Retrospective on 17 Years of HCIL



1983                                       2000



The Tao of HCIL

Ben Shneiderman

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The Maryland Way: The Philosophy

The Maryland Way: The Philosophy

The Maryland Way: The Practice

The Maryland Way: The Practice

Scientific Method  (beyond user friendly)

The Early Days

PhotoQuery 1983à
            The Interactive Encyclopedia System 1984

PhotoQuery 1983 à
            The Interactive Encyclopedia System 1984

Hyperties: Smithsonian March’88

Hypertext on Hypertext – CACM July’88

Hyperties Applications

Hyperties: Applications

First Commercial Hyperbook 1989

Hyperties: Cognetics Demo

Hyperties: HP LaserJet4 User Manual

Tenth Anniversary 1993

Recent past

                   Information Visualization

Treemap - view large trees with node values

TreeViz  for the Macintosh

WinSurfer  for Windows 3.1

Treemap - Stock market, clustered by industry

Smartmoney: 3-D Dow Jones Industrials

FilmFinder prototype à Spotfire

FilmFinder prototype à Spotfire

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Dynamic Query HomeFinder

Dynamic Query Cancer Data - NCHS

Maryland Juvenile Justice

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U.S. Bureau of Census

Library of Congress

Library of Congress

"I feel... an ardent..."

Visible Human Explorer (NLM)

NASA Environmental Data

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Temporal Info Viz - LifeLines

Information Visualization: Mantra

Some Current Directions…

Children as Our Design Partners

Zoomable User Interfaces (ZUIs)

    The Struggle Sharpens for…

The Maryland Way

The Maryland Way

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