Ben Shneiderman
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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.
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
1997
1997. Designing information-abundant web sites: issues and recommendations. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 47(1):5-29.
1997. Direct manipulation vs. interface agents. Interactions. 4(6):42-61.
1997. Low-effort, high-payoff user interface reengineering. IEEE Software. 14(4):66-72.
1997. Between hope and fear. Communications of the ACM. 40(2):59-62.
1997. The next generation of graphical user interfaces: information visualization and better window management. Displays. 17(3–4):125-129.
1997. Visual and textual consistency checking tools for graphical user interfaces. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 23(11):722-735.
1997. Designing interactive multimedia (panel). Proceedings of the fifth ACM international conference on Multimedia. :215-218.
1997. Design and evaluation of incremental data structures and algorithms for dynamic query interfaces. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, 1997. Proceedings. :81-86.
1997. Elastic Windows: a hierarchical multi-window World-Wide Web browser. Proceedings of the 10th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology. :169-177.
1997. User Interfaces for a Complex Robotic Task: A Comparison of Tiles vs. Overlapped Windows. Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
1997. A framework for search interfaces. IEEE Software. 14(2):18-20.
1997. Elastic Windows: evaluation of multi-window operations. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. :250-257.
1997. Intelligent software agents vs. user-controlled direct manipulation: a debate. CHI '97 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems: looking to the future. :105-106.
1997. Browsing hierarchical data with multi-level dynamic queries and pruning. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 46(1):103-124.
1997. A grander goal: A thousand-fold increase in human capabilities. Educom review. 32(6):4-10.
1997. Book Preview-Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction. Interactions-New York. 4(5):61-61.
1997. Query previews in networked information systems: the case of EOSDIS. CHI '97 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems: looking to the future. :202-203.
1997. User Interface Reengineering: Low-Effort, High-Payoff Strategies. IEEE Software. 14(4):66-72.
1997. Comprehension and object recognition capabilities for presentations of simultaneous video key frame surrogates. Research and Advanced Technology for Digital LibrariesResearch and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. 1324:41-54.
1997. Visual Information Seeking in Digital Image Libraries: The Visible Human Explorer. Information in Images.
1997. Clarifying search: A user-interface framework for text searches. D-lib magazine. 3(1):18-20.
1997. Query previews for networked information systems: a case study with NASA environmental data. SIGMOD Record. 26(1):75-81.
1997. A Taxonomy of Multiple Window Coordination. Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
1996
1996. The eyes have it: a task by data type taxonomy for information visualizations. , IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, 1996. Proceedings. :336-343.
1996. Query previews in networked information systems. Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries, 1996. ADL '96., Proceedings of the Third Forum on. :120-129.
1996. LifeLines: visualizing personal histories. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: common ground. :221-227.
1996. User controlled overviews of an image library: a case study of the visible human. Proceedings of the first ACM international conference on Digital libraries. :74-82.
1996. Incremental data structures and algorithms for dynamic query interfaces. ACM SIGMOD Record. 25(4):21-24.
1996. Advanced graphic user interfaces: elastic and tightly coupled windows. ACM Comput. Surv.. 28(4es)
1996. Designing Information-Abundant Websites. Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
1996. Query previews in networked information systems. Proceedings of the Third Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries, 1996. ADL '96. :120-129.
1996. Social impact statements: engaging public participation in information technology design. Proceedings of the symposium on Computers and the quality of life. :90-96.
1996. Visual metaphor and the problem of complexity in the design of Web sites: techniques for generating, recognizing and visualizing structure. Proceedings of the the seventh ACM conference on Hypertext. :257–-257–.
1996. Elastic windows: improved spatial layout and rapid multiple window operations. Proceedings of the workshop on Advanced visual interfaces. :29-38.
1996. Tools for creating and exploiting content. Getty Art History Information Program (1996) Research Agenda for Networked Cultural Heritage, Santa Monica. CA: Getty AHIP. :27-30.
1995
1995. Starfield information visualization with interactive smooth zooming. Proc. IFIP 2.6 Visual Databases Systems. :3-14.
1995. Windows of opportunity in electronic classrooms. Communications of the ACM. 38(11):19-24.
1995. Starfield visualization with interactive smooth zooming. Visual database systems, IIIVisual database systems, III. 3:1-1.
1995. Using Treemaps to Visualize the Analytic Hierarchy Process. Information Systems ResearchInformation Systems Research. 6(4):357-375.
1995. The info superhighway: for the people. Communications of the ACM. 38(1):162–-162–.
1995. QUERY PREVIEWS IN NETWORKED INFORMATION SYSTEMS. Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
1995. Organization overviews and role management: inspiration for future desktop environments. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 1995. :14-22.
1995. Vision, Graphic Design, and Visual Display. Readings in human-computer interaction: toward the year 2000. :411-411.
1995. An applied ethnographic method for redesigning user interfaces. Proceedings of the 1st conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, & techniques. :115-122.
1995. Dealing with complexity: uniting agents and direct manipulation (panel session). Conference companion on Human factors in computing systems. :191-192.
1995. Visual decision-making: using treemaps for the analytic hierarchy process. Conference companion on Human factors in computing systems. :405-406.
1995. A Family of User Interface Consistency Checking Tools. Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
1995. HUMAN VALUE AND THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY. Human factors in information systems: emerging theoretical bases. :355-355.
1995. Survival of the fittest: the evolution of multimedia user interfaces. ACM Computing Surveys. 27(4):557-559.
1995. A Family of User Interface Consistency Checking Tools: Design and Development of SHERLOCK. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Software Engineering Workshop. (NASA no. 19990027806)
1995. Dissertations. ACM SIGCHI Bulletin. 27(1):73-75.
1995. Image-browser taxonomy and guidelines for designers. IEEE Software. 12(2):21-32.
1995. Evaluating Spatial and Textual Style of Displays. Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
1995. Interacting with computers. Human-computer interactionHuman-computer interaction. :399-400.
1995. Comprehensible, Predictable, and Controllable User Interfaces. AMERICAN PROGRAMMER. 8:2-2.
1994
1994. AVI '94: An International Workshop. ACM SIGCHI Bulletin. 26(4):54-55.
1994. User Controlled Smooth Zooming for Information Visualization. Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
1994. Visualization in the information highway. Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '94. :4-7.
1994. Data structures for dynamic queries: an analytical and experimental evaluation. Proceedings of the workshop on Advanced visual interfaces. :1-11.
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.
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. Image Browsers: Taxonomy, Guidelines, and Informal Specifications. Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
1994. Beyond accuracy, reliability, and efficiency: criteria for a good computer system. Conference companion on Human factors in computing systems. :195-198.
1994. Next Generation Network Management Technology. Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.
1994. QUEST—Query Environment for Science Teaching. Digital Libraries' 94.
1994. The alphaslider: a compact and rapid selector. Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems: celebrating interdependence. :365-371.
1994. Navigating in hyperspace: designing a structure-based toolbox. Communications of the ACM. 37(2):87-96.