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E-mail: chris@comp.lancs.ac.uk

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Computing Department
Centre for Research in CSCW
Faculty of Applied Sciences 
Lancaster University

Research Projects

• An academic study in re-use technologies
• APPRAISAL - Software reuse
• ARIADNE - Collaborative Browsing in Digital Libraries
• Aspoev: An Aspect-Oriented Evolution Framework for Object-Oriented Database
  
• BANK-SEC:  Secure Banking Application Assembly using a component based approach
• Building the Virtual Bank
• CBSEnet: Component Based Software Engineering network
• CHAMELEON:  Powerful yet Fragile Instruments of Change
• COHERENCE - A Systematic Method of Social Analysis for Computer Systems Design
• COMIC - Computer-based Mechanisms of Interaction in Cooperative Work
• COMMONSENSE:  Multi-sensor Perceptive Interfaces in Wearable/Ubiguitous Computing
• Comparative Robotics
• COVEN - COllaborative Virtual ENvironments
• CSCW Training Fellowship
• DEADA - Development Environment for DBS Applications Based on the Document Approach
• DEBORA: Digital Access to Books of the Renaissance
• Dependability of Computer-Based Systems (IRC)
• Dependable, Service Centric Grid Computing
• Design Reuse Project
• Developing a virtual campus
• DEVRL - Distributed Extensible Virtual Reality Laboratory
• Dynamo Project: Support for Public Interaction
• ECO-ADM: Extended Component Architecture Design & Maintenance
  
• EMERGENCY - Evolving Legacy Systems to handle the European Single Currency
• ENRICH: Exploiting legacy data in new product development process
• EQUATOR: Technical innovation in physical and digital life (IRC)
• eSCAPE - Electronic landSCAPEs
• Evolving centralised legacy systems to intranet-based architectures
• FIN-TECH: Technologies for software and systems in the Financial Services/Banking Sector State-of-the-Art and Future Trends
  
• Grid-Based Medical Devices for Everyday Health
• IDEAL: Designing the Ideal System: Systematised Corpuses of Knowledge in "Information giving Service" settings
• Identification of CSCW tools to suppport teamwork
• IMPRESSION:  Initiative for Software Requirements Management Best Practice in Embedded Systems and E-Services Organisations
• InCA: Interactive Cellular Automata for Control
• Inhabiting the Web
• Interfaces and Infrastructures for Advanced Mobile Applications
  
• The Intelligent Home
• Managing requirements change through visualisation
• Multi-user Interface Framework for Heterogeneous Computing Environments
  
• P2P ARCHITECT: Ensuring dependability of p2p applications at architectural level
• Patterns of Interaction: A Pattern Language for CSCW
• Pin & Play Assessment
  
• PING: Platform for Interactive Networked Games
  
• PLATFORM:  Social Analysis in Systems Engineering
• PROBE:  Proof Obligations for aspect-oriented systems
  
• PROTEUS - Support for Software Evolution
• REAIMS - Requirements Engineering Adaptation and Improvement for Safety & Dependability
• Realising the Potential of Critical Incidents in Anaesthesia
• REFLEX Project:  Support for the Evolution in Next Generation Distributed Information Management (DIM)
• Relate Assessment
  
• Relative postioning of mobile objects
• RENAISSANCE - Methods and tool support for the evolution and re-engineering of legacy systems
• REVERE - Requirements reverse engineering to support business process change
• Safe Systems Architectures for Large Mobile Robots
• SELECT - Rating and Filtering of Scientific, Technical and Other Network Documents
• SENTIENT: Developing Support for Sensor-Based Human-Machine Interaction
• SMART-ITS: Interconnected Embedded Technology for Smart Artifacts with Collective Awareness
  
• Study of Application Families for Simulation Software Reuse
• Support for Learning Information Searching Skills
• Supporting the use of the World Wide Web in teaching
• SYCOMT - System Development and Cooperative Work: Methods and Techniques
• TRACKER: Reducing Rework through Decision Management
• Trust-CSP
• UBI-MON:Ubiquitous monitoring environment for wearable and implantable sensors
• Use of Database Engines to Support Object Oriented Database Management Systems
• Version Management and Access Control Models for Cooperative Systems
• VirtuOsi - Support for Virtual Organisations
• Wisdom: Decision support for systems engineering

• Enabling Effective Interactions in Cyberspace
• Evaluation of Cooperative Systems
• User Awareness for the World Wide Web
• VOCAL (Viewpoint Oriented Verification & Validation)
• Asynchronous distributed support for collaborative writing
• Metamorphosis: An Integrated Object Oriented Requirements Specification Method
• Dynamic reconfiguration
• PublicSpace: Mechanisms for Cooperation
• Desktop Object User Interfaces for OODBs
• Multimedia Support for Collaboration in Distributed Organisations
• Multimedia Visualisation
• Axis: A Community Memory System
• Problems of Divergence in Shared Windowing Environments