• Are health videos from hospitals, health organizations, and active users available to health consumers? An analysis of diabetes health video ranking in YouTube 

      Fernandez-Llatas, Carlos; Traver, Vicente; Morell, José Enrique Borrás; Martinez-Millana, Antonio; Karlsen, Randi (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-01-24)
      Health consumers are increasingly using the Internet to search for health information. The existence of overloaded, inaccurate, obsolete, or simply incorrect health information available on the Internet is a serious obstacle for finding relevant and good-quality data that actually helps patients. Search engines of multimedia Internet platforms are thought to help users to find relevant information ...
    • Cloudless Friend-to-Friend Middleware for Smartphones 

      Arnes, Jo Inge; Karlsen, Randi (Peer reviewed; Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2019-11-13)
      Using smartphones for peer-to-peer communication over the Internet is difficult without the aid of centralized services. These centralized services, which usually reside in the cloud, are necessary for brokering communication between peers, and all communication must pass through them. A reason for this is that smartphones lack publicly reachable IP addresses. Also, because people carry their ...
    • Data Analysis Techniques for Smart Nudging 

      Dhanasekaran, Seshathiri; Andersen, Anders; Karlsen, Randi; Håkansson, Anne (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2021)
      <p>Nudge principles and techniques are significant in communications, marketing, and groups’ motivation to improve personal health, wealth, and well-being. We make numerous decisions in online situations. People’s health and well-being have garnered widespread interest and concern in this wearable’s age. Smart nudging is defined as “digital nudging, where the guidance of user behavior is tailored ...
    • Data collection and analysis methods for smart nudging to promote physical activity: Protocol for a mixed methods study 

      Dhanasekaran, Seshathiri; Andersen, Anders; Karlsen, Randi; Håkansson, Anne; Henriksen, André (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      New digital technologies like activity trackers, nudge concepts, and approaches can inspire and improve personal health. There is increasing interest in employing such devices to monitor people’s health and well-being. These devices can continually gather and examine health-related information from people and groups in their familiar surroundings. Context-aware nudges can assist people in self-managing ...
    • Data collection and smart nudging to promote physical activity and a healthy lifestyle using wearable devices 

      Dhanasekaran, Seshathiri; Andersen, Anders; Karlsen, Randi; Håkansson, Anne; Henriksen, André (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2022-08-22)
      Nudge principles and techniques can motivate and improve personal health through emerging digital devices, such as activity trackers. Tracking people's health and well-being using such devices have earned widespread interest. These devices can continuously capture and analyze health-related data from individuals and communities in their everyday environment. Providing context-aware nudges can help ...
    • Fit-Twin: A Digital Twin of a User with Wearables and Context as Input for Health Promotion 

      Sulaiman, Muhammad; Håkansson, Anne; Karlsen, Randi (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Digital health contributes to health promotion by empowering the user with the holistic view of their health. Health promotion is to enable the user to take control over their health. The availability of wearables has contributed to the shift in healthcare, that is more connected, predictive, and proactive. Proactive in healthcare is to predict and prevent a situation, beforehand. This shift in ...
    • A Framework for AI-enabled Proactive mHealth with Automated Decision-making for a User’s Context 

      Sulaiman, Muhammad; Håkansson, Anne; Karlsen, Randi (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Health promotion is to enable people to take control over their health. Digital health with mHealth empowers users to establish proactive health, ubiquitously. The users shall have increased control over their health to improve their life by being proactive. To develop proactive health with the principles of prediction, prevention, and ubiquitous health, artificial intelligence with mHealth can ...
    • HealthTrust: A Social Network Approach for Retrieving Online Health Videos 

      Fernandez-Luque, Luis; Karlsen, Randi; Melton, Genevieve B (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Background: Social media are becoming mainstream in the health domain. Despite the large volume of accurate and trustworthy health information available on social media platforms, finding good-quality health information can be difficult. Misleading health information can often be popular (eg, antivaccination videos) and therefore highly rated by general search engines. We believe that community ...
    • The Impossible, the Unlikely, and the Probable Nudges: A Classification for the Design of Your Next Nudge 

      Karlsen, Randi; Andersen, Anders (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-22)
      Nudging provides a way to gently influence people to change behavior towards a desired goal, e.g., by moving towards a healthier or more environmentally friendly lifestyle. Personalized and context-aware digital nudging (named smart nudging) can be a powerful tool for efficient nudging by tailoring nudges to the current situation of each individual user. However, designing smart nudges is challenging, ...
    • Multi-Agent Collision Avoidance Method Using Fuzzy Risk Estimation and Information Sharing in Unknown Environments 

      Håkansson, Anne Eva Margareta; Karlsen, Randi; Bremdal, Bernt Arild; Dundar, Yigit Can (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023-09-22)
      Automated vehicles within Industry 4.0 are used as logistics units where they can move resources from one place to another safely and efficiently. The automated vehicles can be tasked to work in unknown environments where collision-free navigation is challenging due to uncertainty and lack of environmental information. Collisions can damage equipment and may even cause harm to human workers sharing ...
    • Recommendations with a Nudge 

      Karlsen, Randi; Andersen, Anders (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-06-13)
      In areas such as health, environment, and energy consumption, there is a need to do better. A common goal in society is to get people to behave in ways that are sustainable for the environment or support a healthier lifestyle. Nudging is a term known from economics and political theory, for influencing decisions and behavior using suggestions, positive reinforcement, and other non-coercive means. ...
    • ReflecTS: A reflective transaction service framework for open applications 

      Jakobsen, Anna-Brith A.; Karlsen, Randi (Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2004)
      Transactional middleware platforms must accommodate an increasingly diverse range of requirements from both applications and the underlying systems. It is clear that applications have characteristics and requirements that vary a lot, and that transactional middleware must be able to support the potential variety in transaction execution requirements. In this paper we describe ReflecTS, a reflective ...
    • Review of Extracting Information From the Social Web for Health Personalization 

      Fernandez-Luque, Luis; Karlsen, Randi; Bonander, Jason (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      In recent years the Web has come into its own as a social platform where health consumers are actively creating and consuming Web content. Moreover, as the Web matures, consumers are gaining access to personalized applications adapted to their health needs and interests. The creation of personalized Web applications relies on extracted information about the users and the content to personalize. The ...