Dr Morgan Harvey (he/him)

BSc (Strathclyde), PhD (Strathclyde)

School of Information, Journalism and Communication

Senior Lecturer in Data Science

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m.harvey@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 6337
Room C229, The Wave

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Dr Morgan Harvey
School of Information, Journalism and Communication
Room C229
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
Profile

I am a Senior Lecturer in data science and information retrieval. 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 瞿250,0000 in research funding to support my research, including 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

  • Clough P, Harvey M & Hopfgartner F (2024) . Chiir 2024 Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, III-IV.
  • Zhao M, Harvey M, Cameron D, Hopfgartner F & Gillet VJ (2023) An Analysis of Classification Approaches for Hit Song Prediction using Engineered Metadata Features with Lyrics and Audio Features.. CoRR, abs/2301.13507.
  • Harvey M, Hastings D & Chowdhury G (2023) . Journal of Information Science, 49(5), 1153-1167.
  • Innocenti P, Hyatt E & Harvey M (2022) . Library and Information Science Research, 44(4).
  • Harvey M & Brazier D (2022) . Information Processing and Management, 59(4).
  • Hoeber O, Harvey M, Sagar SAD & Pointon M (2022) . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 73(6), 777-796.
  • Losada DE, Elsweiler D, Harvey M & Trattner C (2022) . Applied Intelligence, 52(5), 5617-5632.
  • Hyatt E, Harvey M, Pointon M & Innocenti P (2021) . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 72(6), 683-698.
  • Harvey M & Pointon M (2019) . Information Processing and Management, 56(6).
  • Jones MJ & Harvey M (2019) . Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 51(1), 3-19.
  • Harvey M, Langheinrich M & Ward G (2016) . Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 27, 14-26.
  • Detweiler CA & Hindriks KV (2016) A survey of values, technologies and contexts in pervasive healthcare. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 27, 1-13.
  • Harvey M, Langheinrich M & Ward G (2016) Remembering through lifelogging: A survey of human memory augmentation. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 27, 14-26.
  • Elsweiler D & Harvey M (2015) . Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 66(2), 264-281.
  • Harvey M (2014) Searching for puns: Towards identification of humour on twitter.
  • Harvey M, Ludwig B & Elsweiler D (2012) Learning user tastes: A first step to generating healthy meal plans?. Ceur Workshop Proceedings, 891, 18-23.
  • Elsweiler D, Harvey M & Ludwig B (2012) . Information - Wissenschaft & Praxis, 63(5).
  • Elsweiler D, Wilson ML & Harvey M (2012) Searching for Fun: Casual-leisure Search.
  • Harvey M, Baillie M, Ruthven I & Elsweiler D (2009) Folksonomic tag clouds as an aid to content indexing.

Book chapters

  • Zhao M, Harvey M, Cameron D, Hopfgartner F & Gillet VJ (2023) In Sserwanga I, Goulding A, Moulaison-Sandy H, Du JT, Soares AL, Hessami V & Frank RD (Ed.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 303-311). Springer Nature Switzerland
  • Harvey M & Crestani F (2014) , Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 70-95). Springer International Publishing
  • Reis S & Church K (2013) Insights into co-located shared mobile search, CHI13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1401-1406).

Conference proceedings

  • Pirmoradi A, Hoeber O, Harvey M, Momeni M & Gleeson D (2025) Integrating eye tracking, feature use, and emotional valence: a multimodal approach to evaluating search interfaces. CHIIR '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp 23-41). Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 24 March 2025 - 24 March 2025.
  • Hoeber O, Harvey M, Momeni M, Pirmoradi A & Gleeson D (2024) . Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 61(1) (pp 161-171). Calgary, AB, Canada, 25 October 2024 - 25 October 2024.
  • Fallatah K, Harvey M & Rutter S (2024) . Information Research, Special Issue: Proceedings of the 15th ISIC - The Information Behaviour Conference, Vol. 29(2) (pp 253-274). Aalborg, Denmark, 26 August 2024 - 26 August 2024.
  • Zhao M, Harvey M, Cameron D & Hopfgartner F (2024) . CHIIR '24: Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, Vol. 2024 (pp 97-107). Sheffield, United Kingdom, 10 March 2024 - 10 March 2024.
  • Alluqmani A, Harvey M & Zhang Z (2023) . DIS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp 753-764). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 10 July 2023 - 10 July 2023.
  • Lu M, Harvey M & Hoeber O (2022) . Information Research, Vol. 27(Special issue) (pp isic2202). Berlin, Germany, 26 September 2022 - 26 September 2022.
  • Hopfgartner F, Harvey M, Rutter S, Mazumdar S, Cameron D, Checco A, Bentley C, Zhang Z & Clough P (2021) . Information Science Trends 2021: Information Science Research During COVID-19 and Post-Pandemic Opportunities. Virtual conference, 9 June 2021 - 9 June 2021.
  • Prickett T, Walters J, Yang L, Harvey M & Crick T (2020) . 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.
  • Barko-Sherif S, Elsweiler D & Harvey M (2020) . Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp 73-82). Vancouver, BC, Canada, 14 March 2020 - 14 March 2020.
  • Aliannejadi M, Harvey M, Costa L, Pointon M & Crestani F (2019) . Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp 143-151)
  • 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 - 9 October 2018.
  • Brazier D & Harvey M (2018) (pp 237-248)
  • Harvey M & Pointon M (2018) . Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Human Information Interaction&Retrieval - CHIIR '18 (pp 241-244), 11 March 2018 - 15 March 2018.
  • Dodd L, Chowdhury G, Harvey M & Walton G (2017) (pp 245-255)
  • Elsweiler D, Trattner C & Harvey M (2017) . SIGIR '17: Proceedings of the 40th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (pp 575-584). Tokyo, Japan, August 2017 - August 2017.
  • Harvey M & Pointon M (2017) . Proceedings of the 40th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval (pp 155-164). Tokyo, Japan, 7 August 2017 - 7 August 2017.
  • Sch瓣fer H, Elahi M, Elsweiler D, Groh G, Harvey M, Ludwig B, Ricci F & Said A (2017) . Adjunct Publication of the 25th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (pp 93-96)
  • Brazier D & Harvey M (2017) (pp 266-277)
  • Brazier D & Harvey M (2017) . Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp 281-284)
  • Harvey M & Pointon M (2017) . Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp 293-296)
  • Brazier D (2017) . Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp 417-419)
  • Giachanou A, Harvey M & Crestani F (2016) (pp 466-478)
  • Harvey M & Elsweiler D (2015) . Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (pp 327-328)
  • Elsweiler D & Harvey M (2015) . Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (pp 313-316)
  • Harvey M, Hauff C & Elsweiler D (2015) . SIGIR '15: Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (pp 133-142). Santiago, Chile, 9 August 2015 - 9 August 2015.
  • Elsweiler D, Harvey M, Ludwig B & Said A (2015) Bringing the "healthy" into food recommenders. Ceur Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1533 (pp 33-36)
  • Harvey M & Crestani F (2015) (pp 581-592)
  • Harvey M, Wilson M & Church K (2014) . Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium (pp 6-6)
  • Schaller R, Harvey M & Elsweiler D (2014) . Proceedings of the 5th Information Interaction in Context Symposium (pp 38-47)
  • Schaller R, Harvey M & Elsweiler D (2014) (pp 681-686)
  • Rikitianskii A, Harvey M & Crestani F (2014) (pp 63-74)
  • Inches G, Harvey M & Crestani F (2013) . 2013 International Conference on Social Computing (pp 272-279), 8 September 2013 - 14 September 2013.
  • Harvey M, Crestani F & Carman MJ (2013) . Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Information & Knowledge Management (pp 2309-2314)
  • Connor R, Moss R & Harvey M (2013) . Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (pp 109-112)
  • Schaller R, Harvey M & Elsweiler D (2013) . Proceedings of the 36th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (pp 953-956)
  • Rikitianskii A, Harvey M & Crestani F (2013) University of Lugano at the TREC 2013 Contextual Suggestion Track. 22nd Text Retrieval Conference Trec 2013 Proceedings
  • Harvey M, Ludwig B & Elsweiler D (2013) (pp 153-164)
  • 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)
  • Schaller R, Harvey M & Elsweiler D (2012) Improving search experience on distributed leisure events. Ceur Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 909 (pp 21-24)
  • Schaller R, Harvey M & Elsweiler D (2012) Out and about on museums night: Investigating mobile search behaviour for leisure events. Ceur Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 836 (pp 5-8)
  • Elsweiler D, Wilson ML & Harvey M (2012) Preface. Ceur Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 836
  • Schaller R, Harvey M & Elsweiler D (2012) . Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium (pp 90-99)
  • Mueller M, Harvey M, Elsweiler D & Mika S (2012) . Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 21 May 2012 - 24 May 2012.
  • Mueller M, Mika S, Harvey M & Elsweiler D (2012) . Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 21 May 2012 - 24 May 2012.
  • Harvey M & Elsweiler D (2012) (pp 25-36)
  • Harvey M, Carman M & Elsweiler D (2012) (pp 73-84)
  • Harvey M, Carman MJ, Ruthven I & Crestani F (2011) . Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management (pp 699-708)
  • Elsweiler D, Harvey M & Hacker M (2011) . Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval (pp 35-44)
  • Harvey M, Ruthven I & Carman MJ (2011) . Proceedings of the fourth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining (pp 485-494)
  • Harvey M, Ruthven I & Carman M (2010) . Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management (pp 1401-1404)
  • Carman MJ, Crestani F, Harvey M & Baillie M (2010) . Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management (pp 1849-1852)
  • Harvey M, Baillie M, Ruthven I & Carman MJ (2010) (pp 432-443)

Theses

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

Preprints

  • Zhao M, Harvey M, Cameron D, Hopfgartner F & Gillet VJ (2023) , arXiv.
Research group

I am a member of the Schools  .

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 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