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 £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.
  • Alluqmani A, Harvey M & Paramita M () Generating Clothing Graphic Captions for Visually Impaired Users. Multimedia Tools and Applications.

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, CHI’13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1401-1406).

Conference proceedings

  • Liu H, Capra R, Thomas P, Kamps J, Bogers T, Harvey MA, Jones R, Liu C, Kruschwitz U, Makri S , Sitbon L et al (2026) . Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp 1-2)
  • 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.
  • Schäfer 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 School’s  .

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