Collabographics

Projects & Findings

Explore collaborations, labs, and outcomes from twenty years of collaborative visualization research, with emphasis on interdisciplinary teams and international partnerships.

A long, built-in digital wall composed of seamlessly tiled, ultra-thin displays showing a continuous geospatial visualization that transitions from a detailed city map on the left to abstracted regional patterns on the right. Colors are restrained: slate blue water, soft gray land, and subtle coral highlights for key data clusters. A narrow bench of light oak runs along the base of the wall, completely empty, emphasizing minimalism. Indirect ceiling lighting washes the upper wall with a soft glow, while a linear floor light grazes the bench, creating refined horizontal lines. Captured from a low, wide-angle perspective that emphasizes the length and cohesion of the display, the mood is immersive yet composed, reflecting large-scale, collaborative visualization in a sophisticated corporate environment.

A large ultra-high-resolution wall display showing an intricate geospatial data visualization: layered translucent maps in soft blues and neutral grays, with precise node-link overlays and polygon heat zones in muted teal and amber. The display is mounted on a clean, matte white wall above a minimal light-wood console that holds a single closed graphite-gray laptop. Soft, diffused daylight enters from an unseen window, creating gentle reflections on the screen and subtle shadows under the console. Shot at eye level with a balanced, symmetrical composition and sharp focus. The mood is professional, calm, and analytical, with a photographic realism and corporate, minimalist aesthetic emphasizing clarity and structure.

Academic Bio

PhD in Interactive Arts and Technology from Simon Fraser University, 15 years teaching in Canada and East Asia, and 3,000+ citations. This portfolio highlights design research, publications, and collaborative visualization projects.

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Collaborative Visualization Teams

A sleek glass-topped workstation with three ultra-thin-bezel monitors arranged in a gentle arc, each displaying different synchronized geospatial dashboards: a monochrome base map, a layered heatmap, and a time-animated flow map in neutral blues and desaturated oranges. The desk surface is uncluttered, featuring only a wireless keyboard, a dark graphite trackpad, and a small, closed hardcover notebook in slate gray. Cool, even studio lighting highlights the clean lines and metallic textures, casting precise, soft-edged shadows. Captured from a slightly elevated three-quarter angle with rule-of-thirds framing and shallow depth of field, the background falls into a subtle blur of neutral gray. The scene conveys a focused, highly technical environment with a polished corporate aesthetic and photographic realism.

Aarav Sharma

CEO

A designer-researcher with two decades in hybrid spaces, leading cross-disciplinary visualization labs across North America and Asia. My work blends interaction design, data storytelling, and collaborative experience to support shared sensemaking and distributed decision making.

An overhead bird’s-eye view of a large, pristine white table covered with neatly arranged printed geospatial interface mockups. Each sheet shows different map-based layouts, legend designs, and interaction flows in a restrained palette of charcoal, soft blue, and muted green. Thin acrylic rulers, graphite mechanical pencils, and a silver laptop with its lid closed line the table edges in a precise grid. Soft overcast daylight from a skylight above creates uniform, shadow-free illumination, reinforcing a sense of clarity and order. The composition is carefully centered and symmetrical, with sharp focus across the entire frame. The mood is methodical and reflective, emphasizing structured design research and a clean, modern, photographic aesthetic.

Mateo García

CTO

I contribute to multi-institutional projects with colleagues from data science, HCI, and urban planning. Through field deployments and design workshops, we explore how teams coordinate, negotiate meaning, and sustain trust in evolving data ecosystems.

A single, large 4K monitor on a matte black stand displays a collaborative geospatial dashboard split into four coordinated views: a central map, a timeline, a network diagram, and a metrics panel, all using a restrained palette of cool grays, deep navy, and subtle cyan highlights. The monitor sits on a smooth, light concrete desk against a soft taupe wall, with a compact black notebook and a fine-line pen neatly aligned beside it. Directional side lighting from the left creates gentle gradients on the wall and precise shadows under the monitor stand. Captured at eye level with an asymmetric composition following the rule of thirds, the image has a calm, contemplative, and highly professional mood with clean photographic realism.

Zuri Ndlovu

Engineer

As a design researcher, I mentor students and collaborate with international partners on visualization interfaces for collaborative decision making, co-creation, and real-time data exploration in diverse contexts.

A dark charcoal background framing a floating, semi-transparent 3D globe composed of intersecting thin white latitude and longitude lines and softly glowing data arcs in desaturated teal and amber, representing global collaboration. Hovering around the globe are faint, rectangular UI panels with minimalist icons for layers, filters, and annotations, all rendered in subtle grayscale. A cool, focused spotlight from above and slightly behind creates a gentle halo around the sphere and delicate rim lighting on the arcs, fading into velvety darkness. Shot in a centered, front-facing composition with deep contrast and sharp focus on the globe, the atmosphere is precise, technical, and visionary, combining photographic realism with a clean, corporate, conceptual aesthetic.

Leila Haddad

Designer

My portfolio spans scholarly publications, teaching, and industry partnerships, highlighting cross-cultural design research in interactive arts, geospatial analytics, and group experience design across Canada, Europe, and East Asia.

Milestones Timeline

PhD at SFU, 20 years of research leadership, and over 3,000 citations position this work at the intersection of design research, collaborative visualization, and international education.