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RIDE member associate professor Leonora Bergsjø was recently interviewed in the national news for a feature article about images generated by artificial intelligence.

A new publication from RIDE member Halvdan Haugsbakken argues how the implementation of a new learning management system (LMS) in higher education can be understood as constituitive entanglement.

Selina Demi defended her Doctoral Degree (PhD. Philosopiae Doctor) at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo on the 19th September 2023. She was honored to have in her committee Prof. Miguel Ángel Sicilia Urbán, -University of Alcalá, Spain, Prof. Ana Maria Moreno Sanchez-Capuchino - Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain, Assoc. Prof. Gunnar Rye Bergersen - University of Oslo, Department of informatics, UIO, Norway.

In a recent article, researchers present an exploratory study that aims to understand how Andean indigenous people made the jump from a group that is woefully underrepresented in software industry to professionals in that same field.

As part of his PhD-project Anders Dechsling and colleagues recently published an article where they have reviewed available evidence on the use of Virtual Reality in interventions for autistic children. Together with researchers from the research group DeveLeP at Østfold University College and international collaborators, Dechsling found that there were a lot of studies investigating VR-interventions for autistic children. However, none of them utilize interventions with the most support in the research literature.

The 23 applications received at the end of last year have been evaluated and it has been  decided to support 7 PhD positions relevant for “The Digital Society”. Decision letters have now been sent to all applicants together with the external project evaluations.