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

2009

Preece J, Shneiderman B. 2009. The reader-to-leader framework: Motivating technology-mediated social participation. AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction. 1(1):13-32.

2008

Shneiderman B. 2008. Extreme visualization: squeezing a billion records into a million pixels. SIGMOD Conference. :3-12.

Perer A, Shneiderman B. 2008. Integrating statistics and visualization: case studies of gaining clarity during exploratory data analysis. Proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. :265-274.

Perer A, Shneiderman B. 2008. Systematic yet flexible discovery: guiding domain experts through exploratory data analysis. Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces. :109-118.

Kules B, Shneiderman B. 2008. Users can change their web search tactics: Design guidelines for categorized overviews. Information Processing & Management. 44(2):463-484.

Koved L, Shneiderman B. 2008. Embedded menus: selecting items in context. Sparks of innovation in human-computer interaction.

Fei Wu P, Qu Y, Fleischmann K, Golbeck J, Jaeger P, Preece J, Shneiderman B. 2008. Designing community-based emergency communication system: A preliminary study. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 45(1):1-3.

Shneiderman B. 2008. Research Agenda: Visual Overviews for Exploratory Search. Information Seeking Support Systems. 11:4-4.

Zhao H, Plaisant C, Shneiderman B, Lazar J. 2008. Data Sonification for Users with Visual Impairment: A Case Study with Georeferenced Data. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.. 15(1):4:1–4:28-4:1–4:28.

Friedler SA, Tan Y L, Peer NJ, Shneiderman B. 2008. Enabling teachers to explore grade patterns to identify individual needs and promote fairer student assessment. Computers & Education. 51(4):1467-1485.

Zhao H, Plaisant C, Shneiderman B, Lazar J. 2008. Interactive auditory data exploration: A framework and evaluation with geo-referenced data sonification. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.

Wang T D, Plaisant C, Quinn AJ, Stanchak R, Murphy S, Shneiderman B. 2008. Aligning temporal data by sentinel events: discovering patterns in electronic health records. Proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. :457-466.

Plaisant C, Lam S, Shneiderman B, Smith MS, Roseman D, Marchand G, Gillam M, Feied C, Handler J, Rappaport H. 2008. Searching Electronic Health Records for Temporal Patterns in Patient Histories: A Case Study with Microsoft Amalga. AMIA Annual Symposium ProceedingsAMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2008:601-605.

Shneiderman B. 2008. Copernican challenges face those who suggest that collaboration, not computation are the driving energy for socio-technical systems that characterize Web 2.0.. Science. 319:1349-1350.

Kang H, Getoor L, Shneiderman B, Bilgic M, Licamele L. 2008. Interactive Entity Resolution in Relational Data: A Visual Analytic Tool and Its Evaluation. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 14(5):999-1014.

Chen C-houh, Härdle W, Unwin A, Jank W, Shmueli G, Plaisant C, Shneiderman B. 2008. Visualizing Functional Data with an Application to eBay’s Online Auctions. Handbook of Data VisualizationHandbook of Data Visualization. :873-898.

Aris A, Shneiderman B. 2008. A Node Aggregation Strategy to Reduce Complexity of Network Visualization using Semantic Substrates.

Wu PF, Qu Y, Preece J, Fleischmann K, Golbeck J, Jaeger P, Shneiderman B. 2008. Community response grid (CRG) for a university campus: Design requirements and implications. Proceedings of the 5th International ISCRAM Conference. :34-43.

Kules B, Shneiderman B. 2008. Evaluating Exploratory Search Systems. Information processing & management. 44(2):463-484.

Dao HT, Bazinet A, Berthier R, Shneiderman B. 2008. NASDAQ Velocity and Forces: An Interactive Visualization of Activity and Change. Journal of Universal Computer Science. 14(9):1391-1410.

2007

Jaeger PT, Shneiderman B, Fleischmann KR, Preece J, Qu Y, Fei Wu P. 2007. Community response grids: E-government, social networks, and effective emergency management. Telecommunications Policy. 31(10–11):592-604.

Jaeger PT, Fleischmann KR, Preece J, Shneiderman B, Fei Wu P, Qu Y. 2007. Community Response Grids: Using Information Technology to Help Communities Respond to Bioterror Emergencies. Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science. 5(4):335-346.

Shneiderman B. 2007. Creativity support tools: accelerating discovery and innovation. Commun. ACM. 50(12):20-32.

Shneiderman B. 2007. Web science: a provocative invitation to computer science. Communications of the ACM. 50(6):25-27.

Shneiderman B, Colwell RR, Diamond S, Greenhalgh P, Wulf W. 2007. Bridging art and science with creativity support tools. Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCHI conference on Creativity & cognition. :309-309.

Shneiderman B. 2007. Human Values for Shaping the Made World. Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2007Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2007. 4662:1-1.

Buono P, Plaisant C, Simeone A, Aris A, Shneiderman B, Shmueli G, Jank W. 2007. Similarity-Based Forecasting with Simultaneous Previews: A River Plot Interface for Time Series Forecasting. Information Visualization, 2007. IV '07. 11th International Conference. :191-196.

Shneiderman B. 2007. Universal Usability: A grand challenge for HCI. Universal usability: Designing computer interfaces for user diversity.

Namata G M, Staats B, Getoor L, Shneiderman B. 2007. A dual-view approach to interactive network visualization. Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management. :939-942.

Tanin E, Shneiderman B, Xie H. 2007. Browsing large online data tables using generalized query previews. Information Systems. 32(3):402-423.

Shneiderman B. 2007. 25 years of CHI conferences: capturing the exchange of ideas. Magazine interactions - 25 years of CHI conferences: a photographic essay. 14(2):24-31.

Schatz MC, Phillippy AM, Shneiderman B, Salzberg SL. 2007. Hawkeye: an interactive visual analytics tool for genome assemblies. Genome Biology. 8(3):R34-R34.

Shneiderman B, Preece J. 2007. 911. gov. Science(Washington). 315(5814):944-944.

Don A, Zheleva E, Gregory M, Tarkan S, Auvil L, Clement T, Shneiderman B, Plaisant C. 2007. Discovering interesting usage patterns in text collections: integrating text mining with visualization. Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management. :213-222.

Shneiderman B. 2007. Human Responsibility for Autonomous Agents. IEEE Intelligent Systems. 22(2):60-61.

Wu PF, Preece J, Shneiderman B, Jaeger PT, Qu Y. 2007. Community response grids for older adults: Motivations, usability, and sociability. Proceedings of the 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems.

Aris A, Shneiderman B. 2007. Designing Semantic Substrates for Visual Network Exploration. Information VisualizationInformation Visualization. 6(4):281-300.

Hesse BW, Shneiderman B. 2007. eHealth Research from the User’s Perspective. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 32(5, Supplement):S97-S103-S97-S103.

2006

Kules B, Kustanowitz J, Shneiderman B. 2006. Categorizing web search results into meaningful and stable categories using fast-feature techniques. Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries. :210-219.

Kustanowitz J, Shneiderman B. 2006. Hierarchical Layouts for Photo Libraries. IEEE Multimedia. 13(4):62-72.

Seo J, Shneiderman B. 2006. Knowledge discovery in high-dimensional data: case studies and a user survey for the rank-by-feature framework. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 12(3):311-322.

Shneiderman B, Aris A. 2006. Network Visualization by Semantic Substrates. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 12(5):733-740.

Shneiderman B, Fischer G, Czerwinski M, Resnick M, Myers B, Candy L, Edmonds E, Eisenberg M, Giaccardi E, Hewett T et al.. 2006. Creativity Support Tools: Report From a U.S. National Science Foundation Sponsored Workshop. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. 20(2):61-77.

Shneiderman B, Bederson BB, Drucker SM. 2006. Find that photo!: interface strategies to annotate, browse, and share. Communications of the ACM - Supporting exploratory search. 49(4):69-71.

Bakay M, Wang Z, Melcon G, Schiltz L, Xuan J, Zhao P, Sartorelli V, Seo J, Pegoraro E, Angelini C et al.. 2006. Nuclear Envelope Dystrophies Show a Transcriptional Fingerprint Suggesting Disruption of Rb–MyoD Pathways in Muscle Regeneration. BrainBrain. 129(4):996-1013.

Perer A, Shneiderman B, Oard D. 2006. Classifying science: Phenomena, data, theory, method, practice: Book Reviews. J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. Technol.. 57(14):1977-1978.

Shneiderman B. 2006. Methods for the electronic annotation, retrieval, and use of electronic images. 09/976,362(7010751)

Shneiderman B. 2006. A telescope for high-dimensional data. Computing in Science & Engineering. 8(2):48-53.

Perer A, Shneiderman B, Oard D. 2006. Using rhythms of relationships to understand e‐mail archives. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 57(14):1936-1948.

Lazar J, Jones A, Shneiderman B. 2006. Workplace user frustration with computers: an exploratory investigation of the causes and severity. Behaviour & Information Technology. 25(3):239-251.

Bilgic M, Licamele L, Getoor L, Shneiderman B. 2006. D-Dupe: An Interactive Tool for Entity Resolution in Social Networks. Visual Analytics Science And Technology, 2006 IEEE Symposium On. :43-50.

Leavitt MO, Shneiderman B. 2006. Research-based web design & usability guidelines. Background and Methodology. US Department of Health and Human Services. Washington.

Bessière K, Newhagen JE, Robinson JP, Shneiderman B. 2006. A model for computer frustration: the role of instrumental and dispositional factors on incident, session, and post-session frustration and mood. Computers in Human Behavior. 22(6):941-961.

Fails JA, Karlson A, Shahamat L, Shneiderman B. 2006. A Visual Interface for Multivariate Temporal Data: Finding Patterns of Events across Multiple Histories. Visual Analytics Science And Technology, 2006 IEEE Symposium On. :167-174.

Perer A, Shneiderman B. 2006. Balancing Systematic and Flexible Exploration of Social Networks. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 12(5):693-700.

Haas SW, Denn S, Locke D, Shneiderman B, Brown L. 2006. Toward an enriched (and revitalized) sense of help: Summary of an ASIS&T 2005 panel session. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 32(5):23-26.

Kang H, Shneiderman B. 2006. Exploring personal media: A spatial interface supporting user-defined semantic regions. Journal of Visual Languages & Computing. 17(3):254-283.

Shneiderman B, Bishop A, Friedman B, Lazar J, Marsden G, Nass C. 2006. Making a difference: integrating socially relevant projects into HCI teaching. CHI '06 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems. :41-44.

Shmueli G, Jank W, Aris A, Plaisant C, Shneiderman B. 2006. Exploring auction databases through interactive visualization. Decision Support Systems. 42(3):1521-1538.

Shneiderman B. 2006. Discovering business intelligence using treemap visualizations. B-EYE-Network-Boulder, CO, USA, April. 11

Shneiderman B, Plaisant C. 2006. Strategies for evaluating information visualization tools: multi-dimensional in-depth long-term case studies. Proceedings of the 2006 AVI workshop on BEyond time and errors: novel evaluation methods for information visualization. :1-7.

Lazar J, Jones A, Hackley M, Shneiderman B. 2006. Severity and impact of computer user frustration: A comparison of student and workplace users. Interacting with Computers. 18(2):187-207.

Marchionini G, Haas S, Plaisant C, Shneiderman B. 2006. Integrating data and interfaces to enhance understanding of government statistics: toward the national statistical knowledge network project briefing. Proceedings of 7th Annual International Conference on Digital Libraries (DG06). :21-24.

2005

Marchionini G, Hert C, Liddy L, Shneiderman B. 2005. Extending User Understanding of Federal Statistics in Tables (2000). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.

Zhao H, Shneiderman B. 2005. Image-Based Highly Interactive Web Mapping for Geo-Referenced Data Publishing (2002). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.

Buono P, Aris A, Plaisant C, Khella A, Shneiderman B. 2005. Interactive Pattern Search in Time Series (2004). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.

Kustanowitz J, Shneiderman B. 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.

Lazar J, Jones A, Hackley M, Shneiderman B. 2005. Severity and Impact of Computer User Frustration: A Comparison of Student and Workplace Users (2002). Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.

Shneiderman B, Bederson BB. 2005. Maintaining concentration to achieve task completion. Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Designing for User eXperience. :9-9.

Zhao H, Smith BK, Norman KL, Plaisant C, Shneiderman B. 2005. Listening to Maps: User Evaluation of Interactive Sonifications of Geo-Referenced Data. Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports.