Swedish technology to detect dyslexia early – Business Week

The method is based on more than 25 years of research on dyslexia and focuses on how dyslexia manifests itself in the eye movements – launch in Sweden takes place at the end of the year.

“There is no cure for dyslexia, but through early detection can be the right support deployed early so dyslexia does not become a limitation for the student’s educational opportunities, “says Gustaf Öqvist, Seimyr, he is a researcher at KI and co-founder of Optolexia.

Dyslexia affects learning in all school subjects negative, neurological causes and is characterized by difficulties with accurate and / or fluent word recognition and poor spelling and decoding abilities.

Optolexia state that every 15 children have dyslexia, which in round figures mean about 1-2 students per class. In addition to the human suffering is the social cost of several billion crowns.

A problem here is that many dyslexics first discovered in middle school or high school, which according Optolexia due to a lack of simple and effective methods for assessing literacy.

It is important to note that dyslexia is not a vision or eye movement problems but has to do with difficulties in brain decoding of the language’s phonetic structure, “says Mattias Nilsson Benfatto, researchers at KI and co-founder of Optolexia.

The company’s screening test takes less than a minute per pupil and the test can be carried out by the school or Optolexias staff.

Optolexia uses modern technology that measures the student’s eye movements when he read on a computer screen – the accuracy is around 95 percent both in terms of identifying and exclude dyslexia, according Optolexia.

The recorded eye movements are then analyzed in a cloud service where you can compare the student’s eye movement patterns with measurements of other children with and without dyslexia – the cloud service has been developed in cooperation with Microsoft . A web portal is that schools can take part of the results in a report for each student.

Optolexias goal is to offer schools the simple and effective tools already at an early stage to detect dyslexia and thus give more children opportunities to everything what the written word has to offer.

“With our screening method, we can identify more children already in primary school, so that they can get professional help far earlier than they receive today,” says Fredrik Wetterhall , President of Optolexia

The company’s founders are active at Marianne Bernadotte Centre, Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet.

Their screening method currently being evaluated in a Vinnova-funded study under the program “Digitizing the school of the future”. The study also funded by Ingemar and Ulla Dahl’s Foundation and the Foundation Promobila.

The project involves Järfälla and Trosa and KI Innovation.

Approximately 1,500 students at 12 schools participated in the project over Spring.

Swedish professors: So VW cheating – New Technology

Cut engine power, subsequent injection or altered exhaust gas return line? So do two Swedish professors vehicles that Volkswagen may have cheated with their exhaust emissions.

Volkswagen cheating with emission values of diesel cars in the United States have shocked the automotive industry. The carmaker has admitted that the software for the engine management has been manipulated so that the measurements provided better values ​​at the EPA’s tests than normal driving. The parameters they have tampered with is not known today. However, new technologies have talked with two vehicles professors about possible ways to cheat during an emission measurement.

– I think they may have lowered engine effect. This reduces both fuel consumption and emissions, says Magnus Skoglundh Chalmers Competence Centre for Catalysis.

In an emission test placed the car or truck on rolls in a test rig. Since running a driver vehicle according to a well-defined driving cycle. It simulates everything from a cold start to accelerations highway and starts and stops according to a set pattern. When the exhaust pipe is measured continuously the issues as there are statutory limits: nitrogen oxides (NOx), hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and particulates.

Ingemar Denbratt, Professor of Combustion Engineering at Chalmers University, stresses that he does not know how Volkswagen has been cheated. But he believes that the car in any way have known that it is in the test rig and runs the certification cycle. Then, it may have changed its programmed parameters such as the time when diesel fuel is injected into the engine cylinder.

– If you postpone the injection time so drops nitrogen emissions significantly. At the same time pull the car when more fuel, and that one can not in actual driving, says Ingemar Denbratt.

Another possibility is that increase the exhaust gas recirculation. The so-called EGR amount, exhaust gas recirculation control how much exhaust gas back to the suction side to increase the mass in the cylinder and lower the temperature in the combustion. While it greatly reduces emissions of nitrogen oxides.

Both professors are very surprised by the revelation.

– It is amazing that such a large automakers dare to do so here. Absolutely unbelievable, says Magnus Skoglundh.

Ingemar Denbratt tells us that it is not the first time people are cheating at emission measurements. For about 20 years ago, an automaker put sensors on the hood that changed settings when you opened the door.

– So this is nothing new phenomenon. But they needed certainly much more sophisticated methods today, he said.

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Swedish professors: So VW cheating – New Technology

Cut engine power, subsequent injection or altered exhaust gas return line? So do two Swedish professors vehicles that Volkswagen may have cheated with their exhaust emissions.

Volkswagen cheating with emission values of diesel cars in the United States have shocked the automotive industry. The carmaker has admitted that the software for the engine management has been manipulated so that the measurements provided better values ​​at the EPA’s tests than normal driving. The parameters they have tampered with is not known today. However, new technologies have talked with two vehicles professors about possible ways to cheat during an emission measurement.

– I think they may have lowered engine effect. This reduces both fuel consumption and emissions, says Magnus Skoglundh Chalmers Competence Centre for Catalysis.

In an emission test placed the car or truck on rolls in a test rig. Since running a driver vehicle according to a well-defined driving cycle. It simulates everything from a cold start to accelerations highway and starts and stops according to a set pattern. When the exhaust pipe is measured continuously the issues as there are statutory limits: nitrogen oxides (NOx), hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and particulates.

Ingemar Denbratt, Professor of Combustion Engineering at Chalmers University, stresses that he does not know how Volkswagen has been cheated. But he believes that the car in any way have known that it is in the test rig and runs the certification cycle. Then, it may have changed its programmed parameters such as the time when diesel fuel is injected into the engine cylinder.

– If you postpone the injection time so drops nitrogen emissions significantly. At the same time pull the car when more fuel, and that one can not in actual driving, says Ingemar Denbratt.

Another possibility is that increase the exhaust gas recirculation. The so-called EGR amount, exhaust gas recirculation control how much exhaust gas back to the suction side to increase the mass in the cylinder and lower the temperature in the combustion. While it greatly reduces emissions of nitrogen oxides.

Both professors are very surprised by the revelation.

– It is amazing that such a large automakers dare to do so here. Absolutely unbelievable, says Magnus Skoglundh.

Ingemar Denbratt tells us that it is not the first time people are cheating at emission measurements. For about 20 years ago, an automaker put sensors on the hood that changed settings when you opened the door.

– So this is nothing new phenomenon. But they needed certainly much more sophisticated methods today, he said.

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Swedish professors: this is VW cheating – New Technology

Cut engine power, subsequent injection or altered exhaust gas return line? So do two Swedish professors vehicles that Volkswagen may have cheated with their exhaust emissions.

Volkswagen cheating with emission values of diesel cars in the United States have shocked the automotive industry. The carmaker has admitted that the software for the engine management has been manipulated so that the measurements provided better values ​​at the EPA’s tests than normal driving. The parameters they have tampered with is not known today. However, new technologies have talked with two vehicles professors about possible ways to cheat during an emission measurement.

– I think they may have lowered engine effect. This reduces both fuel consumption and emissions, says Magnus Skoglundh Chalmers Competence Centre for Catalysis.

In an emission test placed the car or truck on rolls in a test rig. Since running a driver vehicle according to a well-defined driving cycle. It simulates everything from a cold start to accelerations highway and starts and stops according to a set pattern. When the exhaust pipe is measured continuously the issues as there are statutory limits: nitrogen oxides (NOx), hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and particulates.

Ingemar Denbratt, Professor of Combustion Engineering at Chalmers University, stresses that he does not know how Volkswagen has been cheated. But he believes that the car in any way have known that it is in the test rig and runs the certification cycle. Then, it may have changed its programmed parameters such as the time when diesel fuel is injected into the engine cylinder.

– If you postpone the injection time so drops nitrogen emissions significantly. At the same time pull the car when more fuel, and that one can not in actual driving, says Ingemar Denbratt.

Another possibility is that increase the exhaust gas recirculation. The so-called EGR amount, exhaust gas recirculation control how much exhaust gas back to the suction side to increase the mass in the cylinder and lower the temperature in the combustion. While it greatly reduces emissions of nitrogen oxides.

Both professors are very surprised by the revelation.

– It is amazing that such a large automakers dare to do so here. Absolutely unbelievable, says Magnus Skoglundh.

Ingemar Denbratt tells us that it is not the first time people are cheating at emission measurements. For about 20 years ago, an automaker put sensors on the hood that changed settings when you opened the door.

– So this is nothing new phenomenon. But they needed certainly much more sophisticated methods today, he said.

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Digital technology changing formats – Today’s Media

Digital technologies newsletter on the digitization.

Digital Technology reshaped and changed partly focus starting next week.

The former main target was Dataföreningen members, but it is unclear whether the association’s subscription of digital technology will be extended. Chairman Christer Berg says to Dagens Media that the picture will become clear at the next board meeting.

Digital Technology was formerly a digital magazine called login, but is now becoming a paid newsletter on the digitization of society and businesses.

– The former system could be perceived as rather awkward, so what we do now is to simplify for the readers to take part of the news feed in a smoother and faster way, says Sverker Brundin, editor of Digital Technology to Today Media.

It also sorts the news in three editions. On Mondays there will be a focus on competitive intelligence, which picks out the four or five most interesting news from the past week, on Wednesdays, it becomes their own, a little further news and on Fridays depth analysis and reflection to round off the week.

The target group will be broadened from the Computer Society, mainly to IT directors, marketing managers and business developers and the news will be written from a business rather than technology perspective.

– Right now it might market executives most affected by the digitization of their profession. They have a huge pressure on them to change their behavior and to keep up with the rapid development. Business Developer and marketing managers need to understand the technology to meet the challenge of the digital fast-growing start-up companies, says Sverker Brundin.

Digital Technology is published by Talentum which also publishes Dagens Media.

Swedish technology to detect dyslexia early – Business Week

The method is based on more than 25 years of research on dyslexia and focuses on how dyslexia manifests itself in the eye movements – launch in Sweden takes place at the end of the year.

“There is no cure for dyslexia, but through early detection can be the right support deployed early so dyslexia does not become a limitation for the student’s educational opportunities, “says Gustaf Öqvist, Seimyr, he is a researcher at KI and co-founder of Optolexia.

Dyslexia affects learning in all school subjects negative, neurological causes and is characterized by difficulties with accurate and / or fluent word recognition and poor spelling and decoding abilities.

Optolexia state that every 15 children have dyslexia, which in round figures mean about 1-2 students per class. In addition to the human suffering is the social cost of several billion crowns.

A problem here is that many dyslexics first discovered in middle school or high school, which according Optolexia due to a lack of simple and effective methods for assessing literacy.

It is important to note that dyslexia is not a vision or eye movement problems but has to do with difficulties in brain decoding of the language’s phonetic structure, “says Mattias Nilsson Benfatto, researchers at KI and co-founder of Optolexia.

The company’s screening test takes less than a minute per pupil and the test can be carried out by the school or Optolexias staff.

Optolexia uses modern technology that measures the student’s eye movements when he read on a computer screen – the accuracy is around 95 percent both in terms of identifying and exclude dyslexia, according Optolexia.

The recorded eye movements are then analyzed in a cloud service where you can compare the student’s eye movement patterns with measurements of other children with and without dyslexia – the cloud service has been developed in cooperation with Microsoft . A web portal is that schools can take part of the results in a report for each student.

Optolexias goal is to offer schools the simple and effective tools already at an early stage to detect dyslexia and thus give more children opportunities to everything what the written word has to offer.

“With our screening method, we can identify more children already in primary school, so that they can get professional help far earlier than they receive today,” says Fredrik Wetterhall , President of Optolexia

The company’s founders are active at Marianne Bernadotte Centre, Department of Clinical Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet.

Their screening method currently being evaluated in a Vinnova-funded study under the program “Digitizing the school of the future”. The study also funded by Ingemar and Ulla Dahl’s Foundation and the Foundation Promobila.

The project involves Järfälla and Trosa and KI Innovation.

Approximately 1,500 students at 12 schools participated in the project over Spring.

New Technology is greatest – New Technology

New Technology is the business magazine has the most readers! In the latest survey from Orvesto business, we go to Dagens Industri. Thank you, dear readers!

Every year the Orvesto how many people read the country’s various newspapers. Today published the survey covering “the working Sweden”.

For our part reading as sweet music – New Technology goes against power and increase the number of newspaper readers from 196 000 to 214 000 readers!

Thus, we go to Dagens Industri, noting 212,000 readers.

For us in the newsroom is a cheerful greeting from the readership. You want to read the technology news we think are important, and deliver to you. Thank you!

It is a reward for the dedicated work we do, where the high quality of the articles is a beacon. Technical solutions and contexts can be complex, but for New Technique reporters it is an obvious task to make them understandable. We also put a lot of energy in the explanatory graphics.

We care also every day and every week to sift out well and eager technology news as other news media love to latch on.

I also think we have the time with us. We live in symbiosis with the technology in a different way than before. That almost everyone has a smartphone is a trite but still educational example. The technology development is going encompasses much more than that and will change our everyday lives faster than we can imagine.

Anyone who wants to keep up with the development of society must also keep an eye on technology trends. And when new technology is the best way to keep up to date.

One more sign of this is that even Ny Teknik Annex Automation increases in Orvesto industry, with 8 percent.

Thank you for like us, dear readers! Today we celebrate our success and cheering for you.

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Norwegian aircraft collided with drones – New Technology

     Drones, but not the one that crashed. Photo: Pixabay, free Uses
     

A small aircraft collided with a drone at 760 meters altitude, outside Oslo. The Norwegian Accident Investigation Commission is investigating the incident.

The light aircraft was just north of the island Hvasser in outer Oslo Fjord when the pilot discovered something that is assumed to be a drone. Then he heard a bang. The flight could continue without problems, and the pilot could not find any injuries when the hen inspected the plane after landing.

The incident occurred at around 2500 feet (760 meters) on August 30 at around 17 Norwegian SHT, National havarikommisjon for transport, has launched a preliminary investigation.

– by pure chance that the drone hit the undercarriage of the aircraft. It had instead fallen into the windshield scenery could have been different, says crash inspector Birger Bull told the newspaper Technical Ukeblad.

Investigators want Now get in touch with the person who flew the drone to get a better insight into drönarflygares thoughts, knowledge of airspace and general security awareness. Accident Kommisionen also want to get in touch with people who found the wreckage of the small aircraft. These are interesting to be able to identify the type of drone it concerned as well as the size and weight it had

Writing aroused fascination for technology – New Technology

EDITORIAL. Author of the new Millennium when the book also passionate interest in technology, and endeavoring details. It writes Ny Teknik’s chief editor Susanna Baltscheffsky.

Resurrection of the future of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy has been huge . Most has revolved around whether it is right or wrong by Norstedts to publish more books in the acclaimed series.

For a technology newspaper it is more interesting to find out how realistic heroine Lisbeth Salander methods to hack into the computer systems and files.

Ny Teknik reporter Monica Kleja has gone in depth with the issue. She interviews some of the experts who were consulted by the author David Lagercrantz. The picture they give is that he really strives to make technology depictions as authentic as possible.

Our reporter succeed unexpected contact with Lagercrantz which sits in the middle of a book signing in London. He tells of a passion for technology and science. But raised in a högintellektuellt home, where literature and culture was the center of the family, was not the talks on technical achievements.

For Ny Teknik readers reveals David Lagercrantz how he carried his books on Lans and Alan Turing discovered the fascination of technology. Today, he identifies himself as a technology geek. And he tells of an unpublished novel about Sweden Aktuelle Stephen Hawking.

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Just now it’s hard to write an editorial without mentioning the many people fleeing war in their countries. The image of the three-year old Alan who drowned on the way to Europe has been shaken and led people to act.

People displaced often live in difficult conditions. In refugee camps, with hundreds of thousands of residents needed clean water, electricity, lighting, latrines, cooking facilities, mobile networks – the list is long.

New innovations are in demand and recently, UNHCR Innovation started. In cooperation with them, IKEA has developed 1:18 square meters flyktinghus, a different technical solution is a simple text-based system for the reunification of families, another is the development of Skype-based schooling in the camps.

The needs are many, but there are solutions too.

Car owners: we do not care about all the new technology in the car – New Technology

Car manufacturers spend billions on new technology features in vehicles. But many car owners do not use them.

The US consumer organization JD Power has investigated how the expectant car owners use all clever, technical features in the car the first 90 days after purchase.

The report shows that every fifth person had not used 16 of the 33 investigated the functions once. 14 of the functions wanted person in five does not have in his car at all. Interest was even lower in the age group 21-38 years old: they would prefer to avoid 23 of the functions.

At Least popular was called a concierge service, a feature that can help with practical things such as booking airline ticket or find the nearest pharmacy. Among the features that were disseminated was also routers, automatic parking, head-up displays and built-in apps.

In many cases the preferred drivers use their smart phones, as they are already accustomed. When the technology is built into the car anyway, so wasted large sums of money away for consumers as well as for automakers, says JD Power.

But of course there were also many technical features that car owners love to use. Special features that increase security and provide a more comfortable ride. Adaptive cruise control and blind spot warning, for example.

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Car owners: we do not care about all the new technology in the car – New Technology

Car manufacturers spend billions on new technology features in vehicles. But many car owners do not use them.

The US consumer organization JD Power has investigated how the expectant car owners use all clever, technical features in the car the first 90 days after purchase.

The report shows that every fifth person had not used 16 of the 33 investigated the functions once. 14 of the functions wanted person in five does not have in his car at all. Interest was even lower in the age group 21-38 years old: they would prefer to avoid 23 of the functions.

At Least popular was called a concierge service, a feature that can help with practical things such as booking airline ticket or find the nearest pharmacy. Among the features that were disseminated was also routers, automatic parking, head-up displays and built-in apps.

In many cases the preferred drivers use their smart phones, as they are already accustomed. When the technology is built into the car anyway, so wasted large sums of money away for consumers as well as for automakers, says JD Power.

But of course there were also many technical features that car owners love to use. Special features that increase security and provide a more comfortable ride. Adaptive cruise control and blind spot warning, for example.

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