Cette recherche vise à identifier les motivations du partage de fausses nouvelles sur Facebook et les problèmes causés par les fausses nouvelles dans le contexte du Covid-19. Pour atteindre cet objectif, la recherche portera sur cinq construits : l’implication personnelle, l’intention de faire confiance, l’intention de partager, les motivations intrinsèques et extrinsèques. Nous utiliserons l’enquête […]

Mon projet de thèse vise à analyser la façon dont les esclaves ont adopté la religion catholique et l’ont transformée avec des apports de croyances ancestrales d’origine africaine, participant ainsi à la formation d’une nouvelle culture. Je m’intéresse donc au vécu religieux des esclaves des Petites Antilles françaises. Ma recherche dans les archives romaines vise […]

This project is intended to develop our online learning products, the marketing of those products, and the marketing and selling of them via our website and other marketing channels. We would like to engage an MTEI graduate intern to assist with the planning and implementation of digitizing a few of our products. From there we […]

The proposed project will extend the AI4Buzz (http://ai4buzz.ca/) platform in three ways: social-network analysis, real-rime streaming data analysis, and statistical hypothesis exploration and testing. The platform has been developed in collaboration with CECN through a previous MITACS grant, entitled “A Toolkit For Analyzing Online Conversations for Solutions Based Policy Development” led by Dr. Lefsrud.

This Mitacs project will focus on mapping the landscape of social innovation labs in Canada, specifically: understanding how it has changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic; the methodologies and approaches applied by social labs across the country in addressing complex problems; and importantly, the impact these processes have on the people and communities […]

Le projet de stage porte sur l’usage de la blockchain dans l’administration et la gouvernance scolaires. S’inscrivant dans un projet de recherche doctoral, il ambitionne d’y contribuer à l’analyse de cet usage ainsi que les changements que la blockchain – ou chaine de blocs – apportent ou apporteraient à la gestion et à la prise […]

Climate-focused livelihood adaptation driven by donor-funded technocratic development projects has emerged as an instrumental strategy for addressing vulnerabilities of communities in the Global South. However, critical calls are rising for a more nuanced understanding of climate victims’ local realities (which often contrast significantly from national political agendas and climate crisis narratives), socio-spatial dynamics of vulnerability […]

Uluumy est une plateforme de formation et de coaching qui aide les professionnel.le.s à améliorer leurs compétences et à se perfectionner à l’ère de l’Intelligence Artificielle (IA) et des transformations numériques. Nous souhaitons proposer un ensemble de projets guidés qui montrent les applications de la science des données dans différents domaines comme la finance, la […]

Au sein des études théâtrales, il est encore la norme d’analyser le jeu d’acteur en fonction du média dans lequel il est performé, ce qui entraîne une séparation entre le jeu d’acteur cinématographique et le jeu d’acteur scénique. Cette division semble inadéquate, voire dépassée, étant donné que les créations théâtrales contemporaines font de plus en […]

This project is a part of the preliminary phase of the research program aiming to design assistive device to prevent WMSDs and HRI in farmworkers. The intern will gather qualitative data by administering questionnaires and conducting an interview with workers on their perceptions of risks and interventions. Fifty workers over 18 years old, stratified samples […]

Over the last few years, Nureva has experienced an increasing trend with their audio products being purchased for HyFlex (hybrid-flexible) classrooms across North America, particularly in higher education. Research shows that this is something many institutions are investing in and will continue to invest in beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. However, not a lot of research […]

Building off of the previous MITACS funded project titled, Guys’ Healthy Living Atlantic Canada: Bridges Institute and Public Schools in Atlantic Canada, this project proposal continues to partner with Bridges Institute with the purposes of providing boys’ only healthy living groups in Nova Scotia’s public schools. As with any new novel and promising project comes […]