Professor Adrian Friday

Professor of Computing and Sustainability

Research Overview

Adrian Friday is an active researcher with 18+ years experience in mobile and ubiquitous computing systems. Over the past 18 months, he has assembled a new team of five researchers, and coordinates work on the application of ubiquitous computing to mitigating climate change. He is well known for his longitudinal ‘in the wild’ studies of ubicomp systems: since 2006, creating a unique testbed of over 30 situated public displays, still in daily use by end-users and now part of PD-NET international testbed with nodes in UK, US and Europe. He has extensive experience of collaborative multi-disciplinary research, as a PI (Equator GR/N15986/01, a high-impact IRC, 2001-7), and latterly, as PI of “Informing energy choices using ubiquitous sensing” (EP/I00033X/1): bringing several disciplines together to study the GhG impact of our daily lives using a mix of ethnographic fieldwork and ubicomp probes. He is widely published and cited: with over 100 peer-reviewed articles and his 5 highest cited publications attract over 2,000 citations. He has been recognised as TPC chair of the leading Ubicomp & Pervasive conferences, and is general co-chair of Ubicomp 2014.

Selected Publications Show all 131 publications

Accounting for Energy-Reliant Services within Everyday Life at Home
Bates, O., Clear, A., Friday, A., Hazas, M., Morley, J. 18/06/2012 In: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2012). Berlin : Springer Verlag p. 107-124. 18 p.
Paper

Ubiquitous Computing Systems
Bardram, J., Friday, A. 2009 In: Ubiquitous Computing Fundamentals. CRC Press p. 37-94. 58 p. ISBN: 978-1-4200-9360-5.
Chapter

Democratizing ubiquitous computing: a right for locality
Weise, S., Hardy, J., Agarwal, P., Coulton, P., Friday, A., Chiasson, M. 2012 In: UbiComp '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. New York : ACM p. 521-530. 10 p.
Paper

Ubicomp systems at 20: progress, opportunities, and challenges
Caceres, R., Friday, A. 01/2012 In: IEEE Pervasive Computing. 11, 1, p. 14-21. 8 p.
Journal article