Education:
BSc (hons) Computing Science, University of Glasgow
MSc Cognitive Science, University of Birmingham
PhD, University of Glasgow
Qualifications:
BSc, MSc, PhD
Classes:
CS.104 - Information & Information Systems
52.475 - Multimedia Information Access
CS.926 - Information Retrieval
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
Postgraduate monitor (research)
Faculty academic appeals committee
Faculty IT committee
Faculty research committee
Faculty postgraduate studies 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
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
