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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Single cell RNA-sequencing is an increasingly popular tool for investigating the variability in gene expression between individual cells. Compared to the previously wide spread methods such as bulk RNA-sequencing, the ...

Ontologies are a field within semantic technologies concerned with modeling knowledge of a domain through the use of well-defined concepts and relationships. Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) is a field within the domain of ...

Ultrasound imaging for medical applications is considered a cost-effective and non-invasive method of studying the internal structures of the body. One application is to study muscles and muscle architecture. Muscle ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

This work is part of the SUPRE (SUbcutaneous PREssure sensor system) research project with the goal of developing health services for patients with dysfunctional urinary bladders. The NANO group at UiO has previously ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The use of technology to address mental health among youth in Norway is gaining traction, with many measures being implemented from the public sphere. Literature claims that peer-support can help alleviate some of the ...

This thesis explores strength exercising and learning of bodily skills as a field that can be augmented through introducing digital sensory artefacts, that aim to alter the way the performance is perceived. Using feedback ...

The latest technical and interaction advancements within the virtual reality (VR) field have marked a new era, not only for VR, but also for VR locomotion. In this era, well-established, prevalent VR locomotion techniques ...

The drum-like virtual reality (VR) keyboard is a contemporary, controller-based interface for text input in VR that uses a drum set metaphor. The controllers are used as sticks which, through downward movements, “press” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 formal evaluation of new interfaces for musical expression (NIMEs) in their use by ensembles of musicians is a challenging problem in human-computer interaction (HCI). NIMEs are designed to support creative expressions ...

We study evolutionary robot systems where not only the robot brains but also the robot bodies are evolvable. Such systems need to include a learning period right after ‘birth’ to acquire a controller that fits the newly ...

General purpose operating systems are widely in use for running many different applications on a big selection of hardware. Such an operating system must be quite complete in order to provide virtual memory, scheduling, ...

Background Recent epidemiological evidence shows that colorectal cancer (CRC) continues to occur in carriers of pathogenic mismatch repair (path_MMR) variants despite frequent colonoscopy surveillance in ...

Background Information technology has transformed the way healthcare is conducted. There is a deluge of patient data dispersed in different systems that are commonly not interoperable. As a result, access ...

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 ...

Tingenes internett tegner et bilde hvor et stadig økende antall nye og eksisterende enheter blir tilkoblet og integrert med internett. Å bruke eksisterende internett infrastruktur gir økt tilgjengelighet og mulighet for ...

Background In laparoscopic surgery, image quality can be severely degraded by surgical smoke, which not only introduces errors for the image processing algorithms (used in image guided surgery), but also ...

Digitalisering er blitt et moteord, og kan forstås som å implementere gamle prosesser og prosedyrer i digital form. Hvorfor gjenskape stearinlys i ny teknologi? Hvorfor ikke aktivere helt nye prosesser og dermed skape ...

Background The current versions of reference genome assemblies still contain gaps represented by stretches of Ns. Since high throughput sequencing reads cannot be mapped to those gap regions, the regions ...

Background Increased availability of genome assemblies for non-model organisms has resulted in invaluable biological and genomic insight into numerous vertebrates, including teleosts. Sequencing of the ...

The goal for this thesis is to optimize an SQL Engine called Apache Drill that sits on top of a distributed file system, for more cost-effective big data handling, business intelligence and advanced analytics. To achieve ...

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Background The ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta) belongs to a large teleost family containing more than 600 species showing several unique evolutionary traits such as lack of stomach and hermaphroditism. ...

The rapidly increasing pervasiveness and integration of computers in human society calls for a broad discipline under which this development can be studied. We argue that to design and use technology one needs to develop ...

Background The genetic mechanisms for families who meet the clinical criteria for Lynch syndrome (LS) but do not carry pathogenic variants in the mismatch repair (MMR) genes are still undetermined. We aimed ...

Big data is an emerging concept involving complex data sets which can give new insight and distill new knowledge. In the other hand, Hadoop MapReduce paradigm, a distributed computing software, has been adopted widely in ...