Memorexelectronics Replacement Antenna

DOMUS & ARCUS

It is now two months that I'm here and I still have not made the place where I work and what I do.

DOMUS Let's start with the laboratory where I work. DOMUS it means Home automation and mobile computing at the University of Sherbrooke, This lab aims to bring greater independence to people with cognitive disabilities (eg Alzheimer's or schizophrenia). More simply, DOMUS interest to people with problems memories. The lab has two main lines of research: the apartment and intelligent applications for mobile phones.

Part of the lab:

The smart home is a kind of house of the future. It is a habitat full of sensors and displays graphics helping tenants every day. For example, the cook intelligently detects risks or gas temperature is too high. It may then, depending on the situation, shut down automatically, preventing the user or call for help. Or a graphics tablet combined several sensors help the tenant to prepare a dish by following a recipe.

For their part, the mobile applications are for the smart home but outside. They have as much to help the patient to provide assistance for the medical diagnosis. This is where I stand. I need to develop an application for phone to help a person suffering from semantic dementia . More specifically, it is an application help store contacts. It's called ARCUS.

And what is good in ce labo, c’est que pour tester le premier axe de recherche, un appartement réel est imbriqué dans le labo. Et ce qui est encore mieux c’est qu’on a le droit de l’utiliser. On a donc à disposition tout le confort d’un appartement tout équipé à portée de main. Pratique pour manger le midi.

DOMUS est constitué d’une trentaine de personnes dont la moitié de stagiaire français (dont ¾ de l’ESEO d’Anger…). En tout, il y a à peine cinq québécois dans le labo. Ici, ne pas provenir de l’ESEO c’est rare, ne pas être français encore plus. La moyenne d’âge doit osciller autour de 25 ans, et there is currently only one person over 30 years to watch this little world.

The lab is very much alive. LANs Urban Terror (video games) that are triggered in the evening, part of the tarot midday passage of colleagues in other labs to take coffee breaks grouped (or cigarettes for addicts) and dress according to the holy trinity flip flops, shorts and t-shirt SpongeBob. A normal situation for a lab geeks after all.