IEEE 802.11bk (320MHz Positioning) "IEEE Standard for Information Technology--Telecommunications and Information Exchange between Systems - Local and Metropolitan Area Networks--Specific Requirements - Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications Amendment 3: 320MHz Positioning", published 5th September, 2025 (Technical Editor)
IEEE 802.11az (Next Generation Positioning (NGP)), "IEEE Standard for Information Technology--Telecommunications and Information Exchange between Systems Local and Metropolitan Area Networks--Specific Requirements Part 11: Wireless LAN Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications Amendment 4: Enhancements for Positioning", published 3rd March 2023, (Technical Editor)
Conferences
"Wi-Fi One-Sided RTT for Precise Indoor Localization", Ali A. Abdallah, Roy Want, Etienne Le Grand, Google, September 8-12, Baltimore Inner Harbor, Maryland, ION GNSS+, 2025.
"Multi-User Operation in mmWave Wireless Networks" IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kyoto, Japan 5-9th June 2011. DOI/10.1109/icc.2011.5903192.
"Directional CSMA/CA Protocol with Spatial Resue for mmWave Wireless Networks", Gong, M.X. Akhmetov, D. Want, R. Mao, S., IEEE GLOBECOM 2010, 6-10 December, Miami Florida, DOI/10.1109/GLOCOM.2010.5684226.
CSMA/CA MAC Protocol for Multi-User MIMO Wireless LANsIEEE GLOBECOM 2010, Miami, Florida, 6-10th December, 2010, DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2010.5684351.
"What Do You Bring To the Table? Investigations of a Collaborative Workspace", Trevor Pering, Kent Lyons, Roy Want, Mary Murphy-Hoye,(Intel), Mark Baloga, Paul Noll, Joe Branc, Nicolas De Benoist, (Steelcase), ACM Ubicomp 2010, 26-29th September, Copenhagen, Denmark.
"Training Protocols for Multi-user Wireless LANs", IEEE PIMRC 2010, Michelle Gong, Eldad Perahia, Roy Want and Shiwen Mao, September 2010. Istanbul, Turkey, 26-29th September 2010.
"Multi-Display Composition: Supporting Display Sharing of Collocated Mobile Devices", Kent Lyons, Trevor Pering, Shivani Sud, Barbara Rosario and Roy Want, Interact'09, Uppsala Sweden, August 24th 2009
"Context-Aware Composition”, HotMobile-2009, Kent Lyons, Roy Want, David Munday, Jia Jia Sheng, Shivani Sud, Barbara Rosario & Trevor Pering, ACM Hotmobile 2009, Santa Cruz, CA, Feb, 2009
"Enabling Pervasive Collaboration with Platform Composition”, Pervasive'09, Trevor Pering, Kent Lyons, Shivani Sud, Barbara Rosario, & Roy Want, Nara, Japan, May 2009
"SwitchR: Managing Low-Power Wireless Connections in a Multi-Radio Environment", Yuvraj Agarwal, Trevor Pering, Rajesh Gupta and Roy Want; IEEE ISWC'08, 1st Oct 2008
"Enhancing Web Browsing Security on Public Terminals using Mobile Composition", Richard Sharp, Anil Madhavapeddy, Roy Want, and Trevor Pering; Proc. ACM MobiSys 2008. Breacon Ridge Colorado.
"Dynamic Composable Computing", Roy Want, Trevor Pering, Shivani Sud, and Barbara Rosario. ACM HotMobile 2008, February 2008 Napa Valley, California.
"Musicology: Bringing Personal Music into Shared Spaces", Trevor Pering, Kristen Vadas, Lamar Gardere, Evan Welbourne and Roy Want, Mobiquitous 2007 Conference, Philadelphia, Canada.
"The PSI Board: Realizing a Phone-Centric Body Sensor Network", Trevor Pering, Pei Zhang, Rohit Chaudhri, Yaw Anokawa, and Roy Want, Body Sensor Networks (BSN) 2007, March 26-28, 2007, Aachen, Germany.
"Gesture Connect: Facilitating Tangible Interaction With a Flick of the Wrist", Trevor Pering, Yaw Anokawa, and Roy Want, Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI) 2007, February, 15-17th, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
"CoolSpots: Reducing the Power Consumption of Wireless Mobile Devices Using Multiple Radio Interfaces", Trevor Pering, Yuvraj Agarwal, Rajesh Gupta and Roy Want, Proc. ACM MobiSys 2006, Uppsala, Sweden June 19th, 2006, pp220-232.
"Face-to-Face Media Sharing Using Wireless Mobile Devices", Trevor Pering, David H. Nguyen, John Light and Roy Want. IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, December 2005.
“Experimental Study on the Effects of Human and Electronic-Mechanical Interaction on RF Signal Strength for a Personal Server”, Michael Montero, Trevor Pering, Umair Udaud, Paul Wright and Roy Want, Proc. of InterPACK’05, San Francisco, California. July 17-22nd, 2005.
“System Challenges for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing”. Want, R. & Pering, T., 18th May 2005, Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2005, pp9-14, St. Louis, MO. PDF
“Exploiting radio hierarchies for power-efficient wireless discovery and connection setup”, Pering, T.; Raghunathan, V.; Want, R. In Proc. of the 18th International Conference on VLSI Design; January 2005.
“Experience with a low-power wireless mobile computing platform”, V. Raghunathan, T. Pering, R. Want, A. Nguyen, and P. Jensen, Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED) 2004, Newport Beach, CA, pp363-368, August 9-11, 2004.
"New Horizons for Mobile Computing", Roy Want and Trevor Pering, PerCom'03, First IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication. Dallas –Fort Worth, Texas 23-26th March 2003, IEEE Computer Society, pp3-8.
"Tilttype: Accelerometer-Supported Text Entry for Very Small Devices", Kurt Partridge, Saurav Chatterjee, Vibha Sazawal, Gaetano Borriello and Roy Want. Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on. User interface software and technology (UIST), ISBN 1-58113-488-6, Nov. 2002, pp201-204, Paris, France
"The Personal Server: changing the way we think about ubiquitous computing", Roy Want, Trevor Pering, Gunner Danneels, Muthu Kumar, Murali Sundar and John Light. Proceedings of Ubicomp 2002: 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Springer LNCS 2498, Goteborg, Sweden, Sept 30th-Oct 2nd, 2002, pp194-209.
"The Unigesture Approach: One Handed Text Entry for Mobile Devices ", Vibha Sazawal, Roy Want and Gaetano Borriello, Proceedings of Mobile HCI 2002, Pisa, Italy 18-20 September 2002
"Making Everyday Life Easier Using Dense Sensor Networks", Steven Conner, Lakshman Krishnamurthy and Roy Want, Proceedings of ACM Ubicomp, Atlanta Georgia, Oct 2001.
"Implementing Phicons: Combining Computer Vision with InfraRed Technology for Interactive Physical Icons", Darnell J. Moore, Roy Want et al. Proceedings of ACM UIST'99, Ashville, N.C., November 8th-10th 1999. pp67-68.
"Bridging Real and Virtual Worlds with Electronic Tags", Roy Want, Ken Fishkin, Beverly Harrison, Anuj Gujar. Proceedings of ACM SIGCHI. May 1999, Pittsburgh, pp370-377 (supporting video available).
"Squeeze Me, Hold Me, Tilt Me! An Exploration of Manipulative User Interfaces". Beverly L. Harrison, Kenneth P. Fishkin, Anuj Gujar, Carlos Mochon, and Roy Want - ACM SIGCHI '98, Los Angeles, CA, April 1998 (supporting video available).
"Designing Audio Aura". Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Maribeth Back, Roy Want, Michael Baer and Jason Ellis. Published in the Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI'98, Los Angeles, CA, April 1998
"An Infrared Network for Mobile Computers", Norman Adams, Rich Gold, Bill Schilit, Mike Tso and Roy Want. Usenix Symposium on Mobile Computing, April 93 Boston.
"The LAN as an Integrated Communications Environment", Roy Want & Andy Hopper, Proceedings of Networks '89, (9th event) Birmingham, UK, May 1989.
"Protocols for Real Time Voice Communication on a Packet Local Network", Stephen Ades, Roy Want, Roger Calnan. Proceedings of IEEE ICC86 Conf. Toronto, Canada.
"How to achieve 1-meter accuracy in Android", Frank Van Diggelen, Roy Want and Wei Wang, June 3rd, 2018, Vol.29(7), GPS World.
“Bluetooth Low Energy in Dense IoT Environments”, Albert F. Harris III; Vansh Khanna; Guliz Tunca ; Roy Want ; Robin Kravets; IEEE Communications Magazine, Volume: 54, Issue: 12, December 2016 , pp 30-36; DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2016.1600546CM.
“Enabling the Internet-of-Things”, R. Want, B. N. Schilit, and Scott Jenson, IEEE Computer, Jan 2015, Vol 48. No. 1, pp28-35.
“Ensemble Computing: Opportunities and Challenges”, R. Want, E. Schooler, L. Jelinke, J. Jung, D. Dahle, U. Sengupta. Intel Technology Journal (ITJ), October 2010.
"Rapid Wireless Service Composition using Layer-2 Discovery". Shivani Sud, Roy Want, Trevor Pering, Barbara Rosario, and Kent Lyons. IEEE Network Magazine July-Aug 2008, Special Issue on Composition.
"An Introduction to FID Technology", Roy Want. IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 5, Number 1. pp25-33, Jan-Mar 2006.
"Spontaneous marriages of mobile devices and interactive spaces", Trevor Pering, Raffael Ballagas, and Roy Want, Communications of the ACM, Volume 48 , Issue 9, (Sep. 2005), pp 53 - 59, Special Issue: "RFID - tagging the world".
“The Magic of RFID”, Roy Want, ACM Queue Magazine, pp41-48, Vol 2, No.7 Oct 2004.
"RFID: The Key to Automating Everything", Roy Want, Scientific American, Jan 2004, pp56-65 .
"Comparing Autonomic and Proactive Computing", Roy Want, Trevor Pering, and David Tennenhouse, IBM Systems Journal Vol. 42 No.1, Jan. 2003.
“Photographic Authentication for Untrusted Terminals", Trevor Pering, Murali Sundar, John Light and Roy Want, IEEE Pervasive Computing, March 2003, Vol 2, No 1, pp30-36 .
"Disappearing Hardware", Roy Want, Trevor Pering, Gaetano Borriello & Keith Farkas. IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 1. Issue #1, April 2002 pp36-47 .
"Survey on Information Appliances", Roy Want & Gaetano Borriello, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, May/June 2000, pp24-31. Vol 20, No. 3, pp21-23.
"Embedded Computation Meets the World-Wide-Web", Gaetano Borriello and Roy Want, Communications of the ACM, May 2000, Vol. 43 No.5. pp59-66.
"Ubiquitous Electronic Tagging", IEEE Distributed Systems Online, September 2000, Vol. 1, No.2, Roy Want and Dan M. Russell [online link].
"Embodied User Interfaces for Really Direct Manipulation", Communications of the ACM, Sept. 2000, Vol.43 No.9, pp75-80, Ken Fishkin, Anuj Gujar, Beverly Harrison, Tom Moran and Roy Want.
"An Overview of the Parctab Ubiquitous Computing Experiment", IEEE Personal Communications, December 1995, Vol 2. No.6, pp28-43 Roy Want, Bill Schilit, Norman Adams, Rich Gold, David Goldberg, Karin. Petersen, John Ellis, Mark Weiser.
"Active Badges and Personal Interactive Computing Objects", Roy Want and Andy Hopper. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. Vol 38. No.1, Feb 92. pp10-20.
"The Active Badge Location System", Roy Want, Andy Hopper, Veronica Falcao & Jon Gibbons, ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems (TOIS) Vol. 10. N0. 1, Jan 1992 Pages 91-102.
"An Introduction to Ubiquitous Computing" by Roy Want, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis group publishing. Chapter 1 of Book " Ubiquitous Computing Fundamentals". ISBN 978-1420093605
"RFID Explained: A primer on Radio Frequency Identification Technologies", Morgan & Claypool Publishers, Synthesis Lectures on Mobile and Pervasive Computing, 15 Oct 2006, [paperback, p1-100], ISBN: 1598291084
“Privacy, Security and Trust Issues Raised by the Personal Server Concept”, John Light, Trevor Pering, Murali Sundar and Roy Want pp49-59 in “Privacy, Security and Trust within the Context of Pervasive Computing”, 2005, Springer ISBN 0-387-23461-6.
"Pervasive Computing: Third International Conference, PERVASIVE 2005", Munich, Germany, May 8-13, 2005, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) by Hans W. Gellersen (Editor), Roy Want (Editor), Albrecht Schmidt,. Springer; 1st edition (June 23, 2005), ISBN 978-3540260080
“ACM MobiSys 2004: Proceedings of 2nd Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services” Editors Roy Want and Doug Terry. Boston, Massachusetts, June 6-9, 2004. ISBN:1-58113-793-1
"SpotON: An Indoor 3D Location Sensing Technology Based on RF Signal Strength", Jeffrey Hightower, Roy Want, and Gaetano Borriello, UW CSE 00-02-02, University of Washington, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seattle, WA, Feb. 2000. PDF
"The Parctab Ubiquitous Computing Experiment", Roy Want, Bill Schilit, Norman Adams, Rich Gold, David Goldberg, Karin Petersen, John Ellis, Mark Weiser. " Mobile Computing" , Kluwer Publishing, Edited by Tomasz Imielinski, Book Chapter 2, pp 45-101, ISBN 0-7923-9697-9, February 1997. Also available as Xerox B&W, March 1995 P95-00050. PDF
"Reliable Management of Voice in a Distributed System", Roy Want, thesis and Tech. Report #141, 1988. Available through the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Bookshop, UK
"Pervasive Computing at the Edge". Paramvir Victor Bahl, Ramon Caceres, Nigel Davies, and Roy Want, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Volume 19, Issue 4•Oct.-Dec. 2020, pp 8-9 • DOI: 10.1109/MPRV.2020.3032205.
"Accurate Indoor Location for the IoT", Roy Want, Wei Wang, Stan Chesnutt, Computer magazine (IEEE Computer Society), August 2018, Vol.51(8), pp66-70, DOI: 10.1109/MC.2018.3191259.
“Multidevice Interaction”, Guest Editor Introduction, Roy Want, Trevor Pering and Yuvraj Agarwal, IEEE Computer, December 2016, pp16-20; PDF
"Activating the Internet of Things", Guest Editor Introduction, Roy Want & Schahram Dustdar, IEEE Computer, Vol 48, No. 9., pp17-20, Sept 2015. PDF
“The Power of Smartphones”, Roy Want, IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 13-03 (2014), pp. 76-79. PDF
“Bluetooth LE Finds its Niche”, Roy Want, Bill Schilit, Dominik Laskowski, IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 12-04 (2013), pp. 12-16. PDF
"Interactive Digital Signage", IEEE Computer, May 2012, Guest Editor Introduction, Roy Want and Bill Schilit, Vol. 45, No. 5. pp21-24. PDF
"Argos: Building a Web-Centric Application Platform on Top of Android", Rich Gossweiler, Colin McDonough, James Lin, and Roy Want; IEEE Pervasive Computing, Smart Phone Dept, Vol. 10, No. 4, Oct-Dec 2011, pp10-14. PDF
"Near Field Communication (NFC)", Roy Want, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Smart Phone Dept, Vol. 10, No. 3, Jul-Sep 2011, pp4-7. PDF
“iPhone: Smarter than the Average Phone”, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Smart Phone Dept, Vol. 9, Jul-Sep, 2010, pp6-9. PDF
"Summary of ISWC 2008", Roy Want, Kent Lyons, IEEE Pervasive Computing Vol. 8, Number 1, Jan-Feb, 2009 PDF
"RFID Technology and Applications", IEEE Pervasive Computing, Guest Editors’ Introduction, Badri Nath, Franklin Reynolds & Roy Want, pp22-24, Vol. 5 No1. Jan-Mar 2006. PDF
“Creating and Protecting Digital Worlds”. IEEE Computer” Bill Schilit and Roy Want, pp119-121, February 2005. PDF
“Energy Harvesting and Conservation”, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Guest Editors’ Introduction, Roy Want, Keith I. Farkas, and Chandra Narayamaswami, pp14-17, Jan – Mar 2005. PDF
“Personal Server: A Radical Computer Design Supporting the Digital Media Revolution”, Roy Want and Trevor Pering, Fibre Optic Product News, p10-12, Aug 2004. PDF
“Enabling Ubiquitous Sensing with RFID”, Roy Want, IEEE Computer, Apr 2004, Vol 37. No.4. pp84-86 PDF
"Wearable Computing for the Masses", Appliance Design Issue #2 - special issue on wearable appliances, July 2002, pp10-13. PDF
"Expanding the Horizons of Location-Aware Computing", Guest editors' Introduction, Roy Want & Bill Schilit, IEEE Computer, August 2001, pp31-34 PDF
"Information Appliances", Guest editor's Introduction, Roy Want & Gaetano Borriello. IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications CG&A, May/June 2000, Vol 20, No. 3, pp21-23. PDF
"Remembering Mark Weiser", IEEE Personal Communication Systems (PCS), February 2000. pp8-10, Roy Want PDF
"The Habits of Highly Successful Portable Document Readers", Roy Want and Beverly L. Harrison, IEEE Computer, January, 1999 pp.70 PDF
"Audio Aura: lightweight Audio Augmented Reality". Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Maribeth Back, Roy Want & Ron Frederick. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD), Palo Alto, CA, November 1997, pp105-107, html. PDF
“Beacon Trains: Blazing a Trail Through Dense BLE Environments”; Robin Kravets, Albert F Harris, II, Roy Want; ACM CHANTS’16, Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM Workshop on Challenged Networks, New York, NY, USA; 3rd October, 2016; pp 69-74; PDF
“Building an On-ramp for the Internet of Things”, S. Jenson, R. Want, B. N. Schilit, R Kravets, IoT-Sys workshop at ACM MobiSys’15 in Proceedings, May 19th-22nd 2015, Florence, Italy. PDF
“The Smart Phone and New Opportunities for Near Field Communication (NFC)", Roy Want IEEE HPCA-18, SoC Hetrogeneous Architectures and Workloads (SHAW-3), 26th February 2012, New Orleans, Lousiana. PDF
"Smart Phones: Devices, Accelerators and Applications", Roy Want HPCA-16, SoC Accelerators Workshop (SAW), 10th January 2010, Bangalore, India PDF
"The Personal Server: Personal Content for Situated Displays" Trevor Pering, John Light, Murali Sundar, Gillian Hayes, Vijay Raghunathan, Eric Pattison and Roy Want. p97-99, Adjunct Proceedings Ubicomp 2003, Oct 12-15, 2003, Seattle Washington, USA. XPS
"Activating Everyday Objects", Roy Want, Mark Weiser, Beth Mynatt. July 30th & 31st 1998, Proceedings of the 1998 DARPA/NIST Smart Spaces Workshop", NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, pp7-140 to 7-143. PDF
"Context-Aware Computing Applications", Bill Schilit, Norman Adams, Roy Want, 1st Annual Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA) , Dec 1994, Santa Cruz PDF
"The ParcTab Mobile Computing System", Fourth Workshop on Workstation Operating Systems (WWOS), October 14-15, 1993, Napa California, Bill Schilit, Norman Adams, Rich Gold, Michael M. Tso and Roy Want. PDF
EIC Introductions (IEEE Pervasive Computing)
"So Long and Thanks for all the Fish", Roy Want, IEEE Pervasive Computing Vol. 8, Number 4, Oct-Dec, 2009, pp2-3
"Through Tinted Eyeglasses", Roy Want, IEEE Pervasive Computing Vol. 8, Number 3, Jul-Sep, 2009, pp2-3
"When Cell Phones Become Computers", Roy Want, IEEE Pervasive Computing Vol. 8, Number 2, Apr-Jun, 2009, pp2-3
"How Green is Green?", Roy Want, IEEE Pervasive Computing Vol. 8, Number 1, Jan-Mar, 2009, pp2-3
"My Digital Shoebox", Roy Want, IEEE Pervasive Computing Vol. 7, Number 4, Oct-Dec, 2008, pp2-3
"The Seeds of Inspiration", Roy Want, IEEE Pervasive Computing Vol. 7, Number 3, Jul-Sep, 2008, pp2-3
"You are your Cell Phone", Roy Want, IEEE Pervasive Computing Vol. 7, Number 2, Apr-Jun, 2008, pp4-6
"The Bionic Man", Roy Want, IEEE Pervasive Computing Vol. 7, Number 1, Jan-Mar, 2008, pp4-6
"You're not Paranoid; they really are watching you", Roy Want, IEEE Pervasive Computing Vol. 6, Number 4, Oct-Dec, 2007, pp4-6
"Carry Small, Live Large", Roy Want, IEEE Pervasive Computing Vol. 6, Number 3, Jul-Sep, 2007, pp4-5
"Sensor Driven Computing Comes of Age", Roy Want, IEEE Pervasive Computing Vol. 6, Number 2, Apr-Jun, 2007, pp4-5
"People First, Computers Second", IEEE Pervasive Computing Vol. 6, Number 1, Jan-Mar, 2007, pp4-5
"Are we there yet?", Roy Want, IEEE Pervasive Computing Vol. 5, Number 4, Oct-Dec, 2006, pp4-5
"Build what you use", Roy Want, IEEE Pervasive Computing Vol. 5, Number 3, Jul-Sep, 2006, pp4-5
"Global Perspectives", Roy Want, IEEE Pervasive Computing Vol. 5, Number 2, Apr-Jun, 2006, pp4-5
"Grasping the Torch", Roy Want., IEEE Pervasive Computing Vol. 5, Number 1, Jan-Mar, 2006, pp4-6