Exploring information visualisation design in energy control room environments and smart network diagrams
Project Lead: Sarah Goodwin with:
2026-2027(with Mor Vered, Michael Wybrow, Tim Dwyer, and Yidan Zhang)
2025-2026 (with Mor Vered, Caddie Gao, Lee Lawrence, Ben Tag, Michael Wybrow, Tim Dwyer, Markus Wagner and Yidan Zhang)
Partnering with Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO)
Funded by CSIRO AR-PST stage (4) 5 and stage 6, Topic 3. Prior work from AEMO funded project 2019/2020: Frontiers (2022)
Current Project.
Exploring the benefit of geography in energy network diagrams and alternative map designs
Merry Hoang PhD Candidate 2024+ (and Master thesis project 2022)
Masters thesis Project 2026 (on using white space on national maps) and transforming water and rivers
Main Supervisor: Sarah Goodwin
Early prototype (2023)
Current Project
Investigating the use of immersive storytelling to demonstrate water nutrient flow and movement in dairy farms, focusing on a case study of Macalister irrigation district, Gippsland.
Project Leads: Sarah Goodwin, Anna Lintern (ENG), Adeliade Genay (UniMelb), Vanessa Echeverria. Funded by FIT Seedgrant 2024
Evaluation stage and further grant applications
Exploring immersive storytelling for Net Zero transitions and environmental explanations.
PhD Candidate: Amal Al Shardy (Paper). Main Supervisor: Sarah Goodwin, with Dr Kari Dahlgren, Prof Lyn Bartram, Dr Andres Santos Torres
Current project
Investigating the feasibility of XGeoAI with a case study of weather and renewable energy.
Seedfunding from Monash Data Futures Insitute, now Monash AI Institute, 2024-2025
Project Leads: Tim Dwyer, Sarah Goodwin, Mor Vered, Terrence Mak
seeking further grant applications
Project advisor and consultant for the National Cancer Atlas, a hugely successful tool developed by Cancer Council Queensland (CCQ) and Queensland University of Technology (QUT).
Project team led by Kerrie Mengerson (QUT) and Peter Baade (CCQ).
Funded by FrontierSI
Visualisation Design of uncertainty Paper (SG main author).
Past project (live)
Visual tool for exploring patterns and narratives of disadvantage in Australia as seen in political speeches and media articles.
Project visualisation leads: Sarah Goodwin and Tim Dwyer in conjunction with SodaLabs and BehaviourWorks
Funded by Paul Ramsey Foundation, 2021, 2022
Two workshop papers: Past and Present
Past project
Exploring the possibilities for visualisation for multiple dimensions - in this case for superdiversity and liveability.
Project leads: Alan Gamlen (ANU), Sarah Goodwin, and Xavier Ho (MADA)
Funded by MDFI Seedgrant 2021;
UrbanDiversity (application)
Past project
Exploring embodied interactions, metaphors and designs for analytical provenance in immersive environments environments.
PhD Candidate: Yidan Zhang now graduated. Supervisors: Sarah Goodwin (Main), Barrett Ens.
Past project
Exploring interactive tabletop with AR data visualisation and tangible interactions
Funded by Monash Energy Institute Seed Grant 2018.
Large team, Project team led by Barrett Ens and Sarah Goodwin
Past project
Toolkit for eye tracking visual analysis. Used for our control room analysis. This was the preliminary work to Gazealytics, above.
Main developer: Ryan Whitelock-Jones,
Project lead: Sarah Goodwin
2019-2021
Immersive exploration of net zero campus data, from immersive campus maps to tangible interaction with dashboards.
Main Developers: Yidan Zhang, Kadek Satriadi, Supervisor: Sarah Goodwin
2020-2025
Past projects
Exploring the possibilities for interactive areal wombling
Project lead and Supervisor: Sarah Goodwin with
Student Projects: Jayden Zhang (Honours Thesis, S1-S2 2023); Student interns: Javeriya Nadaf, Joshua Loong (Jan 2023)
Past project
Participatory approaches to data governance in the city.
PhD project: Jessica Bou Nassar (graduated 2025)
Papers:
Past project
Co-designing dance education support for those who are blind or low vision
PhD Project: Madhuka de Silva (graduated 2025)
Papers: ASSETS 2023; ACM CHI 2025;
Past project