The paper reports from a qualitative study based on the analysis of semi-structured interviews and Participatory Design activities with hospitalised teenagers with chronic health challenges. We studied how teenage patients ...

This paper is concerned with a sustainable academic human-computer interaction design (HCID) practice. We are interested in examining what such practice could involve, and how to implement changes towards increased ...

This thesis focuses on model-driven software product line development, which is the combination of the following two software development paradigms: (1) Model-Driven Engineering (MDE), which focuses on modeling software ...

This thesis presents a new modelling framework for dialogue management based on the concept of probabilistic rules. Probabilistic rules are defined as if...then...else constructions associating logical conditions on input ...

Several formal models combine probabilistic and nondeterministic features. To allow their probabilistic simulation and statistical model checking by means of pseudo-random number sampling, all sources of nondeterminism ...

Unbounded data structures, advanced functions and data types, and/or different forms of communication are often needed to model large and complex probabilistic real-time systems such as wireless sensor network algorithms. ...

The elderly population in Norway is increasing in number, and there will be a greater need for health care services and care units. The introduction of welfare technology can aid facing this challenge in order to assist ...

Flight control systems, railway interlocking systems, and nuclear reactor protection systems are examples of safety critical systems from different industrial domains. A safety critical system within any of these domains ...

In this thesis the possibility to interact with the virtual machine without traversing the network or using monitoring agents are explored. Instead of using this traditional approach the intention are to exploit the ...

Digital image analysis has proved to be a powerful tool for providing a prognosis for cancer patients. For the prognosis to be as robust and reliable as possible, information regarding cell-type is needed, and damaged or ...

This thesis is concerned with development of efficient mobile applications for shopping on the go and takes a user-centered perspective, focusing on providing good customer experience. A case of an established wholesaler ...

This paper investigates the emergence and nourishment of group creativity within humancomputer interaction design (HCID). HCID practitioners are groomed within a scientific tradition and primarily perceive themselves as ...

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology has been applied extensively in logistic and supply chain applications. Long-range passive RFID systems offer higher reliability and flexibility compared to conventional ...

This thesis develops a method of qualitative spatial reasoning based on the spatial semantics of Stephen C. Levinson. Levinson's semantics concern projective relations in natural language, which thus become the focus of ...

A common way to answer queries in Ontology Base Data Access (OBDA), is to divide the process into two stages. The first stage, called the ontology rewriting, deals with the ontology axioms. The second stage, called the ...

The significant improvements in throughput and quality of DNA sequencing technology have revolutionized our ability to identify the genetic sequence of human cells. High-throughput genome sequencing of tumor cells has ...

The use of multimedia streaming on the internet is increasing. With this the need for new protocols is created. The Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) can support this better than other existing protocols like ...

Historically, the use of graphics cards for scientific computing has yielded great performance. Order-of-magnitude performance gains has been obtained over the CPU (Owens et al. 2008). This is mainly due to their massively ...

There is a great amount of data on the Web, but to a large extent it is not published as linked data that computers can consume. Visual annotation tools have a considerable potential to empower end users to contribute their ...

We prove that a selection of quality of information optimisation problems related to event detection in sensor networks are NP-hard.

Examining the benefits of adding syntactic information to a system for solving a given question answering task.

Video games have proven to be an interesting platform for computer scientists, as many games demand the latest technology, fast response times and effective utilization of hardware. Video games have been used both as a ...

In recent years, there has been a growing focus on how GPUs can be utilized for general purpose computations. However, this leads to less focus on the CPU as a computational resource. As a consequence, heterogeneous computers ...

The project is all about the design, documentation and implementation of a program to perform Delaunay triangulation. The program is written in Java and is focused on performance both with regard to run-time and memory ...

A population-based study was performed to investigate the efficacy of mecillinam treatment of community-acquired urinary tract infections (CA-UTI) caused by extended-spectrum ß-lactamase (ESBL) producing Escherichia coli. ...

Det er satt i gang et nasjonalt program for utvikling og innføring av velferdsteknologi i de kommunale helse- og omsorgtjenestene, med hovedmål om at velferdsteknologi skal være en integrert del av helse- og omsorgstilbudene ...

The elderly population in Norway is increasing in number, and there will be a greater need for health care services and care units. The introduction of welfare technology can aid facing this challenge in order to assist ...

Cloud computing is gaining increasing popularity because of its higher scalability,more flexibility and ease of availability of its services. Cloud Computing enables service providers to build a large pool of resources to ...

The concept of Service Oriented Architecture, and its most common implementation method Web services, has not seen widespread use on wireless mobile systems and smart devices. NATO seeks to incorporate these communication ...

In automated home care systems (HCSs), sensor technology is employed to monitor patients, thereby aiming to reduce the workload of healthcare professionals and improving the patient s quality of life. A complex event ...

The later years have seen an increasing demand for systems that can perform fast genome-wide analyses. An important component of such a system is the data model. The data model of the Genomic HyperBrowser analysis system ...

A fast segmentation of tubular tree structures like vessel systems in volumetric datasets is of vital interest for many medical applications. This is especially valid for planning and navigation in catheter based interventions ...

In this paper, the use of concepts such as visual immediacy, metaphor, analogy, blending and abduction is proposed as a way of facilitating visual reasoning in sense-making activities in human-computer interaction (HCI) ...

Bakgrunn: Unge, langtidssyke pasienter står ovenfor en vanskelig og krevende prosess når de skal overføres fra barne- og ungdomsavdeling og over til voksenavdeling. Behovet for å styrke autonomien, og lysten til å ta mer ...

The information processing demands of many of today's businesses have outgrown the legacy relational database management system (RDBMS) software resulting from both the data explosive growth and the variety of data models. ...

This thesis offers a usability and user documentation review of a Health Information System, District Health Information System 2 (DHIS 2). To reach the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for health improvement set by ...

Background Transcatheter aortic valve implantation involves percutaneously implanting a biomechanical aortic valve to treat severe aortic stenosis. In order to select a proper device, precise sizing of the aortic valve ...

The progress of computer science and mechanical and electrical engineering in the field of robotics has increased the applicability of robots for replacing human resources in the performance of repetitive and dangerous ...

The increasing popularity of virtualized services and cloud computing, offering elastic and scalable computing resources challenges software engineering methods by asking a number of new questions: How can we integrate ...

Background Mammography screen-detected breast cancers have a better prognosis than predicted from established prognostic markers. A search for additional features that are characteristic for these tumours and their prognosis ...

We present Funky Sole Music, a musical interface employing a sole embedded with three force sensitive resistors in combination with a novel algorithm for continuous movement classification. A heuristics-based music engine ...

In order to work successfully together, it is important that people understand each other. In global IT-projects, different team-members, with diverse cultural backgrounds, work from different locations. A consequence of ...

Distributed and concurrent object-oriented systems are difficult to analyze due to the complexity of their concurrency, communication, and synchronization mechanisms. The future mechanism extends the traditional method ...

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With the advent of powerful mobile devices such as smart phones, tablets and ultraportable laptops, users today are surrounded by a wide array of heterogeneous devices that are capable of downloading, processing and ...

It is an undeniable fact nowadays that services have become a vital catalyst for economic growth worldwide. Innovation in services is regarded as being a key pillar in order to sustain the growth momentum of the service ...

A method for speech enhancement in a reverberating environment using microphone arrays is presented. It is defined in the time-domain, based on an acoustic signal model formulated using image sources. The method uses the ...

Background Recent developments in deep (next-generation) sequencing technologies are significantly impacting medical research. The global analysis of protein coding regions in genomes of interest by whole ...

Kontekst: Det har de siste årene vært et økende fokus på brukeropplevelse innenfor systemutvikling. Brukeropplevelse har også blitt en egen profesjon, og vi har i dag spesialister som har egne teknikker og verktøy for å ...

Social networks are systems that are generally composed of multiple entities interacting with each other to provide a desired functionality. The interactions between these entities can be modeled as graphs. Presenting these ...

The traditional concept of fairness in TCP is based on being limited by congestion control. Today, however, we see that TCP is being used as transport for interactive applications that have latency requirements. These ...

Background It is of great importance to identify molecular processes and pathways that are involved in disease etiology. Although there has been an extensive use of various high-throughput methods for this ...

Conservation laws describing one or more conserved quantities in time arise in a multitude of different scientific areas. Mathematically, conservation laws are expressed as partial differential equations (PDEs). In this ...

The availability of large amounts of molecular data of unprecedented depth and width has instigated new paths of interdisciplinary activity in cancer research. Translation of such information to allow its optimal use in ...

This thesis deals with the prototypical implementation of activity zone monitoring using the mobile phone. It uses the mobile phone sensors especially the accelerometer sensor to establish four types of motions and through ...

Tema for denne masteroppgaven er brukeropplevelser i interaktive utstillinger i museer. Forskning på brukeropplevelser og sosial interaksjon er utbredt innen Human Computer Interaction-feltet (HCI), men ikke innen det mer ...

The purpose of this thesis has been to explore how students interact and learn with a new scientific inquiry system, Monoplant. We developed the system, which is an Internet-connected plant visualizing different aspects ...

This thesis is about research and implementation on a distributed objectoriented programming language called Emerald on smartphones. Our goal is to couple smartphones seamlessly to the cloud where we span the gap between ...

This project focuses on how to benchmark a SMB/CIFS storage with trace and replay methodology. Traces are used primarily by file system researchers in an attempt to understand, categorize, and generalize file system ...

Complex source code impacts the cost of software maintenance in a negative way. In an object-oriented context, one class may depend on a high number of other classes, thus contributing to the complexity of a program and ...

Background Global environmental change is causing spatial and temporal shifts in the distribution of species and the associated diseases of humans, domesticated animals and wildlife. In the on-going debate ...

This thesis studies exact rational parametrizations of blends between the natural quadrics. The first part focuses on fixed and variable radius rolling ball blends as patches on canal surfaces. Closed formulae for the blend ...

Fractional calculus is the generalization of integer-order calculus to rational order. This subject has at least three hundred years of history. However, it was traditionally regarded as a pure mathematical field and lacked ...

The introduction of assistive technology for elderly no longer able to live independently has brought along a set of new ethical issues that deserves attention. Previous studies on similar topics mostly focus on certain ...

There are several strong indications for a profound connection between musical sound and body motion. Musical embodiment, meaning that our bodies play an important role in how we experience and understand music, has become ...

The original presentation of Retinex, a spatial color correction and image enhancement algorithm modeling the human vision system, as proposed by Land and McCann in 1964, uses paths to explore the image in search of a local ...

The thesis formulates effective strategies for delivery of streaming content for mobile users in resource-limited networks. We consider the entire end-to-end delivery path from the source to the destination. In the work, ...

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a logical approach to networking. The control plane is decoupled from hardware and given to a software application called a controller. A software based controller is responsible for ...

Telemedicine system provide medical services to those who can not access it due to distance. In such systems, the patient s critical information, including medical data, images, audio and video, must be delivered to the ...

As genomic data becomes more available, there is an increased need for analysis tools, such as the Genomic HyperBrowser. At the core of this tool is a data model known as GTrackCore – a module for storage and retrieval of ...

This thesis presents four case studies in which well known distributed algorithms are implemented in the abstract behavioral language ABS. These algorithms are the Dining Philosophers problem, the Paxos consensus algorithm, ...

A framework and process that explains how to perform security regression testing for web applications. This paper discusses and proposes a framework based on open source tools that can be used to perform automated security ...

NFC tags follow a range of standards and communication protocols. Support for communicating with these tags is limited, and few empirical studies investigate their performance. Therefore it is challenging to develop tags ...

Humans are social by nature and they have a need to discuss and collaborate with others (Sharp et al., 2007). Group work is an essential practice in work and educational settings and is required when an assignment is too ...

This paper introduces concepts, theories, and patterns related to cross-platform development on mobile devices. It discusses what applications programmers can develop, what devices are important to target, and how to develop ...