Success Stories

POMMe-Health for the win at Invest Ottawa’s Accelerator Pitch competition

Pitch winners Cheryl Netterfield and JP Michel pose alongside the rest of their cohort after a pitch event for the finale of the pre-accelerator program. Photo from Invest Ottawa

Congratulations to Cheryl Netterfield and the team at POMMe-Health for her win at the Accelerator Pitch competition at Invest Ottawa. POMMe-Health has been one of our recurring clients at Applied Research. She was featured in the Ottawa Business Journal.

See the full article here: https://obj.ca/techopia-invest-ottawa-pre-accelerator-program-founders-future

To combat anti-vaxxer myths, teach children – Not parents – To be immunity warriors.

Armed white blood cells firing antibody missiles at alien invaders (influenza virus) in Immunity Warriors: Invasion of the Alien Zombies, developed by students at Algonquin College and The Ottawa Hospital mHealth Research Team.

Immunity Warriors: Invasion of the Alien Zombies, a digital motion comic book used to teach children about their immune system, is the focus of new column in the Globe and Mail this week. The project was the result of an award-winning collaboration between The Ottawa Hospital and Algonquin College. The Globe column was written by Dr. Kumanan Wilson, who leads the Ottawa Hospital’s mHealth Lab, located at The Ottawa Hospital at Algonquin College in Algonquin’s F building.

Globe and Mail headline: To combat anti-vaxxer myths, teach children – not parents – to be immunity warriors.
Column: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-to-combat-anti-vaxxer-myths-teach-children-not-parents-to-be/

RE/ACTION Showcase Winners (December 2018)

Drive-By-Wire Conversion for Autonomous Patrol Vehicle

1st Place Winning Project

Drive-by-Wire (DBW) conversion of a commercial police patrol vehicle. The DBW conversion will enable the vehicle to be operated via a gamepad that is attached directly to the vehicle by USB or a short-range RF (Radio Frequency) dongle. The DBW conversion will represent the first step toward the Cohort Systems’s long-term goal of creating an autonomous, collaborative unmanned patrol vehicle–i.e.a robotic sentry. The robotic sentry will incorporate the company’s proprietary autonomous vehicle software systems that have proven track record in commercial use.

The DBW conversion will make use of an existing, off-the-shelf, manned police sentry vehicle. It, therefore, represents a highly efficient development pathway because it will leverage the existing commercial vehicle as a ready-built platform.

Presenters: Bernardo Maldonado; Adam Cordick
Professor: Riccardo Brun Del Re; Ala’ Qadi; Nasseh Khodaie‎
Industry Partner: Cohort Systems Inc.

Culinary Federation Ottawa Rebrand

2nd Place Winning Project

This project covers the rebranding of the Culinary Federation’s Ottawa chapter. It includes the design of a new website and logo, as well as the creation of brand guidelines, which illustrate dos and don’ts when using the CF Ottawa brand.

Presenters: Delphine Sullivan; Diandra Thompson; Matthew Ryan
Professor: Jed Looker
Industry Partner: Culinary Federation Ottawa

POMMe-Health

3rd Place Winning Project

POMMe-Health is an app designed to improve patient care by facilitating collaboration between healthcare professionals using one common language.

Presenters: Daniel Katz; Valeriia Zaporozhets; Erika Agana; Ayaka Matsubrara; Nicholas Teng; Melany Pelletier-Vaillant; Krystyna MacLeod; Matthieu Beaudry
Professor: Jed Looker
Industry Partner: POMMe-Health

Winners of RE/ACTION (April 2018)

Pressure Tube Measuring Device

1st Place Winning Project

CNL’s goal is to develop a system to measure segments of decommissioned pressure tube. A measuring device for nuclear pressure tubes is to be designed and built on the basis of precision, accuracy, ease of use, cost and nuclear radiation resistance in order to attain data for research purposes.

Presenters: Jeff Roome, Zach Watson, Stephane Huard, Rob Stephens
Professor: Sandra Brancatelli
Industry Partner: Canadian Nuclear Laboratories

Hydroponic Living Wall

2nd Place Winning Project

A hydroponic living wall with an emphasis on automation and efficiency, intended for use in Algonquin College’s Horticultural Industries program.

Presenters: Samm McKay, James Savage, Seamus McGarragle, Jibrel Jama
Professors: Cynthia Ough Underwood, Laura McHugh
Industry Partner: Algonquin College

Cerberus E.O.D. Tool

3rd Place Winning Project

A tool designed to aid in the safe excavation and extraction of explosive devices.

Presenters: Carl Plessl, Daniel Marion, Ian Campbell, Gouled Arte
Professors: Sandra Brancatelli, Jim Catton
Industry Partner: Med-Eng

New Partnership with Victim Justice Network Highlighted in the Globe and Mail

A new study, launched in partnership with the Victim Justice Network, is trying to learn what makes victims of violent crime resilient. The study, conducted by researchers from Algonquin College and the University of Ottawa, is asking participants how they coped after trauma and tragedy, and how they found support and inner strength.

The findings of the study, supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, will be shared widely and will be formally integrated into the curriculum of the graduate victimology program at Algonquin College, Barkley says.

Read the full article

ARI Open House Highlights

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

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

Maclean’s Covers Applied Research Project: Live Line

A team of recent graduates from Algonquin College paired up with Hydro Ottawa this summer to help make a dangerous job a bit safer. Bradley Kasaboski, Derek Boase and Mauricio Ledón spent three months developing a prototype for a training jacket that can teach would-be power-line technicians how to navigate high-voltage wires.

Read the full article

Research Assistant Hired as Microsoft Student Evangelist

Under the tutelage of Algonquin’s Office of Applied Research and Innovation and working with industry partner Contextere, students Adesh Shah and Jack Garrard developed a ground breaking application targeted towards industrial work crews.

Adesh at Microsoft in Toronto

Adesh Shah and Jack Garrard, who are enrolled in the Mobile Application Design & Development and Interactive Media & Design programs respectively, were successful in creating the Contextere application. This is the first app of its kind with aims to optimize the workflow of industrial work crews by relaying a series of contextual instructions to workers based on in-situ awareness and advanced machine learning. It was built on the Universal Windows Platform which allows the app to run on any Windows 10 device, with special emphasis placed on the inclusion of Microsoft Band 2 and the HoloLens.

Algonquin College congratulates Adesh Shah who has recently become a Microsoft Student Evangelist due to his diligent work with ARI and the MADD program.

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