Keith Cheverst

Supporting (Mobile) User Experience at a Rural Village ‘Scarecrow Festival’: A Formative Study of a Geolocated Photo Mashup Utilising a Situated Display (2009)

Keith Cheverst, Paul Coulton, Will Bamford, Nick Taylor

In this paper, we describe a novel application focus for the web2.0 paradigm of user generated mashups of geo-tagged photos, Here we are interested in photos captured by multiple participants (via...

lancaster.ac.uk (2009)

Keith Cheverst, Nick Taylor, Mark Rouncefield, Areti Galani, Christian Kray

In this paper we discuss the obdurate problems associated with evaluating the extent to which technological interventions – in particular those based on mobile and ubiquitous technologies – can...

ABSTRACT Photomap: Snap, Grab and Walk away with a ‘YOU ARE HERE ’ Map (2009)

Keith Cheverst, Antonio Krüger, Johannes Schöning, Michael Rohs, Deutsche Telekom

One compelling scenario for the use of GPS enabled phones is support for navigation, e.g. enabling a user to glance down at the screen of her mobile phone in order to be reassured that she is indeed...

Public and situated displays to support communities (Workshop) (2008)

Taylor, Nick, Cheverst, Keith, Satchell, Christine, Foth, Marcus, MacColl, Ian

This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners working with public displays in communities to share experiences and to identify research themes and issues arising from social and...

intention (2008)

Keith Cheverst, Gareth Smith

the notion of information push and pull with respect to the user

"How Do You Turn A Duck Into A Soul Singer? Put It In The Microwave Until Its Bill Withers": Some social features of a simple technology. (2008)

Connor Graham, Keith Cheverst, Dan Fitton, Mark Rouncefield

Abstract. This paper considers some social features of a simple technology- SMS texting- as a means of enabling people to send messages as a routine feature of everyday working life. It uses a rich...

3D Space-Time Visualization of Player Behaviour in Pervasive Location-Based Games. (2008)

Coulton, Paul, Bamford, Will, Cheverst, Keith, Rashid, Omer

Location-based games not only offer new experiences for the players, but also present new challenges for researchers in terms of analyzing player behaviour. Whilst many ethnographical studies have...

The Co-realisation of a Village Photo Display (2008)

Taylor, Nick, Cheverst, Keith, Dix, Alan, Silva, Paula Alexandra, Rouncefield, Mark

We describe the techniques used to evaluate the potential of situated photo displays in supporting notions of community in a rural village. Through a combination of ethnography, technology probe...

Encouraging Community Spirit with Situated Displays (2008)

Taylor, Nick, Rouncefield, Mark, Cheverst, Keith, Izadi, Shahram

There is a widespread belief that ‘community’ has been greatly diminished in many areas, partly attributed to the isolation and weak social ties encouraged by modern technology such as...

A Wireless Public Access Infrastructure for Supporting Mobile Context-Aware IPv6 Applications (2008)

Adrian Friday, Maomao Wu, Stefan Schmid, Joe Finney, Keith Cheverst, Bailrigg Lancaster

This paper presents a novel wireless access point architecture designed to support the development of next generation mobile context-aware applications over metropolitan scale areas. In addition,...

Designing Assistive Technologies For Medication Regimes in Care Settings. (2008)

Stewart Kember, Keith Cheverst, Karen Clarke, Guy Dewsbury, Terry Hemmings, Tom Rodden, ...

This paper presents some early design work of the 'Care in the Digital Community ’ research project- begun under the EPSRC IRC Network project EQUATOR. Gaining a comprehensive understanding of...

3D Space-Time Visualization of Player Behaviour in Pervasive Location-Based Games (2008)

Paul Coulton, Will Bamford, Keith Cheverst, Omer Rashid

Location-based games not only offer new experiences for the players, but also present new challenges for researchers in terms of analyzing player behaviour. Whilst many ethnographical studies have...

Public and situated displays to support communities (Workshop) (2008)

Taylor, Nick, Cheverst, Keith, Satchell, Christine, Foth, Marcus, MacColl, Ian

This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners working with public displays in communities to share experiences and to identify research themes and issues arising from social and...

Public and situated displays to support communities (Workshop) (2008)

Taylor, Nick, Cheverst, Keith, Satchell, Christine, Foth, Marcus, MacColl, Ian

This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners working with public displays in communities to share experiences and to identify research themes and issues arising from social and...

3D Space-Time Visualization of Player Behaviour in Pervasive Location-Based Games (2008)

Paul Coulton, Will Bamford, Keith Cheverst, Omer Rashid

Location-based games not only offer new experiences for the players, but also present new challenges for researchers in terms of analyzing player behaviour. Whilst many ethnographical studies have...

Public and situated displays to support communities (Workshop) (2008)

Taylor, Nick, Cheverst, Keith, Satchell, Christine, Foth, Marcus, MacColl, Ian

This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners working with public displays in communities to share experiences and to identify research themes and issues arising from social and...

Bailrigg, Lancaster, (2007)

Christos Efstratiou, Keith Cheverst, Nigel Davies, Adrian Friday, La Yr

Mobile applications are required to operate in environments that change. Specifically, the availability of resources and services may change significantly during typical system operation. As a...

intention (2007)

Keith Cheverst, Gareth Smith

the notion of information push and pull with respect to the user

'Getting the Message': SMS Messaging and Community Care (2007)

Keith Cheverst, Guy Dewsbury, Dan Fitton, Mark Rouncefield

This paper presents some of the early design work of the 'Digital Care ' research project. We outline some initial findings and designs from this interdisciplinary research project focusing...

Research In Mobile Context-aware Applications (2007)

Keith Cheverst

For the past seven years I have been a member of Lancaster University’s Distributed

Probing Communities: Study of a Village Photo Display (2007)

Taylor, Nick, Cheverst, Keith, Fitton, Dan, Race, Nicholas J. P., Rouncefield, Mark, Graham, Connor

In this paper we describe a technology probe aiming to aid understanding of how digital displays can help support communities. Using a simple photo gallery application, deployed in a central social...

Exploring Awareness Related Messaging Through Two Situated-Display-Based Systems. (2007)

Cheverst, Keith;, Dix , Alan;, Fitton , Daniel;, Rouncefield , Mark;, Graham, Connor

This article focuses on our exploration of awareness issues through the design and long-term deployment of two systems: the Hermes office door display system (which enabled staff in a university...

Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (2007)

Gregor Broll, Er De Luca, Enrico Rukzio, Chie Noda, Keith Cheverst, ...

www.mimuc.de/mirw2007 5th Workshop on "HCI in Mobile Guides" (MGuides 2007) www.mguides.info in Conjunction with the

Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (2007)

Gregor Broll, Er De Luca, Enrico Rukzio, Chie Noda, Keith Cheverst, ...

www.mimuc.de/mirw2007 5th Workshop on "HCI in Mobile Guides" (MGuides 2007) www.mguides.info in Conjunction with the

Technology for the Humdrum: trajectories, interactional needs and a care setting (2006)

Connor Graham, Keith Cheverst, Mark Rouncefield

We report on a care setting where staff looking after ex-psychiatric hospital patients used mobile and stationary communications technology (e.g. mobile phones and a messaging system) and physical...

Technology for the Humdrum: trajectories, interactional needs and a care setting (2006)

Connor Graham, Keith Cheverst, Mark Rouncefield

We report on a care setting where staff looking after ex-psychiatric hospital patients used mobile and stationary communications technology (e.g. mobile phones and a messaging system) and physical...

Technology for the Humdrum: trajectories, interactional needs and a care setting (2006)

Connor Graham, Keith Cheverst, Mark Rouncefield

We report on a care setting where staff looking after ex-psychiatric hospital patients used mobile and stationary communications technology (e.g. mobile phones and a messaging system) and physical...

Developing digital records: early experiences of record and replay (2006)

Andy Crabtree, Andrew French, Chris Greenhalgh, Steve Benford, Keith Cheverst, Mark Rouncefield, ...

Abstract. In this paper we consider the development of ‘digital records ’ to support ethnographic study of interaction and collaboration in ubiquitous computing environments and articulate the...

Exploring Issues of User Model Transparency and Proactive Behaviour in an Office Environment Control System. (2005)

Cheverst, Keith;, Byun, Hee Eon;, Fitton, Dan;, Sas, Corina;, Kray, Chris;, Villar, Nicolas

It is important that systems that exhibit proactive behaviour do so in a way that does not surprise or frustrate the user. Consequently, it is desirable for such systems to be both personalised and...

Technology for the humdrum: Trajectories, interactional needs and a care setting (2005)

Connor Graham, Keith Cheverst, Mark Rouncefield

We report on a care setting where staff looking after ex-psychiatric patients were supported by mobile and stationery communications technology (e.g. mobile phones, a messaging system) and physical...

Understanding the role of image recognition in mobile tour guides (2005)

Nigel Davies, Keith Cheverst, Alan Dix

Users of mobile tour guides often express a strong desire for the system to be able to provide information on arbitrary objects they encounter during their visit – akin to pointing to a building or...

Utilizing Context History to Provide Dynamic Adaptations. (2004)

Cheverst, Keith, Byun, Hee Eon

In order to provide "intimate" and "dynamic" adaptations under Weiser's vision for ubiquitous computing environments, we propose the utilization of context history together with user modeling and...

The Auditability of Public Space - Approaching Security through Social Visibility (2004)

Dix, Alan, Cheverst, Keith, Fitton, Dan, Friday, Adrian

Abstract: This paper discusses how the public setting of a situated display acts as a resource for security. The very publicness creates a social auditability that prevents certain kinds of abuse....

Exploring the utility of remote messaging and situated office door displays (2003)

Cheverst, Keith, Dix, Alan, Fitton, Dan, Friday, Adrian, Rouncefield, Mark

In recent years, the proliferation in use of the GSM short message service (or SMS) has prompted numerous studies into person to person messaging via mobile devices. However, to date, there has been...

Experiments with multi-modal interfaces in a context-aware city guide (2003)

Bornträger, Christian, Cheverst, Keith, Davies, Nigel, Dix, Alan, Friday, Adrian, Seitz, Jochen

In recent years there has been considerable research into the development of mobile context-aware applications. The canonical example of such an application is the context-aware tour-guide that...

Network layer access control for context-aware IPv6 applications (2003)

Adrian Friday, Maomao Wu, Joe Finney, Stefan Schmid, Keith Cheverst, Nigel Davies

Abstract. As part of the Lancaster GUIDE II project, we have developed a novel wireless access point protocol designed to support the development of next generation mobile context-aware applications...

Experiments with Multi-modal Interfaces in a Context-Aware City Guide (2003)

Christian Bornträger, Keith Cheverst, Nigel Davies, Alan Dix, Adrian Friday, Jochen Seitz, ...

Abstract. In recent years there has been considerable research into the development of mobile context-aware applications. The canonical example of such an application is the context-aware tour-guide...

Supporting proactive ”intelligent” behaviour: the problem of uncertainty (2003)

Hee Eon Byun, Keith Cheverst

This paper describes our exploration into some of the inherent uncertainty issues that arise when designing for proactive and ‘intelligent ’ behaviour within ubiquitous computing environments. We...

Gathering Requirements for Inclusive Design (2003)

Mark Blythe, Gordon Baxter, Peter Wright, Keith Cheverst, Karen Clarke, Guy Dewsbury, ...

This paper reports on two qualitative methods- 'technology biographies ' and 'cultural probes '- as methods to facilitate research in interdisciplinary research in domestic...

Designing with care: Adapting cultural probes to inform design in sensitive settings (2003)

Andy Crabtree, Terry Hemmings, Tom Rodden, Nottingham Ng Bb, Keith Cheverst, Karen Clarke, ...

We report on the methodological process of developing computer support for former psychiatric patients living in residential care settings, for older members of the community, and disabled people...

Utilising the event calculus for policy driven adaptation on mobile systems (2002)

Efstratiou, Christos, Friday, Adrian, Davies, Nigel, Cheverst, Keith

Adaptation is an important requirement for mobile applications due to the varying levels of resource availability that characterises mobile environments. However, without proper control, multiple...

Future wireless applications for a networked city: services for visitors and residents (2002)

Davies, Nigel, Cheverst, Keith, Friday, Adrian, Mitchell, Keith

Future wireless networks will offer near-ubiquitous high-bandwidth communications to mobile users. In addition, the accurate position of users will be known, either through network services or via...

CORTEX: Towards supporting Autonomous and Cooperating Sentient entities (2002)

Verissimo, Paulo, Cahill, Vinny, Casimiro, António, Cheverst, Keith, Friday, Adrian, Kaiser, Jörg

A new class of application that operates independently of direct human control is starting to emerge. It is our belief that the development of such applications is highlighting the shortcomings of...

A platform supporting coordinated adaptation in mobile systems (2002)

Efstratiou, Christos, Friday, Adrian, Davies, Nigel, Cheverst, Keith

Mobile environments are highly dynamic, characterised by frequent and sudden changes in resource availability. As a consequence, adaptive mobile applications need to be capable of adapting their...

Utilising the event calculus for policy driven adaptation on mobile systems (2002)

Christos Efstratiou, Adrian Friday, Nigel Davies, Keith Cheverst

Adaptation is an important requirement for mobile applications due to the varying levels of resource availability that characterises mobile environments. However without proper control, multiple...

A platform supporting coordinated adaptation in mobile systems (2002)

Christos Efstratiou, Adrian Friday, Nigel Davies, Keith Cheverst

Mobile environments are highly dynamic, characterised by frequent and sudden changes in resource availability. As a consequence, adaptive mobile applications need to be capable of adapting their...

Harnessing context to support proactive behaviours (2002)

Hee Eon Byun, Keith Cheverst

In order to realise an intimate and proactive personal assistant under the Weiser’s vision for ubiquitous computing environments, we propose the utilisation of context history together with user...

The rationale for infrastructure support for adaptive and context-aware applications: A position paper (2001)

Davies, Nigel, Cheverst, Keith, Efstratiou, Christos, Friday, Adrian

Research has demonstrated that mobile and wireless applications benefit from a knowledge of their operating environment. Examples of context-aware or adaptive applications have been constructed and...

Understanding Existing Smart Environments: A Brief Classification (2001)

Phillips, Peter, Friday, Adrian, Cheverst, Keith

In recent years, smart environments have emerged as a key target area for ubiquitous and pervasive computing research. As technologists contemplate moving the focus of their research from proprietary...

The role of shared context in supporting cooperation between city visitors (2001)

Cheverst, Keith, Smith, Gareth, Mitchell, Keith, Friday, Adrian, Davies, Nigel

The sharing of contextual information between individuals is a notion that often sparks emotional debate. It is interesting to note that the majority of existing work on sharing contextual...

Design With Care (2001)

Cheverst, Keith, Kember, S., Friday, Adrian, Phillips, Peter, Rouncefield, Mark, Rodden, Tom, ...

This paper is primarily about design and some of the difficulties of 'appropriate' design in care settings: about the interaction between technologies, application domains, design methodologies and...

An architecture for the effective support of adaptive context-aware applications (2001)

Efstratiou, Christos, Cheverst, Keith, Davies, Nigel, Friday, Adrian

Mobile applications are required to operate in environments characterised by change. More specifically, the availability of resources and services may change significantly during a typical period of...

A wireless public access infrastructure for supporting mobile context-aware IPv6 applications (2001)

Friday, Adrian, Wu, Maomao, Schmid, Stefan, Finney, Joe, Cheverst, Keith, Davies, Nigel

As part of the Lancaster GUIDE II project, we have developed a novel wireless access point protocol designed to support the development of next generation mobile context-aware applications in our...

Network layer access control for context-aware IPv6 applications (2001)

Friday, Adrian, Wu, Maomao, Finney, Joe, Schmid, Stefan, Cheverst, Keith, Davies, Nigel

As part of the Lancaster GUIDE II project, we have developed a novel wireless access point protocol designed to support the development of next generation mobile context-aware applications in our...

An access control architecture for metropolitan area wireless networks (2001)

Friday, Adrian, Wu, Maomao, Schmid, Stefan, Finney, Joe, Cheverst, Keith, Davies, Nigel

This paper presents a novel wireless access point architecture designed to support the development of next generation mobile context-aware applications over metropolitan scale areas. In addition,...

Exploiting User Models and Context-Awareness to Support Personal Daily Activities (2001)

Hee Eon Byun, Keith Cheverst

A context-aware system can adapt its behaviour according to the user’s personal or environmental context. Historically, user models have been used to enable the adaptation and personalisation of...

An Architecture for the Effective Support of Adaptive Context-Aware Applications (2001)

Christos Efstratiou, Keith Cheverst, Nigel Davies, Adrian Friday

Abstract. Mobile applications are required to operate in environments characterised by change. More specifically, the availability of resources and services may change significantly during a typical...

Investigating context-aware information push vs. information pull to tourists (2001)

Keith Cheverst, Keith Mitchell, Nigel Davies

Despite much interest over recent years in the area of context-aware computing, there are still a number of significant gaps in our understanding of the HCI issues associated with such systems. One...

Using Context as a Crystal Ball: Rewards and Pitfalls (2001)

Keith Cheverst, Nigel Davies, Keith Mitchell, Christos Efstratiou

The use of context (both situated and environmental) has significant potential for simplifying the user’s understanding of, and interaction with, complex interactive systems. Due to the size of...

Experiences of Developing and Deploying a Context-Aware Tourist Guide: The GUIDE Project (2000)

Cheverst, Keith, Davies, Nigel, Mitchell, Keith, Friday, Adrian

The GUIDE system has been developed to provide city visitors with a hand-held context-aware tourist guide. The system has been successfully deployed in a major tourist destination and is currently at...

Developing Context-Aware Electronic Tourist Guide: Some Issues and Experiences (2000)

Cheverst, Keith, Davies, Nigel, Mitchell, Keith, Friday, Adrian, Efstratiou, Christos

In this paper, we describe our experiences of developing and evaluating GUIDE, an intelligent electronic tourist guide. The GUIDE system has been built to overcome many of the limitations of the...

Experiences of developing and deploying a context-aware tourist guide: the GUIDE project (2000)

Keith Cheverst, Nigel Davies, Keith Mitchell, Adrian Friday

The GUIDE system has been developed to provide city visitors with a hand-held context-aware tourist guide. The system has been successfully deployed in a major tourist destination and is currently at...

Sharing (Location) Context to Facilitate Collaboration Between City Visitors (2000)

Keith Cheverst, Keith Mitchell, Adrian Friday, Nigel Davies

navigation. The sharing of contextual information between individuals is a notion that often sparks emotional debate. It is interesting to note that the majority of existing work on sharing...

Reflection: A Solution for Highly Adaptable Mobile Systems.” Middleware (2000)

Christos Efstratiou, Keith Cheverst

Mobile systems are characterised by the fact that they operate in an environment prone to rapid and drastic changes [4]. More specifically, attributes like network quality of service (QoS) or power...

Developing a Context-aware Electronic Tourist Guide: Some Issues and Experiences (2000)

Keith Cheverst, Nigel Davies, Keith Mitchell, Adrian Friday, Christos Efstratiou

In this paper, we describe our experiences of developing and evaluating GUIDE, an intelligent electronic tourist guide. The GUIDE system has been built to overcome many of the limitations of the...

Experiences of developing and deploying a context-aware tourist guide: the GUIDE project (2000)

Keith Cheverst, Nigel Davies, Keith Mitchell, Adrian Friday

The GUIDE system has been developed to provide city visitors with a hand-held context-aware tourist guide. The system has been successfully deployed in a major tourist destination and is currently at...

Architectural ideas for the support of adaptive context-aware applications (2000)

Keith Cheverst, Christos Efstratiou, Nigel Davies, Adrian Friday

Mobile applications are required to operate in environments characterised by change. More specifically, the availability of resources and services may change significantly during a typical period of...

Sharing (Location) Context to Facilitate Collaboration Between City Visitors (2000)

Keith Cheverst, Keith Mitchell, Adrian Friday, Nigel Davies

The development and evaluation of the GUIDE system [5][6][7][8] demonstrated the potential value and acceptability of a mobile context-aware interactive assistant to city visitors. However, one of...

Developing a Context-aware Electronic Tourist Guide: Some Issues and Experiences (2000)

Keith Cheverst, Nigel Davies, Keith Mitchell, Adrian Friday, Christos Efstratiou

In this paper, we describe our experiences of developing and evaluating GUIDE, an intelligent electronic tourist guide. The GUIDE system has been built to overcome many of the limitations of the...

Design of an Object Model for a Context-Sensitive Tourist Guide (1999)

Cheverst, Keith, Davies, Nigel, Mitchell, Keith, Friday, Adrian

This paper describes work carried out as part of the GUIDE project at Lancaster University. The overall aim of the project is to develop a context-sensitive tourist guide for visitors to the city of...

Management of Proxy Objects Providing Multimedia Applications in the Mobile Environment (1999)

Seitz, Jochen, Cheverst, Keith, Davies, Nigel, Ebner, Michael, Friday, Adrian

Due to increasing computational power, long-life batteries and wireless links with improving bandwidth, distributed multimedia applications have become more and more attractive for mobile users....

The Support of Mobile-Awareness in Collaborative Groupware (1999)

Cheverst, Keith, Blair, Gordon S., Davies, Nigel, Friday, Adrian

This paper explores the need for mobile-awareness in groupware designed for use in a mobile environment. The motivation for providing this additional form of awareness is that current groupware tends...

Caches in the Air: Disseminating Information in the Guide System (1999)

Davies, Nigel, Cheverst, Keith, Mitchell, Keith, Friday, Adrian

The paper describes work carried out as part of the GUIDE project at Lancaster University. The overall aim of the project is to develop a context-sensitive tourist guide for visitors to the city of...

The Role of Connectivity in Supporting Context-Sensitive Applications (1999)

Cheverst, Keith, Davies, Nigel, Mitchell, Keith, Friday, Adrian

This paper considers the role of network connectivity in supporting context-sensitive applications. A range of context-sensitive applications are analysed with respect to connectivity. Following this...

Developing Adaptive Applications: The MOST Experience (1999)

Friday, Adrian, Davies, Nigel, Blair, Gordon S., Cheverst, Keith

Future computer environments will include mobile computers which will either be disconnected, weakly inter-connected by low speed wireless networks such as GSM, or fully inter-connected by high speed...

Supporting Collaboration in Mobile-aware Groupware (1999)

Keith Cheverst, Gordon Blair, Nigel Davies, Adrian Friday

This paper builds on the experiences gained from the extensive work carried out during the MOST project [MOST,95]. This project investigated the use of mobile technologies to support multimedia...

Supporting Collaboration in Mobile-aware Groupware (1999)

Keith Cheverst, Gordon Blair, Nigel Davies, Adrian Friday

This paper builds on the experiences gained from the extensive work carried out during the MOST project [MOST,95]. This project investigated the use of mobile technologies to support multimedia...

Developing Interfaces for Collaborative Mobile Systems (1998)

Cheverst, Keith, Davies, Nigel, Friday, Adrian

This paper describes the issues encountered when developing user interfaces for collaborative multimedia applications designed for operation in unreliable mobile networking environments. To provide...

Developing A Context Sensitive Tourist Guide (1998)

Nigel Davies, Keith Mitchell, Keith Cheverst And Gordon Blair, Keith Cheverst, Gordon Blair

all of the information they require pre-installed as typified by, for example, the Cyberguide project [Long,96]. This approach is likely to have performance benefits since it does not rely on...

Developing Interfaces for Collaborative Mobile Systems (1998)

Keith Cheverst, Nigel Davies, Adrian Friday

This paper describes the issues encountered when developing user interfaces for collaborative multimedia applications designed for operation in unreliable mobile networking environments. To provide...

Design of an Object Model for a Context Sensitive Tourist GUIDE (1998)

Keith Cheverst, Keith Mitchell, Nigel Davies

this paper we present the results of our requirements analysis and early development work on the GUIDE system. In particular, we focus on our design of an appropriate object model, capable of...

Distributed Systems Support for Adaptive Mobile Applications (1996)

Davies, Nigel, Friday, Adrian, Blair, Gordon S., Cheverst, Keith

Mobile applications must operate in environments which experience rapid and significant fluctuations in the Quality of Service (QoS) offered by their underlying communications infrastructure. These...

Extensions to ANSAware for advanced mobile applications (1996)

Friday, Adrian, Blair, Gordon S., Cheverst, Keith, Davies, Nigel

Significant advances have been made in recent years in tackling the problem of heterogeneity in distributed systems with ISO/ ITU-T standards for a Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing...

Services to Support Consistency in Mobile Collaborative Applications (1996)

Cheverst, Keith, Davies, Nigel, Friday, Adrian, Blair, Gordon S.

This paper describes the design of services to support consistency in collaborative mobile applications. The requirements for application level consistency in groupware applications are discussed and...

Supporting Collaborative Applications in a Heterogeneous Mobile Environment (1996)

Davies, Nigel, Blair, Gordon S., Cheverst, Keith, Friday, Adrian

This paper describes the implementation and use of a platform designed to support collaborative multimedia applications in a mobile environment. The platform provides a programming interface...

A Collaborative Multimedia Application For A Mobile Environment (1996)

Nigel Davies, Gordon S. Blair, Keith Cheverst, Adrian Friday

With recent advances in portable computers and wireless networks, it is now feasible to provide sophisticated IT support for a range of mobile workers in areas such as the police, ambulance services...

Distributed Systems Support For Adaptive Mobile Applications (1996)

Nigel Davies, Adrian Friday, Gordon S. Blair, Keith Cheverst

Mobile applications must operate in environments which experience rapid and significant fluctuations in the quality of service (QoS) offered by their underlying communications infrastructure. These...

Services To Support Consistency In Mobile Collaborative Applications (1996)

Keith Cheverst, Nigel Davies, Adrian Friday, Gordon S. Blair

This paper describes the design of services to support consistency in collaborative mobile applications. The requirements for application level consistency in groupware applications are discussed and...

Distributed Systems Support for Adaptive Mobile Applications (1996)

Nigel Davies, Adrian Friday, Gordon S. Blair, Keith Cheverst

Mobile applications must operate in environments which experience rapid and significant fluctuations in the quality of service (QoS) offered by their underlying communications infrastructure. These...

Experiences of Using RM-ODP to Build Advanced Mobile Applications (1995)

Davies, Nigel, Blair, Gordon S., Cheverst, Keith, Friday, Adrian

Significant advances have been made in recent years in tackling the problem of heterogeneity in distributed systems with ISO/ITU-T standards for a Reference Model for Open Distributed Processing...

A Collaborative Multimedia Application for a Mobile Environment (1995)

Davies, Nigel, Blair, Gordon S., Cheverst, Keith, Friday, Adrian

With recent advances in portable computers and wireless networks, it is now feasible to provide sophisticated IT support for a range of mobile workers in areas such as the police, ambulance services...

A Network Emulator To Support the Development of Adaptive Applications (1995)

Davies, Nigel, Blair, Gordon S., Cheverst, Keith, Friday, Adrian

Mobile applications must operate in environments in which the network connectivity, input/output devices, power and contextual information available to them may all vary. Applications which react to...

A Network Emulator To Support The Development Of Adaptive Applications (1995)

Nigel Davies, Gordon S. Blair, Keith Cheverst, Adrian Friday

Mobile applications must operate in environments in which the network connectivity, input/output devices, power and contextual information available to them may all vary. Applications which react to...

Supporting Collaborative Applications In A Heterogeneous Mobile Environment (1995)

Nigel Davies, Gordon S. Blair, Keith Cheverst, Adrian Friday, La Yr

This paper describes the implementation and use of a platform designed to support collaborative multimedia applications in a mobile environment. The platform provides a programming interface...

Supporting Adaptive Services in a Heterogeneous Mobile Environment (1994)

Davies, Nigel, Blair, Gordon S., Cheverst, Keith, Friday, Adrian

Future computer environments will include mobile computers which will either be disconnected, weakly interconnected by low-speed wireless networks such as GSM (global system for mobile...

Moving the 'Desktop' Into the Field (1994)

Cheverst, Keith, Blair, Gordon S., Davies, Nigel, Friday, Adrian, Cross, Andrew D., Raven, Peter F.

The electricty industry, as other utilities, is concerned with the management of large scale distribution networks. These networks have been developing for more than a century and the methods for...

The role of adaptive hypermedia in a context-aware tourist GUIDE (0000)

Cheverst, Keith

Common problems encountered by tourists when visiting a city for the first time is where to go and what to do, in the limited amount of time available. In effect, cities are large information spaces...

The role of adaptive hypermedia in a context-aware tourist GUIDE

Cheverst, Keith

Common problems encountered by tourists when visiting a city for the first time is where to go and what to do, in the limited amount of time available. In effect, cities are large information spaces...

Supporting Adaptive Services in a Heterogeneous Mobile Environment

Nigel Davies, Gordon S. Blair, Keith Cheverst, Adrian Friday, La Yr

Future computer environments will include mobile computers which will either be disconnected, weakly interconnected by low speed wireless networks such as GSM, or fully inter-connected by high speed...

Supporting Adaptive Services in a Heterogeneous Mobile Environment

Nigel Davies Gordon, Gordon S. Blair, Keith Cheverst, Adrian Friday, La Yr

Future computer environments will include mobile computers which will either be disconnected, weakly interconnected by low speed wireless networks such as GSM, or fully inter-connected by high speed...