The seminar organized by the Norwegian project Culture and nature travel gave us the opportunity to tell about our experience using the digital storytelling platform Digitalt fortalt and about our vision for the platform.
With culture in the pocket at the annual research fair in Trondheim
Our stand during the research fair in Trondheim was well visited by curious children, seniors and families. We see that stories about the cultural heritage of our city engage people.
Do automatic fall alarm solutions really work?
Tens of solutions for automatic detection of falls among elderly are being developed worldwide. But do they really have an effect? This is what we are trying to find out in our trial in Trondheim, Norway. It turns out we are one of very few in the world doing this.
SIT is using docker as a technical platform for its social inclusion services!
Docker is a new technology for creating, deploying and managing software containers. We started to use it to host our Social Inclusion services running on the server side. In this article, we shortly introduce Docker and describe why we are using it here in SIT.
From paper prototype to mock-up
Paper prototyping is a low-cost and helpful method to design a user interface for an application. In this blog we report on a case study from smart energy project that describes the process of going from a concept, via a paper prototype and mock-up to form the basis of a requirement document.
Digitalt fortalt: Now what?
Digitalt fortalt is an outstanding tool that has the potential to engage a wider audience in culture, but what about thinking bigger?
Choosing a pub-sub messaging system for your mobile app
Publish Subscribe (pubsub) messaging is becoming crucial for distributed and connected systems. Which protocols and solutions implementing pubsub should one keep in mind before developing his system?
Welfare technology research: What should we really be doing?
What type of welfare technology research do we really need? What research questions do we need to answer? And are researchers the right people to ask? This is what we want to find out in a large-scale collaboration with the Norwegian municipalities.
TAG CLOUD: a European cooperation to engage in cultural heritage
This post is originally written for the blog of the Norwegian project Culture and nature travel. The EU/FP7 ICT project TAG CLOUD share common goals with Culture and nature travel. Can we avoid duplicating work and instead complement each other?
A Norwegian initiative to engage people in culture and nature
On April 29, TAG CLOUD represented by SIT was invited to participate to a seminar organised by Kultur- og naturreise. Kultur- og naturreise (Culture and nature travel) is a Norwegian project that aims at increasing interest and understanding of natural and cultural assets. Access through digital services is central. The project is supported by five agencies of […]