Dr Morgan Harvey (he/him)

BSc (Strathclyde), PhD (Strathclyde)

Information School

Senior Lecturer in Data Science

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m.harvey@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 6337

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Dr Morgan Harvey
Information School
Room C229
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
Profile

I am a Senior Lecturer in data science and information retrieval here at the Information School of the University of Sheffield. 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

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

Journal articles

Chapters

Conference proceedings papers

  • Lu M, Harvey M & Hoeber O (2022) What's interrupting your search?. Information Research, Vol. 27(Special Issue). Berlin, Germany, 26 September 2022 - 29 September 2022. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hopfgartner F, Harvey M, Rutter S, Mazumdar S, Cameron D, Checco A, Bentley C, Zhang Z & Clough P (2021) Conducting Information Science research during pandemics: Experience and Reflections of the Information Retrieval Research Group in Sheffield. Information Science Trends - ASIS&T European Chapter Series, 9 June 2021 - 11 June 2021. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Prickett T, Walters J, Yang L, Harvey M & Crick T (2020) 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 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Barko-Sherif S, Elsweiler D & Harvey M (2020) 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 - 18 March 2020. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brazier D, Walton G & Harvey M (2019) An investigation into Scottish teenagers’ information literacy and search skills. Information Research, Vol. 24. Krakow, Poland, 9 October 2018 - 11 October 2018. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aliannejadi M, Harvey M, Costa L, Pointon M & Crestani F (2019) Understanding mobile search task relevance and user behaviour in context. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp 143-151) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Harvey M & Pointon M (2018) Noisy Signals: Understanding the Impact of Auditory Distraction on Web Search Tasks. Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval (pp 241-244) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brazier D & Harvey M (2018) A Comparative Study of Native and Non-Native Information Seeking Behaviours. European Conference on Information Retrieval (pp 237-248). Springer, Cham RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brazier D (2017) 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 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Elsweiler D, Trattner C & Harvey M (2017) Exploiting food choice biases for healthier recipe recommendation. Proceedings of the 40th international acm sigir conference on research and development in information retrieval (pp 575-584) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Harvey M & Pointon M (2017) 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. ACM RIS download Bibtex download
  • Schäfer H, Elahi M, Elsweiler D, Groh G, Harvey M, Ludwig B, Ricci F & Said A (2017) User nutrition modelling and recommendation: Balancing simplicity and complexity. Adjunct publication of the 25th conference on user modeling, adaptation and personalization (pp 93-96) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dodd L, Chowdhury G, Harvey M & Walton G (2017) Information Seeking Behaviour of Aspiring Undergraduates on Social Media: Who Are They Interacting with?. International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (pp 245-255). Springer, Cham RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brazier D & Harvey M (2017) Strangers in a Strange Land: A Study of Second Language Speakers Searching for e-Services. ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval (CHIIR) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brazier D & Harvey M (2017) E-government and the digital divide: A study of English-as-a-Second-Language Users’ Information Behaviour. European Conference on Information Retrieval. Springer International Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Harvey M & Pointon M (2017) Perceptions of the effect of fragmented attention on mobile web search tasks. ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval (CHIIR) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Giachanou A, Harvey M & Crestani F (2016) Topic-specific stylistic variations for opinion retrieval on twitter. European Conference on Information Retrieval (pp 466-478). Springer, Cham RIS download Bibtex download
  • Harvey M, Hauff C & Elsweiler D (2015) Learning by Example: training users with high-quality query suggestions. Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (pp 133-142). New York, NY, United States, 9 August 2015 - 13 August 2015. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Harvey M & Elsweiler D (2015) Automated Recommendation of Healthy, Personalised Meal Plans. 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Elsweiler D & Harvey M (2015) Towards Automatic Meal Plan Recommendations for Balanced Nutrition. 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Elsweiler D, Harvey M, Ludwig B & Said A (2015) Bringing the" healthy" into Food Recommenders.. DMRS (pp 33-36) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Harvey M & Crestani F (2015) Long time, no tweet! Time-aware personalised hashtag suggestion. Advances in Information Retrieval, 37th European Conference on IR Research (ECIR) (pp 581-592). Springer RIS download Bibtex download
  • Harvey M, Wilson M & Church K (2014) Workshop on searching for fun 2014. Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium (pp 6-6) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Schaller R, Harvey M & Elsweiler D (2014) Relating user interaction to experience during festivals. Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium (pp 38-47) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Schaller R, Harvey M & Elsweiler D (2014) Detecting event visits in urban areas via smartphone gps data. European Conference on Information Retrieval (pp 681-686). Springer, Cham RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rikitianskii A, Harvey M & Crestani F (2014) A personalised recommendation system for context-aware suggestions. European Conference on Information Retrieval (pp 63-74). Springer, Cham RIS download Bibtex download
  • Inches G, Harvey M & Crestani F (2013) Finding Participants in a Chat: Authorship Attribution for Conversational Documents. 2013 International Conference on Social Computing, 8 September 2013 - 14 September 2013. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Harvey M, Crestani F & Carman MJ (2013) Building user profiles from topic models for personalised search. Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Information & Knowledge Management (pp 2309-2314) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rikitianskii A, Harvey M & Crestani F (2013) University of Lugano at the TREC 2013 Contextual Suggestion Track.. TREC RIS download Bibtex download
  • Harvey M, Ludwig B & Elsweiler D (2013) You are what you eat: Learning user tastes for rating prediction. International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (pp 153-164). Springer, Cham RIS download Bibtex download
  • Inches G, Harvey M, Crestani F, Rangel F, Rosso P, Koppel M, Stamatatos E, Inches G, Inches G, Crestani F & others (2013) Finding Participants in a Chat: Authorship Attribution for Conversational Documents. ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing$$$$ (pp 649-652) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Schaller R, Harvey M & Elsweiler D (2013) RecSys for distributed events: investigating the influence of recommendations on visitor plans. Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (pp 953-956) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Connor R, Moss R & Harvey M (2013) A new probabilistic ranking model. Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (pp 109-112) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Elsweiler D, Wilson ML & Harvey M (2012) Preface. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 836 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Schaller R, Harvey M & Elsweiler D (2012) Improving search experience on distributed leisure events. EuroHCIR RIS download Bibtex download
  • Müller M, Harvey M, Elsweiler D & Mika S (2012) Ingredient matching to determine the nutritional properties of internet-sourced recipes. 2012 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops (pp 73-80). IEEE RIS download Bibtex download
  • Müller M, Mika S, Harvey M & Elsweiler D (2012) Estimating nutrition values for internet recipes. 2012 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth) and Workshops (pp 191-192). IEEE RIS download Bibtex download
  • Schaller R, Harvey M & Elsweiler D (2012) Entertainment on the go: finding things to do and see while visiting distributed events. Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium (pp 90-99) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Schaller R, Harvey M & Elsweiler D (2012) Out and about on museums night: Investigating mobile search behaviour for leisure events. Searching4Fun WS at ECIR RIS download Bibtex download
  • Harvey M & Elsweiler D (2012) Exploring query patterns in email search. European Conference on Information Retrieval (pp 25-36). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg RIS download Bibtex download
  • Harvey M, Carman M & Elsweiler D (2012) Comparing tweets and tags for URLs. European Conference on Information Retrieval (pp 73-84). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg RIS download Bibtex download
  • Elsweiler D, Harvey M & Hacker M (2011) 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) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Harvey M, Carman MJ, Ruthven I & Crestani F (2011) Bayesian latent variable models for collaborative item rating prediction. Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management (pp 699-708) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Harvey M, Ruthven I & Carman MJ (2011) 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) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Harvey M, Ruthven I & Carman M (2010) Ranking social bookmarks using topic models. Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management (pp 1401-1404) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Harvey M, Baillie M, Ruthven I & Carman MJ (2010) Tripartite hidden topic models for personalised tag suggestion. European Conference on Information Retrieval (pp 432-443). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg RIS download Bibtex download
  • Carman MJ, Crestani F, Harvey M & Baillie M (2010) Towards query log based personalization using topic models. Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management (pp 1849-1852) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hoeber O, Harvey M, Momeni M, Pirmoradi A & Gleeson D () Exploratory Search in Digital Humanities: A Study of Visual Keyword/Result Linking. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology RIS download Bibtex download
  • Harvey M, Fallatah K & Rutter S () Health information post-encountering behaviours on social media platforms. Proceedings of the 2024 Information Seeking in Context Conference (ISIC) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Zhao M, Harvey M, Cameron D & Hopfgartner F () The Effect of Simulated Contextual Factors on Recipe Rating and Nutritional Intake Behaviour. Proceedings of the 2024 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR '24), 10 March 2024 - 10 March 2024. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Harvey M, Alluqmani A & Zhang Z () The Barriers to Online Clothing Websites for Visually Impaired People: An Interview and Observation Approach to Understanding Needs. Proceedings of Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) RIS download Bibtex download

Theses / Dissertations

  • Harvey MA (2011) Bayesian Latent Variable Models for the Collaborative Web. RIS download Bibtex download

Preprints

Research group

I am a member of the iSchool’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

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 Information 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

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

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