Averting another Mégantic. Name your price. Peddling away stress. It is as if you were doing work.
Concordia in the news
Posted on July 6, 2017
Researchers in the news
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- There is wide distribution of a Canadian Press story relating to the fourth anniversary of the Lac Mégantic train disaster and the research that continues into various aspects of rail safety. The focus is on a Concordia research project to develop a mathematical model that could help prevent similar accidents to the derailment in Lac Mégantic. The research project is led by PhD student Omar Abuobidalla and Mingyuan Chen, professor in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering. Chen is quoted throughout: Montreal Gazette, CTVnews.ca (Montreal), CBC.ca (Montreal), Radio-Canada.ca, L'actualité, The Globe and Mail, National Post, The Halifax Chronicle Herald, The Toronto Star, CityNews.ca, Thompson Citizen, Lethbridge Herald, The Chronicle Journal (Thunder Bay), Winnipeg Free Press (behind a paywall), Victoria Times Colonist, The Daily Courier (Kelowna), Medicine Hat News, Humboldt Journal, Journal Métro, Metro News, News1130.com, 680News.com, Sudbury.com, Red Deer News Now, Guelph Today, Barrie Today, Bay Today, SooToday, CFJC Today,Nanaimo News Now, Daily Commercial News, Long Beach City College Viking.
- Wire Service and AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall) reprise a release on new research from the John Molson School of Business that finds “name-your-own-price” selling strategies rarely benefit competing suppliers, especially when demand for a particular good or service is low or inventory levels are high.
- KXAN.com (linked by TexBiker) joins coverage of a study from Concordia of the benefits of cycling, particularly among workers, who reported lower levels of stress after cycling to work. The research, published in the International Journal of Workplace Health Management, was led by Stéphane Brutus, professor of management and RBC Professor of Motivation and Employee Performance, associate professor of management Alexandra Panaccio and JMSB research assistant Roshan Javadian (MSc 14,).
- Dutch Cowboys (in Dutch) writes about 'It is as if you were doing work' — a browser game designed by Pippin Barr, assistant professor in the Department of Design and Computation Arts and associate director of the Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) Lab. The game, which puts the player in a Windows 95 browser environment, is essentially a time-waster, presented as a commentary on the gradual replacement of human effort by artificial intelligence and robots.