Rate My Professor Martin Halvey

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.