Associate Professor
Research: Telecommunication & broadcasting policy; technology; communication to mitigate disasters/emergency communication.
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Learn about the research interests of some of our Faculty members from each of the Schools below!
Watch their interviews as they speak about their roles in the FCAT community!
Watch Peter Anderon's interview here.
Director
Research: Globalization and cultural policies; cultural trade, commmunications regulation; feminist research in cultural policy; cultural policy as cultural practice.
Watch Alison Beale's interview here.
Associate Professor
Research: histories and theories of of documentary and reality-based media; reality TV shows about women and property; John Grierson and the rethinking of cinema history in Canada in the face of the transition to digital.
Watch Zoe Druick's interview here.
Associate Professor
Research: Relationships between communication theory and the social determinants of health; critical discourse analysis; moral philosophy; and the films of Alfred Hitchcock.
Watch Gary McCarron's interview here.
Professor
Director of the Master of Digital Media Program
Research: surveillance technologies; new media and mobile technologies in social relationships; technology and society; social inclusion/exclusion.
Watch Richard Smith's interview here.
Professor
Research: Design, implementation, change and use of technology; health information technologies; the role and impact on gender and minorities in technological systems; technology in Public Policy.
Watch Ellen Balka's interview here.
Associate Professor
Research: Big data; Social media; Bioethics and Health; Science and Society; Genomics; Personalized medicine; New communication technologies; Networks and network analysis; Culture and identity; Information society.
Watch Peter Chow-White's interview here.
Associate Professor
Research: Visual culture; Cultural theory and forms; Cultural memory; Political violence; Asylum and displaced populations; Japanese/Asian Canadian cultural studies.
Watch Kirsten McAllister's interview here.
Assistant Professor
Research: children, youth and media cultures, theories of the public sphere, with specific concern for the work of Hannah Arendt, and young people’s historical thinking, particularly in relation to digital media technologies.
Watch Stuart Poyntz's interview here.
Professor
Research: Political economy of global communication; Media & democracy; Communication industries in China.
Watch Yuezhi Zhao's interview here.
Associate Professor
Research: embodied research, child-centered design, mixed reality and location-based interaction models, play and informal learning in interactive environment, and industry-based, human-centred design practice.
Watch Alissa Antle's interview here.
Associate Professor
Research: Aesthetics of the Moving Image; game Design and Narrative; new Media Design.
Watch Jim Bizzochi's interview here.
Associate Professor
Research: 3D Computer Graphics, Animation, Simulation; Artificial Intellegence for Visual Systems; Expression, Emotion and Creativity Systems; Facial, Character, and Agent based Systems; Games and Visualization; Digital & Interactive Fine Art; Art Research & Computer Creativity Practices; Interactive Narrative & Avatar Communities.
Watch Steve DiPaola's interview here.
Lecturer
Research: THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF MEDIATION: Digital Photography; Experimental Video; Sound Design; Net Art; Creative Writing; Public Art.
Watch Michael Filimowicz's interview here.
Assistant Professor
Research: Anthropology of Media; Digital Cultural Heritage; Indigenous Media; Digital Ethnography; Collaborative Methodologies; Digital Humanities; Media Arts; Ethnography and Art Practice.
Watch Kate Hennessy's interview here.
Assistant Professor
Chair, Graduate Program Committee
Research: Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Sciences; Computational Creativity and Computer Entertainment; Artistic Creation and Administration; Multi-agent Systems; Performance and technology.
Watch Philippe Pasquier's interview here.
Senior Lecturer
Research: User Experience, Information and human centered product design; Visual + Interactive Communication; Brand Experience; Typography, Onscreen + motion graphics, Film Titling; Space + information environments; Design History, Theory Management, Popular Culture and Language; Interaction behaviour + perception.
Watch Russell Taylor's interview here.
Associate Professor
Research: Advanced collaboration and visualization; scientific and mathematical high-performance computing; usability and user experience; interactive systems for mobile collaboration.
Watch Lyn Bartram's interview here.
Professor Emeritus
Research: Information visualization; visual analytics; design visualization; haptic rendering; intelligent graphic interface.
Watch John Dill's interview here.
Assistant Professor
Research: Architecture; design computation; design problem solving and decision making; parametric and configurable modeling; requirements management; visual analytics; software design/development; academic apprenticeship.
Watch Halil Erhan's interview here.
Professor
Research: Developing new technologies and interaction design that may improve the lives of people who live with long-term chronic pain. BioMedia, BioTechnologies. Post-Phenomenological philosophies of experience. Medical Visualization.
Watch Diane Gromala's interview here.
Assistant Professor
Research: Human-Computer Interaction; Computer-Supported Cooperative Work; Domestic Computing; Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing; Virtual Worlds and MMORPGs; Pervasive Gaming.
Watch Carman Neustaedter's interview here.
Assistant Professor
Research: Design and iterative evaluation and improvement of human-computer interfaces and human-centered virtual reality simulations; Human multi-modal spatial cognition, spatial orientation, spatial updating, and navigation.
Watch Bernhard Riecke's interview here.
Professor
Research: Interaction Design; Design ethnography, and everyday design; Ambient Intelligence and ubiquitous computing.
Watch Ron Wakkary's interview here.
Professor
Research: Design Space Exploration; Parametric Modeling; Design Grammars; Design Patterns; Design Collaboration; Visual Analytics; Knowledge Visualization; Research Methods for Design.
Watch Rob Woodbury's interview here.
Professor
Research: Documentary and innovative film production, poetry, writing for the screen, poetics, critical writing, art history, Surrealism, the ceremonial art of the NW Coast and Alaska, opera, fiction, interdisciplinary performance, British Columbia and Canadian film history, documentary film history, archival film and film archives.
Watch Colin Browne's interview here.
Associate Professor
Research: Intelligent Systems, Live Electroacoustic Performance, Interactive Systems, Algorithmic Composition.
Watch Arne Eigenfeldt's interview here.
Professor
Research: Electroacoustic music; music composition; film sound design & scoring; interactive computer systems for music composition and performance, improvisation, new media performance & installation.
Watch Martin Gotfrit's interview here.
Associate Professor
Research: Contemporary Dance Technique, Composition, Aesthetics, Repertory.
Watch Rob Kitso's interview here.
Professor
Research: music composition, interdisciplinary composition and collaboration.
Watch David MacIntyre's interview here.
Senior Lecturer
Research: Performance and choreography, Contemporary dance technique, body conditioning for dancers & actors, Improvisation, Dance History and Analysis.
Watch Cheryl Prophet's interview here.
Associate Professor
Research: Dance history and criticism, contemporary dance technique, dance composition, performance studies, movement improvisation, live performance in technologically mediated environments.
Watch Henry Daniel's interview here.
Associate Professor
Research: choreography; contemporary dance technique; Martha Graham technique; repertory; costume design; rehearsal direction.
Watch Judith Garay's interview here.
Assistant Professor
Research: Theatre Performance, Directing, Devising, Interdisciplinary Collaboration.
Watch Steven Hill's interview here.
Professor
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies
Research: Dramaturgy & Directing & Playmaking
Watch DD Kugler's interview here.
Dena Wosk University Professor
Research: experimental and independent media artworks: film, video, and digital media; movement of art, meanings, and people between cultures; Arab cinema; aesthetics; the senses.
Watch Laura Mark's interview here.
Associate Professor
Research: video installation, sculpture, photography, performance and mixed media installation
Watch Judy Radul's interview here.
Associate Professor
Research: The impact of digital technologies in the cultural sector (and particularly books and magazines), the history of digital media, and the emergence of digital genres and mythologies.
Watch John Maxwell's interview here.