This project will primarily involve the commercialization and business development strategies of Optemo’s shopping platform. While Optemo experienced positive results from its trial run with Best Buy Canada, it needs to acquire the ideal customers in order to generate momentum and awareness of the product and its benefits. It will be important to identify […]

  The proposed project is aimed at accelerating the pre-competitive development of a Diastolic Timed Vibrator (DTV) to be used as a medical emergency system to assist clearance of acute coronary thrombosis such as exhibited in a “heart attack” (an acute blockage of a coronary artery, usually by a blood clot). The DTV will impose […]

  Scoop is an innovative web and mobile application for business professionals, who have to spend significant amount of their working time outside the office. This application allows the teams to communicate faster, easier and more efficiently by providing the opportunity to explain the very small details of the project applying natural interpersonal communication habits […]

In response to protests against logging of old growth forests in Clayoquot Sound, Vancouver Island, the government of British Columbia appointed a Scientific Panel to develop guidelines for sustainable forest management and logging. On July 6, 1995 the Government of British Columbia accepted the report of the Clayoquot Sound Scientific Panel (CSSP) and committed to […]

  To improve the search quality of a search engine so that it can better understand and return the information to meet user’s needs, a “micro-domain ontology” based personalized search strategy will be studied in this project. This ontology aims to model the user’s context into such a hierarchical structure so that with whose help […]

  The purpose of this project is to determine the extent to which a cooperative interest exists between the owners and operators of transportation and parking services in Downtown Vancouver to coordinate mobile payment and electronic wayfinding technologies. The researcher will interview service providers with a mind towards identifying advantages and disadvantages from the service […]

    Many people with physical disabilities depend on forearm crutches to help them walk. Although forearm crutches are helpful, many people experience overuse injuries as a result of using the forearm crutch. Injuries to the wrists, elbows and shoulders are commonly experienced with long-term use of the forearm crutch. The research project will examine […]

  The objective of the project will be to design and support the fabrication of an automated cultivating planter mechanism. The task of the planter/cultivator will be to transplant 3 rows of seedlings, with variable spacing, a single pass.  A production target of 1200 trees per hour is desired.  There are many design challenges present […]

  There is currently a large and growing unmet demand for affordable moderate-income rental housing in Metro Vancouver. To address this issue, recent studies and programs have focused on increasing the supply of purpose-built rental apartments, and condo and secondary suite sublets, but another potential mechanism which has been little explored is mixed-tenure housing (projects […]

  The project involves researching statistically-based image matting techniques and interfaces for mobile devices.  This would allow users to identify an object or other region in a photograph by indicating with a touchscreen parts of the image that are “inside” or “outside” the desired region.  Statistical computer visions techniques will use the human input to […]

  Ignite play is developing a social media package which will make healthier living more fun and easier. An important component of this package is social game and reward system that encourages users to make changes in their lifestyle. This project will involve the development of a game design (in terms of prototype or series […]

  The Malcolm Knapp Research Forest’s Loon Lake Research and Education Centre hosts 20,000 visitor-days per year and a bioenergy facility at Loon Lake would create opportunities for research, demonstration and training as well as provide new opportunities for the Centre to host educational retreats and conferences based on bioenergy conversion, installation, operation and maintenance. The […]