The games industry is infamous for making employees work excessive hours, fostering toxic work environments, and burning out its workforce. Despite these concerns, game developers are hesitant to change how their businesses are organised. This research project will explore the reasons that Canadian game workers may be reluctant to adopt alternative labour structures such as […]

Innovation in electric mobility and energy storage from renewable energy resources are two key drivers in the fast growth of a battery industry that is striving to enhance performance of battery systems with great urgency. HQ Center of Excellence is actively working on the development of an advanced battery management system (BMS) and intelligence platform. […]

Growing antibiotic resistance is a major threat to global public health. One way to combat this problem is through the development of antibiotics that act against bacteria in new ways. Historically, antibiotics work by interacting with proteins in the bacteria, which are needed for the cells to reproduce. However, recently, it has been shown that […]

Image composition is an operation that incorporates an object extracted from a source image to incorporate it inside a target image. This simple operation has a lot of practical applications in the advertisement, entertainment, and movie industries. However, it is tedious for an artist to achieve realistic image compositions. Indeed, it requires different lighting, shadows, […]

La problématique que le projet veut résoudre est la réduction de la vitesse sur le réseau routier et la sécurité de tous les usagers. 30% des accidents fatals sont dû à la vitesse et 82% arrivent sur les routes secondaires. Un véhicule équipé d’un limiteur de vitesse actif à la capacité de réduire significativement les […]

Les différentes données liés à la performance sportive représente un enjeu important dans le monde du sport. Sports Ai se spécialise dans l’analyse de la performance des équipes sportive en temps réel. La solution proposée est composée de plusieurs algorithmes de vision par ordinateur (intelligence artificielle), de serveurs pour le traitement de données ainsi que […]

This project is about designing a system to monitor the performance of a renewable energy system installed in the Coniston Seniors’ Center for supplying the hot water demand of the building. This system includes photovoltaic thermal panels, wastewater heat recovery system, thermal energy storage, and heat pumps. The proposed system will use no fossil fuel […]

This proposal describes a multidisciplinary approach to optimize the separation of peptides from an enzyme digest of filleting waste (frames) recovered from farm-raised Atlantic salmon. Our work has demonstrated that a particular salmon peptide fraction has the ability to reverse the effects of type 2 diabetes in rodent feeding trials and model system (tissue culture) […]

L’objectif de ce projet est de mettre en place un système de calcul fonctionnant à base de l’informatique quantique, d’une série de prédiction, les performances des athlètes de baseball. Nous allons relever des données basées sur des gestes techniques et des habiletés des athlètes, sur l’aspect tactique, les données axées sur la stratégie de jeu […]

This project will give the intern the opportunity to explore the current state of the educational support network within Asian academia, which complements the intern’s knowledge and experience on the equivalent in Canada. By analyzing the new digital resources in terms of their purposes, impact and development processes, the intern will provide the organization with […]

Novagrow propose un stage de planification stratégique pour développer un nouveau marché pour ses produits: l’Ontario. Novagrow a consolidé une forte présence au Québec en 2021, et pour son année 2022, l’entreprise veut mettre en place un plan de commercialisation de ses produits dans une nouvelle province, soit l’Ontario. En collaboration avec un ou une […]

We aim to provide companionship, distraction and engagement for seniors who would prefer social interaction to being alone. Fundamentally, the technology we intend to develop and, by the end of the grant, deploy on a trial basis in a long-term care facility, would present a conversational nurse or care provider avatar with whom the seniors […]