Studentship value: £13,290 for maintenance + £3,390 for fees per annumExpected start date 1 October 2009
We (the Software Systems group, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex) are developing a toolkit for connecting places, identities, groups, and trust measures in pervasive computing scenarios. Places may be tagged or otherwise identifiable using hand-held devices. Identities may be pseudonyms and have various relationships with groups, including membership. Trust relationships can be expanded to consider relevance, affinity and other concepts and supported by scores, evidence of interaction and comments.There are a number of open questions that arise from this toolkit that could form the basis of a PhD program of research. One set of questions is about forming languages to manage preferences on what is seen and what is revealed when browsing an environment described in such a way - particularly with respect to sensed data and comments. Such environments include markets, where trader reputation and quality of goods are described; art galleries where opinion about and interaction with pieces may be possible; and teaching situations where concepts, activities and artifacts are presented and discussed; many other situations are possible. Another set of questions are possible around the presentation control system that would reflect evolving social relationships, location, group memberships, time, and device limitations etc. The following will need to be developed to address these questions: conceptual models; run-time sensing and data sharing infrastructure; and user interfaces (with the emphasis balanced to reflect the skills and interests of the researcher).
The project would also relate to other ongoing research in the group on augmented reality, trust, provenance, identity, context awareness, sensor networks and data mediation — and in particular the “Supporting Shy Users in Pervasive Computing” http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/research/projects/shyness and “Pervasive Computing Support for Market Trading” projects
We (the Software Systems group, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex) are developing a toolkit for connecting places, identities, groups, and trust measures in pervasive computing scenarios. Places may be tagged or otherwise identifiable using hand-held devices. Identities may be pseudonyms and have various relationships with groups, including membership. Trust relationships can be expanded to consider relevance, affinity and other concepts and supported by scores, evidence of interaction and comments.There are a number of open questions that arise from this toolkit that could form the basis of a PhD program of research. One set of questions is about forming languages to manage preferences on what is seen and what is revealed when browsing an environment described in such a way - particularly with respect to sensed data and comments. Such environments include markets, where trader reputation and quality of goods are described; art galleries where opinion about and interaction with pieces may be possible; and teaching situations where concepts, activities and artifacts are presented and discussed; many other situations are possible. Another set of questions are possible around the presentation control system that would reflect evolving social relationships, location, group memberships, time, and device limitations etc. The following will need to be developed to address these questions: conceptual models; run-time sensing and data sharing infrastructure; and user interfaces (with the emphasis balanced to reflect the skills and interests of the researcher).
The project would also relate to other ongoing research in the group on augmented reality, trust, provenance, identity, context awareness, sensor networks and data mediation — and in particular the “Supporting Shy Users in Pervasive Computing” http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/research/projects/shyness and “Pervasive Computing Support for Market Trading” projects
We are seeking a DPhil (PhD) student to help take this project forward. This studentship would be funded for 3.5 years, funded by an EPSRC Doctoral Training Grant at the University of Sussex, under the supervision of Dr Dan Chalmers, Dr Ian Wakeman and Dr Geraldine Fitzpatrick. Applicants must have an MSc or a 1st class BSc degree in Computer Science or a similar qualification giving experience of issues such as distributed systems, web applications and mobile computing.
We invite applications from candidates eligible for EPSRC funds (described at http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/PostgraduateTraining/). The application process and further information about doctoral study at Sussex can be found at http://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/pgstudy, while questions and expressions of interest should be directed to D.Chalmers@sussex.ac.uk.
Applications should be submitted by 12 June 2009.
We invite applications from candidates eligible for EPSRC funds (described at http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/PostgraduateTraining/). The application process and further information about doctoral study at Sussex can be found at http://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/pgstudy, while questions and expressions of interest should be directed to D.Chalmers@sussex.ac.uk.
Applications should be submitted by 12 June 2009.
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