• 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) ...
    • A Universally Designed Electronic Norwegian Dictionary 

      Shrestha, Sayush Lal (Master thesis, 2019)
      Following the concepts of universal design as well as guidelines of accessibility and usability are important parts of the website design for wide range of users, and an online dictionary is not an exception to ...
    • 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. ...
    • Universally designede earthquake management system in Pakistan 

      Ljaz, Ahmad (MAUU;2020, Master thesis, 2020)
      The broad objective of this research is to analyze how the research field of Universal Design of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can save lives from emergencies and disasters. The primary objective of this ...
    • 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 ...
    • Universell utforming av spesialrom En kartlegging av verksteder for Kunst og håndverk 

      Lefdal, Else Margrethe; Bech, Jannicke T. B.; Gunn Synnøve, Dalstein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Krav til universell utforming av skoler er regulert av ulike lovverk. Ingen elever skal utestenges fra obligatorisk undervisning på bakgrunn av nedsatt funksjonsevne. Det kan likevel tas forbehold om rimelighet ut fra den ...
    • Universelt utformet sanitærmodul- all inclusive: Eco closet - a composting toilet with no water consumption or use of electricity- true ecology 

      Rabben, Anne-Lise (MAPD;2012, Master thesis, 2012)
      Denne masteroppgaven er utarbeidet som en del av mastergradstudiet ved Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus (HIOA), avdeling for produktdesign, våren 2012. Valgt studieretning er konseptorientert design, med spesialisering i ...
    • 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 ...
    • Unmanned Aerial System for deployment and recovery of research equipment at sea 

      Zolich, Artur Piotr; Johansen, Tor Arne; Elkolali, Moustafa; Al-Tawil, Ahmed; Alcocer, Alex (Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment (AIRPHARO);2021 Aerial Robotic Systems Physically Interacting with the Environment (AIRPHARO), Conference object, 2021-10-26)
      In this paper we present details of Miniature Underwater Gliders (MUG) deployment and recovery mechanism using a multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The paper discusses details of MUG localization with computer vision, ...
    • 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 ...
    • Unraveling the Impact of Land Cover Changes on Climate Using Machine Learning and Explainable Artificial Intelligence 

      Kolevatova, Anastasiia; Riegler, Michael; Cherubini, Francesco; Hu, Xiangping; Hammer, Hugo Lewi (Big Data and Cognitive Computing;Volume 5, Issue 4, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10-15)
      A general issue in climate science is the handling of big data and running complex and computationally heavy simulations. In this paper, we explore the potential of using machine learning (ML) to spare computational time ...
    • Unsupervised and Fast Continent Classification of Digital Image Collections using Time 

      Sandnes, Frode Eika (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2010-08)
      Advances in storage capacity means that digital cameras can store huge collections of digital photographs. Typically such images are given non-descriptive filenames names such as a unique identifier, often an integer. ...
    • Unsupervised State Representation Learning in Partially Observable Atari Games 

      Meng, Li; Goodwin, Morten; Yazidi, Anis; Engelstad, Paal E. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science;, Chapter; Peer reviewed; Conference object; Journal article, 2023)
      State representation learning aims to capture latent factors of an environment. Although some researchers realize the connections between masked image modeling and contrastive representation learning, the effort is focused ...
    • Urinary extracellular vesicles: A position paper by the Urine Task Force of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles 

      Llorente, Alicia; Erdbrügger, Uta; Blijdorp, Charles J; Martens-Uzunova, Elena S. (Journal of Extracellular Vesicles;Volume 10, Issue 7. May 2021 - e12093, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05-21)
      Urine is commonly used for clinical diagnosis and biomedical research. The discovery of extracellular vesicles (EV) in urine opened a new fast-growing scientific field. In the last decade urinary extracellular vesicles ...
    • An usability and universal design investigation into hamburger menus 

      Khadka, Nawaraj (MAUU;2021, Master thesis, 2021)
      With the implementation of different interface designs in applications across various devices, the concerns related to usability in these designs have also increased. Navigation is an important functionality in websites ...
    • An usability and universal design investigation into hidden user interface navigational elements 

      Munir, Mubashar (ACIT;2021, Master thesis, 2021)
      With the trend towards simplicity starting to gain supremacy in digital design, designers are now being forced to adapt. One of the practical areas recommended for them is working within mobile user interfaces' navigational ...
    • A usability and universal design investigation into the use of persistent headers in web pages 

      Kongshaug, Petter (ACIT;2022, Master thesis, 2022)
      This thesis investigates users’ preferences and performance of persistent headers on websites. Persistent headers and non-persistent headers are compared through a questionnaire and experiment. Two websites are setup ...