Electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) are among the most important techniques for non-invasively studying cognition and disease in the human brain. These signals are known to originate from cortical ...

Background This trial evaluates interventions that utilize data entered at point-of-care in the Palestinian maternal and child eRegistry to generate Quality Improvement Dashboards (QID) for healthcare ...

Algorithmic decision-making is rapidly evolving as a source of data-driven competitive advantage with important implications for analytical practices in multiple settings. Despite the ambitions for algorithmic and intelligent ...

This thesis explores the field of \emph{Affective Computing} and emotional intelligent machines, by implementing and investigating a specific approach for training emotional reinforcement learning agents, in the novel ...

Echocardiography is a key imaging modality to assess cardiac anatomy and function. In the past decade, high frame rate ultrasound imaging has emerged, and has allowed for studies of rapid phenomena that occur in the ...

Surface electromyography (sEMG) provides an intuitive and non-invasive interface from which to control machines. However, preserving the myoelectric control system’s performance over multiple days is challenging, due to ...

We live in a society that is becoming increasingly digitized. Cloud computing is more popular than ever, and digital extensions appear everywhere. Over the past decade IoT and edge computing have emerged with smartwatches, ...

Background Targeted client communication (TCC) using text messages can inform, motivate and remind pregnant and postpartum women of timely utilization of care. The mixed results of the effectiveness of TCC interventions ...

With a global decline in fish stocks and a growing demand for seafood, there is a need for non-intrusive technological systems that can improve automatic data collection for conservation efforts and economic efficiency in ...

Sixty years have passed since neurosurgeon Nils Lundberg presented his thesis about intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring, which represents a milestone for its clinical introduction. Monitoring of ICP has since become a ...

Dynamic resource provisioning is an important driver for pay-on-demand cloud computing. Virtualized resources open for resource awareness, such that applications may use resource management strategies to modify their ...

Design thinking has recently emerged as a powerful approach to innovation. Its ability to transform products, services, and organizations has been broadly discussed in the literature. However, how to implement the approach ...

Ontology-based visual query systems enable users to construct ad-hoc queries in a way that is intuitive, and which allows them to receive feedback directly from the system interface. In this query construction setting, ...

Background Graph-based reference genomes have become popular as they allow read mapping and follow-up analyses in settings where the exact haplotypes underlying a high-throughput sequencing experiment are ...

In today’s hypercompetitive market, companies are forced to be creative and innovate in order to survive. Digital technology has brought new possibilities for organisations as well as enabled thousands of start-ups to enter ...

Background There is a need for validated clinical risk scores to identify patients at risk of severe disease and to guide decision-making during the covid-19 pandemic. The National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) is widely ...

Denne masteroppgaven er en studie av hvordan interaksjonsdesignere og utviklere forstår annerledeshet og design for ulike menneskers behov. Arbeidet plasserer seg under forskning på universell utforming i HCI-feltet, men ...

Continuity of health care has in recent years received increased attention. To achieve ‘seamless’ care over time and across service providers, and to reducing redundancy related to duplicated information in parallel systems, ...

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common, but severely under-diagnosed sleep disorder characterized by repeated periods of reduced or paused breathing during sleep. Polysomnography (PSG) is the gold standard for the ...

Background Advances in whole genome sequencing strategies have provided the opportunity for genomic and comparative genomic analysis of a vast variety of organisms. The analysis results are highly dependent on the quality ...

With more and more people getting older and needing extra medical attention, robots may be a way of helping them live independently at home longer. Robots in the home, however, can gather lots of personal information about ...

Denne oppgaven tar for seg digital ledelse i digitaliseringen av en offentlig helseinformasjonsinfrastruktur. Litteraturen om informasjonsinfrastrukturer brukes som grunnlag for å forstå casen i studien. Det trekkes frem ...

This thesis investigates the application of the User Centered Design (UCD) methodology into the existing work practices of an organization that specializes in implementing generic software. Specifically, it focuses on the ...

The structure and performance of neural networks are intimately connected, and by use of evolutionary algorithms, neural network structures optimally adapted to a given task can be explored. Guiding such neuroevolution ...

Access control is a security measure for restricting access to computer resources, especially in multi-user and data sharing settings. Attribute-based access control is a successor of the role-based access control that has ...

Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) is a data transmission technology featuring high bandwidth, low latency, and low computational overhead. RDMA can be used to transmit data between applications running on interconnected ...

This thesis presents a two-part research process exploring how to visualize the air quality for young adults living in Oslo. Through a user-centered design process, we explore how technology can be used to visualize air ...

This thesis presents a two-part research process exploring how to visualize the air quality for young adults living in Oslo. Through a user centered design process, we explore how technology can be used to visualize air ...

Background. A software product line is a set of software-intensive systems that share a common, managed set of features satisfying the specific needs of a particular market segment. The most considerable benefit of using ...

It is almost impossible to visit a website today that does not have tracking tools implemented. Either for the purpose of analytics or for advertising, data is being collected about us on virtually every website. This ...

Nettsteder blir en stadig viktigere forretningskanal for kommersielle selskap, og antall nettbrukere er sterkt økende. Med denne bakgrunnen har jeg undersøkt to problemstillinger: Hvilke krav bør stilles til IT-styringen ...

Background. A software product line is a set of software-intensive systems that share a common, managed set of features satisfying the specific needs of a particular market segment. The most considerable benefit of using ...

Software design patterns are high-level design solutions to common occurring problems within software development. The topic of this study is the relationship between design patterns and modern programming languages, and ...

Denne oppgaven undersøker hvordan personer velger et digitalt verktøy, og hvordan design kan bidra til å forenkle denne valgprosessen. Oppgaven ser på eksisterende litteratur innenfor interaksjonsdesign, valgmønstre og ...

THIS STUDY REPORTS ON AN EXPERIMENT THAT tested whether drummers systematically manipulated not only onset but also duration and/or intensity of strokes in order to achieve different timing styles. Twenty-two professional ...

Background: As the industry of software engineering often requires the employees to work in a team setting using agile methods, it is important to teach bachelor students of software engineering these skills. Courses that ...

I denne masteroppgaven blir det presentert en beskrivelse av hvordan Kjernejournal systemet har blitt utviklet, implementert og tatt i bruk og hvordan komplekse nettverk med menneskelige og ikke-menneskelig aktører former ...

Denne oppgaven undersøker hvordan personer velger et digitalt verktøy, og hvordan design kan bidra til å forenkle denne valgprosessen. Oppgaven ser på eksisterende litteratur innenfor interaksjonsdesign, valgmønstre og ...

Denne masteroppgaven undersøker hvordan vi som designere kan støtte opp om unge voksne sin vedlikeholds- og reparasjonspraksis for en mer bærekraftig livsstil, ved å kartlegge utfordringer og muligheter knyttet til tematikken ...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers among both genders and its incidence rate is continuously increasing. CRC starts from small non-cancerous growths of tissue on the wall of the colon ...

In acoustic instruments, sound production relies on the interaction between physical objects. Digital musical instruments, on the other hand, are based on arbitrarily designed action--sound mappings. This paper describes ...

A challenge in evolutionary robotics is the in parallel adaptation of morphologies and controllers. Here, we considered encoding methods for morphogenesis of 2D virtual creatures that can be created from directed trees. ...

Quality information on vulnerable children is intrinsic for making evidence-based decisions at the macro, meso and micro level, impacting millions of children’s personal development. However, a contemporary lack of information ...

Denne masteroppgaven er en kvalitativ studie av utfordringer som kan oppstå ved bruk av chatbot i offentlig sektor. Masteroppgaven beskriver en case-studie av bruk av chatbot i NAV. NAV sin chatbot, Frida, er en del av NAV ...

Denne oppgaven handler om hvordan man kan tilrettelegge for deltakelse for yngre mennesker med demens (YMD) i en deltakende designprosess, og i utformingen av en teknologisk løsning de selv kan ta i bruk, basert på et behov ...

Designing a gait controller for a morphology changing robot is a challenging problem due to the high degree of freedom. In 2013, Risi showed that by learning the relation between morphology and controller, it is possible ...

Augmented reality sees increased use in existing forms of entertainment to attract new audiences and elevate the experience. In performances like concerts and dance, the use of augmented reality is still heavily experimental, ...

Autonomous cars are increasingly utilizing artificial intelligence in their systems. The problem of collision avoidance for autonomous cars can be approached using reinforcement learning (RL). In this thesis we look at two ...

The cholesterol-sensing nuclear receptor liver X receptor (LXR) and the glucose-sensing transcription factor carbohydrate responsive element-binding protein (ChREBP) are central players in regulating glucose and lipid ...

This paper discusses the design of a musical synthesizer that takes words as input, and attempts to generate music that somehow underscores those words. This is considered as a tool for sound designers who could, for ...

The bands that Wi-Fi operate on are getting increasingly congested. If access points are unable to get an overview of the local wireless network, they cannot make good decisions about which channel to be placed on. In ...

Rural areas are less attractive and sustainable for people and businesses alike, partially due to inadequate transport services. In this paper, we address transport-related challenges in rural Norway. The focal aspect of ...

This master thesis is an empirical investigation of learning with technology in an introductory design course at the University of Oslo and its students. The overarching goal of the thesis is to make design considerations ...

This paper addresses the cross-use of different Digi-tal Learning Environments (DLE) in Higher Education (HE). The paper aims to analyze DLEs and their use in a HE organi-zational entity through the lens of Common Information ...

This study illustrates the independent living elderly’s (≥65 years) views on robots. The data was documented through audio recordings of interviews, photos, and written logs. The analysis was done through qualitative ...

Somatic copy number alterations are a frequent sign of genome instability in cancer. A precise characterization of the genome architecture would reveal underlying instability mechanisms and provide an instrument for outcome ...

Colorectal cancer accounts for 10% of all cancer cases. Early detection is crucial for survival and is obtained by regular screening of the gastrointestinal tract for precursors of gastrointestinal cancer, known as polyps. ...

Antiangiogenic drugs are potentially a useful supplement to neoadjuvant chemotherapy for a subgroup of patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) negative breast cancer, but reliable biomarkers for ...

This master thesis describes a case study of the use of digital learning environments at a higher education organization in Norway. To generate knowledge about students' use of digital learning environments, I conducted ...

Table annotation is a key task to improve querying the Web and support the Knowledge Graph population from legacy sources (tables). Last year, the SemTab challenge was introduced to unify different efforts to evaluate table ...

Denne masteroppgaven undersøker hvordan vi som designere kan støtte opp om unge voksne sin vedlikeholds- og reparasjonspraksis for en mer bærekraftig livsstil, ved å kartlegge utfordringer og muligheter knyttet til tematikken ...

Denne masteroppgaven tar for seg en pragmatisk designprosess av en translasjonsressurs med hensikt å redusere gapet mellom forskning og praksis innen HCI. Arbeidet er basert på eksisterende litteratur fra fagfeltet ...

Denne masteroppgaven tar for seg en pragmatisk designprosess av en translasjonsressurs med hensikt å redusere gapet mellom forskning og praksis innen HCI. Arbeidet er basert på eksisterende litteratur fra fagfeltet ...

Per i dag er det lite forskning om relasjoner til roboter og chatboter, og enda mindre om hvilke mekanismer som har innvirkning på denne relasjonsbyggingen. Dette vekket vår interesse for å studere hvilke relasjoner voksne ...

Per i dag er det lite forskning om relasjoner til roboter og chatboter, og enda mindre om hvilke mekanismer som har innvirkning på denne relasjonsbyggingen. Dette vekket vår interesse for å studere hvilke relasjoner ...

We argue that there is a link between implicit computational complexity theory and the theory of reversible computation. We show that the complexity classes ETIME and P can be captured by inherently reversible programming ...

Tabular data to Knowledge Graph matching is the process of assigning semantic tags from knowledge graphs (e.g., Wikidata or DBpedia) to the elements of a table. This task is a challenging problem for various reasons, ...

Background A high intake of linoleic acid (LA), the major dietary polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA), has previously been associated with reduced cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality in observational studies. ...

We have previously proposed a security classification methodology for IoT systems and have applied it to the smart grid and smart home domain. This method departs from classical risk analysis and certification methods in ...

A case study of an antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance system in India