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
1994
1994. Visualization in the information highway. Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '94. :4-7.
1994. The future of graphic user interfaces: Personal role managers. People and Computers. :444-444.
1994. An exploratory evaluation of three interfaces for browsing large hierarchical tables of contents. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst.. 12(4):383-406.
1994. Dynamic queries for visual information seeking. IEEE Software. 11(6):70-77.
1994. Education by engagement and construction: Can distance learning be better than face-to-face. Unpublished manuscript, University of Maryland, College Park.
1993
1993. Building Partnerships and Infrastructure. Communications of the ACM. 32(1):9-23.
1993. Dynamic Queries: A step Beyond Database Languages. Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
1993. Education by engagement and construction: Experiences in the AT&T teaching theater. Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Annual. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, Charlottesville, Virg. :471-479.
1993. A nonanthropomorphic style guide: overcoming the Humpty Dumpty syndrome. Sparks of innovation in human-computer interaction. :331-331.
1993. Alpha Slider: Searching Textual Lists with Sliders. Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
1993. Beyond intelligent machines: just do it. IEEE Software. 10(1):100-103.
1993. Evaluating three museum installations of a hypertext system. Sparks of innovation in human-computer interaction. 40:404-404.
1993. Alphaslider: Development and Evaluation of Text Retrieval Methods Using Sliders. Ninth Symposium on Human Interface. :91-94.
1993. Beyond the graphical user interface (abstract). Proceedings of the 1993 ACM conference on Computer science. :510–-510–.
1993. Scheduling home control devices: a case study of the transition from the research project to a product. Sparks of innovation in human-computer interactionSparks of innovation in human-computer interaction. :205-205.
1993. Remote direct manipulation: A case study of a telemedicine workstation. Sparks of innovation in human-computer interactionSparks of innovation in human-computer interaction. :51-51.
1993. Treemaps. Sparks of innovation in human-computer interaction. 284:309-309.
1993. A study of file manipulation by novices using commands vs, direct manipulation. Sparks of innovation in human-computer interaction. :39-39.
1993. Improving the accuracy of touchscreens: an experimental evaluation of three strategies. Sparks of innovation in human-computer interaction. :161-161.
1993. Potentials and limitations of pen-based computers. Proceedings of the 1993 ACM conference on Computer science. :536-539.
1993. Speech versus mouse commands for word processing: an empirical evaluation. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies. 39(4):667-687.
1993. A graphical filter/flow representation of Boolean queries: A prototype implementation and evaluation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 44(6):327-339.
1993. Preface to Sparks of Innovation in Human-Computer Interaction. Sparks of innovation in human-computer interaction.
1993. A graphical query interface based on aggregation/generalization hierarchies. Information Systems. 18(4):215-232.
1993. Finding facts vs. browsing knowledge in hypertext systems. Sparks of innovation in human-computer interaction. :103-103.
1993. Browsing Unix directories with dynamic queries: An analytical and experimental evaluation. Proc. Ninth Japanese Symp. Human Interface. :95-98.
1993. Engagement and construction: Educational strategies for the post-TV era. Journal of Computing in Higher Education. 4(2):106-116.
1993. Touchscreens now offer compelling uses. Sparks of innovation in human-computer interaction. :187-187.
1993. Investigating touchscreen typing: the effect of keyboard size on typing speed. Behaviour & Information Technology. 12(1):17-22.
1993. Protecting rights in user interface designs. Sparks of innovation in human-computer interaction. :351-351.
1993. User interface consistency: an evaluation of original and revised interfaces for a videodisk library. Sparks of innovation in human-computer interaction. :259-259.
1993. Building HCI partnerships and infrastructure. Behaviour & Information Technology. 12(2):130-135.
1993. Declaration in Apple vs. Microsoft/Hewlett-Packard. Sparks of innovation in human-computer interaction. :355-355.
1993. First steps toward positive contributions. Communications of the ACM. 36(1):15-16.
1993. Restructuring knowledge for an electronic encyclopedia. Sparks of innovation in human-computer interaction. 615:123-123.
1992
1992. Dynamic queries: database searching by direct manipulation. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. :669-670.
1992. Tree visualization with tree-maps: 2-d space-filling approach. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 11(1):92-99.
1992. Socially responsible computing I: a call to action following the LA riots. ACM SIGCHI Bulletin. 24(3):14-15.
1992. Socially responsible computing II: first steps on the path to positive contributions. ACM SIGCHI Bulletin. 24(3):16-17.
1992. DISSERTATIONS: ABSTRACTS OF INTEREST. ACM SIGCHI Bulletin. 24(2):58-75.
1992. Scheduling home control devices: design issues and usability evaluation of four touchscreen interfaces. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies. 36(3):375-393.
1992. Anthropomorphism: from Eliza to Terminator 2. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. :67-70.
1992. A new era for high precision touchscreens. Advances in human-computer interaction. 3:1-33.
1992. A new era for touchscreen applications: High precision, dragging icons, and refined feedback. Advances in Human-Computer Interaction. 3
1992. The Dynamic HomeFinder: Evaluating dynamic queries in a real-estate information exploration system. Proceedings of the 15th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval. :338-346.
1992. Structural analysis of hypertexts: identifying hierarchies and useful metrics. ACM Transactions on Information Systems. 10(2):142-180.
1992. Dynamic queries for information exploration: an implementation and evaluation. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. :619-626.
1992. Education by engagement and construction: a strategic education initiative for a multimedia renewal of American education. Sociomedia: Hypermedia, Multimedia and the Social Creation of KnowledgeSociomedia: Hypermedia, Multimedia and the Social Creation of Knowledge. :13-26.
1991
1991. Demonstrational interfaces: Coming soon? Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: Reaching through technology. :393-396.
1991. ESP'91 Panel on The Best of ESP. Empirical studies of programmers: fourth workshop. :1-1.
1991. Identifying aggregates in hypertext structures. Proceedings of the third annual ACM conference on Hypertext. :63-74.
1991. Tree-maps: a space-filling approach to the visualization of hierarchical information structures. , IEEE Conference on Visualization, 1991. Visualization '91, Proceedings. :284-291.
1991. High precision touchscreens: design strategies and comparisons with a mouse. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies. 34(4):593-613.
1991. Human values and the future of technology: a declaration of responsibility. ACM SIGCHI Bulletin. 23(1):11-16.
1991. Scheduling on-off home control devices. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: Reaching through technology. :459-460.
1991. A taxonomy and rule base for the selection of interaction styles. Human factors for informatics usability. :325-325.
1991. Window control strategies for hypertext traversal: An empirical study. Proc. 29th Annual ACM DC Technical Symposium.
1991. Touch screens now offer compelling uses. IEEE Software. 8(2):93-94.
1991. Editing to structure a reader's experience. Hypertext/hypermedia handbookHypertext/hypermedia handbook. :143-164.
1990
1990. The advantages of hypertext for large information spaces; where are the big systems? Hypertext: concepts, systems and applications: proceedings of the First European Conference on Hypertext, INRIA, France, November 1990. (5):343-343.
1990. EVALUATING HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS. Human factors in computing systems: CHI'90 Conference proceedings, April 1-5, Seattle. :387-387.
1990. Human values and the future of technology: a declaration of empowerment. Proceedings of the conference on Computers and the quality of life. :1-6.
1990. Future directions for human‐computer interaction. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. 2(1):73-90.
1990. Examining usability for a training-oriented hypertext: Can hyper-activity be good? Electronic Publishing. 3(4):207-225.
1990. Touchscreen field specification for public access database queries: let your fingers do the walking. Proceedings of the 1990 ACM annual conference on Cooperation. :1-7.
1989
1989. Interactive graphics interfaces in hypertext systems. Proc. 28th Annual ACM DC Technical Symposium. 23:28-28.