FCAT is home to several Research Institutes and an array of labs and projects. With the participation and leadership of FCAT faculty, these endeavours contribute to exciting advances in diverse fields, support collaborative research to confront key scientific and global challenges, foster creative interaction, and stimulate engagement with students and visiting scholars.

FCAT Research Institutes: 

• Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing
• Digital Democracies Institute
• Institute for Performance Studies
• Vancouver Institute for Visual Analytics

FCAT Research Labs and projects: 

• Amplify Podcast Network – Hannah McGregor (Publishing)
• Centre for Imaginative Ethnography – Simone Rapisarda (SCA) 
• Computational Design Lab – Erhan Halil (SIAT) & Robert Woodbury (SIAT)
• Computational Neurotechnology Research Lab – Sylvain Moreno (SIAT)
• Connections Lab (cLab) — Carman Neustaedter (SIAT)
• Critical Media Art Studio (cMAS) – Gabriela Aceves-Sepulveda (SIAT)
• Digital Democracies Institute Lab – Wendy Hui-Kyong Chun (CMNS)
• Digital Health Circle – Sylvain Moreno (SIAT)
• Everyday Design Studio – Will Odom (SIAT) and Ron Wakkary (SIAT)
• IdleLab — Eldritch Priest (SCA)
• Interaction Science Research Group – Brian Fisher (SIAT)
• iVizLab  – Steve DiPaola (SIAT)
• Metacreation Lab – Philippe Pasquier (SIAT) & Arne Eigenfeldt (SCA)
• Musebots – Arne Eigenfeldt (SCA)
• Pain Studies Lab – Diane Gromala (SIAT)
• Scholarly Communications Lab (ScholCommLab) – co-directed by Juan Alperin (Publishing)
• Skoden Indigenous Film Festival
• Small File Media Festival - Laura Marks (SCA)
• Substantial Motion Research Network - Laura Marks (SCA)
• Tackling the Carbon Footprint of Streaming Media - Laura Marks (SCA)
  
• Tangible, Embodied, Child Interaction (TECI) Research Group Lab – Alissa N. Antle (SIAT)
• The Connections Lab – Carman Neustaedter (SIAT)
  
• The iSpace Lab  – Bernhard Riecke (SIAT)
  
• The Occulture - Eldritch Priest (SCA) 
• Virtual and Augmented Reality, Visual Analytics, Interaction, Systems & Experiments Lab (VVISE) – Wolfgang Stuerzlinger (SIAT)
• WaxFactory – Erika Latta (SCA)

Starting a new Institute, lab, or project, or don’t see yours here? Please reach out to our Research Coordinator at fcat_res@sfu.ca.