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Computer Science
UK
2023

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Computer Science

D-Index
64
Citations
26450
World Ranking
2527
National Ranking
145

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Nigel Davies is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to fields encompassing computer science and medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields, including information systems, epidemiology, cognitive neuroscience, management information systems, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

Davies's research covers a range of topics, with a particular focus on blockchain technology applications and security. Other areas of interest include vaccine coverage and hesitancy, fintech and digital finance, interactive and immersive displays, augmented reality applications, influenza virus research studies, and technology use by older adults.

The scientist has published in several recognized venues, with multiple papers appearing in IEEE Pervasive Computing. Additional publication venues include Communications of the ACM, PLoS ONE, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, and ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.

  • The harm in conflating aging with accessibility (2021), Communications of the ACM
  • Non-Fungible Tokens as a Mechanism for Representing Patient Consent (2022), Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
  • Examining public views on decentralised health data sharing (2023), PLoS ONE
  • A Longitudinal Study of Pervasive Display Personalisation (2021), ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
  • Blockchain Native Data Linkage (2021), Frontiers in Blockchain

Their frequent collaborators include Victoria Neumann, Mike Harding, James A. Cunningham, Sarah Devaney, and Søren Holm, each contributing to numerous joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Towards a Better Understanding of Context and Context-Awareness

    Gregory D. Abowd;Anind K. Dey;Peter J. Brown;Nigel Davies

  • The Case for VM-Based Cloudlets in Mobile Computing

    M. Satyanarayanan;P. Bahl;R. Caceres;N. Davies

  • Developing a context-aware electronic tourist guide: some issues and experiences

    Keith Cheverst;Nigel Davies;Keith Mitchell;Adrian Friday

  • Experiences of developing and deploying a context-aware tourist guide: the GUIDE project

    Keith Cheverst;Nigel Davies;Keith Mitchell;Adrian Friday

  • Tourism and the smartphone app: capabilities, emerging practice and scope in the travel domain

    Janet E. Dickinson;Karen Ghali;Thomas Cherrett;Chris Speed

  • Preserving privacy in environments with location-based applications

    G. Myles;A. Friday;N. Davies

  • Exploiting space and location as a design framework for interactive mobile systems

    Alan Dix;Tom Rodden;Nigel Davies;Jonathan Trevor

  • User-Generated Content

    John Krumm;Nigel Davies;Chandra Narayanaswami

  • Exploiting Context in HCI Design for Mobile Systems

    K. Cheverst;Nigel Davies;Alan Dix;T. Rodden

  • Beyond prototypes: challenges in deploying ubiquitous systems

    N. Davies;H.-W. Gellersen

  • UbiComp 2004: Ubiquitous Computing

    Nigel Davies;Elizabeth D. Mynatt;Itiro Siio

  • Using and determining location in a context-sensitive tour guide

    N. Davies;K. Cheverst;K. Mitchell;A. Efrat

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

    Keith Cheverst;Keith Mitchell;Nigel Davies

  • System and method to support gaming in an electronic network

    Pierre-Guillaume Raverdy;Nigel A. J. Davies;Oliver D. Storz;Christos Efstratiou

  • Design of an Object Model for a Context-Sensitive Tourist Guide

    Keith Cheverst;Keith Mitchell;Nigel Davies

  • 'Caches in the air': disseminating tourist information in the GUIDE system

    N. Davies;K. Cheverst;K. Mitchell;A. Friday

  • Developing a Context Sensitive Tourist Guide

    Nigel Davies;K. Cheverst;Gordon S. Blair;K. Mitchell

  • Open Display Networks: A Communications Medium for the 21st Century

    N. Davies;M. Langheinrich;R. Jose;A. Schmidt

  • The Impact of Mobile Multimedia Applications on Data Center Consolidation

    Kiryong Ha;P. Pillai;G. Lewis;S. Simanta

  • Supporting service discovery, querying and interaction in ubiquitous computing environments

    Adrian Friday;Nigel Davies;Nat Wallbank;Elaine Catterall

Frequent Co-Authors

Adrian Friday
Adrian Friday Lancaster University
Keith Cheverst
Keith Cheverst Lancaster University
Gordon S. Blair
Gordon S. Blair Lancaster University
Marc Langheinrich
Marc Langheinrich Universita della Svizzera Italiana
Geoff Coulson
Geoff Coulson Lancaster University
Corina Sas
Corina Sas Lancaster University
Mahadev Satyanarayanan
Mahadev Satyanarayanan Carnegie Mellon University
Alan Dix
Alan Dix Swansea University
Mark Rouncefield
Mark Rouncefield Lancaster University
Gerd Kortuem
Gerd Kortuem Delft University of Technology

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