Guide virtuel pour la Maison du Frère-Moffet

Le travail de recherche de Jean-Michel Laliberté s’insère dans le projet de renouvellement de l’exposition permanente de la Maison du Frère-Moffet. Cette exposition prend la forme d’un jeu où le visiteur est accompagné par un guide virtuel qui représente un personnage. Le récit du guide se construit à travers un parcours de réalité mixte où […]

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The History of the Quebec Common Gaol

This is a project to update the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec’s permanent exhibit, Doing Time: The Quebec City Common Gaol (1808 – 1867). Since the exhibit was launched in 2011, much research has been done on the history of the gaol. Doing Time is seen by some 25,000 visitors per year. For some, […]

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The Art of Small City Transformation: exploring a role for socially engaged public art institutes as leaders with municipal cultural sustainability agendas

This project investigates the role small city public art galleries play, and might play, in catalyzing community transformation on the municipal level. In looks, in particular, at the work being accomplished by socially-engaged small city galleries across Canada, and at the ways in which this work can inform and mobilize municipal agendas rooted in cultural […]

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Intelligent hockey sticks for personalized and context-aware performance

Fitting hockey players with the proper stick remains a complex process. Even though clear benefits are expected from this process, its complexity limits its application to only a few times during the career of the very top athletes. Furthermore, unlike golf, hockey players mostly use the same stick during all game situations. Previous research clearly […]

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How does Canada succeed in the ultra-short triathlon events: examining the physiological characteristics and recovery strategies to enhance performance in the mixed relay event for 2020 and beyond

Triathlon races are usually longer than 2 hours, but a new short distance team event has been added to the Olympics. This new event, the mixed relay, requires 2 men and 2 women to complete a short course which takes about 20 minutes each to complete. We want to know how the triathletes perform because […]

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Improving avalanche forecasts in data-sparse areas with physical snowpack modelling

Assessing dangerous avalanche conditions requires a reliable stream of weather and snowpack data, which can be difficult and expensive to collect in many remote areas of Canada. Snowpack conditions can be simulated in these areas by coupling weather forecast models with physical snowpack models, however, this method has had limited adoption by avalanche forecasters. The […]

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Human Body Capture and Prediction from Rehearsed Live Performances

We address the problem of 3D human body motion capture and prediction to be used in the context of a live music concert performances. The difficulty of capturing the motion of a performer in this context comes from the harsh environment in which it takes place that includes strong and varying lighting, smoke generators, and […]

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Soutenir le développement et le déploiement d’offres alimentaires distinctives et adaptées aux consommateurs en restauration : GastronomiQc Lab

Les restaurants sont des entreprises dynamiques qui doivent innover pour s’adapter aux grandes tendances de consommation tout en conservant le caractère distinctif de leur offre alimentaire/culinaire. La recherche proposée fournira des connaissances en appui au développement, au déploiement et à l’adoption de ces innovations. Plusieurs objectifs seront atteints dans le cadre de sous-projets, tels que […]

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