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Winners of Applied Research Day (April 2017)

Introduction to Arduino

1st Place Winning Project

This project’s goal is to create interactive Arduino labs for students in the library and to create an information technician program at Algonquin College. These labs are aimed at early users, with a range from simple labs for children to more interesting labs for others.

Presenters: Andrew Moon; Enias Gengezha; Yitagusu Shiferaw
Principal Investigator: Cynthia Ough-Underwood

Winners of Applied Research Day (April 2017)

Static Load Testing Cell

2nd Place Winning Project

This static load testing cell is designed and built on the basis of functionality, accuracy, and ease of operation in order to allow the client to accurately test their products to ensure they meet the required standards and specifications.

Presenters: Andrew McDonald; Casey Foley; Angus Wilson; Nathanael Slow; Flint Gleeson
Principal Investigator: Sandra Brancatelli
Industry Partner: HealthCraft ProductsWinners of Applied Research Day (April 2017)

Expense Tracking App

3rd Place Winning Project

The goal of this project is to create a mobile application designed for tracking travel expenses for business trips. The application encompasses the pre-approval, expense tracking and claims submission processes.

Presenters: Ryan Doiron; Sercan Kum; Anton Antonenko; Hjalmar Ayestas Leclair; Matthew Saab; Caleb Lalonde-Sauvé
Principal Investigator: Gerald Hurdle
Industry Partner: Canadian Commercial CorporationWinners of Applied Research Day (April 2017)

New Student Researcher Position

WordPress Developer
Paid Co-op / Student Researcher Position
4 – 8 months with potential for permanent placement at firm
$15 per hour / 20hrs – 37.5 hours per week

Gnowit is seeking a WordPress developer to design, develop and maintain a WordPress plugin to cleanly integrate several of Gnowit’s information aggregation and analytics products into WordPress powered web sites.

Responsibilities

  • Develop custom and interactive WordPress Plugins using proven technologies and best practices
  • Collaborate closely with designers, developers, product managers and the marketing teams to effectively productive the Gnowit plugin on the WordPress app store and other trade publications
  • Optimize the WordPress plugins for speed and conversion
  • Troubleshoot bugs and fix them in a timely and non-disruptive manner

Requirements

  • 1+ years of WordPress Experience
  • 2+ years of HTML, CSS, JS, PHP and MySQL experience
  • (Bonus) Expertise with modifying and managing themes and plugins
  • Understanding of WordPress code
  • Thirst to learn new things and to constantly improve your work
  • Problem Solver mentality – whether load times are slow or the plugins are conflicting, you won’t stop until things are running smoothly
  • Understanding of cross-platform and cross-browser issues

Please contact Dr. Shahzad Khan (shahzad@gnowit.com) with your resume and a brief description of relevant experiences to set up an interview.

ARI Open House Highlights

The Algonquin College Office of Applied Research & Innovation (ARI) held an open house this past Thursday, February the 9th, 2017 to celebrate its new space in the F-building.

Open house conversations

The goal of the event was to increase ARI’s visibility and share the new space with students, staff, and industry. In pursuit of this result, the Collaboration Lab was filled with projects to engage attendees and offer experiential learning opportunities.

Projects included:

  • Virtual Reality artwork collaboration software “MPVR” from Brinx
  • Visual collaboration system “Nureva Span” from Nureva
  • Laser engraved artwork from Eepmon
  • Digital interactive comic Immunity Warriors

Overall, the event succeeded in bringing the Algonquin College community together with industry, enabling the education and promotion of emerging partnerships and projects.

Immunity Warriors Launch

Immunity Warriors: Invasion of the Alien Zombie is a motion comic book that uses Madefire to transform a traditional comic book into an exciting interactive experience. With an action-packed storyline, Immunity Warriors educates children on their immune system, battling viruses, and the importance of vaccinations.

The group responsible for the project including Dr. Wilson, the mHealth group at OHRI and Kevin Holmes, Project Manager at the Health and Wellness Research Center, held a press release on Tuesday, January 24th. The event took place at Broadview Public School and participating students were asked to brainstorm names for the motion comics characters.

The response from the press has been very positive – Immunity Warriors is featured in the Ottawa Citizen, The Kitchissippi Times and on CBC and Global News.

Currently, Immunity Warriors: Invasion of the Alien Zombies is available through the CANImmunize app or online at www.immunity warriors.com

Immunity Warriors space ship and rockets

Masterpiece VR Launched on Steam

Masterpiece VR is a collaborative virtual reality platform that allows you to freely and intuitively create 3D models, this past week it was launched on Steam. The software is being provided FREE for the time being, as it is still an “Early Access” title.

Read more about the software on their website at http://brinxvr.com/mpvr and download it today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k089LjkDhxA

 

 

Winners of Applied Research Day (December 2016)

SmartMoms

1st Place Winning Project

SmartMoms is a mobile application for iOS and Android that pairs with Fitbit to track weight gain, calorie intake, quality of sleep, physical activity, and heart rate of expecting mothers. With a main focus on health, it helps women make healthy choices through each stage of their pregnancy.

Presenters: Matt Young; Mannat Luthra; McKenzie McGilchrist; Vlad Tonkonogov
Industry Partner: University of OttawaSmart Moms accepting award

Immunity Warriors

2nd Place Winning Project

Immunity Warriors is a motion comic book that uses Madefire to transform a traditional comic book into an exciting interactive experience. With an action packed storyline, Immunity Warriors educates children on their immune system, battling viruses, and the importance of vaccinations.

Presenters: Kari Ball; Stephanie Paiement; Dom Richichi and Jason Eduardo Mata
Principal Investigator: Kevin Holmes
Industry Partner: Ottawa Hospital mHealth Research TeamImmunity Warriors accept award

Mobile Innovation Ecosystem Map App

3rd Place Winning Project

A complex large-format map of Canada’s Innovation Ecosystem was reimagined for a smartphone app.Bureaucrats and Trade Commissioners need to tell Canada’s innovation stories in the field, often without a lot of space. The team has taken their user-tested redesign into a coded prototype.

Presenters: Kayla Bowmaster and Edmer Buen
Principal Investigator: Stefan Dickerson
Industry Partner: Global AdvantageThird place team accepting tehir award

CBC Interview – Rainy Daze Harm Reduction App

Rainy Daze is a harm reduction app intended to inform the user about harm reduction and harm reduction techniques. The app features a series of mini games built around specific harm reduction concepts. The game is targeted directly to the College student demographic and addresses specific situational awareness and provides the user non-judgmental feedback and positive reinforcement of established harm reduction approaches.

CBC recently highlighted the application in an interview. Listen to it here

Try the Game for yourself on the Umbrella project website – Play Rainy Daze

 

Ottawa Business Journal Highlights Algonquin Applied Research Day

Algonquin’s Applied Research Day a ‘win-win’ for Students, Industry

For Algonquin College students, applied research means solving real-world problems for actual businesses. That research – and its diversity – was on display at the school’s Applied Research Day on Aug. 19.

“We emphasize developing soft skills, understanding the expectations of a professional environment and since we do serve a lot of small startup-size companies, often there’s opportunities to continue on with the companies or, if they do a particularly good job, to get recognition.”

Read the full article and interview with Alex Yang.

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Winners of Applied Research Day!

Masterpiece VR

1st Place Winning Project

Masterpiece VR is a Virtual Reality application used to create stunning 3D art, including sculptures,paintings, and even whole scenes. This is all achieved through a combination of PhD level mathematics,cutting-edge technology and professional grade software/UI design.

Partner: Brinx Software
Team: Nicolas Blier; James Hargrove; Gabrian Boileau and Morgan Morrell-Frewen

Winners of Applied Research Day!

SmartMoms Canada

2nd Place Winning Project

SmartMoms is a mobile technology-based program designed to help women adhere to the gestational weight gain (GWG) guidelines, improve maternal-fetal health and attenuate the intergenerational cycle of obesity (fewer big babies, less post-partum weight retention and subsequent obesity in mom). The developed system consists of two mobile applications (Android and iOS), a web application and a backend server. Feedback that considers participant’s data gathered from Wi-Fi enabled accessories (FitBit physical activity tracker and an electronic weight scale) and provides personalized recommendations.The SmartMoms intervention also includes regular delivery of health information to women regarding their weekly GWG, physical activity and nutritional goals via the application.

Partners: School of Human Kinetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa
Team: Matthew Boyd; Dylan Griffiths; Kari Ball; Vlad Tonkogonov; McKenzie McGilchrist; Matt Young and Justin Bennett

Winners of Applied Research Day!

Robotic Mower (GreenCare)

3rd Place Winning Project

The product provides an autonomous lawn cut. It does the job and comes back to its docking station.

Principal Investigator: Hooman Abdi
Team: Pietro Pucci; Mustafa Al Rubai; Bradley Domjan and Victor Silva Lago; Zachary OuelletGreencare team

Interested in doing ‘big data’ research with Algonquin’s Data Analytics Center?

Data Analytics ManagementThe Office of Applied Research and Innovation at Algonquin College Ottawa is proud to announce Algonquin’s new strategic research initiative, the Data Analytics Center (DAC). Building upon the College’s traditional strengths in IT and software engineering, the DAC will create new research and commercialization capacity in the ‘big data’ arena. This includes predictive analysis, machine-learning, classification, clustering, and decision support…basically ‘all things Data’. Continue reading →