European Commission
Joint Research Centre - JRC		              
 

Dr. Eoin Mac Aoidh

                  
      Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC)            
                                           
                                Maritmie Affairs Unit
Scientific Support to Fisheries		                
 

BA (Comp Sci) PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher
(Grantholder)

                        
         
TP 051, I-21027 Ispra (VA), Italy		                
         
email: eoin.mac-aoidh@jrc.ec.europa.eu		          
                           
                                               
                                                     
 

Research Interests

Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Open Source Web GIS, Location Based Services (LBS), User Modelling, Visualisation of spatio-temporal data, Personalisation of spatial data, marine data, environmental data, remote sensing, marine spatial planning, geovisualization of genetic data

    
 

Biography

Eoin is currently employed at the European Commission JRC on a 3 year postdoctoral researcher's grant. He works as the GIS and spatial data expert in the FIsheries Genetics Group. Working on a number of projects (listed below), including the FishPopTrace project which is concerned with the (mapping of the) structure and traceability of marine fish populations. His responsibilities in this role are wide-ranging. Foremost in terms of visibility are his development of the map browser on the Fisheries Genetics website, the website itself, FishPopTrace related website development, content and map browser, and the papers published based on his research while at the JRC (see below).

He received his Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science and Geography, and a PhD in Computer Science from University College Dublin, Ireland. His PhD focused on the implicit interpretation of user's interests and intentions based on their mouse movements while browsing a digital map.

He subsequently took up a one year position as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Centre for Geocomputaion at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. Here he extended his research into user interactions with Location Based Services, as part of the StratAG (Strategic Research in Advanced Geotechnologies) project.
 

Technologies Employed

Java, Javascript, OpenLayers, XML, SQL, PHP, JSON, Ext, GeoExt, LaTeX, image editing software, proprietary and non-proprietary GIS desktop and web-based applications, PostGIS and Oracle databases.


Non-academic Interests

Kayaking, 5-aside soccer, snow boarding, languages, geography, digital media arts, communication, people, culture, landscapes, riverscapes, and seascapes.		      
 


Collaborators

Dr. Michela Bertolotto, University College Dublin, Ireland
Dr. Gavin McArdle, University College Dublin, Ireland
Dr. David C. Wilson, University of North Carolina At Charlotte, USA
Prof. Christophe Claramunt, Naval Academy, Brest, France
Dr. Cyril Ray, Naval Academy, Brest, France
Dr. Julie Doyle, University College Dublin, Ireland
Dr. Adam Winstanley, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland
Dr. Jann Martinsohn , European Commission JRC, Italy
Prof. Gary R. Carvalho, Bangor University, Wales
Prof. Filip Volckaert, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Dr. Gregory Maes, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Prof. Einar Eg Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Dr. Alessia Cariani, University of Bologna, Italy

 

Projects

AquaTrace: The development of tools for tracing and evaluating the genetic impact of fish from aquaculture,
To Kick off in Q2, 2012

AquaGen: Genetic Assignment of Farmed Cod and Sole for Traceability, Biosafety and Environmental Impact Assessment, 2011-present

SturSNiP: Sturgeon Product Traceablity based on SNPs, 2011-present

FishPopTrace: The Structure of Fish Populations and Traceability of Fish and Fish Products, 2010-2011

StratAG: Strategic Research in Advanced Geocotechnologies, 2008-2009

ADAGIS: Adaptive GIS, 2008

TAHchNA: Towards Archaeological Heritage, New Accessibility, 2006-2008

CoMPASS: Combining Mobile Personalised Applications with Spatial Services 2004-2006

 

        
 

PhD Thesis

                                        
  Implicit Interpretation of User's Interactions with Spatial Data, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin. Supervised by Dr. Michela Bertolotto, November 2008.  
 

 

Publications

 

                                          
 

2012

E. Mac Aoidh, G. Maes, A. Cariani, E.E. Nielsen, J.TH. Martinsohn, Exploring Geovisualization Symbology for Landscape Genetics (2012) Transactions in GIS. (In press)

Einar E Nielsen, Alessia Cariani, Eoin Mac Aoidh, Gregory E Maes, Ilaria Milano, Rob Ogden, Martin Taylor, Jakob Hemmer-Hansen, Massimiliano Babbucci, Luca Bargelloni, Dorte Bekkevold, Eveline Diopere, Leonie Grenfell, Sarah Helyar, Morten T Limborg, Jann T Martinsohn, Ross McEwing, Frank Panitz,Tomaso Patarnello, Fausto Tinti, Jeroen KJ Van Houdt, Filip AM Volckaert, Robin S Waples, FishPopTrace consortium & Gary R Carvalho. Gene-associated markers provide tools for tackling IUU fishing and false eco-certification (2012) Nature Communications. (In press)

E. Mac Aoidh, M. Bertolotto, D. C. Wilson, Towards dynamic behaviour-based profiling for reducing spatial information overload in map browsing activity (2012) Geoinformatica. 16(3), pp 409-434

 

2010

E. Mac Aoidh, G. McArdle, M. Petit, C. Ray, M. Bertolotto, C. Claramunt, D. Wilson (2010) 'Personalization in Adaptive and Interactive GIS'. Taylor & Francis Annals of GIS, 15 (11):23-33.

 

        
 

2009

                                          
  E. Mac Aoidh, D. C. Wilson, M. Bertolotto, A Study of Spatial Interaction Behaviour for Improved Delivery of Web-based Maps. In proceedings of W2GIS'09, Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag, pp. 120-134


E. Mac Aoidh and A. Winstanley (2009) Interpretation of Spatial Movement and Perception in Location Based Services. In: CIICT 2009 : proceedings of the China-Ireland information and communications technologies conference. National Univeristy of Ireland Maynooth, Dept of Computer Science, Maynooth, Ireland, pp. 17-18.

R. Jacob, A. Winstanley, D. Meenagh and E. Mac Aoidh (2009) Wiimote as a Navigation tool for Pedestrians. In: CIICT 2009 : proceedings of the China-Ireland information and communications technologies conference. National University of Ireland Maynooth, Dept. of Computer Science, Maynooth, Ireland, pp. 23-24

          
                                                           
  2008                                              
  E. Mac Aoidh, M. Bertolotto, D. C. Wilson, Understanding Geospatial Interests by Visualising Map Interaction Behaviour in Information Visualization. Volume 7, Issue 3-4 Pages 275-286, 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.
  
 
E. Mac Aoidh, M. Bertolotto, D. C. Wilson, Understanding Geospatial Interests by Visualising Map Interaction Behaviour in GeoVisualization 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
      
                               
                                           
                                 
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March 2011