DART ― News

NR's researchers are going to contribute to Tekna's two-day seminar on risk assessment and security of ICT systems. Åsmund Skomedal and Anders Moen Hagalisletto will talk about Long-term storage and challenges in digital forensics, security, and privacy and Security analysis of huge and complex IT systems, respectively. We hope to meet you there!

Lars Strand successfully defended his PhD thesis with the title Advancement towards secure authentication in the Session Initiation Protocol. The work was part of the EUX2010SEC project and was carried out at the VoIP Test Lab at the Norwegian Computing Center.

Dr Wolfgang Leister (NR), dr Josef Noll (UNIK), and Torleiv Maseng (FFI) have been supervisors. The trial lecture was about the topic The development of security architectures in fixed and mobile telephone systems and was held on the same day.

October 04, 2011: ICT researchers at NR Lars Strand and Wolfgang Leister, and Alan Duric from Telio, received a best-paper award in recognition of their work on Migration towards a more Secure Authentication in the Session Initiation Protocol presented at the SECUREWARE 2011 conference. ICT researchers at NR are active in developing methods for more secure IP telephony protocols within the EUX2010SEC project. NR has developed a test lab to evaluate IP telephony setups on the Asterisk system. This lab is available to industry partners and IP telephony customers to test a system setup before deploying it. Space is currently available. Contact Wolfgang Leister for more information.

September 08, 2011: The Internet results in new forms of communication and production in private enterprises and the public sector. A third model for innovation, the Commons-Based Peer Production (CBPP), emerges where open source, open content, open data, and open hardware are used. Incentives to participate in CBPP often go beyond financial gain. CBPP impacts licenses, collaboration, communication, quality metrics, security, law and society.

Assistant Research Director Dr. Wolfgang Leister (NR) and Professor Nils Christophersen from the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo have published a compendium to a course at the master-level that examines the subject of CBPP. The compendium is written together with authors from NR, the University of Oslo, London School of Economics, and United Nations University in Maastricht. The compendium, written in English, is available under a Creative Commons license. The authors hope to get feedback from readers so that the content can be updated in a spirit of openness.

June 24, 2011: DART Research Scientist, Trenton Schulz, will hold a tutorial entitled, “Accessible Apps from Design to Use” at the Yggdrasil 2011 Conference. The Yggdrasil conference is arranged by the Norwegian Computer Society and is Norway’s largest conference for user experience, user friendliness, and communication. The tutorial will include information about functionality that can increase accessibility on Android and iOS devices. The tutorial will also talk about how user evaluations with different user groups can help achieve universally designed apps.

March 2, 2011: NR is about to arrange a seminar about the digital inclusiveness of smartphones. The seminar's target group includes developers, project managers, stakeholders from the private and public sector, students, user organization, and all those interested in the topic. The event consists of a number of lectures that deal with the universal design of phones and smartphones and associated software, inclusive and usable apps, and mobility for all. The event will take place on May 18, 2011 at NR's location. Please see the announcement (in Norwegian) for details and registration information.

March 2, 2011: The consortium members of the E-me project arrange a seminar on inclusive identity management in new social media on March 22, 2011. Among the topics of this full-day seminar are accessibility, usability, and user experience in the context of social networking services. Please see the program for details and registration information.

February 4, 2011: Researchers at NR have contributed to a book chapter on Quality of Service, Adaptation, and Security Provisioning in Wireless Patient Monitoring Systems. The chapter proposes to use an adaptation of the MPEG-21 standard (ISO/IEC 21000) in resource-restricted systems such as patient monitoring systems and sensor networks.

December 21, 2010: At the edge of the new year, NR proudly announces the start of another new project called Web Citizen/Nettborger. The project's aim is to ensure that social media are universally designed and can be used by as many individuals as possible. Please see the project's factsheet for more information.

December 13, 2010: NR's ICT group is proud to announce the start of a new project called IVIS, an acronym for Including Visually Impaired in the Social Web. The project includes partners from all Nordic countries. Please see the factsheet, of IVIS for more information.

November 02, 2010: On Nov. 18 and 19, 2010, NR will be hosting the IDMAN 2010 conference, where international researchers will discuss the implications of identity management technologies for society, surveillance, cybercrime, privacy and computer security. Profiled keynote speakers will lecture on electronic voting, authentication technologies, usability and e-inclusion and standardization of identity management. The scientific contributions will be available as IFIP proceedings 343, Policies and Research in Identity Mangagement.

Please register at IFIP IDMAN 2010 to participate.

Please visit the conference site for details.

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Please visit the workshop site for details.

Please visit the course site for details.

NR arrangerer et seminar om brukerundersøkelser benyttet i utforming og utvikling av IKT-produkter og -tjenester. Fokuset er på tilgjengelighet, universell utforming og brukbarhet. Seminaret avholdes fredag 21. mai 2010 i NRs lokaler i Oslo og er et satellittarrangement til konferansen Unitech-2010.

Ytterligere informasjon finnes på kurssiden.

Skolene skal introdusere digital eksamen der elevene bruker sine egne bærbare datamaskiner, og mange elever kan være fristet til å jukse. Forskere ved DART har funnet løsningen i fri programvare som startes fra en minnepinne. Les hele saken på Forskning.no.