Online discussion forums are examples of social media that are becoming popular. The goal is to develop efficient and scalable techniques that work on large amounts of conversational text to separate the posts that truly matter from irrelevant ones, as well as techniques that are easily adaptable to new domains and forums. VerticalScope, Inc. is […]

Snug Vest is a wearable jacket that reduces anxiety using Deep Pressure Therapy (DPT). Snug Vest can be improvised by automating the therapy as the person wearing the vest gets anxious. In the current research, we aim to develop an anxiety detecting algorithm to calculate the real-time anxiety value using different bio data obtained from […]

L’entreprise partenaire Agendize propose à ses clients une application web et mobile pour prendre des rendez-vous avec ses entreprises partenaires. Cependant, cette interface restreint l’expression des besoins de l’utilisateur en plus d’imposer une connexion internet ou le téléchargement d’une application. Par ailleurs, le concept d’informatisation de prise de rendezvous se limite à l’idée d’ordonnancement de […]

In this project, the intern will develop a website for medical clinics. This website provides patients with an online price estimation service which automatically caculates the price for conducting a set of lab analysises precribed by a doctor. The website will intuitively guide patients through the price estimation process and intelligently help patients match non-standardized […]

Le Groupe Technologie Desjardins désire revoir ses pratiques de gestion afin de devenir ambidextre, soit d’exceller à la fois dans sa capacité à gérer ses systèmes actuels (mode traditionnel), mais aussi celle de livrer rapidement des solutions technologiques de qualité (mode agile). Sous la supervision de la professeure Line Dubé, mon mandat consiste à mettre […]

The purpose of this project is to develop methodologies for automatic human emotion detection from video that can work accurately in uncontrolled, real-world, environments. Emotional activity will be assessed from signals such as the heart-rate, blinking rate or the diameter of the eye’s pupil. Architech Labs conducts research in the areas of machine learning, computer […]

CA Technology wants to design the right software products well. Their user interaction designers recently began interviewing end users in their workplace and developing archetypal descriptions of typical users called ‘personas’. The good thing about personas is that they encourage designers to take a people-first perspective, which is great most of the time. But, sometimes […]

This project aims to develop an intelligent surveillance system for automatic event detection. The proposed system will operate in an indoor environment to notify the user of events of interest in real-time. Most standard systems use visible-light cameras and basic change detection methods (e.g. Background subtraction) to recognize simple events such as intrusion. Instead, we […]

This research project with the industry partner DataWind inc. is an interdisciplinary project that joins together Education, Learning system engineering, and Human-machine interactions. The challenge is to combine these four disciplines’ contributions in order to create a learning system for mobile devices that will be adapted to the individual self-learning, particularly for children in developing […]

MediaSmarts’ vision is to ensure children and youth have the critical thinking skills to engage with media as active and informed digital citizens. This project will redesign one of MediaSmarts cybersecurity games to increase its effectiveness and engagement, through the use of Media Equation principles. The Media Equation is a communication and HCI theory on […]

This project studies efficient online optimization algorithms for large-scale data transfer among data centers in a geographically-distributed cloud system, as well as their SDN (Software Defined Networking)-facilitated implementation. Big data analytics, content distribution, and various web applications (social networking, search engine) have become dominating applications on today’s cloud platforms. Moving bulk volumes of data from […]

METO est une plateforme intégrée d’accélération de croissance pour les organisations qui désirent générer des résultats valorisants de manière organisée et amusante. METO accompagne notamment les dirigeants d’entreprises dans leurs décisions à travers l’exécution de leurs stratégies. Or, avant même d’être un outil, METO est un projet de recherche multidisciplinaire, à la croisée de l’informatique, […]