On 1 January 2024, it had been 95 years since Mickey Mouse first showed up in the short film “Steamboat Willy”. Now, the early versions of the famous mouse are free to use by anyone. Or are they?
Today is the World Consumers Rights Day and Computer Science at Karlstad University will in terms of that acknowledge phising as a specific digital threat to consumers with a flyer for anti-Phising training.
“Together with students and researchers at the Technische Universität Darmstadt we work to counteract phising.
2019-04-02
Now there is a clear definition of internet access. Computer Science at Karlstad University was one of the participants in a project in which the Swedish Internet Foundation (IIS) and Netnod brought together service providers, technicians and other interested parties to define important terms so that they can be used consistently.
"Today all our services rely on internet access.
2023-06-14
Cross Border Cyber Capacity, a three-year development project that aims to strengthen business development in the field of cyber security while increasing access to expertise and knowledge sharing, is now starting.
SPEAKER: Petr Svenda (Masaryk University)ABSTRACT:The security analysis of cryptographic implementations is vital for building secure systems atop core hardware components. Yet, it is also frequently more challenging to assess due to the general closeness of the hardware industry. The resulting black box analysis is typically more complicated to set up, execute, and interpret the observed results.
2025-04-04
Icomera, a company that develops digital communication equipment for trains, has had a successful collaboration with Karlstad University for over 10 years.
Our vision is to contribute to a sustainable future, where less food is wasted and packaging are designed, bought and used with the intention to minimize the environmental impact associated with the whole life-cycle of the product in mind.
To achieve this, we need more knowledge about how packaging attributes interact with human needs of different kinds, life-cycle estimations about how much packaging material that can be motivated from an environmental point of view to
The project ”Transition to sustainable forest based bioeconomy” is part of the area of forest-based bioeconomy under the initiative Academy of Smart Specialisation at Karlstad University. The whole project has a budget of SEK 2,8 million, funded equally by Region Värmland and Karlstad University.
What expectations do employers have on newly graduated students? What abilities are important to take with you from the studies into the working life?
2018-05-20
Uganda does not belong to one of the famous coffee countries, but the fact is that coffee is one of the biggest export products of the country. How does growing, roasting, export and sale work? How does it the economical ecosystem look in reality?
2020-06-16
... project manager for MECO, Music Ecosystems Inner Scandinavia. You are now half way in the project, can you tell us more about it?
"The overall aim of Meco is, based on digitalized user experiences and place experiences, to study, innovate and optimize the music service ecosystems in the Region of Inner Scandinavia.
Forskning
» Forskningsstöd
» Forskarstöd
» Grants and Innovation Office
GIO offers targeted competence and career development for individual researchers, doctoral students and research environments. The starting point is to provide support adapted to the different phases of a research career, from early career researchers to senior researchers. In addition, researchers are given the opportunity to develop the competencies required to be a dynamic research leader and research environments are offered support in their strategic work and development.
Online applications for degree certificates are done via Ladok.
You should apply for your degree at the university where you completed the most recent course that you want included in your degree. Make sure that all courses and grades that are to be included in your degree have been registered correctly in Ladok.
Patricia Saenz Mendez came to Karlstad University in 2020, in the midst on the pandemic. A rather strange start, but as a newly appointed docent in chemistry, she feels that she is in exactly the right place.
- I completed my PhD in Uruguay and after that I ended up in Sweden. Before Karlstad University, I was a postdoc at KTH and Örebro University, as well as at University of Gothenburg for a short period, says Patricia Saenz Mendez.
The reasons for embarking on a research career are probably as many as there are researchers. A wish to know more is probably a common incentive.
Research programmes at Karlstad University are designed for those who want to achieve expertise in an area of specialisation.
In this Science skills to go seminar, we will have a closer look at the concept of open peer review, a transformative approach to scholarly publishing that emphasizes transparency and accountability. We will explore perceived key benefits of open peer review, such as increased trust in the review process, enhanced collaboration among researchers, and the potential for higher-quality feedback.
In this Science skills to go seminar, we will have a closer look at the concept of open peer review, a transformative approach to scholarly publishing that emphasizes transparency and accountability. We will explore perceived key benefits of open peer review, such as increased trust in the review process, enhanced collaboration among researchers, and the potential for higher-quality feedback.
Sociologi
» Konferenser
» Konferens om Åldrande och migration i Sverige och Japan 11-12 maj 2022
Plain Japanese to promote health among people from overseas
There are 2.9 million registered foreign nationals in Japan as of June 2021, among which 200 thousand people (7 %) are aged 65 or older.
Karlstad is a beautiful city, located at the delta where Klarälven flows into Lake Vänern, the third largest lake in Europe. Karlstad is the county seat of Värmland. The region boasts global leaders in the pulp, paper, steel, engineering and IT sectors.
The sun always shines in Karlstad – if not literally, then figuratively. Karlstad is a pleasant city because of its residents and the surrounding water.
Below is a selection of studies conducted with the Ozlab system or eyetracker.
Malleable interactive prototypes: Co-designing during interaction 2019-2024
Malin Wik has in her doctoral studies spun on the GUI-ii ideas mentioned below. Several works have been published since 2016. During spring 2024 she finished a monograph entitled "Prototyping with purpose: Increasing participatory design with malleable interactive prototypes" (Karlstad University Studies 2024:17).
