Ruthven, Ian Prof

Education:
BSc (hons) Computing Science, University of Glasgow
MSc Cognitive Science, University of Birmingham
PhD, University of Glasgow

Qualifications:
BSc, MSc, PhD

Classes:
CS.954 - Information Retrieval Access

Research Interests:
Interactive Information Retrieval; formal methods for information-seeking; interfaces to information retrieval systems; interfaces to digital libraries; document summarisation; affective computing; information-seeking behaviours

Research Affiliations:
iLab

Duties:
Department research committee

Current projects:
PuppyIR: constructing open-source IR systems for children. EU FP7.
Decision-making on the web: what do searchers look at any why? AHRC
What we cannot ask: how information poverty manifests on the Internet

Past projects:
Task-centred evaluation methodologies for interactive information retrieval
Contextual models of trust
Personalisation of web searches through ostension and summarisation
Retrieval through explanation