I investigate human factors in the visual exploration, analysis, and communication of data, with a particular focus on the health and life science domains. My research examines the role of interaction, aesthetics, and storytelling in visualization, and how these elements affect (for better or for worse) perception, behavior, and decision-making for various audience and user groups. 

Academic article

• Pokojna, Hana; Isenberg, Tobias; Bruckner, Stefan et al. (2024). The Language of Infographics: Toward Understanding Conceptual Metaphor Use in Scientific Storytelling. (external link)
• Garrison, Laura Ann; Goodsell, David S.; Bruckner, Stefan (2023). Changing Aesthetics in Biomolecular Graphics. (external link)
• Mittenentzwei, S.; Weiß, V.; Schreiber, S. et al. (2023). Do Disease Stories Need a Hero? Effects of Human Protagonists on a Narrative Visualization about Cerebral Small Vessel Disease. (external link)
• Mittenentzwei, Sarah; Garrison, Laura Ann; Mörth, Eric et al. (2023). Investigating user behavior in slideshows and scrollytelling as narrative genres in medical visualization. (external link)
• Kleinau, Anna; Stupak, Evgenia; Mörth, Eric et al. (2022). Is there a Tornado in Alex's Blood Flow? A Case Study for Narrative Medical Visualization. (external link)
• Garrison, Laura Ann; Bruckner, Stefan (2022). Considering Best Practices in Color Palettes for Molecular Visualizations. (external link)
• Garrison, Laura Ann; Kolesar, Ivan; Viola, Ivan et al. (2022). Trends & Opportunities in Visualization for Physiology: A Multiscale Overview. (external link)
• Meuschke, Monique; Garrison, Laura Ann; Smit, Noeska Natasja et al. (2022). Narrative Medical Visualization to Communicate Disease Data. (external link)
• Garrison, Laura Ann; Meuschke, Monique; Fairman, Jennifer et al. (2021). An Exploration of Practice and Preferences for the Visual Communication of Biomedical Processes. (external link)
• Kristiansen, Yngve Sekse; Garrison, Laura Ann; Bruckner, Stefan (2021). Semantic Snapping for Guided Multi-View Visualization Design. (external link)
• Garrison, Laura Ann; Müller, Juliane; Schreiber, Stefanie et al. (2021). DimLift: Interactive Hierarchical Data Exploration through Dimensional Bundling. (external link)
• Muller, Juliane; Garrison, Laura Ann; Ulbrich, Philipp et al. (2021). Integrated Dual Analysis of Quantitative and Qualitative High-Dimensional Data. (external link)
• Garrison, Laura; Vašíček, Jakub; Craven, Alexander R. et al. (2020). Interactive visual exploration of metabolite ratios in MR spectroscopy studies. (external link)
• Bartsch, Hauke; Garrison, Laura; Bruckner, Stefan et al. (2019). MedUse: A Visual Analysis Tool for Medication Use Data in the ABCD Study. (external link)
• Garrison, Laura; Vasicek, Jakub; Grüner, Renate et al. (2019). SpectraMosaic: An Exploratory Tool for the Interactive Visual Analysis of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Data. (external link)

Academic lecture

• Budich, Beatrice; Garrison, Laura Ann; Preim, Bernhard et al. (2023). Reflections on AI-Assisted Character Design for Data-Driven Medical Stories. (external link)
• Kristiansen, Yngve Sekse; Garrison, Laura Ann; Bruckner, Stefan (2022). Content-Driven Layout for Visualization Design. (external link)

Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

• Garrison, Laura Ann; Meuschke, Monique; Preim, Bernhard et al. (2023). Current Approaches in Narrative Medical Visualization. (external link)

Poster

• Balaka, Hanna; Garrison, Laura Ann; Valen, Ragnhild et al. (2023). MoBa Explorer: Enabling the navigation of data from the Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child cohort study (MoBa). (external link)
• Garrison, Laura; Vasicek, Jakub; Grüner, Renate et al. (2019). A Visual Encoding System for Comparative Exploration of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Data. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Up-to-date publication list available at https://vis.uib.no/team/laura-garrison/ or via my Google Scholar profile.