David Walsh

Information School

PhD researcher

Regent Court (IS)

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David Walsh
Information School
Regent Court (IS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP

Profile

I graduated with a BSc (Hons) Computing and Information Systems in 2003 from Lancaster University and went on to an MSc in Computing and Information systems at John Moores University graduating in 2006.

I have worked as a lecturer/senior lecturer at Edge Hill University since 2005. Before joining Edge Hill I worked as a SAP web portals consultant and before that as an Electrical engineer.

I continue to work as a senior lecturer/director of employability for the Computer Science department whilst undertaking my PhD part-time at Sheffield University.

PhD project

Title: "Supporting information access in digital cultural heritage."

In this PhD I hope to identify and understand the user groups of digital cultural heritage including their preferences for seeking information and establishing a generous interface that enables all user groups to effectively seek DCH information.

Supervisors

Research interests

information seeking
information retrieval
human computer interaction
user experience design

Publications

Journal articles

Walsh D, Hall M, Clough P & Foster JJ (2020) Characterising online museum users: a study of the National Museums Liverpool museum website. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 21(1), 75-87. View this article in WRRO
Gäde M, Hall M, Huurdeman H, Kamps J, Koolen M, Skov M, Toms E & Walsh D (2015) Report on the First Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks. ACM SIGIR Forum, 49(1), 50-56.
Alston P, Walsh D & Westhead G (2015) Uncovering “Threshold Concepts” in Web Development: An Instructor Perspective. ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 15(1).
Gäde M, Hall MM, Huurdeman H, Kamps J, Koolen M, Skove M, Toms E & Walsh D (2015) Report on the First Workshop on Supporting Complex Search Tasks. ACM SIGIR Forum, 49, 50-56.

Chapters

Bellot P, Bogers T, Geva S, Hall M, Huurdeman H, Kamps J, Kazai G, Koolen M, Moriceau V, Mothe J , Preminger M et al (2014) Overview of INEX 2014, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 212-228). Springer International Publishing

Conference proceedings papers

Walsh D, Clough P, Hall M, Hofgartner F & Foster J (2021) Clustering and classifying users from the National Museums Liverpool website. Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries: TPDL 2021, Vol. 12866 (pp 202-214). Virtual conference, 13 September 2021 - 17 September 2021. View this article in WRRO
Walsh D, Clough P, Hall M, Hopfgartner F, Foster J & Kontonatsios G (2019) Analysis of transaction logs from National Museums Liverpool. TPDL 2019 Proceedings : Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge (pp 84-98). Oslo, Norway, 9 September 2019 - 12 September 2019. View this article in WRRO
Speakman R, Hall MM & Walsh D (2018) User Engagement with Generous Interfaces for Digital Cultural Heritage (pp 186-191)
Walsh D, Hall M, Clough P & Foster J (2017) The Ghost in the Museum Website: Investigating the General Public’s Interactions with Museum Websites (pp 434-445) View this article in WRRO
Gäde M, Hall M, Huurdeman H, Kamps J, Koolen M, Skov M, Toms E & Walsh D (2016) Overview of the SBS 2016 Interactive Track. CEUR Workshop Proceedings (pp 1024-1038), 5 September 2016 - 8 September 2016.
Koolen M, Bogers T, Gäde M, Hall M, Hendrickx I, Huurdeman H, Kamps J, Skov M, Verberne S & Walsh D (2016) Overview of the CLEF 2016 Social Book Search Lab (pp 351-370)
Walsh D, Clough P & Foster J (2016) User categories for digital cultural heritage. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1611
Koolen M, Bogers T, Gäde M, Hall M, Huurdeman H, Kamps J, Skov M, Toms E & Walsh D (2015) Overview of the CLEF 2015 Social Book Search Lab (pp 545-564)
Walsh D & Hall MM (2015) Just Looking Around: Supporting Casual Users Initial Encounters with Digital Cultural Heritage. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1338
Gäde M, Hall M, Huurdeman H, Kamps J, Koolen M, Skov M, Toms E & Walsh D (2015) Overview of the SBS 2015 interactive track. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1391
Campbell D, Hall M & Walsh D (2015) Edge hill computing @ Interactive Social Book Search 2015. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1391
Gäde M, Hall M, Huurdeman H, Kamps J, Koolen M, Skov M, Toms E & Walsh D (2015) Supporting complex search tasks ECIR 2015 workshop. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 9022 (pp 841-844)
Hall M, Huurdemann H, Koolen M, Skov M & Walsh D (2014) Overview of the INEX 2014 Interactive Social Book Search Track. Working Notes for CLEF 2014 Conference (pp 480-493), 15 September 2014 - 18 September 2014.
Bellot X & Walsh D (2014) “Overview of inex 2014,” in Information access evaluation. multilinguality, multimodality, and interaction lecture notes in Computer Science.. clef 2014 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, Vol. 8685 (pp 212-228). Springer International Publishing
Walsh D & Hall M (2014) The edge hill contribution to the INEX Interactive Social Book Search task. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1180 (pp 549-556)