Open position: PhD in Medical Visualization!
We are looking for a PhD candidate in medical visualization to join our team! PhD Research Fellow in Medical Visualization There is a vacancy for a PhD Research Fellow in Medical Visualization at the Department of Informatics. The position is for a fixed-term period of 3 years with the possibility of a 4th year with compulsory
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
2024 VisGroup Hiring!
The Bergen VisGroup will soon announce three exciting positions: We are looking to hire an additional faculty member to strengthen our team! We are currently considering faculty members at various career stages, from (tenure-track) Associate Professor to Full Professor. Please get in touch with Helwig Hauser, Laura Garrison, or Noeska Smit to learn more! We
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
Honeycomb Plots: Best Paper of VMV 2022
Our paper Honeycomb Plots [bibcite key=Trautner-2022-HCP], presented by Thomas Trautner, was selected as Best Paper at this year’s International Vision, Modelling, Visualization (VMV) Symposium
