Le projet permettra d’évaluer la criticité des évènements enregistrés pour une meilleure visibilité, et générer des alertes d’urgence et de prévention afin d’établir des plans d’action qui empêcheront l’occurrence des évènements répétitifs et critiques à travers une analyse générale des différentes phases du cycle de vie du produit A l’issu de ce projet, Pratt & […]

Dementia affects our memory, thinking, emotions and ability to perform everyday tasks and the prevalence of dementia is increasing in the Ottawa region with over 24 000 living with dementia. Recently, the DSORC launched a new website called www.dementia613.ca – the region’s most trusted dementia-friendly resource directory. The site currently serves only between 4-5,000 of […]

This research will help to unplay and rewrite certain ideas of “assistive” technology by developing methods to engage children and youth in the process of collaborative, multi-media creation where captioning and audio description are used as creative tools. Successful approaches, workshop plans, DIY tools, discovery games and training methods will be accumulated in a playful […]

The proposed research is to investigate and prototype an intelligent architecture for the MemeLabs contest platform that will support advanced features such as multi-layer access control, scaleable design, and to explore innovative mechanisms such as generation and embedding a watermark in shared media of both photo and video. The project is important in the company’s […]

This project addresses challenging needs of medicolegal report writers. Subject matter experts who provide expert witness testimony in the form of a medicolegal report, are asked to review thousands of pages of documents from a variety of sources to formulate their opinions. Report Mate’s goal is to develop an online platform aimed at medical report […]

Identity is one of the most fundamental aspects of our daily lives. From depositing money into a bank account, to attending a friend’s party, almost all of our activities go through some kind of identity relation. Current systems for managing this vast volume of identity “transactions” are mostly central, causing them to be targets for […]

The notion of ownership is fundamental and essential in a number of settings, including the setting that is the focus of this proposal: information over the Internet. Ownership of some content, in turn, endows the owner with certain rights over the content. The intent of this proposed research project is to (a) precisely enunciate what […]

Explosive growth of social media has transformed how people communicate, interact, and actively express their opinions about different topics. Scrawlr’s unique model for platform management allows extensive freedom for users to generate their content, creating a novel opportunity to evaluate user opinions and network structure. A popular method to analyze online content is sentiment analysis. […]

Over the past few years, Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in machine learning tasks on graph data and have been widely applied to many real-world applications across different fields, such as traffic prediction, user behavior analysis, and fraud detection. However, networks in the real world are often with heterogeneous degree distributions, such […]

The Internet of Things (IoT) presents opportunities for innovative systems that can be used by companies to get a competitive edge. In this context, 360-Agency is working on integrating an IoT solution, called Reatinos, into her existing system. Modernizing such large software system is a demanding and costly task, and it requires understanding of the […]

This project investigates the development of an online service that empowers individuals at higher education institutions to develop and deploy surveys that reveal how faculty, staff, and students at their institutions perceive open scholarship and inclusive practices. We believe that individuals at higher education institutions will be better able to understand and advocate for open […]

Stuttering is a neurodevelopmental speech motor disorder characterized by dysfluencies. There is no consensus yet on the underlying causes of this disorder, but one hypothesis suggests that people who stutter have impaired rhythmic and timing abilities. Stuttering symptoms can be reduced for example when speaking to a metronome or reading aloud with other people. This […]