Sidekick Interactive - Experts in custom digital tools for researchers
Committed to working with
researchers since 2017
Sidekick ensures the support of researchers and the monitoring of their projects, standing out by adopting a participatory, customized work methodology designed to fit the research context.
Sidekick supports research and development activities with numerous collaborations since 2017, notably with CIUSSS-EMTL, CRIUGM and Université de Montréal.
Development of customized tools and platforms
Partner of choice for researchers in the development of digital tools with high added-value.
Sidekick co-creates custom software solutions that facilitate research by enabling the achievement of set objectives. Mostly, we seek to create user-friendly tools that will be used and adopted by patients, and that will allow researchers to obtain rich data.
Adapting to the needs of research projects
Adapting to the funding requirements of research projects.
Support with funding activities
Sidekick will act as a technology partner to support researchers as they apply for funding and grants. We help establish and justify technology budgets to funding committees in partnership with researchers.
Regardless of the budget, Sidekick will work with researchers to create an effective digital tool with a focus on speed of development, timeliness and adaptation to funding capabilities.
Sidekick is a partner of Medteq, an industrial consortium for research and innovation in medical technologies and a research project funder.
- Recognizing the importance of research and development, Sidekick has a team of technology experts and researchers with broad skills in technology and research methodologies.
- Sidekick is sensitive to the compliance of confidential and private data rights and security.
- Sidekick ensures the protection of intellectual property and demonstrates its willingness to protect and enhance the research results and innovations resulting from the project.
- Sidekick ensures the ethical compliance of all research projects conducted.
- Sidekick helps researchers from the analysis of the need to the creation and exploitation of new digital tools.
- Sidekick participates equally with the researcher in the transfer of its skills and ideas to collaborate fully in the creation of digital tools.
- At the beginning of the project, workshops are set up to allow each party to understand the idea and the challenges of the project, to share their knowledge and expertise, to establish a clear and effective development project.
- We help projects in difficulty, and we offer the possibility of taking over and recovering the management of projects even if they were not started with Sidekick.
The implementation of workshops and audits allow us to evaluate and act to rescue defective projects and restore the performance of projects that need it.
Agile and flexible methodology: fast development, step by step
Our methodology adapted to research projects
IDEA/RESEARCH PROJECT
Sidekick gathers information from the researcher and creates technical documentation detailing the project. The definition of the solution is done in partnership between Sidekick and the researcher to ensure that the research objectives are met while respecting the budget and other constraints.
DEFINE & MODEL - Conceptualization, design, validation, planning
Sidekick works in tandem with the researcher to co-create the solution, including architecture, compliance, and user experience. We prepare everything up front, so that the software development is as efficient as possible.
- Co-creation workshops
- Technology validation
- User experience
- Design validation
- Planning
TECHNICAL - Agile development
Developers program the features of the digital tool, sprint by sprint, at the researcher's pace, until they are all completed.
- Sprints planning
- Development
- Quality assurance
- Demo
QUALITY ASSURANCE - Test
Sidekick tests the project using the test plan created upstream, as well as validating the interface, functionality, and integration aspects. When dealing with sensitive data, the focus is on security testing.
LAUNCH - Deployment
Sidekick will deploy the tool to meet your project objectives. Several options are available, and we will work with your team to understand the best strategy for deployment and to support you during the research project.
They trust us with
their research projects
Some projects
we have built
+Strong
Mobile App
Accompany and equip young victims of bullying by establishing an action plan to better deal with bullying situations.
The user also has access to video resources to help them better manage situations.
The application also invites the user to ask for help around them, and to start a conversation with a trusted adult.
Pharmalliance
Mobile App & Web Platform
Better involve pharmacists in the treatment of depression.
The mobile application and the web platform are linked. The user (the patient) sends data to the pharmacist’s web platform via his mobile application.
Thus, the pharmacist can follow the patient’s treatment, side effects and psychological state in real time.
A project that brings together pharmacists and people suffering from depression.
PA-DTI
iPad App
Improve access to evidence-based teaching practices for children with developmental disabilities (autism, intellectual disabilities, developmental delays).
Based on studies in applied behavior analysis, educators, teachers, and psychoeducators can use PA-DTI to teach matching and responsive identification to children with developmental disabilities.
The application uses discrete trial learning to teach 24 different programs (e.g., objects, colors, emotions, numbers, letters).
