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 ...

New digital technologies like activity trackers, nudge concepts, and approaches can inspire and improve personal health. There is increasing interest in employing such devices to monitor people’s health and well-being. These devices can continually gather and examine health-related information from people and groups in their familiar surroundings. Context-aware nudges can assist people in self-managing ...

Nudge principles and techniques can motivate and improve personal health through emerging digital devices, such as activity trackers. Tracking people's health and well-being using such devices have earned widespread interest. These devices can continuously capture and analyze health-related data from individuals and communities in their everyday environment. Providing context-aware nudges can help ...

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 ...

<p><i>Background - </i>Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disorder that results in abnormal blood glucose (BG) regulations. The BG level is preferably maintained close to normality through self-management practices, which involves actively tracking BG levels and taking proper actions including adjusting diet and insulin medications. BG anomalies could be defined as any undesirable reading ...

Biological data analysis is typically implemented using a deep pipeline that combines a wide array of tools and databases. These pipelines must scale to very large datasets, and consequently require parallel and distributed computing. It is therefore important to choose a hardware platform and underlying data management and processing systems well suited for processing large datasets. There are many ...

Objectives: Accelerometer-based wrist-worn ftness trackers and smartwatches (wearables) appeared on the consumer market in 2011. Many wearable devices have been released since. The objective of this data paper is to describe a dataset of 423 wearables released before July 2017.<p> <p>Data description: We identifed wearables and extracted information from six online and ofine databases. We ...

Sports today are more competitive than ever, with an eye for extreme details. Small margins can differentiate between succeeding or failing. That is why it is essential for a team to pay attention to all these margins and use them to their advantage. Technology today plays a huge part in sports. With video cameras and sensors following the players’ every move, it is vital to use this technology ...

In this report we define the semantics of a language for dynamic QoS expressions which can be evaluated at run-time for conformance. We define how expressions can be constructed from atomic expressions termed ’basic profiles’ using composition operators. Two such operators are defined: The sum ( ’+’ ) which corresponds to simple conjunction and component-sum (’Å’) which assume that the operands ...

Video analysis including classification, segmentation or tagging is one of the most challenging but also interesting topics multimedia research currently try to tackle. This is often related to videos from surveillance cameras or social media. In the last years, also medical institutions produce more and more video and image content. Some areas of medical image analysis, like radiology or brain ...