Lorcan Coyle's Home on Tinterweb

Since Google Scholar started tracking researcher h-index scores directly I have stopped keeping track of my h-index here. Instead please visit my Google Scholar page here.

When I last tracked it manually, 10th Jan 2010, my H-Index was 13 and my G-Index was 21 according to Google Scholar. Here is the list of my 16 highest cited papers, each of which has at least 13 citations, at that time:

61: S. J. Delany, P. Cunningham, A. Tsymbal, and L. Coyle. A Case-Based Technique for Tracking Concept Drift in Spam Filtering. Knowledge-Based Systems, 18(4–5):187–195, 2005.
53: S. J. Delany, P. Cunningham, and L. Coyle. An Assessment of Case-Based Reasoning for Spam Filtering. Artificial Intelligence Review, 24(3–4):359–378, 2005.
39: J. Ye, L. Coyle, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon. Ontology-based Models in Pervasive Computing Systems. Knowledge Engineering Review 22(04), pp315-347, 2008.
35: L. Coyle, D. Doyle, and P. Cunningham. Representing Similarity for CBR in XML. In Procs. Advances in Case-Based Reasoning, 7th European Conference, ECCBR 2004 Madrid, Spain, pages 119–127. Springer, 2004.
29: L. Coyle and P. Cunningham. Improving Recommendation Ranking by Learning Personal Feature Weights. In Procs. Advances in Case-Based Reasoning, 7th European Conference, ECCBR 2004 Madrid, Proceedings, pages 560–572. Springer, 2004.
26: L. Coyle, C. Hayes, and P. Cunningham. Representing Cases for CBR in XML. Expert Update, 6(2):7–13, 2003.
24: J. Ye, L. Coyle, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon (2007). A Unified Semantics Space Model, in J. Hightower, B. Schiele, T. Strang (eds.), Location- and Context-Awareness, Third International Symposium, LoCA 2007, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, 2007. Proceedings. Pages 103-120
20: J. Ye, S. McKeever, L. Coyle, S. Neely, and S. Dobson (2008). Resolving Uncertainty in Context Integration and Abstraction. ICPS 2008: Proceedings of the International Conference on Pervasive Services, ACM, June 2008.
17: L. Coyle, S. Neely, G. Rey, G. Stevenson, M. Sullivan, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon. Sensor Fusion-Based Middleware for Assisted Living. In Procs. of the 4th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics (ICOST2006). Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, pages 281–288, 2006
17: A. K. Clear, S. Knox, J. Ye, L. Coyle, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon. Integrating Multiple Contexts and Ontologies in a Pervasive Computing Framework. In Contexts and Ontologies: Theory, Practice and Applications, Riva Del Garda, Italy, August 2006. Pages 20-25.
17: S. Dobson, L. Coyle, and P. Nixon. Hybridising Events and Knowledge as a Basis for Building Autonomic Systems. TCAAS Letters 2006
14: G. Stevenson, L. Coyle, S. Neely, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon. Construct - a Decentralised Context Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Computing Environments. In IT&T Annual Conference, Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland, 2005.
14: K. McCarthy, M. Salamó, L. Coyle, L. McGinty, B. Smyth, and P. Nixon. Group Recommender Systems: A Critiquing Based Approach. In Ernest A. Edmonds, Doug Riecken, Cécile Paris, and Candace L. Sidner, editors, Intelligent User Interfaces, pages 267–269. ACM Press, 2006.
13: L. Coyle, P. Cunningham, and C. Hayes. A Case-Based Personal Travel Assistant for Elaborating User Requirements and Assessing Offers. In Procs. Advances in Case-Based Reasoning, 6th European Conference, ECCBR 2002 Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, pages 505–518. Springer, 2002.
13: J. Ye, L. Coyle, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon (2008) Representing and Manipulating Situation Hierarchies using Situation Lattices. Revue d'Intelligence Artificielle, 22(5), pp. 647-667, 2008
13: L. Coyle, J. Ye, E. Loureiro, S. Knox, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon (2007). A Proposed Approach to Evaluate the Accuracy of Tag-based Location Systems. In USE 07: Workshop on Ubiquitous Systems Evaluation, Innsbruck, Austria, 2007. UbiComp 2007 Workshop Proceedings. Pages 292-296.

The link behind the number gives the number's source. Due to fluctuations in the way Google Scholar arranges documents these numbers may vary slightly. For the record, my next highest cited papers are:
12: L. Coyle, S. Neely, G. Stevenson, M. Sullivan, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon. (2007) Sensor Fusion-Based Middleware for Smart Homes. International Journal of Assistive Robotics and Mechatronics (IJARM), 8(2), pp53-60, 2007
11: D. Doyle, J. Loughrey, C. Nugent, L. Coyle, and P. Cunningham. Fionn: A Framework for Developing CBR Systems. Expert Update, 8(1):11–14, 2005.
10: J. Ye, L. Coyle, S. Dobson, and P. Nixon, Using Situation Lattices in Sensor Analysis, Proceedings of the seventh international conference on pervasive computing and communications (PerCom 2009), Texas, USA
9: L. Coyle and P. Cunningham. Exploiting Re-ranking Information in a Case-Based Personal Travel Assistant. In Procs. Workshop in Mixed-Initiative Case-Based Reasoning, at the 5th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, pages 11–20, 2003.
8: L. Coyle, S. Neely, P. Nixon, and A. Quigley. Sensor Aggregation and Integration in Healthcare Location Based Services. In Procs. of First Workshop on Location Based Services for Health Care (LOCARE06), 2006.
8: G. Williamson, G. Stevenson, S. Neely, L. Coyle, and P. Nixon. Scalable information dissemination for pervasive systems: implementation and evaluation. In Procs. ofof the 4th international workshop on Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-Hoc Computing (MPAC 2006)
8: K. McCarthy, M. Salamó, L. Coyle, L. McGinty, B. Smyth, and P. Nixon. CATS: A synchronous approach to collaborative group recommendation. In Procs. of the Nineteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, Melbourne Beach, FL

Poornima Hanumara developed the Near Dear project as her ODCSSS project in summer of 2008 under the supervision of Lorcan Coyle. The original project title was Connecting Families by Sharing the Minutiae of their Lives - it called for an ambient/pervasive/ubiquitous technology for helping family members keep in touch with each other using micro-blogging tools (e.g., using Twitter or Jaiku). Originally we looked at using Nabaztags (thanks Matt), but eventually settled on using Chumbys.

The motivation for Near Dear was that members of a family have different degrees of familiarity and comfort with using technology. While some members of the family do not have access to a computer very often and are not familiar with micro-blogging, for others Internet is the main medium for keeping-in-touch. Near Dear bridges this gap by using Chumby, which sits in an accessible place at home and makes microblogging easy and convenient for computer-novices. We completed a small user study shows that the Near Dear widget is intuitive and serves the purpose of making Twittering more convenient. The Near Dear Chumby widget was released as a beta on the Chumby Network in July 2008 and is available to install on any Chumby. The project is documented on the Near Dear website. The project is being maintained and if anyone wants to collaborate on it going forward we'd love to hear from you :-)

In the News

Before leaving Texas, Pegasus News ran an article on Poornima's success at winning a place in ODCSSS 2008 and wished her luck. During the project, one of the Dublin newspapers, the Herald, wrote an article on Near Dear at an early stage of the project's development when we were playing with Nabaztags. The project was also mentioned in a DCU news release after the mid-term review day, and in science.ie, a popular Irish science website.

Further Information

Pictured below is Poornima being presented with a Hamilton silver coin, her prize for best report in 2008 (the award was presented by one of the heads of ODCSSS, Dr. Aaron Quigley). Poornima's final report was published as a UCD technical report and is available for download here. She still maintains a blog that contains detailed progress of her project. There are more images from ODCSSS 2008 on Flickr . If you are interested in following up on this work or need further information contact Lorcan.

Lost and Found was a collaboration between Science and Art that ran two sell-out shows at the Kilkenny Arts Festival in August 2007. The goal of the project was to engage children in the potential of technology. Lost and Found followed brought its audience and participants on a journey through four magical realms. Sensor technology is used to follow the location and movements of a dancer and map these to the projected visuals and sounds, and through these a story evolves. Active audience participation was required to move the story between the different realms, and children were invited on stage individually and in groups as the show progressed.

The Technology Behind Lost and Found

Lost and found included a diverse set of technologies, including sensor systems based on pressure pads, microprocessor programming to interpret sensor readings from pressure pad sensors, processing to recognise and deal with patterns in behaviour, and flash animation to drive the display.

The Cast

• Paddy Nixon oversaw the project.
• Tara Carrigy came up with the vision and produced the show.
• Megan Kennedy was the dancer/choreographer.
• Jo Timmons directed Lost and Found.
• Lorcan Coyle headed the technology team and managed the technology interfaces.
• Emerson Loureiro worked on the interface and built the technology to react to the dancers' movements.
• Hui Zhang was responsible for the electronics behind the sensor system.

Press

Reviews of the show appeared in the Irish Times and some of UCD's internal publications. An incomplete list is here:

• The Irish Times: Science and dance move step closer at Kilkenny festival - August 8th 2007
• Silicon Republic: UCD IT scientists talk through their arts - August 14th 2007 (great title!)
• UCD Research's Press Release
• UCD's Press Release
• An Article on the show is on the back page of UCD Today in October 2007

I recently ordered 5 chumbys from www.international-orders.com. (Delivery was prompt, thanks International-Orders.com.)
The Chumby is great, it's basically a €200 alarm clock. It uses your WiFi to connect to the web and you can install all kinds of widgets for it. I'm mostly using it to read the news in bed in the morning, keep up with my google calendars, facebook status (pictured below), show visitors my facebook photo albums, subscribe to Dilbert, ICANHAZCHEEZEBURGER, PhD Comics, and watch webcams. You can even subscribe to podcasts! I might write some new widgets for it if I have the time, I'd like to see surf forecasts, more newspapers, and tv guides on it perhaps... (there's a virtual view of my Chumby here).

oh, it also serves as an alarm clock... worth every penny... maybe ;-)

Project Summary

The ReFInDer system was a final year project undertaken by Colin Smith under the supervision of Lorcan Coyle. The aim of the project was to design and implement a memory aid using RFID technology. This memory aid takes the form a lost and found application. The system records data about user's interactions with everyday objects, such as a wallet or phone, and presents the user with this data through a lost and found website.

Monkey Bread Software produce a really nice piece of freeware Mac OSX software called
CombinePDFs that allows you to merge or combine PDFs into a single document. It's easy to work with and does exactly what it says on the tin. Thanks Monkey Bread Software :-)

Simon Peyton Jones has a presentation on how to write a great research paper. He has some great suggestions, which I've summarised here

Infosthetics posted during the week about a Google vanity ring (there's a video here)... It's a little ring with an LCD display that shows how many hits the wearer gets on a Google vanity search... Is this the ultimate yuppy nerd toy? A nice spin-off that I know many academic-types would love would be a publish or perish citation count ring... ;-)

Lawrence Saul posted a great page on his minimalist blog here which describes how Jack Bauer writes academic papers. From the page: "To commemorate the Twenty Fourth Annual International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-07), the FOX Network has decided to launch a new spin-off series in prime time." (thanks P.)

Here's a really cool video made by Michael Welsh's group at Kansas State University. It's an excellently put together video and a very clear illustration of what Web 2.0 means.