Centre for Mobile Innovation

A joint research project to gamify rehabilitation centre waiting rooms for children, making rehabilitation wait times more fun and waiting room activities more current and engaging.

Students were engaged in collaboration with a local industry partner to explore Mobile Device Management projects involving an iOS Kiosk and iBeacons.

In collaboration with a local industry partner, this research project explored how iPads can be used to support sales rep activities in the field, and engaged three students in an applied research project.

In collaboration with our telecommunications partner, students worked on several proof of concept projects that explored cloud-integrated and context aware mobile computing. One of these projects, for the Sheridan Family Channel, placed third at the 2014 Polytechnics Canada Applied Research Student Showcase.

This project explored Mobile Device Management through Paths, an innovative massively multiplayer real-time socially engaging game that was designed, developed and evaluated as part of this project. An iterative refinement application development methodology was used to create the game which can be played on any smartphone and with group interactions viewed on the large theatre screen.

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This project is a collaboration with Peel Police, the Peel District School Board, the Dufferin Peel Catholic District School Board, and community partners to create the innovative Youth Cyber Safety Academy. The Academy will help 8,000 Grade 5 Region of Peel students learn about Internet safety and cyber responsibility. The program has been designed to build critical thinking skills that will empower students to promote safety and social responsibility while protecting themselves online.

Cyber Academy

Through a partnership with Sheridan College, m-Health Solutions developed a heart diagnostic tool that detects cardiac arrhythmia by tracking and sending patient symptoms as well as readings from its heart reading mobile tool to its cardiac centre. With approximately one million Canadians suffering from some form of cardiac arrhythmia to varying degrees, accurate diagnosis is very important.L

Developed by two students, the app lets patients select from an easy-to-follow menu of different physical symptoms (dizziness, lightheadedness, pressure), exertion and activity level. This information aligns with the heart activity reading. These details are then sent to m-Health’s cardiac centre for analysis.

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QFIT is an undergraduate research project conducted by students in the Bachelor of Applied Computer Science (Mobile Computing) degree. The goal of the project is to provide engaging and immersive fitness experience that will encourage individuals to improve their physical and mental well-being. The research project combines wearable computing and cloud services in the context of gamification. The student researchers won the World-Wide UX Challenge in the Imagine Cup—Innovation Path 2015.

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C.L.A.S. explores the application of control theory to the design of a cognitive control system that can be used to predict and improve student performance though cloud connected feedback loops. With the control system in place, the research aims to study the correlation between healthy living and mental health and the impact of physical and mental well-being in student performance.

The project uses a combination of universal applications (desktop, mobile and wearable) that measure the learning activities and the engagement of the students in the learning process and provide data to a cognitive control system that resides in the cloud. The control system analyzes the data and provides actionable insights aimed at improving the student’s performance. The system is designed to support students in the learning process. The aggregated insights can also be used for measuring student performance, program quality assurance, for analyzing the effectiveness of new programs or the effect of curriculum changes on student performance and engagement.