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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following the highly pervasive and effective use of agile methods for software development, attention has now turned to the much more difficult challenge of applying these methods in large scale, organization-wide development. ...

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 ...

Refactoring is the practice of changing code without altering its behavior. Rust is a language with an ownership model where lifetimes are statically resolved and it has macro support. In this thesis we develop algorithms ...

Internet of Things (IoT) is a new technology that is driving the connection of billions of devices around the world. Because these devices are often resource‐constrained and very heterogeneous, this presents unique challenges. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Predicting the future using deep learning is a research field of increasing interest. The majority of contributions concern architectural designs for predictive models, however, there is a lack of established evaluation ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) typically include thousands of resource-constrained sensors to monitor their surroundings, collect data, and transfer it to remote servers for further processing. Although WSNs are considered ...

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 ...

Designing robots by hand is often both costly and time consuming. In order to create robots automatically, without the need for human intervention, it is necessary to optimise both the behaviour and the body design of the ...

The aim of this workshop is to address the role that human autonomy presently receives in HCI research and how “autonomous technologies” might challenge, rather than facilitate human autonomy. We acknowledge a need for new ...

Automated essay scoring (AES) of student essays aims to train an AES model by applying machine learning (ML) techniques to predict grades on essays written by students in, i.e. a primary school setting. There are many ...

With the number of devices connected to the internet increasing rapidly, we have entered an immense computerized uprising of the Internet of Things (IoT) era. The popularity of IoT systems and devices makes the security ...

This thesis analysis the effects of software coding errors on cybersecurity by using static code analysis tools. Software coding errors can have different types of effect ́s on cybersecurity. The research is done from a ...

Data is underdetermined when there are variables whose values are unknown and the legal instantiations of these variables depend on given factors and the corresponding domain knowledge. The problem of instantiating the ...

Abstract In this thesis I examine the development and implementation of the DHIS2 Online Academy Fundamentals course. The objective is to evaluate the course and answer these research questions: 1) Does the Online Fundamentals ...

Automated essay scoring (AES) of student essays aims to train an AES model by applying machine learning (ML) techniques to predict grades on essays written by students in, i.e. a primary school setting. There are many ...

With the advent of high-density multi-electrode arrays we are now able to measure the activity of hundreds of neurons simultaneously, even at the sub-cellular level. However, next-generation devices introduce novel grand ...

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 ...

Design patterns in software engineering is a useful concept for developers to solve a software design problem in a specific context. With the advent of mobile devices and mobile application development, the demand for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

A large amount of health data is gathered through various health institutions all over the world. The District Health Information Software 2 (DHIS2) is a Health Management Information System (HMIS) used in over 100 countries. ...

This paper analyzes work activity in the home, e.g., cleaning, performed by two actors, a human and a robot. Nowadays, there are attempts to automate this activity through the use of robots. However, the activity of cleaning, ...

Chatbots represent new opportunities for low-threshold preventive mental health support to youths. To provide needed knowledge regarding how to design chatbots for this purpose, we present an exploratory design study where ...

Spectral Doppler measurements are an important part of the standard echocardiographic examination. These measurements give insight into myocardial motion and blood flow providing clinicians with parameters for diagnostic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Community health workers (CHW) serve a large proportion of the population in low- and middle-income countries and have a variety of duties, including conducting health promotion in the communities. CHWs, as well as the ...

Defining a representative locality is an urgent challenge in perturbation-based explanation methods, which influences the fidelity and soundness of explanations. We address this issue by proposing a robust and intuitive ...

The adoption of packaged software solutions like Electronic Health Record- and Health Management Information Systems are argued to bring benefits to the provision of healthcare through increased efficiency, effectiveness, and ...

In this thesis, we introduce the basics of blockchain systems, cryptosystems, and post-quantum cryptography. We discuss how to upgrade and make digital signatures in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin more robust against quantum ...

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 ...