H2O4All is one of many small, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working to address the needs of the 663 million who lack access to safe drinking water and the 2.4 billion who are without access to sanitation facilities in low- and middle-income countries. Unfortunately, evaluation of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) interventions are rarely a priority for […]

Many employees commute long distances for work or work for long periods in different geographic locations than where they live. Organizations are increasingly called upon to manage these forms of employee mobility in ways that sustain and maximize organizational productivity, as well as employee, and family well-being. Yet there is very limited research to inform […]

Engaging with visual displays is not always feasible or desired. They could be absent in certain contexts due to their fragility, cost or high battery consumption. Visual attention could be engaged elsewhere in an activity or be impaired due to disabilities. With the rise of wearables that remain in constant, sturdy contact with the skin, […]

We propose the development of an automatic resizing framework for time-varying visualizations. This framework would support easy deployment of visualizations on a multitude of devices with varying display sizes. The second objective of the project is to address issues of data is interpretation that could arise as a result of visualization resizing through the use […]

The NSERC Strategic Network for Smart Applications on Virtual Infrastructures is a five-year partnership between Canadian industry, universities, researchers, research and education (R&E) networks, and high performance computing centres to investigate the design of future application platforms that will deliver software applications of greater capability and intelligence. These application platforms will be supported by an […]

The project involves monitoring and evaluating the energy performance of two houses built by a mainstream builder – one Net Zero Energy (NZE) and one Net Zero Ready (NZR). Both have advanced zoned variable-capacity air source heat pump systems (ASHPs), heat pump water heaters (HPWHs) and drain water heat recovery. The NZE house has a […]

New emerging Virtual Reality (VR) technologies and mobile devices are changing the way that we are interacting with computing technology. The partner organization has a multimedia product that is used to train technicians to perform various maintenance tasks or introduce them to the interconnected components of a machine. The goal of this project is to […]

The current wellbeing crisis in Canada is magnified in rural areas. Also, rural economies are negatively affected by lack of suitable youth lifeskill training. Rural communities lack financial capital to address these issues on their own. 4-H has been building rural youth skill for over 100 years, offering a variety of options, including physical activities […]

Information systems are critical assets for enterprises and contain important knowledge acquired over the years. Over time, as these software systems grow in scope and complexity, they introduce greater variability in design at the level of individual software components. As a result, these systems deviate from their initial architecture. The latter can no longer be […]

Ottawa has a ten-year goal to end homelessness. Many people feel this is possible using Housing First strategies which help people access housing immediately, then address problems of addiction, poverty and mental illness which compromised past housing. However, youth homelessness is different than adult homelessness. It has youth-specific causes and higher stakes; the less time […]

An oral history of the St. George-Grosvenor-Piccadilly neighbourhood will be conducted. Research themes include an understanding of how institutions and notable structures shaped the neighbourhood, and the role played by sites of social interaction, and the role played by the neighbourhood’s rural character It is hoped that conducting oral interviews will elicit memories of buildings, […]

Little attention has been paid to the ways in which standardized indices on youth wellbeing capture the multifaceted and complex environments of youth. Thus, the proposed project seeks to fill existing gaps by gathering information on all existing youth wellbeing indices. This project will identify how measures of wellbeing are derived from factors that make […]