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Brand and Community: Responsibility, Intentional Design, and Agency in the Video Game Industry

For this project, Jenn Rickert will work with the game company Certain Affinity in order to develop an understanding of best practices for game development in the modern era. More and more, society is accepting that the virtual world is often as real as the physical world in the minds of its participants. To this end, we will explore the complex relationships between gamer, game developer, and game, by merging existing industry experience and an interdisciplinary academic approach. Using this research, we will develop preliminary best practices for Certain Affinity’s game design and management goals, while simultaneously offering Jenn Rickert the insight and datasets from an industry perspective on this subject, not otherwise as readily available from existing academic works. Jenn Rickert and Certain Affinity share interest for innovating within the game development industry from the ground up, with emphasis on holistic and responsible game design.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Neil Randall

Student:

Partner:

Certain Affinity Games Canada, Inc.

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Predictive and auto-learning algorithm for fault Introduction collateral to software modification

As modern software is getting more complex, it is of great importance to ensure software reliability. Up to now, the most practical way of building high-reliable software is via a huge amount of testing and debugging. Therefore, software defect prediction, a technique to predict defects in software artifacts, has gained popularity by lessening the burden of developers to prioritize their testing and debugging efforts. In this project, we propose to develop a predictive and auto-learning algorithm that is able to predict potential software faults in a software program when a part of the program is modified. We will use a Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) based model (or rather, a further developed version of BERT called CodeBERT) for the prediction.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kin-Choong Yow

Student:

Partner:

Nokia Canada Inc (ON)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Regina

Program:

Accelerate

Coextrusion of continuous fibres and viscoelastic polymers by 5-axis additive manufacturing

For 50 years, the aviation, automotive and sports industries have been trying to reduce the weight of their products by using composite materials to reduce energy consumption. However, composite structures are too expensive to manufacture and are sensitive to vibration. This project aims to develop a multi-material, 5-axis 3D printer that is capable of printing both continuous fibers and rigid and soft polymers. This process allows complex composite structures to be manufactured without the need for molds and machining and therefore offers considerable advantages over conventional methods in terms of cost and speed. In particular, this technique is able to print long fibers and soft polymers in a single component to achieve a better balance between stiffness and damping, which is not yet done in the literature.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Joshua Pearce

Student:

Partner:

Université de Lorraine

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of Western Ontario

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Informal entrepreneurship education with youth: possibilities of an online platform

Entrepreneurship often refers to the founding of new businesses. However, new perspectives see the benefit of entrepreneurship for other areas of individual and social well-being. Such a change in perspective allows us to see the benefit of teaching about entrepreneurship at younger ages. This project aims to investigate possibilities of an online platform for providing entrepreneurship education in informal educational settings (at home/with parents, and in schools/communities). In this project, we will construct a 8-week program in the platform and explore the affordances and constraints in offering such various components of entrepreneurship to different age groups and in different informal settings. The results of the project will inform the curriculum design of future programs as well as offer guidelines for curriculum creation, parents and educators interested in facilitating entrepreneurship education.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alexandre Cavalcante

Student:

Partner:

Hatchable

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Business Development Intern

foodiepages is a Toronto, ON headquartered corporate gift and swag distribution company, offering tailor made gift boxes to its customers. The company has experienced sustained growth for the past 10 years with a significant increase in the last 18 months. In consideration of its expectation of continued growth, foodiepages seeks a partner to evaluate its current sales process and identify opportunities to create efficiencies, automation and scalability.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sandy Staples

Student:

Partner:

Foodiepages

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Retail trade

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Maximisation économique et sociale des surplus énergétique gérer par Gestion D G Guibault

La ville de Joliette dispose d’un surplus d’énergie en période de faible demande et a mandaté l’entreprise Gestion D G Guibault de rentabiliser ce surplus d’énergie. Dans cette optique de maximisation économique, le promoteur a bâti une installation de minage de cryptomonnaies pour rentabiliser au maximum le surplus d’énergie. Le minage demande beaucoup d’énergie électrique pour alimenter les calculateurs et l’énergie de refroidissement des calculateurs est actuellement simplement évacuée à l’environnement. La présente proposition porte sur l’examen des usages des surplus d’énergie les plus intéressants pour la ville et le promoteur. Pour atteindre cet objectif on procédera en trois étapes. Premièrement on évaluera l’efficacité avec laquelle le surplus d’énergie électrique est actuellement utilisée. Deuxièmement on recherchera parmi des projets d’utilisation de surplus d’énergie potentiellement similaires déjà réalisés ailleurs les applications les plus intéressantes pour la ville de Joliette. Troisièmement on examinera la meilleure façon d’implanter l’application la plus intéressante en tenant compte des contraintes de la ville.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kodjo Agbossou;Yves Dubé

Student:

Partner:

Canada Computational Unlimited Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Vertical Agriculture Data Valuation Strategy and Growing Environment Optimization

The objective is to demonstrate that the data can be reliably captured from the containerized farm, stored in the cloud and their digital twin solutions, and presented to human decision makers to support the monitoring of the growing environment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gunter Mussbacher

Student:

Partner:

La ferme à Simba

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

McGill University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Online cognitive training and cognitive rehabilitation / Goal Management Training™ (GMT)

There is a significant waitlist for clients experiencing cognitive impairment (which can be due to a number of reasons) to receive clinical care. Symptoms may include impairments to attention and executive functions (higher-level cognitive abilities supporting focused task performance) or functional (e.g., vocational or activities of daily living); symptoms may be exacerbated in those who have been impacted by infection by the COVID-19 virus. Based on this need, Baycrest researchers have developed the Goal Management Training™ (GMT) program, which incorporates decades of neuroscientific research on executive functions. Initially developed for people with brain injuries and aging, GMT has become a world-leading standardized, evidence-based intervention, with over 20 years of research demonstrating effectiveness across a broad range of conditions. The GMT program serves both patients under the care of therapists, as well as those who do not have access to professional care. However, the reach of the current therapist-guided GMT program offerings is limited, which means individuals who could benefit from the program and return to society as productive members and with re-gained quality of life is also limited.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Morgan Barense;Brian Levine

Student:

Partner:

Baycrest Hospital

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Coupled thermal-electrochemical modelling and characterization of novel lithium-ion cell architectures for electric vehicle batteries

Significant advances in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are driving the automotive industry’s transition to electrification. Canada’s expansive ecosystem of leading automakers, part manufacturers, research institutions, and skilled workforce are collectively well-positioned to further advance LIB technologies and overcome critical barriers that continue impacting electric vehicle (EV) adoption, including vehicle driving range, and battery lifespan and safety. These barriers are aggravated in extreme cold and hot climates due to the sensitivity of LIBs to sub-zero and high temperatures (above 45°C). Partnering with Flex | N | Gate and its Flex?Ion Battery Innovation Centre in Windsor, Ontario, we will jointly develop computational thermal-electrochemical battery models and experimental characterization methodologies to support the design and manufacturing of Flex | N | Gate’s LIB cells. We will apply a high fidelity computational and experimental framework combining physics- and data-based battery modelling methodologies to enable superior battery performance, enhanced safety, and extended lifetime in all climates. Flex | N | Gate will leverage these computational models and characterization methodologies to incorporate leading-edge thermal innovations into their next-generation pouch and cylindrical LIB cells.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Cristina Amon

Student:

Partner:

Flex-Ion Battery Innovation Center

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Etude d’un système antiphage de type avortement de l’infection contrôlé par un riborégulateur chez Clostridioides difficile

Clostridioides difficile est la principale cause de diarrhées post-antibiotiques chez les adultes dans les pays industrialisés et l’une des bactéries les plus problématiques en milieu hospitalier. Cependant, les processus de colonisation du tube digestif ainsi que les mécanismes qui contrôlent la virulence sont encore peu étudiés chez cette bactérie. Mieux comprendre la régulation de ces processus semble indispensable pour l’étude de ce pathogène émergent humain. L’objectif général de ce projet de déterminer les rôles biologiques des ARNs régulateurs et de découvrir les mécanismes moléculaires de la régulation basés sur l’action des ARNs chez C. difficile. Nous sommes particulièrement intéressés par la caractérisation d’un nouveau système de défense contre les bactériophages chez C. difficile, qui semble être régulé par un ARN régulateur. La réalisation de ce projet apportera la description du premier système de défense antiphage de type « avortement de l’infection » chez C. difficile, contrôlé par un riborégulateur, et devrait nous permettre de mieux comprendre des interactions de C. difficile avec les bactériophages. A plus long terme, ces données pourraient servir au développement de nouvelles stratégies thérapeutiques dirigées contre les infections à C. difficile.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Louis-Charles Fortier

Student:

Partner:

Université Paris-Saclay

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Flow: A live captioning system for dysarthric speech

In recent years, video conferencing has become a popular communication channel. However, for people with Parkinson’s disease, speech problems like stutters, gaps, and ticks can quickly derail a conversation and render video communication services unusable. Live captioning can be very helpful, but only if the captions have sufficient quality. To facilitate communication, we propose to build a live captioning system for Parkinson’s patients called Flow. Our work is based on an existing prototype captioning system, which we customize for Parkinson’s patients’ speech. Specifically, we collect anonymous speech recordings by Parkinson’s patients and use the recordings to customize the system for Parkinson’s patients.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Miikka Silfverberg;Jian Zhu

Student:

Partner:

Skyline Innovation

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Artifact development for Ergonomic Analysis of Work

Ergonomic Work Analysis (EAW) includes analysis of demands, observations, and analysis of planned and executed tasks. The EAW requires the measurement of the loads to which workers are exposed through ergonomic tools and the construction of action plans to adapt the working condition in a way that respects the human being.
Considering the Canadian Center for Occupational Health and Safety (https://www.ccohs.ca/) guides ergonomists and companies to observe Work-related musculoekeletal disorders (WMSDs) using observational systems dependent on analysts, this limites the ergonomics evaluation regarding the real assessment of conditions, which may expose workers to risks due to under-evaluated situations.
This study aims to find the answer to the question: “How to evaluate a work condition in a digital, integral, and continuous way to allow the adaptation of work to the human being?
This research will use the design science research method, based on the knowledge and experience of Canadian ergonomists to map opportunities for improvement and especially how to respond to the demand to adapt work to the human.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nancy Black

Student:

Partner:

Federal University of Parana

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Artificial Intelligence

University:

Université de Moncton

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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