• Turn Left Turn Right - Delving type and modality of instructions in navigation assistant systems for people with visual impairments 

      Kuriakose, Bineeth; Ness, Ida Marie; Tengstedt, Maja Åskov; Svendsen, Jannicke Merete; Bjørseth, Terese; Pradhan, Bijay Lal; Shrestha, Raju (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Receiving navigation directions and relevant information through appropriate channels is crucial for individu- als with visual impairments when they use navigation assistant systems. Various navigation assistant systems ...
    • Twenty five years of training and education in ICT Design for All and Assistive Technology 

      Whitney, Gill; Keith, Suzette; Bühler, Christian; Hewer, Sue; Lhotska, Lenka; Miesenberger, Klaus; Sandnes, Frode Eika; Stephanidis, Constantine; Velasco, Carlos A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-07-20)
      Over the last twenty to twenty-five years ‘Design for All’ principles and practices including Assistive Technologies have been collected into formal and informal courses which have been used to train designers of Information ...
    • The twin paradox and the principle of relativity 

      Grøn, Øyvind (Physica Scripta;87(3), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-02-14)
      The twin paradox is intimately related to the principle of relativity. Two twins A and B meet, travel away from each other and meet again. From the point of view of A, B is the traveller. Thus, A predicts B to be younger ...
    • Twisted hochschild homology of quantum flag manifolds and kähler forms 

      Matassa, Marco (SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry; 16 (2020), 098, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-03)
      We study the twisted Hochschild homology of quantum flag manifolds, the twist being the modular automorphism of the Haar state. We prove that every quantum flag manifold admits a non-trivial class in degree two, with an ...
    • Twisted Hochschild Homology of Quantum Flag Manifolds: 2-Cycles from Invariant Projections 

      Matassa, Marco (Journal of Algebra and Its Applications;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-12-03)
      We study the twisted Hochschild homology of quantum full ag manifolds, with the twist being the modular automorphism of the Haar state. We show that non-trivial 2cycles can be constructed from appropriate invariant ...
    • A Two-Stage Binarizing Algorithm for Automatic 2D:4D Finger Ratio Measurement of Hands with Non-Separated Fingers 

      Sandnes, Frode Eika (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      2D:4D finger ratios are commonly measured manually. Previous automatic method s have relied on the fingers being spread apart f or successful detection. This study propo ses an improved automatic ...
    • Two-time scale learning automata: an efficient decision making mechanism for stochastic nonlinear resource allocation 

      Yazidi, Anis; Hammer, Hugo Lewi; Jonassen, Tore Møller (Applied Intelligence;Volume 49, Issue 9, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-11)
      The Stochastic Non-linear Fractional Equality Knapsack (NFEK) problem is a substantial resource allocation problem which admits a large set of applications such as web polling under polling constraints, and constrained ...
    • Two-timescale learning automata for solving stochastic nonlinear resource allocation problems 

      Yazidi, Anis; Hammer, Hugo Lewi; Jonassen, Tore Møller (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;LNCS, volume 10350, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      This papers deals with the the Stochastic Non-linear Fractional Equality Knapsack (NFEK) problem which is a fundamental resource allocation problem based on incomplete and noisy information [2,3]. The NFEK problem arises ...
    • UbiWheel: A Simple Context-Aware Universal Control Concept for Smart Home Appliances that encourages Active Living 

      Sandnes, Frode Eika; Herstad, Jo; Stangeland, Andrea Marie; Orsi Medola, Fausto (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Smart homes contain many useful appliances that can help individuals live independently for longer. A problem with current smart homes prototypes is that each device often has its own remote control or control unit. These ...
    • Understanding Situational Disabilities and Situational Awareness in Disasters 

      Gjøsæter, Terje; Radianti, Jaziar; Chen, Weiqin (Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management;, Conference object, 2019)
      In this paper, a scenario-based approach augmented with personas typically used in universal design and interactive design domains is used to illustrate the occurrence of situational disabilities in emergency situations, ...
    • Understanding WCAG2.0 Colour Contrast Requirements Through 3D Colour Space Visualisation 

      Sandnes, Frode Eika (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
      Sufficient contrast between text and background is needed to achieve sufficient readability. WCAG2.0 provides a specific definition of sufficient contrast on the web. However, the definition ...
    • Undervisningskvalitet som praksis 

      Wittek, Line; Habib, Laurence (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Denne artikkelen handler om hvordan vi kan forstå undervisningskvalitet. Den går inn på mulige definisjoner for god og læringsfremmende undervisning, og reiser spørsmålet om hvorvidt vi kan og bør operere med generelle ...
    • Unfolding a quantum master equation into a system of real-valued equations: Computationally effective expansion over the basis of SU(N) generators 

      Liniov, A; Meyerov, I; Kozinov, E; Volokitin, V; Yusipov, Igor; Ivanchenko, Mikhail; Denysov, Sergiy (Physical Review E;Volume 100, Issue 5 — November 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-11-11)
      Dynamics of an open N-state quantum system is often modeled with a Markovian master equation describing the evolution of the system density operator. By using generators of SU(N) group as a basis, the density operator can ...
    • Universal Design in the Technology Education Curriculum: Experiences from Norway 

      Sandnes, Frode Eika; Eika, Evelyn (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      In recent decades the engineering and technology education curriculum has changed from being purely technical oriented towards being more socially aware. In addition, to adequately master technologies ...
    • Universal Design of ICT for Emergency Management from Stakeholders’ Perspective - A Systematic Literature Review 

      Gjøsæter, Terje; Radianti, Jaziar; Chen, Weiqin (Information Systems Frontiers;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-11-06)
      While Universal Design principles have been adopted in many areas to ensure that products and services are usable for the broadest possible diversity of users, there is still an open area when it comes to the emergency ...
    • Universal design of ICT for emergency management: A systematic literature review and research agenda 

      Gjøsæter, Terje; Radianti, Jaziar; Chen, Weiqin (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;LNCS, volume 10907, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-06-05)
      The primary objectives of this article are to give a systematic overview of the current state of the emerging research field of Universal Design of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Emergency Management, ...
    • Universal Design of Information Sharing Tools for Disaster Risk Reduction 

      Radianti, Jaziar; Gjøsæter, Terje; Chen, Weiqin (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology;Vol 516, Journal article; Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-18)
      Disaster information sharing tools are an important aspect of disaster resilience, and it is of utmost importance that these tools are accessible and usable for as many potential users as possible. In this paper, we evaluate ...
    • Universal design of user Interfaces in self-driving cars 

      Ferati, Mexhid; Murano, Pietro; Giannoumis, G. Anthony (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing;587(1), Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Self-driving cars are already being tested in our roads, and several benefits to society are expected with their mainstream use. They also present an opportunity to increase independent mobility for people with disabilities ...
    • Universal spectra of random Lindblad operators 

      Denysov, Sergiy; Laptyeva, T; Tarnowski, Wojciech; Chruściński, Dariusz; Życzkowski, Karol (Physical Review Letters;Volume 123, Issue 14 4 October 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      To understand the typical dynamics of an open quantum system in continuous time, we introduce an ensemble of random Lindblad operators, which generate completely positive Markovian evolution in the space of the density ...
    • Universality of Evolved Cellular Automata in-Materio 

      Nichele, Stefano; Farstad, Sigve Sebastian; Tufte, Gunnar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Evolution-in-Materio (EIM) is a method of using artificial evolution to exploit physical properties of materials for computation. It has previously been successfully used to evolve a multitude of different computational ...