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A Framework for Opening Data and Creating Advanced Services in the Health and Social Fields

2016

Open data is publicly available data that can be universally and readily accessed, used, and redistributed. Open data holds particular potential in the health and social sectors but, presently, health and social data are often published in a ‘closed’ format.There are different tools that allow to ‘open’ data, clean, structure and process them in order to elaborate them and build advanced services but, unfortunately, there is no single tool that can be used to perform all different tasks. We believe that the availability of Open Data in the health and social fields should be greatly increased and a way for creating new health and social services should be provided. In this paper, we present …

The kleineWeltentdecker App - A Smartphone-Based Developmental Diary

2020

Today, a vast number of tools exist to measure development in early childhood in avariety of domains such as cognition, language, or motor, cognition. These tools vary in different aspects. Either, children are examined by a trained experimenter, or caregivers fill out questionnaires. The tools are applied in the controlled setting of a laboratory or in the children’s natural environment. While these tools provide a detailed picture of the current state of children’s development, they are at the same time subject to several constraints. Furthermore, the measurement of an individual child’s change of different skills over time requires not only one measurement but high-density longitudinal a…

Introduction: Reframing Humans and Information Systems

2010

Recent development of information and communication technologies (ICT) provides information systems (IS) designers with new potentialities to build systems for various purposes. The ongoing digital convergence refers to and discloses new views on the interactive reconfiguration of technological and social arrangements on a large scale in the contemporary society (Tilson et al. 2009). In addition to work-related activities, people use new technologies for increasingly diverse purposes, for example organizing their domestic affairs, for finding information and e-services, and for staying in touch with their friends and relatives (Lyytinen and Yoo 2002; Sorensen and Yoo 2005; Iivari et al. 201…

A Virtual Shopper Customer Assistant in Pervasive Environments

2007

In this work we propose a smart, human-like PDA-based personal shopper assistant. The system is able to understand the user needs through a spoken natural language interaction and then stores the preferences of the potential customer. Subsequently the personal shopper suggests the most suitable items and shops that match the user profile. The interaction is given by automatic speech recognition and text-to-speech technologies; localization is allowed by the use of Wireless technologies, while the interaction is performed by an Alice-based chat-bot endowed with reasoning capabilities. Besides, being implemented on a PDA, the personal shopper satisfies the user needs of mobility and it is als…

«Making up pupils»

2014

Author's version of an article in the journal: Norsk pedagogisk tidsskrift. Also available from the publisher at: http://www.idunn.no/file/pdf/66740174/making_up_pupils.pdf I denne artikkelen tar vi utgangspunkt i kritikken av målstyringsideologien som har vokst frem i det norske utdanningssystemet. Vi gjør rede for det internasjonale opphavet til den standardiserings- og homogeniseringstendensen som påvirker dagens norske skoler og barnehager, og som har resultert i en nasjonal politikk med større oppmerksomhet på grunnleggende ferdigheter, testing og kartlegging. For å forankre denne utdanningskulturen kreves det et stort statistisk arbeid med registrering og klassifisering. Hva skjer i s…

Which Data Base Should we Use for our Literature Analysis? Web of Science versus SCOPUS

2011

You’ve Got Photos! The design and evaluation of a location-based media-sharing application

2008

PhotoJournal is a novel location-based media sharing appli- cation that enables users to build interactive journals that associate multimedia files with locations on maps and share this information with other users. Its underlying informa- tion discovery and sharing mechanism is 7DS that runs in either pure peer-to-peer or centralized server-to-client mode, depending on the availability of a server and/or an infras- tructure. 7DS-enabled devices act as miniature caches, shar- ing information with each other. When access to an informa- tion server (e.g., web server) is not available, the local 7DS instance running on the device enables the device to search and access information from other p…

The Adaptation of a Web Information System: A Perspective of Organizations

2011

We provide a different view on the problem of Web Information System (WIS) adaptation, looking from perspective of organizations that are interested in an adapted Web Information System for their needs if a unified system to support similar business processes is used. We propose an adaptation architecture for WIS. Two levels of adaptation are introduced—coarse grained adaptation for the organization level and fine grained adaptation for the user level. The architecture supports also the situation, when users can work with many instances of the system adapted for different organizations, which are integrated into one instance for a particular user.

From web 1.0 to web 4.0

2014

The Internet is active and very dynamic. It has enabled an unprecedented evolution in telematics and information systems, and in turn a global revolution in the use of technology and digital citizenry. Although many see the technologies that have driven this revolution as inventions of the past 1 to 2 decades, quite a few had their genesis before the Internet became mainstream. In exploring the history of the Internet, we see how it has facilitated innovations across all areas of technology and social life, and with a little imagination are perhaps able to get a glimpse of what is to come. A lot of technologies related to the Web environment have emerged in this area: Blogs, Wikis, Social N…

Following the WCAG 2.0 techniques: Experiences from designing a WCAG 2.0 checking tool

2012

Published version of a chapter in the book: Computers Helping People with Special Needs. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31522-0_63 This paper presents a conceptual analysis of how the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 and its accompanying documents can be used as a basis for the implementation of an automatic checking tool and the definition of a web accessibility metric. There are two major issues that need to be resolved to derive valid and reliable conclusions from the output of individual tests. First, the relationship of Sufficient Techniques and Common Failures has to be taken into account. Second, the logical combination of the…