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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Accurate knowledge of the seabed is of vital importance for many human endeavors. Applications range from safe navigation to climate change models. Swath sonars are a key tool for efficient and high-resolution mapping of ...

Autoantibodies to transglutaminase 2 (TG2) are hallmarks of celiac disease. To address B cell tolerance and autoantibody formation to TG2, we generated immunoglobulin knock-in (Ig KI) mice that express a prototypical celiac ...

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 ...

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 ...

På grunn av bekymringer over hvorfor så mange studenter som dropper ut i løpet av et semester, lurer mange i de siste årene på hvordan dette fenomenet har oppstått. Vi på Institutt for informatikk (IFI) lurer på hva årsaken ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Population growth and climate change pose a real threat to food security. In addition, current food production practices have created a huge ecological footprint. In spite of this, food production has to increase globally. ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Suksesskriterier for fremtidens elektroniske pasientjournal (EPJ) ligger i strukturerte data, delte data, mulighet for kommunikasjon på tvers av helseforetak og pasientens mulighet for involvering i eget sykdombildet. I ...

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 ...

I denne oppgaven studerte jeg en bedrift som hadde gjennomført et innføringsprogram (onboarding) der portugisiske utviklere skulle innlemmes i to eksisterende norske team. Det blir bare vanligere og vanligere innenfor ...

With all the data available today the need to label and categorise data is more important than ever. There are many machine learning and deep learning models well equipped to classify data. However, to find the best model ...

The Norwegian Welfare Administration (NAV) annually posts a large dataset of job announcements. Each announcement is classified with an occupation code, and today NAV performs this classification of announcements manually ...

Equality is a fundamental concept in first-order reasoning, yet for connection based proof methods a notoriously challenging one to handle efficiently. While paramodulation is a popular technique for resolution and related ...

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 ...

The Internet of Things is rising in popularity across many different domains, such as build automation, healthcare, electrical smart metering and physical security. Many prominent IT experts and companies like Gartner ...

Since the introduction of Electronic Machine-Readable Travel Documents (eMRTDs) the gap in security between eMRTDs and Machine-Readable Travel Documents (MRTDs) has been a cause for concern. In 2016, the International Civil ...

In recent years, deep learning algorithms have become increasingly more prominent for their unparalleled ability to automatically learn discriminant features from large amounts of data. However, within the field of ...

Empirical studies of information and communication technology (ICT) is often done by researchers who work closely with practitioners. Acquiring a role as an insider researcher gives the researcher performative knowledge ...

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 ...

In traditional networks, a dedicated piece of hardware is configured and installed for every single network function. A network function represents any hardware appliance in the network that has network-level functionality, ...

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 is about the analysis of capacity levels around health information use based on a district-level case study from Nepal. Well capacitated workforce can make better use of Health Information System (HIS) and ...

Managing dependencies between teams and within teams is critical when running large-scale agile projects. In large-scale software development, work is carried out simultaneously by many developers and development teams. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...