Dr Morgan Harvey (he/him)
BSc (Strathclyde), PhD (Strathclyde)
School of Information, Journalism and Communication
Senior Lecturer in Data Science
m.harvey@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 6337
+44 114 222 6337
Room C229, The Wave
Full contact details
Dr Morgan Harvey
School of Information, Journalism and Communication
Room C229
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
School of Information, Journalism and Communication
Room C229
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
- Profile
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I am a Senior Lecturer in data science and information retrieval. I hold a PhD in Information Science from the University of Strathclyde, which I completed in 2011, and since then have worked in academic roles in the UK, Germany and Switzerland. Before coming to Sheffield, I was a senior lecturer at Northumbria University in Newcastle and a research associate at the University of Lugano in Switzerland and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany.
To date, I have published more than 60 peer-reviewed conference papers and journal articles in the fields of information retrieval, information behaviour and recommender systems. I have successfully acquired over £250,0000 in research funding to support my research, including a recent AHRC grant on using machine learning techniques to support the transcriptions and linking of historical records from the US civil war.
University Responsibilities
- Programme Coordinator of BSc Data Science
- Research interests
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My work aims to bridge the gap between “systems” and “user-centred” Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems. I conduct research in the fields of information retrieval, information behaviour, recommender systems and in the wider area of information and data science and have published more than 60 peer-reviewed conference papers and journal articles. Although my research is applied in a broad array of different contexts, at its core is the idea of helping to connect people to the information they need or want.
Recent work includes:
- Using recommender systems and nudging techniques to help people to eat more healthily and in a more sustainable manner.
- Understanding and mitigating the effects of everyday interruptions and distractions on mobile search.
- Investigating the information behaviour and information literacy of people when engaging with digital council services and when thru-hiking.
PhD Student Supervision
I am interested in supervising PhD projects in any research topics related to my aforementioned areas of interest and experience. I am particularly interested in supervising work on recommender and assistance systems and how they can be applied to promote nutritious and sustainable eating.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Greetings from the CHIIR 2024 General Chairs. Chiir 2024 Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, III-IV.
- An Analysis of Classification Approaches for Hit Song Prediction using Engineered Metadata Features with Lyrics and Audio Features.. CoRR, abs/2301.13507.
- Understanding the costs and challenges of the digital divide through UK council services. Journal of Information Science, 49(5), 1153-1167. View this article in WRRO
- Hiker on trail: information practices in the wild. A mixed methods approach to investigate real-time mobile technology use by long-distance backpackers. Library and Information Science Research, 44(4). View this article in WRRO
- E-Government information search by English-as-a Second Language speakers: the effects of language proficiency and document reading level. Information Processing and Management, 59(4). View this article in WRRO
- The effects of simulated interruptions on mobile search tasks. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 73(6), 777-796. View this article in WRRO
- A day at the races : using best arm identification algorithms to reduce the cost of information retrieval user studies. Applied Intelligence, 52(5), 5617-5632. View this article in WRRO
- Whither wilderness? An investigation of technology use by long-distance backpackers. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 72(6), 683-698. View this article in WRRO
- Understanding in-context interaction: An investigation into on-the-go mobile search. Information Processing and Management, 56(6). View this article in WRRO
- Library 2.0: the effectiveness of social media as a marketing tool for libraries in educational institutions. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 51(1), 3-19. View this article in WRRO
- Remembering through lifelogging: A survey of human memory augmentation. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 27, 14-26.
- A survey of values, technologies and contexts in pervasive healthcare. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 27, 1-13.
- Remembering through lifelogging: A survey of human memory augmentation. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 27, 14-26.
- Engaging and maintaining a sense of being informed: Understanding the tasks motivating twitter search. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 66(2), 264-281.
- Searching for puns: Towards identification of humour on twitter.
- Learning user tastes: A first step to generating healthy meal plans?. Ceur Workshop Proceedings, 891, 18-23.
- Kochen im Kontext – Am Alltag orientierte Empfehlung von Gerichten. Information - Wissenschaft & Praxis, 63(5).
- Searching for Fun: Casual-leisure Search.
- Folksonomic tag clouds as an aid to content indexing.
Book chapters
- An analysis of classification approaches for hit song prediction using engineered metadata features with lyrics and audio features In Sserwanga I, Goulding A, Moulaison-Sandy H, Du JT, Soares AL, Hessami V & Frank RD (Ed.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 303-311). Springer Nature Switzerland View this article in WRRO
- 21st Century Search and Recommendation: Exploiting Personalisation and Social Media, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 70-95). Springer International Publishing
- Insights into co-located shared mobile search, CHI’13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1401-1406).
Conference proceedings
- Integrating eye tracking, feature use, and emotional valence: a multimodal approach to evaluating search interfaces. CHIIR '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp 23-41). Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 24 March 2025 - 24 March 2025. View this article in WRRO
- Exploratory search in digital humanities: a study of visual keyword/result linking. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 61(1) (pp 161-171). Calgary, AB, Canada, 25 October 2024 - 25 October 2024. View this article in WRRO
- Health information post-encountering behaviours on social media platforms. Information Research, Special Issue: Proceedings of the 15th ISIC - The Information Behaviour Conference, Vol. 29(2) (pp 253-274). Aalborg, Denmark, 26 August 2024 - 26 August 2024. View this article in WRRO
- The effect of simulated contextual factors on recipe rating and nutritional intake behaviour. CHIIR '24: Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, Vol. 2024 (pp 97-107). Sheffield, United Kingdom, 10 March 2024 - 10 March 2024. View this article in WRRO
- The barriers to online clothing websites for visually impaired people: an interview and observation approach to understanding needs. DIS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp 753-764). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 10 July 2023 - 10 July 2023. View this article in WRRO
- What's interrupting your search?. Information Research, Vol. 27(Special issue) (pp isic2202). Berlin, Germany, 26 September 2022 - 26 September 2022. View this article in WRRO
- Conducting Information Science research during pandemics : experience and reflections of the Information Retrieval Research Group in Sheffield. Information Science Trends 2021: Information Science Research During COVID-19 and Post-Pandemic Opportunities. Virtual conference, 9 June 2021 - 9 June 2021. View this article in WRRO
- Effective learning and resilience in first year undergraduate computer science. Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (pp 19-25). New York, NY, United States, 15 June 2020 - 15 June 2020. View this article in WRRO
- Conversational agents for recipe recommendation. Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp 73-82). Vancouver, BC, Canada, 14 March 2020 - 14 March 2020. View this article in WRRO
- Understanding Mobile Search Task Relevance and User Behaviour in Context. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp 143-151)
- An investigation into Scottish teenagers’ information literacy and search skills. Information Research, Vol. 24. Krakow, Poland, 9 October 2018 - 9 October 2018. View this article in WRRO
- A Comparative Study of Native and Non-native Information Seeking Behaviours (pp 237-248)
- Noisy Signals. Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Human Information Interaction&Retrieval - CHIIR '18 (pp 241-244), 11 March 2018 - 15 March 2018.
- Information Seeking Behaviour of Aspiring Undergraduates on Social Media: Who Are They Interacting with? (pp 245-255)
- Exploiting food choice biases for healthier recipe recommendation. SIGIR '17: Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (pp 575-584). Tokyo, Japan, August 2017 - August 2017. View this article in WRRO
- Searching on the go : the effects of fragmented attention on mobile web search tasks. Proceedings of the 40th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval (pp 155-164). Tokyo, Japan, 7 August 2017 - 7 August 2017. View this article in WRRO
- User Nutrition Modelling and Recommendation. Adjunct Publication of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (pp 93-96)
- E-Government and the Digital Divide: A Study of English-as-a-Second-Language Users’ Information Behaviour (pp 266-277)
- Strangers in a Strange Land. Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp 281-284)
- Perceptions of the Effect of Fragmented Attention on Mobile Web Search Tasks. Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp 293-296)
- The Long Term Effects of Search Query Examples on the Search Behaviours of Non-native Users of Government E-Services. Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp 417-419)
- Topic-Specific Stylistic Variations for Opinion Retrieval on Twitter (pp 466-478)
- Automated Recommendation of Healthy, Personalised Meal Plans. Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (pp 327-328)
- Towards Automatic Meal Plan Recommendations for Balanced Nutrition. Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (pp 313-316)
- Learning by example : training users with high-quality query suggestions. SIGIR '15: Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (pp 133-142). Santiago, Chile, 9 August 2015 - 9 August 2015. View this article in WRRO
- Bringing the "healthy" into food recommenders. Ceur Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1533 (pp 33-36)
- Long Time, No Tweets! Time-aware Personalised Hashtag Suggestion (pp 581-592)
- Workshop on searching for fun 2014. Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium (pp 6-6)
- Relating user interaction to experience during festivals. Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium (pp 38-47)
- Detecting Event Visits in Urban Areas via Smartphone GPS Data (pp 681-686)
- A Personalised Recommendation System for Context-Aware Suggestions (pp 63-74)
- Finding Participants in a Chat: Authorship Attribution for Conversational Documents. 2013 International Conference on Social Computing (pp 272-279), 8 September 2013 - 14 September 2013.
- Building user profiles from topic models for personalised search. Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Information & Knowledge Management (pp 2309-2314)
- A New Probabilistic Ranking Model. Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (pp 109-112)
- RecSys for distributed events. Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (pp 953-956)
- University of Lugano at the TREC 2013 Contextual Suggestion Track. 22nd Text Retrieval Conference Trec 2013 Proceedings
- You Are What You Eat: Learning User Tastes for Rating Prediction (pp 153-164)
- Finding Participants in a Chat: Authorship Attribution for Conversational Documents. ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing$$$$ (pp 649-652)
- Improving search experience on distributed leisure events. Ceur Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 909 (pp 21-24)
- Out and about on museums night: Investigating mobile search behaviour for leisure events. Ceur Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 836 (pp 5-8)
- Preface. Ceur Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 836
- Entertainment on the go. Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium (pp 90-99)
- Ingredient Matching to Determine the Nutritional Properties of Internet-Sourced Recipes. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 21 May 2012 - 24 May 2012.
- Estimating Nutrition Values for Internet Recipes. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 21 May 2012 - 24 May 2012.
- Exploring Query Patterns in Email Search (pp 25-36)
- Comparing Tweets and Tags for URLs (pp 73-84)
- Bayesian latent variable models for collaborative item rating prediction. Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management (pp 699-708)
- Understanding re-finding behavior in naturalistic email interaction logs. Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval (pp 35-44)
- Improving social bookmark search using personalised latent variable language models. Proceedings of the fourth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining (pp 485-494)
- Ranking social bookmarks using topic models. Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management (pp 1401-1404)
- Towards query log based personalization using topic models. Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management (pp 1849-1852)
- Tripartite Hidden Topic Models for Personalised Tag Suggestion (pp 432-443)
Theses
- Bayesian Latent Variable Models for the Collaborative Web.
Preprints
- Greetings from the CHIIR 2024 General Chairs. Chiir 2024 Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, III-IV.
- Research group
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I am a member of the School’s Information Retrieval Research Group.
Current PhD students
- Amnah Alluqmani: Assisting Visually Impaired and Blind People in Online Shopping
- Aisha Alshammri: Exploring and Understanding Factors that Affect the Adoption of Personal Health Records Among Healthcare providers and patients in Saudi Arabia
- Khalid Fallatah: An Investigation of Health Information Encountering and Seeking Behaviours on Social Media Platforms
- Mengjyisong “Sookie” Zhao: Context-aware Healthy Food Recommender Systems
- Teaching interests
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I am a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and have been teaching in various academic roles since 2008 in the UK, Germany and Switzerland. I teach on a wide range of data and information science-related topics, including: information retrieval, databases, data mining, recommender systems, business intelligence, data analytics and programming.
I currently teach on three modules at the School: Data Mining (INF6028), for which I act as module coordinator; Database Design (INF6050) and Database Design and Data Management (INF6505); and Information Retrieval- Search Engines and Digital Libraries (INF6060).
- Teaching activities
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INF212 - AI and Machine Learning for Advanced Analytics
INF216 - Responsible Data Science Lab 1
INF6060 - Information Retrieval: Search Engines and Digital Libraries
- Professional activities and memberships
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Membership of professional bodies
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Committee and advisory group membership
Member of the technical programme committees of major conferences in the field of information retrieval, including:
- SIGIR
- CHIIR
- ECIR
- CIKM
- SIGCHI
Journal and conference reviewing
Reviewer for several international journals, including:
- Information Processing and Management (IP&M)
- Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
- Journal of Librarianship and Information Sciences (JOLIS)
- Pervasive and Mobile Computing (Elsevier Journal)
- The International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
- Information Retrieval Journal (Springer)
Invited presentations
- Invited keynote speaker at RESULTS workshop on Recommender Systems for Engaging Users with Healthy Living Habits 2019, Bristol, UK
Other roles
- Doctoral Consortium Mentor at CHIIR 2019, Glasgow, UK and CHIIR 2020, Vancouver, Canada
- Senior PC member for ECIR 2017, 2019 and 2020
- Proceedings chair of IIiX 2014 in Regensburg
- Organiser of Searching for Fun workshop in 2012 and 2014
- Examiner of PhD dissertations submitted to the University of Regensburg and Northumbria University