Projets novateurs réalisés

Landscape Changes and Place Making in Santarém Region, Lower Amazon, Brazil. From Late Pre-Columbian until Contact Periods

Despite an increase in the number of archaeological field projects in the Amazon region, few studies have analyzed landscape in order to understand the intricacies of political life of a given complex-society in the Amazonian prehistory. This research will focus on landscape formation and changes to decipher the degree to which the Tapajó group were politically centralized and hierarchically structured. It will also to contribute to the ongoing debate on the degree of human impacts and modification of the Amazonian landscape, in particular the Santarém region in the Lower Amazon. From the 10th to the 18th centuries, this region was inhabited by the Tapajó Indians, who produced the famous Santarém style ceramic. To fulfill the research objectives, settlement patterns and landscape modification of three areas (Flona- Tapajós, Belterra Plateau and Satarém) will be compared. In addition Geographical Information System spatial analysis will contribute to suggest how the Tapajó settlements were integrated and connected in terms of pathways and river networks.

Towards Ethical Guidance for AI in Canadian Housing Policy

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Studying the Technical Feasibility for the Development of an Intelligent Cloud-based Inventory and Product Information Management System for a Gourmet Retail Store.

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Prototyping a serious card game for a gamified approach to upskilling and AI integration in professional settings

In our project, we’re creating an innovative card game that blends traditional symbols, like those from tarot cards, with modern cultural references to help professionals navigate today’s complex workplace dynamics. The card game, created with different AI tools, aims to encourage strategic and speculative thinking, collaboration, and open-mindedness among employees, making room for a more inclusive and empathetic work environment. Through gameplay, we tackle the challenges posed by technological advances like artificial intelligence, turning apprehension into understanding and distrust into confidence. Our project offers an interactive and inclusive approach to learning and adapting in a world where digital and human workforces must coexist harmoniously. We believe that by integrating elements of play, our game can become a powerful tool in corporate training, enhancing skills that AI cannot fully replace—creative problem-solving, emotional intelligence, and interpersonal savvy. The anticipated benefit is twofold: it will prototype a powerful device to enrich the employee experience and boost leadership within organizations, and also provide us with valuable insights for further knowledge, market launch and partnership development.

Automated Temperature Monitoring System (ATMS)

The concept of Thermonalysis came from direct interaction with restaurant owners. A clearly identified problem is the current process of recording temperature and time readings of their food products. Monitoring food temperature is a critical step in ensuring customer safety. The current process of monitoring food temperature involves staff manually taking the food temperature and recording it themselves into their database or paper forms. This current process is manual, prone to human error, and often skipped because it’s an inconvenience. There are huge potential risks for owners of restaurants, food providers, and public health if food monitoring is inaccurate. The current process is lacking a product that easily and accurately monitors and records food temperature.

Themonalysis Inc aims to build a software-as-a-service tool paired with a temperature reading device to track and report live temperature data for health and food safety compliance standards. The technology should automate the recording and submission of food temperature readings by sending the data to the designated compliance/reporting software. The technology should record and submit the data. This data would be automatically uploaded and saved in an application that can be accessed by management of the restaurant or catering facility.

Advancing Data Science Research (Cohort #2)

Enormous quantities of machine-readable data, measured in many terabytes, are readily available. The sources include the world-wide web, publicly available databases, raw experimental data, unannotated genomic sequences generated by biochemical tools, and so on. However, data does not necessarily equal useful information. More often than not, the data has to be intelligently processed, interpreted, transformed, and then integrated into unified repositories. The research internships in the data science consortium enable local companies to access high-in-demand expertise and collaborate with the University of Victoria to advance and apply high quality methods for exploring, integrating and analyzing “big data” for their respective business goals. The consortium seeks to build an ongoing initiative in data science and industry collaborations through HQPs

Documenter les dommages causés par la dérivation de la rivière Caniapiscau pour les Naskapis de Kawawachikamach: Un projet collaboratif melant analyse d’archives et entretiens ethnographiques

En 1985, la rivière Caniapiscau a été déviée pour la construction du Complexe hydroélectrique La Grande, créant ainsi le réservoir Caniapiscau. En vertu de l’article 6 de la Convention du Nord-Est québécois (1978), la Nation naskapie a renoncé à toutes réclamations concernant la construction, l’entretien et l’exploitation du Complexe La Grande. Cependant, la quittance n’englobe pas les impacts de la dérivation de la rivière Caniapiscau sur l’utilisation par les Naskapis des ressources fauniques au nord du 55e parallèle. Les dommages causés par la déviation de la rivière Caniapiscau sur le territoire traditionnel des Naskapis au nord du 55e parallèle n’ont ainsi jamais été évalués. Cette recherche propose d’évaluer les impacts ? environnementaux, socio-économiques et sur le mode de vie des Naskapis ? de la dérivation de la rivière Caniapiscau au nord du 55e parallèle. Pour ce faire, l’organisme partenaire (Atmacinta) a accumulé un nombre considérable d’archives qui n’ont jamais été exploitées. De plus, un séjour sur le terrain (Kawawachikamach) de deux semaines sera organisé dans le but de conduire des entrevues avec les personnes concernées ? et leurs descendants (impacts intergénérationnels) ? et d’ainsi pallier aux zones d’ombre que l’on retrouve inévitablement dans une recherche en archives.

Production oh high purity nano alumina from aluminous clay

High-purity nano alumina (HPA) has diverse applications in batteries, LED lights, semiconductors etc. In recent decades, several methods have been developed to produce highly reactive and pure alumina at nano scale. Amongst them, microwave (MW) assisted-based methods have been considered promising. The MW-assisted method can avoid the challenges of other methods by enhancing the energy efficiency of ball milling processes, and enhancing the gelation speed in sol-gel and precipitation processes. The distinctive advantages of MW-assisted processes come from the fact that different materials have varied responses to microwave irradiation, influenced by their structural characteristics. We investigate two MW-assisted processed for producing nano HPA along with their scale-up potential. AEM plans to verify the final product regarding the purity, specifications, and suitability as starting material for applications like ceramics. Following the result of this project, AEM aims to establish a sustainable supply chain for nano alumina in North America, fostering synergy across various actors in the EV materials supply chain.

Fine Motor Skills Training for Catheter Insertions in Virtual Reality

This project involves creating a gamified Virtual Reality (VR) experience that simulates the I catheter insertion, providing users with depth perception and spatial awareness crucial for mastering the procedure. The VR application, will be developed in collaboration with Sononurse, aims to improve nurses’ fine motor skills through immersive training with gaming mechanics. The effectiveness of the system will be evaluated by controlled user studies. By filling the gap in the market for gamified VR training systems, the project seeks to enhance medical education by offering a cost-effective and accessible solution that ultimately benefits both medical professionals and patients by reducing complications and improving patient outcomes.

A participatory citizen engagement analysis tool for co-producing community wellbeing indicators

Existing democratic structures are fragile and insufficient to address the cascading crises of the coming years. Without inclusive opportunities for people to communicate their views in a deliberative way, both communities and policymakers are being held back from co-creating a desirable future for Canada, a need that the Cornerstone Indicator process is aiming to address. The process combines participatory citizen engagement with data analysis to develop a set of community wellbeing indicators. The co-designed indicators combine multiple existing data points into single, intuitively understandable headline indicators. Following pilots in Sweden and Scotland, this iteration, led by core partner David Suzuki Foundation (DSF), takes place in the Milton-Parc neighbourhood in Montreal, with the objectives of (1) developing a rigorous analysis tool that can be shared in an open-source format (2) enabling the rapid and inclusive scaling of citizen-driven indicators of wellbeing.
DSF will benefit from this research as they lack the internal expertise to develop a rigorous analytic methodology for the Cornerstone process which is fundamental to developing tools that can be shared openly with other communities. This research will allow DSF to move the Cornerstone process from a pilot into a scalable tool.??

Product and Pattern Development – Non-strech Curvy Jeans and Pants

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Telescope Therapeutics, Maria Del Toro: “Exploring iPSC-Derived Organoids: Leveraging Patient-Derived Models and Biosensor Technologies for Phenotypic Clustering and Signaling Analysis in Cardiovascular Disease”

Cardiovascular disease remains a leading cause of death in Canada and is a progressive disease characterized by heart dilatation and impaired heart function
that can ultimately lead to heart failure, with a rising incidence and a 5-year survival rate of only 50%. Advanced cases of heart failure caused by dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) are referred for mechanical circulatory support and/or heart transplantation. We are trying to generate a “Heart-in-a-Dish”, allowing us to model disease and test treatments in a large group of
patients with diagnosed cardiovascular disease. This will provide an opportunity to personalize treatments for a range of clinically important cardiovascular diseases. Our primary aims are to
develop a “bedside to bench to bedside” path for cardiovascular disease modelling and to generate tools to evaluate pharmacologic and functional profiles in physiologically relevant
systems in the context of heart disease. From blood samples, we can 1) generate and validate induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) generate cardiomyocytes and other relevant cell types in the heart and 2) characterize functional properties of cardiomyocytes as the disease progresses or in response to therapeutic intervention.