Max L. Wilson is a Lecturer in HCI and Information Seeking, in the Mixed Reality Lab at the University of Nottingham, UK. His 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). His doctoral work, which won best JASIST article in 2009, focused on evaluating Search User Interfaces using models of Information Seeking. Max received his PhD from Southampton University, under the supervision of m.c. schraefel and Dame Wendy Hall, where much of his work was grounded in supporting Exploratory Search, and within the developing context of Web Science. Max mainly publishes in HCI and Information Science communities, including a monograph with co-authors schraefel, Kules, and Shneiderman on future Search User Interfaces for the Web, a lecture on Search User Interface Design for Morgan and Claypool, and a book chapter on Casual-Leisure Information Behaviour with David Elsweiler. Given the social evolution of the Web, and his interest in Web Science, some of Max’s more recent work has focused on how people use social media, especially microblogging, as an information resource. Max is active in in several communities, running workshops (e.g. euroHCIR), panels with community leaders (e.g. repliCHI), and on conference committees (forthcoming Interface Track Chair for IIiX2012, Research Community Chair for CHI2013, and Social Media chair for ICWSM2012).
Books
Wilson, M. L. (2011) Search User Interface Design. Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval, and Services (Ed. Marchionini, G.), Morgan & Claypool, 143 pages.
Monograph
Wilson, M. L., Kules, B., schraefel, m.c. and Shneiderman, B. (2010) From Keyword Search to Exploration: Designing Future Search Interfaces for the Web. Foundations and Trends in Web Science 2 (1), pp 1-97.
Book Chapters
Elsweiler, D., Wilson M. L. and Kirkegaard-Lunn, B. (2011) Understanding Casual-leisure Information Behaviour. In Spink, A. and Heinstrom, J.
(Eds) New Directions in Information Behaviour. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp 211-241.
Wilson, M. L. (2011) Interfaces to Information Retrieval. In Ruthven, I. and Kelly, D. (Eds) Interactive Information Retrieval. Facet Publishing.
Articles
Wilson, M. L. and schraefel, m. c. (2010) Evaluating Collaborative Information Seeking Interfaces with a Search-Oriented Inspection Method and Re-framed Information Seeking Theory. Information Processing & Management, 46 (6), pp. 718-732.
Wilson, M. L., schraefel, m. c. and White, R. W. (2009) Evaluating Advanced Search Interfaces using Established Information-Seeking Models. In the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 60 (7). pp. 1407-1422.
schraefel, m. c., Wilson, M. L., Russell, A. and Smith, D. A. (2006) mSpace: improving information access to multimedia domains with multimodal exploratory search. Communication of the ACM, 49 (4). pp. 47-49.
Conference Papers
Hurlock, J. and Wilson, M. L. (2011) Searching Twitter: Separating the Tweet from the Chaff. In: 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (in press).
Wilson, M. L., Mackay, W., Chi, E. H., Bernstein, M. and Nichols, J. (2012) RepliCHI SIG - From a Panel to a New Submission Venue for Replication (SIG). In CHI'12 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (in press)
Oleksik, G., Wilson, M. L., Tashman, C., Rodrigues, E. M., Kazai, G., Smyth, G., Milic-Frayling, N. and Jones, R. (2009) Lightweight Tagging Expands Information and Activity Management Practices. In: CHI '09: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 2009, Boston, MA, USA. pp. 279-288.
Wilson, M. L., Andre, P. and schraefel, m. c. (2008) Backward Highlighting: Enhancing Faceted Search. In:Proceedings of the 21st Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST2008), October 19-22, 2008, Monterey, CA, USA. pp. 235-238.
Wilson, M. L. and schraefel, m. c. (2008) A Longitudinal Study of Exploratory and Keyword Search. In: ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, June 16-20, 2008, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. pp. 52-56.
Andre, P., Wilson, M. L., Russell, A., Smith, D. A., Owens, A. and schraefel, m. c. (2007) Continuum: designing timelines for hierarchies, relationships and scale. In: UIST2007 (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology), Newport, Rhode Island. pp. 101-110.
Edited Workshop Proceedings
Elsweiler, D., Harvey, M., and Wilson, M. L. (2012) Proceedings of the Working on Searching for Fun (Search4Fun 2012). April 1, Barcelona, Spain
Wilson, M. L., Russell-Rose, T. Larson, B. and Kalbach, J. (2011). Proceedings of the 1st European Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (euroHCIR2011). July 4, Newcastle, UK.
Eslambolchilar, P., Wilson, M. L., Oakley, I, and Dey, A. (2011). Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Persuasion, Influence, Nudge & Coercion Through Mobile Devices (PINC2011). May 8, Vancouver, Canada.
Eslambolchilar, P., Wilson, M. L. and Komninos A. (2010). Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Nudge & Influence through Mobile Devices (NIMD). September 7, Lisbon, Spain.
Projects
See my projects page: http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~mlw/projects.php
Awards, Talks, Community Participation, Grants, etc
See my CV: http://cs.nott.ac.uk/~mlw/cv.php
Contact Details