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If You Don’t Like the Game, Change the Rules: Alternative Modes of Videogame Production

The games industry is infamous for making employees work excessive hours, fostering toxic work environments, and burning out its workforce. Despite these concerns, game developers are hesitant to change how their businesses are organised. This research project will explore the reasons that Canadian game workers may be reluctant to adopt alternative labour structures such as unions, cooperatives, and 4-day work weeks. The research team will gather information through interviews and surveys with game workers, labour organisers, and industry experts. The primary research outputs for this project are: 1) a white paper summarising research findings and contextualising them the current media landscape and; 2) a comic that outlines alternatives to traditional work structures.
This research project will help further GAIN’s goals of building solidarity across regional game arts and industry groups. Both research outcomes are designed to foster discussions about better labour futures in the Canadian videogame industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mia Consalvo

Student:

Partner:

Game Arts International Network

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Partopia Digital-Digital Marketer Internship-Thangavel

As a digital marketing firm that is primarily dealing with small businesses in the lower mainland, Partopia Digital believes in supporting our community and giving back. This project will focus on developing a business development plan, using various marketing skills, ranging from lead acquisition to specific industry searches, customer segmentation, and Search Engine Optimization. The project will also involve smaller web design and development projects, which will be taken from an initial communication stage with our clients, to creating designs, assessing content in coordination with our team, to presentation of design mock-ups to the client, and delivering a completed project, once all approvals have been received. The intern will gain experience with current web development languages, including HTML5, CSS3, PHP/ MySQL as well as experience working with a leading team of web professionals.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Heather Harrison

Student:

Partner:

Partopia Digital

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Lobster Acoustic Signalling During Behavioural Interactions

Acoustic Bait Technologies (ABT) is a start-up company located in Morristown, Nova Scotia. They are developing an alternative bait system for the lobster fishery, with the goal of helping the industry switch to more sustainable bait use. They are pursuing the use of recorded acoustic lobster sounds to modify the behaviour of lobsters to attract them into lobster traps. Ultimately, they plan on a producing an acoustic bait device, consisting of a waterproof casing and transmitter equipped with a power source and digital playback circuitry in order to project recordings underwater while mounted on the inside of a lobster trap. The research proposed here uses submersible tripods equipped with cameras and hydrophones to simultaneously record video and sounds lobsters make while foraging in their natural habitat. By comparing sound recordings to lobster numbers and behavioural frequencies, we can begin to understand the behavioural context for different sounds produced by lobsters. From here, ABT will be better able to select sounds that may be attractive to lobsters for testing in their devices.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Russell Wyeth

Student:

Partner:

Acoustic Bait Technologies

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

St. Francis Xavier University

Program:

Accelerate

Preparing Accounting Students for CPA Hiring Season

CPA has noticed current issues in the recruitment process of accounting students from Post-Secondary Institutions (PSI). Because accounting firms and industry rely on PSI for most of their new employees, CPA decided that they want to design and implement new programs to help better prepare students for their future accounting career. Through this internship, we will look at previously used systems and programs through focus groups, as well as gain new ideas through surveys. Focus groups will allow us to gain insight from the attendees of our TRU Accounting Night event, such as students, accounting firms and industry. After the event, all attendees will be given a survey to provide feedback on ways to improve the accounting recruitment process. We will then take our findings and create a report that will be shared and presented with CPABC and ACE-WIL BC/Yukon.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jamie Noakes

Student:

Partner:

Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Education; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Thompson Rivers University

Program:

Accelerate

VanWyn Optimized MASER for Ultra-Secure Communication with Greater Bandwidth and Safe Wireless Power Transfer

VanWyn Inc., an engineering company based in Hamilton, Ontario, is developing a game-changing technology that will make possible vastly more data transfer (superior to 5G networks), along with wireless communication that cannot be intercepted by anyone other than the intended receiver, radically changing the world of cyber security. This new device will also finally make possible safe and efficient “wireless power transfer”, automatically sending and receiving electrical energy across vast distances. VanWyn’s version of power beaming will make possible indefinite flight for all electrically-powered aircraft, leading to the removal of all fossil fuel use from the skies and providing a massive step forward in solving climate change.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marco Antoniades;Natalia Nikolova

Student:

Partner:

VanWyn

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McMaster University; Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Accelerate

Indirect quantum interactions on a quantum computer.

One of the main issues with many quantum computing platforms is that not all quantum bits (qubits) can interact directly. This results in an overhead in the number of operations required to run an algorithm and ultimately in longer run times that can become prohibitive. Entangled Networks is currently developing hardware and software solutions to elevate this problem by using alternative methods to mediate interactions. The aims of this project is to develop code that can be used to benchmark these algorithms. The results will help in deciding which directions are worth implementing in the short term and are expected to lead to further collaborations between U. Sherbrooke and Entangled Networks.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dave Touchette

Student:

Partner:

Entangled Networks

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Refining a women’s heart health promotion program by engaging patients as active partners

Women with elevated cardiovascular disease risk can improve their health by participating in interventions that encourage health promoting behaviours, such as physical activity. However, although a person may know that they will benefit from participating in a health promotion program, there are many reasons why people do not adopt healthier lifestyles. Patients with lived experience have specific knowledge of the barriers and facilitators that limited or supported their failure or success completing health promotion programming. Therefore, this project will utilize patient-oriented research approaches to engage women with personal experience living with elevated cardiovascular disease risk for the purpose of refining the HerHeart Women’s Heart Health program delivery approach so it is more strongly aligned with how they want it to be delivered. Engagement activities will be done through consultation and also through their involvement as patient advisory committee members over a 36-month period. The Reh-Fit Centre will benefit from this project by gaining patient-perspectives to refine their program delivery model, enhance the reach of the program into diverse communities and to inform the design of a novel mobile health technology application (app) to support program scalability and delivery.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Todd Duhamel

Student:

Partner:

Reh-Fit Centre

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a High Throughput Software Pipeline For Microfluidic Image Analysis

The proposed project will have the intern contributing to software development on three core projects: Development of an autofocus system that can be integrated with mechanical control of the microscope objective/stage, improving the image processing pipeline through refinements to database integration and UI/UX, and improvements to experiment flow/reporting by integrating report templates into the reporting process and providing intermediate result access to staff through visualizations in the internal company portal. Completing these projects will provide several benefits. Integrating autofocus will improve data collection for lab staff and require less manual adjustment or rejection of out-of-focus frames during an experiment. Improvements to the image processing will provide faster, more accurate, and more automated image processing to reduce manual effort while increasing experiment throughput. Improving our reporting products will also reduce manual effort by staff while standardizing reporting materials for clients across the organization. Finally, improvements to the internal portal will provide better guidance for lab staff as a project is conducted.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Peichun Amy Tsai

Student:

Partner:

Interface Fluidics

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Natural burial site in Yellow Point area

The Yellow Point Ecological Society (YES) works to understand, appreciate, protect, and restore the ecosystems and watersheds in the Yellow Point area of Vancouver Island. YES is investigating the possibility of setting up a natural burial site by purchasing either a piece of land slated for logging or one already decimated and ready for reforestation. Intern will be working on developing a solid business plan for the development of the natural burial site, which will enable us to determine how much land we might need, what the cost of purchase might be, and what the ongoing operations and maintenance costs and other considerations might be, along with developing a solid marketing and communications plan for the natural burial site.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Selena Martin

Student:

Partner:

Yellow Point Ecological Society

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Vancouver Island University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Brooklin Consulting Internship

The objective of the business strategy internship program is to improve the existing front end processes and systems at Brooklin Consulting. The intern will be responsible for improving the existing CRM system’s data integrity, and documenting best practices. They will be responsible for creating updated customer profiles for Brooklin’s many business segments and supporting the sales funnel by researching contacts and organizations in desired target markets.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nicholas Gregg;Sandy Staples

Student:

Partner:

Brooklin Consulting

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Développement d’un plan marketing-communications pour Habitat

L’objectif d’Habitat est de faciliter la mise en application de solutions concrètes et innovantes issues de la recherche, et ce, aussi bien dans les milieux naturels, que dans les milieux agricoles ou urbanisés. Depuis sa fondation en 2017, Habitat n’a cessé de croître et s’implique maintenant dans une gamme élargie de projets de caractérisation écologique et de priorisation spatiale auprès des municipalités, des ONG, des gouvernements et des propriétaires privés. En octobre 2021, l’entreprise a défini son premier plan d’affaires à court et moyen termes. Pour le mettre en œuvre de façon stratégique et efficace et atteindre les cibles visées, l’entreprise cherche aujourd’hui à développer un plan de communications scientifique qui appuie ce plan d’affaires et qui l’aide ainsi à consolider son image de marque, étendre sa notoriété à l’intérieur du Québec et s’afficher comme leader pour une transition écologique basée sur la nature et la science.
Pour l’année 2021-2022, l’entreprise souhaite se démarquer de ses compétiteurs et valoriser les services offerts et mise ainsi sur la créativité et l’innovation à l’interne. Pour ce faire, l’entreprise souhaite miser sur la communication scientifique et un meilleur transfert des connaissances.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe

Student:

Partner:

Habitat

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Agriculture; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Avatar Care Provider for Seniors Residences

We aim to provide companionship, distraction and engagement for seniors who would prefer social interaction to being alone. Fundamentally, the technology we intend to develop and, by the end of the grant, deploy on a trial basis in a long-term care facility, would present a conversational nurse or care provider avatar with whom the seniors could have a conversation anytime they want to talk to someone. Through these conversations, and in particular, via analysis of dialog with the simulated nurse, the system will acquire metrics of both immediate medical needs as well as psychosocial indicators of the senior’s well-being, including data extracted directly from the conversation, and para-linguistic content such as tone of voice, indicative of affect or mood. These data could help maintain awareness among staff of their residents’ immediate needs and general well-being, helping address the critical shortage and need for nursing staff in these facilities, while benefiting the quality of life of the residents.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jeremy Cooperstock;Karyn Moffatt

Student:

Partner:

Object Research Systems;iMD Research

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

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