Tag Archives: technology

Concrete improvements

June 30, 2019 | UVic News & EdgeWise

‘What if concrete could actually heal itself? It’s not so far-fetched. UVic engineer Rishi Gupta, who is Harsh Rathod’s PhD supervisor and HRG’s co-founder and chief technology officer, has been working on “smart concrete” research for nearly a decade. Using various fibre additives and crystalline waterproofing admixtures, his lab is working on concrete mixtures designed to be more resistant to cracking and to self-seal when cracks appear.’

Visit the University of Victoria’s open access learning and research repository UVicSpace to read open access content published by both Harsh Rathod & Rishi Gupta.

Curious about how many people have accessed the article that you’re reading in UVicSpace? Click on the ‘View Beta Statistics’ located on the right hand side of each abstract page to explore (example below).

image of UVicSpace repository screenshot, stats page - November 2019 - access online at https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/10959

UVicSpace repository screenshot (stats) – University of Victoria

image of UVicSpace repository screenshot abstract page - November 2019 - access online at https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/10959

UVicSpace repository screenshot (abstract)- University of Victoria

New augmented reality game for French-language learners

August 7, 2019| UVic News

Bernadette Perry, a PhD student at the University of Victoria showcased her augmented reality video game Explorez during the Department of French and Faculty of Humanities April 29, 2019 forum French for the Future—Français pour l’avenir. Explorez was created to….

‘…reinforce their language skills while exploring the UVic campus… [while data collected from participants will allow her to] observe how the students interacted with each other using Explorez—and how collaborative learning takes place.

If you are interested in reading more about Perry’s work with new and emerging digital education technologies, please read her open access content in UVicSpace.

Expand your search for open access content on this topic, by using the subject search terms ‘gamification’ & ‘augmented reality’ in UVicSpace.

Creating a Sustainable Future Through Clean Energy

July 8, 2019 | UVic News

The UVic Copyright and Scholarly Communications office would like to congratulate Dr. Zuomin Dong on his recent UVicNews article that highlights his important work …

‘Dong’s research, which will reduce the environmental impact and costs of marine traffic, is funded in part by a million-dollar donation by the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation, in conjunction with Seaspan. That funding supports the team’s [UVic’s Clean Transportation Research Team] development of the enabling technology and integrated modelling tools to transition marine vessels to optimized hybrid natural-gas / electric and pure electric propulsion systems.’

We invite you to visit UVic’s institutional repository, UVicSpace to view his open access papers.

Congratulations to Dr. Dong and UVic’s Clean Transportation Research Team!

Google Features UVic Project in Latest Launch

August 9, 2019 | UVic News

‘…a new Google project is highlighting an initiative led by UVic anthropologist Brian Thom and Indigenous languages teacher yutustanaat Mandy Jones (Snuneymuxw First Nation).

The “Celebrating Indigenous languages” Google Earth Voyager project is a curated set of high-quality stories published through Google Earth. It is available in 10 languages internationally and encompasses 55 Indigenous languages in 27 countries from Australia, India, Ecuador and Chile to Cameroon, Pakistan, Turkey and Finland.

And, thanks to yutustanaat, the new tool includes words, phrases, a proverb and songs in the Hul’q’umi’num’ language, as spoken by yutustanaat (pronounced “Yah-TUS-tuh-naught”).’

The Copyright and Scholarly Communications Office encourage you to explore this dynamic resource and to further read more of Brian Thom’s important work by visiting UVic’s institutional repository, UVicSpace.

Forest Corridors Vital for Wildlife

July 29, 2019 | UVic News

Frances Stewart and Jason Fisher both adjunct assistant professors at UVic’s the School of Environmental Studies have recently published an exciting paper that..

…shows how the movements of one small mammal – the weasel-like fisher – through natural forested corridors underlines the importance of these safe pathways and points to implications for many other forest animals across the country such as the wolverine, moose, lynx and hare.

Please visit Stewart & Fisher‘s respective UVicSpace pages to read more about their valuable research.