Wellness @ Work, Stage 1

According to the HRPA “1 in 5 Canadians are experiencing symptoms of depression, anxiety or posttraumatic stress disorder and 68% who reported a mental health issue reported that their mental health has worsened since the pandemic.” In the private sector, depression alone causes an estimated 200 million workdays per year, or about $17-$44 billion in […]

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Efficacy of Compliance and Ethics Training using a Virtual Reality Interface

V-Train wishes to research and test how to best use virtual reality to improve outcomes in ethics and compliance training in the financial services industry. Current training methods such as eLearning and traditional classroom-based instruction have proven ineffective in information retention and improving behavioural outcomes. Key aspects of the project include: – Creating VR training […]

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Developing Efficient Machine Learning Models for Price Bidding

Curate Mobile operates a demand site platform (DSP), which is an advertising platform responsible for bidding in real time ad placements from various publishers. This process is a blind auction, happening over 50,000 times a second, and during this bidding process we have less then 100ms to determine which of our clients should bid for […]

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Neuroptik Eye/Brain Concussion Diagnosis

The partner organization’s primary stakeholder, Dr. Behzad Mansouri is a domain expert in the field of clinical eye examinations and their relationship to brain health. Dr. Mansouri knows the applications that are necessary to provide those in remote areas with access to health care related to his field, but does not have the means to […]

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HiSarah: A Voice Assistant for Seniors

Many voice and chat systems have emerged with the advancement of deep learning and big data processing technology like Alexa. However, there is still a large gap in implementing human-like conversation systems and there is a stigma around acceptance of the technology. In this project, we reduce the gap by building a personalized a voice […]

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Modèle d’interface ergonomique et accessible aux apprenants ayant des limitations cognitives.

La planification et l’implantation des interventions auprès d’un apprenant (enfants, jeune et adulte) ayant des limitations cognitives s’articule autour d’un processus d’évaluation qui permet de déterminer son profil . Divers outils de collecte de données (outils d’éva luation) dont des instruments de mesure, des outils d’observation, des inventaires, des questionnaires et des tests (normatifs ou […]

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Leav – Système de reconnaissance de gestes par vision d’ordinateur

Leav, une startup spécialisée en solutions de magasinage autonome pour le commerce de détail, cherche à développer un système de vision par ordinateur qui permettra à tout type de détaillant d’automatiser leurs caisses facilement et abordablement. Le projet sera d’une durée de 4 mois et débutera en octobre 2021 avec une date de fin prévue […]

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Predicting for Targeted Advertising by Maximum Information Coefficient

Predictive modeling is a statistical data mining approach that builds a prediction function from the observed data. The function is then used to estimate a value of a dependent variable for new data. The objective of the project is to develop predictive models by machine learning approach and data mining techniques from the large volum […]

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3D Planeta’s Earth Intelligence Platform Development

3D Planeta is creating an Earth Intelligence software as a service platform to help solve major challenges that are being faced in areas such as emergency response, disaster management, defense and security, renewable energy development, mining, and property risk and damage assessment. The platform will source and curate data of interest in various formats, create […]

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Harmonization of the engineering design and evolutionary computation

The research project aims at integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into a user interface (UI) in the context of engineering design. Based on this context, the AI-aided UI of the CAD software will actively return hints and advice on missing parts of the product and/or what will be the next steps of the design. Such a […]

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