Snehal Sagun Grant Application

At Hammond Power Solutions Inc. we are currently running Sharepoint 2013 on premise. Support for this version will expire shortly so we need to move the content to the cloud to ensure business continuity. The main product we use to develop our forms in Sharepoint 2013 is Infopath which is also no longer supported. The […]

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Développement, intégration et déploiement d’un écosystème de monitoring et d’aide aux soins de santé par fauteuils motorisés instrumentés pour des personnes en situation de handicap

Les soins et services aux personnes atteintes de handicap limitant leur mobilité revêt une importance toute particulière dans notre société. Le but de ce projet est de développer un écosystème permettant un suivi de l’état de santé au quotidien de ces personnes. Pour y arriver, un fauteuil mécanisé équipé d’actuateurs et de moteurs permettant la […]

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An Activity Theory-Based Project Management Tool For Agile

This project will apply the theoretical framework of Activity Theory to Agile product development methods in order to decompose them into salient components, using an integrative literature review of Agile methodologies to do so. This decomposition will then be used to adapt the open-source education management/planning software CourseFlow for use in Agile development. This software […]

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cyberSKA II: Scientific test and verification of multi-node distributed infrastructure for data-intensive radio astronomy

The work to be undertaken by the intern with Rackforce builds on a successful NSERC engage grant to develop a distributed cyberinfrastructure system linking the University of Calgary with the Rackforce data centre in Kelowna. This system will demonstrate reliable leading-edge infrastructure for distributed multi-user collaboration for advanced scientific data processing. The planned work consists […]

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Unsupervised Financial Fraud Detection Using Low-rank Recovery

The goal of this research is to give an effectively unsupervised financial fraud detection method, in which low rank recovery method is used to exploit intrinsic relationship of data samples. The benefits of our methods have several folds: (1) compared with classification-based methods, our methods can deal with the imbalance problem effectively; (2) by using […]

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Mobile shape-changing haptic props for virtual reality

The proposed project is built around combining two existing projects, one situated at Carleton and the other situated at NAIST. Carleton has developed a tactile device which can both be tracked for use with Virtual Reality and can also change shape to simulate the tactile feel of various objects presented in a virtual environment. The […]

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Integrating Cognitive Assessment Games into Ambient Activities In Long Term Care

Maintaining cognitive ability is key to successful aging and to retaining the ability to live independently. BrainTagger is a suite of games that assess highly specific brain functions. BrainTagger LTC is a version that has been designed for measuring cognitive status of residents in long term care (see ltc.braintagger.com for a demo). The goal of […]

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Retaining observational information when transmitting markerless motion capture data

Recent advances in 3D camera technology and associated software is enabling clinical assessments of function to be undertaken in real world clinical settings, rather than in specialized bio-mechanics laboratories. Working in collaboration with Kinetisense Inc, an SME from Medicine Hat Alberta, a patented markerless motion capture technology has been developed to support a wide range […]

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Create digital twins of local sites of interest and other locations

FluidPlanet.org is a non-profit organization that builds and runs gaming-based interactive digital twins (virtual versions of real places) with other non-profit organizations (e.g., universities, communities, etc.) to support the understanding and study of public environments. In this project, FluidPlanet.org will work with the University of Lethbridge and the University of Calgary to develop digital twins […]

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Using Social Network Analysis in Marketing

Customers usually get confused buying an item online. Therefore, they consult with their friends, use their past experience, and survey reviews from other customers. Some of the main findings from a survey conducted by eMarketer, in which each participant could choose multiple answers are as follows: a friend’s recommendation (76%), previous experiences you had with […]

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Testing the informativeness and analytic capacity a samplefree synthetic data to inform mental health and addictions policy makers in Canada

Western Canada is facing an opioid related health epidemic. Canadians are dying and experiencing mental health problems characterised by chronic drug and alcohol use. The overdose, misuse, and abuse of drugs/opioids leading to deaths is happening in the backdrop of significant medical, social, psychological, and economic causes. Income inequality and ill-balanced labour forced participation are […]

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