The Mobile Applications Group is an informally organized research and teaching community at the Computer Science Department at Østfold University College, Halden, Norway. Our main mission is

to play around with mobile devices and have lots of fun.

Our activities are highly case and project oriented, and is founded on the three following research directions:

Dependability

The times when mobile computing devices were “nice to have” are long gone. Users today expect services to be reliable, secure and safe, i.e. dependable. To cope with these issues this group has from the start addressed issues of high quality system development as well as approaches and methods for risk analysis and management. Through our projects on the use of smartphones to control rolling and flying robots, and the use of artificial intelligence in critical systems, we want to extend the areas in which new technological advances are used.

Interaction Design

Interaction design: Design of interactive products to support people in their everyday and working lives. This is a usercentered approach which includes users and users’ participation throughout the design process. The aim is to produce products that are user friendly, effective, efficient, innovative and contextually situated.

Geospatial Technology

Mobile applications often depend on various georeferenced information. Many of our projects leverage results and knowledge from Project OneMap, which is an integrated activity in the group. OneMap is a long term effort contributing to the fusion of standard web technologies and geographic content, often referred to as the GeoWeb.