VisGroup Hiring Professor / Associate Professor in Visual Data Science / Visualization (update: application deadline has passed!)
The VisGroup is growing! We are looking to hire a professor or an associate professor in visual data science / visualization. The work environment for this position is the Visualization research group (vis.UiB.no), with close ties to CEDAS and MMIV. The group is internationally respected and contributes new visualization solutions for users from different domains to
Open Position for PhD in Informatics (update: application deadline has passed!)
Become a PhD Candidate in the Department of Informatics! The UiB Department of Informatics is hiring for up to three open PhD positions! This is a fantastic opportunity for applicants to choose a research group and topic that they find themselves most excited about, such as working with the VisGroup in topics in visualization! The
VisGroup @ EuroVis 2024
May is conference season for visualization! Helwig Hauser, Laura Garrison, and new PhD candidates Amy Zhang and Roxanne Ziman attended EuroVis from 27-31 May in Odense, Denmark this year. Laura presented work in collaboration with David Goodsell and Stefan Bruckner, Changing Aesthetics in Biomolecular Graphics [1] in Monday’s Computer Graphics and Applications session, while Amy
VisGroup @ CHI 2024
Laura Garrison represented the VisGroup at this year’s CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, held 11-16 May in Honolulu, Hawai’i. Laura presented her work with Michael Correll, When the Body Became Data: Historical Data Cultures and Anatomical Illustration [1]. Check out our manuscript below, or visit on ACM’s CHI24 Proceedings. [1] M. Correll
Garrison guest speaker at Univ. Zurich Dept. Informatics 2024 Spring Colloquium
On 18th April, Laura Garrison gave an invited lecture, Exploring Engagement and Empowerment through Visualization for Medicine and Public Health, as part of the University of Zurich’s Dept of Informatics 2024 Spring Colloquium. This was a fantastic visit with the opportunity as well for exchange with the Interactive Visual Data Analysis Group (PI Jürgen Bernard)
VisGroup @ VCBM2023
Our group attended VCBM 2023 in Norrköping, Sweden over 20-22 September with strong representation from our Master students: Hanna Balaka, a second-year Master student, and Beatrice Budich, a visiting first-year Master student from Magdeburg, Germany. Short paper: Reflections on AI-assisted character design for data-driven medical stories [link to paper: Character Design for Medical Stories (eg.org)]Beatrice
2023 VisGroup Updates & Hiring
2023 has been quiet on the VisGroup pages, but before the summer holidays in Norway come upon us we have a few exciting updates to share from the last several months! – We are thrilled that Rikke Aas joined the VisGroup as a PhD student in late autumn of 2022 to research engagement, bias, and
VisGroup at VINCI 2022 Includes Award for Best Short Paper
The VisGroup contributed two papers, one short and one full, to the VINCI Conference held this year in beautiful Chur, Switzerland, taking home the award for Best Short Paper.
VisGroup at EuroVis 2022
We were delighted to present a state-of-the-art-report from our group at EuroVis 2022 in Rome. The report, Trends & Opportunities in Visualization for Physiology: A Multiscale Overview, provides a broad overview of the common approaches and key challenges in visualizing physiology that is applicable for novice and experienced visualization researchers as well as application domain scientists who are interested in learning about more advanced visualization techniques for physiology.