DiaLudus: Developing a Gamified Mobile App for Pediatric Diabetes Education

Type 1 diabetes is a chronic disease that causes significant challenges for the patient and their parents, affecting them physically and mentally. Approximately 450 children are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in Norway yearly, necessitating lifelong self-management of their blood glucose levels. Early knowledge acquisition is crucial to improving the patient's prognosis and self-management skills. This project aims to explore the potential of an educational gamified mobile application as a valuable tool for increasing knowledge in patients early on in their diagnosis. To gather the information necessary to design this application, we performed a systematic literature review, an interview with a medical doctor, and a discussion with a designer who is also the parent of a child with type 1 diabetes. This information was then used to create model mock-ups, which were used to create the proof-of-concept prototype: a cross-platform mobile application consisting of multiple mini-games aimed to educate children on type 1 diabetes while increasing motivation through rewards. The app was developed using the Unity game engine, along with iterative development and internal testing throughout the development stage by fellow students and members of the author's research group. Assessment of medical accuracy in the app was performed by two medical doctors, knowledge transfer assessment was performed by students with self-reported low understanding of diabetes, and quantitative usability testing was performed by children aged 9-12 with type 1 diabetes. While the evaluation showed potential areas of improvement, it also showed that the application prototype is medically accurate, entertaining, and effective at teaching the knowledge it contains. We have created an educational gamified mobile application designed to educate newly diagnosed children with type 1 diabetes in an exciting and entertaining manner. Evaluation of the prototype shows great promise for using gamified educational applications as a knowledge-increasing tool in treating pediatric diabetes patients

How Traditional Knowledge Comes to Matter in Atlantic Salmon Governance in Norway and Finland

The article compares different models for knowledge production, all of which include traditional knowledge, as part of Norwegian and Finnish Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) research and management projects. Our hope is to contribute constructively to more socially robust knowledge production in Arctic environmental governance. Through investigating how traditional knowledge comes to matter at local, regional (national), and international levels in different Atlantic salmon research and governance projects in Norway and Finland, we examine the social robustness of different approaches to knowledge co-production. In general, the projects that seem to fulfill Arctic expectations of traditional knowledge co-production with science (projects with high legitimacy) seem to have the least impact on policy, and vice versa. We argue that expectations at the international policy level towards traditional knowledge integration with science are at times unrealistically high and hard to meet at local levels and in national policy contexts. We therefore argue for rethinking how a legitimate and policy-relevant knowledge co-production process should be conducted. Arctic policy levels, Norwegian and Finnish environmental authorities, and salmon conservation science could fruitfully draw lessons from the Näätämö co-management project, which is already referred to as an example of best practice in Arctic environmental governance. To achieve social robustness, projects need to balance scientific credibility with legitimacy among local and Indigenous rights holders. This balance might entail giving up on expectations of integrating traditional ecological knowledge with science and embracing the undefined spaces within Arctic and Indigenous knowledge production.Cet article compare différents modèles de production de connaissances émanant de projets norvégiens et finlandais de recherche et de gestion du saumon atlantique (Salmo salar). Tous les modèles incluent les connaissances traditionnelles. Nous espérons jouer un rôle constructif dans la production plus robuste de connaissances du point de vue social en matière de gouvernance environnementale dans l’Arctique. Nous avons fait des recherches pour déterminer l’importance des connaissances traditionnelles sur les scènes locale, régionale (nationale) et internationale dans le cadre de divers projets de gouvernance et de recherche sur le saumon atlantique en Norvège et en Finlande, après quoi nous nous sommes penchés sur la robustesse des différentes approches de coproduction de connaissances du point de vue social. En général, les projets qui semblent satisfaire aux attentes de l’Arctique en matière de coproduction de connaissances traditionnelles avec la science (les projets fortement légitimes) sont ceux qui semblent avoir le moins d’influence sur les politiques, et vice versa. Nous avançons que les attentes du point de vue des politiques internationales en matière d’intégration des connaissances traditionnelles aux connaissances scientifiques sont, parfois, très irréalistes et difficiles à atteindre à l’échelle locale de même que dans le contexte des politiques nationales. Par conséquent, nous soutenons qu’il y a lieu de réexaminer comment un processus de coproduction de connaissances légitime et adapté aux politiques pourrait se faire. Les organismes d’établissement des politiques dans l’Arctique, les autorités environnementales de la Norvège et de la Finlande de même que la science derrière la conservation du saumon pourraient tirer de bonnes leçons du projet de cogestion Näätämö, déjà considéré comme un exemple de pratique exemplaire en matière de gouvernance environnementale dans l’Arctique. Afin d’atteindre la robustesse sociale, les projets doivent équilibrer la crédibilité scientifique et la légitimité chez les détenteurs de droits ancestraux et locaux. Cet équilibre pourrait signifier la nécessité d’abandonner les attentes en matière d’intégration des connaissances écologiques traditionnelles aux connaissances scientifiques, et d’accepter les espaces indéfinis au sein de la production de connaissances propres à l’Arctique et aux indigènes

Mapping Rights in Coastal Sami Seascapes

oai:nordicopenaccess.no:article/1With the help of two recent Sami rights reports, this article identifies and discusses challenges for research and government in Norway related to indigenous fishery rights issues. Both the Coastal Fishing Commission and the Sami Rights Commission reports address how to accommodate local and indigenous rights to harvest marine resources within the national fisheries management regime. A thorough rights identification and mapping process of existing private and collective rights to marine resources is proposed. Until recently little research into fisheries from a Sami perspective and the customary use of fjords and coastal areas in Norway has been done. The article examines historical and current knowledge used in the two reports to meet the challenge of indigenous fishery rights issues, and how these claims were met by the Norwegian government. The author argues more research on the customary use of the seascape is needed, combining local knowledge with community participation to fill knowledge gaps in marine resources rights issues.Keywords: Coastal Sami, indigenous fishing rights, national fisheries management, seascape, mapping, local knowledge.Citation: Arctic Review on Law and Politics, vol. 1, 1/2010 p. 28–53. ISSN 1891-625

Fisheries and First Nations: Report from Research Stay in Canada, March-July 2010

In the period between March and July 2010, I was able to conduct a study trip to the east and west coast of Canada with the kind financial support from the Centre for Sami Studies at the University of Tromsø as part of my PhD program. Without their support, the travel would not have been possible and it has contributed to expanding knowledge and creating contacts in a growing field of study. Many people helped to make this trip come about as successfully as it did. Thank you to my supervisor Svein Jentoft and to Else Grete Broderstad and Stine Barlindhaug and others who kindly provided contacts in Canada. Most of all, I am grateful to Barbara Neis and Peter Armitage who hosted me in St. John’s for almost two months, and also Tony Davis and his family who took me in for two weeks in Nova Scotia. The goal of the trip was to learn more about methodologies and methods for documenting fisheries in indigenous and small coastal communities and applying these to the coastal Sami context and my own research on coastal Sami fisheries. I was interested in both fisheries research methods in general and methods for documenting indigenous land use and occupancy, in addition to how the different research institutions and projects in Canada address indigenous fisheries issues. This report contains the background for the research trip, an overview of travels and activities during the stay, and a more detailed report from two of the places visited during the stay, focusing on Mi’kmaq fisheries in Atlantic Canada and salmon farming issues in British Columbia. The most central people and institutions have provided feedback to the report before it was submitted to the board at the Centre for Sami Studies

Fisheries and aquaculture management: Experiences from small scale fisheries in Norway

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Cultural sensitivity and tourism Report from Northern Norway

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Kulturell sensitivitet og turisme : Rapport fra Nord-Norge

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Looking at Arctic tourism through the lens of cultural sensitivity : ARCTISEN – a transnational baseline report

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Fisheries and First Nations: Report from research stay in Canada

In the period between March and July 2010, I was able to conduct a study trip to the east and west coast of Canada with the kind financial support from the Centre for Sami Studies at the University of Tromsø as part of my PhD program. Without their support, the travel would not have been possible and it has contributed to expanding knowledge and creating contacts in a growing field of study. Many people helped to make this trip come about as successfully as it did. Thank you to my supervisor Svein Jentoft and to Else Grete Broderstad and Stine Barlindhaug and others who kindly provided contacts in Canada. Most of all, I am grateful to Barbara Neis and Peter Armitage who hosted me in St. John’s for almost two months, and also Tony Davis and his family who took me in for two weeks in Nova Scotia. The goal of the trip was to learn more about methodologies1 and methods for documenting fisheries in indigenous and small coastal communities and applying these to the coastal Sami context and my own research on coastal Sami fisheries. I was interested in both fisheries research methods in general and methods for documenting indigenous land use and occupancy, in addition to how the different research institutions and projects in Canada address indigenous fisheries issues. This report contains the background for the research trip, an overview of travels and activities during the stay, and a more detailed report from two of the places visited during the stay, focusing on Mi’kmaq fisheries in Atlantic Canada and salmon farming issues in British Columbia. The most central people and institutions have provided feedback to the report before it was submitted to the board at the Centre for Sami Studies

Image Processing and Analysis of Leaf Movement in Mimosa Pudica

Master's thesis in Cybernetics and signal processingThis thesis has the aim of develop and improve methods used in an ongoing research project at the University of Stavanger, where the plant mimosa pudi- cas response to change in its illuminative conditions is being examined. The intention is to use these methods to analyse the mimosa pudicas responses, as well as exploring the possibility of relating them to a control theoretic viewpoint. An image processing routine, using the HSV color model and triangle intensity threshold segmentation, was developed to segment time-lapse image series of the Mimosa Pudica - quantifying the plants image pixel count as a metric. The result was used to estimate the ARX, ARMAX and Box Jenkins black box models, with the plants illuminative condition and image pixel count being used as the systems input and output. A routine for a second metric was also developed, using the method of Farneback to estimate dense optical ow, describing the plants movement orientation in the image plane. The automatic non-parametric image segmentation routine performance was evaluated on 7 test images, obtaining a DICE similarity coe cient of 0:932 0:0175. Several ARX, ARMAX and Box Jenkins models was estimated without being able to capture the systems dynamics. The routine describing mimosa pudicas movement orientation was during the experiment found to give a seemingly correct description of a small time-lapse sequence. The successfully development of a automatic non-parametric image segmentation routine will remove the need of manual intervention. The observed dynamics in the mimosa pudica indicates that the changes in the illuminative condition could be working as a disturbance on the plant. The dense optical ow experiments did also shown patterns of the mimosa pudica starting its response to the shift in the illuminative condition, before the actual shift occurred. This suggests that a complex structure could lie behind the plants response to the illumination regimes