Refined AI mimics human reasoning
5/5/2021 By allowing artificial intelligence (AI) to mimic the reasoning employed by human experts, AI methods can be improved and their acceptance broadened. This is seen in new research f...
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Robots find the meaning of life in Cobots
4/29/2021 With the goal of becoming part of the startup program at Science Park Skövde, Adam Wallberg and Sanna Wallberg Ylvén moved to Skövde and started studying game development at the Un...
Sweden Game Conference led Valheim's Lisa to Skövde
4/22/2021 Sweden Game Conference catched Lisa Kolfjords interest regarding Skövde’s growing game development community. After her studies at the University of Skövde, she began the journey t...
The hormone that can program fetuses to better health
4/14/2021 Daughters of women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) are more likely to be diagnosed with the same syndrome. It can cause several health problems and make pregnancy more diffic...
Research: Reusing virtual models saves time and money
4/8/2021 In today’s manufacturing industry, there is a lot of talk about Industry 4.0, smart manufacturing and digital twins. The role of virtual models has been highlighted with the emergi...
Researcher from Skövde awarded multi-million grant for marine project in Norway
4/6/2021 There are more than 7,000 different species of marine invertebrates worldwide, of which around 250 are found in Norway. But there are large gaps in our knowledge of these, not to m...
Is blockchain technology the solution to Sweden’s electricity challenges?
3/31/2021 The nation’s electricity market has long been the subject of a vociferous and impassioned debate in Sweden. Escalating electricity prices in the north, very low prices in the south...
Former Skövde students behind the global success Valheim
3/25/2021 At the University of Skövde, we are very proud of the developer Iron Gates' enormous success with the game Valheim. Several of the people behind the global success have studied Gam...
DONNA is Working to get More Women into the Game Industry
3/8/2021 The game industry is a male-dominated industry. The DONNA network, founded at the University of Skövde, works for equality in the game development educations and the game industry....
Research: Visualisation Techniques that Help Us Understand the World
3/4/2021 Large amounts of data are constantly being collected, with the intention of understanding the world and, quite often, to make predictions about it. Elio Ventocilla, PhD Student at ...
Hereditary nerve disease linked to a 7,000-year-old genetic mutation
2/10/2021 An international collaboration in which the University of Skövde has participated has led to publication in the prestigious magazine Brain. The research presented highlights, among...
Successful Studio Ludum ends with a fresh start
2/4/2021 The innovation project Studio Ludum has, with computer games as its driving force, supported young gaming-interested people, who neither work nor study, to start or resume studies ...
How worried should we be about the new coronavirus variants?
1/26/2021 New virus variants of Covid-19 are reported daily in the media. But how dangerous are the new virus mutations and how afraid should we be of them? Kristian Vlahovicek, visiting Pro...
Explains how research and game development are linked
1/21/2021 Henrik Engström, Professor of Informatics at the University of Skövde, recently published the book Game Development Research. In this book, he compiles and describes research on ga...
Searching for invasive species in Vänern, Sweden’s largest lake
1/21/2021 Researchers from the University of Skövde will do a feasibility study with the aim of taking an inventory of invasive alien crustaceans in Lake Vänern, the largest lake in the Euro...
Research: Helping businesses to redesign their factories
1/13/2021 Sweden’s manufacturing industry has a long history, but today’s existing factories find it difficult to compete with new factories that are being built, such as those in China, for...
Limited opening hours at the Library and Student Affairs Office
12/22/2020 The Covid-19 situation forces the University of Skövde to limit the opening hours of the University Library and and Student Affairs Office.
The Swedish Research Council supports project on digital health promotion in schools
12/15/2020 A more sedentary life and a diet high in sugar have created public health problems in low-income countries - heart disease has become increasingly common in the population. To help...
Game development alumnus Karoline won game award
12/10/2020 Karoline Forsberg studied Game Development - Design at the University of Skövde during 2010-2013 and works as a Senior Gameplay Designer at the British game studio nDreams. She rec...
Juhee maps migration intentions in Western Africa using machine learning
12/8/2020 In 2016, Juhee Bae from South Korea came to Sweden as a post-doc to apply visualisation in AI. Her goal is for people to understand machine learning better by explaining data model...
International award for professor at the University of Skövde
12/4/2020 Susanne Durst, professor of Business Administration at the University of Skövde, has received international attention for her research. “How far have we come with the study of know...
Hopes to find new therapeutic tools for heart failure
12/3/2020 Benyapa Tangruksa is doing her Master’s in Infection biology at the University of Skövde and is a part of an important collaboration project that hope to find new therapeutic tools...
Serious Games took Vania from Peru to Skövde
11/18/2020 The University of Skövde has students from all over the world. One of those who traveled the farthest to study is Vaina Castagnino, who in 2018 moved from Peru to Skövde to study t...
Yellow fruit flies link the University to this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry
11/3/2020 This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to former Umeå researcher Emmanuelle Charpentier and her colleague Jennifer A. Doudna for their discovery of the gene-editing ...
Can animals help us understand how to interact with robots?
10/26/2020 The international conference RO-MAN recently awarded Erik Lagerstedt, doctoral student in informatics at the University of Skövde the RSJ/KROS Distinguished Interdisciplinary Resea...
Research: Facilitating collaboration between humans and robots
10/22/2020 Human-robot collaboration – it may sound like science fiction, but it has now become a reality. Patrik Gustavsson is a research student at the University of Skövde, and has develop...
Karoline Forsberg - finalist in the Women in Games Award
10/20/2020 Karoline Forsberg studied Game Development - Design at the University of Skövde during 2010-2013 and currently works as a Senior Gameplay Designer at the British game studio nDream...
Sweden Game Conference focuses on companies and students
10/19/2020 This year's Sweden Game Conference will be held in a slightly different format. The event has been slimmed down, and most of it will be digital. Much focus is on game development s...
DONNA DAY - networking for a more equal gaming industry
10/16/2020 On October 21, it's time for the fourth annual DONNA DAY – a network meeting for female game students and developers. As networking is central to DONNA DAY, the day will be held as...
Research: Reducing the risks involved in mobile devices
10/13/2020 It has become common for many people to use their mobile phone for both private and work purposes. This can pose risks for companies, as it becomes less clear who owns what informa...
Research: A more structured approach to information security
10/6/2020 All organisations possess large amounts of information. However, without knowledge of how information is to be classified, there is a risk that information will fall into the wrong...
Charlotta and Cinikka bring Covid-19 care to the lecture hall
9/7/2020 During the spring, the university teachers Charlotta Göthe and Cinikka Arthursson left the lecture hall for work in intensive care during the pandemic. They are now back at the Uni...
Digital Human Modeling on the agenda
8/31/2020 The virtual human is central at DHM2020, Digital Human Modeling Symposium, which is now taking place in Skövde. The virtual human is used, among other things, to evaluate workplace...
No ordinary introduction for international students
8/21/2020 On Monday August 24, the University introduction for this autumn's new international students will begin. But there will be no regular introduction at the start of this semester. T...
Precautions taken to make campus as safe as possible
7/9/2020 The University is going back to campus based education from this autumn, after the Swedish government lifted the restrictions (introduced in March, due to Covid-19), in June. We h...
Students have their say on remote studies
6/9/2020 How have the new studying arrangements worked for students at the University of Skövde? Over the course of a few weeks in May, the University conducted a survey to find out how the...
Victor Igelmo is this year's Industrial Engineering Student
6/2/2020 Victor Igelmo, a student at the Intelligent Automation Master's Programme, received the award "Industrial Engineering Student of the Year" on May 28 during Production Engineering D...
Lizzy Okogie is the University's Global Swede
5/28/2020 This year, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Global Swede Award goes to Lizzy Okogie at the University of Skövde. Lizzy Okogie, from Nigeria, is studying her last year on the Infect...
University of Skövde climbs in rankings – gets four out of five stars
5/5/2020 Every year, The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education, STINT, produces an index that shows how international Swedish universities are. T...
New publication research the neonatal onset syndromes on epileptic encephalopathy
4/29/2020 Homa Tajsharghi, Professor of Biomedicine at the School of Health Sciences at University of Skövde is focusing on rare diseases & neurogenic disorders in her latest publication in ...
University of Skövde recruits American robotics expert
4/22/2020 Robots are becoming increasingly important in our daily lives. Robots are commonly used, for example, to cut our lawns and to clean the floors in our homes. Maurice Lamb is a Senio...
Gaming brings communities in the Baltic Sea region together
4/1/2020 Three years ago, Lissa Holloway-Attaway, Associate Professor in Media Arts, Aesthetics and Narration, and Björn Berg Marklund, Senior Lecturer in Informatics, both at the Universit...
Bioinformatics expert to University of Skövde
3/16/2020 Kristian Vlahoviček is a new international guest professor at the University of Skövde, financed by The Knowledge Foundation. During two years, he will be working part time at the ...
Open Day cancelled
3/12/2020 The University of Skövde has, due to the government’s decision regarding major gatherings, decided to cancel the Open Day at the University on Saturday March 14.
Minister of Higher Education and Research visited the University of Skövde
3/4/2020 Recently the Minister of Higher Education and Research in Sweden, Matilda Ernkrans, visited the University of Skövde. During the day the Minister visited the University’s technolog...
Welcoming of new international students
1/16/2020 This week we welcome new international students to the spring semester at the University of Skövde. The students come mostly from Asia, the USA and Europe.
Multimillion investment in sepsis research by the Knowledge Foundation
12/17/2019 A research project at the University of Skövde devoted to future sepsis diagnostics has been awarded SEK 2.6 million by the Knowledge Foundation. "This is great news, and it means ...
Skövde students win Sweden’s biggest game awards
12/12/2019 On 1 December, the Swedish Game Awards were held as part of Dreamhack at Elmia in Jönköping. As in many previous years, students from the University of Skövde were nominated in sev...
Kävrestad’s book wins SISA award
12/11/2019 Congratulations to Joakim Kävrestad, Lecturer in Information Technology at the University of Skövde, who has won the 2019 SISA Educational Award for his textbook.
IPSI site visit
12/4/2019 On November 7th Actea Consulting AB hosted an “IPSI site visit” in Gothenburg. Doctoral students and “AFSI” staff members from University of Skövde took part of an inspirational da...
High androgen levels during pregnancy increase the risk of PCOS for several generations
12/3/2019 Daughters of women with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) are five times more likely to be diagnosed with PCOS as adults, and the generational transmission is driven by high andro...
Focus on bioprinting for Skövde researcher in Canada
12/3/2019 Jonas Christoffersson is a postdoc in Bioinformatics at the University of Skövde and is currently working in Canada. Working together with a team of researchers in Vancouver, Jonas...
University’s research wins awards at American Heart Scientific Sessions
12/2/2019 The University of Skövde's research has received two awards at the American Heart Scientific Sessions in Philadelphia. At their conference, research conducted by us together with c...
Donna Day – national meeting for female game developers
10/15/2019 The University of Skövde and Sweden Game Conference celebrates women in game development. On October 15 and 16, the DONNA network welcomes over 50 gamedev students to workshops, le...
Award for research about human robot collaboration
9/25/2019 Wei Wang, Associate Senior Lecturer in Automation Engineering at the University of Skövde, has been awarded the Best Paper Award in ICMR 2019 conference in Belfast. – I feel proud,...
Warm welcoming of 200 new international students
8/27/2019 On Monday, August 26, the new semester started for all new international students at the University of Skövde. This year, about 200 new international students are beginning their s...
Successful cooperation between Swedish and Chinese students
8/8/2019 For the first time, the University of Skövde has given a summer course in game development together with two Chinese universities. In just a few weeks, this cooperation has resulte...
A study of well-being in patients receiving care at home
5/27/2019 Mobile integrated care is a care model developed in Skaraborg, and it has become a national role model. In the research project "Mobile integrated care in Skaraborg", researchers w...
Global Swede Award to Ahmed Mohamed
5/22/2019 Ahmed Mohamed from Egypt is studying the final semester of the Master's programme in Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Skövde. Yesterday, he was in Stockholm to receive ...
Warm welcoming of inclusive game
5/17/2019 A game that is playable for everyone, designed in a way that even visually impaired can play it. That is the concept behind the game app "Frequency Missing", developed at the Unive...
New Pilot Study Within the Project Smartdiagnos
5/10/2019 Now the Smartdiagnos instruments POC and LAB for rapid sepsis diagnostics are installed in the molecular lab in Skövde. A pilot study on whole blood will be performed now in May.
Study reveals a brain marker for angry dreams
4/16/2019 Researchers have identified a pattern of brain activity that reflects anger experienced during dreaming, according to a new study of healthy adults published in The Journal of Neur...
Research on biological diversity receives grant from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
2/13/2019 The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency has issued a grant to Senior Lecturer in Ecology Annie Jonsson at the University of Skövde for 4.8 million Swedish kronor for her projec...
What does a smart city of the future look like?
2/12/2019 IPSI, the industrial research school at the University of Skövde, had the pleasure of hosting Professor Enrique Alba of the University of Málaga. For half a day, Professor Alba spo...
Tortalk – text-to-speech available for students and employees at University of Skövde
1/23/2019 TorTalk lets you listen to all text you can see on your computer screen. The text-to-speech application is now available for download for students and employees at the University o...
Indoor walking – a potential for enhanced interplay with Alzheimer´s patients
1/9/2019 With the tool “Let´s have a walk” it is possible to take an indoor walk, and at the same time get the feeling of grass or snow under one´s feet. The tool has been tested on seniors...
Finnish seniors tested prototypes
12/7/2018 A magic mirror, custom handles, an assistant robot and indoor walking on snow and grass. These were some of the prototypes tested during the BaltSeanior field tests in Finland, whe...
One Step Towards the Game that Adjusts to Your Emotions
11/13/2018 Researchers at the University of Skövde have “trained” a neural network that can detect the emotional state of a person playing a computer game with the help of an ordinary web cam...
AI Can Solve Challenges in the Steel Industry in a New Research Project
10/25/2018 The University of Skövde, Sandvik, and SSAB are involved in a new research project, with financial support from the Knowledge Foundation and support from the Swedish steel producer...
Gaming and Politics in Focus for this Year's Sweden Game Conference
10/15/2018 What does gaming and politics have in common? A lot! It is time for one of Sweden's largest gaming conferences and exhibitions in Skövde – Sweden Game Conference. This year's theme...
New Honorary Doctors Lecture on the Importance of a True World Image
10/10/2018 The New Honorary Doctors of the University of Skövde, Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Ola Rosling, have been awarded their honorary doctorates at the University of Skövde.
The Mexican Ambassador to Sweden Impressed by University Innovation
10/8/2018 Last week, the University of Skövde hosted a visit by the Mexican ambassador Agustín Gasca Pliego. – I am impressed to see that a municipality with 50,000 citizens is able to offer...
Personality differences between the sexes are largest in the most gender equal countries
10/2/2018 The self-rated personalities of men and women differ more in more gender equal countries, according to recent research from the University of Gothenburg, University West and the Un...
Hanna is the student who makes the Pride Parade happen
9/24/2018 For the longest time, it looked as if this year's Skövde Pride would be cancelled. Fortunately, Hanna Forsling, a student at the University of Skövde, wanted that to change.
New findings on the muscle disease Laing early-onset distal myopathy
9/24/2018 New avenues are now being opened for future treatment of Laing distal myopathy, a rare disorder that causes muscles in the feet, hands and elsewhere to atrophy. In a study publishe...
University of Skövde - French Etienne's first choice
9/17/2018 The university's gaming research stands out and gets attention from western France. When Etienne, a student of engineering, was looking for a traineeship, his choice fell on the Un...
Skövde-based researcher invited as expert to EU
9/14/2018 The University of Skövde has conducted successful research in open source software and open standards. EU is investigating these fields and Björn Lundell, Professor of Computer Sci...
New instruments for blood poisoning save lives
8/30/2018 The progression of sepsis, or blood poisoning, is very quick. A person's condition can become life threatening in just a few hours. Today, blood culture is the method used to diagn...
Fall semester begins for international students
8/27/2018 On Monday, the international students at the University of Skövde start their fall studies. 150 students from all over the world have gathered in their new home town of Skövde. Rea...
Happier dreams in a peaceful mind
8/24/2018 A new study by researchers from the University of Turku, Finland and the University of Skövde, Sweden shows that people with more peace of mind in the waking state have more positi...
Ambassador visits University of Skövde
8/13/2018 On Wednesday, the University of Skövde hosted a visit by the Ethiopian ambassador, Professor Merga Bekana. The programme included a presentation of the University and the present c...
New collaboration with American university
6/13/2018 In a new collaboration with the University of Illinois, College of Medicine, in Rockford, IL, American medical students will get an opportunity to learn more about the Swedish welf...
University of Skövde announces new honorary doctors: Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund
6/11/2018 Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, has called their book Factfulness one of the most important books of our times. And the book is at the top of the sales charts in Sweden. The auth...
New Research May Lead to Faster Product Development
5/28/2018 When developing new products there are usually an array of specifications to be met. For example, maximum measurements, weight, and shape. The challenge is often how to optimize on...
New Method Can Reduce Maintenance Costs by 40 percent
5/16/2018 Industry production can be complicated and many factors are in play, for example, when some machines stop working. But a better decision support system, where multiple sources of i...
Sergey Redyuk is Global Swede 2018
5/9/2018 Sergey Redyuk, student of Master’s programme in Data Science, is University of Skövde’s Global Swede for 2018. The annual recognition of Global Swede is a joint initiative by the M...
The European Week in Focus at the University of Skövde
5/9/2018 During May 5 - 9, Skövde Municipality joins in on the European Week. During the week, the international students at the University of Skövde will visit several schools and other pl...
Gaming Students and Researchers Going to China
5/2/2018 Just a few years ago, gaming was an interest of a select group in the world’s largest country. But with the arrival of the cell phone in combination with a change of attitude, Chin...
Sitting comfortably?
3/9/2018 Researchers at the University of Skövde work in close collaboration with the vehicle industry to develop a software that assists design engineers to improve physical ergonomics in ...
Yohannes Will Teach Mathematics Abroad
2/27/2018 Imagine having the world as your work place, and you are able to do what you enjoy the most? For Yohannes Tadesse Aklilu, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at the School of Engineerin...
Researcher from Skövde Keynote Speaker at UN Conference
2/19/2018 Why do some businesses and organizations survive and evolve through crises, while others fold? This question is asked by Stefan Tengblad, Professor of Business Administration at th...