News Archive

Earlier updates

Aug 2026

Publication

A viewer responding emotionally to a data visualization

Made to Feel accepted to IEEE VIS

“Made to Feel” was accepted to IEEE VIS 2026 as a short paper.

Jul 2026

Event

Isabella presenting her poster at SURC 2026

Presented at SURC

Isabella presented her poster, “Affective Visual Metaphors” at SURC.

May 2026

Event

Data Characters project interface and character

Presented at the 43rd HCIL Symposium

Diego and Isabella shared their work-in-progress, “Data Characters”, at the symposium.

Teaching

Animated smiling lightbulb for Interaction Design Studio

Taught INST711 in Spring 2026

Keke taught INST711: Interaction Design Studio to 25 graduate students.

Teaching

Animated data visualization graphic for INST 462

Taught INST462 in Spring 2026

Keke taught INST 462: Introduction to Data Visualization to 85 undergrads.

Sep 2025

A Beginning

The Lived Data Collective

Every collective starts somewhere. Ours began at the University of Maryland in September 2025.