Engagelab
Engagelab supports researchers at the Faculty of Education with design, ICT development and evaluation. The scientific unit is located at the Department of Education and consists of ICT developers, designers, and researchers.
Engagelab helps you with
Design and Development
Engagelab provides advanced researcher support and creates new opportunities in research projects. We assist researchers in all phases of projects - including early planning, ideation, and exploration phases.
We have extensive experience in developing all aspects of digital environments, such as learning-, teaching-, and communication environments, learning design, representations, and simulations. Additionally, we design and adapt digital platforms used in research.
Engagelab can assist you with interventions and support in design work involving partners and external developers. Besides, we can provide advice on how artificial intelligence (AI) can benefit your project.
In previous projects, for example, we have designed and developed apps that stimulate language development and instruments that visualize collaboration based on AI-assisted conversation analyses.
Several projects are supported by Engagelab over years, as design and development occur in multiple rounds of testing and adjustments.
For researchers, our working method means that you receive diverse support through long-term partnerships and that you get the opportunity to actively use technology in your research.
Do you have an idea you want to discuss with us? Contact Engagelab's leader, Ole Smørdal.
Knowledge in Use
In many cases, Engagelab contributes to the utilization of research-based knowledge in society. Often, this involves an invention or innovation made available to others.
Examples include developing a research-based, digital learning tool that teachers can use in the classroom; an instrument that measures audience experiences in a museum; or a mapping tool that kindergartens can use in their work with children's language development.
Do you have an idea for a research project where such an innovation could be central? Or are you curious about how the society can benefit from what you are already doing in an ongoing project?
Engagelab contributes to all phases of projects - including early planning, ideation, and exploration phases.
Contact leader Ole Smørdal to discuss the possibilities.
Research Data and Analysis
Engagelab supports researchers in handling and storing research data. Sometimes we do this by adapting existing solutions, other times by developing new ones.
For example, we have extensive experience in establishing storage solutions. This applies to both solutions for specific research environments and projects, as well as adaptations of the University of Oslo's standard solutions such as Services for Sensitive Data (TSD), Nettskjema, and the research platform Educloud Research.
We can also help develop and adapt tools for analysis, solutions for visualizing, filtering, and compiling researcher data.
Engagelab can also assist you in creating data management plans, risk and vulnerability analyses (RVA), and assessing the data processing impact (DPIA).
Are you wondering if Engagelab can help you and your project with tools, solutions, or questions related to research data? Contact leader Ole Smørdal.
Examples of what we do
Talkwall
Engagelab has contributed to the digital and dialogic conversation tool called Talkwall (Samtavla).
PlatFams
Engagelab contributes with digital tools that research participants in the PlatFams project use to convey statements from interviews conducted in six European countries.
SL+
EngageLab assist the SL+ project by developing a digital vocabulary stimulation for minority kindergarten children.
TeamLearn
TeamLearn investigates how professional education can leverage digital technologies and learning analytics to support students’ learning and development of collaborative skills.
S4U
The S4U project aims to strengthen young people's participation and influence in climate work. Engagelab provides digital tools for simulation, scenarios, conversations, and games for and with youth.
Oslo Early Education
In this project EngageLab contributes with data collection and development of an app that supports adult-child interactions and childrens' language learning in kindergartens.
Visitracker
Visitracker is a tool that supports real-time observation and analytics of audiences in public spaces. Developed with contributions from curators at National museum and EngageLab.
Samskapet
In this project, Engagelab contributes to the development of a digital research infrastructure that combines the needs for protected storage and controlled flow of, for example, educational outcomes.
Include
EngageLab supports Include researchers in inclusive processes in research-practice partnerships to implement socially inclusive energy transitions.
Are you considering cooperation with us?
Contact head of EngageLab, Ole Smørdal. We are located at Helga Engs building, 2nd floor.
