Innovative Projects Realized

Demande SSE Camille Bensallam – Comment utiliser la science de la création pour enrichir et optimiser le processus créatif dans une agence marketing ?

Le projet supervisé vise à explorer l’intersection entre l’art et la science de la créativité au sein d’une agence marketing.

L’objectif principal est de comprendre comment intégrer des données dans le processus créatif, en cherchant à dépasser les jugements subjectifs tels que “ça me plaît” ou “ça ne me plaît pas”.

Cette approche cherche à désobjectiver la créativité en apportant une méthodologie plus basée sur des éléments concrets.

Demande SSE | Laurence Carbonneau – Comment optimiser le Mix Marketing des entreprises québécoises dans l’objectif de réduire leur dépendance aux GAFAM?

Le paysage médiatique est en constante évolution et nécessite une agilité stratégique pour répondre aux défis imposés par les géants de l’industrie, tels que Meta et Google. Le choix du projet réside dans l’optimisation du mix marketing du département de performance de Click & Mortar et a comme objectif de réduire la dépendance d’un client à l’égard des géants du numérique, tout en préservant la performance socio-environnementale des investissements publicitaires. Cette initiative s’inscrit dans le contexte de l’avènement de la loi C18 et des récents développements dans l’industrie des médias. Le projet vise donc à explorer des alternatives novatrices, permettant de réduire les investissements auprès de ces acteurs majeurs.

DeedDex: An Intelligent Document Management and Question Answering System

DeedDex is set to redefine the landscape of document handling. Using cutting-edge AI and machine learning, this innovative tool will transform how both individuals and businesses organize, access, and interpret their vast document repositories. Through valuable collaborations with prominent institutions, the project aims to hone DeedDex’s capabilities, ensuring fast, accurate, and intuitive document retrieval and information comprehension. This endeavor promises not only technological advancements but also a potential shift in market dynamics, attracting a broader user base and potential supporters.

NetGreener: Pioneering Environmental Sustainability in AI

NexaDeeds, in collaboration with Concordia University interns, is embarking on a groundbreaking initiative to develop NetGreener, an AI tool designed to monitor and manage the carbon emissions associated with computational tasks in machine learning. By analyzing the complexity of AI models and providing actionable insights, NetGreener aims to strike a balance between efficient AI operations and environmental sustainability. This venture promises to position NexaDeeds at the forefront of eco-conscious AI development, potentially revolutionizing industry practices and driving businesses toward a greener future.

The GenWell Challenge: Promoting Social Health Through Experiential Learning in Universities

Young adults are at risk for social disconnection, and the severity of this unfortunate reality has been compounded by a decade’s-long trend toward worsening social health. There is, therefore, an urgent need for strategies that will effectively promote social health. To this end, researchers at the University of Toronto, in collaboration with the GenWell Project, propose a project that underpin a social health pilot program that leverages the strengths of experiential learning. In the proposed experiential learning assignment, which will be piloted within a large introductory psychology course, students will collaboratively develop and share social health promotion messages. We expect that this program will serve two distinct purposes: First, the messages shared will advance the discourse around the importance of social health and strategies for improving it, and second, the experience of creating effective social health messaging will help students to internalize the value of social health, along with strategies for strengthening it. The work proposed for this project will lay a strong foundation for an impactful social health learning experience, for the research infrastructure that will measure its effectiveness, and for the eventual wide roll-out of this program to post-secondary institutions across Canada.

Développement d’une plateforme d’apprentissage hybride sur des jumeaux numériques via Automation Studio™

En s’associant avec des chercheurs/professeurs universitaires (pouvant supporter le développement), Famic pourra renforcer la présence de ces outils dans la mouvance numérique sur la scène canadienne et sur la scène mondiale. Pour cela, Famic souhaite un développement stratégique dans son offre de solutions par l’introduction d’une plateforme permettant un environnement d’apprentissage et de conception créative, de suivre la productivité d’une usine ou d’un service, de réaliser un jumeau numérique, d’optimiser les opérations et de gérer les processus. Bref, de profiter au maximum du potentiel de l’Industrie 4.0 par l’acquisition, le partage et l’utilisation des données et renforcer les démarches d’amélioration continue. La plateforme doit être adaptée pour un des modes : présentiel, hybride et à distance ainsi que l’autoformation (pour la clientèle éloignée et distribuée géographiquement).

ActiveBooker Software Development

Our state-of-the-art online reservation software (Activebooker) is tailored specifically for entertainment businesses, including axe-throwing venues, indoor golf facilities, bowling alleys, pickleball venues and more. Our software aims to revolutionize the booking process for these unique entertainment experiences by offering a comprehensive suite of features designed to streamline operations, increase business revenue, and enhance customer satisfaction.
In response to growing customer demand and feedback from our indoor golf venues as well as a surge of requests from a currently untapped market in pickleball – our initiative to incorporate membership functionalities into our booking software is driven by a clear need within these industries. The request for membership features stems from the need to enhance customer loyalty, streamline operations, and create a more personalized experience for members.

Antec Controls – Data Architecture Project

Antec Controls (www.anteccontrols.com) is a leader in environmental monitoring and control for critical spaces such as operating rooms, isolation rooms, and laboratories. We create high-performance airflow control solutions that ensure the safety of occupants in environments where innovation and advancements to health and wellness are made. Our range of products includes electronic controllers, touchscreen interfaces, sensors, air valves and many other supporting products that ensure accurate and precise airflow control. The general objective of this project is to layout an architecture and develop a system that facilitates the integration of enterprise data in a simple, scalable, secure, and robust manner.

L2M – Reducing Radiation Dose in Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery Using Depth Camera Augmented Fluoroscopy (DeCAF)

The proposed project involves advancing UBC’s Depth-Camera-Augmented Fluoroscopy (DeCAF) system, a novel device for improving efficiency and reducing radiation exposure in orthopaedic trauma surgeries. DeCAF integrates a 3D depth camera with the conventional C-arm fluoroscope used for intraoperative imaging. The primary goal of our project is to assess the feasibility and market fit of the DeCAF system by testing the hypothesis that it effectively addresses a market problem and is viable for production, distribution, purchase, and adoption based on collected interview data. The Lab2Market Validate program will play a crucial role in refining our understanding of how DeCAF fits into the market, offering required training and facilitating extensive discovery interviews and analysis. More specifically, throughout this program, we aim to develop a commercialization plan for DeCAF. If we are successful, then the commercial development of DeCAF will generate benefits to Canada both in increasing economic activity in the high-tech sector and in its impact on healthcare, particularly by reducing the radiation exposure for the surgical team in orthopaedic trauma surgeries and increasing the efficiency of such procedures.

Quantum Error Correction with High-Dimensional Nuclear Spins

Quantum information processing is a game changer for information technology: currently information is representable as strings of binary digits, or bits, and logical processing is performed according to the principles of boolean algebra. Quantum mechanics allows us to work with superpositions of states and perform quantum logic, which preserves the coherence vital for quantum information science’s transformational benefits. Dramatic examples of quantum information’s prowess are the capability of almost exponentially faster factorisation of numbers and the ability to create information-theoretic communication security that is impervious to computational attacks. However, the foundations of quantum information processing are primarily constructed from the principles of bits and binary processing, but natural systems typically involve higher-dimensional information states, i.e., involving higher than base-2 (binary). This collaboration between theorists in Canada and experimentalists in Australia concerns qudits, which are quantum versions of base-d arithmetic. This project will develop optimal control techniques for manipulating one qudit, manifested in the high-spin antimony nucleus, and introduce and test quantum error correction for encoding a logical qubit. Schemes for quantum control and error correction could overcome noise on high-dimensional nuclear spins and pave the way towards fault-tolerant quantum computing—addressing a key challenge in unlocking the potential of quantum computing.

Economies of Deviance: Sex Work and the Sport Mega-Event

Canada is in the midst of a 12-month federal debate regarding the constitutionality of prostitution-related activities which has led the Supreme Court of Canada and Government of Canada to seek international expertise to inform future policies and legislation. Parallel to this debate, in preparing for the 2015 Pan/Parapan American event, Toronto must plan for the influx of an international tourist market. The hosting of a sport mega-event of this nature has been said to heighten the demand for sex work and/or sex-related industries. Evidence-based research from former host cities is thus needed to inform the processes undertaken in a globally-recognized, sexually-progressive urban centre such as Toronto. This ethnographic research collaborative, in which I will travel to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and work with Dr. Thaddeus Blanchette to determine the impact of the 2014 FIFA World Cup on local sex economies, will offer data needed to inform our evolving sex economies.

Cintech : IA et spectroscopie de fluorescence pour la transformation alimentaire

Le projet de stage proposé par Cintech Agroalimentaire vise à développer et automatiser la détection et l’identification des contaminants des surfaces en contact avec les aliments, en exploitant la spectroscopie de fluorescence. L’utilisation des techniques chimiométriques standard et avancée lors d’analyse de données spectrales permettra de mettre en évidence les déterminations qualitatives et quantitatives des différents contaminants. Cet outil répondra à plusieurs défis auxquels font face les entreprises du secteur de la transformation alimentaire: assurer l’innocuité des aliments (contrôle et assurance de la qualité à l’usine), augmenter la productivité (rapidité de l’intervention à la suite de la détection et à l’identification de pathogène), et réduire les coûts d’opération (réduction des consommables et des coûts de gestion des déchets d’analyse).