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Caroline Byrne

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Caroline Byrne

B.Soc.Sci., M.I.S., H.Dip.CS.
 
Lecturer, Department of Computing & Networking, IT Carlow
 
Research Experience
 
It is imperative from both a human dignity as well as costs on the national health services that people remain for as long as is practicable within their own homes. Within this research we will consider in particular patients that are suffering with early Alzheimer’s.  Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is of paramount importance given the demographics of the European citizen and the ever increasing proportion of the European citizens who are 65+.
 
 
Research Interests
 
With technological advances including: wireless sensor technologies, Radio Frequency Identifier (RFID) tags, Bluetooth enabled devices, wearable computing devices and Ambient Intelligence the vision of Ambient Assisted Living is very much a reality. A reality that is both unobtrusive and economically viable. This research will be undertaken in conjunction with the Adaptive Information Cluster at University College Dublin and Dublin City University.
 
Current Research Projects
 
May 2006 : Research funding under the ‘Technological Sector Research: Strand I Post-graduate R&D Skills Program’, in association with the School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin. The project will address Ambient Assisted Living (AAL). 
 
In particular my research is located in the area of Mobile Computing, E-commerce and Artificial Intelligence.
 
Publications:
2007 O’Hare, G.M.P, O’Grady, M.J., Muldoon, C. & Byrne, C.A., Ambient Documents: Intelligent Prediction for Ubiquitous Content Access, In Proceedings of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) International, 22nd-27th July Beijing , P.R. China, Springer-Verlag publishers. 2007.
 
O’Grady, M.J., O’Hare, G.M.P., Byrne, C.A. Ambient Intelligence. 2nd Edition International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors. Taylor and Francis Publishers, 2007.
Prof. M. Burke., & C.A. Byrne.
A Case Study Evaluation of Beaumont Hospital Information System in accordance with the 1988 Council of Europe Recommendations on Hospital Information Systems.  College Review, University College Dublin, April 19-21, 1995.
G.M.P. O’Hare, C.Sas, & C.A.Byrne 
Agent Mediation and Management of Virtual Communities: A Redefinition of the Traditional Community Concept. Symposium on Technology Economic and Social Applications of Distributed Intelligence (TESADI: 01) in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems Management and Cybernetics (SMC: 01) Tucson, Arizona, USA, October 7-10 2001.
G.M.P. O’Hare, C.Sas, & C.A.Byrne
Navigation in 3D Non-Immersive Virtual Reality: A Usability Study. The 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2002) Orlando, USA, July 14-18, 2002.
C.A.Byrne, G.M.P. O’Hare, & C.Sas 
The Social Influence Model and its  Applicability to the Study and Understanding of the Virtual Community. The 6th World  Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2002) Orlando,  USA, July 14-18, 2002.
C.A.Byrne, G.M.P. O’Hare, & C.Sas. The Fourth Wall of Virtual Communities: An Examination of the Collaborative Community Concept. Submitted to 6th International Conference on Knowledge Based Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems. The 7th World  Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2003) Orlando, USA, July 27-30, 2003.
D. Denieffe,  E. Hickey,  C.A. Byrne &  G.M.P. O’Hare.
Network Context Awareness in Service Provision to Mobile Devices .XVth International Symposium on Services and Local accesS. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. March 21-24 2004.
O’Grady, M.J., O’Hare, G.M.P., Byrne, C.A. Mobile HCI.  2nd Edition International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors. Taylor and Francis Publishers 2005.
O’Grady, M.J., O’Hare, G.M.P., Byrne, C.A. Ambient Intelligence. 2nd Edition International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors. Taylor and Francis Publishers 2005.
Keegan, S., O’Hare, G.M.P., O’ Hare, P., Byrne, C.A. U-Commerce: An Infrastructural Perspective. Encyclopedia of Mobile Computing and Commerce Idea group Publishing, USA, 2006.