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Community-Based Theatre of HIV Oral Histories

While we face a global pandemic with COVID-19, we look to our progress in HIV treatment and celebrate new medications that makes living with HIV/AIDS a reality for those with access. This was only a dream in the 1980s. However, HIV rates and HIV stigma remain high and stereotypes about who is susceptible to HIV still exist. In particular, women’s stories of living with HIV/AIDS have been largely ignored and overlooked. Through a community-based theatre project where women’s voices are brought to centre stage, we seek to amplify women’s voices and share their stories with the wider public. The performances and follow-up workshops will offer a unique setting for community members to come together and create new understandings of what it means to live with HIV in British Columbia.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nathan Lachowsky

Student:

Partner:

Community Based Research Centre Society

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Youth Engagement in Municipal Planning

How often do you see a teenager participating at a public meeting, town hall, or a city council session? Youth between the ages of 13 and 18 are underrepresented in the urban planning process. Many of them are not taught about the subject in high school while many urban planners find themselves ill-equipped to talk to a younger audience about their work. To effectively reach young people today, urban planners need to both adapt to new technologies and social media platforms and understand the nuances of different youth identities in society. This research project, supervised by Urban Minds, will explore successful examples from around the world to help urban planners engage with youth effectively. A toolkit will be created to help Urban Minds as an organization, as well as other urban planners, to bridge the gap between youth and decision-makers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pamela Robinson

Student:

Partner:

Urban Minds Planning and Design Studio;Ontario Professional Planners Institute

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Accelerate

Star Salvager: A Remote Games User Research Toolkit for Small Teams

As Games User Research (GUR) becomes a mature and essential pillar of game development, the challenges of performing rigorous qualitative and quantitative research in small teams are exacerbated by the disruption caused by the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Research methods such as heuristic evaluation, think-aloud usability testing, initial experience testing, playthrough observation, and post-launch data analysis are taught as industry-standard in GUR courses. And they yield important insights on game usability, balance, learnability, and accessibility. However, many of these GUR methods require resources, staff, and lab space beyond the reach of small game developers. Such teams may struggle to perform a useful spread of research activities due to limited timelines and funds, while ad hoc, casual playtests are more difficult to perform while working remotely.
The objective of this project is to create, test, and refine remote-friendly versions of three key GUR approaches: think-aloud usability testing, full playthrough observation, and game balance telemetry. Our research aims to assess the effectiveness of each method variant in yielding actionable insights, and to document the challenges encountered when deploying them under a triforce of unfavourable conditions: a small team conducting remote research with significant time and budgetary constraints.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Anthony Tang;Velian Pandeliev

Student:

Partner:

A-Game Studios Inc

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

An innovative antimicrobial packaging to control Campylobacter jejuni in raw poultry meat

Campylobacter bacteria are the leading cause of human gastrointestinal diseases globally and have been frequently identified from raw poultry products. Campylobacter is prevalent in the entire poultry processing facility. Food packaging is one of the last steps in food processing to ensure that the food products are contained and delivered in the best condition. Selective metal oxide nanoparticles are regarded as safe and stable antimicrobials that can inactivate bacteria frequently identified in the agri-food systems. In this project, we will test the antimicrobial effect of titanium dioxide nanoparticles on Campylobacter bacteria and then incorporate these into packaging material to inactivate this microaerobic bacterium in raw chicken meat. Such a functionalized packaging material will be regarded as a novel intervention strategy to reduce poultry contamination by this microbe.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yixiang Wang;Xiaonan Lu;Xiaonan Lu

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Poultry Research Council

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Data driven predictive control for geothermal heating-cooling system with standing column well

Geothermal energy is a promising source of renewable energy and is gradually gaining attention in application in building heating and cooling system. Standing column wells (SCW) are an efficient way of harnessing geothermal energy for such building applications. However, currently rule-based controllers are used for these geothermal heating-cooling systems with simplifying assumptions to avoid the inherent complexities of the system dynamics. This leaves room for implementing sophisticated yet easy-to-implement control methods which can significantly improve the overall performance of the SCW based geothermal systems. The goal of this project is to design an advanced controller using available measurement data from the existing SCW based geothermal units to achieve improved energy efficiency.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Benoit Boulet

Student:

Partner:

Marmott Énergies

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Characterization and behavioural studies on Psilocybe mushrooms and related psychotropic compounds

This MITACs proposal seeks funding to establish an internship cluster dedicated to researching novel psychedelic compounds for the purposes of treating clients suffering from PTSD and anxiety using its comprehensive psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy treatment model. The objective of this one-year project is to characterize the chemical composition of psychedelic mushrooms, optimizing extraction process, testing extracts and active compounds on insect model, in order to advance the science around the use of psilocybin in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Specifically, intern will investigate how unique compounds present in specific mushroom strains work together to facilitate treatment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Suzie Currie;Nicoletta Faraone;Kirk Hillier

Student:

Partner:

Halucenex Life Sciences Inc.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Acadia University

Program:

Accelerate

OSQ – FMUS UL

Depuis le début de la pandémie, l’Orchestre symphonique de Québec vit un défi de taille ne bénéficiant plus de ses sources habituelles de revenus à la billetterie et à la vente d’événements. Pour conserver le lien avec ses publics, il a réalisé plusieurs actions numériques sur les réseaux sociaux au cours des derniers mois. Ces actions ont connu beaucoup de succès et ont permis d’attirer un tout nouveau public. Le défi sera de conserver cette nouvelle clientèle virtuelle dans les mois et années à venir, tout en adaptant et en bonifiant les produits et services. L’objectif du projet est donc de réfléchir à la nouvelle réalité post-pandémie de l’OSQ et de déterminer les stratégies visant à adapter et à bonifier les produits et services de l’OSQ en vue de prospérer dans une nouvelle réalité économique.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Margaret Schomaker

Student:

Partner:

L'Orchestre symphonique de Québec

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

A Virtual Network for Arctic Youth Mental Wellbeing

This project, a collaboration between the Arctic Youth Network (AYN) and Project CREATeS, is to create a virtual platform that supports suicide prevention in Arctic youth by building a virtual community, as well as to promote mental wellbeing through digital and creative media.
The proposed youth-led, community-based research agenda builds upon a successful grant completed in collaboration with the Arctic Council and the Inuit Circumpolar Council, from 2017-2019. Project CREATeS (www.ProjectCreates.com) afforded youth an opportunity to be directly involved in the suicide prevention activities of the Arctic Council. The project successfully engaged 50 youth from each of the Arctic member states, and the Permanent Participant Organizations that sit on the Arctic Council. Bringing together diverse Indigenous youth from across the Arctic highlighted key issues of importance to youth, and also gave them an international forum to express their ideas and to impact policy development related to the region.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Allison Crawford

Student:

Partner:

Arctic Youth Network

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

The Levis ERP Platform

Digital Integration Centre Of Excellence Technology Access Centre (DICE) at Saskatchewan Polytechnic (SP) and Levis Media Inc. (Levis) will collaborate on the research and development of an inventory management system that targets small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in numerous industries underserved by current systems. In the space of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software whereby an organization can manage their entire business. These products contain many modules such as accounting, human resources, inventory management, etc. This software comes with a huge price tag so Levis strives to create an affordable solution for SMEs. Inventory management software makes up a small piece of a complete ERP solution. By combining Levis’ product with existing software from cloud-based vendors, like QuickBooks and by integrating Internet of Thinks (IoT) devices used for inventory management, they can create an affordable solution. This is possible if Levis can integrate IoT devices and other software products into their software quickly.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Cyril Coupal

Student:

Partner:

Levis Media Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Saskatchewan Polytechnic

Program:

Accelerate

Mitigating Degree-Related Biases in Training Graph Convolutional Networks

Over the past few years, Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in machine learning tasks on graph data and have been widely applied to many real-world applications across different fields, such as traffic prediction, user behavior analysis, and fraud detection. However, networks in the real world are often with heterogeneous degree distributions, such as power-law. This means that the function of nodes with various degrees can vary significantly, with high-degree nodes playing a crucial role in information spread and other spreading phenomena such as message passing. Current GCNs do not consider the roles of nodes with different degrees during the training process, which could influence the performance of GCNs. In this project, we aim at constructing an enhanced GCNs to involve the degree distribution information of the graph to achieve a better performance compared to the current GCNs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yuanzhu Chen

Student:

Partner:

NASDAQ Canada Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology; Technology

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Mesures et analyse du transport sédimentaire dans un estuaire fortement impacte par les activités portuaires

Les estuafres sonfdes ecosystemes complexes et fragiles qu se trouvent a l’lnterface ocean/rivlere: Ils representent donc des zones strategiques pour le commerce maritime et un abris ideal pour les navires. Dans ce contexte, le transport sedimentaire se revele etre un enjeu majeur car les sediments sont a la fois vecteur de pollution et ils peuvent generer de l’anoxie nefaste pour la biodiversite, mais ils sont aussi responsable de l’envasement du chenal de navigation ce qui perturbe les activites portuaires. Mais la navigation influe egalement sur le transport sedimentaire, car le passage d’un navire s’accompagne toujours de la generation de vagues et de courants qui peuvent eroder les berges et transporter les sediments qui se trouvent sur le fond du • chenal. Dans le but de quantifier les effets de la navigation sur le transport sedimentaire, l’etudiant participera a une campagne de mesure sur site et au traitement des donnees collectees. Les mesures porteront sur l’hydrodynamique (courant, vague), le transport sedimentaire (bathymetrie, turbidite) et les parametres environnementaux (Oxygene dissous, temperature, salinite) .

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Faculty Supervisor:

Damien Pham Van Bang

Student:

Partner:

Université de Bordeaux

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Water; Other; Transportation (excluding aerospace)

University:

Université du Québec : Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Program:

Globalink Research Award

PATH: Program to Accelerate Technologies for Homecare – Edmonton site

The intern will undertake research to develop and provide a testing and optimization platform that will accelerate the availability of smart systems for home healthcare for seniors’ and for people with disabilities. The research will contribute to more successful outcomes and useful products from early-stage innovation activities that lead to social, public and private good benefits. The partner organization will benefit through access to novel application programming interfaces and homecare devices that will be developed by leading Canadian scientists, fellows and highly qualified students. This will allow the partner organization to add home healthcare to its home automation system.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Adriana Maria Rios Rincon;Michael Lipsett;Geoffrey Gregson

Student:

Partner:

SmartONE Solutions Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

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