Publications

Braghis, D. and Liu, H. (2024) Conversational Image Search: A Sketch-based Approach. In Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR ’24), June 10–14, 2024, Phuket, Thailand. ACM, New York, NY, USA, https://doi.org/10.1145/3652583.3657594 

Zheng, Y., Yu, L., Chen, J., Xia, T., Yin, Y., Wang, S. and Liu, H. (2024) Inclusive Design Insights from a Preliminary Image-Based Conversational Search Systems Evaluation, In proceedings of the IR4U2 at the 46th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2024), 24th-28th March, 2024, Glasgow, Scotland. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2403.19899

Kareem, A., Liu, H. and Velisavljevic, V. (2024) A Privacy-Preserving Approach to Effectively Utilize Distributed Data for Malaria Image Detection. Bioengineering. 11(4):340. https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering11040340 

Liu, H. & Bauer, C. (2023). Report on the PhD Symposium at CIKM 2023. ACM SIGIR Forum.

Jaiswal, A. K., & Liu, H. (2023). Lightweight Adaptation of Neural Language Models via Subspace Embedding. In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (pp. 3968-3972).

Jaiswal, A. K., Liu, H., & Tiwari, P. (2023). Towards Subject Agnostic Affective Emotion Recognition. In Proceedings of the 2nd MUWS Workshop at the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2023).

Chessum, K., Liu, H., Frommholz, I. (2023) An Extended Study of Search User Interface Design Focused on Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions. In: Holzinger, A., da Silva, H.P., Vanderdonckt, J., Constantine, L. (eds) Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications. CHIRA CHIRA 2021 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1882. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41962-1_7

Alhoori, H., Fox, E., Frommholz, I., Liu, H., Coupette, C., Rieck, B.A., Ghosal, T. and Wu, J. (2023) Who can submit an excellent review for this manuscript in the next 30 days? - Peer Reviewing in the age of overload. In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2023), 319-320, DOI 10.1109/JCDL57899.2023.00077

Kareem, A., Liu, H. and Velisavljevic, V. (2023) A federated learning framework for pneumonia image detection using distributed data, Healthcare Analytics, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.health.2023.100204

Zhuang, H., Dong, J., Mu, S. Liu, H. (2022) Learning Performance Prediction and Alert Method in Hybrid Learning. Sustainability 14 (22): 14685. https://doi.org/10.3390/su142214685

Chessum, K., Liu, H. and Frommholz, I. (2022) A Study of Search User Interface Design based on Hofstede’s Six Cultural Dimensions. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - CHIRA, ISBN 978-989-758-609-5; ISSN 2184-3244, pages 145-154. DOI: 10.5220/0011528700003323

Kareem, A., Liu, H. & Sant, P. (2022) Review on Pneumonia Image Detection: A Machine Learning Approach. Hum-Cent Intelligent Systems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44230-022-00002-2 

Jaiswal, A. K., Liu, H. and Frommholz, I. (2021) Semantic Hilbert Space for Interactive Image Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 307–315. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3471158.3472253

Frommholz, I., Liu, H., Melucci, M., Belkin, N. J., Jones, G. J. F., Kando, N. and Pasi, G. (2021) Editors of the proceedings of the Second Workshop on Bridging the Gapbetween  Information  Science,  Information  Retrieval  and  Data  Science,  and  Third  Workshopon  Evaluation  of  Personalisation  in  Information  Retrieval  (BIRDS/WEPIR), number 2863 inCEUR Workshop Proceedings, Aachen, 2021.  URLhttp://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2863/.

Artemi, M. & Liu, H. (2021) A User Study on User Attention for an Interactive Content-based Image Search System. In Proceedings of 2nd BIRDS workshop at the 6th ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2021), Canberra, Australia (Virtual Event), March 19th, 2021.

Frommholz, I, Liu, H. and Melucci, M. (2020) Editors of the proceedings of the First Workshop on  Bridging  the  Gap  between  Information  Science,  Information  Retrieval  and  Data  Science (BIRDS  2020), number 2741 in CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Aachen, 2020.  URL: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2741/

Artemi, M. & Liu, H. (2020) Content-based Image Search System Design for Capturing User Preferences during Query Formulation. In Proceedings of BIRDS workshop at the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020), Xi’an, China (Virtual), July 2020.

Khan, S.S. & Liu, H. (2020) Exploring the Impact on User Information Search Behaviour of Affective Design: An Eye-Tracking Study. In Proceedings of BIRDS workshop at the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020), Xi’an, China (Virtual), July 2020.

Jaiswal, A.K., Liu, H., & Frommholz, I. (2020) Reinforcement Learning-driven Information Seeking: A Quantum Probabilistic Approach. In Proceedings of BIRDS workshop at the 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2020), Xi’an, China (Virtual), July 2020.

Jaiswal, A. K., Liu, H., & Frommholz, I. (2020) Utilising Information Foraging Theory for User Interaction with Image Query Auto-Completion. In Proceedings of the 42th European Conference of Information Retrieval (ECIR 2020), Lisbon, Portugal, April 2020. Springer

Artemi, M. & Liu, H. (2020) Image Optimization using Improved Gray-Scale Quantization for Content-Based Image Retrieval. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Optimization and Applications (ICOA 2020), Beni Mellal (Morocco). IEEE Xplore and Scopus

Jaiswal, A. K., Liu, H., & Frommholz, I. (2019) Information Foraging for Enhancing Implicit Feedback in Content-based Image Recommendation. In Proceedings of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2019), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 12th - 15th December 2019

Frommholz, I., Liu, H., & Moshfeghi, Y. (2019) Proceedings of the 9th BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA 2019), co-located with 12th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2019), Milan, Italy, July 17th to 18th, 2019

Jaiswal, A. K., Liu, H., & Frommholz, I. (2019) Effects of Foraging in Personalized Content-based Image Recommendation. In Proceedings of 2nd EARS Workshop at SIGIR'19, Paris, France, July 2019

Reel, S., Wong, P., Wu, B., Kouadri, S., & Liu, H. (2019) Identifying tweets from Syria refugees using a Random Forest classifier, In Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, Las Vegas, USA, Jan 2019.

Liu, H., Frommholz, I., Schmitt, I., & Song, D. (2018) Proceedings of the 8th BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA 2018), co-located with 4th ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2018), Tianjin, China, September 14-17, 2018.

Jaiswal, A. K., Holdack, G., Frommholz, I., & Liu, H. (2018) Quantum-like Generalization of Complex Word Embedding: a lightweight approach for textual classification. In Proceedings of Lernen Wissen Daten Analysen (LWDA 2018), Mannheim, Germany, August 2018.

Frommholz, I., Liu, H. and Azzopardi, L. (2017) Proceedings of the 7th BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA 2017), co-located with the 11th European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2017), 5 September 2017, Barcelona, Spain. 

Ullah, A., & Liu, H. (2016) Theory-Based User Modelling for Personalized interactive Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of the HAPPIE Workshop of the Conference on User Modelling Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP). ACM, New York, NY, USA. Halifax, NS, Canada, July 13 - 17, 2016

Wood, J., Liu, H., & Briggs, T. (2016) Learning computing heritage through gaming – whilst teaching digital development through history. In Proceedings of the Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA) conference, 12-14 July 2016, BCS, London, UK

Liu, H., Song, D., & Mulholland, P. (2016) Exploration of Applying a Theory-Based User Classification Model to Inform Personalised Content-Based Image Retrieval System Design. In Proceedings of the HCI Korea 2016, South Korea, 27th-29th Jan 2016.

Shi, T., & Liu, H. (2016). Supporting World War I heritage digitisation and presentation through user-centered web design. In Proceedings of the 2016 SAI Computing Conference (SAI) (pp. 1349-1352). IEEE.

Lath, B. R., & Liu, H. (2016). FSOS: A tool for recommending suitable operating systems to computer users. In Proceedings of the 2016 SAI Computing Conference (SAI) (pp. 1353-1356). IEEE.

Liu, H., & Hartnett, E. J. (2015) Exploring the Design of a Social Learning Platform for Supporting Users’ e-Teaching Skill Development. In Proceedings of the SAI Intelligent Systems Conference 2015 November 10-11, 2015, London, UK

Chessum, K., Liu, H., & Frommholz, I. (2014) Applying Cross-cultural theory to understand users’ preferences on interactive information retrieval platform design. In Proceedings of the 4th European Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (EuroHCIR2014) - British Computer Society, London, 13th September 2014

Frommholz, I., Graves, D., Liu, H., Kumar, A., & Brady, G. (2014) Great War Stories Told by the People - Crowdsourced Cultural Heritage in Digital Museums. In Proceedings of the Digital Libraries 2014 (combined ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2014) and International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2014)), pages 419-420, 2014.

Alenezi, A.H., Feng, X., Amin, S., Liu, H. (2013) Issues associated with citizens in developing countries trusting the security of online services. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Applications Tehcnology (ICCAT), 20 Jan - 22 Jan 2013, Tunisia, Page 1-4, Pages: 1 - 4, DOI: 10.1109/ICCAT.2013.6522012, IEEE.

Liu, H. (2012) Improving Course Related Information of Computing Degree Courses for Enhancing Learner Development, Journal of Pedagogic Development, 2(3), pp.4-10. ISSN 2047-3265

Liu, H., Macintyre, R., & Ferguson, R. (2012) Exploring Qualitative Analytics for E-Mentoring Relationships Building in an Online Social Learning Environment. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK2012), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, ACM.

Liu, H., Little, S. and Rueger, S. (2011) Multimedia: Behaviour, Interfaces and Interaction, in eds. Ian Ruthven and Diane Kelly, Interactive Information-Seeking Behaviour and Retrieval, Facet Publishing.

Liu, H., Mulholland, P., Song, D., Uren, V. and Rueger, S. (2011) An Information Foraging Theory Based User Study of an Adaptive User Interaction Framework for Content-based Image Retrieval. In Proceedings of the Special Session: Interactive Image and Video Retrieval of the 17th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM2011), Taipei, Taiwan, Springer

Liu, H. (2010). A framework for understanding user interaction with content-based image retrieval: model, interface and users (Doctoral dissertation, The Open University).

Liu, H., Mulholland, P., Song, D., Uren, V., and Rueger, S. (2010) Applying Information Foraging Theory to Understand User Interaction with Content-based Image Retrieval. In Proceedings of the Information Interaction in Context conference (IIiX), New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Zagorac, S., Llorente, A., Little, S., Liu, H., and Rueger, S. (2009) Automated content based video retrieval. In Proceedings of the TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation Notebook Papers, NIST, 2009

Liu, H., Zagorac, S., Uren, V., Song, D., and Rueger, S. (2009) Enabling Effective User Interactions in Content-Based Image Retrieval. In Proceedings of  the 5th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS), pp. 265-276

Liu, H., Uren, V., Song, D., and Rueger, S. (2009) A Four-factor User Interaction Model for Content-Based Image Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR), pp. 297-304, Cambridge, UK.

Overell, S. E., Llorente, A., Liu, H., Hu, R., Rae, A., Zhu, J., ... & Rüger, S. M. (2008). MMIS at ImageCLEF 2008: Experiments combining Different Evidence Sources. In CLEF (Working Notes).

Hu, R., Ruger, S., Song, D., Liu, H., & Huang, Z. (2008). Dissimilarity measures for content-based image retrieval. In Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (pp. 1365-1368). IEEE.

Liu, H., Song, D., Rüger, S., Hu, R., & Uren, V. (2008). Comparing dissimilarity measures for content-based image retrieval. In Proceedings of the Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS2008) (pp. 44-50). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Llorente, A., Overell, S., Liu, H., Hu, R., Rae, A., Zhu, J., Song, D. & Rüger, S. (2008, September). Exploiting term co-occurrence for enhancing automated image annotation. In Workshop Proceedings of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum for European Languages (pp. 632-639). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Uren, V., Lei, Y., Lopez, V., Liu, H., Motta, E., & Giordanino, M. (2007). The usability of semantic search tools: a review. The Knowledge Engineering Review, 22(4), 361-377.

Liu, H. (2005) Three-factor Framework for Evaluation of ECAs (E-commerce agents) (in Chinese). Application Research of Computers. Vol.22 No.05/163. pp. 63-65. ISSN: 1001-3695.