Automated essay scoring (AES) task involves using computer technology to grade written assessment and assigning a score based on its perceived quality. AES has been among the most significant Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications especially due to its educational and commercial value. Accordingly, AES is a well-studied topic with previous studies focusing on improving the […]

Music therapy is an evidence-based effective intervention to promote psychological, social and emotional health, and it is specifically favored by older adults. However, little is known on the efficacy of the AI-assisted empathic music therapy in which the music is continuously adapted to individuals’ mood. To fill this gap, the proposed project will assess the […]

Our project is centred on identifying the needs of the performing arts sector, in terms of producing, and understanding what form of producing supports these needs and what solution can we develop to solve this problem. Our hypothesis for this project is that there is a major gap in the Canadian performing arts industries with […]

In this project, we would like to develop an enhanced Haptics Virtual Reality Ground Control Station (Haptics VR-GCS) to control an aerial vehicle using a virtual controller defined within the virtual environment. Such an advanced portable Haptics VR-GCS system is important to lower pilot workload and increase situational awareness. In the first place, the stand-alone […]

The COVID-19 pandemic hit Toronto’s Downtown Yonge business area hard. This unique district, normally a centre of tourism, commerce and culture, suffered significant impacts in 2019 and 2020 with the loss of workers, students and visitors to the area. Now, with the re-opening of the province and some of those workers and students returning, businesses […]

This particular project is designed to research, understand and validate opportunities to build upon our digital marketing practice. Due to the R&D nature of this project, there will be significant prototyping, testing and verifying of different marketing tactics and channels to learn what best drives business growth, and to then draft our strategic roadmap based […]

StagePage, a tourism technology company that develops solutions to contemporize decision support systems in the arts and culture sector. The company will work with an MBA student over the course of a six month fellowship to develop innovations in the areas of business modelling and strategy in conjunction with the company’s developing initiative EXPERIENCE AGENCY. […]

Abnormal fetal growth is a leading cause of perinatal mortality and morbidity in both developed and developing countries. Fetal growth is primarily assessed by ultrasound due to its low risk, low cost, and wide availability. These studies are cognitively intense for a reporting radiologist and errors can have significant long-term implications. In this study, we […]

The primary objective of this project is to develop a way for low-cost service robots to navigate indoors in a more accurate way. To keep costs down, such robots rely on relatively inexpensive encoders and gyroscopes to determine their positions and orientation. However, this leads to the problem of accumulated error while the robot attempts […]

To increase the production of EV chargers to meet market demand, there needs to be advanced engineering solutions and demonstrated knowledge of EV charger testing and performance. More solutions and capabilities will result in greater support for product development. Celestica and the Centre for Urban Energy (CUE) at Ryerson University will collaboratively develop a testing […]

This project hopes to offer a new experience to the way people engage and consume video news on social media. By taking a community reporting approach to video sharing, validation and incentivization, this project wants to offer an online news platform with the means to not only validate and verify video news before and while […]

ALTA Consulting specializes in working with small to mid-size organizations that need assistance with growth strategy and are looking to establish or grow sales and marketing. We help these companies engineer revenue. With this project, we plan to onboard one Master’s in Business Administration student with relevant experience to participate in the ongoing efforts to […]