Events & Presentations

Forthcoming

1. A Taxononomy of Site Search. Hilton London Olympia, 31 May 2012. Presenting a paper at Enterprise Search Europe 2012.

Recent

1. Designing the Search Experience, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, 1st April 2012. Presented a half day tutorial at ECIR 2012.
2. The Information Needs of Mobile Searchers: A Framework. Barcelona, 1st April 2012. Paper presented at the Searching for Fun workshop at ECIR 2012,
3. Search Solutions 2011, BCS London, 16 November 2011. Co-organiser of the 5th Search Solutions conference, featuring presentations, panels and keynote talks by influential industry leaders on novel and emerging applications in search and information retrieval.
4. CIKM 2011 Industry Event, Crowne Plaza, Glasgow, Scotland, 27th October 2011. Daniel Tunkelang and I co-chaired this event which brings together leading researchers and developers from the database, information retrieval, and knowledge management communities.
5. Enterprise Search Europe, London, UK, 24-25th October 2011. Programme committee member for this event, chaired by Martin White.
6. Applying Text Analytics to Medical Informatics and more, Fizzback Ltd, London, 5th August 2011. Organiser of the 4th London Text Analytics MeetUp, featuring talks from Phil Gooch and Danica Damljanovic.
7. A Taxonomy of Enterprise Search. Paper presented at EuroHCIR (see below), Newcastle, UK, 4th July 2011.
8. EuroHCIR 2011 The 1st European Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, Newcastle, UK, 4th July 2011. Co-chairing this event with Max Wilson, Birger Larsen and James Kalbach.
9. Designing the Search Experience, IRF Symposium, Vienna, Austria, 7th June 2011. Presenting the Keynote talk in the User Interfaces Session.
10. From Search to Discovery: a taxonomy of search tasks, modes and activities, Open University, 1st June 2011. Presenting a short talk to the Knowledge Media Institute (starts at 11:30).
11. Designing Effective Search and Discovery Experiences, Guinness Storehouse Conference Centre, Dublin, Ireland, 18th April 2011. Presenting a half day tutorial at ECIR 2011.
12. ECIR 2011 Industry Day, Radission Blu Royal Hotel, Dublin, Ireland, 21st April 2011. Co-chairing (with Udo Kruschwitz) a topical selection of talks, panels and case studies from the world of search and information retrieval.
13. From Search to Discovery: Towards a taxonomy of human-information seeking behaviour, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK, 11th April 2011. Presenting a short talk to the Cambridge Usability Group (starts at 18:30).
14. Applying Text Analytics to Product Innovation and Legal Cases, Fizzback Ltd, London, 4th March 2011. Organiser of the 3rd London Text Analytics MeetUp, featuring talks from Adam Wyner and Adi Andrei.
15. Designing the Search Experience, Lighthouse 1, Brighton, Tuesday 8th February 2011. Presenter of a short talk as part of the UX Brighton 2011 programme (starts at 7pm).
16. Search Solutions 2010. BCS London HQ, Covent Garden, Thursday 21st October 2010. Introducing and chairing the BCS annual conference focused on the latest innovations in web & enterprise search.
17. Inaugural Meeting of the London Text Analytics Group, Fizzback Ltd, London, 18th August 2010. Featuring a talk from Udo Kruschwitz and drinks afterwards.
18. ECIR 2010 Industry Day, Open University, Milton Keynes, 1st April 2010. Udo Kruschwitz and I are co-chairing a  topical selection of presentations, panels and case studies from the leading figures in search and information discovery, with the emphasis on practical problems and real-world solutions.
19. Designing Effective Search User Experiences, Open University, Milton Keynes, 28th March 2010. Presenting a half day tutorial at ECIR 2010.
20. Enterprise Search London March Meetup, Skinkers, London, 3rd March 2010. Giving a presentation on design patterns for search& information discovery.
21. Search Solutions 2009. BCS London HQ, Covent Garden, 1st October 2009. Introducing and chairing the BCS annual conference focused on the latest innovations in web & enterprise search.
22. Designing Effective Search and Discovery User Experiences, Cambridge University, 4th September 2009. Presenting a half day tutorial at HCI 2009.
23. UI Design Patterns for Search & Information Discovery, BCS Covent Garden, 1-2 July 2009. Presenting a paper at Create 2009.

Designing Effective Search and Discovery Experiences