CHIIR 2019 Student Review

Despite a snowy start to the day, attendees were not deterred from arriving in Glasgow, to break records for the highest number of registrations at the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR), totalling 165 people. As a fairly new PhD student native to Glasgow, I was eagerly excited to attend my… Continue reading CHIIR 2019 Student Review

Search Solutions 2018 Review

Search Solutions is an important event in the world of search & information retrieval that is held in London every November.  Search Solutions is comprised of sessions, keynote talks, panels, tutorials and unconference sessions like Fishbowl from top-notch researchers and influencers in search and information retrieval. Search Solutions was held at the BCS just off… Continue reading Search Solutions 2018 Review

Designing search: models and metaphors

It’s often said that search is a conversation: a dialog between two participants that can be every bit as rich as human conversation. On one side is the user, with an information need articulated in the form of a query, and on the other side is the system, with its response in the form of… Continue reading Designing search: models and metaphors

My first attendance at Search Solutions

As a PhD student just reaching the end of my first year at the Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) at the University of Surrey, I was delighted to receive a postgraduate bursary from the British Computer Society IRSG to support my attendance at Search Solutions 2015. Search Solutions was an ideal opportunity… Continue reading My first attendance at Search Solutions