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2017-10-13
SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: This Aboriginal and community-based, participatory research project aims to co-create knowledge about the holistic (emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual) benefits to Indigenous youth of participating in northern games, and to identify factors that might be modified to...
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A framework to automate physical demand analysis based on artificial intelligence and motion capture for workplace safety improvement
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Workers' safety and productivity and its affecting factors, such as ergonomics, are essential aspects of construction projects. Applying ergonomics and realizing the connections among workers and their assigned tasks have indicated a decrease in workers' injuries and discomforts, a beneficial...
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Action Selection for Hammer Shots in Curling: Optimization of Non-convex Continuous Actions With Stochastic Action Outcomes
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Optimal decision making in the face of uncertainty is an active area of research in artificial intelligence. In this thesis, I present the sport of curling as a novel application domain for research in optimal decision making. I focus on one aspect of the sport, the hammer shot, the last shot...
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Beyond Static Classification: Long-term Fairness for Minority Groups via Performative Prediction and Distributionally Robust Optimization
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In recent years machine learning (ML) models have begun to be deployed at enormous scales, but too often without adequate concern for whether or not an ML model will make fair decisions. Fairness in ML is a burgeoning research area, but work to define formal fairness criteria has some serious...
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2024-03-28
Jin, Qingna., McFeetors, Janelle., Ahmed, Nimrah.
Poster presented at the 2024 Faculty of Education Celebrating Socially Transformative Research and Teaching Event
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Spring 2023
There has been a renewed interest in commonsense as a stepping stone toward achieving human-level intelligence. By digesting enormous amounts of data in different forms, such as visual, lingual, and sensory, humans are able to create a world model for themselves. It is hypothesized that this...
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Spring 2015
Believable, realistic video game character behaviour continues to lag behind the improvements in graphics, stories and game play in video games. In this dissertation we focus on the use of two techniques, emotional gaits and emotional incidents, as a way to add easily identifiable, non-verbal,...