Author: Laura Garrison

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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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.