What I am doing spring 2010

The Sunstone project - deriving and applying unsual information in image collections (more info to appear shortly)

Completing an accreditation application for a new master program in Universal Design and ICT (more info to appear shortly).

Representative publications

Frode Eika Sandnes, Where was that photo taken? Deriving geographical information from image collections based on temporal exposure attributes, ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, 2010 (accepted)

Simen Hagen and Frode Eika Sandnes, Towards Accessible Self-service Kiosks through Intelligent User Interfaces, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Springer (accepted oct. 2009).

Hua-Li Jian, Frode Eika Sandnes, Yo-Ping Huang and Yueh-Min Huang, Cultural factors influencing Taiwanese and Norwegian engineering students' choice of university, European Journal of Engineering Education, Wiley (accepted nov. 11).

Hua-Li Jian, Frode Eika Sandnes, Yo-Ping Huang, Yueh-Min Huang and Simen Hagen, Studies or leisure? A cross-cultural comparison of Taiwanese and Norwegian engineering students’ preferences for university life, International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 227-235, 2010

Hua-Li Jian, Frode Eika Sandnes, Yo-Ping Huang, Kris M. Y. Law and Yueh-Min Huang, “The Role of Electronic Pocket Dictionaries as an English Learning Tool among Chinese Students”, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Vol. 25, No. 6, pp. 503-514, 2009.

Ching-Hsien Hsu, Laurence T. Yang, Frode Eika Sandnes and Zhen Liu, Towards Merging Ubiquitous and Grid Services, Journal of Internet Technology, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. I-II, 2010.

Ching-Hsien Hsu, Yun-Chiu Ching, Laurence T. Yang and Frode Eika Sandnes, An Efficient Peer Collaboration Strategy for Optimizing P2P Services in BitTorrent-Like File Sharing Networks, Journal of Internet Technology, Vol. 11 No. 1, pp. 79-88, 2010..

Yo-Ping Huang, Yueh-Tsun Chang and Frode Eika Sandnes, QR-code data type encoding for ubiquitous information transfer across different platforms, Journal of Mobile Multimedia (accepted)

Frode Eika Sandnes, Hua-Li Jian, Yo-Ping Huang and Yueh-Min Huang, "User Interface Design for Public Kiosks: An Evaluation of the Taiwan High Speed Rail Ticket Vending Machine", Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 307-321, 2010.

Yo-Ping Huang, Yueh-Tsun Chang and Frode Eika Sandnes, Experiences with RFID-Based Interactive Learning in Museums, International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 59-74, 2010.

Yo-Ping Huang, Ching-Lin Chiou and Frode Eika Sandnes, "An Intelligent Strategy for the Automatic Detection of Highlights in Tennis Video Recordings", Expert Systems With Applications, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 9907-9918, 2009.

Yo-Ping Huang, Chian-Hung Chen, Yueh-Tsun Chang and Frode Eika Sandnes, "An Intelligent Strategy for Checking the Annual Inspection Status of Motorcycles based on License Plate Recognition", Expert Systems With Applications, Vol. 36, No. 5, pp. 9260-9267, 2009.

Kris Law, Frode Eika Sandnes, Hua-Li Jian and Yo-Ping Huang, A Comparative Study of Learning Motivation among Engineering Students in South East Asia and Beyond, International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 144-151, 2009.

Frode Eika Sandnes, Yo-Ping Huang and Yueh-Min Huang, Browsing Large Video Collections on Personal Video Recorders: Remote Control Navigation Keys do not Scale, International Journal of Smart Home, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 27-38, 2009.

Yo-Ping Huang, Tienwei Tsai, Yan-Ming and Frode Eika Sandnes, "A Robust Knowledge-based Plant Searching Strategy", Expert Systems With Applications, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 675-682, 2009.

Chu-Hsing Lin, Yu-Ying Lin, Lun-Yuen Cheng and Frode Eika Sandnes, "Integrity Protection of Binary Text Document Images Based on Image Topologies", International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 22, No. 8, pp. 1599-1620, 2008.

Frode Eika Sandnes, "Directional bias in scrolling tasks: A study of users' scrolling behaviour using a mobile text-entry strategy", Behaviour & Information Technology, Vol. 27, No. 5, pp. 387-393, 2008.

Yo-Ping Huang, Li-Jen Kao and Frode Eika Sandnes, "Efficient Mining of Salinity and Temperature Association Rules from ARGO Data", Expert Systems With Applications, Vol. 35, No. 1-2, pp. 59-68, 2008.

Yo-Ping Huang, Tsun-Wei Chang and Frode Eika Sandnes, "Efficient Shape-Based Image Retrieval Based on Grey Relational Analysis and Association Rules", International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 711-732, 2008.

Yo-Ping Huang, Ya-Hui Ke, Wei-Po and Frode Eika Sandnes, "Using Back-propagation to Learn Association Rules for Service Personalization", Expert Systems With Applications, Vol. 35, No. 1-2, pp. 245-253, 2008.

Hua-Li Jian, Frode Eika Sandnes, Yo-Ping Huang, Cai Li and Kris Law, "On Students' Strategy-Preferences for Managing Difficult Coursework", IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 157-165, May 2008.

Hua-Li Jian, Frode Eika Sandnes, Yo-Ping Huang, Cai Li and Kris Law, "On Students' Strategy-Preferences for Managing Difficult Coursework (Summary of IEEE TE article)", Research Express@NCKU, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2008. (In English and Chinese)

Yo-Ping Huang, Tsun-Wei Chang, Yen-Ren Chen and Frode Eika Sandnes, "A Back Propagation based Real-Time License Plate Recognition System", International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 233-251, Mar. 2008.

Yo-Ping Huang, Tsun-Wei Chang, Li-Jen Kao, Frode-Eika Sandnes, "Using Fuzzy SOM Strategy for Satellite Image Retrieval and Information Mining", Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp 56-61, 2008.

Yo-Ping Huang, Li-Jen Kao and Frode-Eika Sandnes, "Predicting Ocean Salinity and Temperature Variations Using Data Mining and Fuzzy Inference", International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 143-151, 2007.

Yo-Ping Huang, Liang-Wei Hsu and Frode Eika Sandnes, "An Intelligent Subtitle Detection Model for Locating Television Commercials", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part B, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 485-492, 2007.

Frode Eika Sandnes and Andre Aubert, "Bimanual Text Entry using Game Controllers: Relying on Users' Spatial Familiarity with QWERTY", Interacting with Computers, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 140-150, 2007.

Frode Eika Sandnes and Yo-Ping Huang, "From Smart Light Dimmers to the IPOD: Text-Input with Circular Gestures on Wheel-Controlled Devices", International Journal of Smart Home, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 97-108, July, 2007.

F. E. Sandnes, Y-P. Huang, "Chord level error correction for portable Braille devices", IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 82-83, 2006.

Oliver Sinnen, Leonel Sousa and Frode Eika Sandnes, "Towards a Realistic Task Scheduling Model", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 263-275, 2006.

Frode Eika Sandnes, Yo-Ping Huang, "Chording with Spatial Mnemonics: Automatic Error Cor-rection for Eyes-Free Text Entry", Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 1015-1031, 2006.

Frode Eika Sandnes, Yo-Ping Huang, Hua-Li Jian, "Experiences of Teaching Engineering Students in Taiwan from a Western Perspective", International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 1013-1022, 2006. (Banyan express summary)

Yo-Ping Huang, Yu-Hui Huang and Frode Eika Sandnes, "A Fuzzy Inference Model-based Non-reassuring Fetal Status Monitoring System", International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 57-64, 2006.

Frode Eika Sandnes and Oliver Sinnen, “A new scheduling algorithm for cyclic graphs”, International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp.62-71, 2005.

Frode Eika Sandnes, “Secure distributed configuration management with randomised scheduling of system-administration tasks”, IEICE Transactions on Informations and Systems, Vol. E86-D, No.9, pp.1601-1610, September, 2003.

F. E. Sandnes, "Portable multitrack audio storage strategy based on Reed Solomon codes", IEE Electronic Letters, vol. 35, no. 8, pp 631-632, 1999.

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