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Personal profile
Expertise & Capabilities
- Information seeking behaviour
- User-centred Design
- Usability studies
- Participatory Methods
- Field Ethnography
Personal Statement
I am a Lecturer in Information Behaviour in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences (CIS).
I am Deputy Director of PGT (Student Experience) at CIS.
My main research interests are Information Behaviour and Human Computer Interaction (HCI).
My experience of empirical investigations of information seeking and user interactions with technology encompasses studies in many human contexts and occupational domains including Education, Healthcare, Law, FinTech and Cultural Heritage. Much of my research has been driven by a curiosity regarding the information and technological needs and practices of understudied and often vulnerable populations such as children and young people and older adults.
I am currently involved in "Cumulative Revelations in Personal Data" (EPSRC), exploring the organisational security risks posed by the digital traces created by online personal information sharing. https://cumulative-revelations.github.io/revelations/
I am a collaborator on the SIPA2 project on Improving the Pharmaceutical care of People with Sensory Impairment: https://sipa2project.co.uk/
I am a member of CILIP and ACM SIGCHI and participate in the Strathclyde iSchool Research Group (SISRG), Digital Health and Wellness Group (DHAWG) and Cybersecurity Research Group at CIS.
I recently completed Advance HE Aurora Leadership programme and am working towards fellowship of the HEA.
I have authored many publications in Information Behaviour and Human Computer Interaction and published in the key international venues for those topics including SIGIR, JDoc, ECIL, ASIS&T, IIiX, CHI, DIS and INTERACT.
I have served as Programme Committee member for the Ageing and Accessibility track of CHI and for CHI Play and was co-organiser of workshops and panels on Ageing and Technology at CHI and MobileHCI and on Children and Technology at IDC. I have co-edited special issues of the International Journal of Child Computer Interaction and the International Journal of Mobile HCI. I review for CHI, MobileCHI, NordiCHI, DIS and many of the key conferences and journals in Information Science and HCI.
I am interested in mental health, wellbeing and widening access and was a mentor with the Disability and Wellbeing Service for many years. I was co-facilitator of the university's Everyday Meditation drop-in sessions from their establishment in 2015.
Teaching Interests
I lead modules on a number of CIS's PGT programmes:
CS978 Legal, Ethical and Professional Issues for the Information Society
CS800 Health Information Governance
CS955 Information Law
and contribute to teaching on the MSc Cyber Security (Graduate Apprenticeship) and BSc Hons IT: Software Development (Graduate Apprenticeship):
- CS355 User-centred Design
- CS810 Compliance & Operational Security Mgmnt
- CS811 Information Security Research Project and Dissertation
I also supervise several dissertations projects on the MSc ILS and GA Cybersecurity (MSc) programmes.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, Faculty Of Science
Award Date: 7 Nov 2019
Master of Science, University of Glasgow
Award Date: 30 Nov 2001
Bachelor of Science, University of Glasgow
Award Date: 30 Jun 1996
Keywords
- Human Computer Interaction
- Information behaviour
- Children and Technology
- Older Adults
- Mobile Communications
- Cybersecurity
- Simulation
- Information seeking
- computer science
- Participatory Methods
- text-entry
- User-centred design
- user experience
- Mental health
- Young People
- Digital health
- Co-design
- Ageing research
- Information retrieval
- ethnography
- healthy ageing
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Projects
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Empirical investigation & user-centred development of touch-screen text entry methods older adults
Dunlop, M., Komninos, A. & Nicol, E.
EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
1/09/13 → 30/11/15
Project: Research
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Revealing cumulative risks in online personal information: a data narrative study
Nicol, E., Briggs, J., Moncur, W., Htait, A., Carey, D., Azzopardi, L. & Schafer, B., 16 Nov 2022. 24 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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Revealing cumulative risks in online personal information: a data narrative study
Nicol, E., Briggs, J., Moncur, W., Htait, A., Carey, D., Azzopardi, L. & Schafer, B., 11 Nov 2022, In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 6, CSCW2, p. 1-25 25 p., 323.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Datasets
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The information needs of young first time mothers from areas of multiple deprivations
Buchanan, S. (Creator), Ruthven, I. (Contributor), Jardine, C. (Contributor) & Nicol, E. (Creator), UK Data Service , 12 Mar 2019
Dataset
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OATS_201309 Shake'n'Tap study
Dunlop, M. (Creator), Komninos, A. (Creator) & Nicol, E. (Creator), University of Strathclyde, 10 Oct 2016
DOI: 10.15129/b39348f3-c9be-4079-9162-faa020635f34, https://mobiquitous.cis.strath.ac.uk/?q=node/6
Dataset
Thesis
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An ethnographic investigation of information seeking in the primary classroom
Author: Nicol, E., 19 Sep 2019Supervisor: Landoni, M. (Supervisor) & Ruthven, I. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
Prizes
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Euan Minto Prize
Alkhurayyif, Yazeed Ahmed A (Recipient), Almaghairbe, Rafig H Guma (Recipient), Kheirbakhsh Abadi, Aydin (Recipient), Smith, Lauren (Recipient), Davies, Steven (Recipient), Foster, Catherine (Recipient), Nicol, Emma (Recipient), Goodfellow, Martin (Recipient), Canning, Cheryl (Recipient) & Gibson, Ryan Colin (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Top 10 IRIS 2022 LexisNexis Best Paper Award
Schafer, Burkhard (Recipient), Nash, Callum (Recipient), Nicol, Emma (Recipient), Htait, Amal (Recipient), Briggs, Jo (Recipient), Moncur, Wendy (Recipient), Azzopardi, Leif (Recipient) & Carey, Daniel (Recipient), 25 Feb 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Activities
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Contribution of evidence to House of Lords COVID-19 Committee - Living online: the long term impact on wellbeing
Wendy Moncur (Contributor) & Emma Nicol (Contributor)
11 Dec 2020Activity: Public Engagement and Other Activities › Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
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ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Event)
Emma Nicol (Peer reviewer)
1 Oct 2022 → 26 Oct 2022Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Membership of peer review panel or committee