Dr. Eoin Brazil

Dr. Eoin Brazil
PhD, MSc
Senior Software Developer
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Tel: +353 1 5241608 (ext. 36)

Eoin Brazil joined us in February 2010 and leads the Technology Transfer team. As senior software developer and consultant he will be providing solutions and services to Irish companies. Eoin has worked for nine years in various projects and technical roles in the Interaction Design Centre in UL. He studied Computer Systems at the University of Limerick where he gained a B.Sc. (hons) in 2000. He received a MSc for work on using multiple visualisation techniques and dynamic queries for browsing audio resources and received a PhD in 2009 for work on the use and design of everyday sounds for computer interfaces. His previous research has been primarily in the fields of auditory display and sonification.

Prior to joining ICHEC in February 2010 as a Software Developer, Eoin worked for nine years in various projects and technical roles in the Interaction Design Centre in UL. He worked on the Sounding Object Project (FP6), developing software to support new interactive real time sound models. This theme was continued in work on the EI basic research project "Multimodal Systems". He worked as lead software developer/interaction designer in the team that developed the Metamusic automatic music composition software for video (http://www.abaltat.com, Ablatat Muse). He was lead interaction designer and team leader for the usability facet of the EI IMS ARCS Industry Led Research project (http://www.ims-arcs.com), which explored new scenarios and prototypes for next generation telecommunication networks (NGNs) built using the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS).

Eoin holds the position of Irish Management Delegate with the European Action COST IC0601 Action on Sonic Interaction Design (SID) and works within this Action on the Sonification strand, as a member of its Working Group 4 - Sonification.

List of publications (2001-2012):

Book Chapters:

E. Brazil, M. Fernström, and L. Ottaviani. The Sounding Object, chapter Psychoacoustic validation and cataloguing of sonic objects: 2D browsing, pages 257–294. Mondo Estremo, Firenze, Italy, 2003
E. Brazil, M. Fernström. The Sonification Handbook, chapter Sonification Techniques: Auditory Icons, pages in press, Logos Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2011
E. Brazil, M. Fernström. The Sonification Handbook, chapter Applications: Navigation of Data, pages in press, Logos Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2011

Journal Papers:

M. Fernström, E. Brazil, and L. Bannon. HCI Design and Interactive Sonification for Fingers and Ears. IEEE Multimedia, 12(2):36–44, 2005
E. Brazil. A review of methods and frameworks for sonic interaction design: Exploring existing approaches. LNCS - Proceedings of the Auditory Display Conference 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 5954, pages 41-67, 2010
J. Garvey, L. Gallagher, and E. Brazil. The forecasting performance of implied volatilities on individual equity options. Journal of Futures Markets, pages in press, 2010

Refereed Conference Papers/Posters:

E. Brazil. Cue Points: An Introduction, In COST-G6 Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-01), pages 237–241, Limerick, Ireland, 2001
M. Fernström and E. Brazil. Sonic Browsing: An Auditory Tool for Multimedia Asset Management. In International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD01), pages 132–135, Espoo, Helsinki, Finland, 2001
E. Brazil, M. Fernström, G. Tzanetakis, and P. Cook. Enhancing Sonic Browsing Using Audio Information Retrieval. In International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD02), pages 132–135, Kyoto, Japan, 2002
L. Ottaviani, E. Brazil, and M. Fernström. Psychoacoustic Experiments for Validating Sound Objects in a 2-D Space Using the Sonic Browser. In XIV Colloquium on Musical Informatics (XIV CIM 2003), pages 90–94, Firenze, Italy, May 8-10 2003
E. Brazil and M. Fernström. Where’s That Sound? Exploring Arbitrary User Classifications of Sounds for Audio Collection Management. In International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD03), pages 66–70, Boston, MA, July 6-9 2003
E. Brazil, M. Fernström, and L. Ottaviani. A New Experimental Technique for Gathering Similarity Ratings for Sounds. In International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD03), pages 238–242, Boston, MA, July 6-9 2003
E. Brazil and M. Fernström. Audio Information Browsing With the Sonic Browser. In Coordinated and Multiple Views In Exploratory Visualization (CMV03), pages 28–34, London, UK, July 15 2003
M. Fernström and E. Brazil. Human-Computer Interaction Design Based on Interactive Sonification – Hearing Actions or Instruments/Agents. In International Workshop on Sonification (ISON04), Bielefeld, Germany, 2004
E. Brazil and M. Fernström. Interactive Radio: Exploring Visitor Stories Using a Radio Interface. In International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD04), Sydney, Australia, July 6-9 2004
M. Fernström, E. Brazil, and L. Bannon. An Investigation of Soft-Button Widgets Using Sound. In Proceedings of 2004 Le Journees de Design Sonore, Paris, October 13-15 2004
E. Brazil and M. Fernström. Investigating Concurrent Auditory Icon Recognition. In International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD06), London, UK, 2006
E. Brazil and M. Fernström. Investigating Ambient Auditory Information Systems. In International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD07), pages 326–333, June 26-29 2007
T. Hermann, J. Williamson, R. Murray-Smith, Y. Visell, and E. Brazil. Sonification for Sonic Interaction Design. In ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’08) Workshop on Sonic Interaction Design, pages 35–40, 2008
E. Brazil, T. O'Callaghan, M. Fernström and M. McLaughlin. Where does usability fit in an industrial academic research programme ?. In Irish Human Computer Interaction Conference (IHCI08), Cork, Ireland, 2008.
E. Brazil and M. Fernström. Subjective Experience Methods for Early Conceptual Design of Auditory Displays. In International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD09), pages 11–18, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009
E. Brazil, M. Fernström, and J. Bowers. Exploring Concurrent Auditory Icon Recognition. In International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD09), pages 56–59, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009
E. Brazil and M. Fernström. Empirically Based Auditory Display Design. In Sound Music Computing Conference (SMC09), pages 7–12, Porto, Portugal, 2009

Invited Keynote Talks:

E. Brazil. Interactive Visualisation of Sound Objects, Sonification of Hybrid Objects (soho) Workshop, Mestre, Italy, 19 June 2002
E. Brazil. Echoes, Whispers, and Footsteps from the Conflux of Sonic Interaction Design and of Public Spaces, Aural City Symposium, Berlin, Germany. In Aural City Symposium (Invited Keynote), Berlin, Germany, 31 October 2008
E. Brazil. Mixing Interaction, Sonification, Rendering and Design - the Art of Creating Sonic Interactions. in Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference (Invited Keynote), Verona, Italy, 23 October 2009