8 months ago Professor’s portrait: “Digitalisation is not an uncontrollable force of nature; it is created by humans” Digital service innovation is about how digital services are received and create value for users, organisations, and society. Maria Åkesson, Professor of Informatics, study how digitalisation can cont...
8 months ago Unique design perspective in Halmstad’s AI education Stefan Byttner got his first computer already before he started school. It had a tiny light that flashed red when the computer processed something, and he heard the adults saying “look, the computer i...
9 months ago Mobile application can improve road safety Hi there, Oscar Molina! Your research is about improving road safety using automated and connected vehicles. You recently presented the first demo within the SafeSmart project at AstaZero. Can you tel...
9 months ago Shaping AI education for practical use in society In the fall of 2022, Halmstad University will present a new bachelor’s program named Applied Articifial Intelligence (AI). It is tailored for people who do not primarily have an interest in the engine...
9 months ago Students awarded SEK 100,000 for their health innovations For the first time, Getinge Sterilization Inc. offered a scholarship programme as a part of its deepening collaboration agreement with Halmstad University. In connection to the University’s annual gra...
10 months ago “Universities must get ready for new types of teaching” From traditional teaching to lifelong learning – everyone knows that we need to make the shift. But how? Pontus Wärnestål often grapples with that question.
a year ago Halmstad University establishes research programme in information-driven care In the next few years, Halmstad University will establish a number of multidisciplinary research programmes to strengthen the University’s profile. The second programme to start is Information-Driven ...
a year ago Better care at a lower cost by using data We are faced with numerous healthcare challenges in the coming years that will require an improved quality of care without increasing costs. Part of the solution is to take advantage, in new ways, of ...
a year ago Artificial intelligence can strengthen and provide new opportunities for local businesses Through various projects between Halmstad University, the innovation arena HighFive and the innovation centre Leap for Life, researchers, students and other experts want to help companies in Halland t...
a year ago Everyday experiences in focus when developing digitalised cars of the future To create sustainable mobility solutions in the future, you need to understand how people think about digitalised cars. In his dissertation, Thomas Lindgren, who is an industrial PhD student in Inform...
a year ago Human-machine collaboration improves the detection of anomaly When a deviation in a data set is found, it can implicate that something is wrong. It can, for example, be a machine part that does not work, a computer intrusion or a first sign of illness. By combin...
a year ago Agile start-ups most innovative Hi there, Dulce Goncalves! Your research is about digital innovation and you defended your dissertation a while ago. Can you tell us a little about your research?
a year ago Self-driving cars for a safer future Self-driving cars have great potential in preventing rear-end collisions. PhD student Galina Sidorenko’s research shows the benefits of using wireless communication, also known as vehicle-to-vehicle (...
a year ago Research about face recognition when using a mask The Swedish Research Council has granted 3,6 million SEK over three years for a new research project at Halmstad University. The project goal is to provide reliable methods for face recognition when w...
2 years ago Professor’s portrait: Our every-day-life is central in research about new technology Understanding how humans are affected by technology development, and vice versa, is the driving force for Vaike Fors, newly appointed Professor in the unique field of Design Ethnography. “I’m interes...
2 years ago Nanotechnology for the environment and future sensors With advanced nanotechnology, researchers from Halmstad and Lund are developing pioneering components that can be used in several areas. For example, the technology can be used for smart monitoring, d...
2 years ago His mission is for vehicles to talk to each other Emergency vehicles asking traffic lights to change colour. Connected trucks that can drive closer to each other. Intelligent vehicles that handle parts of the driving themselves, without any risk to p...
2 years ago Future AI needs to solve problems without labels Meet researcher Hadi Fanaee who works with predicting errors and solving problems by using AI. He believes that the greatest possibilities for AI lie in so called unsupervised learning where machine l...
2 years ago Artificial intelligence and precision health at Halmstad University In a new research profile at Halmstad University, called CAISR Health, research on the development of AI tools meet research on how these tools can be implemented in healthcare. The theme is AI and pr...
2 years ago Professor’s Portrait: “Life would be boring without difficult problems” Slawomir Nowaczyk is a Professor in Machine Learning and his research is about the discovery of interesting patterns and relations in large amounts of data – knowledge that can be used to avoid vehicl...
2 years ago Integrating service innovation into the design of digital products Interview with researchers Maria Åkesson, Michel Thomsen and Soumitra Chowdhury.
2 years ago Students learn to think and act sustainably in new research project Today’s youth is very aware of contemporary climate issues and demonstrates a desire to change our society to become more sustainable. To meet this global movement, university education must be adapte...
2 years ago Halmstad University educates European police authorities in cyber security The Swedish Security Service recently stated that digitalisation, globalisation and technological development have made our society vulnerable. To spread knowledge and expertise about IT security and ...
2 years ago Machine errors can be predicted when companies and researchers collaborate Maintaining a sterile and high hygienic standard is of great importance in hospitals. Sterilizers are machines used to sterilize hospital equipment. If a sterilizer breaks down, it can have major consequences.
2 years ago Enabling the full potential of Machine Learning In this era of big data, there is a need for intelligent systems that can improve continuously by learning from ubiquitous data streams. Mohamed-Rafik Bouguelia is developing Machine Learning algorith...
2 years ago Creating a new mathematical theory of simultaneous events Even as a child, he wanted to find his own answers, rather than asking an adult. Johan Thunberg is now a researcher in mathematics and is working on a new scientific theory of synchronised systems.
2 years ago AI important for future personalised care An ageing population and limited resources pose major challenges. PhD student Alexander Galozy believes that artificial intelligence (AI) will play a significant role in the future to manage long-term...
2 years ago AI and healthcare Listen to a conversation about how AI can improve healthcare, help make diagnoses and allocate resources. In this discussion you will hear Mattias Ohlsson, Professor of Machine Learning at Halmstad Un...
2 years ago Joint human-machine learning can improve district heating By combining machine learning and human knowledge in self-monitoring and intelligent systems, failures and deviations can automatically be detected. Research at Halmstad University shows that when the...
2 years ago Agile organisations enable digital innovation Previous research on agile organisations has mainly focused on large companies. At the same time, there is a tendency to highlight so-called start-ups as good examples. It is generally believed that l...
2 years ago Professor’s portrait: From hobby to career Ying Fu, Professor of Applied Electromagnetics, has always been interested in technology and gadgets. It started as a hobby and developed into an academic career with many projects and collaborations....
3 years ago Halmstad University in second place in an international AI competition A team from the Center for Applied Intelligent Systems Research at Halmstad University presented a successful solution in an AI competition earlier this fall. The competition is called the Aramis chal...
3 years ago Artificial intelligence could predict and prevent diseases Kobra Etminani wants to see a healthier society by using artificial intelligence, AI, in the healthcare system. AI can help doctors diagnose patients, recommending the right treatments and making a pr...
3 years ago Increased security with facial recognition With the many services available on smartphones, secure transactions are essential. Fernando Alonso-Fernandez wants to develop new AI solutions for human identification and the understanding of human ...
3 years ago Adding intelligence to embedded systems Any kind of technical gadget that has a computer and a dedicated function is a so called embedded system. Examples range from smaller devices, like a smart watch, to larger systems, like an autonomous...
3 years ago Researcher in ’Wisdom of the Crowd’ Earlier this spring, Yuantao Fan defended his doctoral thesis in Signals and Systems Engineering about ’Wisdom of the Crowd’ in Signals and Systems Engineering. His focus has been on buses, but the me...
3 years ago Robots that understand, learn and imitate humans How can robots become more intelligent? That is the ultimate question that Eren Erdal Aksoy wants to find the answer to. “I am not interested in designing the latest version of a humanoid robot with...
3 years ago Self tracking apps affect us – and we affect the apps with improvisation and fiddling They are a big part of our everyday lives, the apps that measure everything from how we eat and sleep, to how we move. The initial idea is that our behaviour needs to be adjusted – we are supposed to ...
3 years ago Personalised digital intervention to battle high blood pressure By motivating and reminding a person to take her medication, based on her own needs and behaviour, researchers at Halmstad University strive to improve medication adherence for patients with hypertens...
3 years ago Social byggnorm – how architecture and social relations affect each other Social byggnorm (social construction norms) is an initiative aiming to develop equal physical work environments. Together with Carlstedt architects, researchers have developed building norms that ma...
3 years ago Human-centred design – a new guide for architects Service design researchers at Halmstad University have together with Krook & Tjäder Architects created a guide on how architects can work in a more human-centred way. The guide gives architects too...
3 years ago Anita’s company wants to forge the link between researchers and facts Researchers constantly need to collect and analyse statistics and data. This requires tools that are often developed specifically for each project, at great expense. Former Halmstad University researc...
3 years ago Students create smart heat pump It started as a project at the Swedish heating company NIBE and quickly became a collaboration between NIBE, Halmstad University and Electronics Centre in Halmstad (ECH). It soon developed into a Mast...
4 years ago Research for more efficient sustainable heating District heating is a sustainable alternative for heating households. In a recently published licentiate thesis from Halmstad University, doctoral student Shiraz Farouq presents data-driven methods fo...
4 years ago User-centred and sustainable technology development – several new multidisciplinary future mobility research projects User-centred and sustainable design of new technologies is becoming increasingly important. Many traditionally technology-driven industries, such as the automotive industry and power companies, are sh...
4 years ago Professor’s portrait: A teaching interest brought Mark Dougherty to Sweden Vehicle activated signs, artificial intelligence’s inability to forget, and tools to evaluate Parkinson’s disease – these are just a few of the topics that Professor Mark Dougherty has spent his time ...
4 years ago Local businesses implement AI with help from University researchers During a few months, three hand-picked companies have been learning about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be applied in their businesses and what improvements it can provide for them. “An incred...
4 years ago Successful research venture within AI Today, artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming central in technical research and development. But eight years ago, when Halmstad University started Center for Applied and Intelligent Systems Research...
4 years ago Using AI to individualise care for heart patients in Halland A growing elderly population puts great demands on our increasingly complex healthcare system. Ineffective decision-making can lead to a poorer quality of care for the patients, as well as escalating ...
4 years ago Halmstad University starts a new collaborative research project with Volvo Group for more efficient electromobility By applying artificial intelligence (AI) to predictive maintenance of electric-powered buses we can significantly prolong their lifetime. Halmstad University and Volvo Group have received SEK 15 milli...
4 years ago Adapting new city districts for autonomous vehicles through EU funded research Halmstad University, together with ten other organisations in seven different countries, has received funding for a new research project for the development of smart cities. The project aims to facili...
4 years ago How can we better manage all collected data? Sensors in houses, cars, gadgets – and on humans – generate huge amounts of data every second. In order to process, analyse and react to the results of collected data, the demands on computer performa...
4 years ago International cross collaboration to help dementia patients Dementia is the loss of cognitive functioning – thinking, remembering, and reasoning – which complicates daily routines for dementia patients. In a European initiative called Remind, Halmstad Universi...
4 years ago Victory in research competition for quality assurance of patient data Researchers from Halmstad University and Lund University have won an AI competition announced by the US Food and Drug Administration, FDA. The purpose of the competition was to develop a system for tr...
4 years ago Research for fewer power outages The results of his research enable power distribution companies to change from reactive to predictive maintenance. This reduces the risks of long outages annoying the customers as well as costly and t...
4 years ago New testing techniques for safer software development Software product line engineering has become common practice for developing families of software systems. It has been used by many industrial companies such as Boeing, Bosch, General Motors, Philips a...
4 years ago Working towards safer roads 25,670 people lost their lives on European roads in 2016, and around 130,000 were seriously injured. Road transport represents a fifth of Europe's greenhouse gas emissions and is the main cause of air...
4 years ago Testing complex autonomous systems Autonomous vehicles can increase traffic safety, lead to reduced fuel consumption and more efficient road use. The technology for self-driving cars is developing fast, but there are still many challen...
5 years ago Professor’s portrait: Driven to contribute to something larger Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson has worked within the sphere of computer science at Halmstad University since 1996. His interest in artificial intelligence and machine learning was, however, established much ...
5 years ago Professor’s portrait: The researcher who wants to teach machines to see When will we be able to teach robots to see like humans do? That means, to really interpret the surroundings and then make rational decisions. Today, research has not got that far. But Joseph Bigun, P...
6 years ago Professor’s portrait: Professor of Informatics focuses on users Initially, Carina Ihlström Eriksson had no plans of becoming a researcher, but a friend of hers, who began studying at Halmstad University, changed her mind. And once she enrolled, as a student in Bus...
6 years ago Professor’s portrait: The ethnologist who became digital Magnus Bergquist was inaugurated as a new Professor at the University’s Academic Ceremony in November. Throughout his working career, he has been interested in collaboration and networking. The recurr...
6 years ago Professor’s portrait: A dream about self-driving cars Alexey Vinel was inaugurated as a new Professor at the University’s Academic Ceremony in November. His research focus is on developing wireless communication technologies to support intelligent transp...
