Research Centre for Digitalisation of Public Services and Citizenship (CEDIC)

CEDIC delivers new multidisciplinary knowledge for a complex, digital society, with a combined focus on public policy and institutional factors, technological, ethical and legal factor, socio-material structures and local practices.

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Featured research

Health and social work

Using AI to improve investigative interviews with children

Researchers and experts in the field of interviewing children are using artificial intelligence to develop new training methods for the police and the Child Welfare Services.

En eldre mann sitter ved et spisebord og ser inn i en dataskjerm.

Health and social work

Why is it so challenging to distribute COVID-19 information to the elderly in Norway?

People consume information in different ways. Catering to the needs and habits of the majority when conveying information can amount to discrimination against other groups—including the elderly.

A small robot sits on a desk in class in a primary school.

Health and social work

This robot can help children with health challenges out of isolation

Even when the pandemic has been brought under control, many children will be unable to attend school for various reasons. Can robots help improve their school experience?

Underwater robot in black and yellow formed like a long tube with fins.

Information systems and technology

Underwater robots can help detect pollution at sea

Underwater robots, which consumes little energy, can collect environmental data over a long period of time, and could therefore be a much cheaper and safer alternative for detecting pollution at sea.

Detail of a laptop with letters on a keyboard lit up by blue and red light from the screen.

Information systems and technology

Making universal design a reality

When we design technology to be usable for everyone, we enable them to participate in society, regardless of disability or impairment. The United Nations refers to this as universal design.

CEDIC hosts the new research school on Digitalization, culture and society (DIGIT)

The research school DIGIT first started in 2022. It is a collaboration between seven Norwegian universities, one research institute and six partners from the public and private sectors, and is coordinated by the Research Centre for Digitalisation of Public Services and Social Citizenship (CEDIC) at OsloMet. The school is funded by the Research Council of Norway and offers a two-year programme of high academic quality and workplace relevance for PhD candidates or postdocs registered at Norwegian universities.

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