My research focuses on the challenges of creating deployable mobile and ubiquitous computing systems - often with an emphasis on new forms of rich-media interaction. I work to create new systems and to explore the design and use of these systems through real-world deployments and interaction with real end-users. This approach is typified by my work on the GUIDE project - one of the first large scale experiments of a location-based context aware city guide. This work remains the most comprehensive research project of its kind and the results were published widely in the premier Computer Science forums for Human Computer Interaction (CHI) and Mobile Computing (Mobicom). I'm currently applying the same experimental systems methodology to two new projects: NEMO and e-Campus. The NEMO project is a major collaborative project that is exploring the use of embedded systems to help improve health and safety in industrial workplaces while e-Campus focuses on designing, developing and deploying new forms of interactive public displays - essentially attempting to create a brand new global communications medium. My current research ethos is best described in the article "Leaving the Lab: Issues in Developing and Deploying Ubiquitous Computing Systems" (IEEE Pervasive, 2001). The results of my research have also been promoted beyond the traditional channels and have been featured on national (BBC Tomorrows World+) and regional (Northwest tonight etc.) television.

I have served the research community in roles including: Mobicom Program Committee from 1997-2006, the Ubicomp Program Committee from 2001-2006 and the MobiSys Program Committee in 2003 and 2005-2009. In addition I have served on numerous other Program CommitteeÕs including Pervasive 2005-2008, ICDCS 2007 and IEEE Percom 2006-2009. I was Program Chair for Ubicomp in 2004 and Program Chair for MobiSys in 2006. I am the Steering Committee Chair for IEEE WMCSA/HotMobile Ð the workshop that was at the centre of much of the early research in mobile computing. In addition to service on conference committees I was a founding Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions in Mobile Computing and served on its board from 2001-2005. In addition, I am a founding Associate Editor in Chief of IEEE Pervasive Magazine (2001-present).

I provide consultancy services on the subject of mobile and ubiquitous computing to a range of companies including both major international concerns and local SMEs.

Nigel Davies is a Professor in the Computing Department at Lancaster University and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Arizona, US. He has been a visiting research scientist at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), The Sony Electronics Distributed Systems Lab in San Jose, the Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (B-IT) and ETH Zurich. He has participated actively in the mobile computing research community and served in a number of roles including Program Chair for IEEE WMCSA 2000, Ubicomp 2004 and MobiSys 2006. In addition, Nigel was a founding Associate Editor in Chief of IEEE Pervasive Magazine and a founding Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Prof. Davies consults for a range of small and large companies and has been an investigator on grants totalling in excess of £3 million. He holds a BSc and PhD in Computer Science, both from Lancaster University, UK.

Kortuem G., Ball, L., Busby, J., Davies, N., Efstratiou, C., Iszatt-White, M., Finney, J., Kinder, K., Sensor Networks or Smart Artifacts? An Exploration of Organizational Issues of An Industrial Health and Safety Monitoring System, Proc Ubicomp 2007, 16-19 September 2007, Innsbruck, Austria.

C. Efstratiou, N. Davies, G. Kortuem, J. Finney, R. Hooper, M. Lowton, Experiences of Designing and Deploying Intelligent Sensor Nodes to Monitor Hand-Arm Vibrations in the Field, MobiSys 2007, Puerto Rico, 11-14 June 2007.

N. Davies, C. Efstratiou, J. Finney, R. Hooper, G. Kortuem, M. Lowton, Sensing Danger Ð Challenges in Supporting Health and Safety Compliance in the Field, Proc HotMobile 2007 The 8th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, February 26-27, 2007, Westin La Paloma, Tucson, AZ.

F. Albinali, N. Davies, and A. Friday, Structural learning of activities from sparse datasets, Fifth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 07), 2007.

R. Morla and N. Davies. Informing the Design of User Studies on Conceptual Interference Frameworks, IEEE Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence Symposium, Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2007.

R. Morla and N. Davies. A Framework for Describing Interference in Ubiquitous Computing Environments, PerCom 06 WIP, Pisa, Italy, March 2006.

O. Storz, A. Friday, N. Davies, J. Finney, C. Sas, and J. Sheridan, Public ubiquitous computing systems - Lessons from the e-campus display deployments, IEEE Pervasive Computing, 05(3):40Ð47, 2006.

O. Storz, A. Friday, and N. Davies, Supporting content scheduling on situated public displays, Computers & Graphics, 30(5):681Ð691, 2006.

O. Storz, A. Friday, and N. Davies, Supporting ordering and consistency in a distributed event heap for ubiquitous computing, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, pages 1Ð5, Aug. 2005.

N. Davies, Proof-of-Concept Demonstrators and Other Evils of Application-Led Research, Proc. UbiApp Workshop (a Pervasive 2005 Associated Workshop 2005). Munich, Germany. 2005.

F. Albinali and N. Davies, Applying Neural and Regression Classifiers for Recognizing Activities in Intelligent Environments, Proc. the IEE International Workshop on Intelligent Environments. Colchester, UK. 28-29 June 2005.

N. Davies, A. Hesse, A. Dix and K. Cheverst, Understanding the Role of Image Recognition in Mobile Tour Guides, Proc. Mobile HCI 05, Salzburg, Austria.