What happens when some of our most intimate and culturally significant rituals become entangled with new technologies? How could design and technology reshape funerals, mourning, and remembrance in Ja...

The Sensing Matters Lab at Simon Fraser University is excited to welcome the first cohort of resident researchers! Gizem Oktay, Fiona Bell and Sam Edens will be joining us in the lab to collaborativel...

A film and public discussion exploring how design and technology could reshape funerals, mourning, and remembrance in near-future Japan.

FU’s School of Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT) and School for the Contemporary Arts (SCA) will be boothing at Anirevo, Vancouver’s largest anime convention, on the weekend of July 31 to August 2n...

YouTube video by Bernhard Riecke: iSpace Lab

School of Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT) postdoctoral fellow Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter was recently awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Knowledge Synthesis Grant to s...

Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a leader on the world stage on climate action and supporting sustainable cities and communities, as recognized by this year’s Times Higher Education Impact Rankings. SFU is among the Top 10 globally (7th and 9th) in both categories in the 2026 international rankings, which rate more than 1,600 universities based on their progress advancing the United Nation’s 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs).

Simon Fraser University is thrilled to celebrate our exceptional graduands during the week-long June convocation ceremonies from Monday, June 8 to Friday, June 12. Approximately 4,802 graduands from...

Researchers from the School of Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT) once again had a major presence at this year's ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction.

I am really excited to share that I will be a visiting professor at ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara from April to June, 2026 as part the Faculty Mobility for Partnership Program from Global Canada Affairs Canada and SFU International. During my stay, I will be meeting with professors and students in the Art and…

Next up on our showcase series, we have GAME DESIGN, in fact... there were SO MANY games that this is just part one! #indiegame #studentwork #envtuber #vtub...

The School of Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT) at Simon Fraser University (SFU), home of the world's first university VTuber program, is an interdisciplinary research focused school where technolo...