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Therapy in the open air provides adolescents with a break from a chaotic daily life with ever growing pressures with regards to achievement and self-representation. This positive effect is still in place one year after the therapy.
Two research groups at the University of Agder have applied to become Centres for Research-based Innovation (SFI), a prestigious programme of the Research Council of Norway. These research groups are based within the Centre for eHealth and the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research.
A new dialogue tool based on research done at UiA will help nursery school staff and parents talk about bullying. The tool is free and available online.
The close collaboration between regional industry and innovative research at UiA receives praise from the Research Council of Norway. This is reflected in their evaluation of SFI Offshore Mechatronics.
Renewable local charcoal can replace fossil fuels and reduce CO2 emissions significantly from the Norwegian metal industry, a new doctoral thesis from the University of Agder shows.
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Artificial intuition reaches conclusions faster and uses less computational power than artificial intelligence. Emotions are rapidly entering the world of machines.
The Centre for eHealth collaborates internationally with the ambition that Agder shall become the best in Europe in eHealth. One of their projects is to make it simpler to do voluntary work.
Two decades after the war in Kosovo, a new generation is ready to take over. At UiA, researchers have taken a European initiative in order to show how narratives about war and conflict can prevent history repeating itself.
At the UiA priority research centre Centre for Lifecourse Nutrition, researchers are trying to teach Norwegian children and their parents to eat well.
At the age of 32, Robin Rolfhamre has become one of Norway’s youngest professors. The lute player and early music expert is now hunting for new problems to solve.
The economists John A. Hunnes and Torunn Skåltveit Olsen believe that there is more than just economics needed to prepare economics students for the challenges of the future.
The Top Research Centre Mechatronics wants to transfer technology from the oil industry to new areas. This may boost everything from construction to healthcare in the years to come.
Researchers at the priority research centre MERGA are working to develop new teaching methods in mathematics. The aim is that children and young people become better at maths.
It is important to have something meaningful to do alongside elite sports, and to have an education to fall back on when a sporting career is over. A record number of elite sportspeople are now taking educational programmes at UiA.
Researcher portraits
User friendly eHealth
Santiago Martinez
Department of Public Health, Sport and Nutrition
Technology that is difficult to understand, won't get used. Santiago Martinez and his colleagues at the Center for eHealth and Care Technology have constructed a state-of-the-art laboratory to develop user friendly technology.
Morals and values in prison
Terje Emil Fredwall
Department of Public Health, Sport and Nutrition
Terje Emil Fredwall interviewed prison officers working in high-level security departments. How do they try to influence, evolve and change prisoners?
What influences our eating habits?
Nina Cecilie Øverby
Department of Public Health, Sport and Nutrition
What we eat as children can have a great impact on our health. What influences our eating habits, and how do we encourage our kids to eat healthy?
User friendly care technology
Berglind Smaradottir
Department of information and communication technology
How can technology help the sick and elderly manage at home for as long as possible? Berlind Smaradottir does research on welfare technology developed in cooperation with the users themselves.
