Passive fingerprinting with a Deep Learning approach. The approach is compared to three well established machine learning algorithms; SVM, KNN and Random Forest. A never before used value for fingerprinting, the TCP ...

More compliant robots have certain benefits when coming to cooperating with humans. Standard industrial robots today require many safety measurements to be legal and safe to operate. Soft robots can therefor be safer, have ...

In this work, we tackled the task of identifying sentiment bearing sentences for product reviews in Norwegian. We have created a set of automatically labeled datasets that classify sentences in terms of how relevant they ...

The Norwegian language is under-resourced for various Natural Language Processing tasks, including the task of sentiment analysis. However, recent publications of sentiment analysis datasets such as the Norwegian Review ...

Teaching machines to learn patterns in data is very common these days, and it has a broad spectrum of applications everywhere. Sensors like smart-watches are getting more functionality each year, and more and more people ...

Denne masteroppgaven beskriver en case studie om plan- og prosedyreverktøyet e-Plan til bruk for å strukturere hverdagen til mennesker som har diagnosen psykisk utviklingshemming. Gjennom intervjuer og observasjoner med ...

This thesis explores preschool children’s interaction with a conversational agent (CA), and we position this work within the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Through a preliminary case study, we explored children ...

Information and communication technologies, such as remote health monitoring and mobile Internet, have played a key role on a major improvement on patients’ lives. The problem is that patient monitoring requires higher ...

The rapid increase in the number of processors demands quicker and more reliant data availability to avoid extensive memory accesses. Caches hierarchies are most important in an efficient n-core system. However, more ...

While semantic technologies and the use of ontologies is one of the proposed solutions to the heterogeneity problem in database systems, the independent generation of ontologies leaves us with another heterogeneity problem. ...

Autonomous manufacturing and assembly requires precise estimation of pose (position and orientation) of the object to be handled. If geometric information of the object is available, such as a CAD file, these estimates can ...

This thesis presents challenges and necessary requirements for simulating shared photovoltaic (PV) energy production and appliance consumption scheduling in urban apartment buildings. Such simulations are useful as a tool ...

Vi står nå overfor et effektproblem bestående av høyt strømforbruk i visse tider av døgnet blant forbrukerne, som krever utbygging av strømnettet som på alle andre tidspunkt vil være overflødig. Lite vet forbrukerne om at ...

This master’s thesis is an empirical investigation of a Smart City initiative within healthcare in a Norwegian municipality. What is presented is a rich description of how local actors have engaged themselves in the planning, ...

Denne oppgaven dreier seg om reparasjon av mobiltelefoner som en del av et bærekraftig eierskap, fordi dagens praksis fører med seg store miljøskader. Forskningsspørsmålene jeg ønsker å svare på gjennom oppgaven er: 1. ...

People are bad at making passwords, resulting in an easily exploitable security vulnerability across the digital landscape. Basing your memorized password on something like your spouse’s name or even your own is inherently ...

This thesis is an exploration of transitions towards a more sustainable fashion industry with a cross-disciplinary project involving Norwegian fashion brand Haik With Us. Together we created a research product that is 10 ...

How can older adults actively participate in the design processes of assistive robots designed for their homes? We have organized workshops with a group of older adults who worked actively with materials and physical ...

Gamification is a term for adding game design elements into a non-game context. Using motivational theory and gamification theory this thesis explores how adding game elements to an educational learning tool affects students ...

Learning about the periodic table of elements can be a challenge for second grade students. The amount of theoretical information, combined with abstract scientific concepts, makes it difficult for students’ meaning-making. ...

Vi står nå overfor et effektproblem bestående av høyt strømforbruk i visse tider av døgnet blant forbrukerne, som krever utbygging av strømnettet som på alle andre tidspunkt vil være overflødig. Lite vet forbrukerne om at ...

Modern large-scale software systems are highly configurable. Thus, they require a large number of test cases to be implemented and revised for testing a variety of system configurations. This makes software testing of ...

In this thesis, we present a study of English noun–noun compound analysis that takes a holistic perspective on the problem. The holistic nature of our work manifests in three respects. First, of five compound analysis ...

Nowadays, cloud computing is one of the most important topics in computing technology. With the ever-growing demands for a variety of services in cloud infrastructure, providing fast and affordable computing resources to ...

A blockchain is a distributed ledger comprised of practically unchange- able, digital recorded data in packages called blocks. Each block in the chain contains data and is cryptographically hashed. The blocks of hashed ...

Named Data Networking (NDN) has built in congestion mechanisms, both in end-node applications and in the forwarding strategy in intermediate nodes. End-nodes may adjust sending rate. Intermediate nodes will rank each face ...

Recently, personal privacy has increasingly started coming to people's attention, as we are digitally more connected to each other. The development of new mobile products connected to the Internet are starting to take a ...

This thesis explores preschool children’s interaction with a conversational agent (CA), and we position this work within the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Through a preliminary case study, we explored children ...

In the search for new technologies to assist the fish industry in the fight against diseases, computer vision is playing an essential role. The ability to automatically detect and inspect fish through a camera lens opens ...

This thesis describes the design of a domain map prototype, which serves as a means of tackling wicked problems from the perspective of knowledge federation. This is to cre-ate a new way of problem-solving in a time of ...

The school health service is an important service working with health preventive measures for youth. However, challenges exist, for example in terms of resources. Chatbots represent new opportunities for strengthening the ...

Denne masteroppgaven er en fortolkende studie av digitale læringsmiljøer i høyere utdanning. Studien er en del av det pedagogiske kvalitative prosjektet UDFeed. Studien fulgte et emne ved Institutt for Informatikk ved ...

Precise wind power output predictions is of great importance for a successful integration of wind power into the power grid and market operations. A popular approach to short-term wind power prediction is to use machine ...

Algorithm-based, automated solutions allow designers and engineers to support the tasks of human operators, or transfer parts of their work to a system. However, pushing the limits of automation might make the tasks left ...

In this thesis, swarm airports are introduced as a way of obtaining continuous operation in an autonomous drone swarm. An airport acts as a service station where the drones can replenish their energy autonomously. When ...

Background We previously reported that in pathogenic mismatch repair (path_MMR) variant carriers, the incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) was not reduced when colonoscopy was undertaken more frequently ...

This thesis examines the use of neural network methods for classifying parliamentary speeches by textual content. It introduces previous work in the field using traditional methods, and discusses aspects of the Talk of ...

The user experience of smartphones heavily rely upon functional internet connectivity, but, even though smartphones have multiple network links for accessing the internet, they are rarely able to utilize more than one link ...

With the rise of packages sent to customers and online shopping becoming more popular, the user experience of package tracking is becoming more important. This thesis addresses the lack of theory in Service Design, and ...

Medical ultrasound is a non-invasive low-cost image modality used in diagnostic applications. It has become the preferred modality in cardiology. Motion estimation techniques may be applied to the echocardiographic images ...

This master’s thesis is an empirical investigation of a Smart City initiative within healthcare in a Norwegian municipality. What is presented is a rich description of how local actors have engaged themselves in the planning, ...

Mobile robots operating in seniors' homes can serve as social companions and assist with daily tasks, thus enhancing the seniors' quality of life. In order for robots to assist seniors, it is crucial that they are equipped ...

In this project, an image sensor designed to receive modulated light was designed and produced. Earlier, an image sensor consisting of alternating pixel topologies has been produced and tested. However, using a single pixel ...

Denne masteroppgaven beskriver en case studie om plan- og prosedyreverktøyet e-Plan til bruk for å strukturere hverdagen til mennesker som har diagnosen psykisk utviklingshemming. Gjennom intervjuer og observasjoner med ...

Denne oppgaven beskriver en deltakende designprosess hvor målet har vært å undersøke hvordan kommunikasjon gjennom NAVs nettsider kan designes for og med sårbare brukere. NAV holder i dag på å digitalisere de fleste av ...

This paper reports from the early phase of a Participatory Design (PD) process where the goal is to design technology that involves people with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) and their caretakers as participants. The ...

Managing requirements are an integral part in any type of software development. In generic open source software projects, this process is increasingly difficult. Designing generic requirements and balancing the needs of ...

A rich case study on the process of implementing generic software in the public health sector in India, which seeks to address the following research question: What constitutes the implementation-level design of generic ...

Background: Software development are a collaborative process where people from mul- tiple different practices are involved. It has become more and more common to structure people as teams focusing on producing a specific ...

Collaborative robots are becoming more common on factory floors as well as regular environments, however, their safety still is not a fully solved issue. Collision detection does not always perform as expected and collision ...

If robots are to become ubiquitous, they will need to be able to adapt to complex and dynamic environments. Robots that can adapt their bodies while deployed might be flexible and robust enough to meet this challenge. ...

The main aim of the thesis is to use low-cost hardware components to create an environment-aware robot arm system capable of analysing its workspace using vision sensors and ensure collision-free operation. The objective ...

This thesis presents the first results for the Automated Essay Scoring (AES) task on the ASK corpus of Norwegian learner language. It explores a wide variety of classifier architectures, including linear models, simple ...

The complexity of the nervous system has made computational science an invaluable tool in order to understand how the nervous system functions. The overarching goal of this thesis has been to develop software tools to ...

The adaptive immune system is a natural defense mechanism that is able to detect and neutralize pathogens. The key molecules involved in this are the immune receptors expressed by B and T cells, collectively named immune ...

This thesis presents findings on how to facilitate a design process with people with Intellectual Disabilities (ID), utilizing already existing practices, and proxies’ knowledge in facilitating the inclusion of people with ...

The fast development of drones, miniaturization of broadband solid-state amplifiers, mixers, and software defined digital hardware increase the demand for compact RF and microwave systems at lower cost, light weight, easy ...

DDoS and DoS attacks have been growing in size and number over the last decade. Existing solutions employed to mitigate these attacks have proven to be inefficient in combating the problem. Compared to other types of malicious ...

Smart technologies take different, constantly changing, and complex forms – from personal objects we act and perceive with to environments and infrastructures within which everyday practices and experiences take shape. As ...

Teknologiske framsteg har gjort det mulig å innhente store mengder medisinske bildedata, men manuell analyse av slike data tar stadig tid og er et hinder for effektiv behandling av store datamengder. Etter hvert som ...

Virtual Machine (VM) consolidation in the cloud has received huge research interest over the recent years. Usually, the consolidation strategies are variants of the bin packing problem, which aims to minimize the numbers ...

Deep learning based systems are on the rise as they have shown tremendous potential to extract concealed patterns through the data. Today Deep learning systems are surpassing human-level vision capabilities, which leads ...