Publications (DBLP | Google Scholar)

Peer-reviewed papers and articles


2018

Harvey, M., Pointon, M.
poster Noisy Signals: Understanding the Impact of Auditory Distraction on Web Search Tasks
Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR), New Brunswick, NJ. (March 2018, acceptance rate: 40%)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Brazier, D., Harvey, M.
full paper A Comparative Study of Native and Non-Native Information Seeking Behaviours
In Proceedings Advances in Information Retrieval, 40th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2018. Grenoble, France. (March 2018, acceptance rate: 23%)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

2017

Dodd, L., Chowdhury, G., Harvey, M., Walton, G.
full paper Information Seeking Behaviour of Aspiring Undergraduates on Social Media: Who Are They Interacting with?
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL). Bangkok, Thailand. (November, 2017)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Schaefer, H., Elahi, M., Elsweiler, D., Groh, G., Harvey, M., Ludwig, B., Ricci, F., Said, A.
short paper User Nutrition Modelling and Recommendation - Balancing Simplicity and Complexity
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on User Modeling Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP). Bratislava, Slovakia. (July, 2017)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Harvey, M., Pointon, M.
full paper Searching on the Go: The Effects of Fragmented Attention on Mobile Web Search Tasks
Proceedings of the 40th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference. Tokyo, Japan. (August 2017, acceptance rate: 22%)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Elsweiler, D., Trattner, C., Harvey, M.
full paper Exploiting Food Choice Biases for Healthier Recipe Recommendation
Proceedings of the 40th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference. Tokyo, Japan. (August 2017, acceptance rate: 22%)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Brazier, D., Harvey, M.
full paper E-government and the digital divide: A study of English-as-a-Second-Language Users' Information Behaviour
In Proceedings Advances in Information Retrieval, 39th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2017. Aberdeen, UK. (April 2017, acceptance rate: 27%)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Brazier, D., Harvey, M.
poster Strangers in a Strange Land: A Study of Second Language Speakers Searching for e-Services
Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR), Oslo, Norway. (March 2017, acceptance rate: 65%)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Harvey, M., Pointon, M.
poster Perceptions of the effect of fragmented attention on mobile web search tasks
Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR), Oslo, Norway. (March 2017, acceptance rate: 65%)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

2016

Jones, M.J., Harvey, M.
journal article Library 2.0: The effectiveness of social media as a marketing tool for libraries in educational institutions
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science (JOLIS), Sage
Paper (PDF) | Journal web site

Giachanou, A., Harvey, M., Crestani, F.
full paper Topic-Specific Stylistic Variations for Opinion Retrieval on Twitter
In Proceedings Advances in Information Retrieval, 38th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2016. Padua, Italy. (March 2016, acceptance rate: 21%)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Harvey, M., Langheinrich, M., Ward, G.
journal article Remembering through lifelogging: a survey of human memory augmentation
Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Elsevier
Paper (PDF) | Journal web site

2015

Elsweiler, D., Harvey, M., Ludwig, B., Said, A.
workshop Bringing the "healthy" into Food Recommenders
International Workshop on Decision Making and Recommender Systems (DMRS) 2015, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (October 2015)
Paper (PDF) | Workshop web site

Elsweiler, D., Harvey, M.
poster Towards Automatic Meal Plan Recommendations for Balanced Nutrition
9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys), Vienna, Austria. (September 2015, acceptance rate: 26.2%)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Harvey, M., Elsweiler, D.
demo Automated Recommendation of Healthy, Personalised Meal Plans
Demo at 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys), Vienna, Austria. (September 2015)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Harvey, M., Hauff, C., Elsweiler, D.
full paper Learning by Example: training users through high-quality query suggestions
Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference. Santiago, Chile. (August 2015, acceptance rate: 20%)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Harvey, M., Crestani, F.
full paper Long time, no tweet! Time-aware personalised hashtag suggestion
In Proceedings Advances in Information Retrieval, 37th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2015. Vienna, Austria. (March/April 2015, acceptance rate: 23%)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

2014

Harvey, M.
workshop Searching for Puns: Towards Identification of Humour on Twitter
In Proceedings Searching4Fun Workshop (S4F 2014), IIiX 2014 Regensburg, Germany. (August 2014)
Paper (PDF) | Workshop web site

Schaller, R., Harvey, M., Elsweiler, D.
full paper Relating user interaction to experience during festivals
In Proceedings Fifth Information Interaction in Context Symposium (IIiX 2014), Regensburg, Germany. (August 2014, acceptance rate: 46%)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Harvey, M., Crestani, F.
book chapter 21st Century Search and Recommendation: Exploiting Personalisation and Social Media
Professional Search in the Modern World, State-of-the-Art series in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
Paper (PDF)

Rikityanskiy, A.,Harvey, M., Crestani, F.
full paper A Personalised Recommendation System for Context-Aware Suggestions
In Proceedings Advances in Information Retrieval, 36th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2014. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (April 2014, acceptance rate: 23%)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Schaller, R., Harvey, M., Elsweiler, D.
poster Detecting event visits in urban areas via smartphone GPS data
In Proceedings Advances in Information Retrieval, 36th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2014. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (April 2014)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Elsweiler, D., Harvey, M.
journal article Engaging and Maintaining a Sense of Being Informed: Understanding the Tasks Motivating Twitter Search
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST)
Paper (PDF) | Journal web site

2013

Rikitianskii, A., Harvey, M., Crestani, F.
unrefereed The University of Lugano and the 2013 TREC Contextual Suggestion Track
Text Retrieval Conference, TREC 2013. (November 2013)

Harvey, M., Crestani, F., Carman, M.
full paper Building User Profiles from Topic Models for Personalised Search
ACM 22nd Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2013. San Francisco (Burlingame), CA, USA. (October 2013, acceptance rate: 12.5%)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Inches, G., Harvey, M., Crestani, F.
full paper Finding Participants in a Chat: Authorship Attribution for Conversational Documents
2013 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom (September 2013)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Harvey, M., Elsweiler, D., Ludwig, B.
full paper You are what you eat: learning user tastes for rating prediction
20th String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium (SPIRE). Jerusalem, Israel. (October 2013, acceptance rate: 37%)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Moss, R., Connor, R., Harvey, M.
short paper A New Probabilistic Model for IR / A New Probabilistic Ranking Model
Proceedings of the 4th Conference on on Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR). Copenhagen, Denmark. (September 2013, acceptance rate: 22%)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Schaller, R., Harvey, M., Elsweiler, D.
poster RecSys for Distributed Events: Investigating the influence of recommendations on visitor plans
Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference. Dublin, Ireland. (July 2013, acceptance rate: 35%)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

2012

Harvey, M., Elsweiler, D., Ludwig, B.
journal article Kochen im Kontext - Am Alltag orientierte Empfehlung von Gerichten
In Press Information. Wissenschaft & Praxis 2012; 63(5) (2012)

Harvey, M., Ludwig, B., Elsweiler, D.
workshop Learning user tastes: a first step to generating healthy meal plans?
ACM RecSys 2012 Workshop on Recommender Technologies for Lifestyle Change, Dublin, Ireland. (September 2012)
Paper (PDF) | Workshop web site | Conference web site

Schaller, R., Harvey, M., Elsweiler, D.
full paper Entertainment on the Go: Finding Things to Do and See while Visiting Distributed Events
In Proceedings Fourth Information Interaction in Context Symposium (IIiX 2012), Nijmegen, the Netherlands. (August 2012, acceptance rate: 63%)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Schaller, R., Harvey, M., Elsweiler, D.
workshop Improving search experience on distributed leisure events
EuroHCIR at IIiX 2012, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. (August 2012)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Müller, M., Harvey, M., Elsweiler, D., Mika, S.
full paper Ingredient Matching to Determine the Nutritional Properties of Internet-Sourced Recipes
In Proceedings Pervasive Health 2012, San Diego, California. (May 2012, acceptance rate: 34%)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Müller, M., Mika, S., Harvey, M., Elsweiler, D.
demo Estimating Nutrition Values for Internet Recipes
Demo at Pervasive Health 2012, San Diego, California. (May 2012)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Elsweiler, D., Wilson, M. L., Harvey, M.
proceedings Searching For Fun: Casual-leisure Search. In: European Conference on Information Retrieval (Workshop Proposal) (in press) (2012).

Harvey, M., Carman, M., Elsweiler, D.
full paper Comparing Tweets and Tags for URLs
In Proceedings Advances in Information Retrieval, 34th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2012. Barcelona, Spain. (April 2012, acceptance rate: 21%)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Harvey, M., Elsweiler, D.
full paper Exploring Query Patterns in Email Search
In Proceedings Advances in Information Retrieval, 34th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2012. Barcelona, Spain. (April 2012, acceptance rate: 21%)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Schaller, R., Harvey, M., Elsweiler, D.
workshop Out and About on Museums Night: Investigating Mobile Search Behaviour for Leisure Events
In Proceedings Searching4Fun Workshop (S4F 2012), ECIR 2012 Barcelona, Spain. (April 2012)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

2011

Harvey, M.
thesis Bayesian Latent Variable Models for the Collaborative Web
PhD Thesis, Strathcyde University. Glasgow, Scotland. (May 2011)
Thesis (PDF)

Harvey, M., Carman, M., Ruthven, I., Crestani, F.
full paper Bayesian Latent Variable Models for Collaborative Item Rating Prediction
ACM 20th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2011. Glasgow, Scotland. (October 2011, acceptance rate: 15%)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Elsweiler, D., Harvey, M., Hacker, M.
full paper Understanding Re-finding Behaviour in Naturalistic Email Interaction Logs
Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference. Beijing, China. (July 2011, acceptance rate: 19.8%) **honourable mention**
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Harvey, M., Carman, M., Ruthven, I.
full paper Improving Social Bookmark Search Using Personalised Latent Variable Language Models
Proceedings of the Fourth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM2011. Hong Kong, China. (February 2011, acceptance rate: 22%)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

2010

Harvey, M., Carman, M., Ruthven, I.
short paper Ranking Social Bookmarks Using Topic Models
ACM 19th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2010. Toronto, Canada. (October 2010, acceptance rate: 17.9%)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Carman, M., Harvey, M., Crestani, F., Baillie, M.
short paper Query Log based Personalization using Topic Models
ACM 19th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2010. Toronto, Canada. (October 2010, acceptance rate: 17.9%)
Paper (PDF) | Conference web site

Harvey, M., Baillie, M., Ruthven, I., Carman, M.
full paper Tripartite Hidden Topic Models for Personalised Tag Suggestion
In Proceedings Advances in Information Retrieval, 32nd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2010. Milton Keynes, UK. (March 2010, acceptance rate: 22%)
Paper (PDF) | Poster (PDF) | Conference web site

2009

Harvey, M., Baillie, M., Ruthven, I., Elsweiler, D.
workshop Folksonomic Tag Clouds as an Aid to Content Indexing.
In Proceedings 2nd Annual Workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM 2009), SIGIR 2009, Boston, Massachussetts. (July 2009)
Paper (PDF) | Slides (PDF) | Conference web site


Talks and seminars/other

Harvey, M. Are you what you eat?: Learning user tastes and recipe nutrition for rating prediction in context
Seminar, Faculty of Informatics, University of Lugano. Friday, 23rd November 2012. (2012)
Slides (PDF)

Harvey, M. Bayesian Latent Variable Models for Collaborative Item Rating Prediction
Seminar, Department of Computing, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. Monday, 10th January 2011. (2011)
Slides (PDF)

Harvey, M. Personalisation in Social Tagging Systems via Hidden Topic Models
Seminar, Department of Computer Science, Glasgow Univeristy. Monday, 21st June 2010. (2010)
Slides (PDF)

Harvey, M. Personalisation in Social Tagging Systems via Hidden Topic Models
Seminar, CERLIM, Manchester Metropolitan University. Thursday, 22nd April 2010. (2010)
Slides (PDF)

Harvey, M. Tri-partite Topic Models for Personalised Searching and Browsing
Presentation CIS Dept. Researcher's Digest. Monday, 10th August 2009. (2009)
Slides (PDF)

Harvey, M. Folksonomy: Social classification
Presentation CIS Dept. Researcher's Digest. Monday, 10th November 2008. (2008)
Slides (PDF)

Harvey, M. SALUT - Strathclyde ALUmni Tracker.
Final project BSc (Hons.) degree in Computer Science, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, United Kingdom. (2007)
Paper (PDF)


Professional service


  • Session chair (Long Presentations - Session 2) at ECIR 2017, Aberdeen, UK.
  • Senior PC member of ECIR 2017, Aberdeen, UK.
  • Session chair (machine learning II) at ECIR 2016, Padua, Italy.
  • Lead organiser of Searching for Fun workshop 2014 at IIiX in Regensburg
  • Proceedings and submissions chair for IIiX 2014 conference in Regensburg
  • Co-organiser of Searching for Fun workshop 2012 at ECIR in Barcelona

    • I have reviewed for the following conferences, journals and workshops.
    • SIGIR 2017, Tokyo, Japan
    • ECIR 2017, Aberdeen, UK (senior PC member)
    • CHIIR 2017, Oslo, Norway
    • Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
    • Journal of Librarianship and Information Sciences (JOLIS)
    • ECIR 2016, Padua, Italy
    • Pervasive and Mobile Computing (Elsevier Journal)
    • iConference 2016, Philadelphia, PA, USA
    • Information Processing and Management
    • ACM SIGIR CHIIR 2016, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
    • ACM SIGIR 2015, Santiago, Chile
    • ECIR 2015, Vienna, Austria
    • Searching for Fun, IIiX 2014, Regensburg, Germany
    • IIiX 2014, Regensburg, Germany
    • ACM SIGIR 2014, Gold Coast, Australia
    • ECIR 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • South African Computer Journal
    • WSDM 2014, New York City, NY, USA
    • LL2013 (Living Labs for Information Retrieval Evaluation) workshop at CIKM 2013, Burlingame, CA, USA
    • DIR 2013, Delft, The Netherlands
    • ECIR 2013, Moscow, Russian Federation
    • WSDM 2013, Rome, Italy
    • International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
    • EuroHCIR 2012, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    • IIiX 2012, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    • Recommender Technologies for Lifestyle Change 2012, RecSys 2012, Dublin, Ireland
    • Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
    • ACM SIGIR 2012, Portland, Oregon
    • Searching for Fun, ECIR 2012, Barcelona, Spain
    • ECIR 2012, Barcelona, Spain
    • ACM SIGIR 2011, Beijing, China
    • Information Retrieval Journal, Springer
    • International Conference on Semantic Technology and Information Retrieval STAIR11, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    • SICSA Conference 2010, Edinburgh, Scotland

    I attended the following conferences and workshops:
    • ECIR 2017, Aberdeen, UK
    • CHIIR 2017, Oslo, Norway
    • ECIR 2016, Padua, Italy
    • SIGIR 2015, Santiago, Chile
    • ECIR 2015, Vienna, Austria
    • Searching4Fun workshop 2014, Regensburg, Germany
    • IIiX 2014, Regensburg, Germany
    • ECIR 2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    • SPIRE 2013, Jerusalem, Israel
    • ICTIR 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark
    • EuroHCIR workshop 2013, Dublin, Ireland
    • SIGIR 2013, Dublin, Ireland
    • EuroHCIR workshop 2012, Nijmegen, Netherlands
    • IIiX 2012, Nijmegen, Netherlands
    • Searching4Fun workshop 2012, Barcelona, Spain
    • ECIR 2012, Barcelona, Spain
    • CIKM 2011, Glasgow, UK
    • WSDM 2011, Hong Kong, China
    • ECIR 2010, Milton Keynes, UK
    • SSM Workshop 2009, Boston, USA
    • SIGIR 2009, Boston, USA