Posted in Ergonomics, User experience, tagged deceptive patterns, sentiment analysis, UX on 21/06/2025| Leave a Comment »
Delighted to share that our article, “Deceptive Design: How websites are manipulating users’ behaviour,” is the cover feature in the June 2025 issue of The Ergonomist.
Co-authored with Marzieh Jamalifard and Harry Brignull, we explore how dark patterns like Hidden Subscriptions and Hard to Cancel interfaces affect users both emotionally and cognitively, drawing on findings from eye tracking, EEG, and sentiment analysis.
(more…)Posted in Search, User experience, tagged 2Dsearch, UX on 08/01/2025| Leave a Comment »
🚀 Exciting News! We’re delighted to announce the latest update to 2Dsearch, bringing even more power and versatility to your literature searching:
These updates make it easier than ever to search across a broader range of academic and scholarly resources, ensuring you have access to the most comprehensive set of tools for your research.
We can’t wait for you to explore these new features! As always, your feedback is invaluable—let us know how these changes support your research journey.
Check out the new 2Dsearch: 2Dsearch
Posted in Search, User experience, tagged 2Dsearch, UX on 21/10/2024| Leave a Comment »
🚀 Exciting News! We’re thrilled to announce the latest release of 2Dsearch, featuring a significant overhaul of the AI interface and enhancements to NLP analysis.
Whether you’re a student struggling with literature reviews, a researcher crafting intricate search strategies, or an information professional looking for efficiency, this update is designed with you in mind. The new interface supports all users in getting the most out of 2Dsearch with minimal effort.
We’re just getting started! Our dedicated team is already working on the next exciting update, which will likely bring support for yet more literature sources. We invite you to share your thoughts on how we can further enhance your experience with 2Dsearch. Your feedback is crucial in shaping its future!
Check out the new 2Dsearch: 2Dsearch
Posted in Search, User experience, tagged 2Dsearch, UX on 15/08/2024| Leave a Comment »
🚀 Exciting News! We’re thrilled to announce the latest release of 2Dsearch, featuring a complete UI overhaul that’s set to transform your search experience. This update is the result of extensive UX research and usability testing, all aimed at making 2Dsearch more intuitive, efficient, and enjoyable to use.
🌟 What’s New?
🎓 Who Benefits? Whether you’re a student tackling literature reviews, a researcher crafting detailed search strategies, or an information professional looking for efficiency, this update is designed with your needs in mind.
🔍 Why You’ll Appreciate It:
And as always, 2Dsearch remains free for everyone -whether you’re a student, researcher, information professional, or recruiter.
🎯 Looking Ahead: We’re already working on the next release and would love to hear your feedback. Your insights help us make 2Dsearch better with every update.
Check out the new release: 2Dsearch
Posted in Ergonomics, User experience, tagged Goldsmiths, UX on 11/09/2023| Leave a Comment »
Last week we had our UX Conference at Goldsmiths, which is the annual event where our outgoing MSc cohort get to present the results of their final projects. It was wonderful to see so many excellent presentations but sad to say goodbye to such a talented group of students (although for the handful who will be staying on as teaching assistants it may be more a case or ‘au revoir’ 🙂
I’m sure you will all go on to achieve great things. Do keep in touch!
Posted in Search, Text analytics, User experience, tagged Information Retrieval, Information seeking, interaction design, NLP, UX on 09/05/2023| Leave a Comment »
I am recruiting sponsored or self-funded PhD students who wish to undertake projects in the areas of natural language processing, information retrieval and human-computer interaction including the project outlines listed below.
I have also appended some more focused MSc-level project ideas based on current work with 2Dsearch. Some of these have the potential to be scalable to PhD level work, so feel free to adapt / enhance them to accommodate your own ideas and interests. Note also that this list is not exhaustive: we have other project ideas and proposals which are not quite ready for public dissemination.
If you are a self-funded student considering a PhD in any of the topics below please look at the further information and/or email me to discuss.
(more…)Posted in Ergonomics, User experience, tagged Goldsmiths, UX on 12/09/2022| Leave a Comment »
Last week we had our UX Conference at Goldsmiths, which is the annual forum where our outgoing MSc cohort get to present the results of their final projects. It was wonderful to see so many excellent presentations but sad to have to say goodbye to such a talented group of people (although for the handful who will be staying with us as TAs it may be more a case or ‘au revoir’).
Sorry I didn’t take more photos, and that the cohort was too large for a selfie… I’m sure you will go on to achieve great things. Do keep in touch!
Posted in Search, Text analytics, User experience, tagged Information Retrieval, Information seeking, interaction design, NLP, UX on 17/06/2022| 6 Comments »
I am currently hiring for the following position. If you know of anyone suitable, please encourage them to apply!
Research Associate in the field of information retrieval / user experience (0.5 FTE)
This role is part of a Google-funded research project that aims to use AI (Artificial Intelligence) and data visualization to facilitate more efficient and effective approaches to information retrieval through the development of alternative approaches to search strategy formulation. This has the potential to minimize error and inefficiency in scientific research and facilitate more efficient and effective research workflows for the broader scientific community.
(more…)Posted in Search, Text analytics, User experience, tagged Information Retrieval, Information seeking, interaction design, NLP, UX on 26/04/2022| Leave a Comment »
I am recruiting sponsored or self-funded PhD students who wish to undertake projects in natural language processing and UX with focus on information retrieval, including the projects listed below.
Note that these topics are based on MSc level project proposals, but most have the scope and ambition to be scalable to PhD level work. Moreover, they are merely ideas at this stage, so feel free to adapt / enhance them to accommodate your own ideas and interests. Note also that this list is not exhaustive: we have other project ideas and proposals which aren’t quite ready for public dissemination.
If you are a self-funded student considering a PhD in any of the topics below please take a look at the further information and/or email me to discuss.
Posted in User experience, tagged AI, EIRA, jobs, UX on 14/06/2019| Leave a Comment »
We are hiring for the following position which combines UX and AI in an applied R&D setting. It offers the opportunity to shape the development of a new AI product within a grant funded academia/industry partnership. Further details below – ping me if you’d like to know more.
EIRA Project – User Experience contract opportunity
The University of Essex has a current opportunity to contract a User Experience specialist to work for one of our EIRA (Enabling Innovation: Research to Application) companies, Profusion Media. During this contract you will also work closely with key academic staff at the University.
Details of contract opportunity:
Designing the Search Experience
Information Interaction 