Scholar
Laura Garrison
Google Scholar ID: tGjJtgoAAAAJ
University of Bergen
Citations & Impact
Citations
332
H-index
11
i10-index
14
Publications
20
Co-authors
7
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Awarded the Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine in 2023
- - Received the Karl-Heinz Höhne (MedVis) Award in 2021
- - Published papers such as 'The Language of Infographics: Toward Understanding Conceptual Metaphor Use in Scientific Storytelling'
Research Experience
- - Worked as a medical artist and content director in medical education technology start-ups in Chicago, Silicon Valley, and New York City before her PhD
- - Currently an associate professor (tenure-track) of visualization in the Department of Informatics at the University of Bergen
Education
- - PhD in Visualization, University of Bergen, Norway
- - MSc in Biomedical Visualization, University of Illinois at Chicago
- - BA in Anatomy/Physiology, Minors in Art, Chemistry, Northern Michigan University
Background
- - Associate Professor in Visualization / HCI
- - Research Interests: Visualization narrative and rhetoric, Critical visualization, Human-data interaction, Visual data science/visual analytics, Biomedical visualization, Medical and scientific illustration
- - Bio: Studies the processes and assumptions designers make when crafting visualizations, and their impact on audience engagement and behavior, with a special interest in the health and life science domains
Miscellany
- - Skilled in biomedical visualization and medical and scientific illustration
