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RESEARCH AREAS such as tourism and healthcare. We are central participants in several
At Lancaster, we have a unique blend of skills from wireless
EU/IST Framework 6 and 7 projects in the area of Future and
networking to innovative user interaction and software engineering;
Emerging Technologies and Future Internet Research and
that means that our research spans all areas of the discipline from
Experimentation.
hardware to HCI. Our research facilities include a large experimental
systems lab with state of the art communications and networking
Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
Dr K Cheverst, Prof N Davies, Dr J Finney, Dr A Friday,
equipment together with an extensive range of interaction devices.
Prof H Gellersen, Dr M Hazas, Dr G Kortuem, Dr E Rukzio.
We also have a separate hardware laboratory and a user-interface
Computation is migrating out of the desktop PC and into the
evaluation lab allowing the construction and evaluation of new
everyday world, in the form of mobile devices, smartphones,
kinds of interactive hardware and software. We host a unique
information appliances, everyday digital devices, wireless networks,
mobile IPv6 testbed, funded by Microsoft, Cisco and Orange. This
smart environments, handheld and wearable devices. Increasingly,
supports a range of mobile networking projects including an
the world itself is an interface to computation; computer-based
implementation of mobile IPv6 for Windows CE that received a
interactions can take place through many kinds of devices, surfaces
Microsoft academic excellence award and which is now deployed in and places.
a range of mobile devices. We have been awarded £500,000 for e-
campus, a project that is providing a novel research infrastructure of
At Lancaster, we have been among the pioneering groups in both
interactive situated public displays around the University campus.
mobile computing and ubiquitous computing, with an enviable
track record of publishing our results in top tier conferences and
Increasingly, our research is interdisciplinary, crosscutting a number
journals. Our approach is uniquely experimental; prototypes are
of areas of computing. Our research work is organised around four
deployed ‘in the field’ to gain grounded insight into systems and
overlapping themes:
human factors issues, as exemplified by our work in projects such
as EQUATOR, Smart-Its and Guide. Our research focus is in areas
such as context-aware systems, situated displays, wireless
Networking and distributed systems
embedded systems, innovation of devices and methods to support
Mobile and ubiquitous computing context- and location-awareness and mobile and spontaneous
Software systems engineering
interaction in ubiquitous systems, system support for location-
based services and service discovery, privacy and payment.
Cooperative and interactive systems
Software Systems Engineering
Networked and Distributed Systems
Prof A Rashid, Prof J Whittle, Dr L Blair, Dr G Kotonya, Dr J Lee,
Prof G Blair, Prof G Coulson, Prof D Hutchison, Prof L Mathy,
Dr S Lock, Dr J Mariani, Dr P Sawyer.
Prof I Marshall, Prof S Pink, Dr C Edwards, Dr J Finney, Dr A Mauthe,
The Department is an internationally leading centre for research on
Dr N Race, Dr K Salamation, Dr A Scott, Dr F Taïani, Dr U Roedig.
software engineering (SE) and currently holds approximately €4m in
Lancaster is a leading international player in networked and
research grants in this area. Our research in software engineering is
distributed systems, and is home to one of the world’s largest
driven by a set of fundamental long-term grand challenges
research groups in these areas. Our emphasis is on future Internet
pertaining to taming the complexity of software systems. At
architecture, novel middleware design, high performance
present we focus on six key areas to meet the grand challenges.
networking systems and protocols, system resilience, network
These strategic areas include: aspect-oriented software
performance engineering in heterogeneous networks, as well as
development, model-driven engineering, requirements engineering,
data centre networking. Our pioneering work has included network
service-centric software engineering, multi-disciplinary approaches
support for multimedia content delivery, large scale overlays, mobile
and empirical evaluation of SE approaches. Naturally, these six
IPv6, router virtualization, advanced middleware paradigms and their areas are not isolated islands and there is considerable overlap, for
application to a range of applications including wireless sensor instance, in developing aspect-oriented, model-driven techniques
networks, embedded systems, programmable networking, and problem for software product line engineering (as part of the EC FP6 AMPLE
domains making novel use of advanced networking technologies, project that we lead).
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