Odysseus

Caitriona is from South Kildare, Ireland. She started her B.Sc in Computing Studies/Mathematical Science in 2006 in NUI Galway and hopes to graduate in 2010. This year she will be working on “Utilising context to provide adaptive, personalised and interactive spatial services” under the supervision of Dr. Gavin McArdle and Dr. Michela Bertolotto. When not trawling through endless rubbish on the internet, Caitriona enjoys swimming and basketball. She also harbours a deep hate for people asking “Why don’t you have a gmail account?”. She just doesn't.

The goal of the project Catriona will be working on involves building upon a recently constructed framework to develop a mobile GIS which can sense the user’s context. The context can then be combined with their unique user profile and preferences in order to adapt the interface and provide them with personalised spatial content.  The aim of the project is to implement a small prototype GIS system.

One of Catriona's supervisors is Dr. Michela Bertolotto. She has been a college lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Informatics of University College Dublin since September 2000. Previously she worked at the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis and the Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering of the University of Maine as a postdoctoral research associate under the supervision of Prof. Max Egenhofer (March 1998 - August 2000). Her research activity is related to the analysis and development of relation-based models for the representation of spatial configurations and to the progressive transmission of vector geo-spatial data over the World-Wide Web.