University College Dublin

Eoin Mac Aoidh

School of Computer Science & Informatics

PhD Student at UCD Dublin

Oct. 2004 - Present
Belfield, Dubin 4
Ireland
Tel: +353 1 7162944
email: eoin.macaoidh@ucd.ie

Topics of Interest

Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Human Computer Interaction (HCI), User Modelling, Visualisation of spatio-temporal data,
Personalisation of spatial data

Research Description

My research focuses on determining implicit patterns in user interests, specifically in relation to spatial data. I am interested in the visualisation, and automated analysis of user interactions when browsing spatial data, to gain an insight into their semantic intentions. The user's intentions act as a proxy for the construction of a detailed individual user model describing their interests and preferences. User models allow for the filtering of information returned to the user, this improves map personalisation engines by reducing information overload for the user, and providing an insight into users' interests for the developer.
Technologies I use on a daily basis include; Java, Oracle Spatial, SQL, XML, HTML, J2ME

Background

Prior to commencing my PhD in 2004, I graduated from a BA in computer science in UCD with first class honours (2004). I also studied geography as part of my BA.
Recent Publications
2008
E. Mac Aoidh, M. Bertolotto, D. C. Wilson, Understanding Geospatial Interests by Visualising Map Interaction Behaviour. To be included as a journal article in a special issue of the Information Visualization journal (Issue Vol.7 No.3 in press) Palgrave.
E. Mac Aoidh, M. Bertolotto, D. C. Wilson, User Context Analysis From Spatial Interface Interactions in Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS'08) June 9 -11. Galway, Ireland (In Press).
E. Mac Aoidh, M. Bertolotto, D. C. Wilson, Understanding Geospatial Interests by Visualising Map Interaction Behaviour. In Geo-Visualization of Dynamics, Movement and Change Workshop at the AGILE 2008 Conference. May 5, 2008, Girona, Spain.

2007
E. Mac Aoidh, M. Bertolotto, D. Wilson, Personalising Geo-businesses Applications, for inclusion as a book chapter in "Geospatial Services and Applications for the Internet" to be published by Springer-Verlag.
E. Mac Aoidh, M. Bertolotto, D. Wilson, Analysis of Implicit Interest Indicators for Spatial Data. In Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, pages 336 - 339, Seattle, Washington, USA, November 7-9 2007.
E. Mac Aoidh, M. Bertolotto, D. Wilson, Implicit profiling for contextual reasoning about user's spatial preferences, Proceedings 2nd International Workshop on Case Based Reasoning and Context-Awareness (held in conjunction with 7th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ICCBR'07), Belfast, Northern Ireland, 13-16 August 2007 pp 177-184
E. Mac Aoidh, M. Bertolotto, D. Wilson, Capturing Spatial Interactions to Personalise Cultural Heritage Access, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Personalization Enhanced Access to Cultural Heritage (held in conjunction with 11th International Conference on User Modelling, UM'07), Corfu, Greece, 25-29 June, 2007 pp 71-81
E. Mac Aoidh, M. Bertolotto, Improving Spatial Data Usability By Capturing User Interactions, Proceedings of AGILE 2007 (10th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science), Lecture Notes in Geo-Information and Cartography. Aalborg, Denmark, March 2007. pp 309-403. Springer-Verlag
E. Mac Aoidh, M. Bertolotto, Analysing Mouse Movements to Infer Spatial Interests, Proceedings of GISRUK 2007, Maynooth, Ireland, 11-13 April 2007 pp. 307 - 311
M. Bertolotto, A. Koinis, E. Mac Aoidh, The Use Of Palm Tools (PDA) For Cultural Heritage Dissemination, Proceedings of TArcHNA Conference 2007. Milan, Italy. July 2007 pp. 105 - 109

2006
E. Mac Aoidh, A. Koinis, M. Bertolotto, Improving Archaeological Heritage Information Access Through a Personalised GIS Interface, In Proceedings of W2GIS'06 (6th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems), Hong Kong, December 2006, pp. 135-145. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag
Eoin Mac Aoidh, Personalised Multimodal Interfaces for Mobile Geographic Information Systems, Doctoral Consortium Paper. Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, 4th International Conference, AH 2006, pp. 452-456, Dublin, Ireland, June 21-23, 2006 Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag

2005
J. Weakliam, D. Lynch, J. Doyle, M. Zhou, E. Mac Aoidh, M. Bertolotto, D. Wilson, Managing Spatial Knowledge for Mobile Personalized Applications, Proceedings KES 2005 (9th International Conference on Knowledge-based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems), Melbourne, Australia, September 2005, pp. 329-335. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag
Awaiting Review (July 2008)
D. C. Wilson, E. Mac Aoidh, M. Bertolotto Visual Analysis Experiments for Improved Personalisation From GeoSpatial User Interactions. For inclusion in Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACMGIS'08)