Antigen-specific suppression of inflammatory arthritis using liposomes (2009)
Capini, Christelle, Jaturanpinyo, Montree, Chang, Hsin-I, Mutalik, Srinivas, McNally, Alice, Street, Shayna, ...
Existing therapies for rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases are not Ag specific, which increases the likelihood of systemic toxicity. We show that egg phosphatidylcholine liposomes...
Background Exploiting Context in HCI Design for Mobile Systems (2008)
Tom Rodden, Keith Chervest, Nigel Davies
The last five years has seen a shift in the nature of mobile computers. The development of increasingly powerful laptop computer systems has been mirrored by the production of a range of small...
James Brown, Joe Finney, Christos Efstratiou, Ben Green, Nigel Davies, Mark Lowton, ...
The importance in maintaining energy efficient communications in low power networks such as sensor and actuator networks is well understood. However, in recent years, a growing number of delay...
James Brown, Joe Finney, Christos Efstratiou, Ben Green, Nigel Davies, Mark Lowton, ...
The importance in maintaining energy efficient communications in low power networks such as sensor and actuator networks is well understood. However, in recent years, a growing number of delay...
Christos Efstratiou, Joe Finney, Nigel Davies, Rob Hooper, Gerd Kortuem
The NEMO project is exploring the use of mobile sensor nodes to augment physical work artefacts in order to ensure compliance with health and safety regulations. In this paper we present our...
Christos Efstratiou, Joe Finney, Nigel Davies, Rob Hooper, Gerd Kortuem
The NEMO project is exploring the use of mobile sensor nodes to augment physical work artefacts in order to ensure compliance with health and safety regulations. In this paper we present our...
SECURITY & PRIVACY Preserving Privacy in Environments with Location-Based Applications (2008)
Ginger Myles, Adrian Friday, Nigel Davies
The increase in location-based applications makes protecting personal location information a major challenge. Addressing this challenge requires a mechanism that lets users automate control of their...
Gerd Kortuem, David Alford, Linden Ball, Jerry Busby, Nigel Davies, Joe Finney, ...
Abstract. Industrial health and safety is an important yet largely unexplored application area of ubiquitous computing. In this paper we investigate the relationship between technology and...
Nigel Davies, Joe Finney, Corina Sas, Jennifer G. Sheridan
Lessons learned from building and deploying three experimental public display systems have general applicability to many types of public ubicomp deployments.
Electronic Engineering, (2008)
Carl Barratt, Andrea Brogni, Matthew Chalmers, William R. Cobern, John Crowe, Don Cruickshank, ...
Abstract. In this paper we show how we have used and adapted GT3 to support scalable and flexible remote medical monitoring applications on the Grid. We use two lightweight monitoring devices (a java...
Christos Efstratiou, Joe Finney, Nigel Davies, Rob Hooper, Gerd Kortuem
The NEMO project is exploring the use of mobile sensor nodes to augment physical work artefacts in order to ensure compliance with health and safety regulations. In this paper we present our...
Alan Dix, Tom Rodden, Nigel Davies, Tom Rodden
Exploiting space and location as a design
Demo Proposal for MobiSys 2006 (2008)
Health And Safety, Nigel Davies, Christos Efstratiou, Joe Finney, Rob Hooper, Gerd Kortuem, ...
INTRODUCTION We propose to demonstrate a system that can illustrate the use of intelligent mobile sensor networks to improve health and safety compliance in the field. Over recent years there has...
Integrated Support for Complex Objectsin a Distributed Multimedia Design Environment (2007)
Gordon Blair, Patrick Dark, Nigel Davies, John Mariani, Carole Snape
Multimedia design environments are an emerging application area which present new challenges to database support systems. It is becoming clear that existing database technologies fail to meet these...
POSITION PAPER: THE ROLE OF PLATFORMS AND OPERATING SYSTEMS IN SUPPORTING HOME NETWORKS (2007)
Nigel Davies, Pierre-guillaume Raverdy
As researchers look beyond the PC there is increasing interest in developing and deploying sophisticated home networks. Such networks might allow the seamless integration of information and services...
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...
Neil Williams, Gordon S. Blair, Geoff Coulson, Nigel Davies, Tom Rodden, Bailrigg Lancaster
Recent advances in distributed multimedia technologies are likely to have a significant impact on the co-operative work practices of organisations. However, at present there is little practical...
Nigel Davies, Geoff Coulson, Gordon S. Blair, La Yr
Recent years have seen significant advances in high-speed networks, high-performance end-systems and large capacity storage devices which are giving continuing impetus to the evolution of wide area...
Software architectures for mobile user (2007)
Alan Dix, Devina Ramduny, Tom Rodden, Nigel Davies
to stay on the move
Sensing Danger - Challenges in Supporting Health and Safety Compliance in the Field (2007)
Davies, Nigel, Efstratiou, Christos, Finney, Joe, Hooper, Rob, Kortuem, Gerd, Lowton, Mark
Many workers operate in environments that are inherently hazardous and that are subject to strict health and safety rules and regulations. We envisage a world in which physical work artefacts such as...
Structural Learning of Activities from Sparse Datasets (2007)
Albinali, Fahd, Davies, Nigel, Friday, Adrian
A major challenge in pervasive computing is to learn activity patterns, such as bathing and cleaning from sensor data. Typical sensor deployments generate sparse datasets with thousands of sensor...
Jin, Yan, He, Yinghe, Davies, Nigel
Microencapsulation is a process where active ingredients are packaged into particles to achieve desirable effects such as control on the release of the core materials, reduction of reactivity and...
Supporting content scheduling on situated public displays. (2006)
Storz, Oliver;, Friday, Adrian;, Davies, Nigel
There is increasing interest in creating networks of situated public displays that offer novel forms of interaction and rich media content—often as work towards a vision of ubiquitous computing or...
Public ubiquitous computing systems: Lessons from the e-campus display deployments. (2006)
Storz, Oliver, Friday, Adrian, Davies, Nigel, Finney, Joe, Sas, Corina, Sheridan, Jennifer
In this paper we reflect on our experiences of deploying ubiquitous computing systems in public spaces and present a series of lessons that we feel will be of benefit to researchers planning similar...
Supporting content scheduling on situated public displays. (2006)
Storz, Oliver, Friday, Adrian, Davies, Nigel
There is increasing interest in creating networks of situated public displays that offer novel forms of interaction and rich media content - often as work towards a vision of ubiquitous computing or...
Towards Simplicity: An Introduction (2005)
Wu, Maomao, Storz, Oliver, Davies, Nigel, Friday, Adrian
With the rapid development of mobile devices, wired and wireless communication technologies, and network based services, people are able to access information ubiquitously using a variety of devices....
Supporting service discovery, querying and interaction in ubiquitous computing environments. (2005)
Friday, Adrian;, Davies, Nigel;, Wallbank, Nat;, Catterall, Elaine;, Pink, Stephen
In this paper, we contend that ubiquitous computing environments will be highly heterogeneous, service rich domains. Moreover, future applications will consequently be required to interact with...
04441 Working Grou - Towards a Handbook for User-Centred Mobile Application Design (2005)
Boll, Susanne, Breunig, Martin, Davies, Nigel, Jensen, Christian S., König-Ries, Birgitta, Malaka, Rainer, ...
Why do we have difficulties designing mobile apps? Is there a "Mobile RUP"?
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...
A. Why should some people be doing application-led research? Application-led research is vitally important – applications provide designers and developers of ubiquitous computing systems with...
04441 Working Group -- Towards a Handbook for User-Centred Mobile Application Design (2005)
Boll, Susanne, Breunig, Martin, Davies, Nigel, Jensen, Christian S., König-Ries, Birgitta, Malaka, Rainer, ...
Why do we have difficulties designing mobile apps? Is there a "Mobile RUP"?
Davies, Nigel, Kirste, Thomas, Schumann, Heidrun
From 01.05.05 to 04.05.05, the Dagstuhl Seminar 05181 ``Mobile Computing and Ambient Intelligence: The Challenge of Multimedia''was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI),...
Supporting Service Discovery, Querying and Interaction in Ubiquitous Computing Environments (2004)
Friday, Adrian, Davies, Nigel, Wallbank, Nat, Catterall, Elaine, Pink, Steve
In this paper, we contend that ubiquitous computing environments will be highly heterogeneous, service rich domains. Moreover, future applications will consequently be required to interact with...
Supporting Ordering and Consistency in a Distributed Event Heap for Ubiquitous Computing (2004)
Storz, Oliver, Friday, Adrian, Davies, Nigel
The Stanford Event Heap has been shown to provide appropriate support for constructing interactive workspace applications. Given this success it is natural to consider the Event Heap as a platform to...
Supporting ordering and consistency in a distributed event heap for ubiquitous computing (2004)
Oliver Storz, Adrian Friday, Nigel Davies
Abstract. The Stanford Event Heap has been shown to provide appropriate support for constructing interactive workspace applications. Given this success it is natural to consider the Event Heap as a...
Towards `ubiquitous' ubiquitous computing: an alliance with `the grid' (2003)
Storz, Oliver, Friday, Adrian, Davies, Nigel
The drive to implement Ubiquitous Computing systems has driven the development of numerous research prototypes. Distributed systems platforms have emerged, each addressing a subset of the overall...
The around architecture for location-based services (2003)
José, Rui, Moreira, Adriano, Rodrigues, Helena, Davies, Nigel
This paper presents a generic concept of location-based service as an abstraction for supporting the association between computational resources and location. The objective is to extend the...
Preserving privacy in environments with location-based applications (2003)
Myles, Ginger, Friday, Adrian, Davies, Nigel
The increase in location-based applications makes protecting personal location information a major challenge. Addressing this challenge requires a mechanism that lets users automate control of their...
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...
Towards ‘Ubiquitous’ Ubiquitous Computing: an alliance with the Grid (2003)
Oliver Storz, Adrian Friday, Nigel Davies
Abstract. The drive to implement Ubiquitous Computing systems has motivated the development of numerous research prototypes. Distributed systems platforms have emerged, each addressing a subset of...
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...
Beyond Prototypes: Challenges in Deploying Ubiquitous Systems (2002)
Davies, Nigel, Gellersen, Hans
The authors discuss the problems in creating the next generation of widely deployed ubiquitous computing systems and articulate current technical and sociological challenges to inspire researchers in...
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...
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...
El programa fuerza en ajedrez : un curso único de entrenamiento para mejorar su ajedrez (2002)
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Beyond prototypes: Challenges in deploying ubiquitous systems (2002)
Nigel Davies, Hans-werner Gellersen
The authors discuss the problems in creating the next generation of widely deployed ubiquitous computing systems and articulate current technical and sociological challenges to inspire researchers in...
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...
PERVASIVEcomputing 1536-1268/02/$17.00 2002 IEEE Beyond Prototypes: (2002)
Challenges In Deploying, Nigel Davies, Hans-werner Gellersen
developments such as the increasingly widespread acceptance of video surveillance in public places. However, the decade's most striking developments (with respect to ubiquitous computing) have...
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...
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...
Supporting Service Discovery, Querying and Interaction in Ubiquitous Computing Environments (2001)
Friday, Adrian, Davies, Nigel, Catterall, Elaine
Future computing environments will consist of a wide range of network based appliances, applications and services interconnected using both wired and wireless networks. In order to encourage the...
Mobile-awareness: designing for mobile interactive systems (2001)
Mitchell, Keith, Cheverst, Keith, Davies, Nigel, Friday, Adrian
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...
Supporting Service Discovery, Querying and Interaction in Ubiquitous Computing Environments (2001)
Adrian Friday, Nigel Davies, Nat Wallbank, Elaine Catterall, Stephen Pink, La Yr
Abstract. In this paper, we contend that ubiquitous computing environments will be highly heterogeneous, service rich domains. Moreover, future applications will consequently be required to interact...
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...
Exploiting Space and Location as a Design Framework for Interactive Mobile Systems (2000)
Dix, Alan, Rodden, Tom, Davies, Nigel, Friday, Adrian, Palfreyman, Kevin
This article considers the importance of context in mobile systems. It considers a range of context-related issues and focus on location as a key issue for mobile systems. A design framework is...
Architectural ideas for the support of adaptive context-aware applications (2000)
Cheverst, Keith, Efstratiou, Christos, Davies, Nigel, Friday, Adrian
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...
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...
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...
Exploiting Space and Location as a Design Framework for Interactive Mobile Systems (2000)
Alan Dix, Nigel Davies, Adrian Friday, Jonathan Trevor, Tom Rodden, Kevin Palfreyman, ...
This paper considers the importance of context in mobile systems. It considers a range of context issues and focus on location as a key issue for mobile systems. A design framework is described...
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...
Scalable and flexible location-based services for ubiquitous information access (1999)
In mobile distributed environments applications often need to dynamically obtain information that is relevant to their current location. The current design of the Internet does not provide any...
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...
Experiences of Using Generative Communications to Support Adaptive Mobile Applications (1999)
Friday, Adrian, Davies, Nigel, Seitz, Jochen, Wade, Stephen
Attention has recently begun to focus on the use of asynchronous paradigms to support adaptive mobile applications. To investigate this issue the authors have developed an asynchronous distributed...
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...
Experiences of Using Generative Communications To Support Adaptive Mobile Applications (1999)
Adrian Friday, Nigel Davies, Jochen Seitz, Matt Storey, Stephen P. Wade
Attention has recently begun to focus on the use of asynchronous paradigms to support adaptive mobile applications. To investigate this issue the authors have developed an asynchronous distributed...
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 Mobile Multimedia Applications through Adaptive (1999)
Middleware Geoff Coulson, Geoff Coulson, Gordon S. Blair, Nigel Davies, Tom Fitzpatrick, Bailrigg Lancaster
platforms is to adopt a `black box' philosophy whereby the platform offers a fixed programming model to applications together with fixed per-platform implementations. In this paper we describe...
A CORBA-based Proxy Architecture for Mobile Multimedia Applications (1998)
Seitz, Jochen, Davies, Nigel, Ebner, Michael, Friday, Adrian
In many cases users of mobile computers wish to have the same applications running and to have access to the same information as they would when connected to a fixed network. Such transparency is...
An Asynchronous Distributed Systems Platform for Heterogeneous Environments (1998)
Davies, Nigel, Friday, Adrian, Blair, Gordon S., Wade, Stephen
Since its introduction over a decade ago the tuple space paradigm has attracted interest from the distributed systems community. Despite being developed for shared memory parallel architectures, the...
L2imbo: A Distributed Systems Platform for Mobile Computing (1998)
Davies, Nigel, Friday, Adrian, Blair, Gordon S., Wade, Stephen
Mobile computing environments increasingly consist of a range of supporting technologies offering a diverse set of capabilities to applications and end-systems. Such environments are characterised by...
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...
Supporting Video in Heterogeneous Mobile Environments (1998)
Yeadon, Nick, Davies, Nigel, Friday, Adrian, Blair, Gordon S.
High quality digital wireless networks and advances in multimedia compression schemes now permit the transmission of video streams over mobile networks. This opens up video communications to a new...
Supporting Video in Heterogeneous Mobile Environments (1998)
Nicholas Yeadon, Nigel Davies, Adrian Friday, Gordon Blair
High quality digital wireless networks and advances in multimedia compression schemes now permit the transmission of video streams over mobile networks. This opens up video communications to a new...
A CORBA-based proxy architecture for mobile multimedia applications (1998)
Jochen Seitz, Nigel Davies, Michael Ebner, Adrian Friday
Abstract: In many cases users of mobile computers wish to have the same applications running and to have access to the same information as they would when connected to a fixed network. Such...
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...
imbo: A distributed systems platform for mobile computing (1998)
Nigel Davies, Adrian Friday, Stephen P. Wade, Gordon S. Blair
this paper we argue that these paradigms are not well suited to operation in the emerging mobile environments. Furthermore, we offer an alternative programming paradigm based on tuple spaces which,...
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...
Exploiting Context in HCI Design for Mobile Systems (1998)
Tom Rodden, Keith Chervest, Nigel Davies, Alan Dix
ion--Control) model [Coutaz, 1987]. Although the display and input hardware may be encapsulated in a single object or group of objects, its effects are felt in the architectural design of virtually...
Supporting Adaptive Multimedia Applications through Open Bindings (1998)
Tom Fitzpatrick Gordon, Gordon S. Blair, Geoff Coulson, Nigel Davies
In order to support multimedia applications in mobile environments, it will be necessary for applications to be aware of the underlying network conditions and also to be able to adapt their behaviour...
A Software Architecture for Adaptive Distributed Multimedia Systems (1998)
Tom Fitzpatrick Gordon, Gordon S. Blair, Geoff Coulson, Nigel Davies
In order to support multimedia applications in mobile environments, it will be necessary for applications to be aware of the underlying network conditions and also to be able to adapt their behaviour...
The Tuple Space: An Old Solution to a New Problem? (1997)
Friday, Adrian, Wade, Stephen P., Davies, Nigel, Blair, Gordon S.
Limbo: A Tuple Space Based Platform for Adaptive Mobile Applications (1997)
Davies, Nigel, Wade, Stephen, Friday, Adrian, Blair, Gordon S.
Mobile computing environments are characterised by significant and rapid changes in their supporting infrastructure and, in particular, in the quality-of-service (QoS) available from their underlying...
Adaptive Middleware for Mobile Multimedia Applications (1997)
Gordon Blair, Geoff Coulson, Nigel Davies, Tom Fitzpatrick, La Yr
The traditional approach to developing middleware platforms is to adopt a `black box' philosophy whereby the platform offers a fixed programming model to applications together with a fixed...
The Tuple Space: An Old Solution to a New Problem? (1997)
Adrian Friday, Stephen P. Wade, Nigel Davies, Gordon S. Blair, La Yr
This paper discusses the impact on current distributed systems thinking of emerging and future networking technologies. In particular, we believe that future distributed systems platforms will be...
Adaptive Middleware for Mobile Multimedia Applications (1997)
Gordon Blair Geoff, Gordon S. Blair, Geoff Coulson, Nigel Davies, Tom Fitzpatrick, La Yr
The traditional approach to developing middleware platforms is to adopt a `black box' philosophy whereby the platform offers a fixed programming model to applications together with a fixed...
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...
Mobile Open Systems Technologies For The Utilities Industries (1996)
Davies, Nigel, Blair, Gordon S., Friday, Adrian, Raven, Peter F., Cross, Andrew D.
This chapter considers the provision of mobile computing support for field engineers in the electricity industry. Section 11.2 describes field engineers current working practices and from 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...
Flump: The flexible ubiquitous monitor project (1996)
FLUMP is a project based at the Lancaster University Computing Department designed to investigate and demonstrate the usefulness and adaptability of Ubiquitous Computing systems. The FLUMP project...
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...
FLUMP The FLexible Ubiquitous Monitor Project (1996)
Joe Finney, Stephen Wade, Nigel Davies, Adrian Friday
As a matter of course, the most successful tools are those which we use subconsciously, almost transparently. Take the pen for example - a necessity when writing a document, yet not the focus of your...
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...
Distributed Systems Support for Mobile Applications (1995)
Future computer environments will include mobile computers which will either be disconnected, weakly interconnected by low speed wireless networks such as GSM, or fully interconnected by high speed...
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...
Services to Support Distributed Applications in a Mobile Environment (1994)
Nigel Davies, Stephen Pink, Gordon S. Blair
A key characteristic of mobile computing is that the end systems involved can experience differing degrees of connectivity during typical operational cycles. This paper discusses the issues...
System Support For Multimedia Applications: An Assessment of the State of the Art (1994)
Gordon Blair, Geoff Coulson, Nigel Davies
With recent advances in networking and workstation technology, a variety of distributed multimedia applications are now becoming feasible, e.g. multimedia desktop conferencing and distance learning....
Supporting Continuous Media in Open Distributed Systems Architectures (1993)
Phil Adcock, Nigel Davies, Gordon S. Blair
. Recent developments in high-speed networks and highperformance workstations have led to the emergence of a new class of applications termed distributed multimedia applications. However, the range...
Experiences of Handling Multimedia in Distributed Open Systems (1992)
Nigel Davies, Geoff Coulson, Neil Williams, Gordon S. Blair
The implementation and use of a platform designed to support distributed multimedia applications is described. The platform provides a programming interface compatible with emerging ODP standards,...
The Role of Operating Systems in Object-Oriented Distributed Multimedia Platforms (1992)
Gordon Blair, Geoff Coulson, Nigel Davies
Considerable progress has been madein# the development of technologies tosupport# distributed multimedia computing, but applicationplatforms# are needed to make such technology accessible# to...
Distributed Multimedia Computing: Anassessment Of The State Of The Art (1991)
Neil Williams, Gordon S. Blair, Nigel Davies
Distributed multimedia computing is seen as the next generation of information technology. This new technology has both the potential to create new application areas and augment those that already...
Incorporating Multimedia In Distributed Open Systems (1991)
Gordon S. Blair, Geoff Coulson, Nigel Davies, Neil Williams
ion At present, most distributed object-oriented systems hide communications behind the notion of invocation, i.e. objects invoke other objects with the underlying passing of messages being hidden....
Gordon Blair And, Gordon S. Blair, Nigel Davies
The integration of new media typesinto# open distributed systems presents a number of problems. In this paper we discuss these problemswithin# the context of an experimental distributed# multimedia...
Gli Atzechi, storia di un'inferno, Nigel Davies. . - Roma. NALUAF000651, ed. Riuniti. NAEDAF001450, 1975.
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...
A CORBA-based Proxy Architecture for Mobile Multimedia Applications
Jochen Seitz, Nigel Davies, Michael Ebner, Adrian Friday
: In many cases users of mobile computers wish to have the same applications running and to have access to the same information as they would when connected to a fixed network. Such transparency is...
An Asynchronous Distributed Systems Platform For Heterogeneous Environments
Nigel Davies, Adrian Friday, Stephen P. Wade, Gordon S. Blair
Since its introduction over a decade ago the tuple space paradigm has attracted interest from the distributed systems community. Despite being developed for shared memory parallel architectures, the...