Selected publications

Landscape of Digital Technologies Used in the National Health Service in England: Content Analysis.

Jake Alan Allcock, Mengdie Zhuang,Shuyang Li,Xin Zhao . Published in JMIR, 2024

Household visitation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Stuart Ross, George Breckenridge, Mengdie Zhuang and Ed Manley . Published in Nature Scientific Reports , 2021

We looked into digital innovations for the public-health response to COVID-19 worldwide and their limitations, and barriers to their implementation, including legal, ethical and privacy barriers, as well as organizational and workforce barriers.

Digital technologies in the public-health response to COVID-19.

Jobie Budd, Benjamin S. Miller, Erin M. Manning, Vasileios Lampos, Mengdie Zhuang, Michael Edelstein, Geraint Rees, Vincent C. Emery, Molly M. Stevens, Neil Keegan, Michael J. Short, Deenan Pillay, Ed Manley, Ingemar J. Cox, David Heymann, Anne M. Johnson and Rachel A. McKendry. Published in Nature Medicine, 2020

We looked into digital innovations for the public-health response to COVID-19 worldwide and their limitations, and barriers to their implementation, including legal, ethical and privacy barriers, as well as organizational and workforce barriers.

What You Sow, So Shall You Reap! Toward Preselection Mechanisms for Macrotask Crowdsourcing

Ujwal Gadiraju, Mengdie Zhuang. Published in Macrotask Crowdsourcing, 2019

We describe two novel preselection mechanisms that have been shown to be effective in microtask crowdsourcing, and the challenges of applying them in macrotask crowdsourcing.

In What Mood Are You Today?: An Analysis of Crowd Workers’ Mood, Performance and Engagement

Mengdie Zhuang, Ujwal Gadiraju. Published in 27th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2019

We investigate how crowdworkers mood associated with their performance and engagement during work.

Can user behaviour sequences reflect perceived novelty?

Mengdie Zhuang, Gianluca Demartini,Elaine G. Toms. Published in 27th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2018

We looked at the relationship between behavioural sequence and perceived novelty in a browsing task.

The relationship between user perception and user behaviour in interactive information retrieval evaluation

Mengdie Zhuang, Elaine G. Toms, Gianluca Demartini. Published in 8th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2016), 2016 🏆 This paper won the Best Paper Award 🏆

In this paper, we investigated user actions from log files, and the results of the User Engagement Scale, both of which came from a study of people browsing an image collection freely.