Birger Larsen

Birger Larsen (Aalborg University) has a passion for research that involves the activities, processes, and experiences arising in the meeting between users, information, and information systems in a given context – with the goal of optimising these to empower users in their task and problem-solving. His main research interests include Information Retrieval (IR), user interaction, information behaviour, domain specific search, understanding user intents and exploiting context in IR – all of these with a view to inform interaction design and user experience (UX), as well as Informetrics/Bibliometrics, citation analysis and quantitative research evaluation – and recently computational methods applied to Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), where he investigates the new possibilities and challenges arising from the application of large-scale data collection and analysis techniques and AI to SSH research.