A growing interdisciplinary community exploring how data can become more accessible, expressive, and meaningful in everyday life.
Principal Investigator
Visualization · Accessibility · Storytelling
Keke is an Assistant Professor and director of the collective. Her research explores how visualization can broaden the ways people understand, experience, and make meaning from data, with a focus on cognitive accessibility, storytelling, and creative technology. Her work draws on community-engaged and arts-informed approaches.
Graduate Researcher (PhD)
Accessibility · Aging · Cognition
Collaborating with Dr. Amanda Lazar. Maggie is an Info Science PhD student with a background in psychology and product design. She is interested in accessibility, particularly in working alongside older adults and people with intellectual or developmental disabilities to inform more supportive design for people with different learning and processing needs.
Graduate Researcher (MS)
Visualization · Game Design
Nony is an international graduate student from Bangladesh currently studying HCI at UMD. He has 4+ years of experience in UX/UI and 10+ years in visual design. His research interests include data visualization, accessibility and game design.
Graduate Researcher (MS)
UI/UX · Data Storytelling
Trisha is an HCIM student from India at UMD. Her UI/UX design background shapes how she approaches research, and she is currently contributing to the Data Storytelling project in the Lived Data Collective. Her broader interests lie at the intersection of AI and user behaviour.
Graduate Researcher (MS)
Accessibility · Storytelling · Creative Technology
Diego is a Computer Science major interested in exploring the intersection between technology, design, and storytelling. He is passionate about investigating how this intersection can be used to promote accessibility and good mental health.
Undergraduate Researcher
Inclusive Design · Mental Health
Isabella is an Information Design and Psychology double major with interests in UI, UX, inclusive design, and digital accessibility. She is interested in investigating the ways technology can increase access to mental health services and improve psychological well-being.
Research Collaborator
Visualization · Perception · Data Analysis
Arran is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UNC Chapel Hill. He studies how people understand data in order to build accessible, intelligent and empirically grounded tools for exploratory analysis and decision-making.
