Stories
Meet our graduate students and learn about their research.
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Convocation Spotlight: Mirjana Prpa
Mirjana is graduating with a PhD in Interactive Arts & Technology. Her dissertation focuses on how can we use experiences provided by immersive virtual reality (VR) to bring focus and attention back to ourselves.
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Body RemiXer: SIAT PhD students launch a new VR installation
SFU PhD students in SIAT have created a free online, immersive virtual reality installation that transforms participants into virtual ethereal auras to invite experiences of connection.
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SIAT MA candidate Meta Vaughan awarded this year's Terry Fox Gold Medal
SIAT MA candidate Meta Vaughan awarded this year's Terry Fox Gold Medal for her dedicated support to the local Cystic Fibrosis community.
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Convocation Spotlight: Naghmi Shireen
Yasamin is graduating with a PhD in Interactive Arts & Technology this June. Her dissertation focusses on human/computer interactions and connecting family through asynchronous audio stories.
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Using Data Visualization to Quickly Forecast Avalanches and Enhance Public Safety ↗
Data science researcher and SIAT PhD candidate Stan Nowak provides data visualizations for this article on forecasting avalanches.
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Convocation Spotlight: Yasamin Heshmat
Yasamin is graduating with a PhD in Interactive Arts & Technology this June. Her dissertation focusses on human-computer interactions and connecting family through asynchronous audio stories.
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Grad student spotlight: Weina Jin
Weina Jin is a 3rd-year PhD student in SIAT. Her thesis has a focus on developing explainable AI (artificial intelligence) to support doctors' decision-making processes. As a research assistant in supervisor Dr. Diane Gromala’s Pain Studies Lab, she designs virtual reality technologiesfor chronic pain patients.
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ACM IDC 2019 Design Contest Finalists ... The Future of Children's Future Well-Being
A graduate student design team led by Dr. Alissa Antle tackles escalating violence, inequality and marginalization in schools by envisioning a futuristic learning environment for children.
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Erick shares his graduate experience
Erick Oduor received his Ph.D. from SIAT in 2015. He is currently a research scientist at IBM Research Africa located in Nairobi, Kenya. In this graduate alumni spotlight, Erick reflects on his experience at SIAT and offers advice to current graduate students.
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Grad Student Spotlight Reese Muntean
My research, broadly, explores how we embed values into technology. I am interested in the intersections of technology and traditional knowledge, tangible and intangible cultural heritage, digital repatriation, ethics, sustainability, and materiality.
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Alumni Spotlight Audrey Desjardins
Audrey received her Ph.D. from SIAT in 2016. She is an Assistant Professor in the School of Art, Art History, and Design at the University of Washington in Seattle.
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Next generating drawing systems in VR
I explore how people draw in virtual reality to inform the creation of user interfaces that allow everyone to create accurate shapes and precise strokes.
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Speculating on everyday computational things
Doenja Oogjes’ PhD research speculatively explores new kinds of relations that might form among people, things, and their everyday environments
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Designing VR for Self-Transcendence
Alex Kitson is investigating how to design for virtual reality that supports self-transcendence–decreased self-salience and increased feelings of connectedness to others and one's surroundings.
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Rethinking VR for the benefit of society
SFU Innovates staff sat down with Mirjana Prpa to talk about her aspirations and what drives her to change her field.
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Rui shares his graduate experience
Rui Pan shares his experiences as a SIAT graduate student.
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Exploring VR for the health sector
Graduate student Xin Tong explores the use of virtual reality (VR) for the health sector.
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