CURRICULUM VITAE                 (April 25, 2005)

 

Ben Shneiderman

Dept of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742  

Phone:  +1-301-405-2680   Fax: +1-301-405-6707  Email: ben@cs.umd.edu

Personal: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben     Lab: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil

 

1.    Personal  information

 

a.     Current status

         Professor, Computer Science (1989- ),

         Founding Director, Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory:

                                Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (1996-2000)

                                Center for Automation Research  (1983-1996)

         Member, Institute for Systems Research (1991-  ).

         Member, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (1987-1991, 1997- )

 

b.     Educational background

         

       Institution                                               Degrees Majors

         City College of New York                     B.S., 1968             Mathematics/Physics

 

         State University of New York M.S., 1972            Computer Science

           at Stony Brook

       

        State University of New York  Ph.D., 1973           Computer Science

           at Stony Brook

        

         University of Guelph, Canada  Honorary Doctorate of Science 1995

 

c.     Employment background

 

       Institution                          Dates           Titles 

        University of Maryland       1983-           Founding Director, Human-Computer Interaction Lab,

                                                       2000                Institute for Advanced Computer Studies 

                                                  1989-           Professor, Department of Computer Science

                                                  1983-89       Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

                                                  1979-83       Associate Professor

                                                  1976-79       Assistant Professor, Department of

                                                                               Information Systems Management

                                                                      

         Indiana University              1973-76       Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

 

         State University of NY      1972-73       Instructor, Department of Computer Science

            at Stony Brook                                                                

 

         State University of NY      1968-72       Instructor, Department of Data Processing

            at Farmingdale                                                                 

 

2.    Research, scholarly, and creative activities  

 

a.      Books

 

         (i) Books authored

 

1.    Kreitzberg, C. and Shneiderman, B., Elements of FORTRAN Style: Techniques for Effective Programming, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., New York (1972), 121 pages.

 

2.    Shneiderman, B., A Self Study Guide to FORTRAN Programming, State University of New York Independent Study Program, Empire State College, 86 pages, revised edition (1974).

 

3.    Kreitzberg, C. and Shneiderman, B., FORTRAN Programming: A Spiral Approach, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York (1975) 2nd Edition (1982), 437 pages plus Instructor's Guide.  Best selling book in this competitive market for several years.

 

4.    Shneiderman, B., Introduction to Computer Programming, Indiana University Independent Study Division (1976), 56 pages.

 

**5.  Shneiderman, B., Software Psychology: Human Factors in Computer and Information Systems, Little, Brown and Co., (formerly Winthrop Publ.)  Boston, MA (1980), 320 pages.  Main selection - June 1980 Library of Computer and Information Sciences and August 1980 McGraw-Hill Computer Professionals Book Club.  Russian translation, 1984. 

 

6.    Shneiderman, B., Let's Learn BASIC: A Kids' Introduction to BASIC Programming,  Apple, Atari, Commodore 64, and IBM versions, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, MA, (1984). 

 

**7.  Shneiderman, B., Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, Addison-Wesley Publ. Co., Reading, MA (1987), 448 pages.  Japanese version published by Nikkei-McGraw-Hill (1987), 385 pages.  Excerpted in Forester, T. (editor), Computers in the Human Context: Information Technology, Productivity, and People, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, (1989), 166-173.  Excerpted in Educational Media International 26, 2, (June 1989), 101-106.

 

*8.  Shneiderman, B. and Kearsley, G., Hypertext Hands-On! An Introduction to a New Way of Organizing and Accessing Information, Addison-Wesley Publ. Co., Reading, MA , book and hypertext disk using Hyperties (May 1989), 192 pages and two disks.

 

**9.  Shneiderman, B., Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction: Second Edition, Addison-Wesley Publ. Co., Reading, MA (1992), 573 pages.  Japanese version appeared October 1993. Extracts printed in: Computer Science Syllabus 7, (Fall 1993), 6-9, and 8 (Winter, 1993), 2-5; The Review: Association of Human Resources Professionals 10, 2 (April/May 1994), 12-16.  Received Rigo Award from ACM SIG Documentation, 1996.

 

**10. Shneiderman, B., Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction: Third Edition, Addison-Wesley Publ. Co., Reading, MA (1998), 639 pages.  Related book site at <http://www.awl.com/DTUI>.  German edition, translated by Jurgen Dubau and Arne Willner, MITP-Verlag, Bonn (2002), 701 pages.

 

*11.  Card, S., Mackinlay, J., and Shneiderman, B., Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think, Morgan Kaufmann Publ., San Francisco, CA (1999), 686 pages.

 

***12. Shneiderman, B., Leonardo’s Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (October 2002), 256 pages. Book site contains links to numerous reviews and interviews: http://mitpress.mit.edu/leonardoslaptop   Finalist in the Independent Book Publishers Awards for 2003, Internet/Computers category.  Winner of IEEE 2004 book award for "Distinguished Literary Contribution furthering Public Understanding of the Profession.” Revised extracts published in:
  [1] ACM Interactions 9, 5 (Sept-Oct 2002), 40-53.
  [2] Creativity support tools, Communications of the ACM 45, 10 (October 2002), 116-120.
  [3] Meeting human needs with new digital imaging technologies, IEEE Multimedia 9, 4
          (Oct-Dec 2002), 8-14.
  [4] Imagining the New Computing, User Experience 1, 3 (Winter 2002), 20-24.
 

*13. Bederson, B. and Shneiderman, B., The Craft of Information Visualization: Readings and Reflections, Morgan Kaufmann Publ., San Francisco, CA (2003), 410 pages.

 

**14. Shneiderman, B. and Plaisant, C., Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction: Fourth Edition, Addison-Wesley Publ. Co., Reading, MA (April 2004), 684 pages.  Related book site at <http://www.awl.com/DTUI>.  

 

 

       (ii) Books edited

 

1.    Shneiderman, B. (Editor), Database Management Systems (editor), AFIPS Press, Montvale, NJ (1976), 131 pages.

 

2.    Shneiderman, B. (Editor), Databases: Improving Usability and Responsiveness, Academic Press, New York (1978), 431 pages.

 

3.    Badre, A. and Shneiderman, B. (Editor), Directions in Human/Computer Interaction, Ablex Publ., Norwood, NJ (1982), 225 pages.

 

4.    Shneiderman, B. (Editor), Hypertext on Hypertext, Hyperties disk with 1Mbyte data and graphics incorporating July 1988 CACM, ACM Press, New York, NY (July 1988).

 

**5. Shneiderman, B. (Editor), Sparks of Innovation in Human-Computer Interaction, Ablex Publishers, Norwood, NJ (1993), 387 pages.  Papers included are marked by #.

       http://www.intellectbooks.com/authors/shneider/sparks.htm

 

       (iii) Chapters in books

 

1.    Shneiderman, Ben, "Errors", "Data Type", "Rings", "FIFO-LIFO", sections in Encyclopedia of Computer Science, Anthony Ralston, Editor, Petrocelli/Charter Publisher, (1976).

 

2.    Shneiderman, Ben, Human Factors Experiments for Developing Quality Software, INFOTECH State of the Art Report on Software Reliability, 1977,  263-276.

 

3.    Shneiderman, Ben, "Human Factors in Computing", 688-690, and "Data Base On-Line", 447-448, Sections of the Encyclopedia of Computer Science, 2nd Edition, A. Ralston, Editor (1983).

 

*4. Shneiderman, Ben, System message design: Guidelines and experimental results, In Directions in Human-Computer Interaction, Badre, A. and Shneiderman, B. (Editors), Ablex Publ. Co., Norwood, NJ, (1982), 55-78.

 

5.    Shneiderman, Ben, Human factors in interactive software, End User Systems and their Human Factors, A. Blaser and M. Zoeppritz, Editors, Springer-Verlag, Berlin (1983),  9-29.  Keynote address IBM Heidelberg Conference.

 

6.    Shneiderman, Ben, Correct, complete operations and other principles of interaction,  Invited paper for the First USA-Japan Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (August 1984), In Human-Computer Interaction, (G. Salvendy, Ed.), Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., (North-Holland), (1984), 135-147.

 

7.    Shneiderman, Ben, A model programming environment, In Advances in Human-Computer Interaction 1, (R. Hartson, Ed.), Ablex Publ., Norwood, NJ (1985), 105-131.

 

8.    Weiser, M. and Shneiderman, Ben, Human factors of computer programming, In Handbook of Human Factors (G. Salvendy, Ed.), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (1986), 1398-1415,  Reprinted in Tutorial on Software Restructuring, (R. Arnold, Editor), IEEE EH0244-4 (1986), 67-81.

 

9.    Shneiderman, Ben, Design guidebook for interaction styles: A taxonomy, rule-base, and some opinions, In (B. Shackel, Ed.), Human Factors for Informatics Usability, Cambridge University Press (1990), 325-342.  Reprinted in Baecker, R. M., Grudin, J., Buxton, W. A. S., and Greenberg, S. (Editors), Readings in Human-Computer Interaction: Toward the Year 2000, Second Edition, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, CA (1995), 401-410.

 

10.  Shneiderman, Ben, Reflections on authoring, editing, and managing hypertext, In (Barrett, E., Editor), The Society of Text, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (1989), 115-131.

 

11.  Shneiderman, Ben, User interface races, In (B. Laurel, Ed.), The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design, Addison-Wesley Publ., Reading, MA (1990), 221-224.

 

12.     Shneiderman, B., Direct manipulation versus agents: Paths to predictable, controllable, and comprehensible interfaces, In Bradshaw, J. (Editor), Software Agents, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA (1997), 97-106.

 

13.     Shneiderman, B., Universal Usability: A research agenda for human-computer interaction research to empower every citizen. In Earnshaw, R., Guedj, R., Van Dam, A., and Vince, J. (Editors), Human-Centred Computing, Online Communities, and Virtual Environments, Springer-Verlag London (2001), 179-189.

 

14.     Shneiderman, B., Supporting creativity with advanced information-abundant user interfaces. In Earnshaw, R., Guedj, R., Van Dam, A., and Vince, J. (Editors), Human-Centred Computing, Online Communities, and Virtual Environments, Springer-Verlag London (2001), 469-480.

 

15.     Ceaparu, I., Demner, D., Hung, E., Zhao, H. and Shneiderman, B., "In Web We Trust": Establishing strategic trust among online customers, In Rust, R. and Kannan, P. K. (Editors), E-Service, M. E. Sharpe Publishers, Armonk, NY (August 2002), 90-107.

 

16.     Bessiere, K., Ceaparu, I., Lazar, J., Robinson, J., and Shneiderman, B., Social and psychological influences on computer user frustration, In Bucy, E. P. and Newhagen, J. E. (Editors), Media Access: Social and Psychological Dimensions of New Technology User, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ (2004), 91-103.

 

17.     Seo, J. and Shneiderman, B., A knowledge integration framework for information visualization, In Hemmje, M, Niederee, C., and Risse, T. (Editors), From Integrated Publication and Information Systems to Virtual Information and Knowledge Environments, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2005).

 

18.     Plaisant, C., and Shneiderman, B., Personal role management: Overview and a design study of email for university students, In Czerwinski, M. and Kaptelinin, V., Designing Integrated Digital Work Environments: Beyond the Desktop, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (to appear 2006).

 

b.    Articles in refereed journals

 

1.    Shneiderman, B., Polynomial search, Software: Practice and Experience 3, 5 (January - March 1973), 5-8.

 

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

 

3.    Shneiderman, B., A computer graphics system for polynomials, The Mathematics Teacher 67,2 (February 1974), 111-113.

 

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

 

5.    Shneiderman, B., A model for optimizing indexed file structures, International Journal of Computer and Information Sciences 3, 1 (March 1974), 93-103.

 

6.    Shneiderman, B., Experimental testing in programming languages, Stylistic considerations and design techniques, Proc. National Computer Conference, AFIPS Press, Montvale, NJ (1975),  653-656.

 

7.    Shapiro, S. C. and Shneiderman, B., Towards a Theory of Encoded Data Structures and Data Translation, International Journal of Computer and Information Sciences 5, 1 (1976), 33-43 (March 1976).

 

8.    Shneiderman, B., Exploratory experiments in programmer behavior, International Journal of Computer and Information Sciences 5, 2 (June 1976), 123-143.

 

9.    Shneiderman, B., A review of design techniques for programs and data, Software: Practice and Experience 5  (1976), 555-567.

 

10.  Goodman, V., Shneiderman, B., Batched searching of sequential and tree structured files, ACM Transactions on Database Systems 1, 3 (September 1976), 268-275

 

11.  Report of the Stored Data Definition and Translation Task Group, special issue of Information Systems 2, 3 (1977), 95-148 with 6 other authors.

 

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

 

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

 

*14.  Mayer, R.,  McKay, D.,  Heller, P., Shneiderman, B., Experimental investigations of the utility of detailed flowcharts in programming, Communications of the ACM 20,6 (June 1977),  373-381,  Reprinted in Human Factors in Software Development, Bill Curtis, Editor, IEEE EHO 185-9 (1981).

 

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

 

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

 

17.  Shneiderman, B., Teaching programming: A spiral approach to syntax and semantics, Computers and Education 1, 3 (1978),  193-197.

 

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

 

19.  Shneiderman, B., Information policy issues: Selecting the policy framework and defining the schema horizon, Information and Management 1 (1978),  207-218. Reprinted in Best Computer Science Papers of 1980, Auerbach Publishers.

 

20.  Shneiderman, B., Improving the human factors aspect of database interactions, ACM Transactions on Database Systems 4, 3 (December 1978), 417-439.  Reprinted in Database Management in the 1980's, J. Larson and H. A. Freeman, Editors, IEEE EHO 181-8 (1981).

 

21.  Shneiderman, B., Human factors experiments in designing interactive systems, IEEE Computer 12, 12 (December 1979),  9-19.  Reprinted in Larson, J. A. (Editor), Tutorial: End User Facilities in the 1980s, IEEE Computer Society Press (1982), 16-26.

 

22.  Shneiderman, B., Multi-party grammars and related features for defining interactive systems, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics SMC-12, 2 (March-April 1982), 148-154.

 

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

 

**24.Mayer, R. and Shneiderman, B., Syntactic/Semantic interactions in programmer behavior: A model and experimental results, International Journal of Computer and Information Sciences 7 (June 1979), 219-239. Reprinted in Human Factors in Software Development,  Bill Curtis, Editor, IEEE EHO 185-9, (1981).

 

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

 

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

 

27.  Shneiderman, B., The future of interactive systems and the emergence of direct manipulation, Behaviour and Information Technology 1, 3 (1982), 237-256. Keynote address - NYU Symposium on User Interfaces - published in Human Factors and Interactive Computer Systems, Y. Vassiliou, Ed., Ablex Publ., Norwood, NJ, (1983).

 

28.  Shneiderman, B., Control flow and data structure documentation: Two experiments, Communications of the ACM 25, 1  (January 1982), 55-63.

 

29.  Shneiderman, B., Designing computer system messages, Communications of the ACM 25, 9, (September 1982), 610-611. Reprinted by Datapro.

 

30.  Shneiderman, B. and Thomas, G., An architecture for automatic relational database system conversion, ACM Transactions on Database Systems 7, 2 (June 1982), 235-257.

 

31.  Shneiderman, B., The psychology of serving the user community: Management strategies for interactive systems, Journal of Capacity Management 1, 4, (1983), 328-343.

 

32.  Hill, R.,  Jacob, R.,  Mah,  W., and Shneiderman, B., An empirical comparison of two PLATO text editors, Journal of Computer Based Instruction 10, 1&2 (Summer 1983),  43-50.

 

33.  Sykes, F., Tillman, R., and  Shneiderman, B., The effect of scope delimiters on program comprehension, Software: Practice and Experience 13 (1983), 817-824.

 

34.  Miara, R., Navarro, J., Musselman,. J., and Shneiderman, B., Program indentation and comprehensibility, Communications of the ACM 26, 11 (November 1983), 861-867,

 

#*35.Shneiderman, B., Direct manipulation: A step beyond programming languages, IEEE Computer 16, 8, (August 1983), 57-69. Reprinted in:
  [1] Nikkei Computer, November 28, 1983, 155-169 (Japanese).
  [2] Auerbach Report Series.
  [3] Baecker, Ronald, and Buxton, William,  Readings in Human-Computer Interaction: A
       Multidisciplinary Approach
, Morgan-Kaufman Publishers, Los Altos, CA, (1987), 461-467.
  [4] Glinert, E. (Editor), IEEE Visual Programming Environments: Paradigms and Systems
        (1990), 317-329.
  [5] Wardrip-Fruin, N. and Montfort, N. (Editors), The New Media Reader, MIT Press,
        Cambridge, MA (2003), 485-498.

 

36.  Powers, M.,  Lashley, C., Sanchez, P., and Shneiderman, B., An experimental comparison on tabular and graphic data presentation, International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 20, 6 (June 1984), 545-566.   

 

37.  Shneiderman, B., Response time and display rate in human performance with computers, ACM Computing Surveys 16, 3 (September 1984), 265-285. Reprinted: Japanese review journal BIT, (1986), and Dutch journal Management en Organisatie van Automatiseringsmiddelen 1 (1992).

 

38.  Shneiderman, B., When children learn programming: Antecedents, concepts and outcomes, The Computing Teacher 12, 5 (February 1985), 14-17. 

 

39.  Parton, D., Huffman,  K., Pridgen, P., Norman, K., and Shneiderman, B., Learning a menu selection tree: Training methods compared, Behaviour and Information Technology 4, 2 (1985), 81-91. 

 

40.  Shneiderman, B., The relationship between COBOL and computer science, Annals of the  History of Computing 7, 4 (October 1985), 348-352. Reprinted in E. Horowitz, Programming Languages: A Grand Tour, 3rd Edition, Computer Science Press, Rockville, MD, (1986), 417-421.  

 

41.  Ewing, J., Mehrabanzad, S., Sheck, S. Ostroff, D., and Shneiderman, B., An experimental comparison of a mouse and arrow-jump keys for an interactive encyclopedia, International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 24, 1 (January 1986),  29-45.  

 

42.  Shneiderman, B., Designing menu selection systems, Journal of the American Society for Information Science 37, 2 (March 1986), 57-70. 

 

43.  MacArthur, C. and  Shneiderman, B., Learning disabled students' difficulties in learning to user a word processor: Implications for instruction and software evaluation, Journal of Learning Disabilities 19, 4 (April 1986), 248-253.

 

#44.  Koved, L. and Shneiderman, B., Embedded menus: Selecting items in context, Communications of the ACM 29, 4 (April 1986), 312-318,  also appeared as IBM Research Report  RC 11310 (August 13, 1985).  Reprinted in Hebrew in Maaseh-Hoshev. 

 

45.  Shafer, P., Simon, R., Weldon, L., and Shneiderman, B., Display strategies for program browsing: Concepts and experiment, IEEE Software 3, 3 (May 1986), 7-15

 

46.  Blank, D.,  Murphy, P., and Shneiderman, B., A comparison of children's reading comprehension and reading rates at three text presentation speeds on a CRT, Journal of Computer-Based Instruction  13, 3 (Summer 1986), 84-87 

 

47.  Norman, K., Weldon, L., and Shneiderman, B., Cognitive layouts of windows and multiple screens for user interfaces, International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 25 (1986), 229-248 

 

48.  Laverson, A., Norman, K., and Shneiderman, B., An evaluation of jump-ahead techniques in menu selection,  Behaviour and Information Technology 6, 2 (1987), 97-108.

 

#49.  Marchionini, G. and Shneiderman, B., Finding facts vs. browsing knowledge in hypertext systems, IEEE Computer 21, 1 (January 1988), 70-80. 

 

50.  Ostroff, D. and Shneiderman, B., Selection devices for users of an electronic encyclopedia: An empirical comparison of four possibilit