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Masters Computer Science University of Manchester
Bachelors Computer Science University of Manchester

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According to Wikipedia, Roy Want is a computer scientist born in London, United Kingdom in 1961. He received his PhD from Cambridge University in 1988 for his work on multimedia Distributed Systems; and is known for his work on indoor positioning, mobile and ubiquitous computing, automatic identification and the Internet of Things . He lives in Silicon Valley, California, and has authored or co-authored over 150 papers and articles on mobile systems, and holds 100+ patents. In 2011 he joined Google as a senior research scientist, and is in the Android group. Previous roles include senior principal engineer at Intel, and principal scientist at Xerox PARC...

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Roy Want's Published Works

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The active badge location system (1992) (4314)
Context-Aware Computing Applications (1994) (3901)
An introduction to RFID technology (2006) (1758)
SpotON: An Indoor 3D Location Sensing Technology Based on RF Signal Strength (2000) (1103)
Bridging physical and virtual worlds with electronic tags (1999) (721)
CoolSpots: reducing the power consumption of wireless mobile devices with multiple radio interfaces (2006) (443)
Enabling the Internet of Things (2015) (440)
Enabling ubiquitous sensing with RFID (2004) (407)
An overview of the PARCTAB ubiquitous computing experiment (1995) (404)
Squeeze me, hold me, tilt me! An exploration of manipulative user interfaces (1998) (392)
RFID Technology and Applications (2006) (352)
The Parctab Ubiquitous Computing Experiment (1994) (321)
The Personal Server: Changing the Way We Think about Ubiquitous Computing (2002) (304)
Designing audio aura (1998) (292)
The PARCTAB mobile computing system (1993) (210)
Active badges and personal interactive computing objects (1992) (202)
RFID. A key to automating everything. (2004) (198)
TiltType: accelerometer-supported text entry for very small devices (2002) (188)
The Magic of RFID (2004) (177)
Embedded computation meets the World Wide Web (2000) (134)
Near field communication (2011) (124)
Comparing autonomic and proactive computing (2003) (118)
Embodied user interfaces for really direct manipulation (2000) (111)
Disappearing Hardware (2002) (107)
Audio aura: light-weight audio augmented reality (1997) (102)
An Infrared Network for Mobile Computers (1993) (96)
Photographic Authentication through Untrusted Terminals (2003) (92)
System challenges for ubiquitous & pervasive computing (2005) (87)
RFID Explained:A Primer on Radio Frequency Identification Technologies (2006) (86)
Spontaneous marriages of mobile devices and interactive spaces (2005) (84)
Exploiting radio hierarchies for power-efficient wireless device discovery and connection setup (2005) (82)
When Cell Phones Become Computers (2009) (79)
Global Perspectives (2006) (68)
Smartphones: Past, Present, and Future (2014) (67)
Making Everyday Life Easier Using Dense Sensor Networks (2001) (67)
Experience with a low power wireless mobile computing platform (2004) (65)
Guest Editors' Introduction: Energy Harvesting and Conservation (2005) (61)
Bluetooth Low Energy in Dense IoT Environments (2016) (60)
Interactive Digital Signage (2012) (60)
How Green Is Green? (2009) (58)
Dynamic composable computing (2008) (50)
The Unigesture Approach (2002) (48)
Guest Editors' Introduction: Expanding the Horizons of Location-Aware Computing (2001) (47)
Ubiquitous Electronic Tagging (2000) (46)
A User Interaction Model for NFC Enabled Applications (2007) (45)
Survey on information appliances (2000) (44)
Information appliances (2000) (43)
Channel Bounding and MAC Protection Mechanisms for 802.11ac (2011) (42)
iPhone: Smarter Than the Average Phone (2010) (40)
Implementing phicons: combining computer vision with infrared technology for interactive physical icons (1999) (37)
Multi-display Composition: Supporting Display Sharing for Collocated Mobile Devices (2009) (36)
The Physical Web (2015) (35)
Gesture connect: facilitating tangible interaction with a flick of the wrist (2007) (35)
Bluetooth LE Finds Its Niche (2013) (34)
Activating the Internet of Things [Guest editors' introduction] (2015) (34)
Directional CSMA/CA Protocol with Spatial Reuse for mmWave Wireless Networks (2010) (31)
A CSMA/CA MAC Protocol for Multi-User MIMO Wireless LANs (2010) (31)
Enhancing web browsing security on public terminals using mobile composition (2008) (30)
The PSI Board: Realizing a Phone-Centric Body Sensor Network (2007) (30)
Enabling Pervasive Collaboration with Platform Composition (2009) (29)
SwitchR: Reducing system power consumption in a multi-client, multi-radio environment (2008) (29)
Is this the bionic man? (2006) (27)
The Power of Smartphones (2014) (27)
Protocols for Real Time Voice Communications on a Packet Local Network (1986) (27)
Multi-User Operation in mmWave Wireless Networks (2011) (25)
Training protocols for multi-user MIMO wireless LANs (2010) (21)
Accurate Indoor Location for the IoT (2018) (21)
You Are Your Cell Phone (2008) (20)
Face-to-face media sharing using wireless mobile devices (2005) (17)
An Introduction to Ubiquitous Computing (2010) (16)
Dynamic Migration of Computation Through Virtualization of the Mobile Platform (2012) (16)
Argos: Building a Web-Centric Application Platform on Top of Android (2011) (16)
Remembering Mark Weiser: Chief Technologist, Xerox Parc (2000) (15)
Bridging real and virtual worlds with electronic tags (1999) (14)
You're Not Paranoid; They Really Are Watching You! (2007) (14)
Enabling rapid wireless system composition through layer-2 discovery (2008) (13)
Space Matters: Physical-Digital and Physical-Virtual Codesign in inSpace (2010) (13)
Bridging physical and virtual worlds with tagged documents, objects and locations (1999) (13)
People First, Computers Second (2007) (13)
Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems & Applications (2010) (13)
Beacon trains: blazing a trail through dense BLE environments (2016) (12)
RFID: A Key to Automating Everything.: A Key to Automating Everything. (2004) (11)
New horizons for mobile computing (2003) (11)
What do you bring to the table?: investigations of a collaborative workspace (2010) (10)
Reliable management of voice in a distributed system (1988) (10)
Pervasive Computing Revisited (2017) (9)
The Seeds of Inspiration (2008) (8)
Sensor-Driven Computing Comes of Age (2007) (8)
International Symposium on Wearable Computing (ISWC) 2008 (2009) (8)
Carry Small, Live Large (2007) (7)
Context-aware composition (2009) (7)
RFID Explained: A Primer on Radio Frequency Identification (2006) (7)
The Bionic Man (2008) (7)
Context-aware computing applications (1994) (6)
Building an On-ramp for the Internet of Things (2015) (6)
RFID Explained (2006) (5)
Satya Revisits "Pervasive Computing: Vision and Challenges" (2017) (5)
Through Tinted Eyeglasses (2009) (4)
Comparing Autonomic & Proactive Computing (4)
Musicology: Bringing Personal Music into Shared Spaces (2007) (4)
Build What You Use (2006) (4)
Personal Interactive Computing Objects (1992) (4)
Embodied User Interfaces for Really Direct Manipulation Treating the body of the handheld device as part of its user interface. (2000) (4)
Creating and protecting digital worlds (2005) (3)
Stargate: Energy Management Techniques (2004) (2)
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish* (2009) (1)
Multidevice Interaction (2016) (1)
Calm Technology and Pervasive Connectivity (2000) (1)
Pervasive Computing, Third International Conference, PERVASIVE 2005, Munich, Germany, May 8-13, 2005, Proceedings (2005) (1)
Life, the universe, and the future of mobile computing (2008) (1)
Keynote 1: The golden age of pervasive computing (2013) (1)
In Mark Weiser's vision of ubiquitous computing, computers disappear from conscious thought. From a hardware perspective, the authors examine how far we've succeeded in implementing this vision and how far we have to go. (2002) (1)
Experimental Study on the Effects of Human and Electronic-Mechanical Interaction on RF Signal Strength for a Personal Server (2005) (0)
Manipulative user interfaces: exploring physically embodied user interfaces (1999) (0)
Spatially defined data transmission system with high accuracy (1997) (0)
Method and apparatus for preserving the continuity of the processing with mobile computers in a wireless network (1994) (0)
Service announcements in media access control beacons (2009) (0)
Dynamic Migration of Computation Through Virtualization of the Mobile Platform (2011) (0)
Small, portable Rehner (1994) (0)
Session details: Discovery and pairing (2009) (0)
Pervasive Computing at the Edge (2020) (0)
Activating the Internet (2015) (0)
Grasping the Torch (2006) (0)
Social Networking and announcements in a mobile device in a local Personal Area Network (2009) (0)
MOBILE DEVICES AND INTERACTIVE SPACES (2005) (0)
Mobile carrier tracking system (1989) (0)
Session details: When and where (2011) (0)
Handy arithmetic unit and input signal processing method for the same (1994) (0)
Portable storage device and method for accessing document stored during repository from document card (1996) (0)
I N V I S I B L E C O M P U T I N G Location-sensing Technologies Coarse-grained Systems Fine-grained Systems Location-aware Computing Comes of Age (0)
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services (2004) (0)
The Personal Server: Personal Content for Situated Displays (2003) (0)
Embedded Vomputation Meets the World Wide Web. (2000) (0)
RFID : From Obscurity to Wal-Mart (0)
Method and device for maintaining processing continuity for mobile computer in wireless network (1994) (0)
Inferring Complex Human Behavior Using a Non-obtrusive Mobile Sensing Platform (2010) (0)
Mode selection for data input on a portable computer (2000) (0)
My Digital Shoebox (2008) (0)
Fluorophotometry to Evaluate the Cornea in Patients Utilizing Corneal Refractive Therapy (CRT) yo Correct Myopia (2007) (0)
Privacy, Security and Trust Issues Raised by the Personal Server Concept (2005) (0)
Session details: Exploiting path diversity in mobile systems (2004) (0)
Everything Automating Rfid (0)
Are We There Yet? (2006) (0)

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