ICT Research Areas

NR has one of the largest independent groups of researchers in information and communication security in Norway. We carry out research and development projects in close cooperation with national and international partners. Both small and large operators within public and private sectors have made use of NR's expertise in security. Our competence is built on many years of experience with security related work, a broad knowledge foundation and focus on selected research areas.

• Privacy and Identitiy Management (PET/IDM/IMS)
• Digital Forensics
• Digital Rights Management (DRM)
• Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
• Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP)
• Vulnerability and Risk Analysis
• Security Architecture

Please see also our reference projects on the projects page for further information.

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Universal design, e-inclusion, and e-accessability denote the need for products and services to be accessible and usable for virtually all people.

The main research question for NR's e-Inclusion Group is how to include as many as possible in the information society. We study barriers and opportunities for different user groups, e.g. blue-collar workers, people with visual or hearing impairment, and people with cognitive deficits. The Group has participated in a number of relevant projects, including the development and evaluation of technological support for people with reading and writing difficulties, identifying ICT barriers for people with different impairments, and the development of automatic and dynamic ICT adaptation features.

The e-Inclusion Group's experts build on experience and knowledge from a variety of areas, such as e-learning, user profiling, and personalization techniques. The Group cooperates closely with other ICT research groups, such as the Smart Information Systems Group regarding for instance the application of multimodality techniques and multimedia content, and with the Security Group with regard to for instance inclusive identity management.

Accessibility and usability evaluations of ICT solutions and in particular web pages are offered as part of the Group's services. This includes technical, expert and user testing, as well as the use of assistive technologies.

Smart Information Systems increase quality with respect to resources that are measured in time, money, work, energy, transmission capacity, storage capacity, or other metrics. Increased quality is a result of research and innovation within technology, architectures, processes, and value chains.

DART's researchers work for the benefit of society in the application areas of health and welfare, the IoT, mobility, processes in public services, digital libraries, social networks and the grand challenges of climate, energy, and the environment. They also work at the forefront of pushing open innovation, open standards, and emerging technologies within ICT beyond the traditional systems architectures. Our specialties include semantic technologies, multimedia standards in health care environments, smart home technologies, streaming technologies, and visualisation techniques. Combining smart information systems with the requirements from inclusive technologies and information security make DART a unique research group within ICT.

Please see also our reference projects on the projects page for further information.