Summary:
I am a Postgraduate Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth (CS-NUIM) Ireland. The Research is part of the Strategic Research in Advanced Geotechnologies - StratAG project with funding from SFI. I obtained my Master's in Spatial Information Technology in 2007 from the University of Madras, India. I also hold a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Application(2000-2003).
My PhD Supervisor is Dr. Adam C Winstanley who is the Professor and Head of Department of Computer Science.At CS-NUIM I am involved in various projects with the research group on Geotechnologies lead by Dr. Adam Winstanley. The research group is comprised of myself, a number of PhD students, Dr. Winstanley, and two other senior researchers: Dr. Padraig Corcoran and Dr. Peter Mooney (who also works for the Environmental Protection Agency). I also work closely with other PhD students of our research group which is integrated into the Science Foundation Ireland's STRAT-AG funding (07/SRC/I1168) at the National Center for Geocomputation (NCG) at NUI Maynooth where Dr. Winstanley is a Co-PI.
I am looking at integrating haptic feedback as a modality for mobile GIS/LBS applications to provide location/orientation/distance information to the user.
[Haptic Prototypes]Research Interests
The list below briefly summarises these research interests:
- * Haptic feedback as a modality for pedestrian navigation, knowledge discovery, and/or alert systems
- * Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Spatial Cognition
- * Inertial sensors on mobile devices like - accelerometer, compass
- * Location-based Service applications - including pedestrian navigation using multiple modalities(text/color coded/haptic)
- * Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in web-based GIS. OpenStreetMap/Google MapMaker
- * Integrate Web 2.0 tools such as Twitter, Facebook, OpenStreetMap, Flickr, etc with location based applications
- * Real-time bus tracking and smart transit systems on web/mobile
- * Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM).
- * Build android apps involving - GPS,Compass,Accelerometer,Map
The presentation of Haptic GeoWand that was presented at LBS2011, Vienna, Austria. Click here.
FingalGeoWand has won Runner up in the Student's Category at the Apps4Fingal Competition: Click here
Haptic feedback for mobile location based services from Ricky Jacob on Vimeo.
Demostrating, Lectures & Student Project Supervision
I have been involved in lab demonstration for undergraduates in the department. I have also been the supervisor for final year student projects.
4th year Student Project:
3rd year Internship:
Lectures:
[2011]
> CS610 Course: Human Computer Interaction - Trends and Developments. Lecture : HapticGPS: Haptics+Pedestrian Navigation
[2010]
> CS621 Course: Spatial Databases - PostGIS+PhP with CloudmadeAPI/OpenStreetMap
> CS610 Course: Human Computer Interaction - Trends and Developments. Lecture :
Haptic Interfaces for Mobile Platforms.
[2012]
> Computer Science Summer Camp: In 20 metres turn right. [Presentation-PPT]
[2011]
> GIS Ireland 2011: Haptic feedback to deliver Spatial Information. [Download Presentation]
> Three Minute Gong Competition: Haptic feedback to provide spatial information to the user.[Presentation-PDF] (Won 1st place)
> Computer Science Summer Camp: Haptic feedback in pedestrian navigation applications. [Presentation-PDF]
> Callan Institute Research Day: Tactile cues for pedestrian navigation: "Visualisation which isn't visual". (Awarded 'Best Talk')
> Computer Science Postgraduate Workshop: Haptic feedback for pedestrian navigation: Visualisation which isn't visual.
[2010]> Title: Where+Haptics? - 'Visualisation that isn't visual', Part of the WhereCamp UK 2010 - the Geo un-conference. Hosted by the University of Nottingham, England. November 19th and 20th 2010. (WhereCamp-UK 2010) [Presentation-PDF]
> PostGraduate Seminar at the Computer Science Department: Haptic feedback as a technique for pedestrian navigation
> Discussions on how we used OSM and Cloudmade API @ NUIM: OpenStreetMap Workshop and Roundtable @ Temple Bar
StratAG Project Posters:> Towards Multi-mode Pedestrian Navigation Using OpenStreetMap Data
> TransitDroid: Delivering real-time bus tracking information on mobile devices
> Haptic feedback for localisation and navigation
Recent Publications
In this section I provide a selection of recent publications and presentations. A full list is available upon request (if necessary). Where possible I have provided persistent links to Journal articles, conference proceedings, etc. PDF versions of other papers/presentations are available upon email request.
The KML file of locations of conferences/presentations:
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Shalaik, B. and Jacob, R. and Mooney, P. and Winstanley, AC.(2012),
Using haptics as an alternative to visual map interfaces for public transport information systems,
UbiCC Journal, Special Issue: Visual Interfaces and User Experience: New Approaches, Volume 7. pp 1280-1292. [UbiCC Paper Link] [Paper Abstract] -
Jacob, R. and Smithers, S. and Winstanley, AC.(2012),
Performance evaluation of storing and querying spatial data on mobile devices for offline location based services,
In Proceedings of the 23rd IET Irish Signals and Systems Conference, Maynooth, Ireland, 2012. (ISSC 2012) [Poster] -
Jacob, R. and Winstanley, AC. and Togher, N. and Roche, R. (2012),
Pedestrian navigation using haptic feedback: Results from a field study to test spatial abilities and memory recall,
In Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 20th Annual Conference, Lancaster, England, 2012. (GISRUK 2012) [Poster]
- Ciepluch, J. and Jacob, R. and Ciepluch, B. and Mooney, P. (2011),
Hide and Tweet: A game to teach schoolchildren about spatial technologies,
International Conference on Engaging Pedagogies (ICEP, 2011), Dublin, Ireland [Digital Proceedings] - Jacob, R. and Mooney, P. and Shalaik, B. and Winstanley, AC. (2011),
HapticTransit: Tactile feedback to notify public transport users,
International Journal of Digital Information and Wireless Communication (IJDIWC) 1(3): 238-252, The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications, 2011 [IJDIWC Link to paper] -
Jacob, R. and Mooney, P. and Winstanley, AC. (2011),
Whats up that street? Exploring streets using a Haptic GeoWand,
ADVANCES IN LOCATION-BASED SERVICES Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, 2012, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg pages 91 - 103. Editors Georg Gartner and Felix Ortag. Also Full presentation at the 8th International Symposium on Location-Based Services (LBS 2011) in Vienna, 21-23 November 2011.[LBS 2011] [SpringerLink] [Link to Presentation] - Shalaik, B. and Jacob, R. and Winstanley, AC. (2011),
Smart mobile devices for extracting real-time transit information,
Proceedings of 8th International Symposium on Location-Based Services & Telecartography, Vienna, Austria, 21-23 November 2011, pp 15-21 [LBS 2011] - Jacob, R. and Mooney, P. and Winstanley, AC. (2011),
Guided by touch: Tactile pedestrian navigation,
1st Mobile Location Based Services (MLBS) Workshop in conjunction with the 13th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2011) [1st Mobile LBS Workshop] [ACM Digital Library] - Jacob, R. (2011),
Haptic feedback to deliver Spatial Information',
Proceedings of GIS Ireland 2011, Dublin, Ireland October 12th 2011 (GIS Ireland-2011) [Presentation-PDF] -
Mooney, P. and Ciepluch, B. and Jacob, R. and Corcoran, P. (2011),
Open Research: Working with Open Software and Open Data in Academic-based GIS Research,
Presented at the 3rd Open Source GIS Conference - OSGIS 2011, Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham, England, June 2011. (OSGIS 2011) [Download Paper-PDF] -
Jacob, R. and Shalaik, B. and Winstanley, AC. and Mooney, P. (2011),
Haptic feedback for passengers using public transport,
In Proceedings of The International Conference on Digital Information and Communication Technology and its Applications (DICTAP 2011), Universite de Bourgogne, France. June 21-23, 2011 H. Cherifi, J.M. Zain, and E. El-Qawasmeh (Eds.), Part I, Volume 166, pp. 24-32. Springer, Heidelberg (2011) [Presentation Link] [SpringerLink] -
Ciepluch, B. and Mooney, P. and Jacob, R. and Zheng, J. and Winstanley, AC. (2011),
Assessing the quality of open spatial data for mobile Location-based Services research and applications,
In Proceedings of The 7th International Symposium on Mobile Mapping Technology (7th MMT 2011), Cracow, Poland. June 13-16, 2011 (7th MMT 2011) [BibTex] - Shalaik, B. and Jacob, R. and Winstanley, AC. (2011),
TransitDroid: Delivering real-time bus tracking information on mobile devices,
In Proceedings of GEOINFORMATIK 2011 – GEOCHANGE, Munster, Germany. June 15-17, 2011, pp. 185-191. (Geoinformatik 2011) -
Jacob, R. and Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. and Winstanley, AC. (2011),
Model for haptic-assisted pedestrian navigation mobile applications,
In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on GeoComputation, UCL, London, England, 2011 (GeoComputation 2011) [Download Paper-PDF] [BibTex] -
Jacob, R. and Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. and Winstanley, AC. (2011),
Integrating Haptic Feedback to Pedestrian Navigation Applications,
In Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 19th Annual Conference, Portsmouth, England, 2011. pp. 210-215.(GISRUK 2011) [BibTex] -
Shalaik, B. and Jacob, R. and Winstanley, AC. (2011)
Modeling Passenger-Flow in Real-Time Bus Tracking System,
IEEE Third International Conference on Computer Modeling and Simulation, 2011. ICCMS '11. (IEEE ICCMS 2011) [BibTex] {To appear}
- Jacob, R. and Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P and Winstanley, AC. (2010),
Haptic-GIS: Exploring the possibilities,
ACM SIGSPATIAL Special, Volume 2, Number 3, November 2010. pp. 16-21 (ACMGIS 2010) [ACM Digital Library] [BibTex] - Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. and Ciepluch, B. and Jacob, R.(2010),
Introducing OpenStreetMap to the Irish GIS Community',
Proceedings of GIS Ireland 2010, Dublin, Ireland October 14th 2010 (GIS Ireland-2010) [Presentation-PDF] - Zheng, J. and Zhang, Z. and Ciepluch, B. and Winstanley, AC. and Mooney, P. Jacob, R. (2010),
PostGIS-based Pedestrian Wayfinding Module Suitable for LBS using OSMap Data,
7th International Symposium on LBS & TeleCartography, LBS 2010, Guangzhou, China. [BibTex] - Jacob, R. and Shalaik, B. and Winstanley, AC. (2010)
Integrating Real-time Bus-Tracking with Pedestrian Navigation,
OpenStreetMap State of the Map (SOTM) 2010 conference in Girona, Spain. July 2010. (SOTM 2010) [Presentation-Video] - Ciepluch, B. and Jacob, R. and Mooney, P. and Winstanley, AC. (2010)
Comparison of the accuracy of OpenStreetMap for Ireland with Google Maps and Bing Maps,
In Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (2010), N. J. Tate and P. F. Fisher, Eds., University of Leicester, UK, pp. 337-340. (Accuracy 2010) [Presentation-PDF] [Download Paper-PDF] [BibTex] - Shalaik, B. and Jacob, R. and Winstanley, AC. (2010)
Handling positional inaccuracy in a real-time bus tracking system,
In Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (2010), N. J. Tate and P. F. Fisher, Eds., University of Leicester, UK, pp. 429-431. (Accuracy 2010) [Poster] [BibTex] - Ciepluch, B. and Mooney, P. and Jacob R. and Corcoran, P. and Adam C. Winstanley
Using a fully open source approach to working with OpenStreetMap Presentation at the 2nd Annual Open Source GIS UK (OSGIS) Conference held at Centre for Geospatial Science University of Nottingham, UK (June 2010) (OSGIS 2010) [Download Paper-PDF] [BibTex] - Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. and Jacob, R. and Ciepluch, B.
Citizens as sensors. How can phenology benefit from volunteered geographic information?
Invited presentation at the International Conference on Phenology 2010: Climate change impacts and adaptations Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, June 2010 (Phenology 2010) [BibTex] - Zheng, J. and Chen, X. and Ciepluch, B. and Winstanley, AC. and Mooney, P and Jacob, R. (2010)
Mobile routing services for small towns using cloudmade API and OpenStreetMap,
In Proceedings of the 14th Joint International Conference on Theory, Data Handling and Modelling in GeoSpatial Information Science (Hong Kong, China, 2010), J. Shi, Q. Zhou, Y. Leung, and C. Zhou, Eds., The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, pp. 149-154. (Website) [Download Paper-PDF] [BibTex] -
Shalaik, B. and Jacob, R. and Winstanley, AC. (2010)
Integrating Real-time Bus-Tracking with Pedestrian Navigation in a Journey Planning System,
In Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 18th Annual Conference (London, England, 2010), M. Haklay, J. Morely, and H. Rahemtulla, Eds., University College London, pp. 149-154. [BibTex] - Jacob, R. and Winstanley, AC. (2010) My Town, My Map, Milieu 2010, Maynooth Geography Society Journal, 2010, 33rd Edition, 42-44. (Milieu 2010) [BibTex]
- Jacob, R. and Zheng, J. and Winstanley, AC. and Ciepluch, B. and Mooney, P. (2009)
Campus Guidance System for International Conferences Based on OpenStreetMap
Proceedings of 9th International Symposium, W2GIS 2009, Maynooth, Ireland, Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg, German, Volume 5886/2009, pp. 187-198 (W2GIS 2009) [Download Paper-PDF] [ACM Digital Library] [SpringerLink] [BibTex] - Jacob, R. and Zheng, J. and Winstanley, AC. and Ciepluch, B. and Mooney, P. (2009)
A Multi-lingual pedestrian navigation and campus guidance system using CloudMade API.
In Lees, B.G. & Laffan, S.W. (eds), 10th International Conference on GeoComputation, UNSW, Sydney, November-December, 2009. (GeoComputation 2009) [Download Paper-PDF] [BibTex] - Ciepluch, B. and Jacob R. and Mooney, P. and Winstanley, AC. (2009)
Using OpenStreetMap to deliver location-based environmental information in Ireland
COLUMN: ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2009 PhD showcases. Special 1: 17-22. (ACMGIS 2010) [Download Paper-PDF] [ACM Digital Library] [BibTex] - Jacob, R. and Winstanley, AC. and Mac Aoidh, E. and Meenagh, D. (2009)
Wiimote as a Navigation tool for Pedestrians,
Proceedings of the 4th China-Ireland Information and Communications Technologies Conference, 2009, NUI Maynooth, Ireland. pp. 23-24 (CIICT 2009) [BibTex]
Geotechnologies Research Group,
Department of Computer Science,
National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM)
Maynooth, Co. Kildare.
Ireland.
Telephone: +353-1-708 6099
Email: rjacob [at] cs.nuim [dot] ie
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fingalGeoWand has won Runner Up in the Student's Category at the Apps4Fingal Competition: Click here