Stress and Resilience: Harnessing Wearable Technology and Machine Learning for First Responders at Algonquin College
Posted on Monday, March 17th, 2025
OTTAWA (Mon., March 17, 2025) – Algonquin College invites you to a micro-net funding announcement to benefit first responders. This initiative will enable pattern recognition and identification and stress indicators through the data analytics and advanced machine learning from wearable devices. The project objectives are to monitor and assess real-time physiological stress indicators and reported stress indicators, develop reliable results to advance field trading and operations in supporting first responders’ resilience and the sustainability of emergency response as a whole.
Date: Monday, March 17, 2025
Time: 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Location: Salon A, Building D, 1385 Woodroffe Ave., Ottawa
Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: DARE District, Research Development Institute (C107), 1385 Woodroffe Ave., Ottawa
This project was supported by the Canadian Safety and Security Program, a federal program led by Defence Research and Development Canada’s Centre for Security Science, in partnership with Public Safety Canada.
The Micro-net is a multidisciplinary team consisting of eleven partners/recipients from eligible organizations or institutions, collectively referred to as the Micro-net Members.
The study’s data analytics and machine learning algorithms provide ongoing improvement for emergency response organizations, fostering operational optimization. The goal is to establish integrated continuous data collection on stress and resilience while facilitating adoption by emergency organizations and training institutions. This integration enhances interventions for resilience and contributes to the development of stress-cognizant, evidence-based model.
To learn more about this exciting announcement, we encourage attending the announcement.
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For more information
Megan Fraser
Communications Officer
Algonquin College
613-302-0138
fraserm2@algonquincollege.com
About Algonquin College
The mission of Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology is to transform hopes and dreams into lifelong success. Algonquin College, an Ontario public sector community college, does this by offering hands-on, digitally connected, experiential learning in more than 250 programs. Algonquin College is the largest polytechnic institute in Eastern Ontario, with campuses in Ottawa, Perth, Pembroke and AC Online.