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Nigel Davies
Researcher at Lancaster University
Publications - 300
Citations - 21183
Nigel Davies is an academic researcher from Lancaster University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mobile computing & Ubiquitous computing. The author has an hindex of 59, co-authored 289 publications receiving 20229 citations. Previous affiliations of Nigel Davies include University of Arizona & University of Cambridge.
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I Love My Display: Combatting Display Blindness with Emotional Attachment
TL;DR: Early studies that explore the idea that the public are learning to form emotional attachments with public displays in a real-world testbed are reported on.
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Standards and platforms for open distributed processing
TL;DR: The paper examines the ISO standard for a reference model for open distributed processing, OMG's CORBA and OSF's DCE and concludes that these initiatives are different in scope and should be viewed as complementary.
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Communication Needs of Elderly at Risk of Falls and their Remote Family
Corina Sas,Kieran Brahney,Carl Oechsner,Amish Trivedi,Mauricio Nomesque,Zaffar Mughal,Keith Cheverst,Sarah Clinch,Nigel Davies +8 more
TL;DR: Findings indicate important emotional needs on both parts: adult children's anxiety for the wellbeing of their parents at risk of falls, and elderly's need for autonomy and their appreciation for an aesthetic design for designing for family communication in this challenging context.
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Audience monitor: an open source tool for tracking audience mobility in front of pervasive displays
TL;DR: This paper presents an approach to audience monitoring that uses an off-the-shelf depth sensor and open source computer vision algorithms to monitor the space in front of a digital display, tracking presence and movements of both passers-by and display users.
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Integrating Computing and Telecommunications: A Tale of Two Architectures
TL;DR: This paper has contrasted and compared the Lancaster and Touring Machine approaches in an attempt to integrate their individual perspectives into one design and documents the results.