Christelle Luce's Ditch Lab Project Receives ACFAS Prize!
McGill Educational and Counselling Psychology postdoctoral fellow,听Christelle Luce, and her Ditch Labs team have been awarded this year's ACFAS Prize.听Ditch Labs wants to defeat smoking, the world's number one preventable cause of death, with a holistic and smart medical device. By combining a smart nicotine vaporizer called DitchPen鈩�, a mobile self-care app, and artificial intelligence, Ditch Labs aims to help each patient in a personalized, efficient, and safe way to stop their consumption of cigarettes. The DitchPen鈩� mimics the sensations associated with smoking, which promotes adoption. Thanks to its precise, gradual, and automatic nicotine reduction function it limits the risk of misuse and alleviates withdrawal symptoms. In addition, the self-care program provides educational information and suggests behavioral strategies to successfully change habits. From the data collected during the processing, the algorithms adjust the latter. Ditch Labs strives for precision medicine as opposed to one-size-fits-all solutions.
Canada鈥檚 most prestigious French-language鈥痩earned society, ACFAS (l鈥橝ssociation francophone pour le savoir) has narrowed down its award finalists to six teams. Christelle Luce is the only McGill representative in the finals and her Ditch Lab colleagues include Olivier Bourbonnais (ETS), Mehdi El Hassani (U of M), Eric Hanigan (UQAM), Na茂l Sousa Cordeiro (HEC), and mentoring consultant, Jean-Pierre Desmarais.
Christelle Luce, postdoctorante dans le D茅partement de psychop茅dagogie et de psychologie du counseling de McGill et son 茅quipe Ditch Labs ont re莽u le prix ACFAS de cette ann茅e.听Ditch Labs veut vaincre le tabagisme, premi猫re cause de d茅c猫s 茅vitable dans le monde, gr芒ce 脿 un dispositif m茅dical holistique et intelligent. En combinant un vaporisateur de nicotine intelligent appel茅 DitchPen鈩�, une application mobile d'auto-soins et une intelligence artificielle, Ditch Labs vise 脿 aider chaque patient de mani猫re personnalis茅e, efficace et s没re 脿 arr锚ter sa consommation de cigarettes. Le DitchPen鈩� imite les sensations associ茅es 脿 la cigarette, ce qui favorise l'adoption. Gr芒ce 脿 sa fonction de r茅duction pr茅cise, progressive et automatique de la nicotine, il limite le risque de m茅susage et att茅nue les sympt么mes de sevrage. En outre, le programme d'auto-soins fournit des informations 茅ducatives et sugg猫re des strat茅gies comportementales pour r茅ussir 脿 changer les habitudes. 脌 partir des donn茅es recueillies lors du traitement, les algorithmes ajustent ce dernier. Ditch Labs vise une m茅decine de pr茅cision par opposition aux solutions uniques.
La plus prestigieuse soci茅t茅 de recherche francophone du Canada, l'ACFAS (Association francophone pour le savoir), a r茅duit le nombre de finalistes 脿 six 茅quipes. Christelle Luce est la seule repr茅sentante de McGill en finale et ses coll猫gues de Ditch Lab sont Olivier Bourbonnais (ETS), Mehdi El Hassani (U de M), Eric Hanigan (UQAM), Na茂l Sousa Cordeiro (HEC) et Jean-Pierre Desmarais, consultant en mentorat.听
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