Cityware: Urban Design and Pervasive Systems
Designing & evaluating novel authentication mechanisms for wireless pervasive computing services that are private, secure and trustworthy.
Cityware was a multidisciplinary research project integrating the disciplines of architecture and urban design, human-computer interaction and distributed systems. As a research associate based at the University of Bath and Hewlett Packard labs, I conducted a range of innovative in-the-wild experiments to explore novel forms of wireless service discovery and authentication in public spaces around Bath, Bristol and London.
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Publications
Influence of User Choice on Perception of Wireless Connection Genuineness and Security (2011). In In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications (PURBA) in conjunction with the Ninth International Conference on Pervasive Computing (San Francisco, June, 12-15).
Human to Computer Trust in Urban Pervasive Computing (2011). A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Supervisors: Eamonn O'Neill (Computer Science), Danaë Stanton Fraser (Psychology) & Tim Kindberg (HP Labs).
Authenticating Public Wireless Networks with Physical Evidence (2009). In IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob '09).
Authenticating ubiquitous services: a study of wireless hotspot access (2009). In In Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Ubiquitous computing (UbiComp '09).
Mobile service audio notifications: intuitive semantics and noises (2008). In In Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Designing for Habitus and Habitat (OZCHI '08).
Measuring trust in wi-fi hotspots (2008). In In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '08).
Press
Bluetooth Big Brother uses mobiles and laptops to track thousands of Britons — The Daily Mail (2008).
Bluetooth is watching: secret study gives Bath a flavour of Big Brother — The Guardian (2008).