Collaborative Workshop for Science Communication and Education
On December 4, the Visualization and Didactics groups here at the Department of Informatics held a co-creation workshop for science communication and education. We were delighted to invite Jodie Jenkinson of the ScienceVis Lab at the University of Toronto. Through co-creation methods and copious sticky notes, participants explored “blue-sky” hopes for what they would like
Open Position for PhD in Informatics
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
Best Poster at VCBM 2024 and a visit to TU Wien
The VisGroup contributed a short paper and poster to the 2024 VCBM Symposium held this year from September 18-19 in Magdeburg, Germany. First-year PhD student Roxanne Ziman and visiting Master student Beatrice Budich from Magdeburg presented their design study on the MoBa Pregnancy and Child Development Dashboard [1]. First-year PhD student Amy Zhang presented 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