Ben Shneiderman
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Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
2162 Iribe Center
(301) 405-2080
(301) 405-6707
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Education:
Ph.D., SUNY at Stony Brook (Computer Science)
Special Awards/Honors:
AAAS Fellow, ACM Fellow National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Engineering Member, CMPS Board of Visitors Distinguished Faculty Award, Miles Conrad Award, 2010 SIGCHI Social Impact Award
Biography:
Ben Shneiderman is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science and founding director (1983 to 2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab, where he remains a member. He also holds affiliate appointments in the Institute for Systems Research and the College of Information Studies (iSchool).
Shneiderman was elected as as an ACM fellow in 1997 and an AAAS fellow in 2001. He received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.
Shneiderman is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He pioneered the highlighted textual link in 1983, and it became part of Hyperties, a precursor to the internet. His move into information visualization spawned Spotfire, known for pharmaceutical drug discovery and genomic data analysis.
Shneiderman is a technical advisor for the treemap visualization producer, the Hive Group.
He is the author of "Software Psychology: Human Factors in Computer and Information Systems" (1980) and "Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction" (5th ed., 2010, with Catherine Plaisant). He co-authored Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think (1999) with S. Card and J. Mackinlay. His book, "Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies" (MIT Press), won the IEEE Award for Distinguished Literary Contribution in 2004. His most recent book, "Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL: Insights from a Connected World (2011)," was co-authored with D. Hansen and M.A. Smith.
He received his doctorate in computer science from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook in 1973.
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Publications
2005
2005. Dynamic Layout Management in a Multimedia Bulletin Board (2002). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Improving Web-based Civic Information Access: A Case Study of the 50 US States (2002). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Immediate Usability: A Case Study of Public Access Design for a Community Photo Library (2003). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. A Knowledge Integration Framework for Information Visualization (2004). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Browsing Large Online Data Tables Using Generalized Query Previews (2001). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Designing for Fun: Can we design user interfaces to be more fun? (2004) Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Interactive Color Mosaic and Dendogram Displays for Signal/Noise Optimization in Microarray Data Analysis (2003). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Ordered and Quantum Treemaps: Making Effective Use of 2D Space to Display Hierarchies (2001). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Extending the Utility of Treemaps with Flexible Hierarchy (2004). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Human-computer interaction themes in digital government: web site comprehension and statistics visualization. Proceedings of the 2005 national conference on Digital government research. :7-8.
2005. Motivating annotation for personal digital photo libraries: Lowering barriers while raising incentives. University of Marlyand.
2005. Understanding Clusters in Multidimensional Spaces: Making Meaning by Combining Insights from Coordinated Views of Domain Knowledge (2004). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Representing Unevenly-Spaced Time Series Data for Visualization and Interactive Exploration (2005). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Coordinating Overviews and Detail Views of WWW Log Data (2000). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Dynamic Queries and Brushing on Choropleth Maps (2001). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Finding Governmental Statistical Data on the Web: Three Empirical Studies of the FedStats Topics Page (2003). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Inventing Discovery Tools: Combining Information Visualization with Data Mining (2001). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Listening to Maps: User Evaluation of Interactive Sonifications of Geo-Referenced Data (2004). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Ordered Treemap Layouts (2001). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Promoting Universal Usability with Multi-Layer Interface Design (2003). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. User Frustration with Technology in the Workplace (2004). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Representing Unevenly-Spaced Time Series Data for Visualization and Interactive Exploration. Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2005Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2005. 3585:835-846.
2005. Building a Coherent Data Pipeline in Microarray Data Analyses: Optimization of Signal/Noise Ratios Using an Interactive Visualization Tool and a Novel Noise Filtering Method (2003). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Colour‐coded pixel‐based highly interactive Web mapping for georeferenced data exploration. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 19(4):413-428.
2005. Envisioning help resources for the future information ecology: Toward an enriched sense of help. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 42(1):n/a-n/a-n/a-n/a.
2005. Social and Psychological Influences on Computer User Frustration (Newhagen book chapter, 2002). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Visualization Methods for Personal Photo Collections: Browsing and Searching in the PhotoFinder (2000). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. A Comparison of Voice Controlled and Mouse Controlled Web Browsing (2000). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Interactive Exploration of Multidimensional Microarray Data: Scatterplot Ordering, Gene Ontology Browser, and Profile Search (2003). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Maintaining concentration to achieve task completion. Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Designing for User eXperience.
2005. The limits of speech recognition: Understanding acoustic memory and appreciating prosody (2000). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Exploring Personal Media: A Spatial Interface Supporting User-Defined Semantic Regions (2004). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Help! I'm Lost: User Frustration in Web Navigation (2003). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Categorized Graphical Overviews for Web Search Results: An Exploratory Study using U.S. Government Agencies as a Meaningful and Stable Structure (2004). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Dynamic Query Chloropleth Maps for Information Seeking and Decision Making (2003). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Interactive pattern search in time series. Proceedings of SPIE. 5669(1):175-186.
2005. Knowledge Discovery in High Dimensional Data: Case Studies and a User Survey for an Information Visualization Tool. Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Making Computer and Internet Usability a Priority (2000). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Maintaining concentration to achieve task completion. Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Designing for User eXperience. :9-9.
2005. Listening to Maps: User Evaluation of Interactive Sonifications of Geo-Referenced Data. Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. A Photo History of SIGCHI: Evolution of Design from Personal to Public (2002). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Bi-Level Hierarchical Layouts for Photo Libraries: Algorithms for Design Optimization with Quantum Content. Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Extending User Understanding of Federal Statistics in Tables (2000). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Image-Based Highly Interactive Web Mapping for Geo-Referenced Data Publishing (2002). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Interactive Pattern Search in Time Series (2004). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Meaningful presentations of photo libraries: rationale and applications of bi-level radial quantum layouts. Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2005. JCDL '05. :188-196.
2005. Severity and Impact of Computer User Frustration: A Comparison of Student and Workplace Users (2002). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. iSonic: interactive sonification for non-visual data exploration. Proceedings of the 7th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility. :194-195.
2005. A Rank-by-Feature Framework for Interactive Exploration of Multidimensional Data. Information VisualizationInformation Visualization. 4(2):96-113.
2005. Catergorized Overviews for Web Search Results: Two Exploratory Studies in the US Government Domain. Technical Reports from UMIACS.
2005. Universal Usability as a Stimulus to Advanced Interface Design (2001). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. "I hear the pattern": interactive sonification of geographical data patterns. CHI '05 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems. :1905-1908.
2005. A Rank-by-Feature Framework for Interactive Exploration of Multidimensional Data (2004). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Dynamic query tools for time series data sets: Timebox widgets for interactive exploration (2004). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Improving Accessibility and Usability of Geo-referenced Statistical Data (2003). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Interactive sonification of choropleth maps. IEEE Multimedia. 12(2):26-35.
2005. Show Me! Guidelines for producing recorded demonstrations. 2005 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing. :171-178.
2005. Broadening Access to Large Online Databases by Generalizing Query Previews (2000). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. An Augmented Visual Query Mechanism for Finding Patterns in Time Series Data (2002). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Designing The User Interface.
2005. Bridging the Digital Divide with Universal Usability (2001). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Determining Causes and Severity of End-User Frustration (2002). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Dynamic Query Visualizations on World Wide Web Clients: A DHTML Solution for Maps and Scattergrams (2002). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Generating and Querying Semantic Web Environments for Photo Libraries (2005). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Leonardo's laptop: human needs and the new computing technologies. Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management. :1-1.
2005. MediaFinder: An Interface for Dynamic Personal Media Management with Semantic Regions (2003). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Using Categorical Information in Multidimensional Data Sets: Interactive Partition and Cluster Comparison. Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Why Not Make Interfaces Better than 3D Reality? (2004) Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Show Me! Guidelines for Producing Recorded Demonstrations (2005). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
2005. Crisis and opportunity in computer science. Commun. ACM. 48(11):27-28.