Ben Shneiderman

Links

Blog Postings About My Treemap Art Project

• University of Maryland's The DiamondBack, Viewing the world from a new plane (Joe Zimmermann, Oct 17, 2014)
• Quartz, These beautiful works of art were made with algorithms (Leo Mirani, Oct 9, 2014)
• Every AlgoRiThm has ART in it: Treemap Art Project Exhibition by Ben Shneiderman (CMNS News and Events, Oct 3, 2014)
• Eagereyes, Visualization and Visual Communication, Ben Shneiderman's Treemap Art (Robert Kosara, Dec 22, 2013)
• Intuitive Company, AlgoRiThms and ART- Aesthetic Design for Treemaps (Evan Wendel, Oct 23, 2013)
• The Functional Art (Alberto Cairo, Sept 12, 2013)
• Gizmodo, Visualizing Data in the Style of Famous Artists (Jamie Condliffe, Sept 11, 2013)
• Flowing Data (Nathan Yau, Sept 11, 2013)
• The World Bank Blog, You Need Beautiful Art to Understand Data. Really, You Do. (Susan Moeller, Sept 24, 2013)
• Visualising Data (Andy Kirk, Oct 22, 2013)
• Data Stories #29, Treemaps w/ Ben Shneiderman: A podcast on data visualization (Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner, Nov 15, 2013)

Blog Postings About My Work

• How to Use the Information-Seeking Mantra in Cyber Intelligence Dashboards (Twain Taylor, Sept 10, 2014)
• People of ACM: Ben Shneiderman (April 8, 2014)
• UX Pioneers Interview (July 17, 2007)
• Yahoo! Developer Network Blog (Elizabeth Churchill, February 19, 2009)
• Cambridge Usability Group (March 5, 2009)
• Wikipedia page

Blog Postings About "Designing the User Interface, 5th Edition"

• Visual Business Intelligence (Stephen Few, March 2009)
• SAP Design Guilde (Gerd Waloszek, March 2009)
• Usability News (Ann Light, June 2009)
• HCI User Advocate (Ben Bederson, May 2009)

Course Websites

• How to Conduct Great Research (Fall 2015)
• Information Visualization Course wiki (Fall 2015)
• Information Visualization Course wiki (Fall 2013)
• Information Visualization Course wiki (Fall 2012)
• Information Visualization Course wiki (Spring 2011)
• Information Visualization Course wiki (Fall 2009)
• Information Visualization Course wiki (Spring 2008)
• Undergraduate HCI Course wiki (Fall 2008)
• Information Visualization Course wiki (Spring 2007)
• Information Visualization Course (Spring 2006)
• Undergraduate HCI Course (Fall 2006)
• Undergraduate HCI Course (Fall 2005)
• Universal Usability in Practice
• Information Visualization seminar
• Choosing HCI Appropriate Research Methods: CHARM
• Students HCI Online Research Experiments: SHORE (2001)
• Encyclopedia of Virtual Environments: EVE (1993)
• Journal of Virtual Environments: JOVE (1993)

Profile

• Scientific American: Humans Unite! Ben Shneiderman wants to make computers into more effective tools -- by banishing talk about machine intelligence (1999)
• User Experience Pioneers (Interview by T. Adlin, July 2007)
• Interview by Ivo Weevers & Wouter Sluis(June 2004)
• The New Computing (Ubiquity, ACM Interview, 2003)
• Between the Columns, University of Maryland (March 2008)

Early materials

• HCIL Draft (1999): Papers of Dr. Ben Shneiderman

Data Sets

• Email Archive 1983 - 1998 (For Research purposes)

Media Appearances

• AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, Aaron Smith and Janna Anderson (August 6, 2014)
• Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year Award presented to Ben Shneiderman by the University of Maryland (May 7, 2013)
• "From Giant Hairballs to Clear Patterns in Networks," Stephen Few's blog in Visulization Business Intelligence, talks about Cody Dunn and Ben Shneiderman's work on motif simplification (May 2, 2013)
• "Toward an Ecological Model of Research and Development," written by Ben Shneiderman appeared in The Atlantic (April 23, 2013)
• 2013 Greg Herrington Award for Excellence in Visualization Research from the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies awarded to John Alexis Guerra-Gomez, Audra Buck-Coleman, Michael L. Pack, Catherine Plaisant, and Ben Shneiderman for their paper, "TreeVersity: Interactive Visualizations for Comparing Hierarchical Datasets" (January 16, 2013)
• IEEE Visualization Career Award presented to Ben from the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Community (October 2012)
• "A Taxonomy of Tools that Support the Fluent and Flexible Use of Visualizations," written by Jeffrey Heer and Ben Shneiderman appeared in Interacticve Dynamics for Visual Analysis (February 1, 2012). It was later "slashdotted" on (March 3, 2012)
• National Science Foundation Discovery, "A New Visualization Method Makes Research More Organized and Efficient" discussess Cody Dunne, Robert Gove, Ben Shneiderman, Judith Klavans, and Bonnie Dorr's Action Science Explorer (ASE) research (December 7, 2011)
• The WorldBank Blog, "Media and Policy Makers Need to Connect too Online "Influentials"" discusses Ben Shneiderman, Derek Hansen, Cody Dunne, and Udayan Khurana's open-source tool, NodeXL which was used to analyze Syrian tweets (September 6, 2011)
• "When the Data Struts Its Stuff," an article in the New York Times mentions Ben Shneiderman's work on Treemaps with the Hive Group (April 3, 2011)
• KOA News Radio interview with Ben Shneiderman by Dave Logan and Lois Melkonian about Information Visualization based on the New York Times article from (April 5, 2011)
• Miles Conrad Lecture Award from the National Federation of Advanced Information Services given to Ben Shneiderman (February 28, 2011)
• "4 Natural Advances in the Evolution of Gov 2.0," an article in Federal Computer Week, quotes Ben Shneiderman (February 8, 2011)
• "Government Data Sharing Gets Past the Warm-up," an article in Federal Computer Week quotes Ben Shneiderman (December 10, 2010)
• Washington Post Article, "Library of Congress plan for Twitter: a big, permanent retweet," quotes Ben Shneiderman (April 16, 2010)
• National Academy of Engineering elects Ben Shneiderman as a member (February 17, 2010)
• Honorary Doctorate from University of Castilla-LaMancha in Spain awarded to Ben Shneiderman (February 9, 2010)
• University of Maryland TERP Magazine (pp. 22-25), presents Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant's work on "Health IT: An Rx for Health Care" (Fall 2009)
• An open letter to President Obama is presented in Government Computer News written by Ben Shneiderman and others (August 3, 2009)
• Best Paper Award in AIS Transactions on HCI awarded to Jennifer Preece and Ben Shneiderman for their paper on, "The Reader-to-Learder Framework: Motivating Technology-Mediated Social Participation" (March 31, 2009)