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Assisting Persons with Low Vision during Everyday Tasks using Augmented Reality

Persons with visual impairments often have residual vision, even if they are legally blind. In this research project, we want to develop technology to assist persons with visual impairment in their everyday life. We want to use augmented reality to enhance the real world visually. The system will be implemented to extract all necessary information for at least one specific task from the environment. Based on previous research with people with visual impairment and relevant literature, we will then design specific augmentations to present the extracted and visually complex information in a visually simple way. We aim to submit the results to international conferences. In general, the resulting system should assist persons with visual impairment during at least one everyday task. The focus of this internship will be on the technical development of the system, rather than on its evaluation. Such user studys may take place during a later stage of research.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stephen Brooks

Student:

Partner:

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Education

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Developing a better understanding of the integration needs of newcomers in the workplaces in Newfoundland and Labrador

The goals of this partnership are for this study to provide an informative framework that employers can work from to develop strong policies which can demonstrate their sensitivity to the lived experience of their immigrant employee. From that goal, several other beneficial actions can occur which may strengthen Newfoundland and Labrador into becoming a powerful migration destination which may alleviate many troubling trends that the province is currently experiencing. The results of this study will help understand the integration needs of immigrants in the Newfoundland and Labrador labour market, which will provide a reference for the partner organization’s employment support programs for immigrants. This, in turn, will assist the employers in the province to achieve the goal of a more welcoming and diverse workplace.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tony Fang

Student:

Partner:

Association for New Canadians;Newfoundland and Labrador Chinese Canadian Service Group

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration); Public administration

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Development of an Upper Limb Muscle Dynamometer for Rehabilitation of Nerve Injury Patients

This project seeks to refine a prototype device for measuring upper limb muscle strength in patients with spinal cord injuries. Clinicians currently rely on a combination of subjective measures and complicated functional tests to assess their patients. We have developed an initial prototype table-top, multi-joint upper limb muscle dynamometer (tool for measuring muscle power), in order to address the gap in the ability to quickly, reliably and objectively measure upper limb muscle strength and power. Our goals for further refinement of this prototype device are to: 1) improve validity and performance by upgrading the system’s current motor and sensing systems, 2) solicit feedback from patients and clinicians to improve usability, 3) undertake validation testing in the clinical setting. Achieving these three goals will improve how the assessment and rehabilitation of nerve injury patients is undertaken, which will in turn help to improve their rehabilitative outcomes and quality of life.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Joshua W Giles;Mike Berger

Student:

Partner:

Rick Hansen Foundation

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Other services (except public administration); Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Le Plumitif Accessible

La présente demande concerne le chantier de recherche sur le « plumitif accessible » lequel s’inscrit dans l’axe Connaissance et conscience du droit du projet ADAJ (Accès au droit et à la justice) financé par le Conseil de recherche en sciences humaines (CRSH) en partenariat. En effet comprendre le contenu des plumitifs est un défi important. Au Québec, toute personne peut obtenir accès aux plumitifs relatifs à une instance civile ou criminelle. Il s’agit d’informations à caractère public. L’information disponible dans les plumitifs est aride et fragmentaire. Encore aujourd’hui, les plumitifs sont essentiellement consultés par des professionnels du droit, des personnes travaillant à l’administration de la justice ou des personnes faisant de la vérification d’antécédents judiciaires. Or, dans le contexte où le nombre de parties non représentées ne cesse d’augmenter, et que celles-ci devront inévitablement consulter un plumitif, devrait-on se préoccuper de la compréhension qu’elles ont des informations rendues disponibles ? Le projet consiste à évaluer la compréhension moyenne des justiciables et des professionnels du droit à la lecture d’un plumitif et à proposer des améliorations pour favoriser la compréhension et la lisibilité de ce document juridique.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sandrine Prom Tep;Florence Millerand

Student:

Partner:

Société québécoise d'information juridique

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Transformation of the moss Physcomitrium patens

This project will provide essential technical support and experimental plant materials for my Ph.D. project studying the leaf development of a non-vascular plant, the Physcomitrium patens. The mutant lines I will obtain from this project will be used to study the whole developmental process of the moss leaf. The mutant line with a plasma membrane fluorescence marker will enable the detection of cell border without disruptive staining using confocal microscope. For example, the mutant line with an additional cytoskeleton marker will serve as a tool to associate cell behavior with local mechanical stress. The incorporation of these plant materials and the cutting-edge methods including real-time live confocal imaging, mechanical property analysis and 3D image reconstruction will allow us to approach fundamental biological questions including how do plant organs interpret genetic commands at cellular and tissue level; what is the role of mechanics in regulating leaf morphogenesis? The transformation technique will also contribute to the future study of moss leaf development during my Ph.D.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Daniel Kierzkowski

Student:

Partner:

Université de Lyon (Lyon, France)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Biotechnology; Life Sciences (not health)

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Personal Analytics to Enhance Smarter Commerce

Personal analytics refers to a recent trend where individuals wish to collect, analyze and visualize personal information so that they can gain knowledge about one’s behaviours, habits and thoughts in the context of their personal goals. The trend of self-tracking is rapidly increasing as people are becoming smarter about choices available to them, and seek awareness into the value of the actions they take and the purchases they make. While significant research effort is going into the research of ubiquitous tools to support the collection of personal data, a critical component of personal informatics tools is to support the integration, reflection and action phases of personal analytics: people need the ability to bring data together, to explore their data to understand their patterns, and to understand themselves in an objective way to devise plans of action. In this project, we aim to develop more advanced visualization and interaction techniques to present the data to the user so that they can make sense of their data, reflect on it and ultimately make more informed decisions within the context of smarter commerce initiatives at IBM.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Margaret-Anne Storey

Student:

Partner:

IBM Canada Ltd

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology; Technology

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Economic Prosperity Collaborative Research Project

This research project is a collaboration between researchers at the Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute (DBDLI) and Dalhousie University and aims to inform practices and grow knowledge on collaboration, economic prosperity and well-being in the African Nova Scotian (ANS) community. Nyasha Mandeya will be focusing on investigating the collaborative process that went into the creation of the Black Prosperity Index (BPI), while David Kerr will be focusing on research leading to modular curriculum centered around Africentric leadership, economic prosperity, Ubuntu, and governance that would be infused into a specific Dalhousie MBA course, BUSI6995 Building Collaborative Capacity, and help to guide the inclusion of DEI principles in other MBA courses at Dalhousie University. In addition, the curriculum will be managed by DBDLI and shared with community organizations. This project will benefit the DBDLI by filling a gap in the current literature surrounding the collaboration process within ANS communities. This project is consistent with the DBDLI’s key value of making research applicable in academic settings, workplace settings and within the community. A secondary benefit is this collaboration will allow both groups to explore a relationship to engage in future research projects centered around Africentric leadership and sustainability..

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Faculty Supervisor:

Heidi Weigand

Student:

Partner:

Delmore “Buddy” Daye Learning Institute

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Education; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Impact of Prescribed fire on Grassland Productivity and Diversity

Prescribed fire is an important tool to maintain the productivity and diversity of grasslands. Remnant grasslands within the jurisdiction of the Meewasin Valley Authority are thought to require fire to both maintain ecosystem integrity and to reduce the danger of wildfire. While there are many individual studies demonstrating the value of prescribed fire in Western Canada, there has been no comprehensive quantitative review and assessment of the evidence. This proposed project will support a post-doctoral fellow in conducting a formal synthesis of existing data of fire effects on grasslands. This research is critical to justifying and supporting the resources put into prescribed fire programs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eric Lamb

Student:

Partner:

Meewasin

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation; Public administration

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Amélioration de la résolution des problèmes en développement de nouveaux produits en bénéficiant de l’ingénierie de la créativité associée à la notion de la valeur

Un client qui est à la recherche d’un produit ou d’un service désire faire la meilleure acquisition possible.
Évidemment, les entreprises déploient beaucoup d’effort pour satisfaire les besoins de ces clients en
créant des produits ou des services qui comportent toutes sortes de fonctionnalités utiles. Ces dernières,
d’un aspect technique, effectuent le travail, cependant, d’un aspect valeur, apportent-elles la valeur
nécessaire et perçue par l’utilisateur?
Même si techniquement la solution choisie semble la meilleure, une autre solution moins intéressante,
toujours techniquement, pourrait offrir à l’utilisateur plus de valeurs. Dans cette recherche, une équipe
de concepteur en développement de produits sera formée à prendre en compte l’aspect valeur dans leurs
designs d’équipement. Ainsi, la réussite de l’entreprise passe par la création de valeurs pour satisfaire
les besoins de ces clients.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mickaël Gardoni

Student:

Partner:

Groupe Korok inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Engagement and online communities: Promoting a culture of helping those in need.

Social media are important ways of interaction between people, creating communities that can engage in order to promote relationships. When used by companies for philanthropic purposes, they can promote actions and donations. The purpose of this research is to understand how engagement can be enhanced through social media communities to get people to help each other more often. This project promotes a social impact through the advancement of knowledge through the use of technologies, such as social networks, in the search for creative and relevant solutions to solve the problem of organizations with philanthropic purposes. In addiction, this study promotes interaction between researchers and helps in important research gaps for the development of knowledge. Also promoting the rapprochement of the research groups Observatoire de la Philanthropie at L’Université du Québec with Trois-Rivières in Canada and Information and Media Lab in Brazil at the Federal University of Paraná in Brazil.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Léo Trespeuch

Student:

Partner:

Federal University of Parana

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Entertainment and Media; New and Digital Media

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Globalink Research Award

« Synthetic Souls » : Extraction et classification de données de joueurs humains

Le but du projet est de développer un pipeline de données qui traite les observations de séances de jeu et les segmente en différents archétypes de joueurs. À titre d’exemple, dans un jeu de rôle, certains joueurs ont un style de jeu offensif, tandis que d’autres ont un style plus défensif. Le premier défi est d’identifier ces différents styles de jeu en utilisant des méthodes d’apprentissage non supervisées. Le deuxième défi est d’identifier les actions et erreurs propres à chaque groupe pour faciliter l’entraînement de bots devant adopter des comportements humains immersifs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Laurent Charlin

Student:

Partner:

Stockholm Syndrome.AI

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Development of an annular array histotripsy transducer with co-registered ultrasound imaging

This project will focus on the design, fabrication and testing of an annular array-based histotripsy transducer that will improve the combined ultrasound imaging and therapy endoscopic device currently in development at Daxsonics. Histotripsy is a method of focusing high intensity ultrasound waves to liquify tissue and is a promising new method of accurately removing tumors with much less damage to surrounding tissue than current methods. This device will be part of a surgical suite for minimally invasive neurosurgery, enabling removal of tumors with extremely high precision. The current design uses an acoustic lens to focus ultrasound to a fixed point. In this project an annular array will be used to enable the focal depth to be electronically moved, resulting in increased penetration depth and more rapid tissue removal.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Geoff Maksym;Jeremy Brown

Student:

Partner:

Daxsonics Ultrasound Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

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