Exploring information visualisation design in energy control room environments
Project Lead: Sarah Goodwin, Mor Vered, Caddie Gao,
Funded by CSIRO G-PST stage 4: Topic 3: Control Room of the Future
Prior work from AEMO funded project 2019/2020: Frontiers (2022)
Current project running 2025
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
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
Evaluation stage and further grant applications
Exploring the benefit of geography in energy network diagrams
Merry Hoang PhD Candidate 2024+ (and Master thesis project 2022)
Main Supervisor: Sarah Goodwin
Current Project
Exploring the possibilities for visualisation for multiple dimensions - in this case for superdiversity and liveability.
Project leads Sarah Goodwin, Alan Gamlen (ANU) and Xavier Ho (MADA)
Funded by MDFI Seedgrant 2021;
Past project
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
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 embodied interactions, metaphors and designs for analytical provenance in immersive environments environments.
PhD Candidate: Yidan Zhang (Main Supervisor)
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
Exploring immersive storytelling for Net Zero transitions and environmental explanations.
PhD Candidate: Amal Al Shardy (Paper) Main Supervisor: Sarah Goodwin
and
New Masters thesis project: 2024
Water quality communication for agricultural catchments. Funded by FIT ECA grant 2024:
Lead Sarah Goodwin
Current 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 and supervisor: Sarah Goodwin)
2019-2021
Immersive exploration of net zero campus data, from immersive campus maps to tangible interaction with dashboards.
Main Developers: Yidan Zhang (Supervisor), Kadek Satriadi
2020-2025
Exploring the possibilities for interactive areal wombling
Student Projects: Jayden Zhang (Honours Thesis, S1-S2 2023);
Student interns: Javeriya Nadaf, Joshua Loong (Jan 2023)
(Project lead: Sarah Goodwin)
Past project
Exploring participatory approaches to data governance in the city.
PhD project: Jessica Bou Nassar
Papers
Current Project
Co-designing dance education support for those who are blind or low vision
PhD Project: Madhuka de Silva
Papers: ASSETS 2023; ACM CHI 2025;
Current Project