Dr. Max L. Wilson

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I am a Lecturer (equivalent to an Assistant Professor) in Human-Computer Interaction and Information Seeking, in the Future Interaction Technology Lab at Swansea University, UK, and Director of the MSc Specialism in Web Science. My research focuses on Search User Interface design, taking a multidisciplinary perspective from both Human-Computer Interaction (the presentation and interaction) and Information Science (the information and seeking behaviours). My doctoral work, which won best article in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology in 2009, focused on evaluating Search User Interfaces using models of Human Information Seeking behaviours. I received my PhD from the University of Southampton, under the supervision of m.c. schraefel and Dame Wendy Hall. Consequently, much of his past work has been grounded in supporting Exploratory Search with the mSpace platform, and within the developing context of Web Science.

I publish broadly in Human-Computer Interaction and Information Science communities, including a monograph with co-authors schraefel, Kules, and Shneiderman on future Search User Interfaces for the web, and a book chapter on Search User Interface Design in a forthcoming educational textbook. I also actively participate in both communities, running workshops and panels with community leaders. In conjunction with Endeca, I am bringing european industry and academia together at the forthcoming euroHCIR2011 workshop, and with future conference chairs as panelists, I am fundamentally challenging the Human-Computer Interaction community's perspective on the replicability of research at his RepliCHI panel. At Swansea, I teach research methods for Human-Computer Interaction, and Human Information Retrieval. I am also leadin th development of a Web Science MSc program at Swansea to stimulate cross disciplinary teaching and research.

• CS-M49: Lab and Field Work
• CS-M69: Information Retrieval
• CS-M80: Web Science Specialism
• CS-M90: HCI Specialism

• CS230/5: Software Engineering
• CSM00: Research Methods

• CS-M19: Interactive System Design
• CS-M39: Seminars and Readings
• CS-254: Software Engineering

• PhD Students: Mathew Wilson (unrelated), Jon Hurlock

• Masters Students: Michael Hurst, Steve Welti, and Simon Eddison
• MPhil students: Tim Crawford

- Synthesis Lecture: OUT NOW!. With a big thanks to those that helped, my new Book on Search User Interface Design is now available from Morgan & Claypool.

- EuroHCIR Workshops. Unable to get to the HCIR workshops in the USA? After the succesful first euroHCIR workshop in 2011, we'll be organising future events. EuroHCIR2012 will be co-located with IIiX2012 in the Netherlands in August.

- Searching4fun Workshop. Based upon our casual-leisure work, David Eslweiler, Morgan Harvey, and I will be running the Searching 4 Fun! workshop at ECIR in Barcelonai, April 2012.

- IIiX2012 and ICWSM-12. I've been invited to co-organise two events. I'll be Interfaces Area Chair for IIiX2012 in the Netherlands. I'm also publicity chair and social media chair for ICWSM-12 in Ireland.

- New Casual-leisure Search Model - in the news. Off the back of my qualitative social-media-ethnographic investigation into the kinds of searching experiences people report on Twitter, David Elsweiler and I have have formed a new model of casual-leisure search that is novel in the space of information science literature, and will be reported in a forth-coming bookchapter! The exciting news was covered in MIT's Technology Review.

- JASIST Best Journal Paper 2009. The article I co-authored with mc schraefel and Ryen White (Microsoft) during my PhD was recently announced as Best JASIST Paper 2009. I will be receiving the award, on behalf of the authors, at ASIS&T in Pittsburgh in October.

- Web Science + Search Monograph. The monograph on future web search user interfaces, co-authored with mc schreafel, Bill Kules, and Ben Shneiderman, is out now. See my publications for more.

- Web Science MSc Specialsm. We have created a new Web Science specialism in our Taught Masters in Advanced Computer Science. You can read more on the Web Science Specialism website. Students on this module are trainied to adopt a multi-disciplinary approach to studying the Web, its evolution, and its potential.