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
Best Paper Honorable Mention for MuSIC at VCBM2022
The VisGroup and MMIV won the Best Paper Honorable Mention award for MuSIC at VCBM held this year in beautiful Vienna, Austria. This shows the power of collaborative work between radiologists and computer scientists which is made possible at the wonderful Mohn Medical Imaging and Visualization Center (MMIV). Furthermore, MuSIC shows that a Masters thesis
