Erika is a Research Fellow with Growing Up in Ireland and is involved in both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the study including the development of parent and child questionnaires, data analysis and report writing.  She has undertaken qualitative parent and child interviews with the families and is responsible for developmental assessments of the younger cohorts.

Erika has a BA (Hons) Psychology from the Open University and graduated from Trinity with a PhD.  Her thesis entitled 'Evaulation of Movement Pogrammes in the Treatment of Dyslexia' was undertaken in the School of Psychology. Her research work also investigated early indicators of dyslexia in young children.

As a researcher with the Dyslexia Research Group, TCD, she was involved in two Enterprise Ireland Projects, DysVideo and LastActionReplay. See www.sigmedia.tv. This involved day to day feedback about digital video retrieval software performance, executing digital video management tasks, and assisting in the design and assessment of motion tracking/content management systems.

Erika lectures for the School of Education, TCD and undertakes dyslexia assessments for third level students.  She is qualified in psychometric testing.

Phone: 01 896 2670
Email: erdoyle@tcd.ie

Research Interests
Child Development;  Mixed Methods Research; Internet usage and adolescents' social interaction & identity formation; Dyslexia indicators in young children; Neurology of developmental dyslexia; Motor control in children; Use of digital video technology in assisting observational assessment in Psychology; Parenting skills and their effect on society.

Professional Bodies
Registered Psychologist, Psychological Society of Ireland.
Member, Educational Division, Psychological Society of Ireland.

Publications
Growing Up in Ireland, Key Findings No. 3, the Education of 9-Year-Olds, GUI 2009.

Growing Up in Ireland – the Lives of 9-Year-Olds, Report No. 1., The Stationery Office, Dublin, 2009.

Smyth, E., Whelan, C.T., McCoy, S., Quail A., and Doyle E.  Understanding Parental Influence on Educational Outcomes Among 9 Year Olds in Ireland:  The Mediating Role of Resources, Attitudes and Children’s Own Perspectives.  Child Indicators Research, 2009.

Refereed Conference Papers

A HMM Framework for Motion-based parsing for video from observational psychology, D. Lennon, N. A. Harte, A. Kokaram, E. Doyle, R. Fuller. Proceedings of the Irish Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing, pp 110-119, Dublin, Ireland, 30th Aug-1st Sept, 2006.

Motion-based parsing for video from observational psychology, A. Kokaram, E. Doyle, D. Lennon, L. Joyeux, R. Fuller. Proceedings of SPIE Multimedia Content Analysis, Management, and Retrieval 2006, San Jose , USA, Jan 17-19, SPIE Vol 6073;

Exploiting Temporal Discontinuities for Event Detection and Manipulation in Video Streams, H. Denman, E. Doyle, A. Kokaram, N. Rea, R. Dahyot, and R. Fuller. Proceedings of 7th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, November 10-11, 2005, Singapore;

Content Based Access for a Massive Database of Human Observation Video.
L. Joyeux, E. Doyle, H. Denman, A.C. Crawford, A. Bousseau, A. Kokaram, R. Fuller. Proceedings of 6th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, October 2004, NY, USA.