Coyle, Lorcan

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  • Publication
    Reminding Short-Term Memory Sufferers to Complete Routine Tasks
    (University College Dublin. School of Computer Science and Informatics, 2007-09-28)
    Lustig, Caitlin 
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    Coyle, Lorcan 
    With the general increase of life span that our advances in health care have afforded us, more people are suffering from short term memory loss than ever before. Short term memory sufferers often forget what they were doing in the middle of a task and can find themselves in dangerous situations, such as leaving the stove on and leaving the house. They could benefit from an RFID based reminder system that would determine what they were doing based on what objects they touch. To use the system, the user wears an RFID glove which has a reader in the palm. The RFID glove reads the tags on the nearby objects. Along with the RFID glove we are developing an application that enables the user to interact with a reminder application. The application alerts the user of important activities they may have forgotten they started and when an activity is interrupted. It also keeps a record of the list of activities they have performed and objects they have touched through out the day.
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    A Quantitative Evaluation of the Relative Status of Journal and Conference Publications in Computer Science
    (University College Dublin. School of Computer Science and Informatics, 2008-10)
    Coyle, Lorcan 
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    Freyne, Jill 
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    Smyth, Barry 
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    Cunningham, Pádraig 
    While it is universally held by computer scientists that conference publications have a higher status in computer science than in other disciplines there is little quantitative evidence in support of this position. The importance of journal publications in academic promotion makes this a big issue since a focus on journal papers only will miss many significant papers published at conferences in computer science. In this paper we set out to quantify the relative importance of journal and conference papers in computer science. We show that computer science papers in leading conferences match the impact of papers in mid-ranking journals and surpass the impact of papers in journals in the bottom half of the ISI rankings – when impact is measured by citations in Google Scholar. We also show that there is a poor correlation between this measure of impact and conference acceptance rates. This indicates that conference publication is an inefficient market where venues that are equally challenging in terms of rejection rates offer quite different returns in terms of citations.
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    Connecting Families by Sharing the Minutiae of their Lives
    (University College Dublin. School of Computer Science and Informatics, 2008-08)
    Hanumara, Poornima 
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    Coyle, Lorcan 
    Recent studies have shown that in distributed families keeping in touch is essential; this calls for technologies that can connect family members and bring them closer virtually. There are several social networking technologies online, but they are seldom designed for family connectedness and do not cater for the needs of computer-novice relatives. We present Near Dear, an application that brings online tools to an ambient display at home. The ambient display makes it easy for computer-novices to update and access online networking tools. We also conducted a user trial and evaluation of this system which indicated that the developed system is convenient and intuitive.
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