Stories
Learn more about the stories behind our research.
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COVID-19 vaccine delivery project draws on SFU health tech expertise
As a COVID-19 vaccine draws closer, SIAT researchers Diane Gromala, Chris Shaw and a team of graduate students are working to identify those who’ll need vaccinations first—individuals who the Centre for Disease Control identifies as most vulnerable and at-risk.
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Learning as avatars transforms virtual classrooms
SIAT professor Steve DiPaola is using innovative VR teaching techniques to teach his courses remotely using a virtual classroom.
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No Child Alone: SIAT researcher develops online social network for children
Dr. Alissa Antle is partnering with Curatio to create a private social network that helps children cope with their socio-emotional needs during COVID-19.
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International team develops advanced COVID-19 virtual reality training simulations
COVID-19 has made face-to-face training difficult for healthcare workers and medical staff. Learn how researchers from SIAT are working with an international team to tackle this problem using virtual reality.
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Slow Interaction Design: Advances in Research and Practice
Dr. William Odom has recently been awarded a 5-year research grant to investigate the theoretical and practical development of slow interaction design.
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How posthumanism plays a role in designing for the unknown ↗
Dr. Ron Wakkary discusses how posthumanism plays a role in designing for the unknown in this episode of Future Talks with Fab Lab Barcelona.
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SIAT faculty members awarded 2020 research and resource grants
Three SIAT faculty members have been awarded research and resource grants to support their diverse research projects.
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An AI painter that creates portraits based on the traits of human subjects ↗
Dr. Steve DiPaola discusses the AI system he and colleagues created that artificially replicates the process through which human artists paint portraits.
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SIAT alumna runs study with rural Chinese students and augmented reality for learning English
Together with her former supervisor Dr. Alissa Antle, SIAT alumna Dr. Min Fan ran a field study investigating how children from rural, low socioeconomic status schools used and perceived an AR app in English language learning.
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Virtual Meditative Walk
Dr. Diane Gromala and her team at Pain Studies Lab explore complex questions about human experience and pain.
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Exploring Creative Artificial Intelligence
For the last ten years, the Metacreation Lab has been at the forefront of research and practice in Creative AI.
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Could VR make us more human?
Bernhard Riecke and his iSpace lab explore the use of virtual reality (VR). His recent TEDxEastVan talk explored "Could VR make us more human?"
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Touching your loved ones over distance ↗
Dr. Carman Neustaedter discusses supporting touch over distance through new technologies.
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Visualizing science: how colour determines what we see
Dr. Lyn Bartram discusses the role of colour in data visualization.
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Chantal Gibson's new art show features work by SFU Pub and SIAT students
Chantal Gibson's new art show A Grammar of Loss: Studies in Erasure explores representations of Blackness in the Canadian cultural landscape.
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SIAT professor contributes to a sold out MOMA show
Steve Dipaola recently contributed his AI generated art to the sold out show "God in Three Persons" that played at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Artificial Intelligence - Research Keeps it More Human
The rapid advance of artificial intelligence (AI) begs a daunting question – will we ever achieve ‘human-like’ behavior in computational systems?
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Designing Mind-full apps
The Tangible Embodied Child-Computer Interaction Lab, directed by Professor Alissa Antle, conducts applied research addressing the modern needs of kids. Capitalising on the mind-body unity, the Lab design of tangible interfaces that aim to make a difference in children’s lives.
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Connecting People Through Technology
Through applied research in the design of human-computer interaction for everyday scenario, cLab members are contributing to the refinement of research and design methods to increase the interaction efficiency and improve its overall quality.
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Women Made Visible
Dr. Aceves Sepúlveda’s latest work Women Made Visible: Feminist Art and Media in post-1968 Mexico was recently published by the University of Nebraska.
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SIAT Success at ACM CHI 2019
The School of Interactive Arts and Technology contributed 16 full papers to the 2019 ACM International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI). The CHI conference is considered among the most prestigious and premier venues internationally to publish and present quality research in Human-Computer Interaction. SIAT’s contributions place SFU as the top ranking university across Canada with the most publications at CHI 2019.
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An 85 inch "tablet" for data visualization
At SIAT, VVISE is the Virtual and Augmented Reality, Visual Analytics, Interaction, Systems & Experiments Lab.
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Information Visualization Dashboards
Professor Lyn Bartram details her research and expertise in visual analytics and information visualization.
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