Projets novateurs réalisés

BI Expertise – FSA UL

BI Expertise aide les entreprises à intégrer les technologies d’intelligence artificielle et ainsi à préparer le monde de demain. Nos clients sont nos partenaires: nous travaillons ensemble pour leur permettre de s’assurer un avantage compétitif durable grâce à des solutions personnalisées à leurs besoins. À la suite du contexte de pandémie, BI Expertise a recentré l’essentiel de ses efforts sur ses projets de recherche et innovation collaborative. Cela a abouti à la production de plusieurs preuves de concept pouvant servir de base à la création de nouvelles activités dédiées au développement et à la commercialisation de ces solutions. Le stagiaire pourra appuyer la direction dans l’élaboration d’une stratégie à cette fin. Il participera de différentes manières à nos activités, entre autres : – Définir un modèle d’affaires pertinent; – Identifier des véhicules de financement; – Réaliser un portrait de la chaîne de valeur et des parties prenantes; – Préparer la planification stratégique et des scénarii prospectifs; – Réaliser des analyses de marché et identifier les marchés clefs pour la commercialisation; – Préparer les outils marketing pertinents; – Identifier les partenaires clefs; – Préparer un échéancier de mise en œuvre; – Contribuer à l’amélioration continue des processus de travail.

Developing Gaze and Movement Key Performance Indicators for User Experience Assessment

There’s nothing quite as delightful as using a well-designed product, especially a piece of software. A field of research known as User eXperience (UX) tries to define measures that describe what a good design feels like. While conventional measures of UX for software work well (how long things take, whether you complete your task successfully), we suggest that tracking your eye and hands will reveal other useful information. These easy-to-get measures, which we call Gaze and Movement Assessment Key Performance Indicators (GaMA KPI), are calculated from where the eyes look, how the hand moves and their coordination, to tell us how the user’s experience is going. We have designed a task that is similar to a menu system that someone might find in a typical video game. Users interact with the menu while we record both their gaze and hand positions throughout. We have found promising KPIs that are novel and only possible to generate using gaze and movement data. We hope to continue data collection to generate new, more advanced KPIs, that tell us more detailed information about the user’s experience.

Kensington Health

Responsibilities:
-Development of operational plans for the opening of the new Hospice space
-Development of strategic and operational plans for long-term care facility to leverage digital health solutions to improve presence of specialized care on site and to minimize need for hospital transfers
-Development of strategic plan to increase virtual care options for ambulatory clinics
-Depending on timing of rollout, leading critical elements of COVID vaccine distribution planning to our partners through the Mid-West Toronto OHT
Significance:
-Significant contributions to Kensington Health in the form of creating sustainable business models for all of our entities through the end of the pandemic and in the post-pandemic landscape
-Enhanced care options for all of our residents, clients and patients based on the opportunities that were illuminated through pandemic (ie. virtual care)
-Equitable and accessible COVID-19 vaccine distribution to the structurally vulnerable members of our population
-Challenges addressed: financial viability of our organization; minimizing wait times (exacerbated by pandemic) for important tests and surgeries; efficient rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine

Counting those experiencing homelessness in the CBRM during a pandemic: A service-based count

Small and rural areas are often disproportionately under-represented in the distribution of funds or access to resources, making it extremely valuable to have robust, current data to reflect the needs of these communities in order to advocate for funding or supports. COVID-19 has demonstrated the fragility of our current systems by impacting our capacity to collect this type of data in the face of a pandemic, despite the overwhelming impression that this information on social and health indicators (such as number of people who are experiencing homelessness) is even more important at times like this. Developing ways to reduce the burden on community organizations, while streamlining the processes required for data collection, analysis, and reporting, is essential.

This project supports the important effort to enumerate homelessness (as a health and social indicator) in the CBRM, where homelessness is often hidden. This project supports a service-based count of homelessness in the CBRM which will provide essential data on the current impact of COVID-19 on the local burden of homelessness. It will include the important objective to develop a plan for more sustainable data collection and reporting that is community-centered, community-accessible, and community-relevant.

Brown Bagging for Calgary’s Kids – Social Enterprise Coordinator

Brown Bagging for Calgary’s Kids (BB4CK) is exploring opportunities to launch a social enterprise program, an effort to offer services in our community while producing some revenue to fund operations. This project will lead the building of a business plan, including researching social enterprise structures, performing environmental and competitive analysis, and outlining priorities and budgets.

ParkChamp – Marketing Coordinator

The Sales/Marketing coordinator will assist in organizing and executing new marketing campaigns and communication tactics to help support ParkChamp’s growth. Interns will be responsible for supporting the sales and marketing team with presentation material, proposals, social media, blogging, lead generation. This will help ParkChamp be a more active service provider for our current customers, better understand our customers and get more traction from new ones.

Improvement of anode quality through pitch modification

Using high-quality anodes, which have high density, low specific electrical resistivity, and low reactivity, reduces the anode consumption, production cost, energy consumption, and the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG). This consequently improves the overall electrolytic cell performance. Therefore, the improvement of anode quality is one of the priorities of aluminium industry. The objective of theproject is to improve the anode quality by modifying pitch using additives. The raw materials will be characterized. The laboratory anodes will be made with the non-modified and modified pitches. Their properties will be compared in order to assess the effect of pitch additives on the anode quality.

Développement de membranes nanocomposites pour application en génie civil

Les géomembranes sont utilisées dans différents secteurs du génie géotechnique pour contrôler l’étanchéité, par exemple dans les réservoirs d’eau, les canaux d’irrigation et les barrages, mais également pour limiter la migration de polluants dans le cas de décharges solides et de bassins d’effluents liquides. Or, elles doivent répondre à des exigences de plus en plus élevées, en particulier en réponse à l’importance croissante des considérations environnementales ainsi qu’aux besoins liés à de nouvelles applications, par exemple dans l’industrie du pétrole et du gaz. Ce projet se base sur l’utilisation de nanoparticules pour améliorer les performances des géomembranes, en particulier leurs propriétés barrières et mécaniques ainsi que leur durabilité. Il prévoit le développement de formulations, l’optimisation des méthodes de mise en forme et la validation de l’ensemble des performances requises pour les différentes applications.

Faire ou ne pas faire? Transgression et régulation des comportements subversifs à Montréal

L’étude de cas “Faire ou ne pas faire ? Transgression et régulation des comportements subversifs à Montréal” est réalisée par des chercheurs et des partenaires du projet de recherche partenariat CRSH Tryspaces1 en collaboration avec le Conseil jeunesse de Montréal (Ville de Montréal). L’accent est mis sur les différents types de transgression et de subversion à Montréal à partir des questionnements suivants: Comment les mécanismes de régulation et les pratiques transgressives interagissent-ils ? Quels sont les espaces accessibles aux jeunes et dans quelles conditions. Ces mêmes questions sont analysées à travers cinq axes de recherche différents. Mon travail s’inscrit dans le cinquième axe, qui comprend une étude sur les expériences et les pratiques nocturnes des jeunes à Montréal. Dans ce contexte, l’accent est mis sur différents sujets tels que la perception qu’ont les jeunes de la sécurité et de la prise de risques, les restrictions légales à l’utilisation de l’espace urbain la nuit, et les questions spécifiques au sexe, à la classe et à l’origine ethnique.

Digital Transformation for Theatre Organizations

In the short term (12-18 months) the project will contribute to the successful recovery of the Toronto Fringe and the theatre industry, through planning, audience research, events, and digital transformation planning. Over the long term, with a lens of roughly 10 years, the contributions of this project will aim to protect the organization and the arts and cultural sector in Canada from the devastation it has encountered due to COVID, in the future. The development of hybrid solutions that take into account the desires of audience members, customers or clients, as they pertain to the theatre industry, as well as the changing behaviours of those people with the emergence of new personal technologies, will contribute to the evolution of how the public engages with the arts and cultural sector, and subsequently, the financial stability of that industry and its members.

Digitizing and modernizing a historic freshwater research database

IISD Experimental Lakes Area (IISD-ELA) is an environment not-for-profit organization and one of the world’s most influential freshwater research facilities. It features a collection of 58 small lakes and their watersheds in a sparsely populated region of northwestern Ontario, Canada, unaffected by human impacts. IISD-ELA has been under operation for over 50 years, and as a result, has a vast database consisting of historical datasets that need updating and digitizing, especially as the organization transitions to remote work and learning. My main project will be to assist with the development of statistical and computational methods to automate the accomplishment of this goal. These methods will include artificial intelligence systems such as machine learning and neural networks. IISD-ELA, as part of this database, also maintains polygon representations of the 58 lakes in the area, however these polygons require updating and repair. I will be tasked with using ArcGIS to carry out this necessary geoprocessing. IISD-ELA is also heavily involved in education programming for all audiences, and I will also be completing three or more communications products to contribute to this initiative. These products will be available to the public and will serve to educate the viewer about IISD-ELA’s current research.

Digital Transformation for the Performing Arts Industries

As a subsector within the creative industries, the performance arts industry has been particularly hard hit by COVID-19 and subsequent repercussions related to stay at home orders and social distancing measures to control the spread of the disease. With this project, I will be addressing challenges related to the recovery of the performance arts industry in the short and medium term, as well as exploring sustainable hybrid solutions for the long term. In close consultation with the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts, I will be developing digital transformation strategies that integrate digital tools or solutions in a meaningful and purposeful way, in order to both satisfy the needs and desires of audiences and customers, and so that the organization and others like it can sustainably weather future crises. Given this unique turning point, in which we are designing both digital solutions and hybrid possibilities for when the economy opens up in a larger and more sustained way, this iterative development work will take into account audience experience, as it relates to scale, collective experience, participation and intimacy, core aspects of the public experience of cultural offerings.