Research
Latest Research Activities
Committees
CCNC'2009 - UASS Workshop, Technical Program Commitee
HotMobile 2009, Web Chair
European Conference on Ambient Inteligence 2008, Workshop Chair
Review Committees
Pervasive 2008
Internet of Things 2008
IEEE Pervasive Computing, Special issue on Activity-Based Computing - Apr-Jun '08
Pervasive 2007
EuroSSC 2007
Euro-Par 2007
MobiSys 2006
Invited talks / presentations
Invited pannelist in MobiOpp 2007 workshop, in conjunction with ACM MobiSys 2007, June 11 2007.
Title: "Mobile Opportunistic Networking: Drivers and Research Directions".
Invited speaker in SensorNet 2007 workshop, 30 May 2007.
Title: "Sensors in the Field: Supporting Health & Safety in Industrial Sites".
Invited presentation at InTouch Ltd, Morecambe, 18 October 2006.
Title: "The NEMO Project".
Invited demonstration at CoBIS project meeting, 10 October 2006. Title: "The Hand-Arm Vibration Monitoring System".
Projects
NEMO
Running
In the context of the NEMO project we are investigating the use of inteligend
mobile sensor network for monitoring compliance with Health & Safety regulations
in the field (construction sites, chemical factories, etc.). We envisage a world
in which physical work artefacts such as tools are augmented with cooperating
mobile nodes featuring both sensors and actuators and communicating over ad-hoc
wireless networks. These mobile systems would be able to observe the working
activities taking place, evaluate compliance with health and safety regulations
and assist or actively enforce compliance with these regulations.
e-Campus
Running
The e-Campus project is creating a world-class research network of public displays at Lancaster. Each e-Campus display can show a wide range of content including experimental applications that users can interact with. The project is funded by a grant from HEFCE and is being led by members of the Computing Department, ISS and Estates. The displays serve a dual purpose - to provide a platform for advanced research and to enhance the experience of staff, students and visitors to the campus.
Past Projects
Support for Service Discovery and Interaction
Completed: September 2003
Future ubiquitous computing environment will be highly heterogeneous, service rich domains. Moreover, future applications will consequently be required to interact with multiple, specialised service location and interaction protocols simultaneously. In this project we are aiming to provide a simple extensible meta-service discovery architecture that uses database techniques to unify existing service discovery protocols (UPnP, SLP, Jini, HAVi).
GUIDE & GUIDE II
Completed: July 1999 & September 2002
The aim of this project is to investigate the provision of context-sensitive mobile multimedia computing support for city visitors. In essence, the project will develop a number of hand-portable multimedia end-systems which will provide information to visitors as they navigate an appropriately networked city. The end-systems will be context-sensitive, i.e. they will have knowledge of their users and of their environment including, most importantly, their physical location. This information will be used to tailor the system's behaviour in order to provide users with an intelligent visitor guide.
Interfaces & Infrastructure for Mobile Applications
Completed: October 2001
Mobile environments are characterized by frequent and sudden changes in both context and resource availability. While existing systems have focused on supporting adaptation to changes in resource constraints or contextual-awareness, in this project we focused on obtaining insights into the design and implementation of an infrastructure platform that would handle both types of variation with equal ease. Our analysis of existing systems revealed that they have been primarily designed to support an extremely limited set of triggers, reflecting changes in either resource availability (typically network QoS) or context (typically location). However, research carried out as part of this project has demonstrated that as the number of triggers increases there is a clear need for a common platform to allow the resolution of conflicts and to perform system-wide behavioral optimization.
More details: The Coordinated Adaptation Platform