This paper examines how and why the Norwegian government’s early handling of Covid-19 pandemic became constructed as a centre–periphery issue in public discourse. By analysing opinion pieces editorials published North regional newspaper during first months outbreak, it identifies ‘northern peripherality’ discourse emerged highlighted geographical, infrastructural political peripheralization pro...

There is now no clear distinction between the three traditionally distinct service models: communication, interactive and broadcast. These service models can be mapped on the telecommunication, information technology and entertainment sectors, respectively. MPEG-4 is a proposed standard that supports all of these service models and consequently allows mixed models to be built. This paper presen...

The paper presents ToscA, a plugin that uses the OSC protocol to transmit automation parameters between a digital audio workstation and a remote application. A typical use case is the production of an object-oriented spatialized mix independently of the limitations of the host applications.

To increase the amount of information we can collect in a given amount of time, it is possible to employ signal processing techniques to speed up the rate at which recorded sounds are presented to the ears. Besides simply speeding up the playback, it is possible to auditorily display the signals in a way that allows us to process and interpret the signals more efficiently by exploiting the use ...

In this paper, we propose powerful virtual image processing tools, which can be useful for designing new virtual teleconferencing systems with limited bandwidth requirements. We present an integrated approach that mixes real images with computer graphics in order to obtain an efficient and highly realistic model-based coding scheme, while offering new possibilities from the point of view of the...

Binaural sound perception allows humans to localize sound sources in space. Modern spatialization soundcards already offer the possibility to place virtual sounds in a virtual auditory environment. We use this to augment the acoustical environments of blind users with virtual auditory interaction objects („hearcons“) representing the interaction objects of a webbrowser GUI. The cursor is also r...

Modeling the dynamic chemical interactions of atmospheric ammonia and other trace gases with measured leaf surface wetness in a managed grassland canopy J. Burkhardt, C. R. Flechard, F. Gresens, M. E. Mattsson, P. A. C. Jongejan, J. W. Erisman, T. Weidinger, R. Meszaros, E. Nemitz, and M. A. Sutton Institute for Crop Science and Resource Conservation, INRES-PE, University of Bonn, Karlrobert-Kr...