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 of computer science in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.

He is a leading figure in human-computer interaction and information visualization. Shneiderman’s pioneering work includes developing direct manipulation interfaces, touchscreen keyboards, and treemaps, which have significantly impacted web design, mobile devices, and data visualization.

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Publications

1982

Badre A, Shneiderman B. 1982. Directions in human/computer interaction..

Shneiderman B, Thomas G. 1982. An architecture for automatic relational database sytem conversion. ACM Trans. Database Syst.. 7(2):235-257.

Shneiderman B. 1982. System message design: Guidelines and experimental results.

Shneiderman B. 1982. SYSTEM MESSAGE GUIDELINES: POSITIVE TONE, CONSTRUCTIVE, SPECIFIC, AND USER CENTERED. Gathering Information for Problem Formulation.

Shneiderman B. 1982. Fighting for the User.. Bulletin of the American Society for Information ScienceBulletin of the American Society for Information Science. 9(2):27-29.

1981

Shneiderman B. 1981. HUMAN FACTORS ISSUES IN DESIGNING INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS. Proceedings-Compcon. 25:116-116.

Stevens P, Shneiderman B. 1981. Exploratory research on training aids for naive users of interactive systems. Proceedings of the 44th ASIS Annual Meeting. 18:65-67.

Shneiderman B. 1981. Comments from a Letter Written on July 19, 1978. Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on. (4):370-371.

Shneiderman B. 1981. Direct manipulation: A step beyond programming languages (abstract only). ACM SIGSOC Bulletin. 13(2-3):143-143.

Shneiderman B. 1981. Human factors studies with system message styles (abstract only). ACM SIGSOC Bulletin. 13(2-3):138–-138–.

Shneiderman B. 1981. Putting the human factor into systems development. Proceedings of the eighteenth annual computer personnel research conference. :1-13.

Shneiderman B. 1981. A note on human factors issues of natural language interaction with database systems. Information Systems. 6(2):125-129.

Shneiderman B. 1981. Human Aspects of Computing Editor Control Flow and Data Structure Documentation: Two Experiments. Human factors in software development. :365-365.

1980

Shneiderman B. 1980. HUMAN FACTORS EXPERIMENTS FOR REFINING INTERACTIVE SYSTEM DESIGNS. Proceedings-Compcon. 21:123-123.

Thomas G, Shneiderman B. 1980. Automatic database system conversion: A transformation language approach to sub-schema implementation. IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference. :80-88.

Di Persio T, Isbister D, Shneiderman B. 1980. An experiment using memorization/reconstruction as a measure of programmer ability. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies. 13(3):339-354.

Shneiderman B. 1980. Hardware options, evaluation metrics, and a design sequence for interactive information systems. Information & Management. 3(1):3-18.

Weiser M, Shneiderman B. 1980. Human Factors of Software Design and Development. Software Configuration Management. :67-67.

Shneiderman B, Thomas G. 1980. Path expressions for complex queries and automatic database program conversion. Proceedings of the sixth international conference on Very Large Data Bases - Volume 6. :33-44.

Shneiderman B. 1980. Natural vs. precise concise languages for human operation of computers: research issues and experimental approaches. Proceedings of the 18th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics. :139-141.

Shneiderman B. 1980. Software psychology: Human factors in computer and information systems (Winthrop computer systems series).

1979

Shneiderman B. 1979. Human Factors Experiments in Designing Interactive Systems. Computer. 12(12):9-19.

Taylor RW, Fry JP, Shneiderman B, Smith DCP, Su SYW. 1979. Database Program Conversion: A Framework For Research. Fifth International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 1979. :299-312.

Shneiderman B, Mayer R. 1979. Syntactic/semantic interactions in programmer behavior: A model and experimental results. International Journal of Parallel Programming. 8(3):219-238.

1978

Shneiderman B. 1978. Improving the human factors aspect of database interactions. ACM Trans. Database Syst.. 3(4):417-439.

Shneiderman B. 1978. Data Bases: Improving Usability and Effectiveness.

Brosey M, Shneiderman B. 1978. Two experimental comparisons of relational and hierarchical database models. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies. 10(6):625-637.

Shneiderman B. 1978. Information policy issues: selecting a policy framework and defining the schema horizon. Information & Management. 1(4):207-218.

Shneiderman B. 1978. Jump searching: a fast sequential search technique. Communications of the ACM. 21(10):831-834.

Lee JM, Shneiderman B. 1978. Personality and programming: Time-sharing vs. batch preference. Proceedings of the 1978 annual conference - Volume 2. :561-569.

1977

Shneiderman B, Mayer R, McKay D, Heller P. 1977. Experimental investigations of the utility of detailed flowcharts in programming. Communications of the ACM. 20(6):373-381.

Anderson N, Shneiderman B. 1977. Use of peer ratings in evaluating computer program quality. Proceedings of the fifteenth annual SIGCPR conference. :218-226.

Shneiderman B. 1977. Evaluating introductory programming textbooks: A guide for students, instructors, authors and publishers. SIGCSE '77 Proceedings of the eighth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education. 9:56-58.

Shneiderman B. 1977. Measuring computer program quality and comprehension. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies. 9(4):465-478.

Shneiderman B. 1977. Design, development and utilization perspectives on database management systems. Information Processing & Management. 13(1):23-33.

Shneiderman B. 1977. Reduced combined indexes for efficient multiple attribute retrieval. Information Systems. 2(4):149-154.

Shneiderman B. 1977. Teaching programming: A spiral approach to syntax and semantics. Computers & Education. 1(4):193-197.

1976

Shneiderman B. 1976. Exploratory experiments in programmer behavior. International Journal of Parallel Programming. 5(2):123-143.

Shneiderman B. 1976. Batched searching of sequential and tree structured files. ACM Trans. Database Syst.. 1(3):268-275.

Shneiderman B, Shapiro SC. 1976. Toward a theory of encoded data structures and data translation. International Journal of Parallel Programming. 5(1):33-43.

Shneiderman B. 1976. Travels in computerland or incompatibilities and interfaces::, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1974. Information Processing & Management. 12(3):230-230.

Buck J, Shneiderman B. 1976. An internship in information systems: Combining computer science education with realistic problems. SIGCSE Bull.. 8(3):80-83.

1975

Shneiderman B. 1975. Experimental testing in programming languages, stylistic considerations and design techniques. Proceedings of the May 19-22, 1975, national computer conference and exposition. :653-656.

Shneiderman B, Ho MH. 1975. Two Exploratory Experiments in Program Comprehension.

Shneiderman B. 1975. Cognitive psychology and programming language design. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 10(7):46-47.

1974

Shneiderman B. 1974. Opportunities for data base reorganization. ACM SIGMOD Record. 6(4):1-8.

Shneiderman B. 1974. A model for optimizing indexed file structures. International Journal of Parallel Programming. 3(1):91-101.

Shneiderman B, Scheuermann P. 1974. Structured data structures. Communications of the ACM. 17(10):566-574.

Shneiderman B. 1974. The chemistry of control structures. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 9(12):29-34.

1973

Shneiderman B. 1973. Optimum data base reorganization points. Communications of the ACM. 16(6):362-365.

Nassi I, Shneiderman B. 1973. Flowchart techniques for structured programming. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 8(8):12-26.

1972

Kreitzberg CB, Shneiderman B. 1972. The Elements of FORTRAN Style: Techniques for Effective Programming.

Heller J, Shneiderman B. 1972. A graph theoretic model of data structures. SIGIR Forum. 7(4):36-44.

1971

Shneiderman B. 1971. Computer science education and social relevance. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin. 3(1):21-24.