Dr Tassos Tombros

Teaching

Tassos has experience of over 20 years in UK Higher Education and he has delivered a number of modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level. He has been the recipient of a number of teaching awards during his time at QMUL. Tassos is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 

Undergraduate Teaching

ECS518U - Operating Systems

The module offers an introduction to Operating Systems, with a combination of study of the principles and practical skills in scripting and monitoring an Operating System kernel. Concepts of processes and concurrency are introduced in the context of Operating Systems and then pursued further as a tool for an application programmer wishing to exploit the full potential of a multicore processor. The module prepares students for further studies in distributed systems and high performance computing at the next level.

Research

Research Interests:

Document clustering and summarisation, personalisation, relevance feedback, interactive IR and task-based evaluation of IR systems, presentation of retrieval results.

Publications

• Gill SS, Naeem U, Kaur R et al. (2024). Enhancing Student Learning, Engagement, and Employment Through Inclusive Curriculum Design.

  
  

  DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-6100-9.ch006

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/96947
• Marengo L, Fazekas TA (2017). I Wonder... Inquiry Techniques as a Method to Gain Insights into People's Encounters with Visual Art. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI’17), 9-14 July, Vancouver, Canada

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-58753-0_82

  
  

  QMRO: https://uat2-qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/31882
• Tao Y, Tombros A (2017). How collaborators make sense of tasks together: A comparative analysis of collaborative sensemaking behavior in collaborative information‐seeking tasks.

  
  

  DOI: 10.1002/asi.23693

  
  

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• Al-Thani D, Stockman T, Tombros A (2015). The Effects of Cross-modal Collaboration on the Stages of Information Seeking. Proceedings of the XVI International Conference on Human Computer Interaction

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/2829875.2829925

  
  

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• Sahib NG, Tombros A, Stockman T (2015). Evaluating a search interface for visually impaired searchers.

  
  

  DOI: 10.1002/asi.23325

  
  

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• Tao Y, Tombros A (2014). Investigating collaborative sensemaking behavior in collaborative information seeking.

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/MC.2014.64

  
  

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• Sahib NG, Tombros A, Stockman T (2014). Investigating the Behavior of Visually Impaired Users for Multi-session Search Tasks.

  
  

  DOI: 10.1002/asi.22955

  
  

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• Tao Y, Tombros A (2013). An Exploratory Study of Sensemaking in Collaborative Information Seeking..

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36973-5_3

  
  

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• Al-Thani D, Stockman T, Tombros A (2013). Cross-Modal Collaborative Information Seeking (CCIS): An Exploratory Study.

  
  

  DOI: 10.14236/ewic/hci2013.5

  
  

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• Sahib NG, Stockman T, Tombros A et al. (2013). Participatory Design with Blind Users: A Scenario-Based Approach..

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40483-2_48

  
  

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