The number of personal computers we use every day has increased significantly the last couple of years, where the common model is a setup where each device has its own storage with separate files and applications. This forces the user to think in a certain way about files and applications, where they are to a degree bound to a device unless the user specifically moves the files, or installs/uninstalls ...

Swirlwave is a middleware that enables peer-to-peer and distributed computing for Internet-connected devices with the following characteristics: The devices lack publicly reachable IP addresses, they can be expected to disconnect from the network for periods of time, and they frequently change network locations. This is the typical case for smartphones. The middleware fits into the friend-to-friend ...

It is still strangely difficult to backup and synchronize data. Cloud computing solves the problem by centralizing everything and letting someone else handle the backups. But what about situations with low connectivity or sensitive data? For this, software developers have an interesting distributed, decentralized, and partition-tolerant data storage system right at their fingertips: distributed ...

When searching the internet today we want immediate answers. We often search for a person, or a solution to a problem, or some topic we are interested in. The result quality of this kind of search is pretty good, most of the time we get the answers we need. The results, though, seems to be minor variations on the same results. But what if the search for information is of a different nature, more ...

Distributed Arctic Observatory (DAO) aims to automate, streamline and improve the collection, storage and analysis of images, video and weather measurements taken on the arctic tundra. Automating the process means that there are no human users that needs to be involved in the process. This leads to a loss of monitoring capabilities of the process. There are insufficient tools that allow the human ...

The air:bit project is a computer science education project that we developed in 2016 for use in North-Norwegian upper secondary (videregående) schools. Students build and code their own air quality sensor kits (air:bits), before collecting air quality data in their local areas. They create their own air quality related research questions, which they answer by analyzing the collected air:bit data ...

The topic of a more sustainable environment has been a core factor to governments and the public for many years. Sustainability in land transportation brings about less emission of greenhouse gases, less pollution, less traffic, a healthier and more active society. Ignorance to sustainability has brought about several environmental and human concerns including global warming. Global warming is the ...

One of the key challenges in the Distributed Arctic Observatory (DAO) project is designing infrastructure to reliably interact with remote, configurable observation units that capture and provide observation data from challenging environments. DAO’s infrastructure is a work in progress and researching alternative strategies for interacting with observation units is necessary to gain experience ...

Studies reveal that individuals with intellectual disabilities have more sedentary lifestyles than the general population. Regular physical activity is of both medical and social importance, reducing risks of cardiovascular diseases and obesity. Health organizations recommend that everyone should at least engage in 150 minutes of physical activity each week because of the beneficial health effects. There ...

As modern computer hardware becomes more affordable, the application areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI) expand and become more feasible to implement efficiently. This aspect opens up opportunities where AI robots can be used to support and improve many areas of human lives. One such area is education, and this thesis project combines AI and education to evaluate whether the results from that union ...