Theme 01
Narrative Data
Making data accessible and impactful through storytelling.
How can stories make data easier to understand?
How can people tell their stroies through data?
How can stories help people see themselves in data?
How we research lived data
We study how people understand, feel, and experience data through narrative, affective, and embodied approaches.
Our perspective on lived data has been shaped by years of collaboration with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). These partnerships challenged conventional assumptions about how data should be represented, interpreted, and experienced, and continue to shape how we think about visualization.
Theme 02
Affective Data
Connecting data with felt experience.
How do people give form to affective experiences?
How does affect shape the way people interpret data?
How can data support expression, reflection, and meaning-making?
Theme 03
Embodied Data
Experiencing data through body, space, and interaction.
How can people experience data rather than simply view it?
How can interaction reconnect data with its lived context?
How can embodied and immersive represntations support understanding?