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) Resilience and Effective Learning in First-Year Undergraduate Computer Science. Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education 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
  • 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
  • Prickett T, Harvey M, Walters J, Yang L & Crick T () Effective Learning and Resilience in First Year Undergraduate Computer Science. Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, 15 June 2020 - 19 June 2020. View this article in WRRO 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).

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