Artificial Intelligence, Information and Information Seeking

Code 004AI
Credits 10

Learning outcomes

This module is divided into 5 themes, namely Human Cognition and Information Seeking, Sensing People and Sensing Context, Search Mechanics and AI, Media Analysis and Machine Learning, and Semantic Web/Linked Data. The aim of the is to familiarise students with a range of information seeking activities we
pursue as part of day-to-day life and how AI techniques are used in these information seeking activities. This module looks at data protection and data privacy issues in the context of information access, specifically privacy by design and data anonymisation.