Pourquoi parvenons-nous à atteindre certains buts sans même avoir le sentiment de faire des efforts pour résister aux tentations dans notre environnement ? Ce projet de recherche vise à examiner l’association entre la motivation autonome (i.e., réaliser un comportement pour le plaisir ou l’importance) et le conflit motivationnel entre l’intention d’être actif physiquement et les […]

Simulation is a critically important enabler for the scalable verification and testing of Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems. There has been considerable research in recent years on developing IoT simulators. The existing research nevertheless does not adequately address the optimization of simulators for the competing objectives that one typically has to contend with, e.g., in terms of […]

Unlike the United Sates or the UK, Canada is a laggard in opening up historical socioeconomic data for use by academics, policymakers, business, journalists, and citizens. While a great deal of data exists either due to being “born digital” or having been digitized from paper records, it is not easily accessible. Partial datasets in a […]

The Mitacs intern will support the community-based project Direct[Message] to develop and undertake research to develop a final technology-based model that will help older adults connect with arts online. The intern will assist in the data collection and analysis of 30 older adult participants’ experiences using and testing an easy-to-use keyboard prototype and an accessible […]

Harris Computer provides mission critical software solutions for the Public Sector, Healthcare, Utilities and Private Sector verticals throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. One of the focus of Harris is to acquire businesses with growth potential, manage them well and then build them for the future. The challenge of this acquisition process is to […]

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 […]

Ford is applying Industry 4.0 smart manufacturing technologies in its re-tooled and new plants in Canada. This project aims to research, in cooperation with Ford, intelligent methods for recognizing patterns of machines faults and their causes and develop recovery strategies based on artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) using data analytics, neural networks, and […]

The Archimedes screw pump (ASP) has been used since antiquity (circa 700 BCE) for high volume, low head pumping applications. There are not many screw pumps installed in Canada; they are much more common in Europe. However, there is significant potential for ASP use in Canada since they can safely transport food-grade liquids, biohazardous materials, […]

Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) can be vulnerable to various attacks at different levels. The malicious attacks not only result in loss of confidentiality and user privacy, but also lead to more serious consequences such as bodily injury and loss of life. Intrusion detection system (IDS) is an effective way to detect different threats, and […]

There is an increasing demand for advanced high strength steels in the manufacturing and automotive industries. The use of these steels in cars can lead to weight reduction, improved fuel efficiency and enhanced crash worthiness. The development of these new steels requires the alloying of Fe with increasing amounts of manganese (Mn), silicon (Si) and […]

In this project, SaaSCan will leverage and expand its market research data on Canadian SaaS startup metric performance to create an innovative, online-self assessment tool. Unlike some other tools that require founders to upload detailed financial data or complete complex financial spreadsheets, the SaaSCan “Metrics Sherpa” tool will enable founders to type in data points […]

This project is about integrated photonics. Similar to integrated electronics, both have many applications in our lives such as in communications, biosensing, security, display and imaging. Interestingly, photonic circuits are poised to replace electronics circuits in telecommunications and data centers. Compared to electronics, they will reduce cost, increase speed and bandwidth of the future Internet […]