Role
Dr Thomas Johnson is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science within the School of Science and Technology and researcher in the Pervasive Computing Research Laboratory.
Dr Johnson's teaching expertise lies in mobile application development and currently leads the following modules: Level 6 UG Mobile Platform Applications, Level 6 (Degree Apprenticeship) Mobile Platform Applications. He also supports the delivery of L6 Mobile Platform Development and Level 7 Mobile Interactive Systems. In addition, he leads the Level 5 Internet Application Development module. Dr Johnson supervises project work of MSc and Level 6 BSc students.
As a qualified primary teacher, Dr Johnson coordinates and manages the Department of Computer Science outreach provision working with local primary and secondary schools.
Career overview
Dr Johnson was awarded a BSc. (Hons) Information and Communications Technology in 2016 and an MSc Computing Systems in 2017 both from Nottingham Trent University. He went on to be awarded in 2018 a PGCE in Primary Education with Qualified Teaching Status (QTS) from the University of Derby.
He joined Nottingham Trent University in 2019 as an Academic Associate (part-time PhD and lecturer). In 2023 he was awarded a PhD with the thesis title: "DigitalExposome: A Multimodal Sensor Fusion Approach to Study the Impact of the Environment on Momentary Mental Wellbeing". His Director of Study was Professor Eiman Kanjo.
In 2022, he was elevated to lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Nottingham Trent University. Alongside this role, he coordinates the Department's outreach provision to local Primary, Secondary and FE Colleges.
Research areas
Dr Johnson is part of the Pervasive Computing Research Group.
More information about Tom's research are available from his Linkedin, Twitter and ResearchGate
Real-time Environmental Changes impacts Mental Wellbeing
https://airqualitynews.com/2021/02/24/real-time-environmental-changes-impacts-mental-wellbeing/
External activity
Research Projects:
Royal Society funded partnership grant (£3,000) 'DIY School air quality monitoring kits' Project (2024).
Invited talks/ poster presentations:
TinyML EMEA Innovation Forum. Poster presentation - TinyDigitalExposome: The Opportunities of Multimodal Urban Environmental Data and Mental Wellbeing on Constrained Microcontrollers. (June 2023)
STEM for Britain. Selected as a finalist in the competition held at Houses of Parliament - Engineering category. (March 2023)
Invited talk at Clean Air Research Futures Group (CARFG): "Making it personal - will small / portable sensors transform air pollution management and research?” (October 2021)
Publications
A full list of publications can be found at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thomas-Johnson-43
- B. Patrick, T. Johnson and E. Kanjo, "Internetless Low-Cost Sensing System for Real-Time Livestock Monitoring," in IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 1-4, June 2024, Art no. 7500504, doi: 10.1109/LSENS.2024.3399884.
- T. Johnson, K. Woodward and E. Kanjo, "Emotion on the Edge: Air Quality Sensors Decoded as a Real-World Emotion Indicator," 2024 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops), Biarritz, France, 2024, pp. 267-272, doi: 10.1109/PerComWorkshops59983.2024.10502563.
- Kieran Woodward, Thomas Johnson, Bradley Patrick, Michael Gibbs, Amna Anwar, Eiman Kanjo, and Jenny Wüstenberg. 2024. The MEMO Project Inscription App: Fostering Community Engagement on Biodiversity Loss. interactions 31, 2 (March - April 2024), 9–11. https://doi.org/10.1145/3647115.
- Johnson, T., Kanjo, E. & Woodward, K. DigitalExposome: quantifying impact of urban environment on wellbeing using sensor fusion and deep learning. Computational Urban Science Journal. 3, 14 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43762-023-00088-9
- Johnson, T., Kanjo E,. (2023) Urban Wellbeing: A Portable Sensing Approach to Unravel the Link Between Environment and Mental Wellbeing. IEEE Sensors Letters Journal. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10041800
- Johnson T., Kanjo E,. (2023) Episodes of Change: Emotion Change in Semantic Trajectories of Multimodal Sensor Data. The 21st International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2023: EmotionAware Workshop).
- Johnson T., Kanjo E. (2023) Designing an Interactive Mobile Assessment Tool to Quantify Impact of the Environment on Wellbeing. Proceedings of the 2023 HCII Conference.
- Johnson T., Kanjo E. (2021) Sensor Fusion and The City: Visualisation and Aggregation of Environmental & Wellbeing Data. Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference.
- Woodward, K., Kanjo, E., Anderez, D. O., Anwar, A., Johnson, T., & Hunt, J. (2020). DigitalPPE: Low cost wearable that acts as a social distancing reminder and contact tracer: Poster abstract. SenSys 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3384419.3430600
Magazines:
Johnson T., Kanjo E., & Woodward, K. (2021) Real-time Environmental Changes Impacts Mental Wellbeing. (Published February 2021)