Selection of Research Projects, Visualisation Tools and Toolkits

Energy Future Control Rooms

Exploring information overload and visualisation design in energy control room environments. 

Project Lead: Sarah Goodwin. 

Frontiers Paper (2022)

Current project running mid 2024- mid 2025

Australia's Discourse Explorer

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 PRF

Two workshop papers: Past and Present  

MultiViz (Multi Variable Mapping)

Exploring the possibilities for visualisation for multiple dimensions - in this case for superdiversity and liveability. 

Project lead Sarah Goodwin, Alan Gamlen (ANU) and Xavier Ho (MADA)

Funded by MDFI Seedgrant 2021

Visualisation Publication Pending 2024

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 Publication Pending 2024

Embodied Provenance 

Exploring embodied interactions, metaphors and designs for analytical provenance in immersive environments environments.

PhD Candidate: Yidan Zhang (Main Supervisor)

ISS Full Paper 2023

CHI LBW: 2023

Immersive Energy Vis 

Immersive exploration of net zero campus data, from immersive campus maps to tangible interaction with dashboards. 

Main Developers: Yidan Zhang, Kadek Satriadi (Supervisor)

Visual Eye Tracking Gazealytics 

Released Open Source toolkit for eye tracking visual analysis. Used by many researchers in their own analysis

Main developer: Kun-Ting Chen (Project lead: Sarah Goodwin)

Paper

Toolkit

2021-2023

Visual Eye Tracking: VETA

Toolkit for eye tracking visual analysis. Used for our control room analysis. This was the preliminary work to Gazealytics, above.

Paper

Main developer: Ryan Whitelock-Jones (Project lead and supervisor: Sarah Goodwin)

2019-2021

Areal Wombling

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)


Tabletop & Tangible Interactions

Exploring interactive tabletop with AR data visualisation and tangible interactions

Video

IEEE TVCG Paper

Funded by Monash Energy Institute Seed Grant 2018.

Large team, Project team led by Barrett Ens and Sarah Goodwin

Immersive Storytelling

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

Morphing Networks

Exploring the benefit of geography in single line diagrams.

Master thesis project: Merry Hoang (now Merry's PhD topic, 2024+) Main Supervisor: Sarah Goodwin

Paper 

And many more!