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William Tisdall on crowdsourcing and information sharing
William is currently working on his specialization project which addresses information needs among immigrants settling in Norway. The project explores possibilities of designing a mobile crowdsourced video learning platform for context specific information sharing. A system like this would allow people to share information, experiences and knowledge from specific contexts through user generated videos and video annotations.…
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Anders Riise Mæhlum on TILES and the Internet of Things
Anders Riise Mæhlum is currently working with the TILES project for his Master thesis. The Internet of Things, or IoT, is growing rapidly in popularity, and many toolkits for developing IoT applications are emerging. The TILES toolkit developed for the TILES project is one such toolkit, providing tools for rapid prototyping of IoT applications using…
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Lisa R. Klecha on sustainable mobility
As part of her master, Lisa Rebekka Klecha is addressing challenges connected to sustainable mobility in smart cities. Urban mobility poses one of the pressing challenges in cities undergoing growing urbanisation. In order to cope with this issue, a shift in behaviour is necessary towards more sustainable means of transportation. Technology can mediate the process of behaviour change.…
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Guest lecture on virtual and augmented reality
Another interesting guest lecture for TDT4245. Today Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland and Mikhail Fominykh presented us the latest news in the area of virtual and augmented reality for collaboration and learning. Ekaterina presented some of the projects she is involved in, from ski jumping to nurse training. Interesting to learn how collaborative 3D virtual environments can be used to promote cooperation…
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Visitors from Georgia Tech
Barbara Ericson and Mark Guzdial, from Georgia Tech, are world-leading experts in computing education and outreach activities in K-12 schools. They visited our department for IDIovation and we had the possibility to showcase some of our work in the area of education and Internet of Things for schools. See a report from the visit in…
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Guest lecture from Dr. Farshchian – SINTEF Digital
Today at the course on cooperation technology (TDT4245) we had a guest lecture from Dr. Farshchian on call centers for health care. Lectures notes are available in itslearning for the course students. You can also read a summary of the research presented by Dr. Farshchian here (in Norwegian) or read the related paper in the…
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Official opening of ExCITed
On February, 1st we joined the official opening of ExCITed, the Norwegian Center for excellence in IT education. The event was attended by circa 100 participants, including the Norwegian minister for Education, the Director for the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education, and NTNU rector. Read more about it in the university newspaper (in…
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PaLX – Special session on learners and players
Have a look at IxD&A N. 29 for the focus section on Player and Learner eXperience co-edited by Rosella Gennari and Gabriella Dodero from Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy together with Monica Divitini. The focus section aims at critically reflecting on how to design for a learner and player experience, how to evaluate it, and…
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