A little about me...
I am a Research Scientist at the Visible Process Lab in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University working on the XSEAD project. My research explores experiential media systems with a focus in three primary areas: experience capture, composition and reuse; interactivity in media arts; and participatory communities. My research engages human centered, process oriented, & interdisciplinary perspectives to understand complex multimedia systems in applied contexts of use.
Active Research
Experience Capture, Composition & Reuse
How do we capture + represent personal experience through media collections and computational tools? How can these long-term personal archives, e.g. lifelogs and social media, enable new insights and understanding of personal, societal or global significance?
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Participatory Communities, Curation & Coordination
How can understanding of complex heterogeneous communities be gathered through community contribution and action? What are the strategies for digital curation and coordination that help identify shared value and meaning for diverse interdisciplinary communities?
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Interactivity in Media Arts Applications
What is the nature and contribution of computational interactivity in already richly interactive spaces such as in media arts performance? How do media-arts perspectives on the development of interactive works enrich human-centered computing exploration?
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Featured Projects
Selected Publications
Byrne D, Kelliher, A., Cox, D., Rikakis, T. XSEAD: A community platform for art-science integration. IEEE Multimedia. Vol. 20. Issue 4 (Oct-Dec 2013), pp. 4-7. Link
Sadauskas, J., Byrne, D., Atkinson, R. Toward Social Media Based Writing. In Proc 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - HCI International 2013. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. 21 - 26 July 2013. pp 276-285. Link
Byrne D., Kelly L., Jones G. Multiple Multimodal Mobile Devices: Lessons Learned from Engineering Lifelog Solutions. Handbook of Research on Mobile Software Engineering: Design, Implementation and Emergent Applications.
Byrne, D, Kelliher, A., Jones G.J.F. Life editing: third-party perspectives on lifelog content. 2011 Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '11. Vancouver, Canada. 7-12 May 2011. pp. 1501-1510. Link
Berry, E., Byrne, D., Doherty, A.R., Gurrin, C., Smeaton, A.F. Proceedings of the second annual SenseCam symposium (SenseCam 2010). Dublin, Ireland. 16-17 September 2010. ISBN 1872-327-915. Link
Byrne, D., Jones, G.J.F. Exploring Narrative Presentation for Large Multimodal Lifelog Collections through Card Sorting. ICIDS 09 - 2nd International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling. Guimaraes, Portugal. 9-11 December 2009. LNCS Volume 5915/2009, pp. 92-97. Link
Byrne D, Doherty A., Snoek C.G.M, Jones G.F., Smeaton A.F. Everyday Concept Detection in Visual Lifelogs: Validation, Relationships and Trends. Multimedia Tools and Applications, Special Issue on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies. Volume 49, Number 1, pp. 119-144. Link