Rate My Professor Martin Halvey

Professor Martin Halvey serves as Head of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences within the Faculty of Science at the University of Strathclyde. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in 2003 and his Doctor of Philosophy in 2007 from University College Dublin, with his PhD thesis titled "Improving Navigation in the Mobile Web by Exploiting Temporal Regularities." His research focuses on information retrieval (IR), human-computer interaction (HCI), and multimodal interaction, particularly novel uses of multimodal technology to facilitate effective search and interaction with information. Halvey teaches modules on information retrieval, machine learning, big data, and business analysis to students across all faculties at the university.

With 79 research outputs in the University of Strathclyde Pure portal, including 28 conference papers and 22 journal articles, Halvey's key publications encompass "Supporting exploratory video retrieval tasks with grouping and recommendation" (Information Processing and Management, 2014), "Many fingers make light work: non-visual capacitive surface exploration" (16th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2014), "What's around the corner? Enhancing driver awareness in autonomous vehicles via in-vehicle spatial auditory displays" (NordiCHI '14, 2014), "Evaluating the effort involved in relevance assessments for images" (SIGIR '14, 2014), and "Is relevance hard work? Evaluating the effort of making relevant assessments" (SIGIR '13, 2013). His impactful contributions have earned multiple awards: Best Full Paper Award at ACM Mensch und Computer 2025 (with E.S.A. Alghamdi and E. Nicol), Best Paper Award at ACM CUI 2024, Honourable Mention Best Full Paper Award at CHIIR 2023, CSTG Mark Resnick Best Paper Award (2020), Honourable Mention Full Paper Award at CUI 2020, and Best Paper Award at ACM CHIIR 2020 (with O. Foulds and L. Azzopardi). As department head, he leads initiatives in computer and information sciences, advancing interactive information retrieval and multimodal interfaces.