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 […]

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. […]

The project examines internet fraud as a practice engaged in by individuals who are economically disadvantaged, are unable to find regular jobs, and are not able to migrate to developed countries where work might be found, often because of border restrictions that exclude them. It proposes to study how literary writers have been thinking about […]

Encadrée par la Chaire de recherche du Canada en muséologie citoyenne, cette étude vise à comprendre le potentiel et les limites d’une application mobile qui encourage la prise de parole des groupes racisés autour d’objets de la collection ethnographique déployés dans l’aile des Arts du Toute-Monde au Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal. Son originalité repose […]

What if our buildings, instead of producing 30% of the world’s carbon emissions, could act as a carbon sink? Soft Concrete aims to rethink concrete in the built environment. The goal of this study is to explore sustainable alternatives to concrete, one of the largest sources of carbon in modern construction, but to retain the […]

Project training plan: As a scholarly publisher, CSP’s revenues are supported predominately by university library subscription fees and open access publishing fees. It is clear that COVID-19 will have a direct impact on university library budgets, however the extent of this effect remains uncertain. Due to this uncertainty, CSP is undertaking a scenario planning exercise […]

The Moose Hide Campaign is working to end violence towards women and children, especially Indigenous women and children, by creating an impact on the grassroots level. The project aims to engage the Canadian population by developing an online training module to help them understand and create awareness about violence against women and children and inspire […]

Attention problems are common with aging and related disorders (like stroke) and are associated with poor recovery and quality of life. Many clinical tests of attention are not based on neurocognitive concepts and are limited to in person visits. The Dalhousie Computerized Attention Battery (DalCAB) is a theory-based, in-depth measure of attention that can be […]

L’objectif principal du projet est de développer la stratégie marketing de l’organisation. Tout d’abord, puisque c’est une compagnie qui n’a pas encore rentrée officiellement sur le marché, elle aura besoin d’un énorme soutien marketing afin de développer sa notoriété. Le développement de cet organisme permet également au Canada d’avoir une jeune entreprise québécoise, compétente et […]

L’urgence sanitaire liée à la COVID-19 a forcé les ainés à adopter des mesures drastiques de confinement qui les mettent à risque d’un isolement. À long terme, ce confinement peut conduire à un désintérêt de la vie. L’organisme communautaire l’Accorderie de Sherbrooke, qui propose un système d’échange local entre ses membres, a mis sur pied […]

Contagious diseases, such as SARS and COVID-19, bring a large amount of damage to human’s life and world economy. Pathogens spread among individuals through the contact network. It is observed that most social networks show a power-law degree distribution, implying that hubs exist in these networks. Finding underlying super-spreaders (hubs) and isolating or immunizing them […]

The Mitacs Intern will support the Direct[Message] project to develop and undertake online arts workshops for older adults to reduce social isolation resulting from COVID-19 and develop an understanding of the needs and wants of older adults who experience barriers to participation in the arts. The Intern will interview participants to gain knowledge about their […]