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• 2024-09-12

  Award-winning conference paper on collaborative robotics

  At an international conference in Djerba, Tunisia, our visiting PhD student José Pablo De la Rosa Gutiérrez won an award for his presentation on robotics programming.

  – Collaborative robots can be used in many ways, says Jorge Solis, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. Modern robotics, where collaboration between man and machine is governed through programming and gesture recognition, can be used in healthcare as well as in the manufacturing industries. The conference paper is about a programming method developed for non-programmers, meaning it aims to be user-friendly.

• 2024-09-12

  The American economy – does it even care about Trump and Harris?

  The American presidential election will be held on 5 November. A lot is at stake, not least in terms of the American economy. Mats Ekman, Senior Lecturer in Economics at Karlstad Business School, explains the difference between the American and the Swedish economy and possible consequences depending who wins the election. Or does it even matter?

  Cutting straight to the point – does it matter to the American economy who wins the presidential election in November?

  – No, we cannot tell for sure. It is difficult to say since we cannot observe a world where Donald Trump won in 2020 and compare it to our world. But if politicians are competing for votes to get elected, they might have to adapt to attract voters who are still undecided, and according to several well-known models, this means that the candidates will offer more or less the same thing.

• 2024-09-03

  New professor of Swedish language strengthens the research environment

  At the start of summer, Henrik Rahm started his position as professor of Swedish language at Karlstad University.

  – As a new professor of Swedish language, I hope to inspire new linguistic and multidisciplinary research projects and show that language expertise is important in many contexts, says Henrik Rahm.

  Henrik Rahms is a linguist and holds a teaching degree in German, Swedish and Swedish as a second language. His most recent position was at Lund University, and his research focuses on the importance of language in social contexts. He received his doctorate in Scandinavian languages with a thesis on strike news coverage in the Swedish daily press from 1879 to 1995, with the aim to clarify the relationship between language, journalism and society.

• 2024-08-30

  Ten million awarded to the Sweden-Japan collaboration MIRAI 3.0

  STINT, the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education, has granted SEK 10 million to the university collaboration MIRAI 3.0. Researchers from 17 universities in Sweden and Japan are going to work in interdisciplinary teams to contribute to the four selected Global Challenges defined within MIRAI 3.0.

  – It means a lot that we can now establish an even stronger collaboration within MIRAI 3.0 to engage young researchers who are working to address the global challenges in both countries, says Jorge Solis, Docent in Electrical Engineering and project leader for MIRAI at Karlstad University.

  The collaboration within MIRAI 3.0 aims to strengthen internationalisation of education and develop research to contribute to four Global Challenges: 

• 2024-08-29

  "Boyish" play at age 7 linked to behavioral problems and autistic traits

  New research at Karlstad University shows that "boyish" play behavior at the age of 7 can be linked to both behavioral problems and autistic traits.

  In a study that includes 718 children, researchers from Karlstad University and Uppsala University have identified clear connections between gender-role-related play and the development of behavioral challenges. The results showed that children who played more with toys traditionally considered to be for boys had more autistic traits and behavioral problems.

• 2024-08-28

  International Conference on Privacy and Cybersecurity

  Karlstad University, together with the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) and the European Data Protection Supervisor is hosting the hybrid conferences Annual Privacy Forum and IPEN 2024, September 3-5.

  With over 400 participants, the conferences are expected to bring together privacy experts, engineers, lawyers, researchers, and policymakers from both the private and public sectors.