VisGroup @ CHI 2026
The VisGroup says ¡hola! at the Catalonian edition of CHI this year. PhD Fellow Roxanne Ziman headed to sunny Barcelona to participate in, among several other paper sessions and activities, a meet-up (a new interactive networking format at CHI this year) and a workshop related to engagement in HCI. Along with Laura Garrison, she was
VisGroup visits Linköping University
Laura Garrison and her PhD student Amy Zhang headed to our neighbours in Nörrkoping, Sweden for a research visit from December 08-12, 2025. The week was dedicated to developing ongoing collaborations and potential avenues of research with the Visualization and Interaction Design (VID) group headed by Prof. Miriah Meyer at Linköping University. The highlights of
VisGroup @ VCBM 2025
The VisGroup attended the 2025 VCBM Symposium held this year from October 2-3 at the lovely TU Delft in the Netherlands. Helwig Hauser chaired the VCBM Steering Committee meeting while at Delft. Second-year PhD student Amy Zhang contributed to the GI Fachgruppen meeting with a talk on Looking at speculative design for biomedical visualization. Amy
VisGroup @ CHI 2025
Laura Garrison, along with 2nd-year PhDs Amy Zhang and Roxanne Ziman, headed to bustling Yokohama, Japan, for this year’s CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, held during the last week of April (and just catching the end of cherry blossom season). All three participated in engaging weekend workshops that preceded the conference paper
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