**Christopher Nugent**

Christopher Nugent is currently the head of the School of Computing at Ulster University and leads the Pervasive Computing Research Centre. Chris was awarded a first class honors in BEng electronic systems and a PhD in biomedical engineering, both from the University of Ulster in 1995 and 1998, respectively. He became a fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2015. He has held a visiting professorship at Halmstad University (Sweden) and the University of Florence (Italy) and is currently a visiting professor at Lulea Technical University (Sweden). In 2016, he was awarded a Senior Distinguished Research Fellowship by Ulster University. His research addresses the themes of the development and evaluation of technologies to support pervasive healthcare within smart environments. Specifically, this has involved research in the topics of mobile-based reminding solutions, activity recognition, and behavior modelling and, more recently, in technology adoption modelling.
