This page provides links to research groups at various UK and international universities that are conducting research in the area of ubiquitous computing. It also lists specific projects, companies and products relevant to ubiquitous computing research.

University Research Groups

UK Universities

• HCI Research Group at University of Bath

• University of Birmingham Pervasive Computing Research and " wear-it " network

• University of Bristol Mobile and Wearable Computing Group

• University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NetOS Research , Laboratory for Communication Engineering and Computer Laboratory Opera research group

• University of Essex Intelligent Inhabited Environments Group

• EPSRC WINES Programme

• Glasgow Interactive Systems Group

• Imperial College Dept. of Computing Distributed UbiComp Research

• King's College London Centre for Telecommunications Research and Work, Interaction and Technology Research Group

• Lancaster University Distributed Multimedia Research Group, Cooperative Systems Engineering Group and Hermes Project

• University of Nottingham Mixed Reality Laboratory

• Ubiquitous Computing at Queen Mary

• Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art

• University of Southampton Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group

• University of Strathclyde Pervasive and Global Computing Group

• University of Sussex research groups in informatics

• University College London Adaptive Complex Systems Engineering , Interaction Centre , Mobile Systems , Sensor Networks and Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics groups

International Universities

• University of Aarhus Centre for Pervasive Computing

• UC Berkeley Group for User Interface Research WEBS: wireless embedded sytems and NEST: Network Embedded Systems Technology

• UCLA Wireless Adaptive Mobility Laboratory and CENS: Centre for Embedded Network Sensing

• Carnegie Mellon Mobile Information Access , Interactive Systems , and Project Aura: Distraction-free Ubiquitous Computing Research

• Carnegie Mellon / General Motors Collaborative Laboratory

• TU Darmstadt Databases and Distributed Systems Group

• Academy of Finland User Interfaces for Ubiquitous Computing Project

• Georgia Tech Future Computing Environments Group and Infosphere project

• GMD-IPSI AMBIENTE Research Group

• Helsinki Institute for Information Technology Future Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Research

• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Coordinated Science Laboratory

• INRIA Planete Group

• University of Karlsruhe TeCO UbiComp Research

• University of Linz Institute for Pervasive Computing

• University of Maryland Mobile Computing and Multimedia Laboratory

• MIT Media Lab Research Groups ,  Networks and Mobile Systems Group and Project Oxygen

• Rutgers Mobile Computing Laboratory and Wireless Information Network Laboratory

• Stanford Distributed Systems and Ubiquitous Computing , Interactive Workspaces Project and Interactivity Lab

• University of Stockholm Future Ubiquitous Service Environments Group

• Tampere University Speech-based and Pervasive Interaction Group and Personal Electronics Group

• Trinity College Dublin Distributed Systems Group

• Vrije University Security in Ubiquitous Computing

• University of Washington Portolano Project

• University of Waterloo Shoshin Research Group

Research Projects and Programmes

• AIR&D: INRIA Philips, and Thompson Joint Virtual Laboratory for Ambient Intelligence

• The Appliance Design Network

• Bristol Wearable Computing Project

• Denmark Centre for Pervasive Computing CfPC

• EU funded projects CORTEX ,  OZONE , FABRIC , EYES: Energy Efficient Sensor Networks , MobiHealth

• DTI Nextwave technologies and markets

• ESRC Virtual Society Program

• EU/FP6 Future & Emerging Technologies Programme including The Disappearing Computer and Global Computing , proactive initiatives.

• ERCIM Beyond the Horizon: Pervasive Computing and Communications

• Equator IRC

• HP Cooltown

• European Network for Intelligent Information Interfaces

• Global Smart Spaces Project

• IP CASCADAS "Component-ware for Autonomic Situation-aware Communications, and Dynamically Adaptable Services"

• Manet

• Microsoft Easy Living Project

• Mobile VCE

• UK Next Generation Wireless Network

• NIST Smart Space Project

• The Principle of Precaution in an Information Society : Pervasive Computing and its Effects on Health and on the Environment

• PalCom: Palpable Computing

• Smart Dust

• Smart-Its Project

Companies and Products

• The Application Home Initiative

• BBN Smart Sensor Web

• Crossbow Sensors

• Fuju-Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory

• Gumstix

• HP Mobile & Media Systems Lab

• IBM Pervasive Computing

• Microsoft Easy Living

• Point Servers

• Sun Small Programmable Object Technologies ( SunSPOT)

• Summit Instruments

• User Interface Research at PARC

• XSens Motion Technology

Publications

• Security for Ad-hoc Networks and Sensor Networks (Contains a list of papers on security for Ad-hoc networks and SensorNetworks)

• Computer Science Challenges to emerge from eScience

• Grand Challenges in Computing Discussion Lists Theory for Ubiquitous Systems and Scalable Ubiquitous Computing Systems

• ERCIM News on Ambient Computing ,   Applications and Service Platforms for the Mobile User

• IEEE Distributed Systems Online : Mobile & Pervasive section and Middleware section

• IEEE Pervasive Computing

• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

• ISTAG Report on Scenarios for Ambient Intelligence in 2010

• International Symposium on Wearable Computers

• ACM SIGMOBILE

• PerCom Conference Series

• Springer Verlag Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

• Frank Stajano "Security for Ubiquitous Computing"

• UbiComp Conference Series

• Wearable Computing Pages

• Ubiquitous Computing Conference Series