systems and Neuroscience, 397–401. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71385-9_35
Shi, L., & Gwizdka, J. (2025). The Effects of Confirmation Bias and Readability on Relevance Assessment: An Eye-Tracking Study. Information Systems and Neuroscience, 137–146. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71385-9_11
Shi, L., Bhattacharya, N., Das, A., & Gwizdka, J. (2023). True or false? Cognitive load when reading COVID-19 news headlines: an eye-tracking study. Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 107–116. https://doi.org/10.1145/3576840.3578290
Gwizdka, J. (2021). “Overloading” Cognitive (Work)Load: What Are We Really Measuring? In F. D. Davis, R. Riedl, J. vom Brocke, P.-M. Léger, A. B. Randolph, & G. Müller-Putz (Eds.), Information Systems and Neuroscience (pp. 77–89). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88900-5_9
Gwizdka, J., Moshfeghi, Y., Wilson, M.L. (2019). Introduction to the Special Issue on Neuro-Information Science. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 70(9), 911–916. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24263
Gwizdka, J., Hosseini, R., Cole, M., & Wang, S. (2017). Temporal dynamics of eye-tracking and EEG during reading and relevance decisions. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(10), 2299–2312. doi:10.1002/asi.23904 (2017 JCR impact factor: 2.835)
ASIS&T SIG-USE Best paper at ASIST annual conference 2021.
Best short paper at ACM ETRA’2019 conference.
Dr. H. Zemlicka Award for the “most visionary paper” presented at NeuroIS’2013 in Gmunden, Austria
Recognition for Academic Service to the NeuroIS Community awarded by NeuroIS Conference Chairs at the 15th anniversary of the conference (2023).
Recognized as ASIS&T Distinguished Member (2022).