Innovative Projects Realized

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13270 Completed Projects

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Projects by Category

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Engineering - chemical / biological

The utility of ergonomic monitoring on affecting health behavior in the workplace

Smartpods, located in Dieppe, New Brunswick, have developed a new product “the Pulse Quest”. The Pulse Quest is a digital monitoring technology that transforms an ordinary electric adjustable desk into a “smart” desk. Not only does the Pulse Quest automate the movement of the sit stand desk, it simultaneously collects data on a battery of employee health measures. This project would bring together the research expertise from Dr. Cardoso’s Laboratoire de Performance Occupationnel (LPO) (l’Université de Moncton), Dr. Albert’s Occupational Performance Laboratory (OPL) (University of New Brunswick) and Smartpods. The research partnership proposes a series of research projects associated with the analysis of the rich data provided by the Pulse Quest technology. There are two main themes to the research: 1) how employees modify behavior with the presence of the Pulse Quest as a part of their workstation; and 2) how the Pulse quest can be used to promote healthy behaviors in the workplace.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michelle Cardoso;Wayne Albert

Student:

Cynthia Dion;Michelle Léger

Partner:

Smartpods

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Other

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Assessing the mental health impact of Covid-19 on Canadians: a longitudinal study

MHRC is conducting ongoing polling of Canadians to assess the effect of Covid19 on mental health. We require additional support to expand our capacity to analyze the datasets we are creating. Our poll is extensive including a number of markers of mental health along with an array of demographic controls and is rolled out every 6 to 8 weeks. While we will release top-line data, this internship will involve a deeper dive into these dataset to parse out new findings. The candidate will stay informed on the newest research pertaining to effective means of weighting, and understanding how the various demographics we poll respond to mental health questions, and then will advise on suggestions to improve data collection and reporting. The results of this work will help inform policy makers so that they can develop appropriate responses to help mitigate Covid-19 mental health impact.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John P. Hirdes

Student:

Gustavo Betini

Partner:

Mental Health Research Canada

Discipline:

Epidemiology / Public health and policy

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Development of Conversational Agents and Applications in Playful Environments

In this project, we propose an intelligent conversational agents prototype that provides meaningful, playful exchanges in different interactive settings. By taking advantage of the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and creating a model founded on knowledge from social and cognitive sciences, we will build a series of digital avatars to test their interaction ability. This research-creation project connects to other disciplines like Human Computer Interactions (HCI). In this field, human behaviour is partly studied by how people process feedback from different technologies such as the internet, social media, and mobile applications. I aim to improve the development process of conversational AI agents, which will in turn help me to deepen my research knowledge in text modeling in the context of conversational agents

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nizar Bouguila

Student:

Hafsa Ennajari

Partner:

Urbanoïd Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Earth Diver: Digital Land-based Worlding

This project pilots “Earth Diver” an online digital ‘land-based’ creation, curation, and exhibition site in the virtual world platform Second Life. The project re-imagines the digital gallery space as a virtual expression of Indigenous pedagogies, land relations, and sovereignty. Guided by Ojibwe Anishinaabe philosophies our team of artists, philosophers and environmental scientists work together to create a series of immersive and interactive environments, habitats, stories and objects that express, enact, and reflect Indigenous thought, relationships to land, ancestral teachings, languages, cultural traditions, pasts, presents and futures. The project will culminate with a virtual exhibition of the work, and series of 5 community-based workshops. Programmed by Native Women in the Arts (NWIA), the project’s processes inform NWIA’s digital strategy, and advance their goals to support Indigenous women, gender non-conforming and transgender artists.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dolleen Tiisawii’asii Manning;Mary Bunch

Student:

Mariel Belanger;Lydia Johnson;Reuben Clark

Partner:

Native Women in the Arts

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Program:

Accelerate

City of Markham Inclusive Community Engagement Research Project

The proposed research project will explore how cities can do a better job at engaging everyone in the community planning process. This research will result in a collection of best practices and recommendations to help the City of Markham better engage with individuals in the community that are traditionally excluded from the planning process. This may include racial and ethnic minorities, youth, older adults, low-income residents, and individuals with mental and physical disabilities, among others.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kathrine Rankin

Student:

Sawdah Ismail

Partner:

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Developing the local economies of food in northern Indigenous communities

Communities in Canada’s North face a series of complex barriers to food accessibility and sovereignty. The Dene community of Kakisa in the Northwest Territories is partnering with Wilfrid Laurier University to research and implement solutions to food security and sovereignty. Kakisa leadership and residents plan to leverage their community economic development arm – Noda Enterprises Ltd – to create a food hub, where food can be grown, harvested processed, and distributed in ways that build economic resilience while promoting cultural resurgence, and respecting traditional customs of harvest and food sharing. Through the project, Noda will also strengthen its overall economic viability while supporting the health and wellbeing of the community.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andrew Spring

Student:

Evan Bowness

Partner:

Noda

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Wilfrid Laurier University

Program:

Accelerate

Exploration of neuronal hyperexcitability in human spinal cord tissue models of pathological pain

Chronic pain is a devastating disease that lacks safe and effective treatments. Development of new pain therapeutics depends on understanding the spinal circuitry underlying chronic pain, but most previous studies focus on this circuitry in male rodents. Our previous work has developed tools for studying the spinal cord pain system using human organ donor tissue to address the translation gap in pain research. Here, we will expand on our human tissue models to study the spinal cord circuitry that underlies chronic pain using cutting-edge technology. We will use grids of electrodes called Multi-Electrode Arrays to, for the first time in history, record the electrical properties of populations of human spinal cord pain-sensing neurons. We will use these recordings to make comparisons into mechanisms of pain processing between both rats and humans, and between males and females. These fundamental studies will provide valuable insight into how pain physiology diverges and/or converges across both sex and species and will serve as building blocks from which future therapeutics can be developed.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Hildebrand;Eve Tsai

Student:

Annemarie Dedek

Partner:

Lilly Canada

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Health care and social assistance

University:

Program:

Ontario’s Digital Research Infrastructure Needs Assessment And Capacity Building

Researchers in Ontario use various digital tools, technologies, and services to help with their work. This includes software, hardware, and people with technical expertise. Compute Ontario helps ensure that researchers have access to the digital resources and services that they need to complete their research. The demand for these resources is growing in Canada, and it is important that researchers in Ontario have the tools they need to complete their studies and assist in discovery. This project aims to capture the technological needs of Ontario researchers and identify priority areas for Compute Ontario. This needs assessment will help inform Compute Ontario’s strategy moving forward and ensure that these gaps are targeted in a strategic manner.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ranil Sonnadara;Sue Becker

Student:

Kestrel McNeill

Partner:

Compute Ontario

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Yóntstha Ka’nikonhrí:yo (Using a Good Mind)

This research project seeks to examine the Haudenosaunee cultural principles of Kayaneren’kó:wa (The Great Law), Skén:nen (Peace and Balance), Ka’satsténshera (Power and Unity), and Ka’nikonhrí:yo (Good Mind / Righteousness). Through research of historical documents, investigation of the current literature, and consultation with Haudenosaunee knowledge keepers, this project seeks to discover innovative ways that these cultural concepts can be applied in the twenty-first century and beyond. In collaboration with Kaha:wi Dance Theatre, the findings of this research will be utilized to develop operating principles and a strategic plan to be used by the partner organization. The findings of this research will also benefit Indigenous individuals and organizations that seek to promote the revitalization of Indigenous culture and language through Indigenous cultural based principles.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Doxtater;Brandon Martin;Ivona Kucerova

Student:

Kurtis Commanda

Partner:

Kaha:wi Dance Theatre

Discipline:

Languages and linguistics

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Program:

Accelerate

An innovative antimicrobial packaging to control Campylobacter jejuni in raw poultry meat

Campylobacter bacteria are the leading cause of human gastrointestinal diseases globally and have been frequently identified from raw poultry products. Campylobacter is prevalent in the entire poultry processing facility. Food packaging is one of the last steps in food processing to ensure that the food products are contained and delivered in the best condition. Selective metal oxide nanoparticles are regarded as safe and stable antimicrobials that can inactivate bacteria frequently identified in the agri-food systems. In this project, we will test the antimicrobial effect of titanium dioxide nanoparticles on Campylobacter bacteria and then incorporate these into packaging material to inactivate this microaerobic bacterium in raw chicken meat. Such a functionalized packaging material will be regarded as a novel intervention strategy to reduce poultry contamination by this microbe.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Xiaonan Lu;Yixiang Wang

Student:

Luyao Ma

Partner:

Canadian Poultry Research Council

Discipline:

Food science

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Data driven predictive control for geothermal heating-cooling system with standing column well

Geothermal energy is a promising source of renewable energy and is gradually gaining attention in application in building heating and cooling system. Standing column wells (SCW) are an efficient way of harnessing geothermal energy for such building applications. However, currently rule-based controllers are used for these geothermal heating-cooling systems with simplifying assumptions to avoid the inherent complexities of the system dynamics. This leaves room for implementing sophisticated yet easy-to-implement control methods which can significantly improve the overall performance of the SCW based geothermal systems. The goal of this project is to design an advanced controller using available measurement data from the existing SCW based geothermal units to achieve improved energy efficiency.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Benoit Boulet

Student:

Sayani Seal

Partner:

Marmott Énergies

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Traditional Land Use Mapping and Environmental Assessment with Maawandoon

This research will assist First Nation members to monitor First Nations territories, lands and waterways and document Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS). To document cultural aspects of land use and assess the environment through video, maps and workshop teachings. In the process, Elders and Knowledge keepers will honour their cultural traditions of transferring and sharing knowledge to the next generation of leaders and land stewards. This Land Guardian program will bring traditional land use and Indigenous knowledge as key building blocks to build capacity for Indigenous sustainable planning and development activities in First Nations. The ultimate goal is to empower communities by increasing local decision-making. In summary, Indigenous students and other youth will be trained to be the “boots on the ground” and will act as “eye and ears” of the communities. The youth, Elders and students’ observations, combined with traditional and colonial knowledge, will lead to Strategic Planning on their traditional territories.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shirley Thompson

Student:

Kaoru Suzuki;Keshab Thapa;Folarin Solademi;Trea StormHunter;Chima Joseph Onyeneke;Ali Hassan Khalil;Awos Alaba Ayokunle;Richa Pradan;Sarah Nelson

Partner:

Maawandoon

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

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