Development of Intelligent Environments research group

Our Research Group creates innovation related to Intelligent Environments, these are, systems consisting of a network of sensors and actuators deployed in physical spaces to the benefit of some sector of society. Examples of a large scale such system is a Smart City, medium scale a Smart Campus, and smaller scale systems could be Smart Homes, Smart Classrooms, Smart Offices. A more personalized system could also include wearable technology, including sensing and actuation devices a person carries. Possible applications are to support health, general well-being, education, and other situations where citizens can benefit from context-aware technology.

Contact:

Staff Profile: Prof Juan Carlos Augusto (Director)
Email:  J.Augusto@mdx.ac.uk 

Almaas Ali

Stelios Kapetanakis

Zia Lallmahomed

Shahedur Rahman

Aditya Santokee

Adjunct Members

Liang Liu
Emma Ward

Current Ph.D./M.Sc./Visiting Researchers

Stephen Hall (2020-2027)

Babak Mohajer (2025-2031)

Chizurum Nwachukwu (2025-2026)

Mrinal Sharma (2024-2030)

Manos Stafylarakis (2024-2030)

Research Areas

• Intelligent Environments Design and Development
• Context-Aware Computing
• Core concepts of:  Ambient Intelligence, Smart Environments, Pervasive Computing, Ubiquitous Computing, Person-Centric Computing, Internet of Things and Sensor-based Computing
• Applications to health, well-being, learning, safety and other benefits to society of technological instruments such as Wearable Computing, Ambient Assisted Living, Smart Homes, Smart Classrooms, Smart Campus, Smart Cities
• Societal impact of applications of sensing technologies.

Methods

We work at all levels from fundamental theoretical concepts, through development and validation of systems, to deployment of systems into society.  Our group include experts in design, development and deployment of systems in this area and we combine a number of methods and tools to create solutions co-created with stakeholders.

Examples of funders

European Commission

EPSRC

Innovate UK

The Royal Society

British Academy

GLL

Get involved

Students wishing to undertake a PhD or those wanting to gain research assistant experience within any of our research teams should contact the staff directly (contact details available on individual staff profiles) or via Prof. Juan Carlos Augusto

Participating in research

If you would like to participate in any of our ongoing studies, please contact the research teams directly (contact details available on individual staff profiles) or via Prof. Juan Carlos Augusto

For more information on our activities, output, and examples of our impact in society, please visit our Research Group webpage in the Department of Computer Science.