• 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 ...
    • Universally Designed Beacon-Assisted Indoor Navigation for Emergency Evacuations 

      Giannoumis, G. Anthony; Gjøsæter, Terje; Radianti, Jaziar; Paupini, Cristina (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology;Volume 550; ITDRR 2018: Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction, Conference object, 2019-10-02)
      The United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) obligates national governments to ensure the protection and safety of persons with disabilities in emergency situations. This article ...
    • A Universally Designed Dietary Mobile Application for Healthier Lifestyles 

      Nguyen Du, Kha; Bong, Way Kiat (International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health;Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health, Conference object, 2022)
      Practicing a healthy diet is becoming increasingly important not only because people are living longer, but because they also have a more sedentary lifestyle. Research has shown that using a mobile dietary application (app) ...
    • Universally Designed Text on the Web: Towards Readability Criteria Based on Anti-Patterns 

      Eika, Evelyn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
      The readability of web text s affects accessibility. The Web Content Acces sibility guidelines (WCAG) state that the recommended reading level should match that of someone who has completed basic schooling. ...
    • Universe models with negative bulk viscosity 

      Brevik, Iver Håkon; Grøn, Øyvind (Astrophysics and Space Science;347 (2), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-10)
      The concept of negative temperatures has occasionally been used in connection with quantum systems. A recent example of this sort is reported in the paper of S. Braun et al. [Science 339, 52 (2013)], where an attractively ...
    • Unleashing the potential of fNIRS with machine learning: classification of fine anatomical movements to empower future brain-computer interface 

      Khan, Haroon; Khadka, Rabindra; Sultan, Malik Shahid; Yazidi, Anis; Ombao, Hernando; Mirtaheri, Peyman (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      In this study, we explore the potential of using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) signals in conjunction with modern machine-learning techniques to classify specific anatomical movements to increase the number ...
    • Unlocking the potential of deep learning for marine ecology: overview, applications, and outlook 

      Goodwin, Morten; Halvorsen, Kim Aleksander Tallaksen; Jiao, Lei; Knausgård, Kristian Muri; Martin, Angela Helen; Moyano, Marta; Oomen, Rebekah Alice; Rasmussen, Jeppe Have; Sørdalen, Tonje Knutsen; Thorbjørnsen, Susanna Huneide (ICES Journal of Marine Science;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-01-14)
      The deep learning (DL) revolution is touching all scientific disciplines and corners of our lives as a means of harnessing the power of big data. Marine ecology is no exception. New methods provide analysis of data from ...
    • Unobstructedness and dimension of families of codimension 3 ACM algebras 

      Kleppe, Jan Oddvar; Miro-Roig, Rosa Maria (Contemporary Mathematics;448, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007)
      The goal of this paper is to study irreducible families of codimension 3, Cohen-Macaulay quotients A of a polynomial ring R=k[x_0,x_1,...,x_n]; mainly, we study families of graded Cohen-Macaulay quotients A of codimension ...
    • Unobstructedness and dimension of families of Gorenstein algebras 

      Kleppe, Jan Oddvar (Collectanea Mathematica; 58(2), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007)
      The goal of this paper is to develop tools to study maximal families of Gorenstein quotients A of a polynomial ring R. We prove a very general Theorem on deformations of the homogeneous coordinate ring of a scheme Proj A ...