La conception centrée utilisateur au service de la SST : le cas d’une aide àla manutention pour les opérateurs d’un département du formage

La manutention de plusieurs types de pièces pesant jusqu’à 70 lbs est une opération récurrente dans le département du formage de l’usine OI Canada Corp de Montréal, spécialisée dans la fabrication de contenant de verre. Pour prévenir l’apparition de troubles musculosquelettiques liée à cette activité, plusieurs aides à la manutention ont été proposées aux travailleurs […]

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E-Community Health and Toxicity

Online communities abound today, arising on social networking sites, on the websites of real-world communities like schools or clubs, on web discussion forums, on the discussion boards of videogames, and even on the comment pages of news sites and blogs. Some of these communities are “healthy” and foster polite discussion between respectful members, but others […]

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Automatic Casting from Videos Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

In automatic casting applications, the aim is to accurately recognise facial regions that correspond to a same actor appearing in a movie to produce described video. In particular, this project will focus on challenging tasks of capturing and modeling the facial trajectory for each person appearing in a movie in order to predict when/where the […]

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Création d’une application mobile visant le développement des habiletés perceptives et productives musicales des enfants

Ce projet vise à encourager le développement des habiletés musicales des enfants de 3 à 6 ans par l’entremise de la technologie. Le recours à une application mobile pour bonifier les habiletés perceptives et productives musicales s’avère une avenue très intéressante à considérer par les parents et les éducateurs. Le recours aux nouvelles technologies éducatives […]

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Evaluation of additive manufacturing technology for the fabrication of wind-tunnel model parts featuring static pressure channels

The objective of the proposed project is to evaluate the use of additive manufacturing technology for the fabrication of wind-tunnel model parts featuring static pressure channels. The long-term aim of this research to devise an innovative manufacturing process that reduces the cost and lead time required to fabricate aerodynamic wind-tunnel models. The suggested methodology is […]

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Technology validation of the needle-free injector MED-JET H4 for vaccination

In adults, influenza vaccination is administered by intramuscular injection, a procedure that many people find painful and that some find frightening (ie: needle-phobia). Influenza vaccination is now encouraged or recommended for all Canadians. Every year, there is a large effort to vaccinate as many people as possible before the ‘flu season’. The urgency to vaccinate […]

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